FYI: DPIC (Death Penalty Information Center) feed added to ICDP blog

I just added a "feed" for the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) to the ICDP blog sidebar.  It is placed between the Journals Being Monitored and the Relevant Blogs and Web Pages sections of the blog sidebar. The feed provides titles of the five most recent blog post from ICDP.  Readers can click on the titles and be taken to the relevant stories.

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iPost: More on trends in death penalty and executions

More on changing trends in death penalty and executions. Many articles have been published over the past six months re: these trends that were summarized in recent 2009 DPIC report.

Thanks to Tim Derning for sending these links to TIME magazine coverage

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1948904,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1876397,00.html

iPost: DPIC 2009 year end death penalty report

You can get your yeat end DPIC report at link below
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/dpics-2009-year-end-report-released

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iPost: UN leader asks for international ban on the death penalty

Over at the DPIC blog.



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iPost: Cost of death penaly

Yet another article on the coats if the death penalty. Thanks. DPIC for the post.


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FYI: More reaction to Wood v Allen SCOTUS oral arguments plus military death penalty study

Further comments and reactions to SCOTUS Wood v Allen oral argument this week:

• From SLP blog - Amicus brief from 18 state AG's asking SCOTUS to limit intervention by federal courts causes controversy
• SCOTUS WIKI has added an "oral recap" of the SCOTUS oral arguments
  

Also, From the DPIC blog - disparate administration of military death penalty study

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FYI: Past, Present an Future of Death Penalty from Tennesse Law Review

For those who want more information on the history of the death penalty (to today and beyond), check out the post from the DPIC blog.  The Tennessee Law Review recently published a number or articles from its colloquium "The Past, Present and Future of the Death Penalty" (Feb 2009).  Visit the DPIC link for more info.

I hope to track down copies of the articles mentioned in the Tennessee Law Review that may be most relevant to Atkins cases.

Tip of the hat to DPIC for the post.

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FYI: Capital punishment info---staying current via e-newsletters and/or RSS feeds

If you are trying to stay current on issues, commentary, decisions, etc. regarding capital punishment in general (not necessarily just Atkin's MR cases), I suggest two general strategies.

First, on the right side of this ICDP blog I've provided links to a number of "Relevant Blogs and Web Pages."  Most of these blogs provide RSS feeds which "push" their regular blog posts to whatever RSS reader service you use.  You can then decide to visit and read a post based on the title and brief summaries that most RSS services provide.

If you don't want to deal with RSS feeds, a number of these sites provide regular e-newsletters that come directly to your email in-box.  You can skim the e-newsletters and decide whether to click and read more....or simply delete.  The three most informative e-newsletters I've found are from:

• Death Penalty Information Center
• Karen Franklin's In the News blog
• StandDown Texas Project

To subscribe you would need to go to each blog home page and locate the box, link, button, etc. that allows one to subscribe to content via email or an e-newsletter.

Whenever I find a post or story from any of the blogs I monitor that is relevant to the ICDP blog, I try to make a brief FYI post and provide a direct link for my readers.  So....I do post information from these sources that I think is relevant and interesting, but you are at the mercy of what I "filter in and/or out" as newsworthy. 

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FYI: DPIC report on reconsideration of death penalty in current economy

FYI (no comment) post.

The Death Penalty Information Center has released its latest report, "Smart on Crime: Reconsidering the Death Penalty in a Time of Economic Crisis." The report combines an analysis of the costs of the death penalty with a newly released national poll of police chiefs who put capital punishment at the bottom of their law enforcement priorities.

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