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So Inappropriate
Buried amidst the legal documents in Judge William T. Moore's Troy Davis files is a letter from an ordinary Georgia citizen, a letter Judge Moore apparently asked his clerk to…
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Speak Out for Troy Davis
There are no do-overs when it comes to death. Help by writing a letter to the editor of your local paper in support of Troy Davis.
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Troy Davis Petition Denied
Today Judge William T. Moore, Jr., ruled that Troy Davis did not “clearly establish” his innocence at the hearing held in Savannah on June 23-24. In a welcome development, Judge…
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Iran Stoning Case Lawyer Hounded into Exile
The campaign to silence Iran’s bravest voices by any means possible is a tragedy for Iranians and for people around the world who admire the courage of Iranian human rights…
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Maybe Oklahoma Should Stop Trying to Execute Jeffrey David Matthews
Jeffrey David Matthews' execution was stayed yet again yesterday. This time because there is a worldwide shortage of sodium thiopental, the first drug in the three drug series most states…
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Can/Will Oklahoma Stop this Execution?
Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry has granted two month-long reprieves for Jeffrey David Matthews. Matthews’ case is deeply troubling, but the Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Paroles voted 3-2 against commuting…
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Exiled from Oklahoma
Sometimes the best defense is no defense. That may be the moral of the story by Dan Barry in yesterday’s New York Times about James Fisher, who accepted a plea…
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What's Changed?
It was the early summer doldrums of late June. The year was 1972. The number one song was Neil Diamond’s Song Sung Blue (really??), and the movies that came out…
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Flawed Science and New York Lawyers
Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted in 1991 and sentenced to die for an arson that killed his three children in Corsicana, Texas. Throughout, he insisted that the fire was an…
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Sloppy and Suspicious in Oklahoma
Jeffrey David Matthews was slated for execution on June 17, 2010, for the 1994 murder of Otis Earl Short, his great uncle. From the start of the trial process, the…
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When in Doubt
When is it OK for the state to put a prisoner to death? We at Amnesty International of course say “Never”. (And two-thirds of the world’s nations agree with us.) …
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An Ongoing Cycle of Violence
On September 28, 2010, Gaile Owens, a 57-year old mother and grandmother, is set to be executed in Tennessee – she would be the first woman executed since 1820 in…