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12/01/2016 / By resistnews

Voters in three states breathe new life into death penalty

This year’s election results suggest that reports of the death penalty’s demise may have been greatly exaggerated. Article by Valerie Richardson Voters in three states — California, Nebraska and Oklahoma — lined up behind statewide initiatives in support of capital punishment, suggesting that the death penalty may be making a comeback after a 20-year slide. […]

09/06/2016 / By resistnews

Liberal Hypocrisy: Death Penalty and State-Sanctioned Suicide

In our society, the act of dying is treated respectfully as a private affair. This is because it is an emotionally difficult process for the living and often a painful one for the dying. As all of us can or will attest, dealing with death is difficult and in my own case the loss of […]

09/01/2016 / By resistnews

California Must Preserve the Death Penalty, with Some Reforms

Stephen Cooper’s latest rant against the death penalty in California was off the mark on many points. He believes Proposition 66, death penalty reform, is deeply flawed. What Cooper fails to ever mention is that Proposition 66 was conceived by some of the brightest legal minds in California. It was carefully written by leading criminal […]

08/15/2016 / By resistnews

Tim Kaine’s Anti-Death Penalty Crusade

Richard Lee Whitley needed a lawyer. (Article by Life or Death) The Northern Virginia handyman had confessed to murdering a neighbor and then sexually assaulting her with umbrellas, and the volunteer lawyer handling his case had just moved out of state. It was 1983, the Supreme Court’s suspension of the death penalty had just ended, […]

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