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2004 DEATH PENALTY ARTICLES SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORD Ofc of the State Courts Administrator 20040217 Court Services Supreme Court of Florida: Capital Case Dispositions Initial Appeals for the Period 1998 thru 2003 Appeals FL American Lawyer 20040100 Frankel, Alison Death-Defying Acts; many firms cite their capital case pro bono work. Arbitrariness CNN.com 20040127 Unknown Mobster ‘Rifleman’ to be sentenced Tuesday Arbitrariness Boston Herald 20040129 Leahy, William H. Justice isn’t served by executions Arbitrariness San Mateo Daily Journal 20040206 Kravets, David Death penalty varies by geography in California Arbitrariness CA Sacramento Bee 20040208 Cooper, Claire Can 2 be sentenced for the same crime? – The state high court reviews prosecutors’ incompatible cases Arbitrariness CA NYTIMES 20040213 Glaberson, William Unlikely Symbol in Death Penalty Debate Arbitrariness NY Kansas City Star 20040319 Lambe, Joe Serial Killer pleads guilty, avoids death penalty Arbitrariness MO State Journal-Register 20040322 Antonacci, Sarah The cost of execution – Capital Litigation Trust Fund helps defendants, but at a steep price for taxpayers Arbitrariness IL LATIMES 20040324 Cohen, Andrew Commentary: In the Courtroom of the Absurd Arbitrariness McVeigh & Nichols News Ledger 20040327 Unknown Families agree with decision to spare Cullen – Getting information from alleged killer outweighs revenge Arbitrariness NJ LATIMES 20040331 Weinstein, Henry Texas Study Challenges ‘Violent Behavior’ Predictions Arbitrariness TX ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040406 Unknown Lawyers: money matters in death penalty defense Arbitrariness PA ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040406 Unknown Psychiatrist testimony made the difference in two cases of mothers who killed children Arbitrariness TX Star-Ledger (NJ) 20040408 Schwanberg, Robert Marshall to receive new death penalty trial Arbitrariness NJ

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Page 1: 2004 DEATH PENALTY ARTICLES...Boston Herald 20040129 Leahy, William H. Justice isn’t served by executions Arbitrariness San Mateo Daily Journal 20040206 Kravets, David Death penalty

2004 DEATH PENALTY ARTICLES

SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDOfc of the State CourtsAdministrator

20040217 Court Services Supreme Court of Florida: CapitalCase Dispositions Initial Appealsfor the Period 1998 thru 2003

Appeals FL

American Lawyer 20040100 Frankel, Alison Death-Defying Acts; many firmscite their capital case pro bonowork.

Arbitrariness

CNN.com 20040127 Unknown Mobster ‘Rifleman’ to besentenced Tuesday

Arbitrariness

Boston Herald 20040129 Leahy, William H. Justice isn’t served by executions ArbitrarinessSan Mateo Daily Journal 20040206 Kravets, David Death penalty varies by

geography in CaliforniaArbitrariness CA

Sacramento Bee 20040208 Cooper, Claire Can 2 be sentenced for the samecrime? – The state high courtreviews prosecutors’ incompatiblecases

Arbitrariness CA

NYTIMES 20040213 Glaberson,William

Unlikely Symbol in Death PenaltyDebate

Arbitrariness NY

Kansas City Star 20040319 Lambe, Joe Serial Killer pleads guilty, avoidsdeath penalty

Arbitrariness MO

State Journal-Register 20040322 Antonacci, Sarah The cost of execution – CapitalLitigation Trust Fund helpsdefendants, but at a steep pricefor taxpayers

Arbitrariness IL

LATIMES 20040324 Cohen, Andrew Commentary: In the Courtroomof the Absurd

Arbitrariness McVeigh &Nichols

News Ledger 20040327 Unknown Families agree with decision tospare Cullen – Gettinginformation from alleged killeroutweighs revenge

Arbitrariness NJ

LATIMES 20040331 Weinstein, Henry Texas Study Challenges ‘ViolentBehavior’ Predictions

Arbitrariness TX

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040406 Unknown Lawyers: money matters in deathpenalty defense

Arbitrariness PA

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040406 Unknown Psychiatrist testimony made thedifference in two cases ofmothers who killed children

Arbitrariness TX

Star-Ledger (NJ) 20040408 Schwanberg,Robert

Marshall to receive new deathpenalty trial

Arbitrariness NJ

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDRobert penalty trial

Clarion Ledger 20040418 Gates, Jimmie Death penalty rarely sought inHinds – Expense, time, need forstrong evidence vital, districtattorney says

Arbitrariness MS

Express-Times 20040419 Carlson, Joe Deadly Decisions: Pa. Killing N.J.– More Murderers go to deathrow in Keystone State thanGarden State, Texas

Arbitrariness PA

The Star-Ledger 20040424 Coscarelli, Kateand Hepp, Rick

Nurse ready to strike deal inkillings – Cullen expected toplead guilty to murder, avoiddeath penalty

Arbitrariness NJ Cullen

San Francisco Chronicle 20040425 Mullen, Kevin Dealing with cop killers in S.F. –history shows only handful havebeen executed after trial

Arbitrariness CA

The Forum (Fargo, ND) 20040425 Zent, Jeff Death penalty advocate Ashcroftcould decide Rodriguez’s fate

Arbitrariness ND

NYTIMES 20040427 Kocieniewski,David

Plea Deal Near for Nurse in 30Deaths – Will Help Oversight andAvoid Execution

Arbitrariness NJ

NYTIMES 20040430 Kocieniewski,David

Former Nurse Pleads Guilty toKilling Hospital Patients

Arbitrariness NJ Cullen

Philadelphia Inquirer 20040525 Soteropoulos,Jacqueline

Legal group Flawless in CapitalCases

Arbitrariness PA

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040601 Unknown Prosecutor Weighs Odds, Pain,Costs

Arbitrariness WA

Austin AmericanStatesman

20040608 Kobil Perry’s Duty: Show Mercy to JoeLee Guy

Arbitrariness TX

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040611 Baskerville, Bill Virginia Death-Row Woman SaysSentence Unfair

Arbitrariness VA

NYTIMES 20040612 AP Hung Jury Spares Nichols A 2nd

Time From DeathArbitrariness OK

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040613 Nichols’ Lawyer: US Torn byExecution

Arbitrariness OK

Dallas Morning News 20040613 Unknown Several Jurors Opposed Executionof Nichols – 4 or 5 Would NotAgree to Sentence Him to Death

Arbitrariness OK

New York Times 20040614 Unknown Appealing in Death SentenceBased on Future Danger

Arbitrariness TX

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDReuters 20040614 Unknown No Title?: Anti-Death Activists

Buoyed by Nichols VerdictArbitrariness

NYTIMES 20040614 Davey, Monica After Second Nichols Trial,Frustration on Both Sides

Arbitrariness OK

Chicago Tribune 20040623 Witt, Howard Death Row Inmate WinsSympathy – Even Officials inTexas Say Justice Was NotServed

Arbitrariness TX

American Prospect 20040624 Rosenbloom,Joseph

The Unique Brutality of Texas:Why the Lone Star State Leadsthe Nation in Executions

Arbitrariness TX

WASHINGTON POST(Also: CBS, DallasMorning News, LATIMES,AZ Republic)

20040625 Lane, Charles Death Sentences Will Stand Arbitrariness AZ Ring

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040628 Attorney: Dismissal of ChargesRaises Doubts About Death RowInmate

Arbitrariness OH John Spirko

Mansfield News Journal 20040629 Dismissal Casts Doubt on DeathRow Case

Arbitrariness OH John Spirko

Mansfield News Journal 20040708 Editorial Arbitrariness NC John SpirkoWATE.com 20040712 AP State Study Suggests Uniform

Rules for Death Penalty CasesArbitrariness

NY Daily News 20040718 Krajicek, David Life on Death Row Arbitrariness FLWitchita Eagle 20040720 Editorial Justice Arbitrariness KS GarciaLubbock Online 20040721 Unknown Federal Judge Hears Arguments

on Reviewing Killer’s CompetencyArbitrariness TX

Dallas Morning News 20040724 Pusey, Allen Taking the Fifth to Task Arbitrariness TXAustin Chronicle 20040820 Unknown No Mercy – The Case of James

Allridge Raises Familiar QuestionsAbout the Texas Justice System

Arbitrariness TX

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040823 Unknown One-Time Death Row InmateReceives Parole Date

Arbitrariness ID

CNN.com 20040823 Unknown Office Shooter Avoids DeathPenalty with Guilty Plea

Arbitrariness OH

NW Indiana News 20040824 Robinson,Ruthann

Shotgun Killer Escapes DeathPenalty

Arbitrariness IN

Chicago Tribune 20040825 Coen, Jeff Killer Spared Death Penalty –Judge Orders Life Term in 3Slayings

Arbitrariness IL

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDAlbany (OR) Democrat-Herald

20040829 Editorial Time to Rethink the DeathPenalty

Arbitrariness

Asbury Park (NJ) Press 20040907 Unknown 47 NJ Death SentencesOverturned

Arbitrariness NJ

NY Daily News 20040926 Shipp, ER A Bad Show, Even for Albany Arbitrariness NYThe Oregonian 20040926 Unknown Killers’ Deals to Avoid Death

Penalty Put Oregon’s System onTrial

Arbitrariness OR

The Oregonian 20040926 Unknown Killers’ Deals to Avoid DeathPenalty Put Oregon’s System onTrial

Arbitrariness OR

Roanoke (VA) Times 20040928 Hammach,Laurence

Man Pleads No Contest to 4Murders

Arbitrariness VA

LATIMES 20040929 Schmitt, RichardB.

Ashcroft is Undeterred in Push forCapital Cases

Arbitrariness

San Francisco BayGuardian News

20040930 Thompson, AC Dead Man Talking – Did anAlameda County Judge andProsecutor Conspire to Rig aDeath Penalty Case?

Arbitrariness CA

CBS News 20040930 Unknown Professor With a Past ArbitrarinessBirmingham News 20041001 Crowder, Carla Mentally Ill Man Executed for

1998 KillingArbitrariness AL

NYTIMES 20041007 Liptak, Adam 7 Dissenters on US Court CannotStop an Execution

Arbitrariness

St. Louis Post Dispatch 20041009 O’Neil, Tim Pace of Executions Slows in State Arbitrariness KSCBS News.com 20041017 Unknown A Deal With the Devil? Arbitrariness TXThe Tennessean 20041018 Lewis, Dwight “Did He Kill Her?” Doubts, Denial

& a Death Penalty CaseArbitrariness TN

National Law Journal 20041018 Berry, Jahna Accusations of Bias AgainstJewish Jurors

Arbitrariness

NYTIMES 20041018 Glaberson,William

Making the Death Penalty aPersonal Thing

Arbitrariness NY

Houston Chronicle 20041027 Unknown Execution Ends Week of Pleas Arbitrariness TXNYTIMES 20041111 Unknown US to Seek Death Penalty for Mob

BossArbitrariness

Newslink Indiana 20041112 Unknown Attorneys May Drop DeathPenalty Request Because ofFinancial Problems

Arbitrariness IN

Houston Chronicle 20041114 Unknown Are Judges Taking a Narrow Viewof Justice? The Grand JurySelection Method Often SeatsJurors Who Have Ties to LawEnforcement

Arbitrariness TX

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDSelection Method Often SeatsJurors Who Have Ties to LawEnforcement

CSM 20041116 Antman, Kris Growing Introspection in DeathPenalty Capital

Arbitrariness TX

NYTIMES 20041116 Greenhouse,Linda

Supreme Court Rebukes TexasAgain Over a Death Sentence

Arbitrariness TX

WASHINGTON POST 20041118 Cohen, Richard Ashcroft’s Last Stand ArbitrarinessASSOCIATED PRESS 20041118 Unknown Killer Who Cited Metallica Song

Gets ReprieveArbitrariness TX

Star Ledger (NJ) 20041120 Editorial Rethink the Death Penalty ArbitrarinessWFIE 20041120 Unknown The High Price of Indiana’s Death

PenaltyArbitrariness IN

NYTIMES 20041120 Yardley, William Where Execution Feels Like Relic,Death Looms

Arbitrariness CT Ross

Star Ledger (NJ) 20041121 Kurtis, Bill Is It Time to Rethink the DeathPenalty?

Arbitrariness

NY Sun 20041123 Smith, Aaron Federal Prosecutors Take CareMaking Death Penalty aPossibility

Arbitrariness NY

News & Record (NC) 20041123 Collins, Eric Attorneys Seek to OverturnDeath Sentence

Arbitrariness NC

The Advocate 20041129 Unknown Louisiana Death PenaltyExamined – Review of CourtRecords Leads to Call forMoratorium

Arbitrariness LA

WASHINGTON POST 20041130 Levine, Susan Luring Pro Bono Lawyers ForDeath Row’s Forgotten

Arbitrariness ABA

Mn. Star-Tribune 20041203 Editorial DP: Not for Rodriguez or Anyone Arbitrariness MNNYTIMES 20041205 Liptak, Adam and

Blumenthal, RalphDeath Sentnces in Texas CasesTry Supreme Court’s Patience

Arbitrariness TX

Law.com 20041208 McKee, Mike Contradictory Theories DrawCalifornia Justice’s Scorn

Arbitrariness CA

Daily Review 20041208 Unknown Most Death Row Inmates Lived Arbitrariness CAPalm Beach Post 20041216 Editorial 5 murders, life term; so scrap

death penaltyArbitrariness FL

Houston Chronicle 20041217 Rice, Harvey Truck-death judge threatensprosecution over Ashcroft letter

Arbitrariness

LATIMES 20041217 Unknown Peterson case has lingeringquestion

Arbitrariness CA Peterson

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDNYTIMES 20041218 Liptak, Adam Kansas’ Death Penalty Law is

Declared UnconstitutionalArbitrariness KS

The Courier-Journal 20041221 Riley, Jason Jury wants Noble put to death –One victim’s family asked that helive

Arbitrariness KY

Excerpt 20041101 Wolff, Margaret In Sweet Company: ConversationWith Extraordinary Woman AboutLiving a Spiritual Life

Books

Kansas City Star 20041216 Barnhart, Aaron Kurtis puts death penalty on trial BooksASSOCIATED PRESS 20040114 Welsh-Huggins,

AndrewLewis Williams executed for 1983fatal robbery after struggle withguards

BotchedExecutions

OH

Chicago Tribune 20040111 Gregory, Ted andPossley, Maurice

Lives still broken long afterkillings – Decades before Gov.Ryan’s clemencies, a UnitedStates Supreme Court rulingemptied death row, altering thelives of inmates and victimsfamilies

Clemency IL Ryan

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040126 Unknown Death row inmates sentencechanged to life without parole

Clemency GA

AJC 20040126 Campos, Carlosand Rankin, Bill

Murderer’s sentence commuted Clemency

WASHINGTON POST 20040514 AP Mexican’s Oklahoma DeathSentence Commuted

Clemency OK Torres

Dallas Morning News 20040514 AP Okla. Governor Grants Clemencyto Mexican Convicted of 1993Murder

Clemency OK Torres

The Oklahoman 20040514 Greiner, John Henry Commutes Death Sentence Clemency OK TorresNYTIMES 20040514 Unknown Execution of Mexican is Halted Clemency OK TorresASSOCIATED PRESS 20040518 AP Texas Governor Weighs Death

Penalty Reprieve for Mentally IllInmate

Clemency TX

Austin AmericanStatesman

20040608 Kobil Perry’s Duty: Show Mercy to JoeLee Guy

Clemency TX

Slate.com 20040615 Berlow, Alan Lone Star Justice: AlbertoGonzales’ Strange Views ofInternational Law

Clemency TX

Austin Chronicle 20040820 Unknown No Mercy – The Case of JamesAllridge Raises Familiar QuestionsAbout the Texas Justice System

Clemency TX

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDAbout the Texas Justice System

WASHINGTON POST 20041121 Berlow, Alan The President’s Yes Man Clemency TX GonzalesNYTIMES 20041130 Blumenthal, Ralph Board Urges Delay in Execution

TodayClemency TX Newton

NYTIMES 20041202 Blumenthal, Ralph Condemned Woman GivenReprieve in Texas

Clemency TX Newton

NYTIMES 20041204 Yardley, William Governor Typically Cautious onDeath Debate

Clemency CT Ross

NYTIMES 20041207 Yardley, William Governor Denies Reprieve InRare Northeast Execution

Clemency CT Ross

CNN.com 20040702 AP Indiana Governor CommutesDeath Row Inmate’s Sentence

Commutation IN DarnellWilliams

Reuters 20040312 Franks, Jeff Texas Death Sentence forretarded Man Commuted

Commutations TX Smith

American Lawyer 20040100 Frankel, Alison Death-Defying Acts; many firmscite their capital case pro bonowork.

