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YouSpeak: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the Death Penalty
For this week's YouSpeak, BU Today asks, "If Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is found guilty, should he receive the death penalty?"
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Watching the Detectives
Douglas Starr talks about how 19th-century medical investigators found new ways to learn whodunit.
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Seeking Justice: Janice Bassil ('78) defends Massachusetts' most controversial clients
Janice Bassil ('78) has had more than her share of emotionally charged cases over the years. In 1996, she was the court-appointed attorney for John Salvi, who was found guilty of murder after a shooting rampage at two abortion clinics in Brookline, [...]Massachusetts. In 2009, she won an acquittal for a single mother accused of killing her two children in their Roslindale, Massachusetts home... Read more: /law/communications/bassil_seeking_justice.shtml
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The Guayabin Massacre: Asylum and Human Rights Clinic seeks justice for Haitians
On the evening of June 18, 2000, 37 Haitians attempted to enter the Dominican Republic. When they arrived in Guayubin, a city about 30 miles past the border, their truck was shot at repeatedly by soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Dominican [...]Republic. Seven unarmed civilians were killed. Thirty others were wounded or injured.
Victims were repeatedly shot. The dead were left for hours before being buried in a mass grave. The survivors, including women and children, allege that they were forcibly detained by the military and never given rights to judicial or administrative process.
The incident, known as the Guayubin Massacre, is on trial this month as Nadege Dorzema et al. vs. Dominican Republic at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica...Read more: /law/news/Guayubin_amicusbrief.shtml
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