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The Expensive, Arbitrary and Inefficient State of the Death Penalty in California
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NH Supreme Court Justice on the Death Penalty
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NH Supreme Court Justice on the Death Penalty
Why stretch and manipulate the truth?
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West Memphis 3 Freed
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Illinois Says No to Capital Punishment
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Actual death penalty abolition would be a lot cheaper than de facto moratorium
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Inmate Executed with Animal Drug
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Execution will not go forward! Was the state's rush worth it?
Rush to resume executions while a ban is in place hurts victims
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Should Murderers Die?
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Cut This: The Death Penalty Video
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The Expensive, Arbitrary and Inefficient State of the Death Penalty in California
Texas Appeals Court Stops Death Penalty Hearing
Results of DNA Testing Come Too Late for Claude Jones
Have You Read Wilbert Rideau’s Book In The Place of Justice?
Death Penalty Usage Maps Show Infrequent Use of the Sentence
Inadequate Legal Counsel a Key Concern in Death Penalty Cases
NH Supreme Court Justice on the Death Penalty
San Bernardino Jury Rejects Death Sentence
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The Courts, they are a-changin'
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A Former Judge Asks, Should Executions Continue?
I want to live in safe community without the death penalty
Italian Catholics Changed My Perspective on the Death Penalty
The death penalty is not civilized
The Death Row Population
Death Penalty Not Needed to Prevent Prison Murder
The Federal Death Penalty: An Overview
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May 9, 2011
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, Actress Hilary Swank, and TV Producer Thomas Schlamme to be honored for contributions to anti-death penalty movement
April 29, 2011
Gov. Jerry Brown Cancels Plan to Build New Death Row
March 9, 2011
Illinois Governor Signs bill to repeal the death penalty
October 4, 2010
Fighting Crime in the U.S. and Internationally: Is the Death Penalty Necessary?
September 23, 2010
Despite Public Objections- California Rushes Forward with Execution
June 13, 2010
More Than 100 International Organizations Gathered in San Francisco to Oppose the United States’ Continued Use of the Death Penalty
April 12, 2010
Alec Baldwin, Paul Haggis, Sherry and Leo Frumkin, Richard Dieter and Sister Suzanne Jabro to be honored for opposing the death penalty
January 13, 2010
California Death Row Reaches 700
December 18, 2009
Death Sentences Reach Their Lowest Point Since 1976
December 15, 2009
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty moves closer to achieving worldwide abolition of the death penalty
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Op-eds, Newspaper and Magazine articles
"Pena capital es un despilfarro," La Opinion, Natasha Minsker, 2009-03-18
"Readers Forum: Capital Punishment is a costly mistake", Ray Samuels, op-ed, Contra Costa Times, December 20, 2008
"Activists: Halt death penalty in California", By Donald A. McCartin and Mike Farrell, op-ed, Los Angeles Daily News, July 23, 2008
"What we sacrifice on Death Row," Nancy Oliveira, op-ed, San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, June 30, 2008
"Italian Catholics changed my perspective on the death penalty," Nancy Oliveira, op-ed, The Tidings, Friday, May 2, 2008
"Let's stop, reconsider: Should executions continue?" Rudolph J. Gerber, op-ed, Sacramento Bee, Monday, April 21, 2008
"The death penalty is not civilized," Aundré M. Herron, op-ed, Sacramento Bee, Sunday, April 20, 2008
"A sentence too close to death: Wrongly convicted, I am proof that the state should reconsider execution," op-ed, Harold Hall, Los Angeles Times, March 27, 2008
"IT’S A GRAY AREA: Facing facts on the death penalty," Opinion, JUDGE JAMES P. GRAY, The Daily Pilot, March 15, 2008
"Death-penalty system loaded with racial bias," op-ed, Gloria Romero, Los Angeles Daily News, 02/27/2008
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Recent Reports
"Preventable Error: A Report on Prosecutorial Misconduct in California 1997–2009", by Kathleen M. Ridolfi and Maurice Possley Northern California Innocence Project, Santa Clara University School of Law, October 2010
"Death Penalty Sentencing In Decline Across U.S." by the ACLU of Northern California, March 30, 2010
"Death Sentences and Executions 2009" by Amnesty International, March 2010
"DO EXECUTIONS LOWER HOMICIDE RATES?: THE VIEWS OF LEADING CRIMINOLOGISTS" By Michael L. Radelet and Traci L. LaCock, July 2009
"Racial Disparities in Capital Punishment: Blind Justice Requires a Blindfold" By Scott Phillips - October 2008
"CALIFORNIA COMMISSION ON THE FAIR ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE: OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE FAIR ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN CALIFORNIA" - June 30, 2008
"Wrongful Convictions in California Capital Cases" - March 28, 2008
"Death by Geography" - March 27, 2008
"The Hidden Death Tax" - March 27, 2008
"A Crisis of Confidence: Americans' Doubts About the Death Penalty" - June 9, 2007
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