Costs Pro BonoLawyers

Albuquerque Journal 20040114 Sandlin, Scott Attorney in Death Penalty CaseMay Quit Over Pay

Costs NM

WASHINGTON POST 20040214 Jackman, Tom Snipers’ Defense Neared $2Million – Judge Rejected SomeBills in Malvo Case

Costs VA Malvo

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040221 Unknown Utah Governor to sign bill to endfiring squad

Costs UT

AJC 20040309 Brett, Jennifer DA may indict lawyer aftermurder mistrial

Costs GA

WASHINGTON POST 20040313 White, Josh, andJackman, Tom

Trying Snipers Cost Va. $3 Million Costs VA Muhammad

State Journal-Register 20040322 Antonacci, Sarah The cost of execution – CapitalLitigation Trust Fund helpsdefendants, but at a steep pricefor taxpayers

Costs IL

Marietta Times (OH) 20040331 Unknown Murder trial cost could reach $1M Costs OHIdaho Statesman 20040331 Unknown Cost of death penalty likely to

keep going upCosts ID

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040401 Unknown Life-without-parole bill sent toSebelius

Costs KS

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040406 Unknown Lawyers: money matters in deathpenalty defense

Costs PA

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

20040406 De la Cruz, Ralph Even if death penalty iswarranted, ca we afford it?

Costs FL

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDSentinel warranted, ca we afford it?Ocean County Observer 20040411 Editorial Death penalty in N.J. is a farce Costs NJSeattle Times 20040516 Armstrong, Ken Attorneys Press for Funds,

Oversight for Indigent ProgramsCosts WA

San Diego Union Tribune 20040531 Jones, Harry Death Penalty Cases on the Risein Country

Costs CA

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040601 Unknown Prosecutor Weighs Odds, Pain,Costs

Costs WA

The Recorder 20040709 Duman, Jill California Attorney General’sOffice Readies for Mass Cuts

Costs CA

WATE.com 20040712 AP State Study Suggests UniformRules for Death Penalty Cases

Costs

NYTIMES 20040727 Butterfield, Fox As Cities Struggle, Police Get ByWith Less

Costs OH

San Jose Mercury News 20040808 Opinion Opinion: To Save Money, End theDeath Penalty

Costs

Marion Chronicle-Tribune 20040914 Unknown County Shuffles Money for Trial Costs INNY Daily News 20040926 Shipp, ER A Bad Show, Even for Albany Costs NYDartmouth 20041001 Baicker, Katherine The Budgetary Repercussions of

Capital ConvictionCosts

NYC Bar Association 20041007 Unknown State of the Association of theBar of the City of New YorkRegarding New York’s DeathPenalty

Costs NY

Boston Herald 20041017 Unknown AG Death Penalty Push Add up toTrouble

Costs

The Oregonian 20041018 Ellis, Barnes Clearing the Air on Death PenaltyDefense Fees

Costs OR

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041100 Unknown Costs for Peterson Investigation,Trial May Top $2.5 Million

Costs CA

Newslink Indiana 20041112 Unknown Attorneys May Drop DeathPenalty Request Because ofFinancial Problems

Costs IN

WFIE 20041120 Unknown The High Price of Indiana’s DeathPenalty

Costs IN

Houston Chronicle 20041128 Unknown Cost of Legal Aid for Poor Mounts Costs TXWaterbury (CT)Republican – American

20041205 Unknown Is Death Too Costly? CostsDouble for Inmates on Death Row

Costs CT

NYTIMES 20041218 Murphy, Dean San Quentin Debate: Death Rowvs. Bay Views

Costs CA

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDChicago Tribune 20040315 Howard Witt Texas Grimly Efficient in

ExecutionsDeath RowConditions

TX

NYTIMES 20040309 Weber, Bruce A Poet’s Spirit Springs to Life onDeath Row

Death RowConditions

FL

Chicago Tribune 20040315 Witt, Howard Texas grimly efficient inexecutions – 321 convicts put todeath since ‘76

Death RowConditions

TX

Prison Legal News 20040400 Williams, Bob Mississippi Death Row ConditionsUnconstitutional; SweepingReforms Ordered

Death RowConditions

MS

Reuters 20040630 Reuters Activists Hail U.S. Court Ruling onFilthy Death Row

Death RowConditions

MS

LATIMES 20040804 Barry, Ellen Execution Plan Draws Pleas forKiller, Ailing and 74

Death RowConditions

AL

WASHINGTON POST 20041129 Carlson, Peter It’s All in the Execution Death RowConditions

TX

Daily Review 20041208 Unknown Most Death Row Inmates Lived Death RowConditions

CA

NYTIMES 20041218 Murphy, Dean San Quentin Debate: Death Rowvs. Bay Views

Death RowConditions

CA

Scientific American 20040201 Rosenfeld,Richard

The Case of the Unsolved CrimeDecline

Deterrence

Gallup Poll Briefing 20040316 Gallup Support for the Death Penalty:U.S., Britain, Canada

Deterrence

San Francisco Chronicle 20040425 Mullen, Kevin Dealing with cop killers in S.F. –history shows only handful havebeen executed after trial

Deterrence CA

Chicago Tribune 20040502 Editorial The summer killing season Deterrence ILNY Daily News 20040701 Gittrich, Greg City’s Murder Rate Continues

Long DeclineDeterrence NY

Journal of Empirical LegalStudies

20040720 Berk, Richard New Claimes About Executionsand General Deterrance: Déjà vuAll Over Again?

Deterrence

Reuters 20040825 Unknown Children Die Imitating Execution Deterrence BrutalizationAsbury Park (NJ) Press 20040911 Unknown Kelaher Has Agenda to Pursue Deterrence NJSkeptical InquirerMagazine

20041001 Goertzel, Ted Capital Punishment & Homicide –Sociological Realities &Econometric Illusions; DoesExecuting Murderers Cut theHomicide Rate or Not?

Deterrence

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDAbstract 20041001 Shepherd, Joanna Deterrence Versus Brutalizations:

Capital Punishment’s DifferingImpact Sway States

Deterrence

Chicago Sun-Times 20041202 Unknown Chicago Murder Total May BeLowest Since 1965

Deterrence IL

NYTIMES 20041014 Editorial DNA Evidence of Bipartisanship DNAChicago Tribune 20041129 McRoberts, Flynn Bite-mark verdict faces new

scrutinyDNA

NYTIMES 20041222 Novovitch,Barbara

Free After 17 Years for a RapeThat He Did Not Commit

DNA TX

Star Ledger (NJ) 20041120 Editorial Rethink the Death Penalty EditorialDenver Post 20041121 Editorial Death penalty Losing Its Grip EditorialMn. Star-Tribune 20041203 Editorial DP: Not for Rodriguez or Anyone Editorial MNAustin American-Statesman

20041208 Editorial Fixing Texas Courts Will Not BeEasy, But It’s a Matter of Justice

Editorial TX

USA TODAY 20040531 OpEd Let Death Penalty Die Editorials MAWASHINGTON POST 20040619 Editorial Steven Oken’s Death Editorials MD OkenWitchita Eagle 20040720 Editorial Justice Editorials KS Garcia(Myrtle Beach) Sun Times 20040731 Editorial It Hurts US to Execute Minors Editorials SimmonsSan Jose Mercury News 20040808 Opinion Opinion: To Save Money, End the

Death PenaltyEditorials

Albany Times Union 20040812 Editorial Justice is Being Served Editorials NYAustin-AmericanStatesman

20040826 Editorial Condemned Man Deserves aChance to Live

Editorials TX

Albany (OR) Democrat-Herald

20040829 Editorial Time to Rethink the DeathPenalty

Editorials

Austin American-Statesman

20041007 Editorial Death Row Cases From HarrisCounty Need Review

Editorials TX

San Antonio ExpressNews

20041009 Editorial Judiciary Should Delay HarrisExecution Dates

Editorials TX

Newsday 20041009 Editorial Don’t Revise Death Law Editorials NYNYTIMES 20041013 Editorial Juveniles and the Death Penalty Editorials SimmonsPalm Beach Post 20041216 Editorial 5 murders, life term; so scrap

death penaltyEditorials FL

The Day (CT) 20041219 Editorial End the Death Penalty – DeathSentences Should Not Be PublicPolicy

Editorials CT

Newsday 20040625 Henican, Ellis We Can’t Let Killers Decide to KillSelves

Editorials NY

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDWASHINGTON POST 20041122 Milloy, Courtland In Moot Court, Students Learn

With ConvictionEducationalCurriculum

The CAssociated PressitalTimes

20040114 Zweifel, Dave Students Argue Against DeathPenalty

EducationalCurriculum

WI

WASHINGTON POST 20040806 Roig-Franzia,Manuel

Alabama Executes 74-Year-OldMan

Executions AL Hubbard

NYTIMES 20040209 Murphy, Dean E. Protests Continue in California asExecution Nears

Executions 2004 CA Cooper

Kentucky Courier-Journal 20040404 Malone, James Kentucky fugitives seek havens –Some countries make extraditiondifficult

Extradition KY

Napa Valley Register 20041003 Dargan, Marsha Extradition Laws Keep Officialsfrom Bringing Murder Suspects toJustice

Extradition

KHOU News (TX) 20040422 Rogalski, Jeremy Death row inmate could soon befree

FalseConfessions

TX Max Soffar

Dallas Morning News 20040422 Pussey, Allen Death row inmate releasedpending new trial

FalseConfessions

TX Max Soffar

North Carolina LawReview v82 pg 891

20040427 Drizin, Steven andLeo, Richard

The Problem of False Confessionsin the Post-DNA World

FalseConfessions

DNA

LATIMES 20041030 Dolan, Maura &Evelyn Larrubia

Telling Police What They Want toHear Even if it’sf False

FalseConfessions

LATIMES 20041217 Unknown Peterson case has lingeringquestion

Family Murders CA Peterson

Boston Herald 20040129 Leahy, William H. Justice isn’t served by executions Federal DeathPenalty

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040130 Love, Norma Death penalty foes likely torenew repeal efforts

Federal DeathPenalty

NYTIMES 20040316 Blumenthal, Ralph Another Oklahoma City BombTrial, and Still Questions Remain

Federal DeathPenalty

OK McVeigh &Nichols

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040630 AP Federal Jury in South CarolinaMetes Out Death

Federal DeathPenalty

SC Fulks

NYTIMES 20040806 Preston, Julia Killers Get Life Sentence, inSetback for Justice Department

Federal DeathPenalty

Quinones

CNN.com 20040809 Unknown Terry Nichols Gets Life, No Parole Federal DeathPenalty

OK

Boston Globe 20040809 Unknown Conley Seeks End to Bid forDeath Penalty

Federal DeathPenalty

MA

Boston Herald 20040809 Unknown DA: Back Off Ashcroft: ConleyFights Feds Over Death Penalty

Federal DeathPenalty

MA

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDLATIMES 20040929 Schmitt, Richard

B.Ashcroft is Undeterred in Push forCapital Cases

Federal DeathPenalty

Boston Herald 20041017 Unknown AG Death Penalty Push Add up toTrouble

Federal DeathPenalty

Conference of CatholicBishops

20041022 Unknown Cardinal Opposes ExpandingDeath Penalty for Terrorists

Federal DeathPenalty

Boston Globe 20041101 Saltzman,Jonathan

New Juries Must Weigh Sentencein Capital Case

Federal DeathPenalty

NYTIMES 20041111 Unknown US to Seek Death Penalty for MobBoss

Federal DeathPenalty

NYTIMES 20041117 O’Donnell,Michelle & WilliamGlaberson

US Reverses, Won’t Seek DeathPenalty in L.I. Case

Federal DeathPenalty

WASHINGTON POST 20041118 Cohen, Richard Ashcroft’s Last Stand Federal DeathPenalty

NY Sun 20041123 Smith, Aaron Federal Prosecutors Take CareMaking Death Penalty aPossibility

Federal DeathPenalty

NY

National Law Journal 20041129 Hechler, David US Death Penalty in Wake ofAshcroft

Federal DeathPenalty

Mn. Star-Tribune 20041203 Editorial DP: Not for Rodriguez or Anyone Federal DeathPenalty

ND

St Louis Post Dispatch 20040205 Shinkle, Peter Court reduces killer’s deathsentence

Federal DP MO Ring

NYTIMES 20040207 Liptak, Adam Federal Judge Rules ChemicalsUsed in Executions are Humane

Federal DP

WASHINGTON POST 20040207 Markon, Jerry Prosecutors Assail Judge in LentzCase

Federal DP

WASHINGTON POST 20040207 Glod, Maria andWeil, Martin

Charges Dropped in Hiker’sSlayings – New Tests Hurt CaseAgainst Maryland Man

Federal DP MD

Boston Globe 20040209 Wolf, Mark L. Judge Wolf’s Message toSampson

Federal DP MA Sampson

NYTIMES 20040213 Glaberson,William

Unlikely Symbol in Death PenaltyDebate

Federal DP NY

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040302 Unknown NY appeals court overturns rulingagainst death penalty statute

Federal DP Ring

LATIMES 20040324 Cohen, Andrew Commentary: In the Courtroomof the Absurd

Federal DP McVeigh &Nichols

NYTIMES 20040325 Glaberson,William

Gang Killing Verdict Is Tossed forLying Witnesses

Federal DP

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDWilliam Lying Witnesses

Roanoke Times 20040418 McCaffery, Jen Spurt of acquittals raisesconcerns – Is a more aggressivestrategy on the federal level toblame for the higher percentageof acquittals in capital cases?

Federal DP

The Forum (Fargo, ND) 20040425 Zent, Jeff Death penalty advocate Ashcroftcould decide Rodriguez’s fate

Federal DP ND

Baltimore Sun 20040429 Gibson, Gail Death penalty rejected in druggang murders – Baltimore juryurges life for pair in violent saga

Federal DP MD

NBC News 20041216 Unknown Federal judge sentences Indianabank robbers to death

Federal DP IN

Houston Chronicle 20041217 Rice, Harvey Truck-death judge threatensprosecution over Ashcroft letter

Federal DP

NYTIMES 20040116 Liptak, Adam Mexico Awaits Hague Ruling onCitizens on Death Row

Foreign Nationals OK Mexico

NYTIMES 20040116 Liptak, Adam Challenge to U.S. in CapitalCases: Mexico Awaits Ruling byHague on Its Citizens

Foreign Nationals OK Torres

San Diego Union-Tribune 20040301 AP Mexico protests execution datefor citizen despite World Courtstay

Foreign Nationals OK Torres

Reuters 20040302 Unknown Mexico’s Fox to Complain to BushAbout Execution

Foreign Nationals Mexico

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040331 Sterling, Toby Court: U.S. Violated Mexican’sRights

Foreign Nationals OK Mexico

International Court ofJustice

20040331 Press Release The Court finds that the UnitedStates of America has breachedits obligations to Mr. Avena and50 other Mexican nationals and toMexico under the ViennaConvention on Consular Relations

Foreign Nationals TX Mexico

NYTIMES 20040401 Simons, Marliseand Weiner, Tim

World Court Rules U.S. ShouldReview 51 Death Sentences

Foreign Nationals Mexico

LATIMES 20040402 Gorman, Anna,and Sciaudone,Christiana

Lockyer Studies Impact of DeathRow Ruling

Foreign Nationals CA Mexico

Tuscon Citizen 20040413 AP Bush wants to talk with Fox aboutMexicans on death row in U.S.

Foreign Nationals Mexico

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDNYTIMES 20040419 Editorial Foreigners on Death Row Foreign Nationals MexicoUS Newswire 20040507 De Icaza, Carlos Remarks to OK Pardon and Parole

Board re: Osbaldo TorresForeign Nationals OK Mexico

Chicago Tribune 20040513 Dellios, Hugh Mexico watching quest forclemency

Foreign Nationals OK Torres

Dallas Morning News 20040514 AP Okla. Governor Grants Clemencyto Mexican Convicted of 1993Murder

Foreign Nationals OK Torres

The Oklahoman 20040514 Greiner, John Henry Commutes Death Sentence Foreign Nationals OK TorresNYTIMES 20040514 Unknown Execution of Mexican is Halted Foreign Nationals OK TorresLegal Times 20041120 Unknown The World According to the

Supreme CourtForeign Nationals

Houston Chronicle 20041210 AP Court to Hear Texas DeathPenalty Case

Foreign Nationals TX Mexico

NYTIMES 20041211 Greenhouse,Linda

Supreme Court to hear Case OfMexican on Death Row

Foreign Nationals Mexico

Whichita Eagle 20041219 Unknown History of the Death Penalty inKansas

History KS

Lawrence Journal-World 20041225 Hanna, John Death Penalty Debate LikelyBroader Than Response to Court

History KS

RICHMOND TIMESDISPATCH

20040808 Green, Frank Virginia Has Sent 1,369 to Death History of DeathPenalty

VA

CBSNews.com 20040421 AP U.N. Group Seeks End toExecutions

Human Rights

NYTIMES 20041124 Newton, Michael Iraq’s New Court Finds Itself onTrial

Human Rights

Cincinnati Enquirer 20040907 Unknown UC Law Center Gets $1 Million –Institute Will Be Renamed Afterits Benefactors – the Rosenthals

Innocence

Chicago Tribune Passley, Maurice,Steve Mills &Flynn McRoberts

Forensics Under Microscope (all 5parts)

Innocence DNA

Chicago Tribune 20040104 Sullivan, ThomasP.

For Capital Punishment, MoreReforms Necessary

Innocence IL

Chicago Tribune 20040104 Sullivan, ThomasP.

For Capital Punishment, MoreReforms Necessary

Innocence IL

NYTIMES 20040111 William Glaberson Killer’s Lawyers Seek to RaiseStandard of Proof for DeathPenalty

Innocence NY

New Haven Advocate 20040115 Bass, Carole DNA & jailhouse Snitches –Connecticut drags its feet onenacting its own death-penaltyreforms

Innocence CT

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDConnecticut drags its feet onenacting its own death-penaltyreforms

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040120 Unknown Free at last, former death rowinmate mulls future

Innocence PA DNA; Yarris

MinneapolisStar Tribune 20040128 Unknown Pawlenty calls for referendum ondeath penalty

Innocence MN

Boston Globe 20040204 Mnookin, Jennifer A blow to the credibility offingerprint evidence

Innocence Fingerprints

NYTIMES 20040212 Branston, John Coroner Faces Indictment inConnection With Torture

Innocence TN Workman

News Observer (NC) 20040218 Neff, Joseph Gell Found Not Guilty Innocence NC GellNews Observer (NC) 20040219 Eisley, Matthew State bar Said To Be Examining

ProsecutorsInnocence NC Gell

MaximsNews.com

20040224 Morial, Marc H. Innocent of the Crime, ButAlmost Executed Anyway

Innocence NC Gell

News Observer 20040302 Neff, Joseph andEisley, Matthew

N.C.’s top prosecutor calls foropening files

Innocence NC Gell

Chicago Tribune 20040309 Zuckman, Jill Kerry would support deathpenalty only for terrorists

Innocence

Wilmington Star 20040314 AP Death-penalty convictionsdropping in N.C.

