Social Issues

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Demonstrators gather for a rally in the rotunda at the State Capitol in Lansing, Mich., on Dec. 11, 2012, to protest right-to-work legislation passed the previous week. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rep. Tom Price, Georgia Republican, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Feb. 11, 2011. (Associated Press)

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (center), Kentucky Republican, steps off the Senate floor at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, before speaking with reporters following a GOP strategy luncheon. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. addresses a filibuster rally on the steps of the Capitol , Wednesday, May 18, 2005. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (right), Kentucky Republican, gestures as he speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, following a GOP strategy luncheon. With him (from left) are Republican Sens. John Barrasso of Wyoming and John Thune of South Dakota. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, gestures as he takes a call in his office before the jobs bill cloture vote on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. A bipartisan jobs bill cleared a GOP filibuster with critical momentum provided by the Senate's newest Republican, Sen. Scott P. Brown of Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

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**FILE** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., discusses the Senate's upcoming votes on judicial nominations during a news conference on Capitol Hill Tuesday, May 24, 2005. In the back ground are Rep. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., center, and Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

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**FILE** Former death row inmate Earl Washington Jr. smiles during a Feb. 12, 2001, news conference in Virginia Beach, Va., as Marie Deans, a member of his legal team, listens. Washington was released from prison thanks to DNA tests showing he was wrongly convicted in the 1982 rape and slaying of Rebecca Lynn Williams. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** This photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows the electric chair used in the July 20, 2006, execution of death row inmate Brandon Wayne Hedrick, who chose the electric chair as his method of execution rather than lethal injection. Hedrick was convicted of the 1997 abduction, robbery, rape and murder of Lisa Crider. (Associated Press/Virginia Department of Corrections)

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**FILE** Demonstrators chant slogans against the death penalty at a Sept. 21, 2011, rally in Jackson, Ga., for Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis, who was executed later that day for the 1991 murder of a police officer. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** William "Billy" Mitchell, 35, of Folkston, Ga., seen here in an undated photo, was executed in 1987 for the 1974 murder of a 14-year-old boy during a convenience store robbery. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** This undated photo provided by the Idaho Department of Correction shows death row inmate Paul Ezra Rhoades. Rhoades was convicted of three murders in Idaho Falls and Blackfoot in 1988 and sentenced to death for two of them. (Associated Press/Idaho Department of Correction)

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**FILE** An anti-death penalty protester in Jackson, Ga., is helped off the ground Sept. 21, 2011, after hearing about a delay of the execution of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis by the U.S. Supreme Court. Davis was convicted of killing off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail. (Associated Press)

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“You can release an innocent person from prison but you can't release them from the grave,” said Randy Steidl, a former death row inmate in Illinois. (Associated Press)

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Nafissatou Diallo, a hotel housekeeper who had contended she was sexually assaulted by then-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, agreed to a settlement Monday in court in New York. The amount of the settlement was kept confidential. Mr. Strauss-Kahn did not attend the hearing. (Associated Press)