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Troy Davis gets visitors in Georgia: Peachy with a side of Keane
By Laura Moye, Death Penalty Abolition Campaign Director This is just a quick note from Savannah, Georgia, where I am right now with a wonderful delegation of folks from the…
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It’s Constitution Day! – But Not in Texas
Today is Constitution Day. On this day, September 17, in 1787, the US Constitution was signed by a group of men known collectively these days as the “Founding Fathers”. Yesterday,…
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Iran, Ohio, and the Question of Executing the Same Person Twice
In Iran, in January of this year, a man being stoned to death for adultery managed to survive his ordeal by digging his way out of the pit in which…
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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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Death Penalty Outrage – Iraqi Style
Embedded video from CNN Video On Monday, Amnesty International release a report on the death penalty in Iraq, pointing out that at least 1,000 people are now on death row…
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Executed for a crime that never occurred?
In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Texas for setting a fire that killed his three children. He maintained his innocence to the end, and those who looked into…
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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…