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by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Three Mississippi men who ran down and killed a Black man last June pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes March 22, one day after one of the defendants pleaded guilty to the slaying in state court.Dylan Butler, 20, Deryl Dedmon, 19, and John Aaron [...]
Special to the NNPA from thedefendersonline.com (New York, NY) – Today the United States Supreme Court rejected a request from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office to overturn the most recent federal appeals court decision declaring Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence unconstitutional. The Court’s decision brings to an end nearly 30 years of litigation over the fairness [...]
NEWS ANALYSIS By George E. Curry © TheDefendersOnline.com Ray Charles sings about Georgia being on his mind. But, as Troy Davis was laid to rest Saturday in Savannah, Georgia was also on the minds of distraught death penalty opponents who saw him executed on the basis of questionable evidence and despite an array of witnesses [...]
NEW YORK, Nov 16 (IPS) – A clear majority of U.S. voters – 61 percent – would choose a punishment other than death for murder if given a choice, the Death Penalty Information Centre said recently as it released the results of “one of the most comprehensive studies ever conducted” of U.S. citizens’ views on [...]
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