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U.S. Homicide Rates and the Death Penalty
The FBI’s annual crime report – Crime in the United States, 2008 – which was released Monday reveals that, like death sentences and executions, murder rates in the U.S. declined slightly in…
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Imminent Execution
Kenneth Mosley is scheduled for execution on September 24. He has been on death row for the past twelve years. Mr. Mosley was convicted of killing a police officer while attempting to rob…
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Is Justice Scalia a Curmudgeon?
Bob Barr thinks so. In his Washington Times op-ed, the former federal prosecutor, Georgia Congressman and Libertarian Presidential candidate, labels Scalia the “high court curmudgeon” for his dissent from the…
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Racial Justice in North Carolina: UPDATE
Today, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue signed the Racial Justice Act into law, making North Carolina only the second state in the country to allow death row prisoners to meaningfully…
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Racial Justice in North Carolina
On July 15th the North Carolina House voted 61-54 to approve the Racial Justice Act, which, if signed into law, would allow death row prisoners in the state to appeal…
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Maryland Lethal Injection Regs for Public Comment
The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services recently proposed new regulations for lethal injection procedures. Executions in Maryland have been at a halt since 2005, when a court…
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Global Day of Action for Iran this Saturday
On July 25, people in more than 60 cities across the world will be standing in solidarity with the Iranian people in their struggle for human rights. Protesters in Iran…
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Will the US Seek the Death Penalty in First Trial of a Former Guantanamo Detainee?
Last month, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani became the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be brought to the United States for trial outside of the military commission system. His trial is set…
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Double Tragedies
[caption id="attachment_2834" align="alignleft" width="475" caption="Letter from Kelsey Patterson to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (© Private)"][/caption] The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Murder Victims’ Families for Human…
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Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Free on Bail, Still At Risk
After spending one week at in Evin prison in Tehran, Mohammad Mostafaei -- the attorney famous for defending juvenile offenders in death penalty cases in Iran -- was released on…
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Human Rights / Death Penalty Lawyer Arrested in Iran
In the midst of all of the political and social turmoil in Iran right now, activist and lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei was arrested this afternoon and taken away by plainclothes officers…
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Troy Davis Decision: No Decision
Today, on its last day of work before summer vacation, the U.S. Supreme Court postponed its review of Troy Anthony Davis’ case until September. As Amnesty International has repeatedly pointed…