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Aug 8, 20141 min read

Botched Arizona Execution Most Recent Death Penalty System Failure

The death penalty has made national news again, this time due to another botched execution in Arizona. Attorneys for inmate Joseph Wood...

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Jul 29, 20141 min read

Recent Opinion Piece Examines Problems of the Death Penalty

Charles Ogletree Jr., a Harvard Law Professor, recently wrote an opinion piece about the death penalty for the Washington Post. In his...

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Jul 24, 20141 min read

A Broken System

Last week, a federal judge in California ruled that California’s death penalty is unconstitutional. In Judge Cormac Carney’s opinion, he...

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Mar 20, 20142 min read

Innocence in the News

Last Tuesday, Glenn Ford became the 144th innocent person to be exonerated from death row. Ford’s case is yet another example of the...

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Evidence of Innocence Grows in TX Execution

Mar 6, 20141 min read

Evidence of Innocence Grows in TX Execution

Cameron Todd Willingham was executed by the state of Texas in 2004 for allegedly murdering his three daughters by setting fire to his...

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Jan 23, 20141 min read

Troy Davis Panel Discussion 1/28

NADP will participate in a discussion panel on the death penalty next Tuesday evening at 7:00 in the City Campus Union at the University...

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Oct 31, 20131 min read

The Latest News on Lethal Injection

You may have heard the recent news that Nebraska will soon begin looking for a new lethal injection protocol in order to maintain the...

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Sep 19, 20131 min read

Troy Davis: 2 Years Later

On September 21, 2011, the State of Georgia executed Troy Anthony Davis. Troy Davis was executed in spite of the significant doubt about...

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Troy Davis: One Year Later, the Fight Continues

Sep 21, 20122 min read

Troy Davis: One Year Later, the Fight Continues

One year ago today, Troy Davis was executed despite a public outcry and heavy doubt about his guilt. We do well to reflect on Troy Davis...

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State Looks Bad over Execution Anesthetic

Robert Nelson

Oct 9, 20114 min read

State Looks Bad over Execution Anesthetic

By: Robert Nelson, Omaha World Herald | Published Friday December 9, 2011 In the past 12 months, Nebraska officials twice have tried to...

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Sep 30, 20113 min read

Will you Help End this Madness?

The world watched with horror Wednesday night as the highest court in our land granted permission to the State of Georgia to execute a...

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Paul Hammel

Aug 17, 20113 min read

Moore Lawyer Presses State

By: Paul Hammel /Omaha World Herald | Wednesday, August 17, 2011 LINCOLN — The attorney for condemned murderer Carey Dean Moore wants to...

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Nebraska Officials Express new Determination to Execute!

Jul 31, 20112 min read

Nebraska Officials Express new Determination to Execute!

Problems with lethal injection persist There has been a flurry of activity with regard to the death penalty in Nebraska since the...

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Midlands Voices: Execution Costly, Legally Unsound

Mike Nelsen

Feb 27, 20113 min read

Midlands Voices: Execution Costly, Legally Unsound

By: Mike Nelsen | February 27, 2011 The writer, of Omaha, is a lawyer. He is not involved in the Carey Dean Moore case, but he is...

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Lincoln Journal-Star

Jul 26, 20103 min read

Efficient Death Doesn't Make it Right

July 26, 2010 | Lincoln Journal Star Editorial Board We take little comfort in the state’s apparently efficient preparation, in this...

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Jun 1, 20102 min read

National Death Penalty Update

The execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner reads like something out of a wild west novel. On June 18th, Utah held the first execution by firing...

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May 1, 20102 min read

Innocence Must Matter

US Supreme Court agrees to hear case requesting DNA tests On Monday, May 24, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Hank...

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By Chair or Needle, Executions Have Cost

Robert Nelson

Apr 30, 20103 min read

By Chair or Needle, Executions Have Cost

April 16, 2010 | By Robert Nelson Several weeks ago, I got a call from Win Barber, an official with the Nebraska Department of...

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