THE lawyer who helped to free Kenny Richey from Death Row has been recognised with a major legal award.

Ken Parsigian, a partner in the firm Goodwin Proctor, has received the Boston University Law 2008 Pro Bono Alumni Award. He was honoured for his dedication to pro bono work and his success in obtaining freedom for Richey, 43, who spent more than two decades on Death Row.

The Church of Scotland is set to voice outright opposition to the death
penalty for the 1st time.

The Kirk's General Assembly, which opens in Edinburgh next Thursday,
will be asked to agree that capital punishment is "always and wholly
unacceptable" and is no answer even to the most heinous of crimes.

What one Catholic Supreme Court justice could do
By Dale S. Recinella | APRIL 28, 2008
W hen the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, our nation embarked upon a grand experiment. The hope was that new detailed procedures would result in a death penalty unaffected by the lingering racial bias of slavery and lynchings and impervious to arbitrary application. That experiment, however, has failed. DNA evidence alone has proved that some prisoners on death row were convicted of crimes they had not committed, and they have been exonerated. The question now is, How do we end the death penalty and extricate ourselves from the failed experiment?

By Rick Kerger, Esq.*

I have handled five death penalty habeas matters. Only in one has the evidence of a client's innocence been overwhelming, and that client is Arthur Tyler. He now stands literally at the door of the death chamber and unless people act, an innocent man will be killed by the State.

I have been working on trying to highlight the case of a missing child.

I was approached by an organisation called Forever Searching, whose aim is to find missing and exploited children.

Their site is at: www.foreversearching.com

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