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NPR - 1st US Execution Of Woman Since 2005 Set For Sept.
Death Penalty Cases in Virginia
Thursday, 29 July 2010
RICHMOND, Va. July 29, 2010, 11:37 am ET

A Virginia woman who used sex and money to persuade two men to kill her husband and her stepson to collect a $250,000 life insurance policy was scheduled Thursday to be executed in two months, which would be the first U.S. execution of a woman in five years.

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CNN - Texans wonder if they executied an innocent man
Death Penalty Cases Outside Virginia
Friday, 23 July 2010

Texans wonder if they executed an innocent man

By the CNN Wire Staff
July 23, 2010 8:12 a.m. EDT

(CNN) -- A Texas state board is set Friday to revisit questions surrounding a controversial 2004 execution, with supporters of the man's family warning the panel is trying to bury its own critical review of the case.

Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004 for a fire that killed his three daughters. Prosecutors argued that Willingham deliberately set the 1991 blaze -- but three reviews of the evidence by outside experts have found the fire should not have been ruled arson.

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The Wash. Post - Five myths about the death penalty
The Death Penalty Nationwide
Saturday, 17 July 2010
By David Garland
Sunday, July 18, 2010

 

The death penalty: the punishment we reserve for the worst criminal offenders. Last week, law enforcement officials said it was on the table for four men charged in the shooting deaths of unarmed civilians in New Orleans in the days after Hurricane Katrina. It's a signal that the crimes were truly reprehensible. Much of what we think we know about American capital punishment comes from the longstanding debate that surrounds the institution. But in making their opposing claims, death-penalty proponents and their abolitionist adversaries perpetrate myths and half-truths that distort the facts. The United States' death penalty is not what its supporters -- or its opponents -- would have us believe.

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The Daily Progress - Swimming for a cause
The Death Penalty Nationwide
Monday, 12 July 2010

If Clint Eastwood can do it for entertainment, Lynn Greer can do it for a cause.

The 42-year-old Bumpass woman on Saturday will bob about the choppy waters off Alcatraz Island in a 1.5-mile swim to shore.

She’s not remaking Clint’s jailhouse flick, however. She’s getting all wet in a fundraising effort to help abolish Virginia’s death penalty.

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