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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with prison

Texas Governor Stymieing Panel Probing Flawed Death Penalty Case?
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, Texas, Governor, Rick, Perry, cover-up, corruption, dishonesty, elections, politics, death, penalty, abuse, lies, society, law, rights, prison )

Tom
- 53 days ago - tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com
Cameron Todd Willingham insisted upon his innocence after his children died in a fire in their home. Texas Governor Rick Perry and the Board of Pardons and Paroles ignored a fire expert's report that found no evidence of arson and executed him anyway.
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Tell the Georgia Deptartment of Corrections To Remove Troy Davis Gag Order NOW!!!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: TroyAnthonyDavis, TroyDavis, Freedom-of-Speech, rights, HumanRights, CivilRights, execution, news, death, prison, shadow-of-doubt, injustice, u.s., world, politics, americans, constitution, cover-up, crime, corruption, ethics )

SirRobert
- 179 days ago - care2.com
Troy Anthony Davis is being held in a Georgia prison, gag-ordered not to speak out on his own behalf, and facing another possible execution date pending. Other inmates in his situation are being allowed the Freedom of Speech, but not him! TAKE ACTION!!!
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NAACP President Asks for Signatures on Petition to Save Troy Davis From Execution
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: troy anthony davis, naacp, crime, prison, court, u.s., news, society, georgia, governor, death row, death penalty, execution, petition, media, government, justice, americans, constitution, cover-up, crime, ethics, rights, Civil Rights, Human Rights )

SirRobert
- 186 days ago - opednews.com
Seven out of nine witnesses have recanted or contradicted their previous testimony, no murder weapon was ever found, and there is no physical evidence linking Davis to the crime scene.
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Death Penalty Repealed By New Mexico Senate; DNA Exonerates Joseph Fears of Ohio After 25 Years In Prison for Rape
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: JosephFears, DeathPenalty, WrongfulConvictions, Abolitionists, MaryNeal, LarryNeal, AssistancetotheIncarceratedMentallyIll, DogJustice, DeathPenalty, SupremeCourt, Alaska, NewMexico, Ohio, LethalInjection, InnocenceProject, LifeWithoutParole, Prison )

Mary
- 255 days ago - my.nowpublic.com
Friday the 13th was a good luck day for justice and compassio in America. Joseph Fears, 61, was exonerated and freed from an Ohio prison after 25 years by DNA testing, and New Mexico Senate voted to repeal the death penalty with strong expectancy that...
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Appeal for Leonard Peltier
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Leonard Peltier appeal, FBI, usa, Prison, Obama )

Elderberr
- 304 days ago - socialistworker.org
Leonard Peltier, one of America's longest-serving political prisoners, has spent more than 30 years of his life behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. He was an active member of the American Indian Movement in the 1970s, and was framed for the murder o
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Stay of Execution for Troy Davis
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Troy Davies, US Supreme Court, Prison, Amensty International, justice, death penalty, crime, freedoms, GoodNews )

Laurel
- 394 days ago - amnestyusa.org
Troy Davis received a stay of execution based on a new last-minute appeal filed this past Wednesday to the federal appeals court in Atlanta. As a result, he will not be executed on Monday, October 27th, as originally scheduled.
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Gitmo on the Platte
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Denver, Colorado, Democratic National Convention, free speech, prison, protests )

RC
- 456 days ago - brasschecktv.com
Short but telling news expose of the "prison for protesters" set up in Denver for the Democratic Convention. What right do officials have to lock up peaceful demonstrators exercising their right of free speech? Thanks to Pete C. for the link.
84 comments
Human Rights Watch: We "Are Concerned About USA's Criminal Justice System"
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: United States, World, Prison, Federal, Law, Government, Prison Industry, Human Beings, Trade, Market, Corporations, Judicial System, Justice, Corruption, Ethics, Congress, Freedom, Supreme Court, Constitution of the United States, Prison Nation, Drug )

Town
- 533 days ago - hrw.org
US incarceration rates are climbing even higher. Statistics released today by the Bureau of Justice Statistics show that for every 100,000 American Citizens 762 are in Prison. No other Nation in the world puts this many of its People in Prison.
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Its Just a Joke, Governors Son Says
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: United States, Federal, State, Law, Government, Congress, Ethics, Prison, Prison Industry, Corruption, Constitution of the United States, Bill of Rights, Taxes, Prison Nation, Police State )

Town
- 542 days ago - psychoanalystsopposewar.org
People aren't sent to prison to be rehabilitated, they're sent there to get what they deserve, that paves the way for accepting the brutal abuses committed in prison and as in comments made by Lockyer, we take a perverse satisfaction in its existence
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Head to Head: Laws on Activists
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: protesters, U.K., law, prison )

Jakki
- 851 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Animal rights activists could face five years in prison for targeting research centres under new government measures. U.K.
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Journalist Jailed In Guantanamo Bay Prison
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Guantanamo, prison, bushadministration, bush, politics, war, terrorism, iraq, lies, torture, crime )

Elsie
- 870 days ago - cpj.org
In 2005, the U.S. detention of al-Haj and at least four journalists in Iraq placed the United States sixth among countries jailing journalists, just behind Uzbekistan and tied with Burma
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