KATU 2 - Portland, Oregon A Deschutes County grand jury on Thursday indicted a Sisters high school studentin the The death penalty is not an option because Withrow was not 18 at the http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=66655
Boston.com / News / Nation / Court To Rule On Death Penalty Blecker said he favors the penalty, but only for those faced with the possibilityof a death sentence unless was only a 17year-old high school student in 1993 http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/27/court_to_rule_on_death_pen
Extractions: Today's Globe Politics Opinion Education ... Nation By Lyle Denniston, Globe Correspondent, 1/27/2004 WASHINGTON The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to rule on the constitutionality of executing inmates who committed murders as minors, taking a Missouri case that could lead to the next step in narrowing capital punishment across the nation. ADVERTISEMENT In a brief order, the justices took on the often-debated social question of whether a 16- or 17-year-old is too young to be subjected to the death penalty. At issue is whether such executions are "cruel and unusual punishment" under the Constitution's Eighth Amendment. The court granted review 19 months after striking down the death penalty for the mentally retarded, based on "currently prevailing standards of decency" the kind of standards it is likely to apply to minors. Robert Blecker, a law professor at New York Law School who writes frequently on capital punishment, said the issue now before the court "fits into the long-range history of progressively limiting the death penalty" but at the same time reflects "a deeper and more general trend of taking the death penalty more seriously." Thus, he predicted that a decision against executing all youth murderers the outcome he expects would "embolden the abolitionists" and at the same time "may well make the death penalty more palatable, by making it more clearly focused on the worst of the worst."
As New Lawyers, They'll Challenge Death Penalty The pair have already worked on the defense of high profile death penalty cases whilestudents at the Law school; and together, they ve logged in nearly 1,600 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss27/record2127.24.html
Extractions: Photograph : Patrick Goodman. Photo Credit: Eileen Barroso. Julia Tarver and Patrick Goodman are two Law students who know exactly what they want to do after they graduate today: eliminate the death penalty in the United States. The pair have already worked on the defense of high profile death penalty cases while students at the Law School; and together, they've logged in nearly 1,600 hours of death penalty pro bono work in the last two years. While their hours are impressive, the pair represent just two examples of the many extraordinary public service efforts of today's law graduates. In 1993, Columbia became the first leading law school to create a mandatory pro bono program, which requires that all students perform a minimum of 40 hours of public service work in order to graduate. Today's graduating class represents the first class to be subject to the requirement. About 60 percent of the students, Tarver and Goodman included, chose to go well beyond the required 40 hours to fulfill their commitment. Goodman, president of the Law School's Capital Punishment Coalition, put in a total of 1,150 hours working for the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center in New Orleans, under the direction of death penalty defense attorney Clive Stafford Smith, Law '84. One particular case Goodman work on involved the defense of Nick Ingram, a British citizen who was executed in Georgia last year.
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Extractions: SAN FRANCISCO A San Francisco high school student who died near his home this month was mourned by friends and family at services Tuesday, as the most recent victim of high-profile shootings that have rocked the city. "Violence has plagued San Francisco this year," wrote Mission High School officials to parents and community members following the fatal shooting of popular Raymon Bass on May 7. School Principal Kevin Truitt has decried his school's second student death this year to street violence that has created sorrow and confusion both where the boy attended school and in his Western Addition neighborhood. A star athlete and student, Raymon was "one of our best," Truitt has said, a young person who seemingly had a bright future. School officials last week helped to organize a candlelight vigil to call an end to any neighborhood rivalries that might contribute to violence. Also last week, family members of Cammerin Boyd gathered at a Western Addition church to remember the 29-year-old who died there on May 5, following a police pursuit that ended with gunfire when officers said he made a sudden move toward the interior of his vehicle but some witnesses said he was still holding his hands in the air to surrender.
Carnegie Corporation Of New York two Milwaukee schools also run by TransCenter, Shalom has 100 students. Most arehigh school dropouts. a paper on the ethics of the death penalty, before a http://www.carnegie.org/reporter/08/college/index2.html
Extractions: Spring 2004 A letter from the President The History of South Africa: A Twice-Told Tale Alternative Pathways to College Centers of Education in Russia: The Case for CASEs ... The Back Page Also in this issue: Two Schools Collaborate and Students Succeed Recent Events A Footnote to History Low-bandwidth site Past Issues: #7: Fall 2003 #6: Spring 2003 #5: Fall 2002 #4: Spring 2002 ... Today Martin, who graduated from Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee with high honors, works at a small law firm in that city. The 28-year-old husband and new father credits the turnaround in his life to Shalom High School, where his father took him in desperation when Martin was 16. Run by TransCenter for Youth Inc., a community-based organization in Milwaukee, Shalom is one of several dozen Community Based Organization (CBO) schools nationwide providing an increasingly important alternate pathway to college. Shalom has received funding from many different private and corporate foundations including the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation; the Helen Bader Foundation; the Greater Milwaukee Foundation; the Faye McBeath Foundation; Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy Fund; the Northwestern Mutual Foundation; Ameritech; Johnson Controls Foundation; the Walton Family Foundation; the Stackner Family Foundation; the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Supporting Fund; and the Miller Brewing Company.
