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A review of Michael Mello's book: Against the Death Penalty.

The Flordia Court made a ruling to spare the lives of condemned inmates.

Columnist James Kilpatrick writing on death row inmate Joe Giarratano's court case; questioning conviction.

Legal scholar Joseph Giarratano appeals to the Supreme Court in an attempt to commute his death sentence and save his life.

Pan to eliminate state appeals for death row inmates may not speed up the legal process.

This Newsweek article uses the failed death row appeal of Warren McClesky by the Supreme Court to bring up complicated issues surrounding capital punishment. Writers argue that the Supreme Court and most in the legal system admit there is racial bias…

Determining whether a person is competent to be executed should be left to judges and not governors. Psychiatrists have no real guidelines for examining the competence of a death row inmate.

This newspaper clipping is an article detailing how the undecided nature of the Supreme Court case, Lockhart v. McCree, has allowed Mello to successfully appeal for stays of execution for two of his clients on death row.