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'A Disgrace': Trump's DOJ Schedules Three More Federal Executions in Days Before Anti-Death Penalty Biden Takes Office
Utah Lawmakers Accused of Seeking to Legalize Drivers Running Over Street Protesters
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Critics of the Utah bill fear that it might lead to an increase in deadly car attacks on protesters, as happened in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017. (Photo: Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images)
"Legislators are considering a bill that would let drivers off the hook for mowing down protesters."
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Thousands Urge Commutation of Abuse Victim Lisa Montgomery's Death Row Sentence as Trump Continues Federal Executions
Julia Conley, staff writer
" Is the public really okay with a lame-duck Trump administration continuing to...
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From Police Violence at Home to Killing Civilians in Unending Wars Abroad, US Faces Human Rights Reckoning at UN
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The United States was the subject of the United Nations Human Rights Council's review on November 9, 2020 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo: Getty Images)
An ACLU leader urged the incoming administration to "take bold actions on day...
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People gather at Breonna Taylor's makeshift memorial in an area activists have renamed Injustice Square Park in downtown Louisville on September 26, 2020 to protest a Kentucky grand jury's failure to charge any police officers for the March killing of Taylor. (Photo: Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Kentucky AG Ordered to Release Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Tapes After Juror Demands 'Full Story and Absolute Truth'
'Shameful Reality Stops Today': Indigenous Rights Advocates Applaud Passage of Bills to End Epidemic of Missing and Murdered Native Women
Reps. Barbara Lee (L) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R) support the MORE Act, which would end federal criminalization of cannabis. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images)
Weed Killers: Bowing to Blue Dogs, Democratic Leadership Delays 'Enormously Popular' Marijuana Legalization Bill Until After Election

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