Cases and articles

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'I'm ready'

Wednesday, 20 September 2006

The last words of the 376 prisoners executed in Texas since 1982 are faithfully recorded on the state justice department's website. Aida Edemariam reads through their final statements, and we publish edited extracts from the site

Wednesday September 20, 2006
The Guardian

Bar study harsh on Fla. death penalty

Tuesday, 19 September 2006

By Susan Spencer-Wendel

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Sunday, September 17, 2006

The American Bar Association released a soup-to-nuts review of Florida's death penalty today, highlighting serious problems with the fairness and accuracy of execution in the Sunshine State.

Support for death penalty dropping

Wednesday, 13 September 2006

By Amy Kingsley, YES! Weekly

Sister Helen Prejean didn't know it at the time, but when she wrote her
first letter to death row inmate Patrick Sonnier, she signed a passport to a
sliver of society few outsiders ever see.

Her interaction with Sonnier, which developed from pen pal to spiritual
advisor, transformed the nun and altered her sense of spiritual service. It
also resulted in a book, Dead Man Walking, which became a best-seller and
Academy Award-winning film.

Work experience on Death Row

Sunday, 10 September 2006

By Dan Bell, BBC News

In just over a month, a young British lawyer will leave the legal establishment of Chancery Lane in London and fly to Oklahoma for a five-month internship on Death Row.