Death Penalty Focus
Former director of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and former warden at San Quentin Prison, which houses the State's Death Row; Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus, a group that advocates against the death penalty
Former Death Row Warden to Head Anti-Death Penalty Group Jeanne Woodford resigned as Governor Schwarzenegger's Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation four years ago. Before that, she spent 26 years at San Quentin prison, where she became the warden and presided over four executions. Now she's taking another job -- as Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus , a group working for the abolition of capital punishment.
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.
Trump's new look at civil rights and global warming President Trump is reportedly ready to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We look at the possible consequences. On the second half of the program, we hear about cuts in Obama-Era civil rights programs called for by the Trump Administration's first budget plan.