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Mar 01, 2010
The Death Penalty Information Center collects relevant death penalty articles that have appeared in print and on media Web sites. Our annual compilation is a representative sample of the extensive media coverage given to capital p…
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Feb 16, 2010
Mike Hendricks, columnist for the Kansas City Star, recently described how the state goes through the motions of having a death penalty, but with no immediate prospect of its use after 16 years. Kansas reinstated the death penalty…
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Feb 11, 2010
A recent editorial in Pennsylvania’s Patriot-News recommended doing away with the death penalty as a way to address the state budget crisis. “Problems are entrenched in the system and given its high cost,…
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Feb 08, 2010
Michael Traynor, President Emeritus of the prestigious American Law Institute (ALI), called the ALI’s recent withdrawal of its model death penalty law “a striking repudiation from the very organiz…
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Jan 18, 2010
A recent editorial in the Dallas Morning News recalled that the paper had reversed its position in support of the death penalty in April 2007. Since then, the editorial noted, Texas has accounted for an even larger percen…
