Capital Punishment
More Republican Lawmakers Join Anti-Death Penalty Cause
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Republican legislators in more than half a dozen states have broken with party orthodoxy to team up with Democrats in proposing repeal of death penalty statutes.
Viewpoints
Death Penalty ‘Another Failed Big Government Program’: Conservative
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California has spent $4 billion on the death penalty since it was reinstated in 1978. But its violent crime rate outpaces the national average, writes a leading conservative who welcomes the moratorium announced this week by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Capital Punishment
CA Murder Victims’ Families Disagree on Executions
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“I was pissed off” by California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s suspension of the death penalty in the state, says Cindy Rael, the mother of a murder victim. Another mother, Aba Gayle, supports Newsom, saying, “Don’t murder someone in my name.”
Capital Punishment
CA Death-Penalty Moratorium Spares 737 For Now
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is halting executions during his term in office. A state prosecutors’ group countered that voters approved the death penalty in 2016.
Capital Punishment
PA High Court is Asked to Strike Down Death Penalty
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will consider a “king’s bench” petition to bypass lower courts and bring the issue directly to the justices.
Capital Punishment
Son, Grandson of Executed Man Arrested at Death Chamber
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Chaos erupted outside Texas’ death chamber when the son of the inmate pounded on the chamber windows, shouted obscenities and threw fists after his father spoke his final words. Billie Wayne Coble, 70, was the oldest inmate executed by Texas since 1982.
Capital Punishment
DeWine Halts OH Executions In Review of Lethal Injections
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“As long as the status quo remains, where we don’t have a protocol that has been found to be OK, we certainly cannot have any executions in Ohio,” said Gov. Mike DeWine. He already has postponed one execution from Feb. 13 to Sept. 12.
Capital Punishment
GOP in Six States Works to Repeal the Death Penalty
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The about-face on an issue that has long been key to the Republican tough-on-crime credo is the latest sign of a bipartisan shift on criminal justice reform.
Capital Punishment
Supreme Court Voids Texas Death Penalty, 6-3
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In the second time the case was heard at the high court, the justices ruled that inmate Bobby James Moore is intellectually disabled and may not be executed. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the bench after lung cancer surgery.
Capital Punishment
Trump Again Praises China’s Executing Drug Dealers
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President Trump says Chinese President Xi Jinping told him China has no drug problem because it puts drug dealers to death. Actually there were 2.5 million Chinese drug addicts in 2017.