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FORT WORTH, Texas - While the debate over capital punishment rages anew in Texas, new inmates going to death row have hit a 35-year low as prosecutors are pushing for fewer death sentences and, many believe, juries have become less willing to give them. Full Article at Ventura County Star
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Four of the five former army officers who were sentenced to death for killing Bangladesh's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will seek the presidential pardon, jail officials announced Sunday. Lt. Col. Syed Farooq Rahman, Maj. Bazlul Huda, Maj. Full Article at India eNews
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Adnane Hajji (R), the spokesman last year of a protest movement in the phosphate mining area in southwest Tunisia, and his colleague Bechir Labidi (L) have a meeting with UGTT Secretary General Abdessalam Jradin at the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGT... View Photo »
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I don't think it's any of the state's business to know the state of mind of my students ... Prosecutors should be more concerned with the wrongful conviction of Anthony McKinney than with my students' grades.
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The National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation is a ceremony that takes place at the White House every year. Full Article at Huliq.com
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A U.N. committee says Iran should release political prisoners arrested during protests over the country's disputed presidential election in June. Full Article at United Press International
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Each year, a presidential pardon saves the National Thanksgiving Turkey and his "alternative" from the holiday oven. This year will be no different. President Obama gets his chance with the national gobbler on Wednesday. Full Article at U.S. News & World Report
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Adnane Hajji, the spokesman last year of a protest movement in the phosphate mining area in southwest Tunisia, flashes a victory sign during a demonstration in front of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) on November 5, 2009 in Tunis. View Photo »
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This is the second week in a row that there were enough videos involving police misconduct that I could make a whole post out of them… if this keeps up, it might become a regular feature… though I wish there weren’t any cases to report at all. Full Article at Injustice Everywhere
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In 1991, three Saskatchewan children made grotesque allegations of sexual abuse against their foster parents, Anita and Dale Klassen. Full Article at National Post
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Adnane Hajji (R), the spokesman last year of a protest movement in the phosphate mining area in southwest Tunisia, and his colleague Bechir Labidi (L) have a meeting with UGTT Secretary General Abdessalam Jradin at the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) headquarters on November 5, 200...
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Adnane Hajji (2ndR), the spokesman last year of a protest movement in the phosphate mining area in southwest Tunisia, and his colleague Bechir Labidi (L) stage a demonstration in front of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) on November 5, 2009 in Tunis.
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In this video image made available Wednesday Nov. 4, 2009 British coup-plotter Simon Mann, right foreground, smiles in the courtroom after shaking hands with court officials following his pardon by the government in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea Tuesday Nov. 3, 2009.
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 photo, Nick du Toit, leader of a group of South African mercenaries involved in a 2004 coup attempt on Equatorial Guinea, attends a liberation ceremony at Black Beach Prison in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea after receiving a presidential pardon.
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The hearse carrying the remains of Mi'kmaq icon Donald Marshall Jr. leads an aboriginal honor march through his home community of Membertou, Nova Scotia, August 10, 2009. Marshall was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1971 and served 11 years in prison before he was acquitted.
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The hearse carrying the remains of Mi'kmaq icon Donald Marshall Jr. leads an aboriginal honor march through to his burial site in Membertou, Nova Scotia, August 10, 2009. Marshall was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1971 and served 11 years in prison before he was acquitted.
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He got into the nitty-gritty details of cases, and when he began to believe that somebody was wrongfully convicted he wouldn't stop until he got justice ... Justice from the Fourth Estate has always been a great safety valve of our legal system, and Pete Shellem was that safety valve in Pennsylvania.
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I hope what happened here encourages other firms to become aware of the plight of others in prison who may have been wrongfully convicted
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Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, who has earned a national reputation for freeing wrongfully convicted inmates, told News 8 that his prosecutors might have to review more closed cases if Nulf's allegations are true.
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Eyewitness identification evidence is the leading cause of wrongful conviction in the United States
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a house in Ireland in exchange for a presidential pardon
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DNA evidence is a powerful tool in both securing convictions and in exonerating the innocent ... By systematically reviewing convictions that were obtained before DNA testing was widespread, the Partnership will serve important interests in promoting public confidence in the criminal justice system and ...
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This play fills me with anger ⌠because of the more than 800 individuals sentenced to death between 1976 and 2003 ... One in eight cases has been wrongfully convicted.
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What's going to have to happen ... is a wrongful conviction directly attributable to a Mr. Big operation.
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He's tough and very pro-prosecution, but I also know him to want a criminal justice system that people can believe in. And if he thinks that someone was wrongfully convicted, my sense is that he will say so
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James Lee Woodard was wrongfully convicted for a crime he did not commit ... My action today cannot give back the time he spent in prison, but it does end this miscarriage of justice.
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