The Illinois death penalty is on the way out.The state’s Democratic Governor Pat Quinn, signed a law abolishing capital punishment in the state. In addition, Quinn commuted the sentences of all 15 inmates on death row
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Illinois Death Penalty Ban Signed by Governor
Of all the potential reasons not to like Facebook: divorce. That’s one you may not have heard before.The omnipresent website is at least partially responsible for 1 out of every 5 divorces in the U.S., and 81 percent of the… Continue reading this article, and get more legal news and information, at FindLaw.com
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Facebook to Blame for 1 in 5 Divorces, Lawyers Say
In a shocking case out of Cleveland, Texas, an alleged group sexual assault of a girl was recorded on cell phones and circulated throughout students in her school district. The incident involved nearly 20 people, with at least 13 adults… Continue reading this article, and get more legal news and information, at FindLaw.com
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Gang Rape of Girl, 11, Recorded on Cell Phones
The thiopental sodium story continues to develop. As we’ve previously discussed, there is a shortage of the drug, used by states to carry out the death penalty using lethal injections. Now U.S.
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Animal Drug Cleared for Lethal Injections
“Senseless” is how authorities are describing the death of Bobby Tillman. The Georgia teenager was killed after four teenagers allegedly attacked him for no reason outside a Atlanta house party. One of the teenagers allegedly told his three friends that…
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Georgia Teens Denied Bail in Beating Death
Opponents of the death penalty are trying a new legal technique in order to try to block executions. A London civil rights group known as Reprieve is suing a British company to try to stop them from exporting sodium thiopental….
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Death Penalty Drug Suit to Block US Execution?
Bedbugs are taking a bite out of one of the Big Apple’s most well-known, luxury hotels. The Waldorf-Astoria is now the defendant in the second of two bedbug lawsuits to be filed in a few weeks. This suit, filed by…
The arraignment of an Irving, Texas mother on a single charge of murder in the death of her five year-old son took place on July 21. Court officials cancelled the scheduled second hearing on the death of Saiqa Akhter’s 2-year-old… Continue reading this article, and get more legal news and information, at FindLaw.com.
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Mom Saiqa Akhter Called 911 After Strangling Kids
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. -Thomas Jefferson Jefferson probably would..
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Oakland Approves City Pot Farm Plan
