Well, not one of death, at least. In this state and for the rest of this year, that is. A proposed revision of New York’s death-penalty legislation died in a state Assembly committee last week. The Court of Appeals, New YorkState’s highest, declared provisions in the statute unconstitutional last year. And while the Republican-controlled […]
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The future of death
Shortly after 2 a.m. Friday, the state of North Carolina executed Frank Chandler by lethal injection for the murder of 90-year-old Doris Poore. Less than 10 hours later, beside a tree planted in front of the downtown Hall of Justice, a group of about 20 Rochesterians gathered with Chandler and others like him in mind. […]
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Fighting the long fight: activist Clare Regan
Along the timeline of death penalty reform, 1978 was a relatively slow year. According to Amnesty International, only Denmark outlawed the practice that year. Meanwhile in the US, partly because of contradictory court decisions on the question, society was in a political and moral knot. You get a local feel for this from reading […]
