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Death penalty widely seen as fatally flawed
November 9, 2007Only 15 minutes before Earl Wesley Berry was to be executed by lethal injection in Mississippi’s Parchman state prison, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of execution. The high court has recently blocked three executions....
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NATIONAL CLIPS: November 10
November 9, 2007CHARLESTON, W.Va.: Protest demands hate crime charge HOUSTON: Commit a racist act, lose your job EVANSVILLE, Ind.: Voters ‘step up’ to halt climate change ATLANTA: Majority of Southern students are poor
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Civil liberties advocates urge defeat of Mukasey
November 9, 2007WASHINGTON — Defenders of the Bill of Rights called on the U.S. Senate, Nov. 6, to reject Michael Mukasey, President Bush’s choice to replace the disgraced Alberto Gonzales for U.S. attorney general. They cited Judge Mukasey’s...
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Anti-immigrant tactic flops, Dems advance in Virginia
November 8, 2007Democrats made significant electoral advances in Virginia Nov. 6, as the key Republican tactic of harping on undocumented immigration appears to have fizzled. Going into the elections, the Republicans had 24 Senate seats and the Democrats...
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LA 8 case ends in exoneration
November 7, 2007On Nov. 1, attorneys for the two last remaining defendants in the famous LA 8 case announced an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security whereby all government proceedings against the two Palestinian immigrants would be...
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