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The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg As a minority vote on an increasingly pro-death-penalty court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke up for truth in the only available way open to her: “I dissent.” For us that means that our argument, at the present time, may seem to be only a...
Call to action for Richard Glossip
Richard Glossip Needs Our Help And time is of the essence There are two bills in the Oklahoma House Judiciary Committee that are important to Rich’s case. The prosecutor has crucial evidence which was never produced. These bills would free him to release this evidence...
Keep Ya Head Up
Little somethin' for my godson Elijah and a little girl named Corinne Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots I give a holler to my sisters on welfare Tupac cares, if don't nobody else care...
Justice Kennedy’s record on the death penalty
(This summary includes only those cases he participated in deciding while on the Supreme Court, not while he was on the Ninth Circuit) Key: GOOD = Kennedy voted to limit the death penalty or strengthen rights of the accused BAD = Kennedy voted pro-death...
A plea from an innocent man
The following statement was dictated to me by phone by Richard Glossip from his death watch cell in McAlester, Oklahoma, on Jan. 22, 2015.
Lethal Injection in the USA
Sr. Helen talks about states scrambling to find lethal injection drugs after a series of botched executions.