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		<title>Victim&#8217;s sister hopes to make death penalty personal for senators</title>
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		<description><![CDATA["If there's anyone that should die of the death penalty, it would be Michael Ryan," Kelle said, "but I don't feel that we have the right to say who should live or die."]]></description>
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		<title>Satanist case may close death row</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 15 years ago, the brutal murder of three Arkansas Cub Scouts in an alleged satanic rite sickened a nation and strengthened the hand of death penalty champions across the United States. Now the same ghastly crime may be the final nail in the coffin of capital punishment in an America that is manifesting a crisis of conscience over the morality of executions.]]></description>
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		<title>New Jersey Moves to End Its Death Penalty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Jersey joins the civilized world: The New Jersey General Assembly approved a bill eliminating capital punishment on Thursday, clearing the way for Gov. Jon S. Corzine to sign the measure as early as Monday.]]></description>
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		<title>Misgivings raised as U.S. prepares to speed death penalty appeals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since capital punishment was reinstated in the United States three decades ago, 124 people awaiting execution have been exonerated. For some prisoners, the appeals process provided time to prove their innocence. Now a move by the government to speed up appeals has alarmed death penalty opponents, and even some supporters, who worry that innocent people could be put to death.]]></description>
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		<title>Religion, Culture Behind Texas Execution Tally</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas will almost certainly hit the grim total of 400 executions this month, far ahead of any other state, testament to the influence of the state's conservative evangelical Christians and its cultural mix of Old South and Wild West.]]></description>
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		<title>PLoS Medicine editorial: Lethal Injection Is Not Humane</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to reconcile the needs of a society given to vengeance but outwardly abhorrent of cruelty or violence, trusting of medical science's trappings but indifferent to their use in killing, expecting the highest ethics of its physicians but willing to medicalize the execution chamber? ]]></description>
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		<title>Executed in US may be awake as they suffocate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research reveals some people executed by lethal injection in the US regain consciousness while they are dying.]]></description>
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		<title>Resistance to death penalty growing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Questions about justice, expense undermining political support for capital punishment. ]]></description>
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		<title>Italy urges global execution ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Italy will campaign at the United Nations for a global ban on the death penalty, Prime Minister Romano Prodi has said.]]></description>
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		<title>Debate over death penalty gears up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas, where more inmates were executed last year but fewer people were actually sentenced to die, is in the spotlight as lawmakers, judges, even community leaders in Italy are calling for change to the state's ultimate punishment.]]></description>
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