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By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyThis week sees the San Antonio trial of Sharon Keller, the presiding judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals who is accused of judicial misconduct for closing her court before a last-minute appeal could be filed for an inmate on death row. Michael Wayne Richard, twice convicted of the rape and killing of a woman in 1986, was facing death by lethal injection on Sept. 25, 2007. That same day, the Supreme Court effectively suspended lethal injection as a manner of execution by accepting a challenge to its constitutionality in an unrelated case. Richard's lawyers, acting on this decision, ...
Death Row Inmates Get Reprieve with Racial Justice Act
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyNorth Carolina has been in the news recently, and not in a good way. It made headlines when figures released by Public Policy Polling showed that only 24 percent of Republicans in the state believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States. Adding Democrats and Independents only brought the number up to 54 percent. What an easy punchline, a political footnote that played into regional stereotypes. ...
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