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TEXAS DEATH PENALTY PROCEDURE UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
17 hours ago ago from Criminal Jurisdiction a Blog by a Houston Criminal Defense Attorney
Judge Acknowledges Innocent People Have Likely been Executed Harris County Criminal District Court Judge Kevin Fine on Thursday, March 4, 2010, created a tsunami of controversy in the Texas legal community when he reportedly made a comment that he was declaring the state’s death penalty unconstitutional. The comment was made during a hearing on a motion filed by defense attorneys in the case of John Edward Green Jr. who is facing a ...
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20 hours ago ago from Under The LobsterScope
Based on the moratorium (on the death penalty) in Illinois, the Innocence Project and more than 200 people being exonerated nationwide, it can only be concluded that innocent people have been executed. - Texas District Judge Kevin Fine I must say I agree with Judge Fine. You will note that no punishments are handed out to judges or juries when their victims are proven to be innocent. Filed under: crime , editorial , News , Opinion ...
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13 hours ago ago from r e f l e c t . . . k c o l i v e b r a n c h
Article submitted by Donnie Morehouse, MADP, with additions by Jeanne Christensen, RSM, editor. Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, an organization that works to end the death penalty in Missouri, has a busy and active chapter in Kansas City. The local group is participating with three other MADP chapters and about seventeen organizations to sponsor the Moratorium Now! Lobby Day on March 17, 2010 in the rotunda of the ...
Related contentDeath penalty opponents to head for Austin for alternative spring break
19 hours ago ago from CRIME
Students looking for something different over the upcoming spring break will descend on Austin next week for the Anti Death Penatly Alternative Spring Break. The 5-day program includes everything from a" telephone call from a person on death row" to a panel discussion with a half dozen death row exonerees. One of the speakers at the event is Bill Pelke, author of "Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing", about the murder of his ...
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23 hours ago ago from The Wheat and Chaff
A Texas judge recently declared the death penalty unconstitutional , citing the strikingly high numbers of people who've been exonerated while on death row. Based on the moratorium (on the death penalty) in Illinois, the Innocence Project and more than 200 people being exonerated nationwide, it can only be concluded that innocent people have been executed,” state District Judge Kevin Fine said. “It's safe to assume we execute innocent ...
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Supreme Court Won't Touch Death Row Interview Ban
22 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court will not tinker with a federal prison policy that prohibits death row inmates from giving face-to-face interviews to reporters. The justices on Monday turned down an appeal from David Paul Hammer, an inmate on the federal government's death row in Terre Haute, Ind. Hammer argued that the policy adopted after Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh appeared on "60 Minutes" in March 2000 is an unconstitutional ...
Related contentHigh Court Wades Into Funeral Protests, Vaccines
21 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
BY JESS BRAVIN AND BRENT KENDALL WASHINGTON The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the father of a fallen Marine can collect damages from a religious sect that picketed his son's funeral with vulgar placards celebrating the death of American soldiers. The court also accepted two other cases on Monday, one testing whether vaccine makers are immune from lawsuits under state law and another that challenges government background checks on ...
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