San Mateo County Times Online - Local Regional News an undergraduate, and Amy MacLennan, a graduate student. milestone, having completedonly high school himself. Calling the death penalty the manifestation of http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~11268~2123975,00.html
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Opponents Of Death Penalty Gather To Wait Opponents of death penalty gather to wait. Among them were students from St. XavierHigh school in Springfield Township, a nun from Cincinnati, a former http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/02/20/loc_3opponents_of_death.html
Extractions: The Cincinnati Enquirer LUCASVILLE, They came from across the state, a handful, while it was still dark and cold, carrying signs, prepared to stand vigil while the state prepared to execute John W. Byrd. Finally, from 9:59 until 10:14 a.m. Tuesday, they stood silently in a circle in a parking lot and waited for word from beyond the razor wire and inside the walls of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. At least 100 people found their way to the prison parking lot Tuesday morning to protest the execution of Mr. Byrd. They chanted and prayed, held signs and sang. They spoke about what they saw as the inhumanity of capital punishment. They bundled against the morning chill and lit candles. The largest was lit in memory of Monte Tewksbury, the Colerain Township man Mr. Byrd was convicted of killing in 1983. Among them were students from St. Xavier High School in Springfield Township, a nun from Cincinnati, a former Cincinnati mayor and congressman, a Xavier University student; and friends of the Byrd family from Columbus.
The Daily Free Press Online the society we want? Ganapathy discussed the high cost of other nations that usethe death penalty in the former Student Union president and a school of Law http://www.dailyfreepress.com/news/2002/11/07/News/Great.Debate.Abolish.Death.Pe
March '02 WGR will determine whether a student can graduate from high school. What are the risksof highstakes testing? Second Week (March 9 - 15) The death penalty and the http://www.virginia.edu/vfh/wgr/mar02wgr.html
Extractions: Standards of Learning 2002 S.O.L. - these three letters are burned into the mind of every Virginia high school student and her parents. They represent a high-stakes test. Come 2004, the Standards of Learning exams will determine whether a student can graduate from high school. What are the risks of high-stakes testing? Are standardized tests the best way to measure a student's knowledge? And how far have we come since SOL's were proposed in the mid-90s? Education professors William Owings (LC) and Patricia Shoemaker (RU) help us answer these questions. and the Mentally Retarded Eighteen of the 30 states with the death penalty now prohibit the execution of mentally retarded killers. Thirteen years ago the U.S. Supreme Court said that subjecting the mentally retarded to the death penalty does not amount to "cruel and unusual punishment." But last month, the high court again tackled the issue, hearing the case of a Virginia death row inmate. And this year Virginia lawmakers considered proposals to prohibit the practice. Joanmarie Davoli (GMU) , director of the Law and Psychiatry Center, and Margaret Edds (VFH) , a columnist and editorial writer for The Virginian-Pilot , discuss some of the questions justices and lawmakers must address. Also featured: A look at the case of Daryl Atkins, the Virginia man whose appeal the Supreme Court heard.
USATODAY.com $3.2 billion community service plan for high school students that would qualifythem for the equivalent of their state s fouryear public college tuition. http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/issues/Education.htm
Extractions: document.write(''); Cars Jobs Franchises Business Opportunities ... Weather Politics Politics home Politics briefs Candidates Index George W. Bush John Kerry Dennis Kucinich ... Al Sharpton Issues Abortion Death penalty Economy/taxes Education ... Trade By the numbers Exit polls USA TODAY polls Other polls Campaign money Results Delegate count State tallies Other races U.S. Congress Governors Resources Political calendar 06/04/2004 - Updated 11:23 AM ET CANDIDATES' POSITIONS George W. Bush John Kerry Dennis Kucinich Al Sharpton Education High school and higher education appear to be the focus of new initiatives in the 2004 campaign, but President Bush's overhaul of early educational programs remains at issue. Democrats have criticized the programs for lacking adequate funding. Voucher efforts also have continued to be controversial.
Extractions: Contributing writer Bill Jenkins said he does not want another person to die because of his son's death. "Try to bring as much peace into this world as you can," Jenkins said at a forum Wednesday night. Jenkins, a national board member of Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, was one of four activists against the death penalty who spoke at Burrill Hall. Kevin Miller, co-president of the University ACLU, said the forum's purpose was to give students and community members an understanding of the death penalty situation in Illinois. Jennifer Bishop, national chairman of the organization, gave a detailed account to a silent audience of the night her sister, her sister's husband and their unborn child were murdered upon entering their home. After officials connected the murders to a local high school student, a political figure proposed a juvenile death penalty. "They were about to make killing children the legacy of my sister's death," Bishop said. "People need to show love in the face of violence." Since Gov. George Ryan issued a moratorium on the death penalty in January 2000, a bipartisan commission, which was created in March 2000, presented a report outlining 85 reforms to improve the Illinois capital punishment system.
