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Jul 14, 2017
Pioneers in Efforts to Defend Death-Penalty Cases, End Capital Punishment Remembered in New Book, Obituary
The legacies of Scharlette Holdman (pictured) and Marie Deans — two women wh…
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Jun 21, 2017
BOOKS: “The History of the Death Penalty in Colorado”
When University of Colorado Boulder sociology professor Michael Radelet began doing research on the death penalty in the 1970s, the noted death-penalty scholar tells Colorado Public Radio, he didn’t have an opinion about capital punishment and “di…
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Jun 08, 2017
BOOKS: “Exonerated” Tells the Story of the Innocence Movement
Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement, by Robert J. Norris, describes the rise of the “innocence movement,” the lawyers, investigators, journalists, lawmakers, and organizations that have worked to uncover wrongful convictions, …
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May 01, 2017
BOOKS: “The Trials of Walter Ogrod” Chronicles Pennsylvania Possible Innocence Case
Walter Ogrod was convicted and sentenced to death in Philadelphia in 1996 for the 1988 murder of a 4‑year-old girl, whose body was found in a discarded television box. Ogrod, who is developmentally disabled, has long maintained his innocence, but …
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Feb 20, 2017
BOOKS: “The Death Penalty As Torture: From the Dark Ages to Abolition”
In his newest book, The Death Penalty As Torture: From the Dark Ages to Abolition, John Bessler chronicles the historical link between torture and the death penalty from the Middle Ages to the present day and argues that …
