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Out of the 33 federal charges against Roof, the accusation that he violated the prayer group's right to freely practice religion will weigh heavy when considering the death penalty.

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The proposal outlines strategies for reducing student debt and for cutting interest rates on student loans.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three (including an 8-year-old boy) and injured over 250 people.…

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Parts of Baltimore have been in despair for decades, however this week’s riots may have set the area back. Yesterday, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly shared…

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On Friday, Anthony Ray Hinton walked out of prison a free man after spending 30 years on death row for a crime he did not…

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A federal judge in California ruled Wednesday that the state’s death penalty is unconstitutional. California put a moratorium on the death penalty in 2006 and…

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Louisiana man, Glenn Ford, spent nearly three decades behind bars on death row for a crime he did not commit before walking free earlier this…

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George Zimmerman may have to face hate crime charges from the FBI, in addition to his second-degree murder charge, for shooting and killing unarmed Florida teenager, Trayvon Martin back in February. If the FBI and Florida prosecutors can prove Zimmerman intentionally went after and murdered Martin because he is African-American, the sentence could escalate to […]

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Until the day Troy Davis was executed, his nephew, Antone De’Jaun Correia visited him every other week from the day he was born. This past week The Guardian published an obituary for Davis written by his nephew.

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Before Troy Davis became known to the country and later the world, Mumia Abu-Jamal gained international appeal when he was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, and sentenced to death. Abu-Jamal was encapsulated as the “world’s best known death row inmate.” 1.            MEANING BEHIND THE NAME–Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook. […]

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Days after the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis, Rev. Raphael Warnock of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church gave an impassioned sermon Sunday morning to bring attention to what he calls an injustice. Channel 2 Action News reports that Warnock said Davis’ execution “was a moral and spiritual disaster unfolding before our very eyes.” As […]

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On June 16th, 1944, the United States put to rest the youngest person ever to be subjected to the death penalty. George Junius Stinney Jr. was only 14 when he was arrested and charged for allegedly murdering an 8 and an 11-year -old duo of white girls with a large railroad spike. The sheriff at […]