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With injustice of AEDPA, presidential candidates must discuss death penalty

With injustice of AEDPA, presidential candidates must discuss death penalty http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24072 To the Editor: The AEDPA law mentioned in Ben Jones? column ?Still, candidates avoid death-penalty debate? (3/26) is affecting my father, Alabama death row inmate, Thomas Arthur Z-427. Alabama is the only state in the United States that does not provide or guarantee attorneys for death row inmates during post-conviction appeals. He did not have an attorney and his appeals were filed late (AEDPA law). He has never had his first Habeas Corpus Review or rule 32. In November 2007, DNA testing of the crime scene evidence was denied by the United States Supreme Court (USSC) because of the AEDPA Act. My father was scheduled twice for execution: September and December 2006...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).