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Milli Gazette
March 30, 2018
The Second Shahid Azmi Memorial Lecture (9th February 2013): "Capital Punishment: An Agenda for Abolition" by Dr. Yug Mohit Chaudhry, anti-death penalty activist and lawyer. The Third Shahid Azmi Memorial Lecture (5th April 2017): “Democratic rights and political responsibility in a conflict Zone” byÃâà...
Jamaica Observer
March 29, 2018
As anti-death penalty activists criticised his letter, Patterson gained even more favour among the electorate. Incidentally, March 30 marks 25 years since the 1993 General Election when Patterson led his party to victory. He was sworn in as prime minister exactly one year previously, 26 years ago in 1992.
Center for Research on Globalization
March 21, 2018
The decision to use nitrogen gas for executions has been roundly condemned by anti-death penalty activists, who've pointed out the experimental character of the method. While supporters of the nitrogen method have claimed that it is painless, the American Veterinary Medical Association has said thatÃâà...
The Boston Globe
March 20, 2018
As Boer Deng and Dahlia Lithwick observed in Slate, far from shutting down capital punishment, anti-death-penalty activists had managed only to make it more brutal. Advertisement. Now Oklahoma is trying again. Get Truth and Consequences in your inbox: Michael A. Cohen takes on the absurdities andÃâà...
Patheos (blog)
March 13, 2018
I guess we just move forward and hope that the State of Texas doesn't make the same mistake as they did with Willingham. As a humanist, this is difficult to do. As an anti-death penalty activist, this is especially difficult to do. As a regular human with compassion, this is going to be difficult, but without furtherÃâà...
America Magazine
March 6, 2018
But when I meet members of Catholic activist groups like Pax Christi or bring friends to the Friday night “clarification of thought” meetings at the Catholic ... rarely branches out to include the anti-war, anti-death penalty, anti-poverty and anti-racism work that previous generations of Catholics championed.
TODAYonline
March 2, 2018
Hitting out at anti-death penalty lobbyists, he said: “The activists light candles for traffickers outside Changi Prison. They write emotive stories… “But who cares for these very real victims? How many young lives have we saved with our policies? Would you hear a squeak from the activists about theseÃâà...
Cincinnati.com
February 20, 2018
Ross Geiger isn't some kind of activist when it comes to the death penalty. He's never organized a candlelight vigil or stood outside a prison protesting ... Yet Geiger did something last week that anti-death penalty activists rarely do. He stopped an execution. Earlier this year, the Loveland man wrote a letterÃâà...
Lima Ohio
February 18, 2018
... in the United States. “Hamilton County kind of stands out,” said Sister Helen Prejean, an author and anti-death penalty activist. Tibbetts and Van Hook are among 24 convicted killers from Hamilton County on death row today. Ten others from the county have been executed since the death penalty's return.
Scroll.in
February 16, 2018
I was accompanied by Sarah Belal, a relentless anti-death penalty activist I have the privilege to work with. I spotted Nighat Dad, tireless in defending our digital rights. Syeda Ghulam Fatima, who has risen from being a bonded labourer herself, and has been fearless in liberating modern-day brick slaves,Ãâà...
DAWN.com (blog)
February 14, 2018
I was accompanied by Sarah Belal, a relentless anti-death penalty activist I have the privilege to work with. I spotted Nighat Dad, tireless in defending our digital rights. Syeda Ghulam Fatima, who has risen from being a bonded labourer herself, and has been fearless in liberating modern-day brick slaves,Ãâà...
Cincinnati.com
February 14, 2018
“Hamilton County kind of stands out,” said Sister Helen Prejean, an author and anti-death penalty activist. Tibbetts and Van Hook are among 24 convicted killers from Hamilton County on death row today. Ten others from the county have been executed since the death penalty's return. Raymond TibbettsÃâà...
The Week Magazine
February 12, 2018
Over the last many decades, scholars and activists have pushed back against the regime of IQ testing in all contexts, often successfully. ... So anti-death-penalty lawyers look for narrow legal strategies to protect their specific clients, which of course is just what they should do, while slowly pushing newÃâà...
Amnesty International
February 7, 2018
Atena Daemi is serving a seven-year prison sentence for peaceful activism, including charges related to distributing anti-death penalty leaflets and posts on Facebook and Twitter criticising Iran's execution record. This is the second time that Arash Sadeghi has gone on hunger strike in defence of his wife.
Cincinnati.com
February 4, 2018
The long-time activist and author of “Dead Man Walking” has encountered hundreds of death penalty supporters over the years, including American presidents, so she was used to rhetorical attacks from those who disagreed with her. But she wasn't prepared for Trump, a president who not only supports theÃâà...
Creative Loafing Tampa
November 30, 2017
Most death penalty supporters readily admit executions do not deter would-be murderers nor save taxpayer money from housing and feeding cold-blooded killers for a lifetime. State executions feed a need for vengeance when someone cruelly takes the life of an innocent person. An eye for an eye.
The Daily Tar Heel
December 31, 1999
Activist Kimberly Davis came to UNC's campus Monday night to speak about her family's long struggle to prove the innocence of her brother, who was executed by the state of Georgia in 2011. “I am the sister of Troy Davis, who was an innocent man who was executed on death row,” Kimberly Davis said.
Lynchburg News and Advance
December 31, 1999
From death row in Louisiana to a Hollywood feature film, Sister Helen Prejean's crusade against capital punishment has spanned nearly four decades of activism rooted firmly in her Christian faith. She spoke about her work, her writings and the “radical gospel” of Jesus Christ at Randolph College onÃâà...
City-sentinel
December 31, 1999
Anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean took to social media saying, “The suggestion by authorities that this new method is 'more humane' ignores the fact that it is an untried method, human experimentation, practiced by the state upon its citizens. More importantly, it ignores the unavoidable truthsÃâà...
Catholic News Agency
December 31, 1999
Catholic Mobilizing Network's sentiment was echoed by Griffin Hardy, communications manager for Sr. Helen Prejean, an anti-death penalty activist. Hardy described the execution attempt as completely unnecessary “barbarism,” and said that Alabama was being “reckless and inhumane” in their effort toÃâà...
Common Dreams
December 31, 1999
Anti-capital punishment advocates on Thursday condemned an announcement by Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter this week that the state would begin using nitrogen gas to ... On social media, anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean denounced Oklahoma's plan to asphyxiate inmates.
