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Archive for the Month of November, 2005.
Viewing Human Rights NEWS articles 1 through 5 of 5.
Record numbers in US prisons: Women, children and immigrants top incarceration increases - The number of people in US prisons and jails rose again last year to 2,267,787 people, continuing a trend of increasing incarceration rates that has gone on unabated for more than two decades.
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No-Parole Sentences Hammer Black Teens - The U.S. locks up more juveniles for life without parole than all nations combined.
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Executed man may have been innocent - Witness, co-defendant tell newspaper man wasn't guilty
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United States Nears 1,000th Execution - After a 10-year moratorium, Gilmore in 1977 became the first person to be executed following a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision that validated state laws to reform the capital punishment system. Since then, 997 prisoners have been executed, and next week, the 998th, 999th and 1,000th are scheduled to die.
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America: the capital of punishment - The United States should be leading the world to oppose the death penalty. Instead, it's one of the leading practitioners.
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