ROBERT FERGUSON'S nearly eight-year prison sentence in early March for shoplifting a bag of shredded cheese from a California convenience store made headlines around the world. How could such a petty crime trigger such a lengthy sentence? Whether from a moral or public policy point of view, the outcome seemed... » read this article

"The death penalty is a luxury. It's not a necessity." Monday, March 15, 2010 The Lowcountry has watched five death penalty cases unfold during the past year, but only one defendant now sits on death row. Those accused in the four other cases all received sentences of life in prison... » read this article

Editor's Note: We received the following introduction and open letter to the Massachusetts Attorney General from a good friend and long time activist in Boston, Noah Cohen. - LMB On Friday, March 12, members of the Tarek Mehanna Support Committee attempted for the second time to meet with a representative of... » read this article

A New Orleans police supervisor pled guilty February 24 in a federal court to charges of conspiracy to cover up the police shooting of six unarmed people a few days after Hurricane Katrina struck the city. Two of the victims, Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old mentally disabled man, and James Brissette,... » read this article

A Houston judge said yesterday that it's safe to assume we've executed innocent people. And, in an effort to put a stop to that, state District Judge Kevin Fine granted a pretrial motion declaring capital punishment unconstitutional. The ruling came in response to a number of pretrial motions filed on behalf... » read this article

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of a Death Row inmate so a hearing can be held to determine the validity of a new standardized IQ test that could spare his life by showing he's mentally retarded. The justices issued the 5-2 decision just hours after hearing... » read this article

For historians who like dates and bookends for their events, the “global war on terror” started with the destruction of the Twin Towers and the attack on the Pentagon (9/11). The idea of perpetual war provided large benefits to a few and pain and terror to much of the world,... » read this article

The principle propaganda mouthpiece of the Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO), the Daily Alert (DA), has come out in full support for Israel’s practice of extra-judicial, extra-territorial assassination. In the face of world-wide governmental condemnation (except from the Zionist-occupied White House and US Congress), the PMAJO slavishly backs... » read this article

2 March 2010 The reaction of governments around the world to the murder of Hamas member Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month underscores the extent to which basic precepts of international law have been torn up under the “war on terror”. As far as the US government and its allies... » read this article

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The following was delivered at the fourth Congress Against the Death Penalty, in Geneva, on 24th February, 2010 It is an honour and a privilege to be addressing you here today, at the fourth Congress Against the Death Penalty. It is encouraging to see so many participants gathered here from... » read this article

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A fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Martin Kramer, has called for "the West" to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide. Kramer, who is also a fellow at the influential... » read this article

It’s time to convert capital sentences to permanent imprisonment Here’s a way Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger can save the state more than $1 billion over the next five years: Convert all 700 death sentences in California to permanent imprisonment. The death-penalty system is clearly broken. For the past four years, executions... » read this article

An Interview With Nancy A. Heitzeg. Nancy A. Heitzeg Ph.D. is a professor of sociology and program co-director, critical studies of race and ethnicity at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota.  Angola 3 News: Please tell us about your recent visit to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola this... » read this article

On January 19 Israel’s international secret police, the Mossad, sent an eighteen member death squad to Dubai using European passports, supposedly ‘stolen’ from Israeli dual citizens and altered with fake photos and signatures, in order to assassinate the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud al Mabhouh. The evidence is overwhelming: The Dubai police... » read this article

A Florida Death Row inmate was executed Tuesday for the slaying of a state wildlife officer more than 25 years ago. A spokesman for Gov. Charlie Crist said Martin Edward Grossman, 45, died at 6:17 p.m. at Florida State Prison. Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block the... » read this article

Wall Street tactics akin to the ones that fostered subprime mortgages in America have worsened the financial crisis shaking Greece and undermining the euro by enabling European governments to hide their mounting debts. As worries over Greece rattle world markets, records and interviews show that with Wall Street’s help, the... » read this article

Haridopolos seeks review of wrong verdicts Sen. Mike Haridopolos has asked the Florida Supreme Court to form a panel to examine why people have been sent to state prison for crimes they didn't commit. The "Innocence Commission" also would help protect more innocent people from going to jail, said the... » read this article

The Killing Continues Since the suspension of the death penalty in Japan in September of 2009, the US is the only developed nation in the world that continues to execute its citizens -- but, perhaps, not for long. The unmasking of the political agenda behind state sanctioned killing during the... » read this article