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Tough Louisiana lockup offers ministry degrees to inmates
7:58 AM on 01/12/2010
ANGOLA, Louisiana (AP) - Jerome Derricks says he heard God's call early. He only wishes he had answered sooner. By the time he did, he was serving a life sentence for murder...
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Supreme Court rejects death row inmate's appeal
10:24 AM on 11/30/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a California death row inmate who was convicted in the gruesome murders of four people in 1983...
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How Buddhism can help blacks
8:39 AM on 11/03/2009
OPINION - Buddhism, with its emphasis on suffering, has clear connections with the spiritualism in African-American culture.
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US Supreme Court orders a new hearing for Troy Davis
3:12 PM on 08/17/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ordered on Monday a new hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis...
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Troy Davis' sister speaks: Death row's invisible victims
8:54 AM on 06/25/2009
My name is Martina Correia and I am on Death Row in Georgia. No I have not murdered anybody, never even been on trial. I am on death row because that is where my brother lives. Death Row has been for me and my family a living nightmare. As the...
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Demand justice for Troy Davis
8:18 AM on 06/24/2009
In Georgia, a man named Troy Davis sits on Death Row despite unassailable evidence pointing to his innocence. It is the most compelling case of innocence in decades. Davis was convicted in 1991 of the murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail despite the fact that no physical evidence exists...
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Supreme Court says convicts have no right to test DNA
11:10 AM on 06/18/2009
MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday that convicts have no constitutional right to test DNA evidence in hopes of proving their innocence long after they were found guilty of a crime. The decision may have limited impact because the federal government and...
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What does Obama's promise of change mean for death row?
7:36 AM on 06/17/2009
Last week, as I traveled through the Caribbean town of Phillipsburg on the island of St. Maarten to give a keynote address at the St. Martin Book Fair, Dennis, the taxi driver and a native of the island, asked me where I was from. "Philly," I said proudly. "Free Mumia,"...
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