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12 May 2008, 1:47 am
"Poor people getting lousy lawyers" represents a significant barrier to justice, said John Holdridge, head of the American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project. [read post]
11 May 2008, 10:34 pm
"Poor people getting lousy lawyers" represents a significant barrier to justice, said John Holdridge, head of the American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project. [read post]
8 May 2008, 9:24 am
" Condemned inmate William Castillo, who until now has declined to file appeals that could keep him alive, joined Wednesday in a state Supreme Court challenge of Nevada's lethal injection execution procedure.The move by Castillo, represented by federal public defenders Mike Pescetta and Gary Taylor, was welcomed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, which had filed the challenge in October when Castillo was scheduled to… [read post]
2 May 2008, 11:51 am
The American Civil Liberties Union's Capital Punishment Project won a huge victory today when a North Carolina court dropped all charges against a man who spent 14 years on death row and freed him from prison. [read post]
24 Apr 2008, 12:05 pm
Here is the abstract:The Case Against the Death Penalty, authored by capital punishment scholar Hugo Adam Bedau and published by the American Civil Liberties Union, is a leading publication on capital punishment and in particular on the abolition of the practice. [read post]
11 Apr 2008, 3:13 pm
Here is a taste:It isn't often one sees the American Civil Liberties Union along with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on the same side of a legal argument as victims' rights organizations like the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence. [read post]
8 Apr 2008, 8:34 am
It is the first time in the United States that the issue has been reviewed before the start of a capital-murder trial, said Jeffrey Gamso, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio. [read post]
8 Apr 2008, 7:08 am
Among the groups siding with Kennedy, who is African-American, are the American Civil Liberties Union, which emphasizes the South's history of executing blacks for rape more often than whites, and the National Association of Social Workers. [read post]
8 Apr 2008, 5:23 am
AP via Google NewsCleveland Plain DealerLorain Chronicle-Telegram- - - - -[ap.google.com]Tuesday, April 08, 2008Hearing Continues Over Lethal InjectionBy JOE MILICIA - 4 hours agoELYRIA, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio's lethal injection method was assailed asunfit foreven household pets byan anesthesiologist testifying in a case challenging theconstitutionality ofthe procedure.The three-drug cocktail would cause agonizing pain if the anestheticisn'tproperly … [read post]
4 Apr 2008, 9:35 pm
» More Photos Document | ACLU organizes military commission defense teams The American Civil Liberties Union, which for years has scorned the Pentagon's military commissions as ';'kangaroo courts,';' announced Friday that it will mount an effort to provide top civilian defense attorneys for alleged terrorists facing trial at Guantánamo,… [read post]
31 Mar 2008, 9:37 am
The American Civil Liberties Union presented two thick studies to the commission, one examining geographical disparities in death sentences in California and the second the exorbitant cost of capital trials. [read post]
22 Feb 2008, 6:00 pm
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13 Feb 2008, 11:20 am
Jaffer said.USA Today quoted Executive Director Anthony Romero:"Questions of fairness and due process are always at play in death penalty cases, and this will be doubly true in any capital case involving high-value detainees who have been tortured and held for years without access to counsel," says Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 10:00 pm
This call will persuade many ears in the so-called national mainstream who will not be as easily persuaded by such less-mainstream-seeming groups as the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and the National Lawyers Guild. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 2:07 am
There are currently about 3,350 inmates awaiting execution across the United States, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
13 Oct 2007, 7:00 pm
The four- year study by a team of legal professionals with "varying per spectives" on capi tal punishment ech oed many of the issues raised previ ously by organizations such as the Innocence Project, the Pennsylvania Council of Churches, the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 6:36 am
The American Civil Liberties Union raised the question with a wide-ranging request for records seeking information on the May 24 execution of an inmate whose veins took 90 minutes to find and whose death came a record-setting 16 minutes after the toxic drugs began to flow. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 5:02 am
Howard Simon, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, said the lifting of the moratorium was "out of step with public opinion". [read post]
8 May 2007, 5:27 am
Arrest: To deprive a person of his or her liberty by legal authority. [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 1:13 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union urges the Court to make it clear that jurors' concerns about future dangerousness should be allowed as a factor in influencing their decision on capital punishment. [read post]
