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    • Mont. Senate votes against death penalty

      Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

      Efforts to abolish the death penalty have failed in each of the past three legislative sessions. There are currently two prisoners on death row in Montana and the state has executed three people since the death penalty was reinstated in the 1970s. The most recent execution, of convicted murderer David Dawson, occurred just last year.

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    • Amnesty International Criticizes Sadaam's Execution and Unfair Trial

      Posted by Jeff from Rawstory

      We oppose the death penalty in all cases as a violation of the right to life and the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, but it is especially abhorrent when this most extreme penalty is imposed after an unfair trial," Malcolm Smart, director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa programme, said in a statement.

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    • Florida Halts Executions After Injection Problem

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      Separately, a federal judge in California imposed a moratorium on executions in the nation's most populous state, declaring that the state's method of lethal injection runs the risk of violating the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

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