Innocence NC

NYTIMES 20040315 Davey, Monica Illinois Governor in the Middle ofNew Death Penalty Debate

Innocence IL

San Antonio Express-News

20040322 Editorial DNA lab problems put system indoubt

Innocence TX DNA

Chicago Tribune 20040325 Zorn, Eric 18 years later, justice poised tobe served

Innocence IL Gordon Steidl

NYTIMES 20040325 Glaberson,William

Gang Killing Verdict Is Tossed forLying Witnesses

Innocence Non Capital

Houston Chronicle 20040328 McVicker, Steve More DPS labs flawed – DNAtesting woes across statethreaten thousands of cases

Innocence TX

RICHMOND TIMESDISPATCH

20040331 Green, Frank Justice undone in 1982 killing –Victim’s husband blasts lack ofprogress after Washington’spardon

Innocence VA DNA

WASHINGTON POST 20040406 Glod, Maria DNA Tests Clear Ex-Va. Inmate,Lawyers Say

Innocence VA EarlWashington

WASHINGTON POST 20040406 Glod, Maria DNA Tests Clear Ex-Va. Inmate,Lawyers Say

innocence VA DNA

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDLawyers Say

WASHINGTON POST 20040406 Glod, Maria DNA Tests Clear Ex-Va. Inmate,Lawyers Say

Innocence VA EarlWashington

LATIMES 20040415 Weinstein, Henry La. Inmate on Death Row to GetNew Trial – Prosecutors, whoinitially refused to follow the leadof a DNA test, reverse decision

Innocence LA DNA

NYTIMES 20040416 Reckdahl, Katy Long After DNA Evidence, DeathRow Inmate Wins New Trial

Innocence LA DNA

Roanoke Times 20040418 McCaffery, Jen Spurt of acquittals raisesconcerns – Is a more aggressivestrategy on the federal level toblame for the higher percentageof acquittals in capital cases?

Innocence

NYTIMES 20040419 Liptak, Adam Study Suspects Thousands ofFalse Confessions

Innocence FalseConfessions

ABA eJournal 20040423 Hansen, Mark DNA Study Shows What MightHave Been – Crimes Could haveBeen Prevented With MoreSampling, DOJ Survey Says

Innocence DNA

North Carolina LawReview v82 pg 891

20040427 Drizin, Steven andLeo, Richard

The Problem of False Confessionsin the Post-DNA World

Innocence DNA

NYTIMES 20040503 Belluck, Pam Massachusetts Offers Plan forDeath Penalty

Innocence MA

Boston Globe 20040504 DAs rap governor’s death penaltyplan

Innocence MA

Boston Herald 20040505 Richardson, Franciand Mulvihill,Maggie

22 Bay State men wrongfullyjailed

Innocence MA Non Capital

Boston Herald 20040505 Richardson, Franciand Mulvihill,Maggie

22 Bay State men wrongfullyjailed

Innocence MA DNA

Cape Cod Times 20040506 DNA analysis not ‘infallible’ Innocence MA DNAHouston Chronicle 20040514 Roma, Khanna Governor Pardons Josiah Sutton Innocence TX Non CapitalHouston Chronicle 20040514 Roma, Khanna Governor Pardons Josiah Sutton Innocence TX DNACharlotte News &Observer

20040515 Eisley, Matthew Second Look at Innocence –North Carolina Plans the Nation’sFirst Review Process for Prisoners

Innocence

CNN.com 20040520 AP Man Sentenced to Death PenaltyReleased

Innocence MA

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDBoston Globe 20040521 Unknown Conviction Tossed, Prisoner is

Freed – was Incarcerated for 30Years; Prosecutor to WeighRetrial

Innocence Possible

Boston Globe 20040521 Unknown Conviction Tossed, Prisoner isFreed – was Incarcerated for 30Years; Prosecutor to WeighRetrial

Innocence Adams

Chicago Tribune 20040527 Mills, Steve State to Free 18th Person WhoWas on Death Row

Innocence Steidl

Slate.com 20040527 Faige, David Printing Problems: the InexactScience of Fingerprint Analysis

Innocence

Chicago Tribune 20040528 Mills, Steve Inmate to be Freed Still Suspect,State Says

Innocence IL Steidl

New York Times 20040528 AP Man Convicted in Killings to GoFree

Innocence IL Steidl

Arizona Republic 20040528 Unknown Former Pima County ProsecutorDisbarred for Eliciting FalseTestimony

Innocence AZ

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040529 Unknown Death Row Inmate Freed inIllinios

Innocence IL Steidl

USA TODAY 20040531 OpEd Let Death Penalty Die Innocence MAPhiladelphia CityPAssociated Presser

20040617 Lowenstein, Tom Snitch Work Innocence PA Possible

New Haven Register 20040621 Katz, Abram Eyewitness Accounts OftenInaccurate, Study Finds

Innocence

NYTIMES 20040621 Broder, John Starting Over, 24 Years After aWrongful Conviction

Innocence CA Non-Capital

Louisiana Times-Picayune 20040623 Filosa, Gwen Ex-Death Row Inmate Home onBond – He Awaits New Trial in1997 Murder Case

Innocence LA

American Prospect 20040624 Rosenbloom,Joseph

The Unique Brutality of Texas:Why the Lone Star State Leadsthe Nation in Executions

Innocence TX

The Slate 20040704 Unknown Questions of Innocence:Sometimes the Bad Guy Isn’t theOne Doing Time

Innocence SC

Times-Herald 20040706 Unknown The Reinhart Murders: 25 YearsLater

Innocence PA Jay Smith

Mansfield News Journal 20040708 Editorial Too Many Questions Innocence NC John Spirko

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDNYTIMES 20040719 Dewan, Shaila Georgia Capital Case Tests The

Reach of DNA AppealsInnocence GA DNA

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040804 AP Open Discovery, Meter BillsSigned by Easley

Innocence NC

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040809 Unknown DNA Evidence Frees LouisianaDeath Row Inmate

Innocence LA RyanMatthews

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040809 Unknown DNA Evidence Frees LouisianaDeath Row Inmate

Innocence LA DNA

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040809 AP Others Cleared After Being Sentto Death Row

Innocence LA

Times Picayune 20040810 Filosa, Gwen Ryan Matthews Exonerated inMurder

Innocence LA RyanMatthews

Times Picayune 20040810 Filosa, Gwen Ryan Matthews Exonerated inMurder

Innocence LA DNA

LA Times 20040810 Weinstein, Henry DNA Tests Finally Clear LouisianaMan of Murder (series in otherpapers, et al.)

Innocence LA

LA Times 20040810 Weinstein, Henry DNA Tests Finally Clear LouisianaMan of Murder (series in otherpapers, et al.)

Innocence LA

NYTIMES 20040826 Blumenthal, Ralph Lost Evidence is Found inHouston Chronicle

Innocence TX

Houston Chronicle 20040826 Khanna, Roma New Evidence Furor Hits HPD Innocence TXIL State Journal Register 20040829 Unknown From Death Row to Freedom:

Inmate N72890Innocence IL Steidl

Journal Register (IL) 20040829 Antonacci, Sarah From Death Row to Freedom (2pt Series)

Innocence IL Gordon Steidl

Ch. 5 News, Nashville 20040902 Unknown Judge Stops Workman Execution Innocence TN WorkmanASSOCIATED PRESS 20040905 Unknown 17-Year Death Row Inmate to Go

FreeInnocence TX

WASHINGTON POST 20040910 Fitzgerald, Mary Victims Push for DNA Bill on Hill –Crime Legislation Stalls in PanelAgain

Innocence

Seattle Post-Intelligencer 20040914 Unknown Legislators Say They’ll Take UpIssue in Coming Session

Innocence WA

NYTIMES 20040915 Liptak, Adam Fewer Death Sentences BeingImposed in US

Innocence

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040924 Unknown NC Prosecutors Reprimanded ForDeath Case

Innocence

RICHMOND TIMESDISPATCH

20041001 Green, Frank NO TITLE Innocence VA EarlWashington

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDDISPATCH WashingtonRICHMOND TIMESDISPATCH

20041001 Green, Frank NO TITLE Innocence VA DNA

WASHINGTON POST 20041002 Moreno, Sylvia Police Lab’s Troubles Grow Innocence TX DNANational Law Journal 20041004 Baldas, Tresa Exoneration as a Cottage

IndustryInnocence DNA

National Law Journal 20041004 Baldas, Tresa Exoneration as a CottageIndustry

Innocence Non-capital

San Antonio Express –News

20041005 Robbins, Marc DA Wants Death Row InmateFreed

Innocence

Houston Chronicle 20041005 Ratcliffe, RG &Roma Khanna

Governor Refuses to HaltExecutions Despite Turmoil atCrime Lab, Perry aide saysPresent Reviews Sufficient

Innocence TX

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041005 Unknown Death Row Inmate Being FreedAfter 17 Years

Innocence TX

Houston Chronicle 20041006 Gonzalez, John Death Row Inmate Cleared in ’86Fire

Innocence TX

Dallas Morning News 20041006 Michaels, Dave Man to be Released From DeathRow

Innocence TX

NYTIMES 20041007 Liptak, Adam 7 Dissenters on US Court CannotStop an Execution

Innocence

Austin American-Statesman

20041007 Editorial Death Row Cases From HarrisCounty Need Review

Innocence TX

LATIMES, et al 20041007 Gold, Scott, et al Collection: Ernest Willis Innocence TX WillisFt. Worth Star-Telegram 20041008 Unknown Justice Fuel’d Lawyer’s Tenacity Innocence TXKansas City Star 20041008 Shelly, Barbara Nixon Neglects Duty to Fairness Innocence MOSan Antonio ExpressNews

20041009 Editorial Judiciary Should Delay HarrisExecution Dates

Innocence TX

Dallas Morning News 20041010 Terrell, Charles Letter to the Editors: ExecutionHal Judicious

Innocence TX

USA TODAY 20041013 Armour,Stephanie

Wrongly convicted walk awaywith scars

Innocence Compensation

NYTIMES 20041014 Editorial DNA Evidence of Bipartisanship Innocence IPANYTIMES 20041015 AP Attorney Seeks to Fee Utah Man

on DNAInnocence UT DNA

Chicago Tribune 20041017 McRoberts, Flynn,Mills, Steve,Possley, maurice

Forensics Under the Microscope(5-part Series)

Innocence Studies

San Francisco Magazine 20041026 Martin, Nina Innocence Lost Innocence CA

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDSan Francisco Magazine 20041026 Martin, Nina Innocence Lost Innocence CA DNAHouston Chronicle 20041027 Unknown Execution Ends Week of Pleas Innocence TX DNADaily (IL) Herald 20041027 Unknown New Evidence Sparks Charges in

Gauger CaseInnocence IL Gary Gauger

LATIMES 20041030 Dolan, Maura &Evelyn Larrubia

Telling Police What They Want toHear Even if it’s False

Innocence

Texas Monthly 20041101 Shepard, Susan Court Reporter Innocence TX WillisTime Magazine 20041101 Unknown Ripple Effect: Where CSI Meets

Real Law & OrdersInnocence DNA

NYTIMES 20041105 AP Dead Inmate Exonerated in aMurder

Innocence MA Non Capital

NYTIMES 20041105 AP Dead Inmate Exonerated in aMurder

Innocence MA Peter Limone

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041110 Unknown GOP Joins With Democrats in Callfor Death Penalty Review

Innocence OH

Columbia Missourian 20041111 Unknown Former State Judge Speaks OutAgainst Death Penalty

Innocence MO

Orlando Sentinel 20041111 Unknown Death Sentences Decline Innocence FLHouston Chronicle 20041112 Unknown Support for the Death Penalty

Remains HighInnocence TX

Scripps Research Center 20041113 Unknown Death Penalty: Fall 2004 TexasPoll

Innocence TX

Scripps News Service 20041113 Unknown POLL: Texans Still Favor DeathPenalty

Innocence TX

NYTIMES 20041115 AP Justice Dept. Reports a 30-YearLow in Death Sentences andfewer Inmates on Death Row

Innocence

Daytona Beach News-Journal

20041117 Editorial Fatal Inequities - GrowingUnease with Death Penalty

Innocence FL

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041118 Unknown World’s Largest DNA Lab ReportsFraud

Innocence DNA

Dallas Morning News 20041120 Unknown Accused May Get More Aid, MuchCriticized State Court WantsClaims of Innocence Investigated

Innocence TX

Denver Post 20041121 Editorial Death penalty Losing Its Grip InnocenceStar Ledger (NJ) 20041121 Kurtis, Bill Is It Time to Rethink the Death

Penalty?Innocence

CSM 20041122 Unknown What’s Behind the Decline inDeath Sentences

Innocence

Houston Chronicle 20041123 Freemantle, Tony Court Rejects Bid to OverturnRuling

Innocence TX Max Soffar

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDRuling

News & Record (NC) 20041123 Collins, Eric Attorneys Seek to OverturnDeath Sentence

Innocence NC

Knight-Ridder TribuneNews

20041126 Unknown Death Sentences Plummet WhileLife Terms Climb

Innocence FL

Arizona Republic 20041127 Villa, Judy New DNA Tests Not Always Helpin Older Cases

Innocence AZ DNA

The Advocate 20041129 Unknown Louisiana Death PenaltyExamined – Review of CourtRecords Leads to Call forMoratorium

Innocence LA

NYTIMES 20041202 Blumenthal, Ralph Condemned Woman GivenReprieve in Texas

Innocence TX Newton

Houston Chronicle 20041203 Carey, Rich Mock Gone – Not Mockery Innocence TXChicago Tribune 20041209 Mills, Steve &

Maurice PassleyTexas Man Executed onDisproved Forensics

Innocence TX

NYTIMES 20041209 Dwyer, Jim Ronald Williamson, Freed FromDeath Row, Dies at 51

Innocence RonWilliamson

NYTIMES 20041212 AP Indian Chief Hanged in 1858 IsCleared

Innocence NativeAmericans

NYTIMES Magazine 20041212 Bazelon, Emily The Foolproof Death Penalty(Year in Ideas)

Innocence MA

Chicago Tribune 20041214 Possley, Mauriceand Mills, Steve

Expert discredits bite markevidence

Innocence IL Hill and Young

Kansas City Star 20041216 Barnhart, Aaron Kurtis puts death penalty on trial InnocenceKansas City Star 20041217 Milburn, John Kansas Supreme Court rules

death penalty unconstitutionalInnocence KS

Miami Herald 20041228 Jagger, Bianca Grant Ziegler an opportunity toprove his innocence

Innocence FL DNA

Winston-Salem Journal 20040207 Zerwick, Phoebeand Garber, Paul

Hunt Cleared – Law enforcementofficials say another man, alone,is guilty

Innocence – NonCapital

NC DNA

LATIMES 20040415 Weinstein, Henry La. Inmate on Death Row to GetNew Trial – Prosecutors, whoinitially refused to follow the leadof a DNA test, reverse decision

Innocence –Possible

LA RyanMatthews

San Antonio Express –News

20040727 Robbins, Maro 17 Years on Death Row, ManGets New Hope

Innocence –Possible

TX

Miami Herald 20040808 Unknown A Question of Justice Innocence(Executed)

FL James Adams

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDCQ Today 20041012 Unknown DNA Testing Legislation Ready for

President’s SignatureInnocenceProject Act

DNA

WASHINGTON POST 20041010 Dewar, Helen andMorgan, Dan

Senate Approves Bill On Victim’sRights

InnocenceProtection Act

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040629 AP Man Freed From Nevada DeathRow Awarded $5m

Innocence:Compensation

NV RobertoMiranda

RICHMOND TIMESDISPATCH

20040331 Green, Frank Justice undone in 1982 killing –Victim’s husband blasts lack ofprogress after Washington’spardon

Innocence: EarlWashington

VA

NYTIMES 20040104 Herbert, Bob Getting Away With… StealingYears From an Innocent Man

Innocence: NonCapital

NC

Houston Chronicle 20041221 McVicker, Steve In time for Christmas: FreedomAfter 16 Years

Innocence: NonCapital

TX DNA

NYTIMES 20041222 Novovitch,Barbara

Free After 17 Years for a RapeThat He Did Not Commit

Innocence: NonCapital

TX

NYTIMES 20041015 AP Attorney Seeks to Fee Utah Manon DNA

Innocence: Non-capital

UT

San Francisco Magazine 20041026 Martin, Nina Innocence Lost Innocence: Non-capital

CA

Houston Chronicle 20041027 Unknown Execution Ends Week of Pleas Innocence: Non-capital

TX

Chicago Tribune 20040326 Mills, Steve State won’t appeal retrial order –14th Death Row exoneration seen

Innocence:Possible

IL

KHOU News (TX) 20040422 Rogalski, Jeremy Death row inmate could soon befree

Innocence:Possible

TX Max Soffar

Dallas Morning News 20040422 Pussey, Allen Death row inmate releasedpending new trial

Innocence:Possible

TX Max Soffar

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040628 Attorney: Dismissal of ChargesRaises Doubts About Death RowInmate

Innocence:Possible

OH John Spirko

Mansfield News Journal 20040629 Dismissal Casts Doubt on DeathRow Case

Innocence:Possible

OH John Spirko

The Tennessean 20041018 Lewis, Dwight “Did He Kill Her?” Doubts, Denial& a Death Penalty Case

Innocence:Possible

TN

Arizona Republic 20041127 Villa, Judy New DNA Tests Not Always Helpin Older Cases

Innocence:Possible

AZ

Chicago Tribune 20041129 McRoberts, Flynn Bite-mark verdict faces newscrutiny

Innocence:Possible

NYTIMES 20040116 Liptak, Adam Mexico Awaits Hague Ruling onCitizens on Death Row

International OK Mexico

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDCitizens on Death Row

Amnesty Intl 20040129 Unknown Public Statement InternationalNYTIMES 20040229 Fisher, Ian Lebanon Resumes Capital

PunishmentInternational Lebanon

Reuters 20040302 Unknown Mexico’s Fox to Complain to BushAbout Execution

International Mexico

MSNBC.com 20040311 Curry, Tom A flap over foreign matter at theSupreme Court – house membersprotest use of non-U.S. rulings inbig cases

International

Gallup Poll Briefing 20040316 Gallup Support for the Death Penalty:U.S., Britain, Canada

International

Korea Times 20040323 Unknown 65 Percent of Koreans SupportDeath Penalty

International South Korea

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040331 Sterling, Toby Court: U.S. Violated Mexican’sRights

International TX Mexico

International Court ofJustice

20040331 Press Release The Court finds that the UnitedStates of America has breachedits obligations to Mr. Avena and50 other Mexican nationals and toMexico under the ViennaConvention on Consular Relations

International OK Mexico

LATIMES 20040402 Gorman, Anna,and Sciaudone,Christiana

Lockyer Studies Impact of DeathRow Ruling

International CA Mexico

Kentucky Courier-Journal 20040404 Malone, James Kentucky fugitives seek havens –Some countries make extraditiondifficult

International KY

Amnesty International 20040406 Press Release Death Penalty: Latest worldwidestatistics released

International Statistics

Tuscon Citizen 20040413 AP Bush wants to talk with Fox aboutMexicans on death row in U.S.

