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Benjamin Hooks, Leading Jurist and
Civil Rights Leader
NEW YORK —
Benjamin Hooks was
born in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 31st, 1925. Memphis, like
most cities in the racially segregated American South at the time,
openly discriminated against African Americans in all areas of
public life. Hooks' family exposed him early to what civil rights
activists of his generation came to call the "Freedom Struggle."
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Justices Uphold Lethal Injection in Kentucky
Case
WASHINGTON —
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld
Kentucky’s method of
execution by lethal injection, rejecting the claim that officials
there administered a common sequence of three drugs in a manner
that posed an unconstitutional risk that a condemned inmate would
suffer acute yet undetectable pain.
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Court Details Opposition to Bias in Jury
Selection
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court,
ruling that a Louisiana prosecutor had used improper tactics to
pick an all-white jury for a black defendant’s murder trial, on
Wednesday overturned the conviction of a man who has been on death
row for 12 years.
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Editorial
The Supreme Court Fine-Tunes Pain
The Supreme Court’s
regrettable ruling upholding Kentucky’s use of lethal injection is
a reminder of why government should get out of the business of
executing prisoners. Rather than producing a crisp decision
upholding the constitutionality of lethal injection, the court
broke down into warring opinions debating the ugly question of how
much unnecessary pain the state may impose. Most compelling were
the dissenters, which wanted to know more about whether Kentucky
was torturing inmates needlessly, and Justice John Paul Stevens’
challenge to capital punishment in all forms.
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Prosecution,
Defense Attorneys Trade Charges During Closing Arguments In
Nicholson Trial
Jury To Begin Deliberations Wednesday Morning
Marvin Nicholson should never have been a serious suspect in the
murder of a 15-year-old drug dealer, much less charged with the
crime, Nicholson’s attorney told a Hamilton County Criminal Court
jury Tuesday evening.
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FBI Release Annual US Crime Report
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The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is a nationwide,
cooperative statistical effort of more than 17,000 city,
university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law
enforcement agencies voluntarily reporting data on crimes brought
to their attention. Since 1930, the FBI has administered the UCR
Program and continued to assess and monitor the nature and type of
crime in the Nation.
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Brief
Reviews Trauma Among Youth in Juvenile Justice System
The
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
has published "Trauma
Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Critical Issues and
New Directions." This research and program brief provides an
overview of trauma among youth in the juvenile justice system,
including its scope and impact; and reviews tools, curricula and
approaches for addressing trauma among justice-involved youth.
Issues related to implementing trauma services within the juvenile
justice system context are also discussed. The
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
is a component of the
Office of Justice Programs in the
U.S. Department of Justice.
