Another Death Row Inmate Freed Due to Innocence – And Another Unsolved Case
Twenty years ago, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley were the talk of the Memphis tristate area as they stood accused of brutally killing three little Boy Scouts. Folks seemed particularly titillated by the news reports a...
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Another Irrelevant Victim?
After his sister's death in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center, once-avowed white supremacist Mark Stroman shot and killed Waqar Hasan, who was Pakistani, and Vasudev Patel, an Indian immigrant, during a series of convenience store an...
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Another Irrelevant Victim?
After his sister's death in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center, once-avowed white supremacist Mark Stroman shot and killed Waqar Hasan, who was Pakistani, and Vasudev Patel, an Indian immigrant, during a series of convenience store an...
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Why Have a Jury?
In Alabama, as we’ve discussed here before, elected judges have the authority to override the jury’s sentencing decision in death penalty cases – in other words, a judge can sentence a person to die even if a jury of hisher peers d...
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Why Have a Jury?
In Alabama, as we’ve discussed here before, elected judges have the authority to override the jury’s sentencing decision in death penalty cases – in other words, a judge can sentence a person to die even if a jury of hisher peers d...
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Execution in Texas, Despite So Much
Today, Texas executed Humberto Leal Garcia, a Mexican national who was tried, convicted and sentenced to die in the state of Texas without ever being given access to the Mexican consulate. Most agree his sentence would have been different if he had bee...
Categories: capital punishment, consulate, death penalth, execution, foreign relations, foreign relations, George W. Bush, George W. Bush, Humberto Leal Garcia, Humberto Leal Garcia, International Court of Justice, Rick Perry, State Department, Texas, Vienna Convention, Vienna Convention Tags:
$4 Billion Since 1978 — Time to Cut California’s Death Penalty
The Los Angeles Times reports new data in a study to be released next week on California’s death penalty has revealed that the price tag for death is even higher than we thought: $4 billion since 1978. Put another way, we spend $184 million m...
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