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• Helen Prejean Keeps Campaigning for Repeal

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 154
  "Sister Helen Prejeans passion to end the death penalty is a challenge to others," is the New Orleans Times-Picayune profile written by Sheila Stroup. Its available in a slightly abbreviated version, "After 2 decades, nuns crusade continues," via AP and...
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• Exoneree Curtis McCarty

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 154
  Omaha World-Herald columnist Matthew Hansen writes, "Decades on death row drive death penalty fight." Heres the beginning of this must-read: Oklahoma is killing a man at midnight, and so as darkness falls, another man on H Block slips off his...
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• The Kansas Death Penalty Has Cobwebs

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 154
  Thats the title of a lengthy report by Dave Helling for the Kansas City Star. It may be weeks before Kansans know if prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Kyle Flack, accused of killing four people in Franklin County...
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• Vilsack’s Energy Policy Legacy

  
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  Nuclear Power? No Thanks Does Tom Vilsack’s 2007 consulting agreement with MidAmerican Energy matter any more? It does, but not in the way conservative pundits characterized it, as a form of political corruption, after President Obama appointed Vilsack to his current job as secretary of agriculture. The case can ...
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• Rot in the Nuclear Weapons Force

  
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  After the U.S. Air Force removed 17 nuclear weapons launch officers from duty this week for marginal job performance skills, it should be a wake-up call. Lt. Col. Jay Folds, deputy commander of the 91st Operations Group, which is responsible for all Minuteman 3 missile launch crews at the Minot, N.D. Air Force Base, ...
  2 weeks ago

• In Maryland

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 154
  "Maryland death penalty supporters plan referendum petition drive to overturn repeal," is by Brian Witte for AP. Its via the Washington Post. Maryland death penalty supporters launched a petition drive Friday aimed at overturning the state’s newly signed repeal of...
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• "Maryland repeal law supported by entire Catholic Church": SantEgidio

  
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  Maryland becomes the 6th U.S. state since 2007 to exclude the death penalty from its laws , following similar measures in New Jersey, New Mexico, New York state, Illinois, and Connecticut. This movement brings to 18 the number of U.S. states that have opted for a system of justice that respects life in every ...
  3 weeks ago

• Florida Opinion Roundup

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 154
  Todays Gainsville Sun and Lakeland Ledger in Florida publish the same editorial on the recent law passed by the Florida State Legislature. In the Sun its, "Fast but flawed." In the Ledger it carries the heading, "Sooner Executions: Death Penalty...
  3 weeks ago

• Movement on the Death Penalty

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 154
  Thats the title of an editorial in todays New York Times. On Thursday, Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland signed a law making life without parole the state’s maximum sentence, repealing the death penalty after more than 300 years. Maryland is...
  3 weeks ago

• Maryland Repeal Signed Into Law

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 154
  "OMalley signs death penalty repeal," is by Michael Dresser for the Baltimore Sun. There is video at the link. Surrounded by religious leaders, civil rights activists and others who have fought for years to stop executions in Maryland, Gov. Martin...
  3 weeks ago

• OMalley signs death penalty repeal; Measure makes Maryland 18th state to end executions

  
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  With a stroke of a pen, Gov. Martin OMalley removed the death penalty from state law Thursday - making Maryland the 18th state in the nation to have abolished capital punishment. Surrounded by advocates who have fought for repeal year after year, the governor signed legislation setting life without parole as the ...
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• Washington County’s Mysterious Black Migration

  
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  New York author L. Lloyd Stewart has recently published an extensively researched and documented book on African American history in New York State titled, The Mysterious Black Migration 1800-1820: The Van Vrankens and Other Families of African Descent in Washington County, New York. The author will be at the ...
  3 weeks ago

• It’s Official! Death Penalty Now Abolished In Maryland

  
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  Amnesty International activists with Governor Martin O’Malley as he signed the death penalty repeal bill, making Maryland the 18th U.S. state to abolish capital punishment (Photo Credit: Amnesty International USA). Maryland’s death penalty repeal bill has now been signed into law. Governor Martin O’Malley ...
  3 weeks ago

• OMalley to Sign Maryland Repeal Into Law

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 154
  "OMalley to sign death penalty repeal today," is by Michael Dresser for the Baltimore Sun. Gov. Martin OMalley will sign legislation Thursday morning abolishing capital punishment in Maryland -- a goal of his since he took office in 2007. The...
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• The Framers of Pro-slavery Philosophy

  
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  The evolution of anti-slavery thinking, and who helped craft that thinking, is fairly well known to students of the Civil War.  These peoples names, whether Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, all of the Beechers and Stowes, the Grimkés, Seward, Stanton, Chase -- Lincoln himself, and so many ...
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• Abolitionist History Season Getting An Early Start

  
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  The Abolitionist History season is starting early this year. First, the North Star Underground Railroad Museum at Ausabale Chasm opens Saturday, May 4, nearly a month earlier than usual, and sponsors its first tour of Underground Railroad sites in local towns. With the weather as warm as it is, and demand growing in ...
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• Delaware Repeal Sponsors Seek Path to House Vote

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 154
  The Wilmington News Journal reports, "House committee tables death penalty bill in Delaware." Its by Doug Denison, via via Delmarva Now. Days after supporters failed to muster enough support to move legislation repealing Delaware’s death penalty out of a House...
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• Law Day USA

  
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  Tomorrow morning, Governor OMalley is finally going to sign the bill abolishing the death penalty in Maryland.  Its about time.  I mean, the guy pushed and pushed for the law, finally got it enacted, and now hes waited more than a month to sign the thing.  (OK, I know absolutely nothing about Marylands legislative ...
  3 weeks ago

• Collectivization of Debt is Communism in Action: Republicans are Moral Lepers (the Republican House Majority in Florida has just passed HB 87, approving expedited foreclosures and insulating false securitization from effective challenge or review)

  
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  CONTINUING THE DEBATE BETWEEN BOB HURT, MYSELF (CEL) MALCOLM DONEY, & MELINDA PILLSBURY-FOSTER Bob: Without attempting to address everything you write, or even everything you wrote in your reply to Malcolm Doney below, regarding Florida HB 87 (04-30-2013 Florida House … Continue reading →
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• Delaware Repeal Bill Tabled

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 154
  "Delaware House committee tables bill repealing death penalty," is the breaking news AP report, via the Washington Post. A House committee has voted to table a bill repealing Delaware’s death penalty. Tuesday’s vote by the Judiciary Committee came after its...
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