Announcer now, the director of the group right on time discuss the decline on the use of the Death Penalty and the potential for the Supreme Court to in the practice. This is from the aspen ideas festival in colorado. It is about an hour. Thank you for being here. One of the greatest decisions a Society Makes outside of going to war is to whom apply the Death Penalty to. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where it is going. I cant imagine a better group of panelists. Steve is the president for the center for human rights. In my mind, the leading Death Penalty litigant in the country and has been for a number of years. Traveling throughout the country to bring these cases to fight. He had a big win in the Supreme Court a few weeks ago. He has been teaching at yell law school since 1993. Mark does really interesting work and is making the case for a conservative case for limits on things like mandatory minimums or the over criminalization not on a defendant perspective of indiv
We got these people trapped. Nearly 2,000 people rescued by the National Guard. Rivers rising over their banks. Dylan will tell us when the rain will let up. One captured. One on the run. Convicts escape three days ago, one caught overnight. This morning, his accomplice is still on the loose. And what a shot. A neck and neck college game with the huskies and cincinnati bearcats coming down to one shot. Holy cow are you kidding me that basket sending the game into a fourth overtime. Uconn fans celebrating everywhere. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Im erica hill. Im craig melvin alongside dylan dreyer and sheinelle jones. How about the huskies . This reminds me of 93. This crazy long, its great and late moment. The uconn huskies. Anyone elses who grew up in connecticut. You have your knowledge. I have small tid bits of knowledge. We will get to that and the constitution state as well as the nutmeg state. Lets get to the
Right now at 10 00, here on fox 29 news, Doppler Radar lighting up. Some local areas seeing several inches of rain today and its not over yet. Did evening, everybody. Im joyce evans. And im dawn timmeney. Lets get over to mike. Now were starting to dry out in the city, still overcast conditions and some cooler conditions starting to move in. Take a look at our radar estimating between 1 to 3 inches falling north and west of the city and it was so weird because we saw another batch of rain run off the coast and philadelphia was sajd witched in between. We got lucky in some spots. You got lucky because the downpours were more towards the north and to the west. Still seeing some scattered showers and good downpours coming down as you get north and west into lehigh value, north shampton, the deal is isolated the downpours the rest of the evening. Not expecting any kind of widespread flooding concerns. I cant rule out the possibility of say shower or a clap or two of thunder. This low is st
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About his explosive report on how the nations thirdlargest city runs a secret interrogation facility. We will also speak to a woman who was held inside. And we will look at the connection between the Chicago Police department and guantanamo. In 2003, Richard Zuley oversaw one of the most brutal interrogations on record at Guantanamo Bay. But he tested versions of his interrogation techniques in chicago for 30 years. Then to the middle east. As the Islamic State seizes 220 christians in syria while u. S. Led Coalition Airstrikes have reportedly killed over three dozen people in iraq including at least 20 civilians, earlier today, isis posted a video showing members destroying ancient artifacts inside a mozilla museum mo resume days aftersul the Historic Library was destroyed. We will go to the iraqi city and speak to electric cockburn. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Two u. S. Led Coalition Airstrike