Students Protest Death Penalty - News - The Daily Illini Online students protest death penalty. Lisa Koester Daily Illini. students protestagainst the death penalty in front of Gregory Hall Tuesday night. http://www.dailyillini.com/oct02/oct30/news/stories/news_story05.shtml
Extractions: Christine Spoerl The Daily Illini Students protest against the death penalty in front of Gregory Hall Tuesday night. Several students braved the cold Tuesday night outside Gregory Hall in protest of the death penalty, a punishment Sarah Noceda, senior in LAS, said is delivered by an imperfect system. "Prejudices are entrenched in the justice system," she said. "There is no perfect justice system in the world and for that reason, we don't justify state-sanctioned killing." Noceda was one of several protesters of the death penalty who attended the "Meet the Candidates" forum in an attempt to inform the candidates that there are a significant amount of people among their constituents who oppose the death penalty, said Mike Bullerman, senior in LAS and protester. They also wanted to inform people of the candidate's positions on the death penalty, Bullerman added. The candidates in attendance were Naomi Jakobsson and and Tom Berns, local candidates for State Representative, and Dan McCollum, local candidate for State Senator. Representatives for Jim Ryan and Rod Blagojevich also attended, but did not immediately respond to protesters' questions. "Before the moratorium can be lifted, the state has to be certain beyond any doubt the system is going to work and that we're not going to make any mistakes," Blagojevich spokeswoman Megan Glenn said in April 2002. "Rod doesn't want to rush into lifting the moratorium."
Extractions: Campagna Internazionale Wisconsin State Journal USA: Students argue against death penalty Although public opinion polls still show that a majority of people believe in capital punishment, that belief is starting to waver. Perhaps one of the reasons is that young people are taking a closer look at the issue. Dana McKenzie of New Glarus is one of them. Now an 18-year-old UW-Madison freshman, Dana did a lot of research on capital punishment in teacher Paul Burk's class at New Glarus High School last year and that led her to write an essay for a contest sponsored by the Wisconsin Coalition Against the Death Penalty. We've been notified that she's the statewide winner. The daughter of Ken and Marla McKenzie, Dana was among hundreds of junior and senior high school students who wrote stirring essays about why the death penalty is wrong, especially for a country with the values of United States. Here is Dana's first-place entry:
Extractions: Get Home Delivery Bible justifies any stance You can use the Bible to justify virtually any position you want to take on social issues even the death penalty. Bishop Keith Butler proved that in his latest Faith and Policy essay (Bible gives support for death penalty, April 3). Of course, first he had to weasel-word his way around Exodus 20:13, changing Thou shalt not kill to Thou shalt not murder, an exercise in semantics much favored by the Christian right. As if there were any difference, which there isnt. Joseph R. Neall
The Atlantic | May 2004 | Primary Sources of twentyfive among the thirty-one death-penalty states included in Texas s reputationas death-sentence-happy rests primarily on its high murder rate http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2004/05/primarysources.htm
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Are You Ready To Submit Your Entry? Student, school, Topic, Project type. Paper. Chris Oltman, Lincoln East Highschool, Should the death penalty be abolished in Nebraska? Paper. http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/internship/03submissions.htm
Extractions: Student Submissions The projects below have been submitted by Nebraska students for the 2003 semester of the Online Internship Program. We invite you to read and utilize these papers in your own legislative duties. They constitute the work of a dedicated, interested group of Nebraska students. Student School Topic Project type Emily Ahrens and Ella Ricker Lincoln East High School Should a cancer medication repository program be established? Paper Lucas Best and Brad Fullerton Lincoln East High School Should Nebraskans be allowed to carry concealed weapons? Paper Amanda Corbin, Kara Linder, and Hali Tabatabai Lincoln East High School Should University of Nebraska athletes be given stipends? Paper Melissa Edwards, Caitlin Lyons, and Allison Carlson Lincoln East High School Should the Nebraska Clean Indoor Air Act be amended?
New Safeguards Aim To Save A Flawed System Csmonitor.com 02/11/04 high court ruling slows executions in Texas. 01/27/04 Court announces reviewof death penalty for minors. 03 When do trial lapses void a death sentence http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0507/p11s01-usju.html
Eclecticism > Death Penalty Unconstitutional here. death penalty unconstitutional. For me, the death penalty hasnever been something I ve supported. I fully realize that there http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2002/09/death_penalty_u.html
Extractions: hostName = '.michaelhanscom.com'; I'm too sexy for my blog. September 11:41 AM Politics declared the federal death penalty to be unconstitutional U.S. District Judge William Sessions said the law does not adequately protect defendants' rights."If the death penalty is to be part of our system of justice, due process of law and the fair trial guarantees of the Sixth Amendment require that standards and safeguards governing the kinds of evidence juries may consider must be rigorous, and constitutional rights and liberties scrupulously protected," he said. According to the article, this won't affect individual states' death penalty statutes, and he's actually the second judge to make this ruling. For me, the death penalty has never been something I've supported. I fully realize that there are some amazingly heinous crimes committed, and I can sympathise with those who feel that the death penalty is the only recourse (it's entirely possible that I'd feel the same way if I was faced with the violent death of a loved one), but I've never seen anything to convince me that it's an actual deterrent. Hrm. This should probably get more thought and exploration than I've got time to give it this morning. Maybe I'll come back to this post later on.
