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POLITICO: States push to end the death penalty
The Death Penalty Nationwide
Sunday, 11 December 2011

Could capital punishment be at death’s door in 2012?

That’s the goal for several states next year, say leading anti-death penalty advocates who are making a push to end the controversial practice.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70173.html#ixzz1gGfZ0KiU
 
AP - Death penalty dropped against Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Death Penalty Nationwide
Wednesday, 07 December 2011

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday abandoned their 30-year pursuit of the execution of convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther whose claim that he was the victim of a racist legal system made him an international cause celebre.

Abu-Jamal, 58, will instead spend the rest of his life in prison. His writings and radio broadcasts from death row had put him at the center of an international debate over capital punishment.

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Rich Times Disp - Path to execution swifter, more certain in Va.
The Death Penalty in Virginia
Monday, 05 December 2011

Electric Chair

Texas, which leads the United States in number of executions, is second to Virginia, carrying out less than half its death sentences.


Serving life in prison without possibility of parole, Robert C. Gleason opted to die by execution instead of old age and is Virginia's newest death-row inmate.

He earned the distinction by killing fellow prisoners in the state most likely to grant his wish. Since executions resumed in 1977, nearly three out of four condemned prisoners in Virginia have been put to death, the nation's highest rate.

Texas, which leads the United States in number of executions, is second to Virginia, carrying out less than half its death sentences. In most death-penalty states, the ratio is fewer than 1 in 10.

While Virginia's record is clear, its causes and implications are in dispute.

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Richmond Times Disp. - Judge who overturned inmate's death sentence orders his return to death row
Death Penalty Cases in Virginia
Friday, 02 December 2011

A federal judge who overturned Justin Wolfe's death sentence has ordered his return to death row, citing harsher restrictions Wolfe had received in segregation elsewhere.

Wolfe, 30, was convicted in 2002 of a drug-related murder-for-hire in Prince William County. The case was tossed out in July by U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson, who was critical of the evidence and who found prosecutorial misconduct.

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