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Many museums are giving second lives to exhibit materials as various as advertising banners, paint and building materials, and even a huge rotating globe. Link: Museums Special Section: After the Exhibition, Finding New Uses for Displays ; ;Related ArticlesRetro Report: The Battle Over the MedflyWhite House to Introduce Climate Data WebsiteBy Degrees: Scientists Sound Alarm on Climate ;
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Museums Special Section: After the Exhibition, Finding New Uses for Displays
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Florida is working hard these days to make itself a case study argument in favor of abolishing the death penalty. In a state that has seen more innocent people exonerated from death row than any other in the country, lawmakers last year passed legislation to try to speed up the pace of executions. Last month, Gov. Rick Scott (R) set a dubious record for presiding over more executions in his first term than any governor since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
Meanwhile, the state continues to ignore US Supreme Court rulings banning the execution of the mentally ill and intellectually disabled. Just last week, the state argued before the Supreme Court that it didn’t want to use accepted scientific principles to comply with the court’s ban on executing mentally disabled people because that would spare too many death row residents, a move that would be “inconsistent with Florida’s purposes.” And now comes the news the state’s most notorious prosecutor has not only sent a disproportionate number of felons to death row, but a disproportionate number of African-Americans, once again raising the troubling issue of racial disparities in the state’s capital punishment system.
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Infamous George Zimmerman Prosecutor Puts Disproportionate Number of Black Men on Death Row
The 30 or so participants say their objective is to build toward a time when the political landscape may have shifted enough that a bill could pass Congress. Continued: Senate Democrats’ All-Nighter Flags Climate Change ; ;Related ArticlesSenate Democrats Plan All-Nighter on Climate ChangeDot Earth Blog: Kerry Orders U.S. Diplomats to Press Case for Climate ActionJoseph Sax, Who Pioneered Environmental Law, Dies at 78 ;
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