Tag Archives: death penalty

Warren Hill granted stay of execution

20 Feb

Warren Hill granted stay of execution

Warren Hill, an intellectually disabled prisoner, has been spared the death chamber just 30 minutes before he was due to die by lethal injection in Georgia despite a US supreme court ban on executions of people with learning difficulties.

Read more here: http://aareports.com/2013/02/warren-hill-granted-stay-of-execution.html

The GOP is becoming the intolerant & uncaring “Let em die ” party. Do they care?

24 Sep

The GOP is becoming the intolerant & uncaring “Let em die ” party. Do they care?
 
During recent GOP debates some very troubling things have happened. Not from the candidates themselves but from those Republicans and Tea Partiers in the audience. Crowd response to questions from gay soldiers, about an uninsured man dying, and about the death penalty received surprising and very disappointing responses. No candidates challenged this behavior. Do they care? Does the GOP care.

Read more here: http://aareports.com/2011/09/gop-is-becoming-intolerant-uncaring-let.html

 

Supreme Court rejects appeal from Troy Davis: Georgia death row inmate

29 Mar

Supreme Court rejects appeal from Troy Davis: Georgia death row inmate

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a condemned Georgia inmate’s request that his execution be delayed as he attempts to prove his “actual innocence

Read more:
http://aareports.com/2011/03/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-from-troy.html