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May 03, 2010
Below is an essay for our thirty-day series on John Paul Stevens by James Liebman, the Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Liebman was a clerk for Justice Stevens during the 1978 Term and has since argue…
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Apr 19, 2010
A recent editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune calls for Utahns and their elected leaders to consider abandoning the death penalty citing that “state-sponsored killing of a human being, no matter how heinous the crime, is permitted b…
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Apr 05, 2010
A recent editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer cited the high costs of Pennsylvania’s death penalty as a key reason for supporting an abolition bill that was proposed last month by a state senator. Accor…
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Mar 29, 2010
Kathleen Garcia, a victims’ advocate and expert on traumatic grief, recently shared her opinions on the death penalty in New Hampshire, a state that is studying the issue through its Commission on Capital Punishme…
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Mar 18, 2010
A recent editorial in the Spokane (WA) Spokesman-Review called for elimination of the death penalty in light of its high costs and the state’s tight budget. Executions are uncertain and delayed by the necessity of appeals…