International Mexico

CBSNews.com 20040421 AP U.N. Group Seeks End toExecutions

International

US Newswire 20040507 De Icaza, Carlos Remarks to OK Pardon and ParoleBoard re: Osbaldo Torres

International OK Torres

Amnesty Intl 20040510 AI Moving Towards Abolition of theDeath Penalty

International Africa

Mail & Guardian 20040511 Unknown Africa makes progress inabolishing death penalty

International Africa

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDSlate.com 20040615 Berlow, Alan Lone Star Justice: Alberto

Gonzales’ Strange Views ofInternational Law

International TX

NYTIMES 20040619 Glaberson,William

Honoring Deal On Extradition,U.S. Won’t Seek Death Penalty

International Extradition

WASHINGTON POST 20040720 Cooperman, Alan High Court Asked to EndExecutions of Juveniles

International

NYTIMES 20040720 Stout, David Dozens of Nations Weigh In onDeath Penalty Case

International MO Simmons

Ft. Smith Times Record 20040815 Unknown Deal Gives Killer Life International ARReuters 20040825 Unknown Children Die Imitating Execution InternationalUSA TODAY 20041013 Carter, Jimmy U.S. should join the world in

halting juvenile executionsInternational Simmons

NYTIMES 20041020 Lacey, Marc Foes of Death Penalty MakingGradual Gains in Africa

International Africa

Turkishpress.com 20041026 Unknown Iranian Bill Aims to Scrap DeathPenalty for Minors

International

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041027 AP O’Connor Praises InternationalLaw

International

Legal Times 20041120 Unknown The World According to theSupreme Court

International

Houston Chronicle 20041210 AP Court to Hear Texas DeathPenalty Case

International TX Medellin

NYTIMES 20041211 Greenhouse,Linda

Supreme Court to hear Case OfMexican on Death Row

International

Australian ASSOCIATEDPRESS

20040116 Unknown Samoa to end the death penalty InternationalOpposition

Samoa

WASHINGTON POST 20040118 Pan, Philip P. Chinese Move to Relax SevereJudicial Penalties

InternationalOpposition

China

San Diego Union-Tribune 20040301 AP Mexico protests execution datefor citizen despite World Courtstay

InternationalOpposition

OK Mexico

Scotsman.com 20040523 Brady, Brian Death Penalty May Force U.K. Outof Saddam Trial

InternationalOpposition

Radio Free Europe 20040603 Blua, Antoine Tajikistan: Parliament FollowsRegional Trend by AdoptingMoratorium on Death Penalty

InternationalOpposition

Europe

Reuters 20040712 Chalmers, John &Marie-LouiseMoller

EW presses Against Iraq DeathPenalty

InternationalOpposition

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDNYTIMES 20041124 Newton, Michael Iraq’s New Court Finds Itself on

TrialInternationalOpposition

AI 20041210 Unknown Senegal Abolishes the DeathPenalty, Who’s Next?

InternationalOpposition

Africa

Boston Globe 20040209 Wolf, Mark L. Judge Wolf’s Message toSampson

Judges MA Sampson

Charlotte News &Observer

20040515 Eisley, Matthew Second Look at Innocence –North Carolina Plans the Nation’sFirst Review Process for Prisoners

Judges

Christian Science Monitor 20040624 High Court Declines to OverturnDeath Sentence

Judges AZ Ring

CBSNews.com 20040624 Court Rejects Death Row Appeals Judges AZ RingDallas Morning News 20040625 Unknown Supreme Court Reverses Case of

Death Row InmateJudges TX Ring

NYTIMES 20040625 Greenhouse,Linda

Justices, in 5-4 Vote, RaiseDoubts on Sentencing Rules

Judges Blakely

WASHINGTON POST(Also: CBS, DallasMorning News, LATIMES,AZ Republic)

20040625 Lane, Charles Death Sentences Will Stand Judges AZ Ring

Chicago Tribune 20040825 Coen, Jeff Killer Spared Death Penalty –Judge Orders Life Term in 3Slayings

Judges IL

San Francisco BayGuardian News

20040930 Thompson, AC Dead Man Talking – Did anAlameda County Judge andProsecutor Conspire to Rig aDeath Penalty Case?

Judges CA

NYTIMES 20041007 Liptak, Adam 7 Dissenters on US Court CannotStop an Execution

Judges

St. Louis Post Dispatch 20041009 O’Neil, Tim Pace of Executions Slows in State Judges KSNational Law Journal 20041018 Berry, Jahna Accusations of Bias Against

Jewish JurorsJudges

Houston Chronicle 20041026 Khanna, Roma Judge Reissues Call to HaltExecution

Judges TX

Texas Monthly 20041101 Shepard, Susan Court Reporter Judges TX WillisASSOCIATED PRESS 20041111 Unknown Former Supreme Court Justice

Argues for Clemency for ChandlerJudges NC

Columbia Missourian 20041111 Unknown Former State Judge Speaks OutAgainst Death Penalty

Judges MO

Austin AmericanStatesman

20041125 Baird, Charles, &William Sessions

It’s Past Time for Texans toPostpone Executions

Judges TX

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDStatesman William Sessions Postpone ExecutionsNYTIMES 20041205 Liptak, Adam and

Blumenthal, RalphDeath Sentnces in Texas CasesTry Supreme Court’s Patience

Judges TX

Sacramento Bee 20041215 Unknown State’s Chief Justice Sees SlowImprovement in Death PenaltySystem

Judges CA

News Journal (DE) 20040215 Unknown Court Overturns Death Sentence– Justices Say JuryRecommendations Must BeRespected Under Law

Juries DE Ring

WASHINGTON POST 20040321 Morin, Richard Bias in the Jury Box? JuriesASSOCIATED PRESS 20040406 Unknown Psychiatrist testimony made the

difference in two cases ofmothers who killed children

Juries TX

NYTIMES 20040612 AP Hung Jury Spares Nichols A 2nd

Time From DeathJuries OK

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040613 Nichols’ Lawyer: US Torn byExecution

Juries OK

Dallas Morning News 20040613 Unknown Several Jurors Opposed Executionof Nichols – 4 or 5 Would NotAgree to Sentence Him to Death

Juries OK

NYTIMES 20040614 Davey, Monica After Second Nichols Trial,Frustration on Both Sides

Juries OK

WASHINGTON POST 20040619 Jackman, Tom Death Penalty Deliberations ToreMalvo Jury Apart

Juries VA Malvo

Dallas Morning News 20040625 Unknown Supreme Court Reverses Case ofDeath Row Inmate

Juries TX Ring

Newsday 20040625 Henican, Ellis We Can’t Let Killers Decide to KillSelves

Juries NY

Newsday 20040625 Smith, Andrew &Metz, Andrew

Court: New York Death PenaltyUnconstitutional

Juries NY

NYTIMES 20040625 Greenhouse,Linda

Justices, in 5-4 Vote, RaiseDoubts on Sentencing Rules

Juries WA Blakely

NYTIMES (Series of 5Articles)

20040625 Glaberson,William, et al.

A 4-3 Ruling Effectively HaltsDeath Penalty in New York

Juries NY

WASHINGTON POST(Also: CBS, DallasMorning News, LATIMES,AZ Republic)

20040625 Lane, Charles Death Sentences Will Stand Juries AZ Ring

NYTIMES 20040811 Baker, Al Pataki Introduces Bill to RestoreDeath Penalty

Juries NY

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDDeath Penalty

Albany Times Union 20040811 Duggan, Eric Senate Bill Seeks to ReinstateState’s Death Penalty

Juries NY

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040811 AP Senate Adopts “Six” on DeathPenalty

Juries NY

Slate.com 20040812 Koerner, Brendan 11 Angry Men – Why Says JuriesHave to be Unanimous?

Juries

Arizona Republic 20041004 Kiefer, Michael Jury Spares Murder’s Life inRetrial

Juries Ring

San Antonio Express –News

20041005 Robbins, Marc DA Wants Death Row InmateFreed

Juries

National Law Journal 20041014 McAree, Dee Reaching Out to Juries Rocked byEvidence

Juries

National Law Journal 20041018 Berry, Jahna Accusations of Bias AgainstJewish Jurors

Juries

Boston Globe 20041101 Saltzman,Jonathan

New Juries Must Weigh Sentencein Capital Case

Juries

Houston Chronicle 20041114 Unknown Are Judges Taking a Narrow Viewof Justice? The Grand JurySelection Method Often SeatsJurors Who Have Ties to LawEnforcement

Juries TX

National Law Journal 20041122 Baldas, Tresa Limits Set On Arguments DuringTrial

Juries

NYTIMES 20041214 Murphy, Dean Jury Says Peterson Deserves toDie for Murder

Juries CA

AJC 20040126 Campos, Carlosand Rankin, Bill

Murderer’s sentence commuted Jurors

Mobile Register 20040518 AP Potential Juror’s Views on DeathPenalty Delay Trial

Jurors

Arizona Republic 20040829 Unknown Prosecutors: Crime Shows BlurReality – “CSI Effect” is RaisingJuries’ Proof Standards

Jurors

Bozeman Daily Chronicle 20040507 What’s next for Montana’s deathrow?

Jury MT Ring

NYTIMES 20040127 Greenhouse,Linda

Supreme Court to Review UsingExecution in Juvenile Cases

Juveniles

Denver Post 20040128 Editorial No death penalty for minors JuvenilesAmnesty Intl 20040129 Unknown Public Statement JuvenilesWASHINGTON POST 20040203 Editorial Still Cruel and Unusual Juveniles

Page 28: 2004 DEATH PENALTY ARTICLES...Boston Herald 20040129 Leahy, William H. Justice isn’t served by executions Arbitrariness San Mateo Daily Journal 20040206 Kravets, David Death penalty

SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDHouston Chronicle 20040229 Tolson, Mike High court to revisit age in

executions – Debate pits scientificdata against horror of crimes

Juveniles TX

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040304 Unknown Death Penalty Removed forChildren Under 18

Juveniles WY

Aberdeen News (SD) 20040304 Ducheneaux,Karen

Governor signs bill to barexecution of juveniles

Juveniles SD

Orlando Sentinel 20040308 Bell, Maya Juvenile offenders could avoidexecution – Florida may join anational trend and strike thedeath penalty in such cases

Juveniles FL

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

20040406 De la Cruz, Ralph Even if death penalty iswarranted, ca we afford it?

Juveniles FL

Miami Herald 20040407 Carter, Rosalynn No death penalty for juveniles Juveniles FLSouth Florida Sun-Sentinel

20040414 Mahlburg, Bob Death Penalty Bill Advances Juveniles FL

Tampa Tribune 20040415 Brosco, Jeffrey P. Florida Ought Not Execute YoungOffenders

Juveniles FL

ABA Juvenile JusticeCenter

20040419 Unknown Juvenile Editorial Coverage:Chronological List of Editorials RERoper v Simmons

Juveniles Simmons

Science News 20040508 Unknown Teen Brains on Trial – theScience of Neural DevelopmentTangles with the Juvenile DeathPenalty

Juveniles

Time Magazine 20040510 Wallis, Claudia,and Dell, Kristina

What makes Teens Tick Juveniles

WSJ 20040526 Davies, Paul Psychiatrists Question Death forTeen Killers

Juveniles

Louisiana Times-Picayune 20040623 Filosa, Gwen Ex-Death Row Inmate Home onBond – He Awaits New Trial in1997 Murder Case

Juveniles LA

Ft. Worth Star Telegram 20040625 Unknown Texas Court Rejects Death RowAppeal

Juveniles TX Barraza

NYTIMES 20040719 AP High Court Asked to End ChildExecutions

Juveniles

WASHINGTON POST 20040720 Cooperman, Alan High Court Asked to EndExecutions of Juveniles

Juveniles

NYTIMES 20040720 Stout, David Dozens of Nations Weigh In onDeath Penalty Case

Juveniles MO Simmons

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDScience Magazine 20040730 Beckman, Mary Crime, Culpability and the

Adolescent BrainJuveniles

(Myrtle Beach) Sun Times 20040731 Editorial It Hurts US to Execute Minors Juveniles SimmonsASSOCIATED PRESS 20040809 Unknown DNA Evidence Frees Louisiana

Death Row InmateJuveniles LA Ryan

MatthewsTimes Picayune 20040810 Filosa, Gwen Ryan Matthews Exonerated in

MurderJuveniles LA Ryan

MatthewsWASHINGTON POST 20040925 Jackman, Tom Malvo to Admit Guilt in Va. Cases Juveniles VAChicago Tribune 20041013 Editorial Executing Teenagers Juveniles SimmonsNYTIMES 20041013 Editorial Juveniles and the Death Penalty Juveniles SimmonsNYTIMES 20041013 Editorial Juveniles and the Death Penalty Juveniles SimmonsUSA TODAY 20041013 Carter, Jimmy U.S. should join the world in

halting juvenile executionsJuveniles Simmons

WSJ 20041015 Begley, Sharon Developing Problem: WhyDepression Looks Different in aKid’s Brain

Juveniles

NYTIMES Magazine 20041017 Raeburn, Paul Too Immature for the DeathPenalty?

Juveniles Simmons

Turkishpress.com 20041026 Unknown Iranian Bill Aims to Scrap DeathPenalty for Minors

Juveniles

CQ Researcher 20041105 Jost, Kenneth Sentencing Debates: Are thefederal guidelinesunconstitutional?

Juveniles

WASHINGTON POST 20041122 Milloy, Courtland In Moot Court, Students LearnWith Conviction

Juveniles

The Beaumont Enterprise 20040724 Unknown DA: “I Think This is the Beginningof the End of the Death Penalty

Law Enforcement TX

San Francisco Chronicle 20040108 Harris, Kamala Being Smart on Crime Law EnforcementViews

CA

Houston Chronicle 20040127 Unknown DA wants inmate off death row –now convinced killer is retarded

Law EnforcementViews

Cincinnati Post 20040128 Perry, Kimball Death Row Roster – Stereotypesaside, a death penalty inCincinnati is the exception

Law EnforcementViews

OH

News Observer 20040302 Neff, Joseph andEisley, Matthew

N.C.’s top prosecutor calls foropening files

Law EnforcementViews

NC Gell

Chicago Tribune 20040309 Zuckman, Jill Kerry would support deathpenalty only for terrorists

Law EnforcementViews

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

20040414 Mahlburg, Bob Death Penalty Bill Advances Law EnforcementViews

FL

Page 30: 2004 DEATH PENALTY ARTICLES...Boston Herald 20040129 Leahy, William H. Justice isn’t served by executions Arbitrariness San Mateo Daily Journal 20040206 Kravets, David Death penalty

SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDSan Francisco Chronicle 20040414 Dineen, J.K. Life Behind Bars – union backs

Harris’ decision not to seek thedeath penalty

Law EnforcementViews

CA

Daily Journal 20040421 Carrizosa, Philip Unseemly Politics of Death Law EnforcementViews

CA

San Francisco Chronicle 20040425 Mullen, Kevin Dealing with cop killers in S.F. –history shows only handful havebeen executed after trial

Law EnforcementViews

CA

Boston Globe 20040504 DAs rap governor’s death penaltyplan

Law EnforcementViews

MA

Houston Chronicle 20040506 McVicker, Steve Ex-prison spokesman’s job nowrests with defense

Law EnforcementViews

TX

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040611 Schneiner, Bruce Prosecutors Cites ReligiousBeliefs in Seeking Out of MurderCases

Law EnforcementViews

KY

NYTIMES 20040612 Murphy, Dean E. Killing of Officer Stirs DeathPenalty Debate

Law EnforcementViews

CA

Chicago Tribune 20040623 Witt, Howard Death Row Inmate WinsSympathy – Even Officials inTexas Say Justice Was NotServed

Law EnforcementViews

TX

Boston Globe 20040809 Unknown Conley Seeks End to Bid forDeath Penalty

Law EnforcementViews

MA

Boston Herald 20040809 Unknown DA: Back Off Ashcroft: ConleyFights Feds Over Death Penalty

Law EnforcementViews

MA

Asbury Park (NJ) Press 20040911 Unknown Kelaher Has Agenda to Pursue Law EnforcementViews

NJ

Houston Chronicle 20040930 Khanna, Roma Police Chief Calls for Halt ofExecutions Until EvidenceConfirmed

Law EnforcementViews

TX

Dallas Morning News 20041010 Terrell, Charles Letter to the Editors: ExecutionHal Judicious

Law EnforcementViews

TX

Houston Chronicle 20041027 Unknown Execution Ends Week of Pleas Law EnforcementViews

TX

Austin AmericanStatesman

20041125 Baird, Charles, &William Sessions

It’s Past Time for Texans toPostpone Executions

Law EnforcementViews

TX

Chicago Tribune 20040104 Sullivan, ThomasP.

