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• Adolescents and Life Without Parole

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  The United States Supreme Court is presently discussing whether it is or is not appropriate to condemn and adolescent who has committed a crime to life imprisonment without parole. A decision in 2005 has already abolished the death penalty for juveniles. In commenting on these matters, the psychologist Laurence ...
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• Ohio to switch to 1 drug for lethal injection

  
  Toledo Newspaper — Authority: 545
  Ohio on Nov. 13 became the first state to adopt a procedure for lethal injections that uses one drug, a method never before tried on U.S. inmates. The state filed papers in U.S. District Court saying it has decided to switch from a three-drug cocktail to a single injection of thiopental sodium into a vein. A separate ...
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• In Congress, Ignorance is Strength

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 151
  by Edward Cline, 11/14/09I open this commentary with the introduction to my previous commentary, “The Mainstream Smearing of Ayn Rand.” The disparity in subject is not so irrelevant as one might presume, but I won’t dwell on that matter. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi looked like a deer caught in the ...
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• Exclusive: Decision to Try 9/11 Masterminds in New York a Slap in the Face to All Americans

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  November 14, 2009Exclusive: Decision to Try 9/11 Masterminds in New York a Slap in the Face to All Americans Pam Meister In an act that further makes a mockery of the Islamist threat that faces us, the administration has decided that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Gitmo detainees will be sent to New York City ...
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• Victims of Bomb Blast in Israel Recovering as Suspect Indicted

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 134
  Messianic Jews hope for punishment from courts, mercy from God, for confessed killer.ISTANBUL, November 13 (CDN) — One morning during the week of March 10, 2008 in Ariel, Israel, David Ortiz opened his Bible randomly, read the words on the pages that opened before him and was filled with dread. “I opened the book ...
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• 1726: The Gypsy outlaws of Hesse-Darmstadt

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 425
  On November 14 and 15, 1726, more than 20 Gypsy outlaws of Hesse-Darmstadt Detail view (click for full image) of the execution of the Gypsies at Giessen. Gypsies in Europe still suffer ample discrimination today, so it’s little surprise to find early modern Europe thick with anti-Gypsy legislation . ...
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• Neo-Zarqawists Target the Arab Christians of Jordan

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  On October 15, the State Security Court of Jordan imposed jail sentences of 15 to 20 years on 12 alleged Jordanian members of al-Qaeda accused of attacks against a church in the Kingdom last year (Al-Ghad [Amman], October 16; Al-Rai [Amman], October 16). In a reaction similar to those seen in trials of Salafi-Jihadis, ...
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• Big East Semifinals Recap

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 172
  St. Johns will play Notre Dame for the Big East Championship Sunday, November 15 at noon.
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• Ohio Adopts “Michael Jackson” Execution Method

  
  Reconstitution 2.0 — Authority: 477
  The not-so-smooth criminals of Ohio’s Death Row will soon know what it was like to live like Jacko did. For the last day of his life, at least.There’s no word on whether or not the State of Ohio has engaged the services of Dr. Conrad Murray to administer its new execution protiocol, but I’m sure [...]
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• Q and A: Trial of Sept. 11 ‘mastermind’

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 172
  The self-described mastermind of the 9/11 attacks is set to face trial just blocks from the World Trade Center site in New York. Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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• Ohio’s new execution protocols applauded by… the Ohio Public Defender’s Office?

  
  Plunderbund — Authority: 437
  How often do you see this?  Today, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections announced, via an affidavit in federal court, that it has adopted a new lethal injection protocol.  The protocol was necessary after several death row inmates challenged the constitutionality of Ohio’s lethal injection method ...
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• Q and A: Trial of Sept. 11 ‘mastermind’

  
  i-live videos — Authority: 154
  Mastermind Ε και Α: Δίκη της 11 Σεπτεμβρίου "Η αυτο-περιγράφονται εγκέφαλος της 9 / 11 επιθέσεις έχει οριστεί για να δικαστεί μόλις τετράγωνα από το χώρο του World Trade Center στη Νέα Υόρκη. Οι ...
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• More Details From Ohio on Lethal Injection Changes

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Prison officials held a news conference in Ohio this afternoon, disclosing additional information about changes to the states lethal injection procedures.  Thanks to the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California at Berkeley, details are here ., in Adobe .pdf format. The AP title remains, " Ohio to ...
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• Decision to try 9/11 detainees in New York provokes heated debate

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 794
  Filed under: People The decision by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured) to prosecute self-proclaimed 9/11-mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York set off a major debate Friday over whether the move makes legal and practical sense. Mohammed will face a jury trial in federal court in the Southern ...
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• Better Than Pascal’s Wager

  
  Ex Cathedra — Authority: 136
  Mark Morford poses the question . It’s better if you read it first. I will hereby give each of you [pro-death-penalty conservaclone honkers]  $1 million if you agree that we will not kill this insane, murderous criminal, and instead just let him rot in prison for the rest of his life without a chance of parole. ...
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• Jay Cutler Slapped With $20,000 Fine By NFL

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 459
  Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was slapped with a $20,000 fine for badgering a referee during the team’s one-sided loss to the Arizona Cardinals Sunday, ESPN reports . Cutler earned a penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct — and now the subsequent fine — after he shouted at a game official in the Bears’ blowout ...
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• 9/11 suspects to face death penalty in NYC trial (AP)

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 463
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• Ohio to Switch to One-Drug Lethal Injection

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Thats the headline of Julie Carr Smyths AP report via Google News.  LINK A filing in U.S. District Court shows Ohio will switch to a one-drugapproach to lethal injection executions, with a muscle injectionavailable as a back up. The states decision to move away fromits three-drug method comes two months after a ...
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• Holder: US likely to ask death for 9/11 defendants (AP)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 165
  AP – Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in a civilian federal courthouse in New York, blocks from site of the devastating 2001 terror attacks. Prosecutors expect to seek the death penalty. See the rest here:  ...
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• Holder Will Seek Death Penalty in 9/11 Trials in N.Y. Federal Court

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 777
  Attorney General Eric Holder just announced that he will seek the death penalty for the five 9/11 terror suspects. They will be tried in a New York federal court, as reported earlier this morning. Seeking the death penalty may be controversial, given that most of the suspects, including self-proclaimed mastermind ...
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