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Oct 25, 20203 min read
Ballot Initiatives to Look Out For This November
by Christy Yao — An essential part of our democracy is the people getting to vote on particularly important or controversial issues. This...
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Oct 2, 20203 min read
Amy Coney Barrett on Life Issues
by Grace Aquilina — As of September 26th, Amy Coney Barrett is the Supreme Court nominee to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg....
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Oct 1, 20204 min read
Updating Title IX: How Pro-life Principles Can Improve Investigations
by Stephanie Hauer — In Spring, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos revealed changes to Title IX. Title IX is a law that prohibits...
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Aug 27, 20202 min read
Justice For Dannielle Brown and Her Son
by Liz P. — Marquis Jaylen “JB” Brown was a star student-athlete at Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, a Catholic university in...
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May 7, 20204 min read
Ahmaud Arbery Deserves Justice
By Maria Oswalt — On February 23, 2020, 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by two men in a truck while he was going for a run in...
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Dec 10, 20193 min read
Rodney Reed’s fight is not over
by Stephanie Hauer — All human beings deserve justice, and our country has enshrined in its legislation the right for a fair trial. Even...
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Aug 21, 20183 min read
Sexual Abuse & Dehumanization of Incarcerated Humans
In the light of the #MeToo movement, where people around the world are sharing their stories of sexual harassment, rape, and abuse in the...
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Aug 20, 20183 min read
In Solidarity with Incarcerated Humans
by Herb Geraghty Anyone who follows the news could conclude that the United States justice system is anything but just. Particularly,...
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Jul 26, 20173 min read
A Texan’s Take on the Death Penalty and the Case of Taichin Preyor
Texans love the fact that they’re from Texas. Walk down the streets of any small town in Texas, stop someone and ask them why the love...
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Jul 17, 20175 min read
A Response to the Execution of William Morva: from a Virginian
I am a very proud and enthusiastic Virginian. In my free time, I enjoy getting into arguments about how it is by far the superior of the...
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Jun 27, 20132 min read
Solitary Confinement is Torture
BY MAXIME VILLENEUVE Photo by publik15; some rights reserved. According to the New York Times, there are well over 25,000 inmates in the...
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Jun 10, 20133 min read
Facing a Common Christian Argument in Support of the Death Penalty
BY AIMEE MURPHY This'll be a brief little treatise. I don't have a whole lot of time before I leave for DC for a couple of days. But...
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May 27, 20132 min read
Arias & Castro: Women & Men & the Death Penalty
BY AIMEE MURPHY "Juries are a little more reluctant to mete out the death penalty to a woman than a man," Andy Silverman, a law professor...
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Mar 30, 20123 min read
Justice for Trayvon Martin and His Parents
BY JEN ROTH Most of the talk of reproductive rights in mainstream politics and media in the United States revolves around not bearing...
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Dec 20, 20111 min read
Wrappings
BY AIMEE BEDOY if you believe in the dignity of human life -- how can you sit idly by, while thousands and millions of humans die by the...
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Dec 20, 20112 min read
Penn State: Evidence of a Larger Problem
BY AIMEE BEDOY The cult of celebrity reaches far and wide and covers a multitude of sins, it seems. At least in the United States, fans...
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Dec 20, 20113 min read
A Preemptive Death Penalty
BY NICHOLAS NEAL During a discussion of abortion, one of my classmates -- a political progressive -- stated that abortion was needed in...
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Dec 20, 20112 min read
Commentary on the Davis and Brewer Executions
BY NICHOLAS NEAL On September 21, 2011, Troy Davis was executed after failing to appeal to the Supreme Court for a 22-year death row case...
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Sep 13, 20112 min read
The Abolition of Capital Punishment in Illinois
BY NICHOLAS NEAL The abolition of the death penalty in Illinois began when Governor George Ryan placed a moratorium on capital punishment...
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Sep 13, 201113 min read
Justice in the Face of Unknowing
BY AIMEE BEDOY & STEVEN OETJEN A quandary of major proportions faces our nation in this day and age. It could be a matter of life and...
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