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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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		<title>Georgia Parole Board Denies Clemency for Troy Davis &#8211; UPDATE</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
– Desmond Tutu
The path for Troy Anthony Davis&#8217;s to receive a lethal injection appears to be now cleared. His execution is scheduled for 7 pm on Wednesday.
The Christian Science Monitor (among others) has the story. Here&#8217;s a clip:
Pope Benedict, President Carter, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Must Not Execute Troy Anthony Davis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Late on an August night in 1989, an off-duty Savannah police officer named Mark Allen  MacPhail tried to intervene when he saw a homeless man being pistol whipped in a restaurant parking lot by another man.   But as MacPhail ran toward the scene, the person doing the whipping turned his .38 on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Military and the Death Penalty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Marisa Taylor For McClatchy has done an excellent three-part series on the military&#8217;s use of the death penalty. 
Here are clips from all three parts: 
RACE AND THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE MILITARY
Interestingly, it seems that the racial disparities are the starkest when those killed are outside the military.  Military on Military murders seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Neuroscience Change Our Idea of Sentencing&#8230;and Other Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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CAN NEUROSCIENCE HELP US SENTENCE MORE EFFECTIVELY?
An intriguing new book by Professor Deborah Denno is coming from Oxford University Press:  It&#8217;s called Changing Law’s Mind: How Neuroscience Can Help Us Punish Criminals More Fairly and Effectively.
Here is some of the summary from the abstract on the book:

    A criminal justice system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Should We Do If We Wrongly Execute Someone? (&amp; Related Stories)</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2011/admin/what-should-we-do-if-we-wrongly-execute-someone-related-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Since the advent of DNA evidence, America has been dealing with an ever growing list of men and women who have been found to be innocent of serious crimes after having spent years or decades behind bars.
When the innocent are released we have laws in place (on a state by state basis) that allow  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Inalienable Right to Call School Officials &#8220;Douchebags&#8221; &amp; Other Must Reads</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/education/2011/admin/the-inalienable-right-to-call-school-officials-douchebags-other-must-reads/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/education/2011/admin/the-inalienable-right-to-call-school-officials-douchebags-other-must-reads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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SCOTUS REVIEW IS SOUGHT FOR  2 ONLINE FREE SPEECH CASES, ONE INVOLVING STUDENTS AND &#8220;DOUCHEBAGS&#8221;
(Yes, you&#8217;re right, my inner 9-year-old does think it&#8217;s funny each time I type the word &#8220;douchebag.&#8221;)
Ahem&#8230;
The Student Press Law Center  reports that the lawyers for two cases that involve online communication by students, and First Amendment rights, hope [...]]]></description>
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