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Sister Helen Prejean is considered one of the nation’s foremost leaders in efforts to abolish the death penalty.In her new book, "River of Fire: My…
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Republican Governor Chris Sununu has vetoed a bill that would have abolished New Hampshire's death penalty.Sununu said Thursday while he respects…
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Organizers of an anti-death penalty coalition say they have delivered over 56,000 petition signatures to New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu,…
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Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s new book, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, is inspired by her time at a law firm in Louisiana working on the…
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Attorneys for a Vermont man facing a second federal death penalty trial want an appeals court to rule on the constitutionality of the death penalty.Late…
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Connecticut's highest court has overturned the death penalty in the state, saying it's unconstitutional.Thursday's ruling means that the 11 men on the…
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America is the most punitive nation in the world, handing out historically harsh sentences that largely dispense with the concept of rehabilitation.Alan…
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The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond.Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, political consultant and…
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The defense team for convicted Boston Marathon bomber DzhokharTsarnaev began a two-week campaign in court yesterday to avoid the death penalty. We have an…
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The Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial has led the news throughout New England and the country over the past couple weeks. The man found guilty of carrying out the…