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• Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty In Dolla’s Murder Case

  
  Wordonthestreetsmag.com — Authority: 438
  Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Berry for the murder of Dolla.Related posts: Man Accused of Witness Tampering in C-Murder Case Update:Suspect In Custody Of AJ Murder Case C-Murder Found Guilty Of 2nd Degree Murder
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• Fact checking, comments - NH Death Penalty Study Commission

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 493
  To: The Commission to Study the Death Penalty in New Hampshire and to others Re: Fact checking, comments - Your Nov 6, 2009 meeting From: Dudley Sharp Dear Committee members: Some corrections and clarifications. I have listed the speaker, the material and the page number from your minutes, below, with my ...
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• 1600: Hansel Pappenheimer, following his family

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 470
  A few months ago, Executed Today detailed the dreadful fate of the Pappenheimers , a family of poor itinerants swept into a witch scare and horrifically executed. 10- or 11-year-old Hansel Pappenheimer was made to provide some of the testimony that condemned his parents and older siblings to a torturous public ...
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• C Street “Family” behind Uganda’s death penalty for gays?

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  Interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air, Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power , discussed the connection between the Family and Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act , which prescribes the death penalty for acts of “aggravated homosexuality.” Mr. SHARLET: Well, the ...
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• Can the Death Penalty for Terrorists Fuel Violence?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 760
  Attorney General Eric Holder (WDCpix) When Attorney General Eric Holder announced earlier this month that the suspected plotters of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would be tried in civilian court, he also promised to seek the death penalty for all of them. But the heated debate that followed over the supposed ...
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• TEXAS EMPTIES MUCHO TRASH IN NOVEMBER

  
  Angry White Dude — Authority: 137
  ROBERT THOMPSON - TELL ALLAH HELLO FOR US! I do love me some Texas! Down here, we execute more murderers in a week than Massachusetts does in a century! In November, Texas has put the juice to four murderers…and the month isn’t over! Now Angry White Dude doesn’t get all caught up on if the death penalty is ...
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• The deterrent effect of capital punishment

  
  Notes from underground — Authority: 121
  From The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser . Friday 20th July, 1849 EFFECT OF EXECUTION - A correspondent informs us that JOHN VANSTONE and WILLIAM LEE, were executed at Bodmin on the 1st of September, 1802, for burglary; the daughter of one of them saw her father executed and immediately afterwards went into ...
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• Consequences of 9/11 trials in New York build globally

  
  American Blog — Authority: 131
  Written by Michael VassI don’t know how many people noticed this. It’s not the biggest news in regard to the 9/11 trials that are going to happen in NYC. But the ramifications of this trial, and how that affects Germany, is critical to Americans sleeping at night.As reported by the N Y Post, Germany will [...]
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• Consequences of 9/11 trials in New York build globally

  
  1800blogger — Authority: 170
  Submitted by All American BlogWritten by Michael VassI don’t know how many people noticed this. It’s not the biggest news in regard to the 9/11 trials that are going to happen in NYC. But the ramifications of this trial, and how that affects Germany, is critical to Americans sleeping at night.As reported by the N ...
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• 1326: Hugh Despenser the Younger, King Edward II’s lover?

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 470
  On this date in 1326, the power behind Edward II’s throne — and the presumed lover in his bed — was hanged, drawn and quartered and pointedly emasculated in a grisly public execution as the Queen and her lover took control of England. (Wince.) The younger Despenser, being carved up in an illustration from ...
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• Casey Anthony: Andrea Lyon Bashes Judges, Calls Jurors “Killers”

  
  Kreuzer's Korner — Authority: 442
  Here’s an interesting article from WFTV.com today. It seems that the station has obtained an audio recording of Andrea Lyon, a member of Casey Anthony’s defense “dream team”,  bashing judges, female prosecutors, victim’s advocates and even calling jurors killers. From WFTV : Lyon made the comments at a ...
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• As Bar Joke Becomes Habeas Claim, Lawyer Is Target of Hearing

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 578
  A bar joke more than 20 years ago by a then-deputy attorney general in San Francisco isnt so funny now. Made to a bartender at Eurekas Waterfront Cafe, where a waitress happened to be a juror in a capital case, it resulted in an evidentiary hearing earlier this year after defense lawyers found out about the incident, ...
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• More Harm Than Good: Why Capital Punishment Doesn’t Work

  
  The Criminal Lawyer — Authority: 110
  Without much media fanfare, the Supreme Court has already decided two capital-punishment cases this month. The first, Bobby v. Van Hook , came down on the 9th, and dealt with a case from early 1985. Nearly 25 years ago, Van Hook went looking for someone to rob, trolled a Cincinnati gay bar, and seduced a guy he ...
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• The Latest Lethal Injection News From Ohio

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 532
  " New lethal injection policies put Ohio at center of legal and ethical debate over executions ," in todays Cleveland Plain Dealer is written by Aaron Marshall. Death row inmates and advocates on both sides of the capital punishmentdebate across the country have had their eyes on Ohio since the recentannouncement ...
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• More on the Forensic Science Commission

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 532
  Dave Montgomery reports, " New forensic commission e-mail policy goes in wrong direction, lawmaker says ."  The article appeared in the Saturday edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Members of a state commission examining the case of Cameron ToddWillingham have been asked to delete e-mail correspondence, a ...
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• Highlighting the Atkins Scholarship

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 532
  In the preceding post , Adam Liptak noted scholarship by John Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson, andChristopher Seeds," An Empirical Look at Atkins vs. Virginia and its Application in Capital Cases ."  Heres the abstract: InAtkins vs. Virginia, the Supreme Court declared that evolving standardsof decency and the Eighth ...
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• Is Iran using the death penalty to silence political opposition?

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 571
  Ehsan Fattahian was hanged on Nov. 11th for belonging to an armed Kurdish group. Sentenced 10 years initially, they then added the charge of being an “enemy of God.” SOURCE
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• 1974: Black Saturday in Ethiopia

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 470
  November 23, 1974 was “Bloody Saturday” in Ethiopia for that day’s* surprise purge of some threescore politicians and soldiers by the ruling Derg. It was barely ten weeks since the Derg — an Amharic word word “committee”, in this case a leftist military junta — had formally overthrown Emperor Haile ...
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• Terrorists on Trial – Do We Give Them What They Want?

  
  Diane Dimond — Authority: 108
  "So, the so-called 9-11 Gang of Five will go on trial in a federal court as opposed to before a military commission. The bottom line question then has to be: Are you ready for the possibility that Khalid Sheik Mohammed or any of his fellow collaborators might walk free on a sly defense attorney’s manipulation of our ...
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• 1895: Florence English and Amanda Cody

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 470
  On this date in 1895, Amanda (Mandy) Cody became the first woman hanged in Georgia’s Warren County when she died with her (male) lover Florence English for murdering Cody’s husband, Cicero and dumping his body in a swamp. According to The Penalty is Death: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Women’s Executions ...
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