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Dec 31, 2001

International News and Developments: 2001

Pakistani President Musharraf announced on December 13 that he will com­mute the death sen­tences of approx­i­mate­ly 100 young offend­ers to life impris­on­ment. (Amnesty International,…

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Dec 31, 2001

Excerpts from the Final Report of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System

The fol­low­ing excerpts are from the death penal­ty chap­ter of the Final Report of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System. The blue-rib­bon Committee, appoint­ed in 1999, used a wide vari­ety of sources to draw its con­clu­sions and for­mu­late the rec­om­men­da­tions found in its…

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