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Jul 21, 2010
David Garland, a professor of law and sociology at New York University, recently addressed some common myths regarding the death penalty in America. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Garland provided information challenging the common w…
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Jun 30, 2010
On June 24, the Democrat Herald (Oregon) featured an editorial about Randy Lee Guzek, who was recently sentenced to death for the fourth time for murders committed in 1987. The Or…
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Jun 24, 2010
The Washington Post recently published an editorial calling for Congress to rewrite the part of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 that governs legal representation for indigent death-penalty defen…
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Jun 01, 2010
When the student body president of the University of North Carolina, Eve Marie Carson, was murdered in 2008, both the state and the federal government initiated death penalty prosecutions against one of the defendants. However, ma…
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May 11, 2010
A recent issue of the award-winning prison news magazine, The Angolite, featured a story by inmate Lane Nelson about Gerald Bordelon, the first person to be executed in Louisiana since 20…
