In March, Utah followed in the footsteps of Arizona, enacting a strict new immigration law that requires criminal suspects to prove U.S. citizenship or legal residency when arrested. In response to the law, the ACLU, along with the National Immigration..
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Utah Immigration Law Illegal, ACLU Says
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
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
Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted of shooting and killing a police officer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania more than 28 years ago. The former Black Panther was sentenced to the death penalty for the 1981 murder. Since then Abu-Jamal has become an activist…
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Mumia Abu-Jamal Death Sentence Back in Court
“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…
Francisco Cruz, 19, faces the possibility of the death penalty after he allegedly raped, strangled and stabbed Chloe Ottman to death. Cruz told police that he had a crush on Ottman and after she rejected him, he brutally attacked her,… Continue reading this article, and get more legal news and information, at FindLaw.com.
For any of you who have been following “the one that got away” story of the litigation over Asian carp, the story continues today. As you may reacall, the Supreme Court has washed their hands of the fishy case, so… Continue reading this article, and get more legal news and information, at FindLaw.com.
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Carp On: 5 States Sue Feds Over Asian Carp
Whenever there is a large scale disaster, there will be con artists, or just plan scammers, that will try to take advantage. The BP oil spill is no exception