A strange fruit, abolishing the death penalty La pena di morte è come la schiavitù, nessuno può imporla

FAILED TO DEATH

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Published on Monday, 19 November 2012 02:05

Children in Denver
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State, counties differ on when probes of child abuse are needed

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Published on Tuesday, 13 November 2012 03:38

Denver 12 Nov 2012

http://www.denverpost.com/failedtodeath/ci_21980616/state-counties-differ-when-probes-child-abuse-are

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State law dictates when child welfare departments are supposed to probe allegations of abuse and neglect, but counties have wide discretion in determining whether a call has enough information to proceed further.

Case Asks When New Evidence Means a New Trial

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Published on Tuesday, 13 November 2012 02:45

ADAM LIPTAK NYT November 12, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/us/post-trial-evidence-is-issue-in-supreme-court-case.html

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has a complicated relationship with evidence of innocence that arrives late in the game.

“This court has never held,” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in 2009, chillingly but accurately, “that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ‘actually’ innocent.”

Last month, the justices agreed to hear a case that demonstrates why the issue can be so difficult. It concerns Floyd Perkins, a Michigan man serving a life sentence for murder. The new evidence he has gathered is plausible but not overwhelming, and he waited a long time to present it. On the other hand, he may spend the rest of his life in prison for a crime he says he did not commit.

Sharp Dallas police cuts leave fewer detectives working

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Published on Sunday, 04 November 2012 04:10

DMN 3 Nov 2012 
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20121103-sharp-dallas-police-cuts-leave-fewer-detectives-working-violent-crimes.ece
Cristobal DeLeon says he instantly recognized the man who robbed his East
Oak Cliff convenience store at gunpoint this summer. Patrol officers responded
to his 911 call and a detective was soon provided with a name, photo and
possible address for the suspect. But it took several weeks for detectives in the department’s robbery unit to sit down and interview DeLeon — a basic step toward solving the case. In the
meantime, the same suspect allegedly kidnapped two women and raped one before selling
her to a pimp. Stagnant investigations such as DeLeon’s robbery are a symptom of severe
understaffing of the department’s detective units, current and former Dallas
officers say. The number of detectives in units that investigate the bulk of
the city’s most violent crimes — such as murder, rape, robbery and aggravated
assault — has been slashed by 46 percent since 2010, according to a review by The
Dallas Morning News.