<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Death Penalty</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><description>Death Penalty</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Tex. Pressed on DNA Exonerations]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2637-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2637-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the state with the nation's busiest death row and an increasing number of post-conviction DNA exonerations, legislators are urging the governor to investigate the causes of mistaken convictions.]]></description><author> Sylvia Moreno</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[N.Y. Votes Against Capital Punishment]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47871-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47871-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bill aimed at reinstating the state's death penalty, which a court had suspended last year, is thrown out after concerns about accidental execution of the innocent.]]></description><author> Michael Powell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[N.Y. Debating Fate of State Death Penalty]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17486-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17486-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The legislature appears poised to throw out the death penalty, which was reinstated by Gov. George E. Pataki 10 years ago.]]></description><author> Michael Powell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Less Support for Death Sentence Cited for Decline in Executions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64604-2004Dec14.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64604-2004Dec14.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Convicted murderers are being sentenced to death half as often as they were five years ago, and the population of death row is declining as a result, an anti-capital punishment information organization reported Tuesday.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Md. Attorney General Calls for End of Death Penalty]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2537-2003Jan30.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2537-2003Jan30.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran urged state leaders to abolish the death penalty today, saying "mistakes are inevitable" in the capital murder system and that the prospect of executing an innocent person is an "intolerable risk."]]></description><author> Lori Montgomery</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justices Spurn Case On Juvenile Executions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51973-2003Jan27.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51973-2003Jan27.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will  not hear a constitutional challenge to capital punishment for juvenile offenders, a decision that implies the court will not soon strike down state laws permitting the execution of felons who were 16 or 17 at the time of their crimes.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steele Seeks New Study of Death Penalty Cases]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44061-2003Jan25.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44061-2003Jan25.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele is troubled by new evidence of racial bias in Maryland's capital murder system.]]></description><author> Lori Montgomery</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clemency Brings Rage]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52026-2003Jan13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52026-2003Jan13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Gov. George Ryan's commutation of every death sentence in Illinois leaves friends and family of murder victims angry. They say Ryan's decision has reopened old wounds.]]></description><author> Lee Hockstader</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effects of Death Row Ruling Debated]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47402-2003Jan12.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47402-2003Jan12.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Some see Illinois Gov. George Ryan's decision as a defining moment toward ending capital punishment, while others warn of a backlash against safeguards meant to protect the innocent.]]></description><author> Robert E. Pierre</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death Row Emptied]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42290-2003Jan11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42290-2003Jan11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Illinois's outgoing Republican Gov. George Ryan Saturday commuted the death sentences of 167 people to life in prison, saying the capital punishment system was "haunted by the demon of error."]]></description><author> Robert E. Pierre  and Kari Lydersen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill. Governor Praised, Vilified]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40355-2003Jan10.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40355-2003Jan10.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A conservative Republican from a staid Midwestern state, outgoing Illinois Gov. George Ryan has become the unlikely poster boy for reforming capital punishment.]]></description><author> Robert E. Pierre</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appeals Court Upholds Death Penalty]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37284-2002Dec10.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37284-2002Dec10.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A lower court's contention that recent DNA exonerations of death-row inmates have proved that capital punishment is inconsistent with the constitutional guarantee of due process of law was rejected.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Court to Hear Md. Death Row Appeal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7905-2002Nov18.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7905-2002Nov18.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by a Maryland death row inmate who claims his lawyers did not adequately defend him at his sentencing hearing.]]></description><author> Nurith C. Aizenman and Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Blocks Execution of Texas Man]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21179-2002Nov7.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21179-2002Nov7.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court granted a last-minute reprieve Wednesday to a convicted murderer  in Texas who was to receive a lethal injection in the  death chamber despite his severe mental illness.]]></description><author> Lee Hockstader</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arguing 60(b): a Rule of Life or Death?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19829-2002Nov6.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19829-2002Nov6.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The case is one of many highly technical matters surrounding the death penalty spawned by the 1996 law and the Supreme Court's decisions interpreting it.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now on Trial in Illinois: The Death Penalty]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32154-2002Oct15.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32154-2002Oct15.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a system that has been described as so flawed that it risks executing an innocent man, a controversial series of back-to-back clemency hearings has begun for most of Illinoiss 159 death row inmates.]]></description><author> Lois Romano</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Rules Death Penalty Illegal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62352-2002Sep24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62352-2002Sep24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A federal judge in Vermont declared the federal death penalty unconstitutional Tuesday in the second such ruling in less than three months.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death Row Legislation Gains Support on Hill]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41412-2002Jul21.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41412-2002Jul21.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Legislation to provide death row inmates with better access to DNA evidence and qualified lawyers is gathering momentum in Congress, fueled by recent Supreme Court decisions and high-profile exonerations of prisoners who had been sentenced to die.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Says Executions Violate Constitution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11012-2002Jul1.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11012-2002Jul1.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A U.S. district judge in New York ruled Monday that the federal death penalty is unconstitutional because it creates "undue risk" of executing innocent defendants.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ashcroft Pursues Death Penalty]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5450-2002Jun30.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5450-2002Jun30.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/socialpolicy/deathpenalty</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At a time when many authorities are rethinking aspects of capital punishment, Attorney General John D. Ashcroft is aggressively pursuing the federal death penalty and frequently overruling his own prosecutors in the process, according to records and public officials.]]></description><author> Dan Eggen</author></item></channel></rss>