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Docs Won’t Help Ohio Kill
[caption id="attachment_5885" align="alignleft" width="251" caption="Health professionals confirm death in 1998 Guatemala execution. (c) Jorge Uzon"][/caption] Ohio's botched and failed execution of Romell Broom, which has led to the postponement of…
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Police Chiefs to Death Penalty: Drop Dead
The Death Penalty Information Center released a new study today on the high costs, and lack of real benefits, associated with capital punishment in the United States. The report, called…
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A Pardon 94 Years Too Late
Wednesday, Oct. 14, radio host Tom Joyner became the first person to obtain a posthumous pardon for unjust executions in South Carolina. South Carolina is a typical gung-ho executing Southern…
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Ohio Needs a Moratorium on Executions Now
The death penalty is always inhumane, but Ohio’s failed attempt to execute Romell Broom on September 15th was particularly disturbing. During the two-hour ordeal the execution team repeatedly attempted and failed…
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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…