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Georgia Death Penalty Assessment Report, American Bar Association, January 30, 2006. Excerpt: Over the course of the past thirty years, the American Bar Association (ABA) has become increasingly concerned that there is a crisis in our country's death penalty system...
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The European Court of Human Rights based in Strasbourg, France, has awarded a landmark compensation payment of 250,000 euros ($300,000) to Alexei Mikheyev, a 29 year old Russian citizen virtually crippled from the waist down as...
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The American Bar Association has recommended a moratorium on the Georgia death penalty after an ABA panel study identified numerous flaws in the state criminal justice system that it claimed greatly compromised the fair administration...
