Sep
22
Troy Davis was executed by the state of Georgia last night at 11:08 PM, despite a worldwide movement over 1 million strong that drew attention to the glaring doubts of his guilt. With no physical evidence and a host of witness recantations, all indications are that the state of Georgia killed an innocent man.
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Sep
20
After a day-long hearing yesterday in Atlanta, the Georgia State Board of Pardons of Paroles today denied clemency to Troy Anthony Davis, in the face of a million cries of #TooMuchDoubt. Troy is scheduled to be executed Wednesday September 21, at 7 p.m. On the Friday before the hearing — the Global Day of Solidarity …
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Jul
29
No one is surprised to learn that California’s death penalty is a broken and dysfunctional system. After all, you don’t have to go far in California to find any government bureaucracy that’s broken or dysfunctional – it’s finding a functional government program that might take a while. The question is: How do we fix it? …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.aclu-sc.org/blog/2011/sb-490-letting-the-voters-make-an-informed-decision/
Jun
21
New data in a study to be released next week on California’s death penalty has revealed that the price tag for death is even higher than we thought: $4 billion since 1978.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.aclu-sc.org/blog/2011/4-billion-since-1978-%e2%80%93-time-to-cut-california%e2%80%99s-death-penalty/
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