Transcript: Interview: Ben Weiser discusses Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision to attempt to standardize use of the death penalty nationally

Article: Rumble in the Bronx: the death penalty. (New ...
The Economist (US);  March 30, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Governor George Pataki of New York used the pen of a murdered ... sign the state's new death-penalty into law. On the same ... district attorney (DA) for New York city's crime-ridden ... would not call for the death penalty under any circumstances ...

Article: Police Killing Sparks Debate on Death Penalty in ...
The Washington Post;  March 24, 1996 ;     700+ words ...The killing of a New York police officer has ... about whether the death penalty is an effective and ... between seeking the death penalty or life imprisonment ... We cannot have the death penalty in New York state except for the ...

Article: SEN. FARLEY'S REPORT ON SENATE CONTINUES TO FIGHT FOR ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 9, 2007 ;     545 words ... ... was going to shoot the cop. He said New York doesn't have the death penalty." In 2004, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that a provision in New York's death penalty statute was unconstitutional. Since ...

Article: DEATH PENALTY, REVISITED; NEW YORK'S ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  September 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... very specific reason why New York's highest court should rule the death penalty unconstitutional in this ... A NEW CHALLENGE New York's Court of Appeals ... change the status of the death penalty in New York. This is the first of ...

Article: People v. Cahill: domestic violence and the death ...
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 ...

Article: Pataki signs death penalty into law New ...
The Boston Globe;  March 8, 1995 ;     700+ words ...NEW YORK -- Gov. George Pataki signed the death penalty into law yesterday ... dramatically in New York without it. States without the death penalty are mostly clustered ... spring. Weld said New York's death penalty law "certainly ...

Article: COSTLY PRICE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT RESTORATION OF THE ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  September 21, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Blecker, a supporter of the death penalty law who teaches at New York Law School. ``The cost ... agency created under the 1995 death penalty statute to ensure criminals ... Studies have suggested the death penalty deters killers and effectively ...