From: The Marshall Project [mailto:info=themarshall...@mail14.atl11.rsgsv.net] On Behalf Of The Marshall Project
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2016 5:37 AM
Subject: Where death is on the ballot
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Edited by Andrew Cohen |
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Death on the ballot. Momentum for abolition of the death penalty runs smack dab into four ballot measures in three states next month. Nebraska voters are being asked to repeal their legislature’s repeal of capital punishment. Oklahoma voters are being asked to proactively protect their state’s death penalty. And California voters are offered measures to either end capital punishment or expedite it. How these contests come out could shape the debate over capital punishment into 2017 and beyond. Here’s the latest in our series on crime issues and the election. The Marshall Project Voodoo economics. Once again Chicago has budgeted tens of millions to pay for the police misconduct payouts officials know they will have to pay. And once again the budgeted amount is just a fraction of the total cost for which the city will be liable once all the lawsuits against it are settled. The city issues bonds to cover the balance, with taxpayers paying the long-term interest on those loans. Borrowing money to pay for misconduct claims is no way to run a city, officials concede, but it’s just the way things are. Chicago Reporter The perpetual lineup. Police departments across the country are building up their facial recognition databases, often without any safeguards against abuse of the information they contain. By one count, 117 million Americans— one out of every two adults— are connected in some way to this new technology and FBI face recognition searches are more common than federal court-ordered wiretaps. How long will it be before legal standards and privacy protections catch up? PerpetualLineup.org New York state of mind. What happens in New York’s justice system when a decorated ex-cop expresses remorse about a long-ago murder case that generated what looks like a wrongful conviction? In the case of Peter Forcelli, an officer with a conscience, and Edward Garry, an inmate hoping to be exonerated, the answer is: nothing yet. By Stephanie Clifford. The New Yorker Native Lives Matter. Although you wouldn’t know it from national media coverage, Native Americans are being killed by the police at a higher rate per capita than any other group, including African-Americans. Here’s how a group of advocates and activists are trying to raise awareness about the problem, reform police practices that endanger American Indian lives, and hold officers more accountable. In These Times
Georgia executed a man for killing a police officer 19 years ago. It was the state’s seventh execution of the year. Atlanta Journal-Constitution Related: The next execution in America is scheduled for two weeks from now in Alabama. The Marshall Project Six police officers in Michigan were suspended as a result of a federal investigation into a local towing scandal. The cops allegedly got kickbacks from towing companies and collision shops who paid to have cops give them work on vehicles deemed stolen. Detroit Free Press A 66-year-old woman is shot and killed by police in New York in an episode officials say was a breach of the city’s new procedures for handling the mentally ill. New York Daily News An inmate in a private prison in Louisiana sues, claiming he was forced to have oral sex by guards. The guards’ lawyers say the prisoner asked for it. The punishment for the guards following their conviction? Probation. Fusion A police officer in Kentucky, accused for decades of excessive force, is headed for a federal prison after Tasing an unarmed man who swore at him. The Daily Beast
Death throes. How America is changing, slowly, its perceptions about capital punishment and the way it’s implemented. By Lincoln Caplan. Harvard Magazine Music City mercy. How kind of a Nashville district attorney to help expunge the criminal records of men convicted of Tennessee’s long-disgraced anti-gay law. Slate The case for a Defender General of the United States. To achieve some measure of balance in the criminal justice system, and to ensure more justice for countless Americans, a new federal post is required. The Indiana Lawyer Words matter, on and off the campaign trail. It’s not called “fondling.” It’s called assault. Columbia Journalism Review Is no one at fault? A Mississippi woman was jailed for 96 days on bogus charges without ever having the chance to see a lawyer. Then a federal judge dismissed her lawsuit trying to hold someone accountable. Associated Press
Lawsuit of the Day: The family of Kalief Browder filed a $20 million wrongful death lawsuit against New York City. The complaint was filed on the same day that Browder’s mother, Venida, died suddenly. Courthouse News Tongue-lashing of the Day: A federal judge in Philadelphia is furious with DA Seth Williams’ slow-walk on reducing juvenile life-without-parole sentences. Philly.com Cold Case of the Day: Was Sonny Liston, the heavyweight champion of the world, murdered in Las Vegas in 1970? The Undefeated Flashback of the Day: Remembering a time in New York’s recent past when Rudy Giuliani was a lot more skeptical of Donald Trump than he is today. CBS News Undercovered Announcement of the Day: The Delaware Department of Justice has created an “Actual Innocence Project” to help identify and remedy wrongful convictions. Delaware.gov |
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