For Capital Punishment, MoreReforms Necessary

Legislation IL

New Haven Advocate 20040115 Bass, Carole DNA & jailhouse Snitches –Connecticut drags its feet onenacting its own death-penaltyreforms

Legislation CT

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDenacting its own death-penaltyreforms

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040122 Unknown Moratorium on death penaltyurged

Legislation KS

Minneapolis Star Tribune 20040128 Unknown Pawlenty calls for referendum ondeath penalty

Legislation MN

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040130 Love, Norma Death penalty foes likely torenew repeal efforts

Legislation

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040221 Unknown Utah Governor to sign bill to endfiring squad

Legislation UT

Aberdeen News (SD) 20040304 Ducheneaux,Karen

Governor signs bill to barexecution of juveniles

Legislation SD

NYTIMES 20040315 Davey, Monica Illinois Governor in the Middle ofNew Death Penalty Debate

Legislation IL

Michigan Live 20040319 Putnam, Judy Lawmakers keep death penaltyoff the ballot

Legislation MI

Minneapolis Star Tribune 20040324 Unknown State Senate committee defeatsdeath penalty bill

Legislation MN

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

20040414 Mahlburg, Bob Death Penalty Bill Advances Legislation FL

ABA eJournal 20040423 Hansen, Mark DNA Study Shows What MightHave Been – Crimes Could haveBeen Prevented With MoreSampling, DOJ Survey Says

Legislation DNA

Denver Rocky MountainNews

20040502 Crowder, Carla State still treks own Death Rowpath – Legislators push billstaking critical look at executionprocess

Legislation AL

North Carolina Coalitionfor a Moratorium

20040517 Hurley, Marshall North Carolinians SupportTemporary Suspension ofExecutions by More Than Two toOne Margin

Legislation NC

USA TODAY 20040531 OpEd Let Death Penalty Die Legislation MANewsday 20040625 Henican, Ellis We Can’t Let Killers Decide to Kill

SelvesLegislation NY

Newsday 20040625 Smith, Andrew &Metz, Andrew

Court: New York Death PenaltyUnconstitutional

Legislation NY

Rochester Democrat &Chronicle

20040722 Unknown Rewriting of Death Penalty isDerailed – Some Legislators WaryAbout Ongoing Trials, OthersOppose Law

Legislation NY 2004

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDOppose Law

NYC Bar Association 20041007 Unknown State of the Association of theBar of the City of New YorkRegarding New York’s DeathPenalty

Legislation NY

Newsday 20041009 Editorial Don’t Revise Death Law Legislation NYCQ Today 20041012 Unknown DNA Testing Legislation Ready for

President’s SignatureLegislation

NYTIMES 20041014 Editorial DNA Evidence of Bipartisanship LegislationASSOCIATED PRESS 20041017 Unknown Bar Group Urges California Death

Penalty MoratoriumLegislation CA

NYTIMES 20041118 Baker, Al Lawmakers See Little Chance toFix Flaws in New York’s DeathPenalty Statute This Year

Legislation NY

Lawrence (KS) Journal –World

20041130 Rothschild, Scott Death Penalty Law Changes FaceDebate

Legislation KS

Star-Ledger (NJ) 20041207 Schwaneberg,Robert

Codez Supports Death PenaltyMoratorium During New Study

Legislation NJ

Kansas City Star 20041217 Milburn, John Kansas Supreme Court rulesdeath penalty unconstitutional

Legislation KS

Cincinnati Post 20040101 Staff County, state sending fewer toDeath Row

LWOP OH Sentencing

Chicago Tribune 20040102 Coen, Jeff Death penalty skips '03 - No onesentenced to die in Cook Countyfor first time since '77

LWOP IL Sentencing

Chicago Tribune 20040102 Coen, Jeff Death Penalty Skips ‘03 LWOP IL SentencingPR Newswire 20040107 Unknown More Than Two-Thirds of

Americans Continue to Supportthe Death Penalty, According toNew Harris Poll Results

LWOP

Chicago Tribune 20040111 Gregory, Ted andPossley, Maurice

Lives still broken long afterkillings – Decades before Gov.Ryan’s clemencies, a UnitedStates Supreme Court rulingemptied death row, altering thelives of inmates and victimsfamilies

LWOP IL

Press Enterprise (CA) 20040125 Kataoka, Mike Death row cases dive – 16 werecondemned last year, down from42 in 1999. Five are Inlandkillers

LWOP CA

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDkillers

Cincinnati Post 20040128 Perry, Kimball Death Row Roster – Stereotypesaside, a death penalty inCincinnati is the exception

LWOP OH

WASHINGTON POST 20040206 Levine, Susan A Shrinking Death Row – RulingsContribute to Maryland Decline,Reflecting US Trend

LWOP MD

Baltimore Sun 20040206 Sabar, Ariel Judge takes Baltimorean offdeath row

LWOP MD

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040301 Unknown Poll: Mich voters favor deathpenalty on 1st glance

LWOP MI

NYTIMES 20040309 Weber, Bruce A Poet’s Spirit Springs to Life onDeath Row

LWOP FL

Wilmington Star 20040314 AP Death-penalty convictionsdropping in N.C.

LWOP NC

Kansas City Star 20040319 Lambe, Joe Serial Killer pleads guilty, avoidsdeath penalty

LWOP MO

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040401 Unknown Life-without-parole bill sent toSebelius

LWOP KS

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040406 Unknown Death penalty frequently sought,rarely imposed in Franklin County

LWOP OH

Ocean County Observer 20040411 Editorial Death penalty in N.J. is a farce LWOP NJSan Francisco Chronicle 20040414 Dineen, J.K. Life Behind Bars – union backs

Harris’ decision not to seek thedeath penalty

LWOP CA

Clarion Ledger 20040418 Gates, Jimmie Death penalty rarely sought inHinds – Expense, time, need forstrong evidence vital, districtattorney says

LWOP MS

The Star-Ledger 20040424 Coscarelli, Kateand Hepp, Rick

Nurse ready to strike deal inkillings – Cullen expected toplead guilty to murder, avoiddeath penalty

LWOP PA Cullen

Baltimore Sun 20040429 Gibson, Gail Death penalty rejected in druggang murders – Baltimore juryurges life for pair in violent saga

LWOP MD

NYTIMES 20040430 Kocieniewski,David

Former Nurse Pleads Guilty toKilling Hospital Patients

LWOP NJ Cullen

Houston Chronicle 20040506 McVicker, Steve Ex-prison spokesman’s job nowrests with defense

LWOP TX

Page 34: 2004 DEATH PENALTY ARTICLES...Boston Herald 20040129 Leahy, William H. Justice isn’t served by executions Arbitrariness San Mateo Daily Journal 20040206 Kravets, David Death penalty

SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDRocky Mount Telegram 20040520 Eckard, J. Erik Debate About Death Sentences

Stirs EmotionsLWOP NC

Gallup 20040602 Public Divided Between DeathPenalty and Life ImprisonmentWithout Parole

LWOP

NYTIMES 20040612 AP Hung Jury Spares Nichols A 2nd

Time From DeathLWOP OK

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040613 Nichols’ Lawyer: US Torn byExecution

LWOP OK

Dallas Morning News 20040613 Unknown Several Jurors Opposed Executionof Nichols – 4 or 5 Would NotAgree to Sentence Him to Death

LWOP OK

NYTIMES 20040614 Davey, Monica After Second Nichols Trial,Frustration on Both Sides

LWOP OK

WASHINGTON POST 20040619 Jackman, Tom Death Penalty Deliberations ToreMalvo Jury Apart

LWOP VA Malvo

Christian Science Monitor 20040624 High Court Declines to OverturnDeath Sentence

LWOP AZ Ring

CBSNews.com 20040624 Court Rejects Death Row Appeals LWOP AZ RingNewsday 20040625 Henican, Ellis We Can’t Let Killers Decide to Kill

SelvesLWOP NY

Newsday 20040625 Smith, Andrew &Metz, Andrew

Court: New York Death PenaltyUnconstitutional

LWOP NY

NYTIMES (Series of 5Articles)

20040625 Glaberson,William, et al.

A 4-3 Ruling Effectively HaltsDeath Penalty in New York

LWOP NY

Rochester Democrat &Chronicle

20040722 Unknown Rewriting of Death Penalty isDerailed – Some Legislators WaryAbout Ongoing Trials, OthersOppose Law

LWOP NY

The Beaumont Enterprise 20040724 Unknown DA: “I Think This is the Beginningof the End of the Death Penalty

LWOP TX

NYTIMES 20040806 Preston, Julia Killers Get Life Sentence, inSetback for Justice Department

LWOP Quinones

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040808 Unknown Prosecutor Ends 3rd Death PenaltyBid for Killer of 2

LWOP MD

CNN.com 20040809 Unknown Terry Nichols Gets Life, No Parole LWOP OKASSOCIATED PRESS 20040811 AP Senate Adopts “Six” on Death

PenaltyLWOP NY

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040823 Unknown One-Time Death Row InmateReceives Parole Date

LWOP ID

Page 35: 2004 DEATH PENALTY ARTICLES...Boston Herald 20040129 Leahy, William H. Justice isn’t served by executions Arbitrariness San Mateo Daily Journal 20040206 Kravets, David Death penalty

SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDCNN.com 20040823 Unknown Office Shooter Avoids Death

Penalty with Guilty PleaLWOP OH

NW Indiana News 20040824 Robinson,Ruthann

Shotgun Killer Escapes DeathPenalty

LWOP IN

Chicago Tribune 20040825 Coen, Jeff Killer Spared Death Penalty –Judge Orders Life Term in 3Slayings

LWOP IL

Austin-AmericanStatesman

20040826 Editorial Condemned Man Deserves aChance to Live

LWOP TX

NYTIMES 20040914 Glaberson,William

Death Penalty is Not Option inSlaying of 2 Detectives

LWOP NY

Marion Chronicle-Tribune 20040914 Unknown County Shuffles Money for Trial LWOP INAlbany (NY) Times-Union 20040915 Duggan, Erin Silver Sinks New Death Penalty

BillLWOP

Newsday (NY) 20040921 Dillon, Kathy Avoid Death Sentences – GiveCop Killers Life Without Parole

LWOP NY

The Oregonian 20040926 Unknown Killers’ Deals to Avoid DeathPenalty Put Oregon’s System onTrial

LWOP OR

CBS News 20040930 Unknown Professor With a Past LWOPSan Francisco Examiner 20041006 Fletcher, Ethan Juries Hesitant on Death Penalty LWOP CACBS News.com 20041017 Unknown A Deal With the Devil? LWOP TXOrlando Sentinel 20041111 Unknown Death Sentences Decline LWOP FLHouston Chronicle 20041112 Unknown Support for the Death Penalty

Remains HighLWOP TX

Scripps Research Center 20041113 Unknown Death Penalty: Fall 2004 TexasPoll

LWOP TX

Scripps News Service 20041113 Unknown POLL: Texans Still Favor DeathPenalty

LWOP TX

News & Record (NC) 20041117 Unknown Death Penalty Drops LWOP NCNYTIMES 20041118 Baker, Al Lawmakers See Little Chance to

Fix Flaws in New York’s DeathPenalty Statute This Year

LWOP NY

Denver Post 20041121 Editorial Death penalty Losing Its Grip LWOPCSM 20041122 Unknown What’s Behind the Decline in

Death SentencesLWOP

Knight-Ridder TribuneNews

20041126 Unknown Death Sentences Plummet WhileLife Terms Climb

LWOP FL

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041211 Unknown Once a Leader, Missouri BackingOff Executions

LWOP MO

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDGallup 20041215 Unknown Americans and the Death Penalty LWOPPalm Beach Post 20041216 Editorial 5 murders, life term; so scrap

death penaltyLWOP FL

Center for Public Opinion& Democracy

20041218 Unknown Support for Death Penaltyremains high in U.S.

LWOP

CNN.com 20040809 Unknown Terry Nichols Gets Life, No Parole McVeigh-Nichols OKLATIMES 20040331 Weinstein, Henry Texas Study Challenges ‘Violent

Behavior’ PredictionsMedical Ethics TX

NYTIMES 20040610 Liptak, Adam Should Doctors Help WithExecutions? No Easy EthicalAnswer

Medical Ethics

NYTIMES 20041120 AP Governor’s Role in ExecutionRaises Medical Issue

Medical Ethics KY

LATIMES 20041208 Zitrin, Arthur Doctor, Reread Your Oath Medical Ethics KYCNN 20040106 Drew, Kevin Executed mentally ill inmate

heard voices until the endMental Illness AK Singleton

Capital Times 20040126 Zaleski, Rob Death penalty hits home Mental Illness TX PanettiUnknown 20040204 Blumenthal, Ralph Insanity Issue Lingers as Texas

Execution is SetMental Illness TX Panetti

Fort Wayne JournalGazette

20040229 Editorial Executing the Mentally Ill –Meaningless distinction leavesCorcoran on death role

Mental Illness IN

Tyler Morning Telegraph 20040328 Unknown Case could add fuel to insanitydebate

Mental Illness TX

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040406 Unknown Psychiatrist testimony made thedifference in two cases ofmothers who killed children

Mental Illness TX

Austin AmericanStatesman

20040510 Editorial Finding Justice for Mentally IllDefendants

Mental Illness

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040518 AP Texas Governor Weighs DeathPenalty Reprieve for Mentally IllInmate

Mental Illness TX

Lubbock Online 20040721 Unknown Federal Judge Hears Argumentson Reviewing Killer’s Competency

Mental Illness TX

Oklahoman 20040730 Unknown Court Overturns Death Sentence,Citing Attorney’s Incompetence

Mental Illness OK

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

20040929 Unknown High Court Wants IssuesAddresses in Death Row Case

Mental Illness AR

Ed West 20040929 West, Ed Press Conference RegardingExecution of Sammy Perkins

Mental Illness NC

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDEd West 20040929 West, Ed Sammy Perkins – NC Set to

Execute a Mentally Ill ManMental Illness NC

Birmingham News 20041001 Crowder, Carla Mentally Ill Man Executed for1998 Killing

Mental Illness AL

NYTIMES 20041018 Glaberson,William

Making the Death Penalty aPersonal Thing

Mental Illness NY

Cincinnati Enquirer 20041114 Unknown Some Choose Death Penalty –Chapman May Soon Join Ranks of“Volunteers”

Mental Illness KY

NYTIMES 20041120 Yardley, William Where Execution Feels Like Relic,Death Looms

Mental Illness CT Ross

Lawrence (KS) Journal –World

20041130 Rothschild, Scott Death Penalty Law Changes FaceDebate

Mental Illness KS

NYTIMES 20041210 Yardley, William Serial Killer Asks State To AllowHis Execution

Mental Illness CT Ross

The Courier-Journal 20041221 Riley, Jason Jury wants Noble put to death –One victim’s family asked that helive

Mental Illness KY

Houston Chronicle 20040127 Unknown DA wants inmate off death row –now convinced killer is retarded

MentalRetardation

Fort Wayne JournalGazette

20040229 Editorial Executing the Mentally Ill –Meaningless distinction leavesCorcoran on death role

MentalRetardation

IN

Reuters 20040312 Franks, Jeff Texas Death Sentence forretarded Man Commuted

MentalRetardation

TX Smith

NYTIMES 20040314 Liptak, Adam New Challenge for Courts: How toDefine Retardation

MentalRetardation

Atkins

Chicago Sun Times 20040720 Unknown Court Psychologist Quits AfterKiller’s IQ Questioned

MentalRetardation

IL

Dallas Morning News 20040730 AP Retarded Man is Taken Off Texas’Death Row

MentalRetardation

TX

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

20040929 Unknown High Court Wants IssuesAddresses in Death Row Case

MentalRetardation

AR

Ed West 20040929 West, Ed Press Conference RegardingExecution of Sammy Perkins

MentalRetardation

NC

Ed West 20040929 West, Ed Sammy Perkins – NC Set toExecute a Mentally Ill Man

MentalRetardation

NC

Napa Valley Register 20041003 Dargan, Marsha Extradition Laws Keep Officialsfrom Bringing Murder Suspects toJustice

MentalRetardation

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDASSOCIATED PRESS 20041110 Unknown Court Moves 2 Killers Off Death

RowMentalRetardation

TX

Lawrence (KS) Journal –World

20041130 Rothschild, Scott Death Penalty Law Changes FaceDebate

MentalRetardation

KS

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040114 Welsh-Huggins,Andrew

Lewis Williams executed for 1983fatal robbery after struggle withguards

Methods OH Cruelty

NYTIMES 20040207 Liptak, Adam Federal Judge Rules ChemicalsUsed in Executions are Humane

Methods LethalInjection

Philadelphia Inquirer 20040221 Moran, Robert,and Gurney,Kaitlin

NJ court suspends executions Methods NJ LethalInjection

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040221 Unknown Utah Governor to sign bill to endfiring squad

Methods UT Firing Squad

Birmingham News 20040322 Unknown What is ‘cruel and unusual’? –Murderer takes claim to highcourt

Methods AL LethalInjection

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040329 Holland, Gina Supreme Court Weighs ExecutionMethods

Methods AL LethalInjection

Chicago Tribune 20040525 Holland, Gina Court rules killer can fight deathby injection as cruel

Methods AL LethalInjection

NYTIMES 20040610 Liptak, Adam Should Doctors Help WithExecutions? No Easy EthicalAnswer

Methods LethalInjection

WASHINGTON POST 20040613 Levine, Susan Executions Carries Out To theLetter

Methods MD Oken

WASHINGTON POST 20041129 Carlson, Peter It’s All in the Execution Methods TXHouston Chronicle 20040930 Unknown Death Row Inmate Ruled

Competent to be ExecutedMI TX

Courier-Journal 20040621 Unknown Rules for Court-Martial: HowMilitary Trials Differ from CivilianTrials

Military

Fayetteville Observer 20040312 Cuningham,Henry

Bragg sniper’s death penaltyvoided

Military NC Kreutzer

Charleston Post andCourier

20040313 AP Army appeals court tosses deathsentence – Soldier convicted in1995 Fort Bragg attack

Military NC Kreutzer

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040122 Unknown Moratorium on death penaltyurged

Moratorium KS

Philadelphia Inquirer 20040221 Moran, Robert,and Gurney,Kaitlin

NJ court suspends executions Moratorium NJ

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDand Gurney,Kaitlin

Dallas Morning News 20040227 Editorial Time for a Pause: Banks decisionargues for moratorium

Moratorium TX Banks

NYTIMES 20040315 Davey, Monica Illinois Governor in the Middle ofNew Death Penalty Debate

Moratorium IL

CBSNews.com 20040421 AP U.N. Group Seeks End toExecutions

Moratorium

Radio Free Europe 20040603 Blua, Antoine Tajikistan: Parliament FollowsRegional Trend by AdoptingMoratorium on Death Penalty

Moratorium Europe

San Francisco Chronicle 20040108 Harris, Kamala Being Smart on Crime New Voices CA PoliticsSan Francisco Chronicle 20040108 Harris, Kamala Being Smart on Crime (Open

Forum)New Voices CA

San Francisco Chronicle 20040109 Van Derbeken,Jaxon

New D.A. Promises to be “Smarton Crime”

New Voices CA

NYTIMES 20040111 William Glaberson Killer’s Lawyers Seek to RaiseStandard of Proof for DeathPenalty

New Voices NY Juries

New Haven Advocate 20040115 Bass, Carole DNA & jailhouse Snitches –Connecticut drags its feet onenacting its own death-penaltyreforms

New Voices CT

RICHMOND TIMESDISPATCH

20040118 Green, Frank Death Penalty Divides Kaine,Kilgore

New Voices VA Politics

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040122 Unknown Moratorium on death penaltyurged

