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Saturday, September 06, 2008   19:13 GMT

Stories by Adrianne Appel

Adrianne Appel has written for IPS since 2006. From 1992-1995, she reported from Washington, DC on U.S. domestic politics, including health, environment and science policy. In 1996, she moved her news reporting to Boston, Massachusetts, and specialises in health and environmental reporting, and investigative projects involving U.S. corporate malfeaseance. She has also written numerous stories for IPS on the death penalty abolition movement in the U.S.

RIGHTS-US: Death Row Activist Prepares New Appeal
by Adrianne Appel
Mumia Abu-Jamal rallied thousands of protesters in the U.S. city of Denver last week who were calling for the release of U.S. political prisoners.
DEATH PENALTY-US: D-Day Approaching for Overflowing Death Row
by Adrianne Appel
A high-level California commission has sounded the death knell for the state's 'dysfunctional' death penalty system, calling for an infusion of hundreds of millions of dollars or the closing down of the state's death chamber.
DEATH PENALTY-US: Exonerations Speed Change of Mind
by Adrianne Appel
After more than a decade of DNA tests, appeals and waiting on death row, Texas prisoner Michael Blair is likely to be exonerated soon, further undermining public confidence in the infallibility of the U.S. death penalty system.
DEATH PENALTY-US: Catch-Up Wave of Executions Feared
by Adrianne Appel
Anti-death penalty activists are bracing themselves for a wave of executions across the U.S. after the state of Georgia moved swiftly to end the life of William E. Lynd following the Supreme Court's ruling that lethal injection was not a violation of the constitution.
DEATH PENALTY-US: Court Says, 'Pay Up - Or Let Live!'
by Adrianne Appel
After eight years and millions of dollars spent, New Mexico has decided to quit pursuing two death penalty cases when lawmakers ducked away from voting additional money for court-appointed defence lawyers.
RIGHTS-US: Court Rules No Death Row for Mumia Abu Jamal
by Adrianne Appel
A federal court has ruled that Mumia Abu Jamal, known the world over in the fight against the death penalty, be taken off death row for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia policeman Daniel Faulkner.
WOMEN'S DAY: Science No Longer a Boy's Club
by Adrianne Appel
In 2001, Dr. Henrietta Edmonds made a startling discovery during a rare expedition in the frozen arctic: Smoky, particulate-rich plumes of hot water swirled 3,000 metres under the ice -- a sign of hydrothermal vents on the sea floor -- and lots of them.
ENVIRONMENT: Household Chemicals Wreaking Havoc in Fish
by Adrianne Appel
When people take their daily doses of birth control pills, antidepressants and antibiotics, fish are being dosed too.
SCIENCE: Deposing the Tyranny of English
by Adrianne Appel
For scientists around the world, it is publish -- in English -- or perish.
RIGHTS-US: Execution Moratorium May Outlive High Court Ruling
by Adrianne Appel
The U.S. Supreme Court is unlikely to outlaw lethal injection, the United States' main form of execution, when it rules on a test case this spring, but many states may continue their de facto moratoriums well into the future, amid ongoing legal battles about the issue in their own state courts.
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