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		<title>Death Penalty Initiative Qualifies, DA Candidates Opine (Badly), LA Thinks About April 30, 1992&#8230;&amp; Much More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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by Celeste Fremon and Taylor Walker



While WLA was dark earlier this week, a few things happened that we wanted to make sure you didn&#8217;t miss:
DEATH PENALTY REPEAL WILL BE ON NOVEMBER BALLOT IN CALIFORNIA
First of all, on Monday, the initiative known as the SAFE California Act, officially qualified for the ballot.  This means that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juvenile Justice Cuts, Death Penalty Deterrence, The Controversial LA Times Photos&#8230;.&amp; More</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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by Taylor Walker 



IS DEATH PENALTY A DETERRENT? 
More than three decades after the moratorium against capital punishment was lifted, the prestigious National Research Council released a report that, after reviewing dozens of studies, failed to find reliable evidence that the death penalty is actually a homicide deterrent. In fact, the Committee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On The Young Turks Network Show &#8211; the Point&#8230;Talking Death Penality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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NOTE:  I don&#8217;t know why the video vanished between last night and this morning.  I&#8221;m at the jails commission right.  Will figure it out when I get back.

The Young Turks, which is partnered with YouTube, is billed as the worlds largest online news show, and has gained further popularity now that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday&#8217;s Must Reads: Death Penalty Conversions, the Problem With &#8220;Defiance&#8221; &amp; More</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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by Taylor Walker

CHANGING THEIR MINDS ON THE DEATH PENALTY
Two champions of California&#8217;s original 1978 capital punishment initiative are now campaigning for a new initiative&#8212;this one to revoke  the death penalty, substituting life without parole. It is expected to be on the state&#8217;s ballot this November.  The NY Times&#8217; Adam Nagourney has the story.
Here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy of Injustice: Ray Bonner Talks About His &#8220;Labor of Outrage&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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People often ask Pulitzer-winning journalist turned author, Raymond Bonner, if his new book, Anatomy of Injustice:  a Murder Case Gone Wrong&#8212;which took nearly twelve years to reserch and write&#8212;is a labor of love.
&#8220;Actually, it&#8217;s a labor of outrage,&#8221; Bonner said, when he spoke on Sunday afternoon at a LA book party given in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bryan Stevenson&#8217;s TED Talk About Life, Justice, &amp; Having Permission to Kill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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A few days ago, human rights lawyer Bryan Stevensen gave a talk at TED&#8217;s yearly spring event in Long Beach.   
For those of you not terribly familiar, TED is a nonprofit devoted to &#8220;Ideas Worth Spreading.&#8221; It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At $120 Million a Year, Can California Afford the Death Penality?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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During his 8 years in office, former Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti had no problem telling his prosecutors to push hard to get death sentences for those he thought deserved it.  Now Garcetti is one of those leading the charge for a ballot proposition to replace the state&#8217;s capital punishment statute with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCOTUS Hears Death Penalty Case of Missed Deadlines&#8230;MT Challenges Pot &amp; Guns Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 07:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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This death penalty case about returned mail and multiple oversights on the part of lackadaisical court clerks and ball-dropping lawyers seemed to get a positive hearing from everyone but Scalia who reportedly was the only obvious contra.  
The AP&#8217;s Mark Sherman has the story.
Here&#8217;s how it opens:
WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The tale of returned mail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troy Davis:  36 Hours Later&#8230;.and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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THOUGHTS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
The execution of Troy Davis was deeply disturbing for large numbers of Americans&#8212;and for many elsewhere in the word.  
In the hours since Davis died at 11:08 Georgia time on Wednesday, September 22, there has been a flood of columns, news stories, tweets and random [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troy Davis UPDATES:  Troy Anthony Davis Pronounced Dead at 11:08 p.m.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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7:05 pm Eastern time
US SUPREME COURT DELAYS EXECUTION IN ORDER TO CONSIDER A STAY
Twitter had it first, but then around 7:15 a few news stories emerged.  Here&#8217;s the story from the Guardian.   Troy Davis was schedule to be executed on Wednesday at 7 pm eastern.
Here is some additional information from MSNBC.
&#8220;We are [...]]]></description>
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