Jeff Wood: On Death Row in Texas for 18 Years Despite Killing No One
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Death Penalty
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The Case of Ivan Teleguz
• paulcraigroberts.orgAmericans are helpless against false prosecutions because so many Americans are gullible and cannot believe that prosecutors and police would be corrupt.
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Supreme Court allows Oklahoma's death penalty procedures
• claremoreprogress.comA trio of death row inmates couldn't convince the U.S. Supreme Court that they should be spared the use of a controversial execution drug because of the pain it may cause.
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Ron Paul and the Death Penalty
• Lewrockwell.comRon Paul has written a very good piece regarding the death penalty. I will begin with his conclusion:
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Death Penalty: The Ultimate Corrupt, Big Government Program
• http://www.thedailybell.comNebraska's legislature recently made headlines when it ended the state's death penalty. Many found it odd that a conservatives-dominated legislature would support ending capital punishment, since conservative politicians have traditionally supported
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Egyptian court sentences ex-President Morsi to death in 2011 jailbreak case
• http://rt.comAn Egyptian court has sentenced former President Mohamed Morsi to death on Tuesday on charges of killing, kidnapping and other offences during a 2011 mass jailbreak.
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Death Penalty: The Ultimate Corrupt, Big Government Program by Ron Paul
• popularliberty.comNebraska's legislature recently made headlines when it ended the state's death penalty.
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Supreme Court justices ask: Is being burned alive constitutional?
• Christian Science MonitorThe US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a capital punishment case involving Oklahoma's use of lethal injection drugs. At issue is whether the first drug prevents pain by rendering the prisoner unconscious.
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Supreme court asks if execution drugs are like being 'burned alive at the stake'
• http://www.theguardian.comIn Glossip v Gross justice Elena Kagan cites uncertainty that midazolam puts inmates under enough to avoid feeling sudden infliction of pain from other drugs
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Alabama man off death row after 28 years to jailers: You will answer to God
• theguardian.comAnthony Ray Hilton, 58, sentenced to death for crime he did not commit Ballistics test was carried out by civil engineer with one eye
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Boston Marathon bomber trial nears death penalty phase
• theguardian.comThe first phase of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial is nearly over – but after reaching a verdict, jurors will need to decide whether he will be put to death
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American Pharmacists Association votes against supply of lethal injection drugs
• The GuardianDeath penalty opponents hail ethics ruling that could further restrict availability and increase pressure on state authorities to halt capital punishment
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Why did Utah bring back the firing squad? How the US kills people in 2015
• The GuardianOn Monday night, Utah's governor signed into law a bill that makes Utah the only state in the union to allow the firing squad as a method of executing condemned inmates.
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Utah's governor just legalized firing squads for death row inmates
• Business InsiderUtah became the only state to allow firing squads for executions Monday when Gov. Gary Herbert signed a law approving the controversial method's use when no lethal-injection drugs are available.
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Death row inmate gets hearing to review claims of prosecutor misconduct
• Houston ChronicleIn affidavits supplied to Carty's current defense team last year, in 2014, a DEA agent and two of Carty's co-defendants allege that Harris County prosecutors crossed ethical boundaries and threatened them to ensure Carty's conviction.
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Pennsylvania governor imposes moratorium on death penalty
• Associated PressNewly elected Gov. Tom Wolf imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in the state Friday, calling the current system of capital punishment "error prone, expensive and anything but infallible."
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Feds to seek death penalty against reputed head of drug gang
• Associated PressFederal prosecutors in New Jersey will seek the death penalty for only the second time against a man they say led a violent street gang charged in 2013 with six murders.
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Death penalty states unmoved by botched execution
• Associated PressOklahoma's last execution went so badly the state tried to cancel it before it was over. With the inmate writhing while the lethal drugs seeped into his body, his executioners drew the viewing gallery curtains, concealing what
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Arizona to change drugs it uses in executions
• Associated PressArizona officials said Monday they have been cleared of any wrongdoing in an execution this year that lasted nearly two hours, but they are nevertheless changing the drugs they use to put inmates to death.
