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Seething beneath the surface
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
University of the Witwatersrand is an Atlantic grantee. By Monako Dibetle and Mandy Rossouw. It has been 18 months since the violent xenophobic attacks broke out across the country. Monako Dibetle and Mandy Rossouw talked to foreigners from across Southern Africa, locals and experts and…
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6th Circuit favors Tenn. lethal injection process
Source: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
by LUCAS L. JOHNSON II A federal appeals court on Thursday vacated a lower court's ruling that Tennessee's lethal injection process is unconstitutional. In 2007, the U.S. District Court in Nashville supported a claim by Edward Jerome Harbison, 54, that Tennessee's lethal injection process violates…
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Execution method OK'd
Source: The Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
by Michael Kiefer A federal judge Wednesday removed a major obstacle to executions in Arizona, ruling that the state's lethal-injection procedure is similar to one approved by the U.S. Supreme Court. Executions have been on hold in Arizona since November 2007, when the Arizona Supreme…
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33000 hospital doctors to strike - they demand 50% increase or else
Source: Sowetan
Underpaid state doctors have threatened to strike next week unless they receive a 50 percent salary increase. The action could leave hospitals paralysed as well as embarrassing new Health Minister Barbara Hogan. It will also leave hundreds of thousands of patients without treatment. The doctors…
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S. Africa gangs using rape to 'cure' lesbians
Source: MSNBC/Reuters
Original Source JOHANNESBURG - Gangs of South African men are raping lesbians in the belief it will "cure" the women's sexual orientation, an aid agency said Friday. NGO ActionAid said in a report titled "Hate Crimes: the rise of corrective rape in South Africa" lesbians…
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Death Penalty Debate Likely Still On Despite Panel
Source: The Washington Post
A Maryland Senate committee narrowly rejected Gov. Martin O'Malley's bill yesterday to repeal the death penalty, but the measure will likely be debated by the full Senate next week under a rare procedural move. The vote by the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee was seen as…
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SA sits on a powder keg - Tutu
Source: Cape Argus (South Africa)
by ELLA SMOOK Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu has warned that South Africa remains perched on a powder keg of inequality as a result of the gap between rich and poor. Delivering the keynote |address at the first international Chief of Chaplains Conference taking place in…
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Report May Put Final Nail in Death Penalty
Source: The Baltimore Sun
by DAN RODRICKS In the report from the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment, the people of this state and their elected representatives have all the evidence needed to abolish the death penalty, once and for all, in the next session of the General Assembly. But…
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A year later, state assesses justice without death penalty
Source: The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey)
Rudy Larini Star-Ledger Staff State Sen. Raymond Lesniak likes to share important moments in life with friends and family through photographs on his holiday greeting cards. Four years ago, they featured Lesniak in top hat and tails as grand marshal of New York's Pulaski Day…
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Repeal of Death Penalty Urged; MD. Panel Votes to End Executions
Source: The Baltimore Sun
by Gadi Dechter and Laura Smitherman A state commission reviewing capital punishment recommended last night an end to executions in Maryland, prompting hope among death penalty opponents that the General Assembly could soon abolish the 30-year practice. The Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment voted 13-7…
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