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U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley is calling for President Biden to commute the sentences of all federal prisoners on death row — a push that could ultimately affect Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Pressley and U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., led 35 of their colleagues — including Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss — in sending a letter to Biden urging him to “immediately commute” the sentences of all 49 prisoners on federal death row and ensure a “fair re-sentencing process.” Pressley is also pushing a bill to abolish the federal death penalty with Bush and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. “State-sanctioned...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement AI Index: EUR 37/002/2006 (Public) News Service No: 208 8 August 2006 Poland goes backwards: No to the restoration of the death penalty Amnesty International is deeply concerned about statements by the President of Poland, Lech Kaczyñski on 28 July 2006 in which he called for the restoration of the death penalty in Poland and throughout Europe. President Kaczyñski argued on the Polish Public Radio Programme 1 that “countries that give up this penalty award an unimaginable advantage to the criminal over his victim, the advantage of life over death". However, any society that uses the...

Fox talk show host calls for disbarment of Westerfield lawyers Defense lawyers for David Westerfield confer at trial. By Harriet Ryan Court TV The phones in the San Diego County Bar Association's offices rang nonstop Thursday morning. Nearly 100 callers with demeanors ranging from annoyed to downright irate told employees that they were calling at the urging of talk show host Bill O'Reilly to file ethics complaints against David Westerfield's lawyers. "We had to change our voice mail the calls were coming in so quickly," said Sheree Swetin, the association's executive director, sounding exhausted and hastening to add that it...