Issue: 515
May 02, 2013
Color of Law
U.S. Death Row Survivors Are One For Ten
Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
many would be surprised at the high odds of innocent people being executed, which speaks to a criminal justice system riddled with problems, including witness misidentification, prosecutorial misconduct, incompetent lawyering, raw racism and class bias.
In the past four decades, 142 men and women were liberated from death row because they were innocent. Given that 1,328 people have been executed in…
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View from the Battlefield
Sequestration – Balancing The Budget On The Backs Of The Majority
Editorial Board
According to an analysis of mainstream media by the Huffington Post, the sequestrations impact on FAA was mentioned far more often than the impacts on areas like Head Start or Medicare.
In a best case scenario for a squeaking wheel getting the oil, we saw the coming together of media, the airline companies and the Congress itself.…
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Guest Commentary
Detached from Compassion
Guest Commentator
story of a small, unheard of community in Texas.
After 48 hours of the harrowing incident in the Boston marathon, a fertilizer plant explosion wiped out a street in West Texas killing 15 people and…
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