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Maryland Commission Votes for Death Penalty Repeal
On Wednesday, the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment voted to recommend repealing the death penalty in Maryland. The Commission was created by the Maryland General Assembly to conduct a thorough…
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"A Hole in the Law?"
Earlier today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Bell v. Kelly, a Virginia case that has important implications for death penalty litigation. The issue in the case is complex. Under…
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Suicide By Court
[caption id="attachment_165" align="alignleft" width="160" caption="Lethal injection kit © AI"][/caption] On November 21, Kentucky is set to execute Marco Allen Chapman, who was sentenced to death for the murder of two…
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Bali Bombers Executed
On Saturday, November 8, Indonesia executed three men (Amrozi bin H. Nurhasyim, Ali Ghufron, aka Mukhlas, and Imam Samudera) known as the “Bali Bombers”, because of the bombings for which…
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Why Does New Hampshire Have the Death Penalty?
A jury in New Hampshire has just sentenced a white millionaire businessman named John Brooks to life without parole for the capital murder of Jack Reid in 2005. This was…
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Future Danger
In the Philip K. Dick short story (and Steven Spielberg / Tom Cruise film) The Minority Report, a special agency known as Precrime relies on psychic “precogs” to anticipate and…
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Stay Granted for Troy Davis!
A stay of execution has been granted by the federal appeals court in Atlanta for Troy Davis who had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on October 27. This…