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Supreme Court Rules Man on Death Row Should be Resentenced after State Court Judges Ignore Supreme Court Precedents

Posted by Brinda Kalita
|Date: March 03, 2023
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Supreme Court Rules Man on Death Row Should be Resentenced after State Court Judges Ignore Supreme Court Precedents

By Roni Ayalon and Brinda Kalita WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Supreme Court this week unexpectedly ruled in ...

By Roni Ayalon and Brinda Kalita WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Supreme Court this week unexpectedly ruled in favor of John Cruz, a man on death row in the state of Arizona, allowing him to be resentenced ...

March 03, 2023
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SCOTUS Demands TX Appeals Court Reconsider Death Row Prisoner Case

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|Date: January 19, 2023
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SCOTUS Demands TX Appeals Court Reconsider Death Row Prisoner Case

By Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S Supreme Court reversed the decision on a re-trial of a Texas ...

By Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S Supreme Court reversed the decision on a re-trial of a Texas death row prisoner this past week, vacating the judgment of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ...

January 19, 2023
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Amicus Brief Opposes Police Qualified Immunity for Wrongful Arrest of Citizen Journalists

Posted by Kevin Barragan
|Date: December 17, 2022
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Amicus Brief Opposes Police Qualified Immunity for Wrongful Arrest of Citizen Journalists

By Kevin Barragan NEW ORLEANS, LA - An amicus brief filed here this week in the Fifth Federal Appeals Co ...

By Kevin Barragan NEW ORLEANS, LA - An amicus brief filed here this week in the Fifth Federal Appeals Court argued, “when police officers wrongfully arrest an independent journalist in violation of t ...

December 17, 2022
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Missouri Executes Black Man after Courts Refuse Appeals – Lawmaker Charges ‘Criminal Justice System’ Failed Kevin Johnson

Posted by Taylor Smith
|Date: December 02, 2022
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Missouri Executes Black Man after Courts Refuse Appeals – Lawmaker Charges ‘Criminal Justice System’ Failed Kevin Johnson

By Taylor Smith and Alyssa Eng BONNE TERRE, MO – U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (MO) has released a statement critic ...

By Taylor Smith and Alyssa Eng BONNE TERRE, MO – U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (MO) has released a statement critical of the execution, after 17 years on death row, of Kevin Johnson who was executed Tuesday nig ...

December 02, 2022
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Governor’s Mansion ‘Don’t Kill for Me’ Demonstration Protest Scheduled for Thursday Oklahoma Execution of Brain-Damaged Richard Fairchild

Posted by Leslie Acevedo
|Date: November 16, 2022
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Governor’s Mansion ‘Don’t Kill for Me’ Demonstration Protest Scheduled for Thursday Oklahoma Execution of Brain-Damaged Richard Fairchild

By Paloma Sifuentes and Leslie Acevedo OKLAHOMA CITY, OK: The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Pen ...

By Paloma Sifuentes and Leslie Acevedo OKLAHOMA CITY, OK: The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty asked the public to join them in a demonstration in protest of the scheduled execution of ...

November 16, 2022
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Some SCOTUS Justices Dissent in Refusal to Review Case of Black Man Sent to Death Row, by All White Jury Opposed to Interracial Marriage, for Killing White Wife

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|Date: October 17, 2022
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Some SCOTUS Justices Dissent in Refusal to Review Case of Black Man Sent to Death Row, by All White Jury Opposed to Interracial Marriage, for Killing White Wife

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, D.C. – Some justices on the U.S. Supreme Court last week strongly quest ...

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, D.C. – Some justices on the U.S. Supreme Court last week strongly questioned the court’s decision to deny review in the case of Andre Thomas, a “Black man sentenced t ...

October 17, 2022
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ACLU Asks US Supreme Court to Review Status of Georgia Death Row Prisoner with Intellectual Disability

Posted by Amy Berberyan
|Date: November 27, 2021
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ACLU Asks US Supreme Court to Review Status of Georgia Death Row Prisoner with Intellectual Disability

By Amy Berberyan WASHINGTON, DC -- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is asking for the U.S. Supre ...

By Amy Berberyan WASHINGTON, DC -- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is asking for the U.S. Supreme Court to review Rodney Young’s status on Georgia’s death row, in a filing made earlier this ...

November 27, 2021
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U.S. Supreme Court Decision Aside, Officers’ Superhuman Claims on Display

Posted by Genesis Guzman
|Date: July 18, 2021
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U.S. Supreme Court Decision Aside, Officers’ Superhuman Claims on Display

By Marcia Barajas and Genesis Guzman WASHINGTON DC – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a defendant thi ...

By Marcia Barajas and Genesis Guzman WASHINGTON DC – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a defendant this past week on a technical legal issue—but apart from the legal argument, the most interesting ...

July 18, 2021
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UC Berkeley Shuts Libraries: Student Outcry Grows

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Guest Commentary: New Data Hubs Show Local Impact of Mass Incarceration in California and Louisiana

After Tyre Nichols Police Violence Killing, Lawyers of Gershun Freeman Family Discuss Another Memphis In-Custody Death

Virginia Prosecutor, After Refusing to Prosecute Some Low Level Crimes, Beats Back Political Attempt to Cut Budget

Civil Rights Attorney Asks Court to Overrule Coroner Report, Charges New Evidence in Angelo Quinto Death Caused by Antioch Police

Judge Sentences 27-Year-Old with Remorse, No Criminal History, Low Risk Assessment Score to Jail for 180 Days for DUI

Supreme Court Rules Man on Death Row Should be Resentenced after State Court Judges Ignore Supreme Court Precedents

Supreme Court Rules Man on Death Row Should be Resentenced after State Court Judges Ignore Supreme Court Precedents

SCOTUS Demands TX Appeals Court Reconsider Death Row Prisoner Case

SCOTUS Demands TX Appeals Court Reconsider Death Row Prisoner Case

Amicus Brief Opposes Police Qualified Immunity for Wrongful Arrest of Citizen Journalists

Amicus Brief Opposes Police Qualified Immunity for Wrongful Arrest of Citizen Journalists

Missouri Executes Black Man after Courts Refuse Appeals – Lawmaker Charges ‘Criminal Justice System’ Failed Kevin Johnson

Missouri Executes Black Man after Courts Refuse Appeals – Lawmaker Charges ‘Criminal Justice System’ Failed Kevin Johnson

Governor’s Mansion ‘Don’t Kill for Me’ Demonstration Protest Scheduled for Thursday Oklahoma Execution of Brain-Damaged Richard Fairchild

Governor’s Mansion ‘Don’t Kill for Me’ Demonstration Protest Scheduled for Thursday Oklahoma Execution of Brain-Damaged Richard Fairchild

Some SCOTUS Justices Dissent in Refusal to Review Case of Black Man Sent to Death Row, by All White Jury Opposed to Interracial Marriage, for Killing White Wife

Some SCOTUS Justices Dissent in Refusal to Review Case of Black Man Sent to Death Row, by All White Jury Opposed to Interracial Marriage, for Killing White Wife

ACLU Asks US Supreme Court to Review Status of Georgia Death Row Prisoner with Intellectual Disability

ACLU Asks US Supreme Court to Review Status of Georgia Death Row Prisoner with Intellectual Disability

U.S. Supreme Court Decision Aside, Officers’ Superhuman Claims on Display

U.S. Supreme Court Decision Aside, Officers’ Superhuman Claims on Display

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