Article: `Just Cause' takes a look at capital punishment

Article: NEW ORGANIZATION TO LOBBY AGAINST DEATH PENALTY.(Capital Region)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  January 22, 1993 ;     478 words ......ongoing battle over the death penalty in New York state, a group of clergy...prevent the return of the death penalty in New York state, said Bishop Howard...citizens throughout New York who opposes the death penalty, he said. Since 1976...

Article: STUDY FINDS DEATH PENALTY TILT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  September 8, 2001 ;     598 words ......likely to pursue the death penalty than those from New York City and its suburbs...seekers of the death penalty, said the differences in New York are not surprising...treated in the death-penalty process. In New York, the defenders...

Article: New Death Penalty Report Details Broken System; Report Comes as Skepticism of Death Penalty Increases Nationwide
U.S. Newswire;  April 4, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Newswire/ -- A New York State Assembly...about the death penalty cast further...testimony in New York wanted to leave the death penalty off the books." New York has been without a death penalty since last...legacy on the death ...

Article: DEATH-PENALTY ISSUE WON'T GO AWAY
The Boston Globe;  May 14, 1989 ;     700+ words ......vote to reinstate the death penalty in New York, Cuomo stood his ground...to indicate that the death penalty, here as in New York, is more of a political...from 1907 to 1963, when New York had the death penalty, an average of two more...

Article: DEATH PENALTY STATUTE DESERVES REVIEW.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 24, 2002 ;     700+ words ......year. When passed in 1995, New York's death penalty statute was widely trumpeted...continue to insist that New York's death penalty system is immune to the...the lives of blacks. he New York death penalty law also suffers from a...

Article: FIRST EXECUTION STILL LIKELY TO BE MANY YEARS AWAY DESPITE APPROVAL OF DEATH PENALTY, LEGAL CHALLENGES AND A LIBERAL COURT OF APPEALS REMAIN.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  March 7, 1995 ;     700+ words ......is unlikely that New York's high court will flatly reject the death penalty as a violation...administration. New York will never become...callous to the death penalty, as other states...predicted that New York, with itscadre...berals'' and legions of ...

Article: Interview: Ben Weiser discusses Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision to attempt to standardize use of the death penalty nationally
NPR All Things Considered;  February 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ......to seek the death penalty in federal trials in New York and Connecticut...use of the death penalty and that in a state like New York, for instance...prosecutors in New York who have, in...to seek the death penalty in a number...

Article: New York State Legislative Committee Defeats Death Penalty; Vote Comes as Skepticism of the Death Penalty Increases Nationwide
U.S. Newswire;  April 12, 2005 ;     624 words ......bill to reinstate New York's death penalty. The vote comes after...voices questioning the death penalty across the country. "New York is not alone. There...wanted to leave the death penalty off the books." New York has been without...

Article: SYMBOLISM ABOVE ALL IN DEATH PENALTY.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  December 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ......as they might, New York's political leaders...governor in 1994, the death penalty was the clearest...prosecutors to pursue death-penalty cases,'' said...prosecutors feel New York is going the way...they've had a death penalty statute for 30...the hoops the ...

Article: People v. Cahill: domestic violence and the death penalty debate in New York.
Albany Law Review;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......instruction provision of the New York death penalty statute unconstitutional...significant deficiencies in New York death penalty jurisprudence, deficiencies...sentence on facts that most New York citizens, whether death penalty proponents or ...

Article: Rolling Back the Death Penalty
The Washington Post;  July 19, 1994 ;     700+ words ...New York Gov. Mario Cuomo has...referendum on the death penalty in New York State. Cuomo has been...to opponents of the death penalty for vetoing every...soon to declare the death penalty unconstitutional...death sentence. The death ...

Article: AFTER 14 YEARS, DEATH PENALTY MAY BE REALITY IN NEW YORK STATE *2 LEGISLATORS HOLD KEY VOTES IN VETO OVERRIDE EFFORT.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  April 29, 1990 ;     700+ words ......They know that when New York restores the death penalty, we are going to execute...rates have risen in New York since the death penalty was abolished is evidence...death row. If the death penalty is restored in New York, experts estimate...

Article: Death Penalty Specialist Says N.Y. Law Will Be Racially Biased
New York Beacon, The;  April 19, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Williams Booker New York Beacon, The 04-19-1995 Death Penalty Specialist Says...is certain that New York's new death penalty law will put a...predicted that New York's move to restore the death penalty this year under...

Article: Prosecutorial discretion in charging the death penalty: opening the doors to arbitrary decisionmaking in New York capital cases.(State Constitutional Commentary: An Interdisciplinary Examination of State Courts, State Constitutional Law, and State Constitutional Adjudication)(Case Note)
Albany Law Review;  August 6, 1997 ;     700+ words ......On March 7, 1995, New York Governor George Pataki signed a death penalty bill that was in...statute.(3) That a death penalty now exists in New York is certain; how...that in order for New York's death penalty to attain the necessary...