New Voices KS

Boston Herald 20040129 Leahy, William H. Justice isn’t served by executions New VoicesBaltimore Sun 20040206 Sabar, Ariel Judge takes Baltimorean off

death rowNew Voices MD

NYP 20040208 Shipp, E. R. Death Penalty’s Doomed New VoicesReuters 20040209 Unknown Theron Criticizes Death Penalty

After ‘Monster’New Voices Wuornos

Boston Globe 20040209 Wolf, Mark L. Judge Wolf’s Message toSampson

New Voices MA Sampson

MaximsNews.com

20040224 Morial, Marc H. Innocent of the Crime, ButAlmost Executed Anyway

New Voices NC Gell

Dallas Morning News 20040227 Editorial Time for a Pause: Banks decisionargues for moratorium

New Voices TX Banks

News Observer 20040302 Neff, Joseph andEisley, Matthew

N.C.’s top prosecutor calls foropening files

New Voices NC Gell

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDEisley, Matthew opening files

Orlando Sentinel 20040308 Bell, Maya Juvenile offenders could avoidexecution – Florida may join anational trend and strike thedeath penalty in such cases

New Voices FL

Michigan Live 20040319 Putnam, Judy Lawmakers keep death penaltyoff the ballot

New Voices MI

News Ledger 20040327 Unknown Families agree with decision tospare Cullen – Gettinginformation from alleged killeroutweighs revenge

New Voices NJ

LATIMES 20040404 Beiser, Vince The Ultimate Forgiveness New Voices MVFRFort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

20040406 De la Cruz, Ralph Even if death penalty iswarranted, ca we afford it?

New Voices FL

Miami Herald 20040407 Carter, Rosalynn No death penalty for juveniles New Voices FLOcean County Observer 20040411 Editorial Death penalty in N.J. is a farce New Voices NJSouth Florida Sun-Sentinel

20040414 Mahlburg, Bob Death Penalty Bill Advances New Voices FL

Daily Journal 20040421 Carrizosa, Philip Unseemly Politics of Death New Voices CANYADP 20040503 NY Religious

LeadersNew York Religious LeadersAgainst the Death PenaltyInterfaith Statement on CapitalPunishment

New Voices NY

Boston Globe 20040504 DAs rap governor’s death penaltyplan

New Voices MA

Baton Rouge Advocate 20040504 Ballard, Mark Indigent Defenders Problems CanLead to Overturned Cases

New Voices LA

CapeCod Times 20040506 DNA analysis not ‘infallible’ New Voices MACST 20040512 Pallasch, Abdon High Court Justice: U.S. would be

better off without the deathpenalty

New Voices

San Francisco Chronicle 20040519 Garofoli, Joe Bar Backs Harris’ Death PenaltyStand

New Voices CA

WSJ 20040526 Davies, Paul Psychiatrists Question Death forTeen Killers

New Voices

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040611 Schneiner, Bruce Prosecutors Cites ReligiousBeliefs in Seeking Out of MurderCases

New Voices KY

NYTIMES 20040612 Murphy, Dean E. Killing of Officer Stirs DeathPenalty Debate

New Voices CA

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDNorth Carolina Coalitionfor a Moratorium

20040629 NCCM Eight Former N.C. Supreme CourtJustices Call on the GeneralAssembly for an Immediate Voteon the Moratorium Bill

New Voices NC

NCCM 20040707 NCCM Group of Murder Victime FamilyMembers Calls for ImmediateMoratorium on Executions

New Voices NC

NY Law Journal 20040715 Caher, John Leaders Urged to go Slow inAmending Death Law

New Voices NY

NYTIMES 20040719 AP High Court Asked to End ChildExecutions

New Voices

Witchita Eagle 20040720 Editorial Justice New Voices KS GarciaThe Beaumont Enterprise 20040724 Unknown DA: “I Think This is the Beginning

of the End of the Death PenaltyNew Voices TX

The Nation 20040727 Unknown No Longer Pushing the DeathPenalty

New Voices

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040808 Unknown Prosecutor Ends 3rd Death PenaltyBid for Killer of 2

New Voices MD

Boston Globe 20040809 Unknown Conley Seeks End to Bid forDeath Penalty

New Voices MA

Boston Herald 20040809 Unknown DA: Back Off Ashcroft: ConleyFights Feds Over Death Penalty

New Voices MA

Denver Post 20040816 Gorski, Eric Hopefulls Sidestep Religion New Voices COAlbany (OR) Democrat-Herald

20040829 Editorial Time to Rethink the DeathPenalty

New Voices

Asbury Park (NJ) Press 20040911 Unknown Kelaher Has Agenda to Pursue New Voices NJAlbany (NY) Times-Union 20040915 Duggan, Erin Silver Sinks New Death Penalty

BillNew Voices

Tidings Online News 20040917 Zapor, Patricia Kerry, Bush at Near-OppositeExtremes on Death Penalty

New Voices

Houston Chronicle 20040930 Khanna, Roma Police Chief Calls for Halt ofExecutions Until EvidenceConfirmed

New Voices TX

National Law Journal 20041004 Baldas, Tresa Exoneration as a CottageIndustry

New Voices

Houston Chronicle 20041005 Ratcliffe, RG &Roma Khanna

Governor Refuses to HaltExecutions Despite Turmoil atCrime Lab, Perry aide saysPresent Reviews Sufficient

New Voices TX

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041006 Unknown Coors Opposes Death Penalty New Voices

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDNYC Bar Association 20041007 Unknown State of the Association of the

Bar of the City of New YorkRegarding New York’s DeathPenalty

New Voices NY

Dallas Morning News 20041010 Terrell, Charles Letter to the Editors: ExecutionHal Judicious

New Voices TX

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041017 Unknown Bar Group Urges California DeathPenalty Moratorium

New Voices CA

Houston Chronicle 20041026 Khanna, Roma Judge Reissues Call to HaltExecution

New Voices TX

Houston Chronicle 20041027 Unknown Execution Ends Week of Pleas New Voices TXASSOCIATED PRESS 20041111 Unknown Former Supreme Court Justice

Argues for Clemency for ChandlerNew Voices NC

Cincinnati Enquirer 20041111 Seigel, Jim Rep. Brinkman Seeks DeathPenalty Study

New Voices OH

Columbia Missourian 20041111 Unknown Former State Judge Speaks OutAgainst Death Penalty

New Voices MO

NYTIMES 20041118 Baker, Al Lawmakers See Little Chance toFix Flaws in New York’s DeathPenalty Statute This Year

New Voices NY

Star Ledger (NJ) 20041120 Editorial Rethink the Death Penalty New VoicesStar Ledger (NJ) 20041121 Kurtis, Bill Is It Time to Rethink the Death

Penalty?New Voices

Austin AmericanStatesman

20041125 Baird, Charles, &William Sessions

It’s Past Time for Texans toPostpone Executions

New Voices TX

Star-Ledger (NJ) 20041207 Schwaneberg,Robert

Codez Supports Death PenaltyMoratorium During New Study

New Voices NJ

NYTIMES 20041212 Cuomo, Andrew Don’t Revise the Death Penalty New Voices NYRochester Democrat &Chronicle

20041215 Unknown Lawmakers Rethinking DeathPenalty Law

New Voices NY

Palm Beach Post 20041216 Editorial 5 murders, life term; so scrapdeath penalty

New Voices FL

Kansas City Star 20041216 Barnhart, Aaron Kurtis puts death penalty on trial New VoicesNYTIMES 20041216 Santora, Marc Morgenthau and Others Speak

Out Against Death PenaltyNew Voices NY

The Day (CT) 20041219 Editorial End the Death Penalty – DeathSentences Should Not Be PublicPolicy

New Voices CT

NYTIMES 20040821 Glaberson,William

Across New York, a Death PenaltyStuck in Limbo

NY NY

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDAlbany (NY) Times-Union 20040915 Duggan, Erin Silver Sinks New Death Penalty

BillNY

CBS News.com 20040217 AP U.S. Prosecutor Sues Ashcroft PoliticalManipulation

MSNBC.com 20040311 Curry, Tom A flap over foreign matter at theSupreme Court – house membersprotest use of non-U.S. rulings inbig cases

PoliticalManipulation

NY Daily News 20040926 Shipp, ER A Bad Show, Even for Albany PoliticalManipulation

NY

LATIMES 20040929 Schmitt, RichardB.

Ashcroft is Undeterred in Push forCapital Cases

PoliticalManipulation

WASHINGTON POST 20041121 Berlow, Alan The President’s Yes Man PoliticalManipulation

TX Gonzales

WASHINGTON POST 20041227 Shear, Michael Death penalty a key strategy forKilgore

PoliticalManipulation

VA Kaine

The Nation 20040727 Unknown No Longer Pushing the DeathPenalty

PresidentialCandidate’sViews

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040113 Unknown Death penalty: Do you supportthe death penalty?

PresidentialCandidates

Chicago Tribune 20040309 Zuckman, Jill Kerry would support deathpenalty only for terrorists

PresidentialCandidates 2004

Tuscon Citizen 20040413 AP Bush wants to talk with Fox aboutMexicans on death row in U.S.

PresidentialCandidates 2004

Tidings Online News 20040917 Zapor, Patricia Kerry, Bush at Near-OppositeExtremes on Death Penalty

PresidentialCandidates’Views

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040123 Unknown Court Tosses Death Sentence,Cites Bias

ProceduralMisconduct

National Law Journal 20041129 Hechler, David US Death Penalty in Wake ofAshcroft

ProsecutorialDiscrestion

The Forum (Fargo, ND) 20040425 Zent, Jeff Death penalty advocate Ashcroftcould decide Rodriguez’s fate

ProsecutorialDiscretion

ND

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040601 Unknown Prosecutor Weighs Odds, Pain,Costs

ProsecutorialDiscretion

WA

NYTIMES 20040612 Murphy, Dean E. Killing of Officer Stirs DeathPenalty Debate

ProsecutorialDiscretion

CA

Chicago Tribune Passley, Maurice,Steve Mills &Flynn McRoberts

Forensics Under Microscope (all 5parts)

ProsecutorialMisconduct

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDFlynn McRoberts

Boston Globe 20040204 Mnookin, Jennifer A blow to the credibility offingerprint evidence

ProsecutorialMisconduct

Fingerprints

Sacramento Bee 20040208 Cooper, Claire Can 2 be sentenced for the samecrime? – The state high courtreviews prosecutors’ incompatiblecases

ProsecutorialMisconduct

CA

NYTIMES 20040211 Lichtblau, Eric Report Questions the Reliability ofan FBI Ballistics Test

ProsecutorialMisconduct

NYTIMES 20040212 Branston, John Coroner Faces Indictment inConnection With Torture

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TN Workman

CBS News.com 20040217 AP U.S. Prosecutor Sues Ashcroft ProsecutorialMisconduct

News Observer (NC) 20040218 Neff, Joseph Gell Found Not Guilty ProsecutorialMisconduct

NC Gell

News Observer (NC) 20040219 Eisley, Matthew State bar Said To Be ExaminingProsecutors

ProsecutorialMisconduct

NC Gell

NYTIMES 20040225 Greenhouse,Linda

Supreme Court Roundup –Justices Overturn Death Sentencein Texas

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX Banks

New Orleans Times-Picayune

20040227 Gill, James 5th Circuit keeps hitting thesnooze button

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX Miller-El

Dallas Morning News 20040227 Menzer, Katie andWarren, Holly

Court rejects jury bias claim –death row inmate allegedselection process tainted in 86case

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX Miller-El

Austin American-Statesman

20040229 Editorial Crooked prosecutors taint Texasjustice system

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX Banks

NYTIMES 20040321 Elliott, Andrea andWeiser, Benjamin

When Prosecutors Err, the PriceIs Steep, and It Is Paid Mostly byOthers

ProsecutorialMisconduct

NY

San Antonio Express-News

20040322 Editorial DNA lab problems put system indoubt

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX DNA

Chicago Tribune 20040325 Zorn, Eric 18 years later, justice poised tobe served

ProsecutorialMisconduct

IL Gordon Steidl

NYTIMES 20040325 Glaberson,William

Gang Killing Verdict Is Tossed forLying Witnesses

ProsecutorialMisconduct

Houston Chronicle 20040325 Unknown Court thwarts death sentenceover race issue

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

Houston Chronicle 20040328 McVicker, Steve More DPS labs flawed – DNAtesting woes across statethreaten thousands of cases

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDtesting woes across statethreaten thousands of cases

Misconduct

LATIMES 20040331 Weinstein, Henry Texas Study Challenges ‘ViolentBehavior’ Predictions

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

WASHINGTON POST 20040406 Glod, Maria DNA Tests Clear Ex-Va. Inmate,Lawyers Say

ProsecutorialMisconduct

VA

North Carolina LawReview v82 pg 891

20040427 Drizin, Steven andLeo, Richard

The Problem of False Confessionsin the Post-DNA World

ProsecutorialMisconduct

DNA

Boston Herald 20040505 Richardson, Franciand Mulvihill,Maggie

22 Bay State men wrongfullyjailed

ProsecutorialMisconduct

MA

CNN.com 20040520 AP Man Sentenced to Death PenaltyReleased

ProsecutorialMisconduct

MA

Boston Globe 20040521 Unknown Conviction Tossed, Prisoner isFreed – was Incarcerated for 30Years; Prosecutor to WeighRetrial

ProsecutorialMisconduct

Adams

Slate.com 20040527 Faige, David Printing Problems: the InexactScience of Fingerprint Analysis

ProsecutorialMisconduct

Arizona Republic 20040528 Unknown Former Pima County ProsecutorDisbarred for Eliciting FalseTestimony

ProsecutorialMisconduct

AZ

New York Times 20040614 Unknown Appealing in Death SentenceBased on Future Danger

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

Slate.com 20040615 Berlow, Alan Lone Star Justice: AlbertoGonzales’ Strange Views ofInternational Law

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

Times-Herald 20040706 Unknown The Reinhart Murders: 25 YearsLater

ProsecutorialMisconduct

PA Jay Smith

Chicago Sun Times 20040720 Unknown Court Psychologist Quits AfterKiller’s IQ Questioned

ProsecutorialMisconduct

IL

San Antonio Express –News

20040727 Robbins, Maro 17 Years on Death Row, ManGets New Hope

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

Dallas Morning News 20040728 AP Overturned Conviction CostsLight in Flimsy Case in WestTexas

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

NYTIMES 20040826 Blumenthal, Ralph Lost Evidence is Found inHouston Chronicle

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

Houston Chronicle 20040826 Khanna, Roma New Evidence Furor Hits HPD ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDASSOCIATED PRESS 20040905 Unknown 17-Year Death Row Inmate to Go

FreeProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

Knight-Ridder 20040909 Unknown LA Judge Overturns DeathSentence

ProsecutorialMisconduct

LA

Seattle Post-Intelligencer 20040914 Unknown Legislators Say They’ll Take UpIssue in Coming Session

ProsecutorialMisconduct

WA

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040924 Unknown NC Prosecutors Reprimanded ForDeath Case

ProsecutorialMisconduct

Houston Chronicle 20040930 Khanna, Roma Police Chief Calls for Halt ofExecutions Until EvidenceConfirmed

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

San Francisco BayGuardian News

20040930 Thompson, AC Dead Man Talking – Did anAlameda County Judge andProsecutor Conspire to Rig aDeath Penalty Case?

ProsecutorialMisconduct

CA

RICHMOND TIMESDISPATCH

20041001 Green, Frank NO TITLE ProsecutorialMisconduct

VA

WASHINGTON POST 20041002 Moreno, Sylvia Police Lab’s Troubles Grow ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX DNA

Houston Chronicle 20041005 Ratcliffe, RG &Roma Khanna

Governor Refuses to HaltExecutions Despite Turmoil atCrime Lab, Perry aide saysPresent Reviews Sufficient

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041005 Unknown Death Row Inmate Being FreedAfter 17 Years

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

Houston Chronicle 20041006 Gonzalez, John Death Row Inmate Cleared in ’86Fire

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

Dallas Morning News 20041006 Michaels, Dave Man to be Released From DeathRow

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

Austin American-Statesman

20041007 Editorial Death Row Cases From HarrisCounty Need Review

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

Kansas City Star 20041008 Shelly, Barbara Nixon Neglects Duty to Fairness ProsecutorialMisconduct

MO

Houston Chronicle 20041026 Khanna, Roma Judge Reissues Call to HaltExecution

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

Daily (IL) Herald 20041027 Unknown New Evidence Sparks Charges inGauger Case

ProsecutorialMisconduct

IL Gary Gauger

NYTIMES 20041105 AP Dead Inmate Exonerated in aMurder

ProsecutorialMisconduct

MA

CSM 20041116 Antman, Kris Growing Introspection in DeathPenalty Capital

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDPenalty Capital Misconduct

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041118 Unknown World’s Largest DNA Lab ReportsFraud

ProsecutorialMisconduct

WFIE 20041120 Unknown The High Price of Indiana’s DeathPenalty

ProsecutorialMisconduct

IN

National Law Journal 20041122 Baldas, Tresa Limits Set On Arguments DuringTrial

ProsecutorialMisconduct

Law.com 20041208 McKee, Mike Contradictory Theories DrawCalifornia Justice’s Scorn

ProsecutorialMisconduct

CA

Chicago Tribune 20041209 Mills, Steve &Maurice Passley

Texas Man Executed onDisproved Forensics

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

Chicago Tribune 20041214 Possley, Mauriceand Mills, Steve

Expert discredits bite markevidence

ProsecutorialMisconduct

IL Hill and Young

Houston Chronicle 20041221 McVicker, Steve In time for Christmas: FreedomAfter 16 Years

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX DNA

NYTIMES 20041222 Novovitch,Barbara

Free After 17 Years for a RapeThat He Did Not Commit

ProsecutorialMisconduct

TX

Gallup 20040602 Public Divided Between DeathPenalty and Life ImprisonmentWithout Parole

Public Opinion

PR Newswire 20040107 Unknown More Than Two-Thirds ofAmericans Continue to Supportthe Death Penalty, According toNew Harris Poll Results

Public Opinion

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040129 Unknown Minnesotans divided over deathpenalty

Public Opinion MN

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040301 Unknown Poll: Mich voters favor deathpenalty on 1st glance

Public Opinion MI

San Francisco Chronicle 20040305 Dubow, Josh Death penalty has wide supportin California

Public Opinion CA

Gallup Poll Briefing 20040316 Gallup Support for the Death Penalty:U.S., Britain, Canada

