Rania Khalek Dispatches from the Underclass

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On this week’s episode of Unauthorized Disclosure, Kevin Gosztola and I spoke with Mary Wareham of Human Rights Watch about autonomous killer robots. (You can download the episode here or subscribe for free on iTunes here) Wareham is the advocacy director of HRW’s arms division, where she leads the global coalition to stop killer robots. She […]

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Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is getting an earful for postponing the execution of a death row inmate for another month in order to attend a fundraiser for her re-election campaign. This came as a surprise to many given Bondi’s fervent support for Florida’s recently passed “Timely Justice Act“—a law that speeds up the execution process […]

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For a state with 24 death row exonerations under its belt (the highest in the country), you would think Florida might want to slow down its execution process to avoid putting innocent people to death. But Florida lawmakers are doing just the opposite

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Last summer, Warren Hill, a mentally disabled death row inmate, was granted a stay of execution just 90 minutes before he was set for lethal injection by the state of Georgia. Less than a year later, Hill’s life was again spared, this time less than 30 minutes before he was scheduled to die. He came […]

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