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	Capital punishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since thousands of people have been murdered in prison and by convicts released back into society, and given that there has never been a proven wrongful execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, supporters argue that the cost-benefit to society favors the execution of murderers.
		Historically, the execution of criminals and political opponents was used by nearly all societies both to punish crime and to suppress political dissent.
		Execution is seen by many as an appropriate retribution for murder, specifically for premeditated murder and for murders with especially heinous circumstances such as rape and torture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Execution_(legal) (4228 words)

	Axioms of the world - Pravda.Ru
		After all, Bush knew that, in Texas, evidence in capital punishment cases was immediately destroyed after an execution, making posthumous DNA testing impossible, and thus making it impossible to ever prove that a wrongful execution had occurred.
		Also, as I discussed in previous articles, perhaps the most cogent example of Bush's cowardly sadism and bloodlust occurred when he was governor of Texas, the execution capital of the United States.
		It also makes one wonder how many of those executed under his so-called 'watch' were innocent as well.
	english.pravda.ru /opinion/columnists/9272-3 (543 words)

	Highlights of Wrongful Conviction Conference
		Brought together by the vision and organizing skills of Lawrence C. Marshall, a Northwestern University law professor, hundreds gathered for three days in the chill of November in Chicago to examine wrongful conviction -- the prosecution, imprisonment and yes, execution of wholly innocent men and women.
	www.truthinjustice.org /highlights.htm (543 words)

	Abolish the Death Penalty
		The governor is Ohio's last line of defense against a wrongful execution.
		Which brings us to two scheduled executions this month: Robin Lovitt, scheduled to be executed Nov. 30 by the state of Virginia and John Spirko, scheduled to be executed Nov. 15 by the state of Ohio.
		Another case involving a strong innocence claim is that of John Spirko of Ohio, scheduled for execution Nov. 15.
	www.deathpenaltyusa.blogspot.com (2457 words)

	[E-DMHL] E-DMHL Volume 23, Issue E5
		The court also determined that the risk of wrongful execution was greater with juveniles because they had less time to develop ties to the community, compile a stable work history, and perform good works, which might be viewed as mitigating factors, and were more likely to waive their rights and give false confessions.
		Kentucky (1989), it would rule that “evolving standards of decency” mandate that the execution of 16- and 17-year-old offenders be found unconstitutional.
		OTHER LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS Missouri Supreme Court Bans Execution of Juvenile Offenders The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the execution of defendants who were juveniles when they committed their offense is barred by the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.
	list.mail.virginia.edu /pipermail/e-dmhl/Week-of-Mon-20031117/000019.html (2613 words)

	Macomb Daily : Fight to clear Pvt. Slovik continues 01/31/05
		After reading William Bradford Huie's 1954 book probing Slovik's execution, and a transcript of the kangaroo court that found the soldier guilty of desertion under fire, I became convinced it was a wrongful charge.
		The poor woman first learned of Eddie's execution in 1954 when Huie was gathering data about her husband's life, and the execution the government tried to cover up.
		After Slovik's execution, the disgraced soldier was buried in a U.S. military cemetery.
	www.macombdaily.com /stories/013105/opi_kehetian001.shtml (678 words)

	Johnny William Byrd Jr.- Death Row, Ohio
		COLUMBUS - On the second anniversary of the execution of John Byrd by the State of Ohio, the Byrd family's civil attorney advised the Ohio attorney general's office that a previously threatened wrongful death suit would not be filed against the state.
		After a directive from Governor Taft's office that the Dept. of Corrections stop Byrd from discussing the Governor in connection with the upcoming execution, a phone conversation between a reporter and John Byrd, from death row, was immediately terminated when John began to talk about the governor.
		John Byrd was cremated, his ashes rested on a table during the service next to a postcard showing a tranquil scene of a river and a bridge, and a note handwritten by Byrd which said:
	ccadp.org /johnnywmbyrd.htm (4395 words)

	Johnny William Byrd Jr.- Death Row, Ohio
		COLUMBUS - On the second anniversary of the execution of John Byrd by the State of Ohio, the Byrd family's civil attorney advised the Ohio attorney general's office that a previously threatened wrongful death suit would not be filed against the state.
		After a directive from Governor Taft's office that the Dept. of Corrections stop Byrd from discussing the Governor in connection with the upcoming execution, a phone conversation between a reporter and John Byrd, from death row, was immediately terminated when John began to talk about the governor.
		John Byrd was cremated, his ashes rested on a table during the service next to a postcard showing a tranquil scene of a river and a bridge, and a note handwritten by Byrd which said:
	www.ccadp.org /johnnywmbyrd.htm (4395 words)

