Article: Groups seek 'burial' of death penalty
Chicago Defender;  May 15, 2002 ;     679 words ... ... don't. "There are two more (death penalty) moratoriums, here and ... the federal government has the death system. Bohman said her group, which ... needs to get rid of its federal death system just like Illinois does," said ...

Article: Death and Dying
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ... ... what we know of past cultures is based on funerary artifacts — their attempts at death transcendence. A culture ’ s death system, or death ethos, determines such widely ranging phenomena as a people ’ s militancy and ...

Article: Death Penalty Politics.(Brief Article)
The Nation;  July 24, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... to dysfunction in the death system- having made even Al ... flaws inherent in the death system are examined and, if ... once asked, "How many deaths will it take till he knows ... Providence, is president of Death Penalty Focus and co ...

Article: HE'S PROOF OF FLAW IN DEATH PENALTY
Post-Tribune (IN);  August 6, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Indiana and no special review of death row cases is planned. The prevailing attitude is that if only the death penalty were routinely used, crime ... Cruz said. "But we can't have a death system in an imperfect society." On Monday ...

Article: Jackson, Others Blast Lockyer for Efforts in Kevin Cooper Case; ...
Los Angeles Sentinel;  February 25, 2004 ;     436 words ... ... Farrell and members of several anti-death penalty organizations also called ... Farrell called problems with the death system. A federal appeals court granted ... striking example of the flawed death system in our country," Jackson said ...

Article: 18 and ready to vote, but not for these guys Fate worse than ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  September 12, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... n Almost half of the people sentenced to death since l976 have been granted relief on appeal ... and 12 executed. n At least 11 men are on Death Dow after being tortured by Chicago police. n Our death system has cost Illinois taxpayers about $800 ...

Article: DEATH PENALTY.(NEWS)(Letter to the Editor)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  February 26, 2002 ;     610 words ... ... rare if the operators of the machinery of death, including not only the governor, but judges ... and more evident that the opponents of the death system are correct when they say ''support for the death penalty is a mile wide and two inches deep ...