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• Consequences of 9/11 trials in New York build globally

  
  American Blog — Authority: 133
  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: 169
  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: 441
  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: 532
  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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• The Latest Lethal Injection News From Ohio

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 512
  " 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: 512
  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: 512
  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: 110
  "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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• Death Penalty: Yea or Nay?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  image via wikipedia       (lethal injection gurney–Indiana State Prison) The never-ending debate over capital punishment continues today as never before with no end in sight.  Today in the U.S. all but 14 states have the death penalty on the books as the ultimate penalty for capital crimes.  Proponents ...
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• Meredith Kercher prosecutors seek life for Knox

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  BBC News Online (home page) (Amanda Knox) Prosecutors have asked for life imprisonment for the pair accused of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in Italy. Miss Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon, Surrey, was found dead in her bedroom two years ago. Her throat had been cut. Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini ...
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• PRO-CAPITAL-PUNISHMENT ILLOGIC: LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN DRIVE THE FIRST CAR

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 130
  I added the following to the Facebook group, "Abolish the Death Penalty II": http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18 1786212516 One of the things this group can do is be a forum where refutations to pro-capital punishment assertions may be stated, suggested, refined, etc. For example, one assertion is that the ...
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• 1803: Johannes Bückler, “Schinderhannes”

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 470
  On this date in 1803, the famous German bandit “Schinderhannes” and 19 others of his gang were efficiently guillotined in French-occupied Rhineland. Schinderhannes with mistress Juliana Blasius and their child. As low-born as they come, Johannes Bückler ( English Wikipedia link | German ) hailed from a ...
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• Russian high court bans death penalty

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 495
  Russia’s decision to continue its ban on the death penalty was praised by the Council on Europe and media in Europe Thursday and Friday. The country’s Constitutional Court 18 November decided to continue indefinitely a country-wide moratorium on the death penalty, in place since 1999, which was scheduled to end in ...
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• The Real Price of Trying KSM: Defense lawyers will inevitably create bad law

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  Sometime in the next few months, a small group of experienced criminal-defense lawyers will be assigned to what is likely to be the case of a lifetime: the defense of admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, or, to those enamored of sinister acronyms, KSM. Their work will not be easy, obviously. No jury on ...
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• The Case of Cory Maye in Mississippi

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 512
  " Why you should care about Cory Maye and Cameron Todd Willingham ," is the title of Matt Zeitlins column in North by Northwestern. It’s hard to imagine a more depressing story than that of Cory Maye. In September, 2001, when he was just 21 yearsold, Maye fell asleep on the couch of his duplex in ...
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• Max Soffar

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 512
  His has been a long and twisted tale, with a career on Texas death row.  Soffar has always maintained his innocence.  He was originally convicted in 1981of killing three people during a bowling alley robbery.  His court appointed lawyer was the notorious Joe Cannon, known as the sleeping lawyer of Harris County ...
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