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Mississippi to Execute Man Defended by Law Clerk
Execution viewing room for witnesses © Scott Langley There are many reasons our criminal justice (and capital punishment) system gets things wrong. Police or prosecutor misconduct, mistaken witnesses,...
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10 Years Later: Still Executing The Intellectually Disabled?
Teresa Lewis was executed in 2010 despite being assessed with “borderline mental retardation.” While we wait with bated breath for important human rights related end-of-term Supreme Court decisions –...
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The U.S. Finally Rethinking Solitary Confinement
Anthony Graves spent 18 years on death row in Texas, all in solitary confinement. He was the fifth and last witness to speak at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on solitary confinement Tuesday...
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Marcus Druery suffers from auditory hallucinations and “psychotic ideations”; he believes his cell has been “wired” since 2008, and that he is serving a “one month sentence”. That’s according to...
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The Fatal Flaws of Texas Justice
The death chamber in Huntsville, Texas. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Newsmakers) Good News: Californians are currently debating the various dysfunctions that plague their capital punishment system, and could...
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Death Penalty In 2012: Seven Significant Signs
A final tally of the Connecticut legislature’s vote to abolish the death penalty. By this time at the end of the year, states have generally stopped killing their prisoners. This break from executions...
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Saudi Arabia’s Attack on Foreign Domestic Workers
The passport of Sri Lankan Rizana Nafeek. She was a foreign domestic worker in Saudi Arabia. And at the age of 17, she was arrested on charges of murdering an infant in her care. Saudi Arabia has a...
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Saudi Arabia: Two Executions a Week is Two Too Many!
Saudi Arabia applies the death penalty for a wide range of crimes, including drug offences, apostasy, sorcery and witchcraft. © Private Saudi Arabia is executing nearly two people per week this year:...
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Harmful Errors: Texas Approaches Its 500th Execution
A cemetery for prisoners in Huntsville, Texas. Grave markers with an “X” or the word “Executed” indicate the prisoner was put to death (Photo Credit: Chantal Valery/AFP/Getty Images). On July 30, 1964,...
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The Cruel And Pointless Effort To Execute John Ferguson
Despite several diagnoses of paranoid schizophrenia and even though the Supreme Court has declared executing the severely mentally ill unconstitutional, John Ferguson is scheduled to be executed in...
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