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Editorial: Justice - Death Penalty Data Show Need for Racial Justice Act |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
The Fayetteville Observer
The proof is in the killing, and a newly released study of death sentences in North Carolina proves that our year-old Racial Justice Act was not only well-motivated, but urgently needed.
This doesn't mean that every death sentence is a miscarriage of justice. It does mean that we need the brake on human passions that the act provides. |
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A Moral Debt to Innocent, Former Death Row Inmates |
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Friday, 23 July 2010 |
By Stephen Dear
Guest columnist
The state of North Carolina condemned seven men to die who were later exonerated and has denied them any compensation. We owe them.
Glen Chapman, Alan Gell, Jonathon Hoffman, Levon Jones, Samuel Poole, Alfred Rivera and Christopher Spicer spent nearly five decades on North Carolina's death row and in our prisons for murders and other crimes they did not commit. They were condemned to die in your name and mine. |
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Victim's Race Skews Death Penalty |
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Friday, 23 July 2010 |
By Anne Blythe
Someone accused of killing a white person in North Carolina is nearly three times as likely to get the death penalty than someone accused of killing a black person, according to a study released Thursday by two researchers who looked at death sentences over a 28-year period. |
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More Than Reasonable Doubt About Death Penalty |
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 |
By Terrence P. Dwyer
There was a time when I would have agreed with Gov. M. Jodi Rell's veto last year of a bill to repeal Connecticut's death penalty. As a former New York State Police investigator whose job was to lock up murderers, I've never had any sympathy for vicious killers or qualms about them suffering.
At the same time, we should respond smartly to crime. I cannot conclude, as Gov. Rell did, that the death penalty works. Events just this past year have shown the death penalty could lead to gross miscarriages of justice. |
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Exonerees Gary Drinkard and Delbert Tibbs on WECT News |
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 |
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Death penalty reinforces inequality, should be abolished |
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
By Jordan Jochim
The execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner this past month is just another page in the sordid and misguided history of capital punishment. From the guillotines of the French Revolution to the stakes of the Salem Witch Trials, the death penalty has been seen throughout history as the proper and just way of dealing with the criminal and violent members of society. |
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