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...politicians who support the Cape Wind project to create the country’s first offshore wind farm on Nantucket Sound. Patrick, who has never been elected to public office, appeared at Harvard and other colleges to raise issues relevant to younger voters. He said he will promote lower housing costs and increased government services to keep recent graduates in Massachusetts after college. He also told students that he will push for increased funding for state colleges and universities. A social liberal, Patrick clashes with current Republican governor W. Mitt Romney over stem cell research and gay marriage. Patrick...
...officers, judges, and jury members. “Does such research warrant deep skepticism towards our criminal justice system?” Shelby asked. In her discussion, Banaji pointed to studies that show hope for overcoming mind bugs. One such study found that having friends of other races can lower implicit bias. Another found that yoga practitioners in India were able to control and lower their biases consciously. While the discussion began with an hour-long presentation by Banaji, showing the current research demonstrating the tendency to subconscious prejudices, the second hour was spent in a panel discussion where both...
...Joining Saddam on the gallows will be his cousin and enforcer, Barazan al-Tikriti, and Awad al-Bander, who presided over many of the dictator's kangaroo courts. Saddam's former vice president, Taha Yaseen Ramadan, got life and three lower-ranking officials were each sentenced to 15 years. One official was acquitted for lack of evidence...
...hard,' will see this news and instead think, 'The national trend is to control the use of the capital punishment.' So I think more provincial courts will choose not to use the death penalty." Liu also believes that an adding another layer of red tape to executions may help lower the number of wrongful convictions...
...Prior to 1983, all death sentences in China had been reviewed by the country's highest court. This requirement is clearly stipulated in both China's Criminal Law and its Criminal Procedure Law. In 1983 as part of a campaign to "strike hard" against crime, a different law - with lower authority in China's legislative hierarchy - was invoked to hand off the review of death penalty cases to provincial courts. The idea was that this would expedite death sentencing and curb crime. Legal scholars and death penalty opponents (a minority in China) complained that this devolving of authority had been...