	The Corner on National Review Online
		Jonah Goldberg repeats an old refrain -- that for all the wrongful death row convictions of the last several years, wrongful execution is still a poor argument against capital punishment because America has never executed an innocent person.
		Jonah: This new Kerry controversy may not have Republican fingerprints on it now, but that isn't necessarily how posterity will remember it.
		There’s obviously something to this, and I agree with Jonah’s point that it may be all downhill for Kerry from here.
	www.nationalreview.com /thecorner/04_02_08_corner-archive.asp (12498 words)

	GaryLeonRidgway.com
		King County plea agreement: Pleaded guilty Nov. 5, 2003, to 48 counts of aggravated first-degree murder in a deal that spared him from execution and finally brought answers in the infamous and long-unsolved slayings.
		26 Dec 2001: Kathy Mills, mother of Opal Mills, files a wrongful death lawsuit against Gary and Judith Ridgway, King County Superior Court.
		18 Feb 1949: Gary Ridgway born to Tom and Mary Ridgway, Utah.
	garyleonridgway.com /index.php (12498 words)

	Center on Wrongful Convictions
		HOUSTON - June 8 - More than a dozen persons who were wrongly convicted based on erroneous eyewitness identifications will travel to Houston Monday to call on Gov. George W. Bush and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to intervene to prevent the execution of a man wrongfully convicted of capital murder.
		Graham was convicted on a dubious identification by a single eyewitness who testified to seeing a stranger's face at night through a car windshield from a distance of 30-40 feet FOR TWO SECONDS.
		That testimony was the only evidence linking then 17-year-old Graham to the killing of Bobby Lambert in a Houston grocery store parking lot in 1981.
	www.commondreams.org /news2000/0608-04.htm (12498 words)

	United States v. Burns
		Other countries have also experienced revelations of wrongful convictions, including states of the United States where the death penalty is still imposed and carried into execution.
		Germany (1983), 5 E.H.R.R. 611, where it was established that prosecution in the requesting country might involve the infliction of torture.
		Canada's support of international initiatives opposing extradition without assurances, combined with its international advocacy of the abolition of the death penalty itself, leads to the conclusion that in the Canadian view of fundamental justice, capital punishment is unjust and should be stopped.
	www.canlii.org /ca/cas/scc/2001/2001scc7.html (12498 words)

	Patrick WHALEN from County Cork, Ireland to March Township, Ontario, also Patrick WHELAN and Catherine McGRATH
		Spokesperson for the family, Noble Whalen, then held a night-long vigil in the jail cell where Patrick spent his final night before his wrongful execution.
		FRANCIS MILTON LITTLE, 21 Jul 1916, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
		On 20-04-1847 wedding of Patrick Whelan, son of age of Patrick and Bridget (name illegible) who married Mary Clare, minor daughter of James and Bridget Fagan in the presence of James Corcoran and Margaret Whelan.
	www.bytown.net /pwhalen.htm (12498 words)

	Texas' possible wrongful execution - Opinion
		Cameron Willingham, of Navarro County in East Texas, was put to death on February 17, 2004 for his alleged role in a fire that led to the deaths of his three young children in 1991.
		Cameron Willingham remains the only inmate in America since the reinstitution of the death penalty to have been executed for murder by arson.
		Willingham's last words were not unique; in fact many maintain their innocence until the bitter end.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /news/2005/04/26/Opinion/Texas.Possible.Wrongful.Execution-937355.shtml (724 words)

	frontline: burden of innocence: the innocents - photographer's foreword PBS
		I photographed each innocent person at a site that came to assume particular significance following his wrongful conviction: the scene of misidentification, the scene of arrest, the alibi location, or the scene of the crime.
		Nowhere are the material effects of ignoring a photograph's context as profound as in the misidentification that leads to the imprisonment or execution of an innocent person.
		The following is the foreword from The Innocents, a forthcoming book of photographs and interviews by Taryn Simon documenting the stories of individuals who served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit, with a commentary by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck of The Innocence Project.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/burden/innocents (1061 words)

