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They kill Louis Jones Jr. Milton Hirsch
The Role of Victim Outreach Terrica L.. Redfield
NACDL Awarded Grant for Capital Trial Trainings Terrica Redfield
Death Watch Colin Garrett
Supreme Court Re-Emphasizes Need For Thorough Penalty Investigation Colin Garrett
Another DNA Exoneration, Another Death Row Inmate Freed Colin Garrett
Death Watch Chris Adams
End of Juvenile Death Penalty Chris Adams
Prosecutorial Wrongdoing and the People Who Enable It Chris Adams
Securing funding for your mitigation specialists Chris Adams
Louisiana jury sentences a man to death for non-murder crime; proportionality review bars prosecution seeking death in retrial; Alabama death row exoneration. Chris Adams
What's on the menu? Chris Adams
Update: No victim impact testimony without specific legislative authorization Chris Adams
Change, redemption do exist David Bruck