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Dec 23, 2013
FROM DPIC: Extensive News Coverage of Year End Report
National and local media have focused significant attention on DPIC’s recent 2013 Year End Report. Coverage has included pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post,
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Dec 20, 2013
Toobin on America’s Ambivalence Toward the Death Penalty
Jeffrey Toobin, writing in The New Yorker, used the current scramble among states to procure the drugs for lethal injections as a paradigm of the much longer effort to make the death penalty palatable to the American publ…
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Dec 04, 2013
NEW VOICES: Another Conservative Leader Challenges the Death Penalty
In an op-ed in the Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tennessean Drew Johnson evoked conservatives’ intentions to “protect innocent life, promote financial responsibility and support government programs that really work” in critici…
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Dec 02, 2013
EDITORIALS: Expanding Conservative Concerns About the Death Penalty
A recent editorial in the Dallas Morning News highlighted the voices of prominent conservatives who now oppose capital punishment, including former Texas Congressman Ron Paul and conservative political le…
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Nov 21, 2013
NEW VOICES: Deputy Editor Dissents from Toledo Blade’s Support for Death Penalty
Jeff Gerritt is the Deputy Editor of the Toledo Blade, a paper which has supported Ohio’s death penalty for years. Disagreeing with the paper’s Editor, Gerritt called for repeal of the death penalty in the state, noting t…
