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Powerful New Book Describes Iranian-American's Ordeal in Iran
On January 31, 2009 Roxana Saberi suddenly found herself in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, unable to contact her family and friends and accused of espionage and threatening Iran’s national security.…
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Six Jurors Oppose Oklahoma Execution
Oklahoma has the opportunity to save a life on April 8, 2010 and it is our responsibility to take action to prevent another state killing. Richard Smith was convicted of…
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Celebrate Nowruz by Remembering Iran's Detained Human Rights Defenders
[caption id="attachment_8311" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Emadeddin Baghi"][/caption] Now that spring is in the air, most of us (at least those in the northern hemisphere) eagerly look forward to the end of…
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Justice for 9-11 victims shouldn’t involve military commissions
Originally posted to McClatchy Newspapers By Talat Hamdani, Amnesty International Activist My son, New York Police Department cadet Mohammad Salman Hamdani, was one of the brave souls who died on…
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Get Well Soon … So We Can Kill You
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, a former prison psychologist, admits that he recognizes the irony. His state is keeping Lawrence Reynolds alive, on suicide watch, so they can execute him Tuesday…
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Texas Judge to Put Death Penalty on Trial
The Texas judge who ruled that the Lone Star State’s death penalty violates basic constitutional rights has revised his order.  Last week,  District Judge Kevin Fine of Houston flatly declared that Texas’…
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Texas Death Penalty Ruled Unconstitutional; Appeal Likely
No one seems to think it will hold up on appeal, but yesterday a recently elected judge in Houston, Texas ruled that the Lone Star State's death penalty is unconstitutional. …
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South Korea's Death Penalty: Forgotten, But Not Gone
South Korea is, to my knowledge, the only place in the world where a former death row inmate went on to become President of the country (and to win the…
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World Leaders Unite Against the Death Penalty
By Laura Moye, Amnesty International USA Death Penalty Abolition Campaign Director Imagine President Obama competing with other nations for world leadership on human rights by putting forward a goal to…
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Texas Death Sentence Overturned; Judge-Prosecutor Affair Overlooked
Back on September 16, 2009, the day before the 222nd anniversary of the US Constitution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) chose NOT to decide whether Texas death row…
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International Mother Language Day
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="288" caption="The Shaheed Minar in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, commemorates the Language Movement"][/caption] The United Nations International Mother Language Day is celebrated every February 21 on the anniversary…
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Tie Vote Stops Kansas Death Penalty Abolition Bill
With a tie vote, the Kansas Senate today failed to pass SB 375, a bill which would have abolished that state’s death penalty. The Kansas Senate consists of 31 Republicans and 9 Democrats, and the…