Bi-Partisan Panel: States Should Use Single Drug for Executions to Reduce Errors

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A bipartisan panel of criminal justice experts concluded that states should administer capital punishment with a single drug approved by the U.S. government for executions, the Washington Post reports. The legal research team called the Constitution Project released the 165-page study, which also calls for lethal-injection protocols in each of the 35…

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Former Leaders of FBI, DEA Urge Stricter Privacy Laws in GPS Tracking

By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The tension between effective law enforcement and personal privacy is always present to some degree, but has certainly intensified in the decade following 9/11. Now, a bipartisan group including former FBI and DEA leaders are calling for new safeguards to protect individuals’ personal privacy. The Constitution Project, a D.C.-based think tank,…

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