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• Editorial Roundup

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 482
  In addition to Florida, newspapers in Connecticut and Utah also have capital punishment editorials. Todays Connecticut Law Tribune carries, " A Death Penalty Proposal ." Earlier this year, the state legislature voted to prospectivelyeliminate the death penalty. Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s veto,however, coupled ...
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• Commentary From Florida

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 482
  " Wrongful ways : Innocence commissions safeguard society ," is the title of a Sunday Tallahassee Democrat editorial.   Last year, the Florida Legislature passed a law that automaticallygrants former inmates who have been found innocent $50,000 for eachyear they were wrongfully incarcerated, so long as they were ...
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• Additional Coverge of DPIC Report

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 482
  The Death Penalty Information Center report, “The Death Penalty in 2009: Year End Report ," is in Adobe .pdf format. The Los Angeles Times reports" Californias death row grows as death sentences decline nationwide ," written by Carol Williams and Jack Leonard. Los Angeles County sent more people to ...
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• Britons China death sentence upheld

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Father of three who is said to have bipolar disorder has punishment for heroin smuggling confirmed A British man is facing execution in China within days after the countrys supreme court today refused to set aside his death sentence. Akmal Shaikh, 53, from Kentish Town, north London, will be put to death on 29 ...
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• Proportionality Questions in Tennessee

  
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  " The uneven hand of justice in TN murders ," is the title of John Seigenthalers report in the Tennessean.  Heres the beginning of this must-read: There was no obvious link between the two recent national headlines. One said: "Woman who killed preacher husband gets custody of their three children." The other ...
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• Kansas Legislature to Consider Repeal in 2010

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 482
  " Legislature to consider end to death penalty ," is the title of Ron Sylvesters report for the Wichita Eagle, via the Kansas City Star. Kansas will consider abolishing the death penalty next year as death sentences are declining across the United States. Fewerpeople were sentenced to death this year than any ...
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• The Latest on the Troy Davis Case

  
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  " Troy Davis case raising novel legal issues ," is the title of Bill Rankins Atlanta Journal-Constitution report. Condemned inmate Troy Anthony Davis filed the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary when he petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a hearing on his innocence claims. But in August, for the first time in nearly ...
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• Death sentences on rise in California

  
  CRIME — Authority: 581
  Death sentences have been dropping in Texas for a couple of years now, ever since life without parole became an option and Harris County slowed their march to the death chamber. Texas sentenced only nine people to death this year, according to the Death Penalty  Information Center, the same number as 2008, but ...
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• CHURCH GROUP WANTS GAYS DEAD

  
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  Stephen Green, director of Christian campaign group Christian Voice has given his spport for the death penalty for gays.In a statement, he says: “Gay people who have sex knowing they are HIV positive should be given the death penalty because they have “committed murder”. Capital punishment is acceptable because ...
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• Human Rights Maps (75b): Death Penalty in the U.S., State by State

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 506
  death penalty map of the United States ( source ) You can view an interactive version of the map here , and find out the method of execution and the date of the last execution for individual states. About the methods of execution, there’s another map here . And another one here giving the numbers of ...
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• 1624: Marco Antonio de Dominis, posthumously

  
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  On this date in 1624, the recently-deceased body of unscrupulous Croatian prelate Marco Antonio de Dominis was burned at Rome’s Campo dei Fiori, along with all his manuscripts. Hypothesizing As a precocious young man Dominis taught mathematics, rhetoric and philosophy; in 1611, he produced a scientific treatise ...
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• Letters: The Fight Over the Death Penalty

  
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• Innocent man free after 35 years in prison

  
  Wilson's Blogmanac — Authority: 127
  James Bain spent 35 years in prison for a kidnapping and rape that he didnt commit. DNA testing proved it, and hes been released, displaying remarkable forgiveness to the system and people who fucked him over. Its another nail in the coffin for capital punishment. Just imagine if Mr Bain had been executed, as many ...
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• Will Kansas abolish the death penalty?

  
  Crime Scene KC — Authority: 447
  Theres going to be a debate in the legislature next month on a bill that would do exactly that. (State Sen. Tim Owens of Overland Park has set aside four days for hearings. Itll start Jan. 19.) Supporters are using...
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• 1862: An unknown Confederate deserter

  
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  From a letter written by one Private Thomas Warrick of Alabama, cited in The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy by Bell Irvin Wiley : I saw a site today that made me feel mity Bad I saw a man shot for deserting there was twenty fore Guns shot at him thay shot him all to pease … he went ...
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• From the archive: Hanging ends by order of the Lords

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Originally published on 19 December 1969 There will be no more hanging in Britain. The Lords last night followed the Commons in passing a motion to perpetuate the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act, and a cheer that was almost a shout rose from the abolitionists. Their lordships do not cheer easily, and there ...
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• Atkins court decisions: Williams v LA (2009), Burke v Ohio (2005), Pierce v Thaler (2009)

  
  Intellectual Competence & the Death Penalty — Authority: 133
  Three more Atkins court decisions posted to the Atkins Court Decisions sidebar.  Thanks to Kevin Foley and Karen Salekin for the files.  Click on citation to view the file. Williams v LA (2009) Burke v Ohio (2005) Pierce v Thaler (2009) Technorati Tags: psychology , forensic psychology , criminal ...
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• EU President Speaks Out on Americas Capital Punishment

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 482
  The Presidency rotates among European Union member countries.  Its currently held by Veronika Bard-Bringéus of Sweden.  The official statement,published today, is, " EU statement in the OSCE on the Death Penalty in the USA ." It is with deep regret that the EU has learned that an execution isscheduled to be ...
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• Should Capital Punishment Come Back?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 553
  Capital Punishment was abolished in Great Britain in 1965 a few claim that it should come back and be re-instated. I believe however that Britain should not have the Capital Punishment re-instated because in the New Testament Jesus kept saying to “forgive your neighbours” and “treat others as you would like to ...
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• Abolishing the Death Penalty

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 482
  Thats the title of a post at the Washington Posts On Faith blog written by Rev. Geoffrey Black, Rev. Linda Jaramillo, and Rabbi David Saperstein.  LINK Many December holidays - Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa alike -involve the lighting of candles. This symbolizes the spirit of peace,hope, and new beginnings, ...
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