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• Terrorists on Trial – Do We Give Them What They Want?

  
  Diane Dimond — Authority: 107
  "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: 471
  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: 550
  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: 161
  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: 131
  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: 471
  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: 172
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• The Case of Cory Maye in Mississippi

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 513
  " 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: 513
  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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• Friday Outrages

  
  Three Wise Men — Authority: 121
  1. Nicholas Kristof, on how Republican have been scare-mongering Americans into voting against their own interests for eighty years now. History has proven them wrong, every single time. 2. Perhaps you heard about the “ Hand of Frog ” that secured France a berth in the World Cup over poor Ireland. Ireland’s ...
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• Nixon: Manson Guilty

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  Is The Administration Trying To Lose This Case? It certainly seems like it. Did Eric Holder and Barack Obama learn nothing from the Charles Manson trial and the statements made by President Nixon? Apparently not. As if it is not bad enough that AG Holder decided to try these terrorists in a civilian court as ...
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• 1676: Johan Johansson Griis, the Gävle Boy

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 471
  On an uncertain date in November 1676, the Gävle Boy paid the penalty for his elders’ credulity. Only 13 years old at his death, he’d spent the foregoing months as the star witness in Stockholm’s witch trials. Like the hysteria itself, he’d migrated to the capital from the provinces; it’s said that in his ...
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• Obama’s Third World Vision for America

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 565
  One can imagine a number of motives President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder might have for making such an egregious choice to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and al-Qaida terrorists to New York for civil trial. But the bow to political correctness and the refusal to try enemy combatants in military courts and ...
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• Horry County verdicts

  
  South Carolina Criminal Defense Blog — Authority: 126
  Miles Ferguson was acquitted of homicide by child abuse this week following a trial that took nearly two weeks. Stephen Stanko was sentenced to death this week after his second trial and conviction. After he was convicted and sentenced to death in Georgetown county, the 15th Circuit Solicitors office ...
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• Russian High Court Bans Death Penalty

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 744
  Moscow, Russia (AHN) – Russia announced on Thursday that it was reaffirming its ban on the death penalty. The announcement came ahead of a January 1 legal suspension date. The country’s Constitutional Court issued the ruling and said the use of death as a public deterrent to crime is now deemed impossible. The ...
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• Robert Lee Thompson: Set to Die Under the Law of Parties

  
  UrbanGrounds — Authority: 139
  Thankfully, Gov. Rick Perry just moments ago refused to commute Thompsons death sentence...which means that the evil POS wil be dead in a few minutes from now.
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• Perry denies clemency to death row inmate

  
  CRIME — Authority: 601
  Gov. Rick Perry will not intervene in the execution this evening of Robert Lee Thompson, who was condemned to die for his role in the robbery/slaying of a convenience store clerk in 1996. Thompson did not fire the fatal shot; the triggerman received life in prison. According to the Houston Chronicle Thompson did ...
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• What the Law Commands

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 513
  Thats the title of a post by Linda Greenhouse at the New York Times Opinionator blog.  LINK   As with anything the retired Times Supreme Court correspondent writes, its a must-read.  Im going to focus on one section of her post. The proof of how alike the two justices really are, of course, willlie not in their ...
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• russia the not-so-heartless

  
  n e u f n e u f — Authority: 446
  [click image] Really . REALLY .
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