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Nov 13, 2013
The Concord Monitor of New Hampshire called for repeal of the state’s death penalty in a recent editorial. The paper contrasted the case of Michael Addison, the state’s only death row inmate, to that of John Brooks, who w…
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Oct 24, 2013
A recent editorial in the Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio) called for DNA testing in the death penalty case of Tyrone Noling. Noling has been on death row for 17 years. His conviction was based largely on the …
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Oct 17, 2013
Michael Morton (pictured), who was released after 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, and Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, called for reforms in Texas’s clemency process. In a rece…
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Oct 09, 2013
Wyoming’s Casper Star-Tribune recently pointed out why many families of murder victims favor life-without-parole sentences over the death penalty . “[I]t may be a surprise that many families of murder victims prefer the l…
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Sep 30, 2013
A recent Boston Globe editorial called on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder not to seek the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man accused of carrying out the bombing at the Boston Marathon. The editors said the lengthy death-penalt…
