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DPIC's Richard Dieter to Speak in Charleston

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The Death Penalty Information Center's Richard Dieter will discuss recent developments in the death penalty, the factors behind the decline in its use, and the implications for South Carolina.Richard Dieter photo

Dieter has served as Executive Director of DPIC since 1992 and is an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University School of Law. A graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, Dieter was one of that university's first Public Interest Law Scholars. He has worked for many years on issues related to human rights and the death penalty. He prepared reports for the U.S. House of Representatives and testified at numerous legislative hearings. The author of many articles and reports on the death penalty, Dieter is frequently quoted in national and international media.

Date: January 27, 2011

Time: 7pm

Location: Room 103, AT&T Building., 385 Meeting Street, Charleston School of Law

Mr Dieter was invited by Charleston's Amnesty International Group 168, and his presentation is co-sponsored by SCADP, the South Carolina ACLU, the Criminal Law Society of the Charleston School of Law and the College of Charleston's Amnesty International student group.

 

Last Updated on Thursday, 20 January 2011 23:22
 

APNewsBreak: DEA seizes key execution drug in Ga.

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ATLANTA (AP) — The Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed Tuesday that the agency seized Georgia's supply of a key lethal injection drug because of questions about how the stockpile was imported to the U.S.

Read more at The State

 

Troy Davis bid to re-open hearing rejected

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Friday, August 13, 2010, from the Savannah Morning News

A federal judge today rejected reconsideration of evidence for Troy Anthony Davis, ruling his lawyers did not provide the court with a "record on which the most accurate determination could be made."

Those lawyers were "attempting... to create an incomplete and deceptive record, perverting the purpose of the rule," U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. ruled in a 3-page order.

"By intentionally presenting unreliable hearsay while keeping the (witness) out of court, (Davis) was seeking to prevent the court from receiving all of the evidence," Moore ruled.

Davis is challenging his 1991 murder conviction and death sentence in the 1989 slaying of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail.

The action rejected efforts by attorneys for Davis to re-open evidence in his bid to convince Moore that new evidence "clearly" established Davis' innocence.

Moore held hearings June 23 and 24 for that purpose.

A month later, Davis' appellate team filed a motion seeking to re-open the record because they argued Moore had improperly barred several witnesses.

Attorneys with the attorney general’s office opposed the move, arguing Davis' lawyers made strategic decisions not to call certain witnesses and should not now be allowed to benefit from their choices.

(source: Savannah Morning News)

 

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:04
 

Edward Lee Elmore Off Death Row

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According to newspaper reports, Edward Elmore's death sentence has been commuted to life in prison. Mr. Elmore has been on Death Row since 1982 for the murder of Dorothy Edwards and will not be executed because he has been found to be mentally retarded.

 

While this is good news, Mr. Elmore has a serious claim to innocence and very possibly should never have been imprisoned. Read about his case:

Truth in Justice

Cornell University Law School (scroll down)

Last Updated on Saturday, 06 February 2010 12:05
 

SCADP Members Arrested at U.S. Supreme Court

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SCADP Board members Ron Kaz, Kate Webb and Anna Shockley and volunteer Elaine Cooper traveled to Washington, D.C. for the Abolitionist Action Committee's direct action on Tuesday, January 17, commemorating the execution of Gary Gilmore, the first execution since reinstatement of the death penalty. While Kate and Elaine provided support services and took part in a legal demonstration on the sidewalk, Ron and Anna, along with twelve others, unfolded a 30 foot banner that said "Stop Executions" on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court. Ironically, this is an illegal act. ("Free speech stops on the steps of the Supreme  Court," a police officer once told us.) Supreme Court police arrested all fourteen protesters.

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