	Innocence and the Death Penalty: The Increasing Danger of Executing the Innocent
		There is considerable evidence that the crisis of wrongful death penalty convictions has worsened: the annual average of people released from death row because of their innocence has increased since the first report was prepared, while the opportunity to appeal and to raise newly discovered evidence of one's innocence has recently shrunk dramatically.
		Besides the critically important goal of saving innocent lives, such legislative changes could quickly eliminate from the lengthy death penalty appeals process some of the most troubling and time-consuming cases, i.e., those approaching execution with a legitimate claim of innocence.
		In the original report of 48 cases of innocence, there were five cases in which there was considerable evidence of the defendant's innocence and he was released from death row, but not completely exonerated.
	www.deathpenaltyinfo.org /article.php?scid=45&did=292 (13012 words)

	innocence blog
		Virgina Governor Mark Warner is allowing DNA testing in the case of Roger Keith Coleman, a man who professed his innocence of a rape/murder right until the day of his execution.
		Nearly 15 years later there may be DNA evidence that proves the wrongful death and conviction of Coleman.
		Centurion Ministries, a New Jersey-based innocence organization, asked for the retesting of DNA evidence in the case in 2002 and was denied.
	wrongfulconvictions.blogspot.com (3783 words)

	Testimony by Mr. James Liebman at the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Titled 'Protecting the Innocent: Proposals to Reform the Death Penalty'
		High error rates put many individuals at risk of wrongful execution: 82% of the people whose capital judgments were overturned by state post-conviction courts due to serious error were found to deserve a sentence less than death when the errors were cured on retrial; 7% were found to be innocent of the capital crime.
		Half the reversals at those stages were for errors that undermined the reliability of the verdict that the defendant committed capitally aggravated murder.
		Error rates drop to 36% for states with 4 prisoners per 100 crimes, and to 13% for those with the highest rate of prisoners to crimes.
	ccjr.policy.net /proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=30541 (3938 words)

	Legal Services - Michigan (MI)
		Attorneys Kramer and Kramer, LLP, with offices in Pennsylvania and Michigan focus on business and legal issues affecting sales representatives and distributors concerning wrongful termination, failure to pay commissions, contract disputes, and business torts such as contractual interference.
		We will serve your summons, subpoena, garnishment, small claims, execution, eviction or any legal document.
		Michigan law firm handles personal injury, dog bite, auto accident, slip and fall, negligence, property damage, work related, workmans compensation and social security disability cases.
	www.kellysearch.com /us-mi-product-62.html (1208 words)

	Winter Firm Newsletter 2002
		The Court also addressed the circumstances surrounding the execution of the will and noted that the writer of the will made various comments before and after drafting the will that she intended for her one daughter to receive all of her property upon her death.
		Burns, 2001 SD 126: The South Dakota Supreme Court recently determined that a two year statute of limitations applies to wrongful death claims arising from alleged medical malpractice.
		Thompson, 2001 SD 121: The South Dakota Supreme Court held that a geological engineer with the Department of Transportation was qualified to testify as to shifting ground in a housing development, because the engineer detailed the research completed to arrive at his opinion and possessed the qualifications necessary to reach those opinions.
	www.costelloporter.com /winter2002.htm (1208 words)

	March 1994 Michigan Today--Protector of Children
		In 1974, forced out of anonymity by a court battle to prevent unauthorized publication of their parents' letters, Meeropol and his brother embarked on an ongoing speaking campaign to assert their parents' innocence and wrongful execution.
		Meeropol reaches out to these families through the Rosenberg Fund for Children in Springfield, Massachusetts, a nonsectarian, nonpartisan foundation he established in 1990 to honor his parents and to replicate the education and emotional support that sheltered him as a child.
		Meeropol and his staff are careful to protect the identities of the children and families they assist and discourage any sense of obligation to the fund or its donors.
	www.umich.edu /~newsinfo/MT/94/Mar94/mt5m94.html (980 words)

	Moveable Type
		Indeed, many of these hymns to St. Nicholas refer in such a vague way, e.g., to the story of the three soldiers saved from wrongful execution by St. Nicholas that medieval congregations could easily imagine a legend other than the one intended.
		Nicholas is an elegant, elongated figure (arms altered) with flowing Gothic draperies, standing on a floor of alternating light and dark tiles rendered in precise linear perspective.
		Nicholas blessing three injured mariners, the scene is actually more sinister in nature depicting what has become known as the "Legend of the Pickled Boys." In the earliest extant literary source for this tale, a "miracle play" preserved in an 11th- or 12th-century manuscript from Hildesheim now in London (British Museum MS.
	dewey.willamette.edu:8082 /perl/move/full.pl?art_number=82&i=111 (980 words)

