Torley.org site syndication http://torley.org 2008-05-18T03:25:56+01:00 http://torley.org http://torley.org/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2008-05-14T13:59:01+01:00 http://torley.org http://torley.org/The-News/General-DP-articles/No-humane-way-to-kill-1536-49.html By Stanley Howard. former Death Row Inmate The debate about lethal injection won't be over as long as we have a government that is in the business of killing. I KNOW there has been much talk about the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that proclaimed lethal injections are not unconstitutional, but I wanted to weigh in on this very important ruling. text/html 2008-05-12T11:43:02+01:00 http://torley.org http://torley.org/Kenny-Richey/Kenny-Richey/Richey-lawyer-scoops-major-award-1535-46.html   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. text/html 2008-05-11T11:57:30+01:00 http://torley.org http://torley.org/The-News/General-News/Kirk-ready-to-condemn-the-death-penalty-1534-45.html 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. text/html 2008-05-06T17:16:50+01:00 http://torley.org http://torley.org/The-News/General-DP-articles/Ending-the-Death-Penalty-1533-49.html   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?   text/html 2008-05-06T13:00:25+01:00 http://torley.org http://torley.org/The-News/Injustice-in-Ohio/Arthur-Tyler-Is-Awaiting-Execution----When-The-Actual-Murderer-Is-Known-And-Being-Protected-By-Ohio-1532-52.html   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.