Public Opinion

Korea Times 20040323 Unknown 65 Percent of Koreans SupportDeath Penalty

Public Opinion South Korea

Casper Star-Tribune 20040325 Westreicher, Tara Split on life or death Public Opinion WYNorth Carolina Council ofChurches

20040501 Doble Research The Death Penalty in NorthCarolina – The Public Considersthe Option

Public Opinion NC

North Carolina Coalitionfor a Moratorium

20040517 Hurley, Marshall North Carolinians SupportTemporary Suspension ofExecutions by More Than Two toOne Margin

Public Opinion NC

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDExecutions by More Than Two toOne Margin

San Francisco Chronicle 20040519 Matier, Phillip &Ross, Andrew

DA’s Death Penalty No-go gets aThumbs-up in San Francisco Poll

Public Opinion

Gallup 20040602 Public Divided Between DeathPenalty and Life ImprisonmentWithout Parole

Public Opinion

Ayres McHenry &Associates

20040604 Unknown (The Death Penalty for Murder)[poll question]

Public Opinion

Otago Daily Times 20040715 Unknown 28% Want Death Penalty Public Opinion InternationalWASHINGTON POST 20041022 Paley, Amit Execution Set in Pr. George’s

casePublic Opinion MD

San Francisco Magazine 20041026 Martin, Nina Innocence Lost Public Opinion CAGallup Poll 20041109 Saad, Lydia U.S. Crime Problem Less

Troubling to Americans: Slightdeclines also seen in fear of beingvictimized by crime

Public Opinion

Houston Chronicle 20041112 Unknown Support for the Death PenaltyRemains High

Public Opinion TX

Scripps Research Center 20041113 Unknown Death Penalty: Fall 2004 TexasPoll

Public Opinion TX

Scripps News Service 20041113 Unknown POLL: Texans Still Favor DeathPenalty

Public Opinion TX

Gallup 20041116 Carroll, Joseph Who Supports the Death Penalty Public OpinionGallup 20041215 Unknown Americans and the Death Penalty Public Opinion NationalCenter for Public Opinion& Democracy

20041218 Unknown Support for Death Penaltyremains high in U.S.

Public Opinion National

NYTIMES 20040213 Glaberson,William

Unlikely Symbol in Death PenaltyDebate

Race NY

Miami Herald 20040220 Clark, Lesley Lawyer’s Racist Remarks BringNew Trial

Race FL Davis

MaximsNews.com

20040224 Morial, Marc H. Innocent of the Crime, ButAlmost Executed Anyway

Race NC Gell

Dallas Morning News 20040227 Menzer, Katie andWarren, Holly

Court rejects jury bias claim –death row inmate allegedselection process tainted in 86case

Race TX Miller-El

Houston Chronicle 20040228 Korosec, Thomas Death row inmate loses appealclaiming racism

Race TX Miller-El

WASHINGTON POST 20040321 Morin, Richard Bias in the Jury Box? Race

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDHouston Chronicle 20040325 Unknown Court thwarts death sentence

over race issueRace TX

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040407 Unknown Rehnquist: Taney Had“Admirable” Career

Race

Clarion Ledger 20040418 Gates, Jimmie Death penalty rarely sought inHinds – Expense, time, need forstrong evidence vital, districtattorney says

Race MS

Boston Globe 20041101 Saltzman,Jonathan

New Juries Must Weigh Sentencein Capital Case

Race

Houston Chronicle 20041114 Unknown Are Judges Taking a Narrow Viewof Justice? The Grand JurySelection Method Often SeatsJurors Who Have Ties to LawEnforcement

Race TX

Austin American-Statesman

20041208 Editorial Fixing Texas Courts Will Not BeEasy, But It’s a Matter of Justice

Race TX

Houston Chronicle 20041217 Rice, Harvey Truck-death judge threatensprosecution over Ashcroft letter

Race

LATIMES 20041217 Unknown Peterson case has lingeringquestion

Race CA Peterson

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040123 Unknown Court Tosses Death Sentence,Cites Bias

Racism

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040304 Unknown Death Penalty Removed forChildren Under 18

RecentLegislation

WY

Charlotte News &Observer

20040515 Eisley, Matthew Second Look at Innocence –North Carolina Plans the Nation’sFirst Review Process for Prisoners

RecentLegislation

NY Law Journal 20040715 Caher, John Leaders Urged to go Slow inAmending Death Law

RecentLegislation

NY 2004

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040804 AP Open Discovery, Meter BillsSigned by Easley

RecentLegislation

NC 2004

NYTIMES 20040811 Baker, Al Pataki Introduces Bill to RestoreDeath Penalty

RecentLegislation

NY

Albany Times Union 20040811 Duggan, Eric Senate Bill Seeks to ReinstateState’s Death Penalty

RecentLegislation

NY

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040811 AP Senate Adopts “Six” on DeathPenalty

RecentLegislation

NY

Albany Times Union 20040812 Editorial Justice is Being Served RecentLegislation

NY

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDCA State Senate 20040824 Sen. Burton Senate Resolution 44 – Relative

to Administration of JusticeRecentLegislation

CA

WASHINGTON POST 20040910 Fitzgerald, Mary Victims Push for DNA Bill on Hill –Crime Legislation Stalls in PanelAgain

RecentLegislation

NYTIMES 20040914 Glaberson,William

Death Penalty is Not Option inSlaying of 2 Detectives

RecentLegislation

NY

Albany (NY) Times-Union 20040915 Duggan, Erin Silver Sinks New Death PenaltyBill

RecentLegislation

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041110 Unknown GOP Joins With Democrats in Callfor Death Penalty Review

RecentLegislation

OH

NYTIMES 20041212 Cuomo, Andrew Don’t Revise the Death Penalty RecentLegislation

NY

NYTIMES Magazine 20041212 Bazelon, Emily The Foolproof Death Penalty(Year in Ideas)

RecentLegislation

MA

Rochester Democrat &Chronicle

20041215 Unknown Lawmakers Rethinking DeathPenalty Law

RecentLegislation

NY

NYTIMES 20041216 Santora, Marc Morgenthau and Others SpeakOut Against Death Penalty

RecentLegislation

NY

NYTIMES 20041218 Liptak, Adam Kansas’ Death Penalty Law isDeclared Unconstitutional

RecentLegislation

KS

WASHINGTON POST 20040426 Cooperman, Alan Catholics Question Abortion Focus– Some Want Church to AddressIssues Such as Death Penalty

Religious Views Catholics

NYADP 20040503 NY ReligiousLeaders

New York Religious LeadersAgainst the Death PenaltyInterfaith Statement on CapitalPunishment

Religious Views NY

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040611 Schneiner, Bruce Prosecutors Cites ReligiousBeliefs in Seeking Out of MurderCases

Religious Views KY

Baltimore Sun 20040614 Rabbi RobertNosanchok

Marylanders Must Not StandSilent as the State Takes a Life inOur Name

Religious Views Jewish

National CatholicReporter

20040702 Editorial Dissent and the Death Penalty –the Death Penalty is a Bad Ideafor a Host of Reasons

Religious Views Catholic

Denver Post 20040816 Gorski, Eric Hopefulls Sidestep Religion Religious Views COASSOCIATED PRESS 20041006 Unknown Coors Opposes Death Penalty Religious ViewsNational Law Journal 20041018 Berry, Jahna Accusations of Bias Against

Jewish JurorsReligious Views

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDJewish Jurors

Conference of CatholicBishops

20041022 Unknown Cardinal Opposes ExpandingDeath Penalty for Terrorists

Religious Views Catholic

Gallup 20041116 Carroll, Joseph Who Supports the Death Penalty Religious ViewsNational Law Journal 20041122 Baldas, Tresa Limits Set On Arguments During

TrialReligious Views

NJ Catholic Conference 20041210 Bolar, William F. Statement on the Death Penalty Religious Views NJ CatholicAmerican Lawyer 20040100 Frankel, Alison Death-Defying Acts; many firms

cite their capital case pro bonowork.

Representation Pro BonoLawyers

National Law Journal 20040105 Post, Leonard Adopted Nowhere: ABA deathpenalty guidelines languish –opponents point to cost assupporters argue for betterrepresentation

Representation ABAStandards

Albuquerque Journal 20040114 Sandlin, Scott Attorney in Death Penalty CaseMay Quit Over Pay

Representation NM Attorney Fees

NYTIMES 20040116 Lewis, Anthony The Justices Take On thePresident

Representation 9-11

Baltimore Sun 20040122 Hanes, Stephanie Death row inmate may get newhearing – Prosecutors agree torequest on sentencing

Representation

National Law Journal 20040209 Council, John, andMauro, Tony

Wiggins Gets Lower Courts’Notice

Representation

Miami Herald 20040220 Clark, Lesley Lawyer’s Racist Remarks BringNew Trial

Representation FL Davis

Houston Chronicle 20040228 Korosec, Thomas Death row inmate loses appealclaiming racism

Representation TX Miller-El

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040301 Unknown Supreme Court will hear deathpenalty case

Representation FL

AJC 20040309 Brett, Jennifer DA may indict lawyer aftermurder mistrial

Representation GA

Fayetteville Observer 20040312 Cuningham,Henry

Bragg sniper’s death penaltyvoided

Representation NC Kreutzer

Charleston Post andCourier

20040313 AP Army appeals court tosses deathsentence – Soldier convicted in1995 Fort Bragg attack

Representation NC Kreutzer

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040406 Unknown Lawyers: money matters in deathpenalty defense

Representation PA

Star-Ledger (NJ) 20040408 Schwanberg,Robert

Marshall to receive new deathpenalty trial

Representation NJ

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDRobert penalty trial

Denver Rocky MountainNews

20040502 Crowder, Carla State still treks own Death Rowpath – Legislators push billstaking critical look at executionprocess

Representation AL

Baton Rouge Advocate 20040504 Ballard, Mark Indigent Defenders Problems CanLead to Overturned Cases

Representation LA

Seattle Times 20040516 Armstrong, Ken Attorneys Press for Funds,Oversight for Indigent Programs

Representation WA

Philadelphia Inquirer 20040525 Soteropoulos,Jacqueline

Legal group Flawless in CapitalCases

Representation PA

Philadelphia Inquirer 20040606 Unknown Pennsylvania ImposesQualifications for Death PenaltyLawyers

Representation PA

Chicago Tribune 20040623 Witt, Howard Death Row Inmate WinsSympathy – Even Officials inTexas Say Justice Was NotServed

Representation TX

Oklahoman 20040730 Unknown Court Overturns Death Sentence,Citing Attorney’s Incompetence

Representation OK

Knight-Ridder 20040909 Unknown LA Judge Overturns DeathSentence

Representation LA

Houston Chronicle 20041123 Freemantle, Tony Court Rejects Bid to OverturnRuling

Representation TX

Houston Chronicle 20041128 Unknown Cost of Legal Aid for Poor Mounts Representation TXThe Advocate 20041129 Unknown Louisiana Death Penalty

Examined – Review of CourtRecords Leads to Call forMoratorium

Representation LA

WASHINGTON POST 20041130 Levine, Susan Luring Pro Bono Lawyers ForDeath Row’s Forgotten

Representation ABA

Houston Chronicle 20041203 Carey, Rich Mock Gone – Not Mockery Representation TXNYTIMES 20041214 Greenhouse,

LindaLawyer Backed in ConcedingClient’s Guilt

Representation FL Nixon

Sacramento Bee 20041215 Unknown State’s Chief Justice Sees SlowImprovement in Death PenaltySystem

Representation CA

NYTIMES 20041218 Murphy, Dean San Quentin Debate: Death Rowvs. Bay Views

Representation CA

WASHINGTON POST 20041227 Shear, Michael Death penalty a key strategy forKilgore

Representation VA Kaine

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDKilgore

North Carolina LawReview v82 pg 891

20040427 Drizin, Steven andLeo, Richard

The Problem of False Confessionsin the Post-DNA World

Resources DNA

New Haven Register 20040621 Katz, Abram Eyewitness Accounts OftenInaccurate, Study Finds

Resources

Journal of Empirical LegalStudies

20040720 Berk, Richard New Claimes About Executionsand General Deterrance: Déjà vuAll Over Again?

Resources

Abstract 20041001 Shepherd, Joanna Deterrence Versus Brutalizations:Capital Punishment’s DifferingImpact Sway States

Resources

Press Enterprise (CA) 20040125 Kataoka, Mike Death row cases dive – 16 werecondemned last year, down from42 in 1999. Five are Inlandkillers

Sentencing CA

WASHINGTON POST 20040206 Levine, Susan A Shrinking Death Row – RulingsContribute to Maryland Decline,Reflecting US Trend

Sentencing MD

San Mateo Daily Journal 20040206 Kravets, David Death penalty varies bygeography in California

Sentencing CA

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040406 Unknown Death penalty frequently sought,rarely imposed in Franklin County

Sentencing OH

Express-Times 20040419 Carlson, Joe Deadly Decisions: Pa. Killing N.J.– More Murderers go to deathrow in Keystone State thanGarden State, Texas

Sentencing NJ

Baltimore Sun 20040429 Gibson, Gail Death penalty rejected in druggang murders – Baltimore juryurges life for pair in violent saga

Sentencing MD

Denver Rocky MountainNews

20040502 Crowder, Carla State still treks own Death Rowpath – Legislators push billstaking critical look at executionprocess

Sentencing AL

Bozeman Daily Chronicle 20040507 What’s next for Montana’s deathrow?

Sentencing MT Ring

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040518 Grier, Holland Supreme Court Rejects DeathPenalty Appeal

Sentencing Ring

Rocky Mount Telegram 20040520 Eckard, J. Erik Debate About Death SentencesStirs Emotions

Sentencing NC

Rocky Mount Telegram 20040520 Eckard, J. Erik Debate About Death SentencesStirs Emotions

Sentencing NC

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDStirs Emotions

San Diego Union Tribune 20040531 Jones, Harry Death Penalty Cases on the Risein Country

Sentencing CA

Reuters 20040614 Unknown Anti-Death Activists Buoyed byNichols Verdict

Sentencing

WASHINGTON POST 20040619 Jackman, Tom Death Penalty Deliberations ToreMalvo Jury Apart

Sentencing VA Malvo

New York Times 20040624 Unknown NewYork Court Ruling Appears toInvalidate Death Sentence

Sentencing NY

Christian Science Monitor 20040624 High Court Declines to OverturnDeath Sentence

Sentencing AZ Ring

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040624 Unknown Questions & Answers About theRuling

Sentencing NY

CBSNews.com 20040624 Court Rejects Death Row Appeals Sentencing AZ RingAmerican Prospect 20040624 Rosenbloom,

JosephThe Unique Brutality of Texas:Why the Lone Star State Leadsthe Nation in Executions

Sentencing TX

New York Times 20040625 Baker, Al Legislature is Given Task ofCorrecting Law’s Flaws

Sentencing NY

New York Times 20040625 Glaberson,William

A 4-3 Ruling Effectively HaltsDeath Penalty in New York

Sentencing NY

NYTIMES 20040625 Greenhouse,Linda

Justices, in 5-4 Vote, RaiseDoubts on Sentencing Rules

Sentencing Blakely

NYTIMES (Series of 5Articles)

20040625 Glaberson,William, et al.

A 4-3 Ruling Effectively HaltsDeath Penalty in New York

Sentencing NY

WASHINGTON POST(Also: CBS, DallasMorning News, LATIMES,AZ Republic)

20040625 Lane, Charles Death Sentences Will Stand Sentencing AZ Ring

Asbury Park (NJ) Press 20040907 Unknown 47 NJ Death SentencesOverturned

Sentencing NJ

Knight-Ridder 20040909 Unknown LA Judge Overturns DeathSentence

Sentencing LA

NYTIMES 20040915 Liptak, Adam Fewer Death Sentences BeingImposed in US

Sentencing

Abstract 20041001 Shepherd, Joanna Deterrence Versus Brutalizations:Capital Punishment’s DifferingImpact Sway States

Sentencing

Arizona Republic 20041004 Kiefer, Michael Jury Spares Murder’s Life inRetrial

Sentencing Ring

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDRetrial

San Antonio Express –News

20041005 Robbins, Marc DA Wants Death Row InmateFreed

Sentencing

San Francisco Examiner 20041006 Fletcher, Ethan Juries Hesitant on Death Penalty Sentencing CACQ Researcher 20041105 Jost, Kenneth Sentencing Debates: Are the

federal guidelinesunconstitutional?

Sentencing

Orlando Sentinel 20041111 Unknown Death Sentences Decline Sentencing FLNYTIMES 20041115 AP Justice Dept. Reports a 30-Year

Low in Death Sentences andfewer Inmates on Death Row

Sentencing

News & Record (NC) 20041117 Unknown Death Penalty Drops Sentencing NCNYTIMES 20041117 O’Donnell,

Michelle & WilliamGlaberson

US Reverses, Won’t Seek DeathPenalty in L.I. Case

Sentencing

Daytona Beach News-Journal

20041117 Editorial Fatal Inequities - GrowingUnease with Death Penalty

Sentencing FL

Star Ledger (NJ) 20041120 Editorial Rethink the Death Penalty SentencingDenver Post 20041121 Editorial Death penalty Losing Its Grip SentencingChristian Science Monitor 20041122 Unknown What’s Behind the Decline in

Death SentencesSentencing

Knight-Ridder TribuneNews

20041126 Unknown Death Sentences Plummet WhileLife Terms Climb

Sentencing FL

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041211 Unknown Once a Leader, Missouri BackingOff Executions

Sentencing MO

NYTIMES 20041218 Liptak, Adam Kansas’ Death Penalty Law isDeclared Unconstitutional

Sentencing KS

Ft Worth Star Telegram 20041220 Graczyk, Michael Texas Still No. 1 in Executions in2004 But Death Sentences Abate

Sentencing TX

WASHINGTON POST 20040406 Jackman, Tom Inconsistency Merits Mistrial,Muhammad Attorneys Argue

Sniper Trial VA Muhammad /Malvo

WASHINGTON POST 20041001 Jackman, Tom Charges Dismissed AgainstMuhammad

Sniper Trial VA

WASHINGTON POST 20041001 Jackman, Tom Charges Dismissed AgainstMuhammad

Sniper Trial VA

Excerpt 20041101 Wolff, Margaret In Sweet Company: ConversationWith Extraordinary Woman AboutLiving a Spiritual Life

Sr. Helen Prejean

NYC Bar Association 20041007 Unknown State of the Association of theBar of the City of New YorkRegarding New York’s DeathPenalty

Statements NY

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDRegarding New York’s DeathPenalty

Scientific American 20040201 Rosenfeld,Richard

The Case of the Unsolved CrimeDecline

Statistics

Chicago Tribune 20040502 Editorial The summer killing season Statistics ILNY Daily News 20040701 Gittrich, Greg City’s Murder Rate Continues

Long DeclineStatistics NY

BJS 20041107 BJS U.S. Prison PopulationApproaches 1.5 Million

Statistics

NYTIMES 20041115 AP Justice Dept. Reports a 30-YearLow in Death Sentences andfewer Inmates on Death Row

Statistics

Chicago Sun-Times 20041202 Unknown Chicago Murder Total May BeLowest Since 1965

Statistics IL

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041214 Unknown Murder Total Drops 6% in FirstHalf of Year

Statistics

NYTIMES 20040503 Belluck, Pam Massachusetts Offers Plan forDeath Penalty

Studies MA

Journal of Empirical LegalStudies

20040720 New Claimes About Executionsand General Deterrance: Déjà vuAll Over Again?

Studies

CA State Senate 20040824 Sen. Burton Senate Resolution 44 – Relativeto Administration of Justice

Studies CA

Skeptical InquirerMagazine

20041001 Goertzel, Ted Capital Punishment & Homicide –Sociological Realities &Econometric Illusions; DoesExecuting Murderers Cut theHomicide Rate or Not?

