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Judge: Child-Killer Is Mentally Competent
Associated PressBOISE, Idaho -- Convicted child-killer Joseph Edward Duncan III is mentally competent to face a death penalty hearing, a federal judge in Idaho ruled Thursday. Duncan faces the death penalty on three of 10 federal charges related to the 2005 kidnapping...Tags: Court Administration, Punishment, Lawyers, Trials, Illnesses
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Northampton jurors to hear case of police shooting
Of The Morning CallForty-five Northampton County residents will be summoned to the courthouse Monday to be questioned individually as prosecutors begin jury selection in the capital murder case against Cletus C. Rivera, accused of killing a Reading police officer. Berks...Tags: Murder, Assault, Prosecution, Berks County, Punishment
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Spying on protesters curbs basic rights
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution clearly prohibits any laws abridging "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." What laws, then, were our state law enforcement officers...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Constitutional Issues, Terrorism, Executive Branch, Demonstration
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Police spying prompts hearings
Sun reporterState lawmakers are planning formal hearings on Maryland State Police efforts to spy on peace activists and death penalty protesters, potentially paving the way for a thorny debate in the next General Assembly session over whether to restrict the law...Tags: Executive Branch, Regional Authority, Benjamin L. Cardin, Alex X Mooney, Punishment
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Accused hit man faces death
247-4749The government plans to seek the death penalty for a man accused of carrying out a murder-for-hire plot against a Navy officer for a $20,000 fee. The U.S. Attorney's Office gave notice last week that it will ask for the death penalty if David Anthony...Tags: Defense, Murder, Medical Research, Michael Mukasey, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia)
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Feds to seek death penalty in murder of sailor
Federal prosecutors say they plan to seek the death penalty for a West Virginia man if he's found guilty of carrying out a murder-for-hire plot against a Navy officer. David Runyon, of Morgantown, is charged with fatally shooting Ensign Cory Voss...Tags: Defense, Murder, Prosecution, Armed Forces, Punishment
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New specialists delve deep to keep convicts off death row
Of The Morning CallWhen lawyer Glenn Clark was appointed to defend an Easton man charged in a double homicide, he knew he needed to find out all he could about Fernando Luis Rivera -- from the time he was in his mother's womb to that bloody day in 2003 when two men were...Tags: Murder, Punishment, Lehigh County, Lawyers, Illnesses
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Police spied on peace groups
The Swampby Nick Madigan Undercover Maryland State Police officers repeatedly spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups in recent years and entered the names of some in a law-enforcement database of people thought to be terrorists or drug traffickers,...Tags: Civil Rights, Demonstration, Punishment, Drug Trafficking, Richard Nixon
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Execution panel a waste of time
I read with just a modicum of interest about the governor's commission to study the death penalty ("Civiletti heads Md. panel on death penalty," July 11). There are several noteworthy members on that commission, including a very high-ranking former...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Jimmy Carter, Punishment
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Spying worried groups
Sun reporterMax Obuszewski is a graying veteran of war protests. In his life, he estimated yesterday, he's been arrested about 70 times for struggling to make a point about critical issues, including the Vietnam War, homelessness in Baltimore and the war in Iraq. He...Tags: Defense, International Military Interventions, Demonstration, Fort Meade, Punishment
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