The killing of Tony Mitchell wasn’t an anomaly. It’s a product of our callous and cruel corrections system. The State of Alabama froze a man to death. Read those words…
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Category: Local
Bill would require unanimous jury for death penalty
Bill would require unanimous jury for death penalty — and apply retroactively Rep. Chris England’s bill would also apply in cases of judicial override, which the Legislature ended in 2017.…
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Bill would require ADOC to report monthly to oversight committee
The reports required include statistics on inmate deaths and sexual abuse. BY JACOB HOLMES Under existing law, the Alabama Department of Corrections is required to report quarterly to the Joint…
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Gadsden Civil Rights Foot Soldiers
The following is a brief narrative written by the late Kathryn L. Barrett in 2009 for the purpose of sharing historical facts of ‘CIVIL RIGHTS’s FOOT SOLDIERS with an emphasis…
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‘WHY DO WE STILL NEED TO CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH?’
This was printed in 2020; however, I feel like sharing it again with a little editing. Let’s briefly recount the advent of Black History Month, also called African-American History Month,…
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Child Support
Child Support Letter 1 The child support enforcement laws that have been enacted in the past few years are unfair to non-custodial parents. A primary difficulty with these laws is…
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Opinion | When good time is no good
Accruing good time is currently treated as a rule that is rarely, if ever, suspended, not as a privilege. By APRIL WEAVER Bibb County Deputy Brad Johnson was a good…
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Opinion | A Supreme Court work of fiction
The facts of the Greg Gunn killing are well established — unless you’re an Alabama Supreme Court justice. By JOSH MOON The Alabama Supreme Court is into fiction writing. Maybe…
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Opinion | There’s conservative and then there’s Conservative
One is consistent, principled, and solution-oriented. The other seems hell-bent on picking fights. By DAVID PERSON One thing is crystal clear: There’s conservative … and then there’s Conservative. The two…
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Analysis | Alabama Legislature considered most conservative in U.S.
The study examined over 265,000 individual votes cast by 7,400 state policymakers in 50 state legislatures. By JOHN H. GLENN A recent analysis of the votes of state lawmakers across…
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