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Texas: Execution Drugs Should Be "State Secret"
Tired of taking a back seat to Arizona in death penalty zeal, Texas today upped the ante in the high stakes game of keeping secrets from the public in whose…
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Court Allows Arizona to Kill Prisoner with Secret Drugs
Secretly trafficking and then openly using unapproved drugs is now A-OK. That’s the message sent out yesterday by the Arizona Supreme Court, which allowed state officials to conceal their source…
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Arizona's Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy for Executions
Arizona today admitted that it acquired the execution drug sodium thiopental from a non-FDA approved source, but continues to seek to execute Jeffrey Landrigan on October 26. The state refuses…
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9 Out of 10 Counties, Zero Death Sentences Since 2004
What makes a punishment "unusual?" The 8th Amendment to the Constitution bans "cruel and unusual" punishments, and the Supreme Court in recent years has suggested that a punishment becomes unusual…
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Are States Breaking the Law to Get Execution Drugs?
States may be illegally procuring the drugs needed to continue to kill prisoners among a nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental.
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A Small Victory for Arizonans, A Bigger Victory For Human Rights
In a welcome, 11th hour order that prevents Arizona from putting into place much of its immigrant profiling law [SB1070], Judge Susan Bolton ruled that the offensive sections of the…
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SB1070: What Starts in Arizona, Stops in Arizona
In just two days, Arizona's discriminatory bill, SB1070, will officially become law and go into effect. What's more frightening, however, is that other states are now slated to follow Arizona's…
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Utah's Immigrant Hit List
Last week, at least two Utah state employees were involved in distributing a list of 1,300 names of supposedly illegal immigrants. This 29-page list was sent out to Utah government…
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New Bill Could Help Families Torn Apart by Immigrant Detention
Some good news on the immigrant rights front: Recently Senator Al Franken (D-MN) along with Senators Kohl, Menendez, Klobuchar, Feingold, Durbin and Feinstein introduced S.3522 the Humane Enforcement and Legal…
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Tell Arizona's Governor to Veto SB1070!!!
UPDATE: Much to our dismay, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) signed the immigration bill (SB1070) on Friday. We will continue the fight for immigrant rights. The Arizona House and Senate…