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After Failed Ballot Initiative, Prosecutors Ramp Up Push To Resume Executions

Source: Think Progress, Nov 19 2012, 2:50pm CST

California’s ballot initiative to abolish the death penalty failed in November, but executions are nonetheless effectively on hold in California, as both the state attorney general’s office and several judges have halted executions pendi ...

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Arias prosecutor makes case for death penalty with dramatic statements from family of victim

Source: Montreal Gazette  |   May 17 2013, 4:42am CDT

PHOENIX - Steven Alexander stood before the jury, looked up at a family picture and grimaced and cried as he ticked off the list of problems that have befallen him in the five years since his brother was murdered: ulcers, depression, a separation fr ...

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Exonerated Inmates: Florida Bill To Speed Up Executions Would Have Cost Us Our Lives

Source: Think Progress  |   May 16 2013, 2:20pm CDT

Several exonerated men whose innocence of murder was proven years after they were sentenced to death are imploring Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) not to sign a Florida bill that would set automatic timelines for imposing the death ...

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Lawyers plead for mercy for Arias as trial resumes

Source: KIRO  |   May 16 2013, 2:04pm CDT

An attorney for Jodi Arias on Thursday told the jury deciding the former waitress's fate to consider factors including her age, troubled upbringing and talent as an artist, and show her mercy for killing her boyfriend five years ago ...

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3 days ago

New bill could speed up executions in Florida

Source: WAWS FOX 30  |   May 15 2013, 1:18pm CDT

MIAMI, Fla. (AP) -- Two exonerated former death row inmates are urging Gov. Rick Scott to veto legislation that would accelerate the state's capital punishment process. The system has been criticized for allowing some conde ...

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3 days ago

The Death Penalty vs. Life Sentence

Source: All Free Essays   |   May 15 2013, 12:50am CDT

Determining whether an individual should receive a death penalty or life sentence based on the crime he or she may have committed has been a major controversial debate in the United States and our Judicial System. Along with any possi ...

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Exonerated Prisoners Are Winning the Fight Against the Death Penalty

Source: The Nation  |   May 13 2013, 4:06pm CDT

“I killed the thing that almost killed me,” said Kirk Bloodsworth, who faced execution in Maryland, the latest state to outlaw capital punishment. Earlier this month, I was at the State House in Annapolis when Ma ...

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