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Executing The Innocent
Tue May 15, 2012 2:46 PM EDT
Originally published at Fair and Unbalanced "No one can ever say again with a straight face that America doesn't execute innocent men. No one." -- Andrew Rosenthal, The Atlantic Carlos DeLuna was executed in 1989 for the 1983 stabbing death of a gas station clerk in Corpu …
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Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says -
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 10:51 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
He was the spitting image of the killer, had the same first name and was near the scene of the crime at the fateful hour: Carlos DeLuna paid the ultimate price and was executed in place of someone else in Texas in 1989, a report out Tuesday found.
Tamron Hall Ends Tim Carney's Spin Doctoring By Tossing Him Off Her Show | Crooks and Liars
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 1:59 AM EDT (Crooks and Liars)
Tamron Hall lost her temper at the right wingers who tried really hard to distract everyone from Mitt Romney's bullying ways and more importantly, his disingenous denials and half-apologies.
"Do You Understand The Rain"
Sat May 12, 2012 6:44 PM EDT
It's a hundred degrees out here The common man is full of fear Our children are shedding tears Fertile land is no more Dry and dusty It needs the cure.... Corn stalks that once stood proud Like a leader within the crowd Are now weak and wilted Desperation with …
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Sahar Gul, Afghanistan Child Bride, In-Laws Sentenced For Torture (WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS)
Seeded on Sat May 5, 2012 5:32 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violation The plight of 15-year-old Sahar Gul captivated the nation and set off a storm of …
Connecticut bans death penalty
Seeded on Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:21 PM EDT (Politico)
Connecticut became the 17th state to ban the death penalty on Wednesday, despite a new poll showing a majority of the state’s voters generally support the practice. The death penalty will be replaced with life in prison without parole, but the ban doesn’t apply to th …
More Than One-Third Of All U.S. Executions Since 1976 Took Place In Texas
Seeded on Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:55 PM EDT (Think Progress)
The Economist maps out every American execution since 1976, when the Supreme Court announced the modern constitutional regime governing death penalty cases after effectively suspending all executions nationwide for four years.
North Carolina judge vacates death penalty under racial justice law
Seeded on Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:25 PM EDT ()
In a landmark ruling, a North Carolina judge on Friday vacated the death penalty of a black man convicted of murder, saying prosecutors across the state had engaged in deliberate and systematic racial discrimination when striking black potential jurors in death penalty cases. …
Death Penalty Proponents Lose Another Argument
Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:43 PM EDT
Originally posted at Fair and Unbalanced Those of us representing defendants who have killed understand the utter fallacy of the argument that the death penalty deters killing. It is nonsensical to think that when one is suffering from whatever disturbed state of mind th …
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More Evidence Against the Death Penalty
Seeded on Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:44 AM EDT (The New York Times)
In Connecticut, a powerful, comprehensive study provided evidence that state death sentences are haphazardly meted out, with virtually no connection to the heinousness of the crime. In California, two former death penalty proponents — a prosecutor who drafted the 1978 ballot …
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