Tag Archives: Capital punishment

The Feds vs. The States: Supreme Court must decide Death Penalty Fight

Posted on June 6, 2012 by

Can the Feds order a state to execute a man?  This is the question that the Supreme Court may ultimately answer regarding Jason Pleau, arrested last year for killing a man during a robbery.  What appeared to be a routine … Continue reading →

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How To Get Your Client Put To Death: The Latest Legal Controversy

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

If there ever was an indication that the law is an ever changing tool with which we use to govern society, one need only look at the rulings in Death Penalty law.  For those of us who sharpened our legal … Continue reading →

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Victory! Lucasville Hunger Strikers Demands Are Conceded.

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

From various reports on the ground in Ohio, particularly Solidarity With The Lucasville Prisoners on Hunger Strike: The prison authorities have provided, in writing, a set of conditions that virtually meets the demands set out by Bomani Shakur in his … Continue reading →

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Ohio Prisoners to Begin Hunger Strike!

Posted on December 24, 2010 by

  Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Bomani Shakur (Keith LaMar), Jason Robb and Namir Mateen (James Were) will start a hunger strike on Monday Jan. 3 to protest their 23-hour a day lock down for nearly 18 years.  These four death-sentenced prisoners … Continue reading →

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