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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 19, 20093:11 PM CONTACT: Senator Russ Feingold Zach Lowe or Katie Rowley - (202) 224-8657 Feingold Reintroduce...

Richardson's statement regarding the repeal of the death penalty Posted: 03/18/2009 06:47:41 PM MDT SANTA FE Ð Governor Bill Richardso...

BREAKING NEWS: Richardson abolishes N.M. death penalty New Mexico becomes the 15th state to ban capital punishment By Trip Jennings 3/18/09...

Ronald Cotton, right, was imprisoned for eleven years for a crime committed by Bobby Poole. THE VERDICT Dahlia Lithwick When Our Eyes Decei...

Innocent man who served almost four years for robbery seeks compensation from Florida By Jon Burstein South Florida Sun-Sentinel March 17, 2...

Last Update: 2/04 12:22 pm TAMPA, FL -- The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office had to investigate one of their own and what they foun...

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- A number of boys, who are now men and claim they were tortured at a Florida reform school, have filed a lawsuit against ...

By AISLING SWIFT (Contact) Originally published 8:20 p.m., Thursday, February 5, 2009 Updated 8:23 p.m., Thursday, February 5, 2009 NAPLES —...

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When federal Judge Timothy J. Corrigan ruled three weeks ago that spraying mentally ill inmates with skin-blistering chemicals violates the ...

By JASON SCHULTZ Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 03, 2009 WEST PALM BEACH- — An inmate in the Palm Beach County Jail died Mon...

WJXT-TV updated 1 hour, 51 minutes ago A Bradford County Sheriff's Office employee was arrested Saturday after detectives said he called...

By Eric Pfahler Originally published 05:20 p.m., March 16, 2009 Updated 05:25 p.m., March 16, 2009 The sister of a woman murdered in 2003 sa...

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press Writer The Associated Press updated 4:11 p.m. ET, Thurs., March. 12, 2009 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The agency ...

By Vanessa Blum South Florida Sun Sentinel 1:38 PM EDT, March 16, 2009 Two West Palm Beach men deserve to die for executing a family of four...

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By DAPHNE DURET Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 15, 2009 STUART — For the murders of Jose Luis Escobedo and his young family, con...

By STEVEN BEARDSLEY (Contact) 5:54 p.m., Sunday, March 15, 2009 LEE COUNTY — Two trials and more than three years after the lifeless bodies ...

KOB.com Posted at: 03/15/2009 9:03 AM Updated at: 03/15/2009 11:24 AM By: Eyewitness News 4 Man crusades against death penalty Juan Melendez...

From the Blog of The Innocence Project of Florida : Monday, March 16, 2009 Photographer, Human Rights Advocate Scott Langley to Present at F...

By CHRISTOPHER TUFFLEY christopher.tuffley@newssun.com SEBRING -- In a surprise twist, Joshua Lee Altersberger, 21, who was awaiting trial o...

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed… Serious questions are being raise...

From the Blog : The Defense rests : Anatomy of an exoneration On March 12, 2009, Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos and Houston Poli...

BY AMY SHERMAN A paralyzed Broward jail inmate who has remained incarcerated despite finishing his sentence will be granted his freedom, a j...

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/03/10/fears_web.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101 Columbus man finally freed f...

DNA testing helps clear jailed man By Richard Danielson , Times Staff Writer In Print: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 TAMPA — On the morning deputi...