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CURRENT NewsTidal Basin Review - Spring 2012May 23, 2012 Tidal Basin Review, a DC-based, Afrocentric, creative arts journal run by an collective of editors, has just come out with their new issue featuring Delbert Tibbs, Jeremy Sheets, and Ron Keine's pieces on Troy Davis. Read more... LA Times: Yes on the SAFE California ActMay 23, 2012 The Los Angeles Times issues a very early endorsement of SAFE California Act. It would replace the death penalty with a sentence of life without parole, and solve a host of problems bedeviling the state law enforcement system. Read more... Aljazeera: How many innocent people has the US executed?May 18, 2012 WTI member Nate Fields appeared on Al Jazeera's Inside Story Americas to talk about the case of Carlos De Luna. Read more... Columbia Law Review: An Anatomy of a Wrongful ExecutionMay 16, 2012 Did Texas execute an innocent man? Did it leave the real killer on the streets to terrorize his neighbors for years to come? Los Tocayos Carlos, a book-length monograph and comprehensive website published by the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, helps answer these haunting questions. Based on one of the most thorough investigations of a criminal case in U.S. history, the groundbreaking article by Columbia Law School Professor James Liebman and a team of students uncovers evidence that Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence who was executed in Texas in 1989, was innocent. Read more... |
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