Someone doesn't want us to see this story! Bush's Lethal Legacy: More Executions! The Link is bad!

[babsbunny]

http://www.independent.co.uk/

The US already kills more of its prisoners than almost any other country. Now the White House plans to cut the right of appeal of death row inmates...

[LSparkle]

1. Great -- more reason fior other nations not to cooperate with us

No mutual extradiction treaties, avoiding turning over suspects that may be executed ... Aren't these asshats going to leave our country with a SHRED of dignity left????

[ChiciB1]

2. Gee, Building More Unity I See!! There WAS A Time I Wanted To

travel to another country, now I'm AFRAID to!

[Waya]

3. This one should work.....

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2864190.ece

[Contrary1]

4. You can read it here...

Apparently, some sites picked the story up, before it got "lost".

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/150807executions.htm

"Four years ago, a Missouri man, Joe Amrine, was released after 17 years on death row after the collapse of all evidence that led to his conviction for a jail murder. The state argued, with a straight face, that even the establishment of innocence was not a reason to stop his execution, because nothing had been procedurally incorrect about his original trial. Again, it was a federal appeals court that weighed in on Amrine's behalf."
:wtf:

[MADem]

5. You can get to it from the front page with no trouble at all

It's a rehash of a story from the LAT. I mean, really, if they were gonna censor it, they'd start there, not over the pond.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2864190.ece

...The US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales - Mr Bush's top legal adviser during the spree of executions in Texas in the 1990s - is putting finishing touches to regulations, inspired by recent anti-terrorism legislation, that would allow states to turn to the Justice Department, instead of the federal courts, as a key arbiter in deciding whether prisoners live or die.

The US is already among the top six countries worldwide in terms of the numbers of its own citizens that it puts to death. Fifty-two Americans were executed last year and thousands await their fate...
In some instances, prisoners would have significantly less time to file federal appeals, and the appeals courts significantly less time to respond. On the question of whether defendants received adequate representation at trial - a key issue in many cases, especially in southern states with no formal public defender system - the Attorney General would be the sole decision-maker.

Since Mr Gonzales is a prosecutor, not a judge, and since he has a track record of favouring death in almost every capital case brought before him, the regulations would, in effect, remove a crucial safety net for prisoners who feel they have been wrongly convicted.

Elisabeth Semel, a death penalty specialist at the University of California law school in Berkeley, said the intention of the proposed regulation was clear: "To make it more difficult for people who have been sentenced to death in state courts, including those sentenced without adequate representation and resources, to avoid being executed."

The regulations, first made public by the Los Angeles Times, will be subject to a public comment period extending into September. They will then be enacted "as quickly as circumstances allow", according to a Justice Department spokeswoman....