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• GOP: Its OK to be Manhattan Declaration Anti Gay, Just Not Ugandan Death Bill Anti Gay

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 148
  As reports emerge that Ugandas president has promised to veto the "kill the gays" bill, five GOP Congressman have spoken out against the legistlation: "Five Republican representatives – Chris Smith, Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts, Trent Franks and Anh Joseph Cao – have written a letter to Ugandan President ...
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• 1953: Lavrenty Beria, Stalin henchman

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 129
  On this date in 1953, Stalin’s feared minister Lavrenty Beria was shot — finally on the receiving end of the cruelty he had administered to countless Soviet citizens. Lavrenty Pavlovich was, like Stalin, a Georgian peasant, albeit one generation younger. He won his way into Stalin’s confidence from the ...
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• Republicans Condemn Ugandas Anti-Gay Bill

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Five Republican representatives – Chris Smith, Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts, Trent Franks and Anh "Joseph" Cao – have written a letter to Ugandan President Yoweri Mouseveni pressing him to stop pending legislation that would severely criminalize homosexuality and sometimes impose the death penalty for homosexual acts. In ...
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• "Family Reluctantly Accepts Plea Bargain That Spares A Killers Life"

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 572
  The title of this post is the headline of this interesting local story that tells the tale of what sometimes happens after a state death sentence is reversed by a federal habeas court.  Here are some of the details: He committed one of Clevelands most notorious murders, but Monday, a condemned killer escaped the ...
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• Most recent Atkins decision. Garcia v Thayer (Texas, 2009): Should more have been done to explore discrepant IQ scores?

  
  Intellectual Competence & the Death Penalty — Authority: 134
  Garcia v Thayer (Texas, 2009) has been added to the Atkins-related Court Decisions blog sidebar.   A copy of the decision can be found by clicking here .  In addition, a copy of an psychological report can be found by clicking here .  Thanks to Kevin Foley for the files. This case is interesting, if for no ...
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• How I Convinced a Death-Row Murderer Not to Die

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 483
  Thats the title of Michael Finkels article in the current issue of Esquire magazine.  LINK Eight years ago, Christian Longo murdered his wife and three children.On the lam, he assumed the identity of the author, a man hed nevermet. Now their long, twisted relationship culminates in a final,chilling bargain. ...
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• The Death Penalty Debate in New Hampshire - Editorials

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 483
  " Does the death penalty deter? " is the Keene Sentinel editorial.  It appeared in Mondays edition. A recent legislative effort in Concord indirectly raises thefollowing question: Would Kimberly Cates of Mont Vernon be alive todayif, following the murders of Dartmouth professors Half and SusanneZantop in Hanover ...
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• 1942: Eleven members of the Red Orchestra

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 129
  On this date in 1942, eleven members of a Berlin-based anti-Nazi resistance circle were executed at Plotzensee Prison — five by hanging, six by guillotine. These members of the group organized around leftist Luftwaffe communications officer Harro Schulze-Boysen and intellectual Arvid Harnack were one of three ...
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• Commentary From Florida

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 483
  " 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: 483
  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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• Monday law blog round-up

  
  On the Record — Authority: 124
  Happy icy Monday! Drive and walk carefully. I don’t know how conditions are by you, but here, the roads are OK but the sidewalks are a little treacherous. Baltimore Police are sending “Dear John” letters (clever!) to guys neighborhood observers have tagged as cruising for prostitutes. A noted Baltimore ...
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• Proportionality Questions in Tennessee

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 483
  " 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: 483
  " 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

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 483
  " 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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• CHURCH GROUP WANTS GAYS DEAD

  
  Gay London videos and news, gay interviews, gay clubbing, gay health, gay comment and gay views on HOMOVISION.TV Gay TV, gay London videos and news, gay interviews, gay clubbing, gay health, gay comment and gay views on HOMOVISION.TV — Authority: 135
  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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• Remember Yong

  
  Mustafa K Anuar's blog — Authority: 120
  A 21-year-old Malaysian, Yong Vui Kong, has been sentenced to death by Singapore’s High Court for trafficking 47 grammes of heroin. Yong, who was 19 years old at the time of offence, is now facing impending execution. The Singapore Anti Death Penalty Campaign (SADPC) has launched a petition to seek clemency ...
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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: 505
  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

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 129
  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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• The Sunday Independent’s Survey of SA Writers’ Top Books of 2009

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 480
  Alert! As has become tradition this time of year, Maureen Isaacson has solicited the opinions of a number of prominent writers - many of whom review for her excellent books page - on 2009’s top books. Michiel Heyns, Karina Brink , André Brink , Imraan Coovadia , Chris Dunton, Leon de Kock , Nadine ...
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• Innocent man free after 35 years in prison

  
  Wilson's Blogmanac — Authority: 128
  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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