A new study has proven that the state of Texas executed the wrong man for murder back in 1989. Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, was likely innocent, according to a newly released collection of legal materials published today by The Columbia Human Rights Law Review. James Liebman, professor at Columbia Law [...]

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Here are your top highlights from this day in history for May 10, 2012: – Transcontinental railroad finished – Nazis stage book burnings – Rudolph Hess parachutes into Scotland – Nelson Mandela takes oath of office – John Wayne Gacy executed – Singer Bono born Mobile users: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lb5-LyB7Ks Incoming search terms:cm punk tom gabel tweet

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Troy Davis was executed in Georgia last night, despite last minute efforts to spare him and despite his continued claims of innocence. Outside the prison where he was being held, a crowd of several hundred protesters cried and prayed. They spoke for the hundreds of thousands of supporters around the world who disagreed with Davis’ [...]

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The state of Ohio has executed Frank Spisak, a cross-dressing Nazi wannabe who killed three people almost 30 years ago in a shooting rampage that targeted African Americans at Cleveland State University. Spisak, 59, was pronounced dead at 10:34 a.m. EST this morning (Thursday) following a lethal injection of sodium thiopental at the Southern Ohio [...]

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The State of Arizona has executed Jeffrey Landrigan after a British company supplied the state with the chemicals needed for the lethal injection. Landrigan, 50, was executed at 6:26 a.m. local time.  He had been given the death penalty after strangling Chester Dyer during an armed burglary, and in 1989 he escaped from an Oklahoma [...]

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John Allen Muhammad, A.K.A. the infamous DC Sniper, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday night at a prison in Virginia for the killing of Dean Harold Meyers back in 2002. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a last-minute appeal. Muhammad,48, was the mastermind behind the 2002 beltway sniper attacks, killing 10 people [...]

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