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June 30, 2008
Commission Report on California’s Death Penalty Points to Excessive Costs, including the Costs of Fixing the System’s Flaws
30 junio, 2008
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June 30, 2008
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June 10, 2008
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March 27, 2008
47 Members of Law Enforcement from California Cite Problems with the Death Penalty and Call for Reforms
March 26, 2008
Family Members of Murder Victims Called to Testify at Final Death Penalty Hearing in Santa Clara
16 enero, 2008
EXONERADOS DEL PABELLÓN DE LA MUERTE Y FAMILIAS DE VICTIMAS DE ASESINATOS SE REUNEN PARA CONFERENCIA NACIONAL EN CONTRA DE LA PENA DE MUERTE
January 15 2008
MURDER VICTIMS’ FAMILY MEMBERS, DEATH ROW EXONEREES TO GATHER FOR NATIONAL ANTI-DEATH PENALTY CONFERENCE
January 9 2008
Historic Hearings on California’s Broken Death Penalty Begin Jan. 10
December 13 2007
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"The death penalty is not civilized," Aundré M. Herron, op-ed, Sacramento Bee, Sunday, April 20, 2008
"Let's stop, reconsider: Should executions continue?" Rudolph J. Gerber, op-ed, Sacramento Bee, Monday, April 21, 2008
"A sentence too close to death: Wrongly convicted, I am proof that the state should reconsider execution," op-ed, Harold Hall, Los Angeles Times, March 27, 2008
"IT’S A GRAY AREA: Facing facts on the death penalty," Opinion, JUDGE JAMES P. GRAY, The Daily Pilot, March 15, 2008
"Death-penalty system loaded with racial bias," op-ed, Gloria Romero, Los Angeles Daily News, 02/27/2008
"CALIFORNIA: Cuestionar la pena de muerte," Gloria Romero, La Opinión, 21 de febrero de 2008
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"Mandatory Justice: The Death Penalty Revisited" - February 01, 2006
"Looking Deathworthy: Perceived Stereotypicality of Black Defendants Predicts Capital-Sentencing Outcomes" - 2006
“The Impact of Legally Inappropriate Factors on Death Sentencing for California Homicides, 1990-99” - 2005
"Exonerations in the United States, 1989 through 2003" - 2005
"The Forgotten Population: A Look at Death Row in the United States Through the Experiences of Women" - 2004
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