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US Lawmaker Pushes Death Penalty Appeals Overhaul |
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Friday, 06 November 2009 |
AFP
WASHINGTON — A US lawmaker has introduced legislation to end "inhumane and unconstitutional" rules that prevent death row inmates from presenting newly discovered evidence to dispute their guilt.
"We've got folks on death row with no opportunity to show compelling new evidence of innocence," Democratic Representative Hank Johnson of Georgia said upon unveiling his proposal this week. |
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The Death Penalty and the “Plague of Racism” |
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Wednesday, 04 November 2009 |
By Scott Michels
A new North Carolina law bans executions if racial bias is proven
When a judge in Greensboro, N.C., held in 2007 that Tony Summers was eligible for the death penalty if convicted of murder, it was not an unexpected decision. Summers, a convicted sex offender, is accused of raping and killing Lavell Williams and stabbing her two young daughters in Nov. 2006. |
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Another Month, Another Death Row Exoneration |
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Monday, 02 November 2009 |
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From Witness to Innocence: Texas moved ahead of Oklahoma as the state with the third most death-row exonerations last Wednesday when prosecutors dismissed all charges against Robert Springsteen, the nation's 139th person to be exonerated and released from death row since 1973. |
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
By Susan Campbell
The Hartford Courant
In the long, heated debate about capital punishment, we go round and round about justice or revenge, as if the two ideas operate independently of one another. We talk about innocent people being sent to death, and the racial disparity among death row inmates. We talk about crimes so heinous they cry out for the ultimate punishment.
But what if we talked about cost? |
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Death Penalty Not a Deterrent, Police Chiefs Say |
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009 |
By Alan Johnson
The Columbus Dispatch
Death-penalty opponents have new allies from an unlikely source: U.S. police chiefs, who say capital punishment does not deter murderers and has become a low law-enforcement priority.
A survey of 500 chiefs of police randomly selected from around the country is the centerpiece of a report released today by the Death Penalty Information Center. It concludes that capital punishment is costing states hundreds of millions of dollars for relatively few executions. |
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South Carolina Men Executed in 1915 Pardoned |
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 |
Radio host Tom Joyner had lobbied for his two great-uncles
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Two great-uncles of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner, sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran, were unanimously pardoned Wednesday by South Carolina. |
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