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17 hours ago ago from The National Law Journal's L.A. Legal Pad
California has put the death penalty on hold as it reviews its three-drug procedure, hoping to address claims that it inflicts "cruel and unusual punishment." The first drug is supposed to render the prisoner unconscious, the second induces paralysis and the third ultimately causes cardiac arrest. Analysts have contended that some of the 11 inmates put to death since the 1990s were conscious when the painful fatal dose was administered. ...
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5 hours ago ago from For Victims, Against the Death Penalty
From today's issue of the Pennsylvania college newspaper, The Villanovan: Villanovans Against the Death Penalty hosted anti-death penalty advocate Bill Piper, who gave the lecture, "What About the Family" on Nov. 30. Ashlee Shelton, director of Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, introduced Piper. Shelton works to ban the death penalty in Pennsylvania in favor of life without parole. She explained Pennsylvania's ...
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23 hours ago ago from The West Ranch Beacon - News & Commentary for the Santa Clarita Valley
(From the N.Y. Times) Saying he was now “paroled to my Father in heaven,” a convicted killer in Ohio on Tuesday became the first person in the United States to be executed with a one-drug intravenous lethal injection. The new method, which involved a large dose of anesthetic, akin to how animals are euthanized, has been hailed by most experts as painless and an improvement over the three-drug cocktail used in all other states that employ ...
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17 hours ago ago from A Western Heart
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22 hours ago ago from Caribbean Daily News
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20 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
(The weekly Danation column is first published in City Link Magazine .) Sometimes, focus on a particular ongoing news story comes and goes in waves. I first read of the plight of African albinos about a year ago , but the Associated Press did a story on them just last week, which brought new attention to African albinos across the blogosphere. In essence, albinos in sub-Saharan Africa are often killed and dismembered, as their body parts ...
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11 hours ago ago from CNN - World
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