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Kade Crockford, Truthout and ACLU Massachusetts: "'The death penalty is grotesque and immoral and should be repealed.' So says a New York Times editorial opposing capital punishment in the wake of Troy Davis' execution in Georgia late last month. Those are strong words from the Grey Lady, and I couldn t agree more. Many have demonstrated convincingly that Troy Davis' trial and prosecution were riddled with racism, error and possibly even prosecutorial misconduct. The American justice system failed Mr. Davis with tragic, irreparable results - and the Supreme Court wouldn t step in to remedy the injustice, in part because he had been granted full due process under the law. In the eyes of at least two justices, that s all he or anyone else is guaranteed - not necessarily justice, just due process.'

http://www.truth-out.org/grotesque-immoral-and-profoundly-anti-democratic/1318428851



The Death Penalty - Again

Peter Singer, Project Syndicate: 'In the US, however, deterrence is not really the issue. Retribution is often seen as a more important justification for the death penalty. It is quite common for family members of the victim to watch the execution of the person convicted of killing their relative, and afterwards to pronounce themselves satisfied that justice has been done - it happened again with the execution of Troy Davis.'

http://www.truth-out.org/death-penalty-again/1318612498

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Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): World Day Against the Death Penalty: Son of McCarthy-Era Execution Victims Equates Death Sentence with Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/10/12-0

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Race, gender, and the death penalty

The Moral Sciences Club
by Will Wilkinson

10/17/11

The most obvious thing here is white Americans have been and remain much more likely to support the death penalty than black Americans. Indeed, the gap between white and black support for the death penalty appears to have widened significantly since about 1970. Perhaps this is not surprising, as blacks have been and remain much more likely than whites to be executed. But blacks are also more likely to be murdered than whites...

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40707


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How America s Death Penalty Murders Innocents

By David A Love

The leading causes of wrongful convictions include perjury, flawed eyewitness identification and prosecutorial misconduct.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31398.htm



Two Years After Troy Davis' Execution, Our Fight to End the Death Penalty Lives

The state of Georgia killed Troy Davis, but it could not kill our movement to abolish capital punishment and its cruel injustices.

http://is.gd/5zdN48


From Information Clearing House

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Honor the memory of Troy Davis
http://tinyurl.com/l97gjuz



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