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The only way to make the death penalty fair is to abolish it
Since 1973, at least 140 people have walked off our nation's death rows after new evidence revealed that they were sentenced to die for crimes they did not commit. That's more than one innocent person exonerated for every 10 who's been executed....Tags: Chemicals, Death Penalty, Biotechnology Industry, Punishment, Human Body
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Prosecutors portray Manning as determined leaker
In closing arguments Thursday, Army prosecutors presented a damning portrait of Pfc. Bradley Manning as a soldier who used his top-secret security clearance to scour classified computer networks for documents and burn the data onto discs with the...Tags: Lawyers, Prosecution, Bradley Manning, Daniel Ellsberg, WikiLeaks
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Bradley Manning supporters plan rally outside Fort Meade
Hundreds of activists are planning to demonstrate outside Fort Meade this weekend in support of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy organization...Tags: Activism, Daniel Ellsberg, Bradley Manning, Trials, Occupy Wall Street
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Defense suggests accused WikiLeaker was troubled soldier
To his supporters, Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning is a hero, the whistle-blower who revealed U.S. war crimes and diplomatic double-dealing in the Pentagon records and State Department cables he is alleged to have sent to the anti-secrecy organization...Tags: Lawyers, Julian Assange, International Law, United Nations, Journalism
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WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning to have hearing at Maryland's Fort Meade next month
A military hearing for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst accused of giving classified materials about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to WikiLeaks, has been scheduled for next month at Fort Meade. The primary purpose of the...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Daniel Ellsberg, Bradley Manning, Trials
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Community begins to cope with shootings
Baltimore Sun reportersSomething awful happened inside the yellow house on Washington Street, as the creaky wooden porch made clear all weekend. It was wrapped with tarps while police worked inside Saturday, sifting through a crime scene more horrid than anything they could...Tags: Facebook, Buddhism, CSX Corporation, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Family
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Lawmakers begin push to outlaw surveillance tactics
Brushing aside assurances from the Maryland State Police that troopers will never again secretly monitor and collect information on peaceful protest groups, state lawmakers and Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration are moving ahead with a plan to outlaw...Tags: Civil Rights, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, American Civil Liberties Union, National Security
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ACLU 'guessed' correctly about police spying subjects
In trying to collect information about a defunct Maryland State Police surveillance operation, the American Civil Liberties Union made "wild guesses" about who might be in the agency's criminal intelligence database, naming 250 individuals and 32 groups...Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, The Washington Post, Maryland
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Specter to push for foreign detainee rules
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON -- The continuing uproar over U.S. treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib has a top Senate Republican looking at the need to clarify in law the rights of foreign detainees. On the heels of Amnesty International calling the U....Tags: Prisoners and Detainees, Civil Rights, Heads of State, Taliban, Human Rights
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Ex-Bush Cabinet member suggests shutting down Guantanamo prison
Associated PressKEY WEST, Fla. - Sen. Mel Martinez said the Bush administration should consider closing the Guantanamo Bay prison for terrorism suspects - the first high-profile Republican to make the suggestion. "It's become an icon for bad stories, and at some point...Tags: Civil Rights, Prisoners and Detainees, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Heads of State, Iraq
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Britain detains Muslim radicals
Chicago TribuneLONDON - Britain moved swiftly to implement its promised crackdown on "preachers of hate," launching a series of early-morning raids yesterday to round up 10 Muslim extremists, including Abu Qatada, a cleric who often is described as al-Qaida's "spiritual...Tags: Terrorism, Tony Blair, International Law, National Security, London (England)
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CIA contract worker charged in prison abuse
Sun National StaffFederal authorities brought the first civilian criminal case involving prison abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan yesterday, charging a former CIA contract worker in the beating death of an Afghan prisoner who died three days after he voluntarily surrendered...Tags: Civil Rights, Prisoners and Detainees, Trials, Human Rights, Central Intelligence Agency
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