Cut the Death Penalty from California's Budget Woes
Originally published at Fair and UnbalancedIn the ongoing saga of California's budget crisis, automatic spending cuts will be triggered by the state's failure to meet its optimistic revenue projections...
View ArticleGrowing Consensus That California's Death Penalty Must Be Replaced
Originally published at Fair and UnbalancedTani Cantil-Sakauye, after one year as the Chief Justice of the State of California, has concluded that the state's capital punishment system is "not...
View ArticleDesperately Seeking Obsolescence: Capital Defenders Seek to Replace The Death...
Originally posted on Fair and UnbalancedThis Presidents' Day weekend, criminal defense attorneys, investigators and experts will gather at the Monterey Conference Center, as they have done for the past...
View ArticleDeath Penalty Proponents Declare War on Religion
Originally published at Fair and UnbalancedWhen the fellas in the funny hats speak out, the GOP falls in line, and if the President and his Party disagree, ipso facto, they are waging a war on...
View Article40 Years and $4 Billion After 'Anderson' Struck Down California's Death Penalty
Originally posted at Fair and Unbalanced "We cannot assume that capital punishment is not so cruel as to offend contemporary standards of decency . . . It degrades and dehumanizes all who participate...
View ArticleAbolitionist Action Alert!
Just got this from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and I am reprinting it here in its entirety:"Dear Fellow Abolitionists,Timothy Shaun Stemple is set to be executed in Oklahoma on...
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Oklahoma Executed Timothy STemple
It is with much sadness that we report on the fact that the State of Oklahoma rejected pleas from The Innocence Project and others and did in fact execute Timothy Shaun Stemple yesterday, March...
View ArticleDOJ Investigate's Trayvon's Murder
Murder by state, thru execution or brutality by law enforcement is appalling. When it has become so systemic and incestuous that others believe they can do so - too; that is when the mendacity and...
View ArticleNeed Suggestions on Death Penalty Research and Focus Please?
Cases I have worked on since the beginning are Texas nationally known case of Cameron Todd Willingham (a father who lost his children in a fire and was wrongfully executed for it happening)...
View ArticleGlen Beck The Blaze Defend's Zimmerman Attacks Trayvon Martin
Glen Beck's The Blaze is defending George Zimmerman and attacking Trayvon Martin. This really pissies me off. So, with all the banter out there on "Stand your Ground"purported self defense laws...
View ArticleAuthor of STAND Your Ground Thinks Zimmerman should be Prosecuted
As if we are inspired to be more - when our President, unprepared, deals with a nationally signifigant issue that could tear us apart; but reassures us as he extends his sincerity apropos. Meteor...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman's Disgraceful Press Circus
Well, it's really, really ugly. On two fronts: the racist, unjustified killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, black teenager, and then, to make the situation even more grotesque, some really awful,...
View ArticleDOJ Questions Whether Sufficient Evidence of Hate Crime in Trayvon Martin...
Justice Department lawyers have stated that it "would be difficult to prosecute the case under federal law" because the case may not have the elements of a hate crime. "Civil rights law protects...
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View ArticleOK Governor Says No Mercy Despite Pardon/ Parole 4 to 1 Vote for Reprieve
Previously, we had the Pope, former FBI Director and Judge William Sessions, Desmond TuTu, Harry Belafonte, and President Jimmy Carter petition for mercy in the Troy Davis case. Unfortunately to...
View ArticleConnecticut Senate Votes to Abolish Death Penalty
"What kind of society do we want for our children?"That is the simple, yet profound, question asked by Connecticut State Senator Gayle Slossberg (D-Milford) during debate on the pending legislation...
View ArticleBuyer's Remorse on the Death Penalty in California
Browsing through the New York Times, I came upon an article by Adam Nagourney "Seeking an End to an Execution Law They Once Championed", which details the attempts by the two proponents of a death...
View ArticleGrandstanding In Sanford
Waiting for Godot. A clown show. These are facts: Unarmed, wearing a hoodie, and carrying Skittles and a cell phone, 17 year old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman on February 26,...
View ArticleConnecticut Legislature Repeals Death Penalty
In news that is huge everywhere but here at dKos (where it didn't even make it into the Overnight News Digest), Connecticut yesterday repealed its death penalty, replacing it with life without parole....
View ArticleThanks, Rev. Al
I'm delighted that George Zimmerman is in jail and facing murder 2 charges. And when I think about how that happened, it's clear to me that Rev. Al Sharpton brought this campaign together and carried...
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