Studies

Dartmouth 20041001 Baicker, Katherine The Budgetary Repercussions ofCapital Conviction

Studies

LATIMES 20041030 Dolan, Maura &Evelyn Larrubia

Telling Police What They Want toHear Even if it’s False

Studies

Dallas Morning News 20041120 Unknown Accused May Get More Aid, MuchCriticized State Court WantsClaims of Innocence Investigated

Studies TX

Star-Ledger (NJ) 20041207 Schwaneberg,Robert

Codez Supports Death PenaltyMoratorium During New Study

Studies NJ

Baltimore Sun 20040122 Hanes, Stephanie Death row inmate may get newhearing – Prosecutors agree torequest on sentencing

Supreme Court

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDNYTIMES 20040127 Greenhouse,

LindaSupreme Court to Review UsingExecution in Juvenile Cases

Supreme Court

WASHINGTON POST 20040203 Editorial Still Cruel and Unusual Supreme CourtNYTIMES 20040204 Mansnerus, Laura New Jersey Courts Raises State

Death Case BurdenSupreme Court NJ Ring

NJ Courier News 20040206 Mack, Lonnie Suspect no longer facing deathpenalty

Supreme Court NJ Ring

National Law Journal 20040209 Council, John, andMauro, Tony

Wiggins Gets Lower Courts’Notice

Supreme Court

News Journal (DE) 20040215 Unknown Court Overturns Death Sentence– Justices Say JuryRecommendations Must BeRespected Under Law

Supreme Court DE Ring

WASHINGTON POST 20040224 Unknown Supreme Court Lifts DeathSentences for Texas Inmate

Supreme Court TX Banks

NYTIMES 20040225 Greenhouse,Linda

Supreme Court Roundup –Justices Overturn Death Sentencein Texas

Supreme Court TX Banks

New Orleans Times-Picayune

20040227 Gill, James 5th Circuit keeps hitting thesnooze button

Supreme Court TX Miller-El

Dallas Morning News 20040227 Menzer, Katie andWarren, Holly

Court rejects jury bias claim –death row inmate allegedselection process tainted in 86case

Supreme Court TX Miller-El

Dallas Morning News 20040227 Editorial Time for a Pause: Banks decisionargues for moratorium

Supreme Court TX Banks

WASHINGTON POST 20040228 Editorial Lone Star Statement Supreme Court TX BanksHouston Chronicle 20040229 Tolson, Mike High court to revisit age in

executions – Debate pits scientificdata against horror of crimes

Supreme Court TX

Austin American-Statesman

20040229 Editorial Crooked prosecutors taint Texasjustice system

Supreme Court TX Banks

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040301 Unknown Supreme Court will hear deathpenalty case

Supreme Court FL

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040302 Unknown NY appeals court overturns rulingagainst death penalty statute

Supreme Court Ring

Aberdeen News (SD) 20040304 Ducheneaux,Karen

Governor signs bill to barexecution of juveniles

Supreme Court SD

NYTIMES 20040304 Greenhouse,Linda

Documents Reveal the Evolutionof a Justice

Supreme Court Blackmun

Page 58: 2004 DEATH PENALTY ARTICLES...Boston Herald 20040129 Leahy, William H. Justice isn’t served by executions Arbitrariness San Mateo Daily Journal 20040206 Kravets, David Death penalty

SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDOrlando Sentinel 20040308 Bell, Maya Juvenile offenders could avoid

execution – Florida may join anational trend and strike thedeath penalty in such cases

Supreme Court FL

MSNBC.com 20040311 Curry, Tom A flap over foreign matter at theSupreme Court – house membersprotest use of non-U.S. rulings inbig cases

Supreme Court

WASHINGTON POST 20040315 Von Drehle, David Death Penalty Divide FrustratedBlackmun

Supreme Court Blackmun

Birmingham News 20040322 Unknown What is ‘cruel and unusual’? –Murderer takes claim to highcourt

Supreme Court AL

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040329 Holland, Gina Supreme Court Weighs ExecutionMethods

Supreme Court AL

WASHINGTON POST 20040330 Lane, Charles Justices Weigh Challenge to Ala.Execution Method

Supreme Court AL

Idaho Statesman 20040331 Unknown Cost of death penalty likely tokeep going up

Supreme Court ID Ring

WASHINGTON POST 20040403 Gearan, Anne Foreign Rulings Not Relevant toHigh Court, Scalia Says

Supreme Court

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040407 Unknown Rehnquist: Taney Had“Admirable” Career

Supreme Court Rehnquist

Tampa Tribune 20040415 Brosco, Jeffrey P. Florida Ought Not Execute YoungOffenders

Supreme Court FL

ABA Juvenile JusticeCenter

20040419 Unknown Juvenile Editorial Coverage:Chronological List of Editorials RERoper v Simmons

Supreme Court Simmons

Miami Daily BusinessReview

20040429 Unknown Judge or Jury? Supreme Court FL Ring

NYTIMES 20040502 Liptak, Adam In Re Scalia the Outspoken v.Scalia the Reserved

Supreme Court Scalia

Bozeman Daily Chronicle 20040507 What’s next for Montana’s deathrow?

Supreme Court MT Ring

Science News 20040508 Unknown Teen Brains on Trial – theScience of Neural DevelopmentTangles with the Juvenile DeathPenalty

Supreme Court

Time Magazine 20040510 Wallis, Claudia,and Dell, Kristina

What makes Teens Tick Supreme Court

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDCST 20040512 Pallasch, Abdon High Court Justice: U.S. would be

better off without the deathpenalty

Supreme Court

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040513 AP Stevens Faults Death Penalty ButSays It’s Constitutional

Supreme Court Stevens

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040518 Grier, Holland Supreme Court Rejects DeathPenalty Appeal

Supreme Court Ring

Chicago Tribune 20040525 Holland, Gina Court rules killer can fight deathby injection as cruel

Supreme Court AL

WSJ 20040526 Davies, Paul Psychiatrists Question Death forTeen Killers

Supreme Court

CBSNews.com 20040624 Court Rejects Death Row Appeals Supreme Court AZ RingDallas Morning News 20040625 Unknown Supreme Court Reverses Case of

Death Row InmateSupreme Court TX Ring

Arizona Daily Star 20040625 Barrios, Joseph High court cuts off newsentencings for 86 on Arizonadeath row

Supreme Court AZ Summerlin

Arizona Daily Star 20040625 Barrios, Joseph High court cuts off newsentencings for 86 on Arizonadeath row

Supreme Court AZ Dieter

Christian Science Monitor 20040625 Richey, Warren High court declines to overturndeath sentences

Supreme Court AZ Summerlin

Christian Science Monitor 20040625 Richey, Warren High court declines to overturndeath sentences

Supreme Court AZ Dieter

KVOA Tucson 20040625 AP Supreme Court declines tooverturn death sentences

Supreme Court AZ Summerlin

KVOA Tucson 20040625 AP Supreme Court declines tooverturn death sentences

Supreme Court AZ Dieter

NYTIMES 20040625 AP Supreme Court Rejects DeathRow Appeals

Supreme Court AZ Summerlin

NYTIMES 20040625 AP Supreme Court Rejects DeathRow Appeals

Supreme Court AZ Dieter

NYTIMES 20040625 Greenhouse,Linda

Justices, in 5-4 Vote, RaiseDoubts on Sentencing Rules

Supreme Court Blakely

Reuters 20040625 Vicini, James Top Court Limits Reach of DeathPenalty Ruling

Supreme Court AZ Summerlin

Reuters 20040625 Vicini, James Top Court Limits Reach of DeathPenalty Ruling

Supreme Court AZ Dieter

Seattle Times 20040625 Henderson,Stephen

Supreme Court pares death-penalty appeals

Supreme Court AZ Summerlin

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDSeattle Times 20040625 Henderson,

StephenSupreme Court pares death-penalty appeals

Supreme Court AZ Dieter

WASHINGTON POST(Also: CBS, DallasMorning News, LATIMES,AZ Republic)

20040625 Lane, Charles Death Sentences Will Stand Supreme Court AZ Ring

WASHINGTON POST(Also: CBS, DallasMorning News, LATIMES,AZ Republic)

20040625 Lane, Charles Death Sentences Will Stand Supreme Court AZ Summerlin

WTOP.com 20040625 Gearan, Anne(AP)

Supreme Court Rejects DeathRow Appeals

Supreme Court AZ Summerlin

WTOP.com 20040625 Gearan, Anne(AP)

Supreme Court Rejects DeathRow Appeals

Supreme Court AZ Dieter

NYTIMES 20040719 AP High Court Asked to End ChildExecutions

Supreme Court

WASHINGTON POST 20040720 Cooperman, Alan High Court Asked to EndExecutions of Juveniles

Supreme Court

Dallas Morning News 20040720 Durnan, Kim Stays Linked to New AppealStrategies

Supreme Court TX

NYTIMES 20040720 Stout, David Dozens of Nations Weigh In onDeath Penalty Case

Supreme Court MO Simmons

Dallas Morning News 20040724 Pusey, Allen Taking the Fifth to Task Supreme Court TXScience Magazine 20040730 Beckman, Mary Crime, Culpability and the

Adolescent BrainSupreme Court

Arizona Republic 20041004 Kiefer, Michael Jury Spares Murder’s Life inRetrial

Supreme Court Ring

Chicago Tribune 20041013 Editorial Executing Teenagers Supreme Court SimmonsNYTIMES 20041013 Editorial Juveniles and the Death Penalty Supreme Court SimmonsUSA TODAY 20041013 Carter, Jimmy U.S. should join the world in

halting juvenile executionsSupreme Court Simmons

NYTIMES 20041014 Greenhouse,Linda

Justices Consider Executions ofYoung Killers

Supreme Court MO Simmons

NYTIMES Magazine 20041017 Raeburn, Paul Too Immature for the DeathPenalty?

Supreme Court Simmons

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041027 AP O’Connor Praises InternationalLaw

Supreme Court

CQ Researcher 20041105 Jost, Kenneth Sentencing Debates: Are thefederal guidelinesunconstitutional?

Supreme Court

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDNYTIMES 20041116 Greenhouse,

LindaSupreme Court Rebukes TexasAgain Over a Death Sentence

Supreme Court TX

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041118 Unknown Killer Who Cited Metallica SongGets Reprieve

Supreme Court TX

Legal Times 20041120 Unknown The World According to theSupreme Court

Supreme Court

NYTIMES 20041205 Liptak, Adam andBlumenthal, Ralph

Death Sentnces in Texas CasesTry Supreme Court’s Patience

Supreme Court TX

Austin American-Statesman

20041208 Editorial Fixing Texas Courts Will Not BeEasy, But It’s a Matter of Justice

Supreme Court TX

Houston Chronicle 20041210 AP Court to Hear Texas DeathPenalty Case

Supreme Court TX

NYTIMES 20041211 Greenhouse,Linda

Supreme Court to hear Case OfMexican on Death Row

Supreme Court

NYTIMES 20041214 Greenhouse,Linda

Lawyer Backed in ConcedingClient’s Guilt

Supreme Court FL Nixon

NYTIMES 20040116 Lewis, Anthony The Justices Take On thePresident

Terrorism 9-11

NYTIMES 20040116 Lewis, Anthony The Justices Take On thePresident

Terrorism 9-11

NYTIMES 20040629 Greenhouse,Linda

Justices Affirm Legal Rights of‘Enemy Combatant’ (IncludeBackground Material inaccompanying articles)

Terrorism Tribunals

CBS News.com 20040217 AP U.S. Prosecutor Sues Ashcroft Terrorism 9/11Herald Mail (MD) 20040930 Unknown USS Cole Dad’s Opinions Differ on

Death SentencesTerrorism

Conference of CatholicBishops

20041022 Unknown Cardinal Opposes ExpandingDeath Penalty for Terrorists

Terrorism

NY Daily News 20040718 Krajicek, David Life on Death Row Time on DeathRow

FL

Dallas Morning News 20040730 AP Retarded Man is Taken Off Texas’Death Row

Time on DeathRow

TX

LATIMES 20040804 Barry, Ellen Execution Plan Draws Pleas forKiller, Ailing and 74

Time on DeathRow

AL

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20041110 Unknown Court Moves 2 Killers Off DeathRow

Time on DeathRow

TX

WASHINGTON POST 20040806 Roig-Franzia,Manuel

Alabama Executes 74-Year-OldMan

Time on DR AL Hubbard

Prison Legal News 20041000 Taylor, G. Flint U.S. Torture: A Sordid History OfOfficial And Systematic Abuse

Torture

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDOfficial And Systematic Abuse

Ft. Worth Star-Telegram 20041008 Unknown Justice Fuel’d Lawyer’s Tenacity TX TXSan Antonio ExpressNews

20041009 Editorial Judiciary Should Delay HarrisExecution Dates

TX TX

LATIMES 20040404 Beiser, Vince The Ultimate Forgiveness Victim’s Families MVFRWASHINGTON POST 20040613 Schieber, Vicki

and SylvesterJustice Not Served Victim’s Families Against

Baltimore Sun 20040206 Sabar, Ariel Judge takes Baltimorean offdeath row

Victims MD

NJ Courier News 20040206 Mack, Lonnie Suspect no longer facing deathpenalty

Victims NJ

NYTIMES 20040316 Blumenthal, Ralph Another Oklahoma City BombTrial, and Still Questions Remain

Victims OK McVeigh &Nichols

News Ledger 20040327 Unknown Families agree with decision tospare Cullen – Gettinginformation from alleged killeroutweighs revenge

Victims NJ

The Star-Ledger 20040424 Coscarelli, Kateand Hepp, Rick

Nurse ready to strike deal inkillings – Cullen expected toplead guilty to murder, avoiddeath penalty

Victims NJ Cullen

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040808 Unknown Prosecutor Ends 3rd Death PenaltyBid for Killer of 2

Victims MD

Austin Chronicle 20040820 Unknown No Mercy – The Case of JamesAllridge Raises Familiar QuestionsAbout the Texas Justice System

Victims TX

WASHINGTON POST 20040910 Fitzgerald, Mary Victims Push for DNA Bill on Hill –Crime Legislation Stalls in PanelAgain

Victims

Newsday (NY) 20040921 Dillon, Kathy Avoid Death Sentences – GiveCop Killers Life Without Parole

Victims NY

Herald Mail (MD) 20040930 Unknown USS Cole Dad’s Opinions Differ onDeath Sentences

Victims

Houston Chronicle 20041027 Unknown Execution Ends Week of Pleas Victims TXThe Courier-Journal 20041221 Riley, Jason Jury wants Noble put to death –

One victim’s family asked that helive

Victims KY

Chicago Tribune 20040111 Gregory, Ted andPossley, Maurice

Lives still broken long afterkillings – Decades before Gov.Ryan’s clemencies, a UnitedStates Supreme Court rulingemptied death row, altering thelives of inmates and victimsfamilies

Victims Families IL

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SOURCE DATE AUTHOR TITLE CATEGORY ST KEYWORDStates Supreme Court rulingemptied death row, altering thelives of inmates and victimsfamilies

NCCM 20040707 NCCM Group of Murder Victime FamilyMembers Calls for ImmediateMoratorium on Executions

Victims Families NC

Houston Chronicle 20041020 Unknown Victim’s Family Pleads forInmate’s Life

Victims Families TX

San Francisco Chronicle 20040308 AP Nevada has high rate of“volunteer” executions

Volunteers NV

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

20040929 Unknown High Court Wants IssuesAddresses in Death Row Case

Volunteers AR

Birmingham News 20041001 Crowder, Carla Mentally Ill Man Executed for1998 Killing

Volunteers AL

Cincinnati Enquirer 20041114 Unknown Some Choose Death Penalty –Chapman May Soon Join Ranks of“Volunteers”

Volunteers KY

NYTIMES 20041120 Yardley, William Where Execution Feels Like Relic,Death Looms

Volunteers CT Ross

NYTIMES 20041207 Yardley, William Governor Denies Reprieve InRare Northeast Execution

Volunteers CT Ross

NYTIMES 20041210 Yardley, William Serial Killer Asks State To AllowHis Execution

Volunteers CT Ross

Reuters 20040209 Unknown Theron Criticizes Death PenaltyAfter ‘Monster’

Women Wuornos

ASSOCIATED PRESS 20040611 Baskerville, Bill Virginia Death-Row Woman SaysSentence Unfair

Women VA

NYTIMES 20041130 Blumenthal, Ralph Board Urges Delay in ExecutionToday

Women TX Newton

NYTIMES 20041202 Blumenthal, Ralph Condemned Woman GivenReprieve in Texas

Women TX Newton

Chicago Tribune 20041231 Mills, Steve Death sentences, executionsdecline

Year End 2004

Casper Star-Tribune 20040325 Westreicher, Tara Split on life or death Year End Report2003

WY