	ThameHistory.net
		Queen Elizabeth is said to have sympathised with Henry Norreys over the wrongful execution of his father.
		Marjorie Williams married Henry Norreys in 1546, whose father had been executed in 1536 as a suspected lover of Anne Boleyn, mother of Queen Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603).
		Henry Norreys, then Baron Norreys of Rycote, died in 1601, two years before his beloved Queen Elizabeth herself.
	www.thamehistory.net /timeline/tln9.htm (980 words)

	Personal Injury Case Laws - Utah Personal Injury Lawyers
		Fifth District, Washington County The Honorable James L. Shumate This is a wrongful death case arising from the death of Timothy...
		Plaintiff James A. Tanasse appeals the trial court's postjudgment order dismissing his motion to set aside an execution sale of his cause of action against defendant law firm.
		Third District, Salt Lake The Honorable James S. Sawaya Plaintiff appeals from a final judgment of the trial court ordering her to pay defendant hospital's costs following plaintiff's unsuccessful action against the hospital...
	napil.com /PersonalInjuryCaseLawStateUT.htm (980 words)

	25 years, 25 cases of possible wrongful executions
		[G] Joe Spaziano (Florida) Spaziano survived numerous execution warrants despite very flimsy evidence in his case and substantial evidence of innocence, conviction was flipped in 1996 (twenty years after his conviction).
		Five of the affiants alleged that another man, Ernest Jones, admitted in their presence that he had killed the victim and framed Blair.
		He was put under police surveillance within hours of her disappearance, which occurred fourteen days before the discovery of her body in a creek.
	capitaldefenseweekly.com /25casesdraft.html (5675 words)

	A photo op for legislature
		Setzer’s bill would make autopsy photos or recordings available only to prosecutors, medical examiners, judges and anyone who could make a wrongful death claim on behalf of the deceased —an exclusive and powerful group.
		The photo of an inmate who burned to death on an improperly operated electric chair also was published —soon followed by the state’s decision to ditch the chair in favor of other execution methods.
		That includes North Carolina, where Rep. Mitchell Setzer, R-Catawba, filed a bill soon co-sponsored by a host of others, including Rep. Eugene McCombs of Rowan County and Reps. Linda Johnson and Jeff Barnhart of Cabarrus.
	www.salisburypost.com /2001march/032001ed.htm (522 words)

	Death Penalty Information Center
		Mirroring statistics released this year in the Death Penalty Information Center's Innocence Report, the Justice Department's Capital Punishment, 2003 revealed that the nation's death row is continuing to decline and that the amount of time between death sentencing and execution has increased.
		Scott Christianson's new book, Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases, examines mistakes in New York's criminal justice system with an emphasis on mistaken identifications, perjury by eyewitnesses, ineffective counsel, false confessions, and police and prosecutorial misconduct.
		David Fassler, Trustee of the American Psychiatric Association, were among the juvenile law and medical experts who spoke to reporters following the arguments.
	www.deathpenaltyinfo.org (522 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Wrong Men: America's Epidemic of Wrongful Death Row Convictions
		Cohen's criticism of the U.S. criminal justice system is harsh and specifically grounded in the wrongful convictions of so many death-row prisoners.
		The day I see this happening, I will join the Stanley Cohen's of the world and march with them outside a scheduled execution, protesting the extreme punishment.
		Cohen believes the death penalty will soon be relegated to the "dark and distant past," and this volume is a convincing argument for the unreliability of capital convictions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786712589?v=glance (2278 words)

	Paul Craig Roberts, The Causes of Wrongful Conviction
		A wrongfully convicted person who loses good name, family, and career or who suffers a life sentence of prison rape and execution by AIDS deserves our concern as much as the innocent on death row.
		Wrongful conviction is on the rise because the protections against it have been eroded by the pursuit of devils — drug dealers, child molesters, environmental polluters, white-collar criminals, and terrorists — all of whom must be rounded up at all cost.
		A consensus against wrongful conviction is hampered by ideology that portrays wrongful conviction as a racially motivated phenomenon or as the operational result of “the white male hegemonic order.” Wrongful conviction is too widespread and serious a problem to be politicized.
	www.constitution.org /lrev/roberts_wrongful.htm (3363 words)

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