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• Protest at the Supreme Court

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 121
  " Death Penalty Protesters Are Arrested at U.S. Supreme Court ," is the AP report via the New York Times.  Its also available via the Washington Post . Fourteen people have been arrested at the Supreme Court for protesting the use of the death penalty in the United States. A court spokeswoman, Kathy Arberg, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Eugenics Rising...

  
  LyfLines — Authority: 105
  A couple of different, and very disturbing, recent news stories. Decision blasts judge’s order to force abortion In a December hearing, the Department of Mental Health applied for temporary guardianship for the parents of the 32-year-old woman — referred to as “Mary Moe” — to let them consent to an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Castrate, and then bid them be fruitful

  
  Athanatos Christian Apologetics Ministry — Authority: 92
  The 24 hour news cycle is currently devoted to the ‘Italian Titanic’ and especially the fact that the captain of the ship beat the passengers off of the boat.  Naturally, the captain is everywhere being referred to as a coward, and every indication is that he really was a coward. I couldn’t help but think of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Castrate, and then bid them be fruitful- reflections on a cowardly cruise ship captain

  
  Athanatos Christian Apologetics Ministry — Authority: 92
  The 24 hour news cycle is currently devoted to the ‘Italian Titanic’ and especially the fact that the captain of the ship beat the passengers off of the boat.  Naturally, the captain is everywhere being referred to as a coward, and every indication is that he really was a coward. I couldn’t help but think of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another Former Warden Calls for Repeal

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 121
  The Salem Statesman Journal reports, " Former Oregon warden seeks end to death penalty ."  Its written by Alan Gustafson. A former state penitentiary warden who oversaw the last two inmate executions in this state has joined an advocacy group determined to repeal Oregons death penalty. In an interview Friday ...
  2 weeks ago

• U.S. Supreme Court: 14 People Arrested At Death Penalty Demonstration

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 122
  14 Activists Arrested Today at U.S. Supreme Court to Commemorate 35th Anniversary of First Execution Participants from Texas, South Carolina, Virginia, New Mexico, DC, Utah, Vermont, Kansas and New York were there to peacefully and visibly call for an immediate cessation of all executions in the United States ...
  2 weeks ago

• News Coverage of the Delaware Clemency Recommendation

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 121
  " Board of Pardons votes to spare convicted killer ," is Sean OSullivan for the Wilmington News Journal. In an unprecedented 4-1 decision announced Sunday, the Delaware Board of Pardons is recommending that the death sentence for convicted killer Robert A. Gattis be commuted to life in prison. It will now be up ...
  2 weeks ago

• Three Decades of Capital Punishment in Texas

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 122
  Huntsville, Texas The world capital of capital punishment (...) The first post-moratorium execution in Texas was in 1982. Charles Brooks Jr. was executed for the 1976 shooting death of a mechanic. Since 1982, Texas has executed 477 men and women, more than any other state. And there are more than 300 men ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reaping what has been sown...

  
  LyfLines — Authority: 105
  This passage about the Italian cruise ship accident has generated some commentary. Rightfully so... Fights broke out to get into the lifeboats, men refused to prioritise women, expectant mothers and children as they pushed themselves forward to escape. Crew ignored their passengers – leaving ‘chefs and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Spotlight: British Union for the Abolition of Vivisections Celebrity Supporters

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 473
  For over 100 years the BUAV has been campaigning peacefully to create a world where nobody wants or believes we need to experiment on animals. The BUAV is widely respected as an authority on animal testing issues and is frequently called upon by governments, media, corporations and official bodies for its advice ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dr. Kings Stance Against the Death Penalty

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 122
  As the U.S. observes the 83rd birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this is a perfect time to reflect on the slain civil rights leader, Nobel laureate and death penalty opponent. Much is known of the Montgomery bus boycott that he led in the 1950s. He fought for economic justice and the plight of the poor, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Martin Luther King Jr. – What is your gift?

  
  Christian Conversations Now — Authority: 99
  “While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities ‘unwise and untimely.’” From Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail . “When a man appears in society who is not controlled by motives which usually govern the conduct ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reflections on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2012

  
  Michael Wolfe — Authority: 79
  This is not an article I enjoy writing. It made me sick when I heard about it and I had to look it up before I could believe it was true. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was a proponent of family planning. More specifically Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood. In fact, so much so that he won the organization’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Former Oregon warden seeks end to death penalty

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 122
  Frank Thompson A former state penitentiary warden who oversaw the last two inmate executions in this state has joined an advocacy group determined to repeal Oregons death penalty. In an interview Friday with the Statesman Journal, Frank Thompson described the death penalty as "a failed public policy." "In ...
  2 weeks ago

• NAACP: U.S. Death Penalty a Cost Issue

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 122
  The NAACP is urging the Maryland legislature to abolish the death penalty. The organization’s action comes on the heels of efforts to stop the execution of Troy Davis last year. But, the tone of that move represents a marked shift in which death penalty critics are increasingly framing the issue within the ...
  2 weeks ago

• From Alabama

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 121
  " Its hard to argue with a state senators logic for why Alabama should abolish the death penalty ," is the title of an editorial in todays Birmingham News. If executing people really serves as a deterrent to murder, why isnt Alabama sending fewer people to Death Row? Its a question state Sen. Hank Sanders raised in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Morrissey Wants An End To Animal Testing For Cosmetics

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 473
  The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ( BUAV ) is delighted to have the support of legendary singer Morrissey for its No Cruel Cosmetics campaign to end animal testing for new cosmetics sold in the European Union. Morrissey said, “Say no to injecting, force-feeding or forcing animals to inhale ...
  2 weeks ago

• School oversight and getting to the point at last

  
  Matthew Taylor's blog — Authority: 406
  Predictably, the Government is having to face the question of what to place in the yawning managerial gap between thousands of Academies and the Department for Education. Recent examples of Academies getting into financial trouble, or the school in Haringey refusing to ‘Academise’, highlight the vacuum left by the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Guantanamo ~ Obama promised to close it within a year of office……LIAR!

  
  Oleuanna — Authority: 98
  He killed off Osama Bin Laden and Muammar Gaddafi because of their crimes against humanity he stepped up the war in Afghanistan to completely level the dissentients to rubble showing the rest of the world the West would not be desensitised, threatened or persecuted but under our very noses he shows us that he too is a ...
  3 weeks ago

• California Roundup

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 121
  " California Supreme Court voids death penalty in 1998 killing ," is by Maura Dolan for the Los Angeles Times. The California Supreme Court, which upholds the vast majority of capital sentences it reviews, decided unanimously Monday to overturn the death penalty for a convicted Long Beach murderer because a ...
  3 weeks ago

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