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Litigation

Mar. 3, 2007

Slow Start to Speeding Up Death-Row Appeals

WASHINGTON - Exactly a year ago, death-penalty proponents cheered the passage of a federal law that some believed could speed up appeals and executions by five years.

By Lawrence Hurley
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      WASHINGTON - Exactly a year ago, death-penalty proponents cheered the passage of a federal law that some believed could speed up appeals and executions by five years.
      To date, nothing has happened.
      But the Justice Department may finally issue the new regulations that would allow states to apply to join ...

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