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No Rational Explanation
Washington State flag The death penalty isn’t as popular out West as it is down South. For example, there hasn’t been an execution in Washington since 2001, and there have been only four total in the...
View ArticleWashington Execution Stayed
Two separate courts (a County Superior court and a Federal District court) have issued stays of execution for Darold Stenson, who was scheduled to be put to death by the state of Washington on December...
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Who Wants To Know?
Yesterday, the Seattle Times reported that Washington State’s execution team resigned, out of concern that their identities might be revealed during the course of a pending lawsuit over that state’s...
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(Trying Not to) Remember Tiananmen
© 1989 Hei Han Khiang It seems Chinese authorities were busy today. While people around the world commemorated the 20th anniversary of the pro-democracy demonstrations and ensuing massacre at Beijing’s...
View ArticleThe Great Experiment?
In a recent report to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the US touted its human rights record and argued that: The American experiment is a human experiment; the values on which it is based,...
View ArticleMontana Senate Votes to Abolish Death Penalty
By a 26-24 vote, the Montana Senate yesterday voted to repeal the death penalty. Twenty-two Democrats and 4 Republicans voted for the measure (SB 185), which now goes to the House. This is the...
View ArticleInvestigate War Crimes In Sri Lanka!
This week marks the second anniversary of the end of Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war, between government forces and the opposition Tamil Tigers. The Tigers were seeking an independent state for the...
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Using Border Agents as Translators Has Tragic Consequences
© Getty Images Guest post by Erica Schommer, border immigration attorney This May, in a police stop gone wrong, Benjamin Roldan Salinas and a companion were detained by the U.S. Forest Service for...
View ArticleRemembering 9/11
On September 11th, 2001, my wife and son were in Logan Airport waiting to board a flight to New York. I was almost 4,000 miles away working in Mostar, Bosnia. At the time I was a war crimes...
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