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Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Crime and Revolution, Prisons Don't Work by Crime And Revolution, Prisons Don't Work Edited from MIM notes According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. government, the United States is number one in the world - number one in imprisonment. More people are in prison and jail in …
Article • May 15, 1991 • from PLN May, 1991
A Saga of Shame: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal by Equal Justice By Equal Justice U.S.A. Mumia Abu-Jamal is an African American Journalist and advocate for racial and economic justice. He is currently on death row in Pennsylvania. In 1982, Abu-Jamal was convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer and …
Will The Racists Please Stand Up? by Paul Wright By Paul Wright The 101st Congress has passed the Racial Justice Act (RJA). What the RJA does is prohibit racism in the application of the death penalty. As currently applied a disproportionate number of the men and women on death row …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Review: A Saga of Shame by A SAGA OF SHAME is a 20-page tabloid dealing with racial discrimination and the death penalty in the U.S. in its current and historical concerts. A lot of the information has been presented before in other publications and PLN has reported some of the …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Station Files Suit to Televise Execution by Station Files Suit To Televise Execution A San Francisco public television station, KQED, has filed a suit against the governor for permission to broadcast executions. Currently, cameras are barred and witnesses are not permitted to take notes. A DOC representative said the rules …
Brief • January 2, 1991
Bates v. Lynn, LA, Consent Decree, Death Row Inmates, 1991 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA M. WAYNE BATES, JR., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 89-65-B Magistrate Stephen Riedlinger BRUCE LYNN, et al., Defendants. CONSENT DECREE This cause of action originated with the filing of a …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Sixteen Executed During 1989 by Sixteen Executions During 1989 In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty. Since then 13 states have executed 120 people. Last year (1989) eight states executed 16 people. Eight of them were white and eight were black. They'd spent an average of seven …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
A Mother's Story by Shirley Dicks By Shirley Dicks My son is on death row for a crime he did not commit, and time has almost run out for him. I am trying, somehow or somewhere to find help for him. My son was with his friend Donald Strouth on …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Death Row Abolished by Mark LaRue By Mark LaRue For several months it was rumored that death row was being closed down and everyone with a death sentence was being moved to the other tiers in IMU or 5 Wing [protective custody, editor]. No one believed the rumors of course. …
Article • September 15, 1990 • from PLN September, 1990
Pro-Lifers for Death by Paul Wright Pro-Lifers For Death By Paul A. Wright The TV news lately has been full of governors, legislators, elected officials and citizens who proclaim themselves to be "pro-life" and thus, anti-abortion. The last year has seen attempts by Gov. Martinez in Florida to make abortion …
Indonesia Murders Long Term Political Prisoners by On the 16th of February, 1990 four prisoners: Sater Suryanto, Johannes Surono, Simon Solainman and Norbertus Rohayan, were taken from their cell in Cipinang prison in Jakarta (capital of Indonesia) and taken to an uninhabited island in Jakarta Bay where they were shot …
Article • July 15, 1990 • from PLN July, 1990
Capital Punishment by Lawrence Boulton By Laurance Boulton, Gatesville, TX The thought of knowing one's death is drawing near, especially your own, is a portrait of terror. Although refined to a system of rules and legally sanctioned methods, executing a human being in nonetheless murder! No longer is a man …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Abolish the Death Penalty! by Abolish The Death Penalty!!! Here in Washington state the Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (WCADP) is working to do just that. They have a variety of resources available, including a quarterly newsletter. The Coalition is a variety of religious, civil liberties and civic …
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Walter Reckless Memorial Lecture Death and Deterence Redux Fagan 2006 WALTER C. RECKLESS MEMORIAL LECTURE Death and Deterrence Redux: Science, Law and Causal Reasoning on Capital Punishment Jeffrey Fagan∗ “Things are seldom what they seem . . . Skim-milk masquerades as cream . . .” Gilbert and Sullivan I. THE …
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Death Row Delusions Psych Journal Article 2007 Law & Psychiatry Death Row Delusions: When Is a Prisoner Competent to Be Executed? Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D. This column examines a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Panetti v. Quarterman, which embraced a broader view of what makes death row prisoners incompetent …
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Cornell Law School- Looking Deathworthy, Racist Death Penalty, 2005 CORNELL LAW SCHOOL LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES Looking Deathworthy: Perceived Stereotypicality of Black Defendants Predicts Capital-Sentencing Outcomes Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Paul G. Davies, Valerie J. Purdie-Vaughns, and Sheri Lynn Johnson Cornell Law School Myron Taylor Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-4901 Cornell …
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Tx Defender Service Subj Deadly Speculation Misleading Tx Capital Juries With False Predictions of Future Dangerousness DEADLY SPECULATION Misleading Texas Capital Juries with False Predictions of Future Dangerousness TEXAS DEFENDER SERVICE Houston and Austin,Texas Acknowledgements Many people worked tirelessly on this project. TDS would like to extend our enormous thanks …
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Fordham University School Od Law Denno Mcgavney Research Paper the Lethal Injection Quandary How Medicine Has Dismantled the Death Penalty 2007 Fordham University School of Law May 2007 THE LETHAL INJECTION QUANDARY: HOW MEDICINE HAS DISMANTLED THE DEATH PENALTY By DEBORAH W. DENNO ARTHUR A. MCGIVNEY PROFESSOR OF LAW (WORKING …
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Slr Cassell Response to Bedau Radelet Study Nov 1988 Page 1 LEXSEE 41 STAN. L. REV. 121 Copyright (c) 1988 The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University Stanford Law Review November, 1988 41 Stan. L. Rev. 121 LENGTH: 19998 words COMMENT: Protecting the Innocent: A Response to the …
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Center for Constitutional Rights Death Row Position Paper 2011 THE UNITED STATES TORTURES BEFORE IT KILLS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE DEATH ROW EXPERIENCE FROM A HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE A Position Paper by the Center for Constitutional Rights Prepared for the 9th Annual World Day Against the Death Penalty October 10, …
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