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Tuesday January 8, 2008
Death Penalty • Human Rights Violations • Michael W. Ryan • USA:
“If there’s anyone that should die of the death penalty, it would be Michael Ryan,” Kelle said, “but I don’t feel that we have the right to say who should live or die.”
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Sunday December 30, 2007
Death Penalty • Human Right Violations • USA • West Memphis Three:
Nearly 15 years ago, the brutal murder of three Arkansas Cub Scouts in an alleged satanic rite sickened a nation and strengthened the hand of death penalty champions across the United States. Now the same ghastly crime may be the final nail in the coffin of capital punishment in an America that is manifesting a crisis of conscience over the morality of executions.
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Sunday December 16, 2007
Death Penalty • Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
New Jersey joins the civilized world: The New Jersey General Assembly approved a bill eliminating capital punishment on Thursday, clearing the way for Gov. Jon S. Corzine to sign the measure as early as Monday.
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Monday September 3, 2007
Death Penalty • Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Since capital punishment was reinstated in the United States three decades ago, 124 people awaiting execution have been exonerated. For some prisoners, the appeals process provided time to prove their innocence. Now a move by the government to speed up appeals has alarmed death penalty opponents, and even some supporters, who worry that innocent people could be put to death.
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Monday August 13, 2007
Death Penalty • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Texas will almost certainly hit the grim total of 400 executions this month, far ahead of any other state, testament to the influence of the state’s conservative evangelical Christians and its cultural mix of Old South and Wild West.
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Tuesday April 24, 2007
Death Penalty • Human Rights Violations • USA:
How to reconcile the needs of a society given to vengeance but outwardly abhorrent of cruelty or violence, trusting of medical science’s trappings but indifferent to their use in killing, expecting the highest ethics of its physicians but willing to medicalize the execution chamber?
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Death Penalty • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Research reveals some people executed by lethal injection in the US regain consciousness while they are dying.
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Tuesday April 10, 2007
Death Penalty • Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Questions about justice, expense undermining political support for capital punishment.
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Thursday January 4, 2007
Death Penalty:
Italy will campaign at the United Nations for a global ban on the death penalty, Prime Minister Romano Prodi has said.
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Death Penalty • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Texas, where more inmates were executed last year but fewer people were actually sentenced to die, is in the spotlight as lawmakers, judges, even community leaders in Italy are calling for change to the state’s ultimate punishment.
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Saturday December 30, 2006
Death Penalty:
The state Supreme Court upheld the death sentence Thursday of a Bakersfield man for a 1994 rape-murder, saying jury deliberations were not tainted by biblical passages circulated by a juror, including one that called for delivery of fornicators unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved.
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Tuesday June 27, 2006
Death Penalty:
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - For many years, few questioned whether Carlos De Luna deserved to die.
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Thursday April 20, 2006
Death Penalty:
LONDON (Reuters) - More than 2,000 people were known to have been executed around the world last year, the vast majority of them in China, followed by Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
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Saturday January 14, 2006
Death Penalty:
DNA has the power to cut short nightmares -- the horror of an innocent man behind bars for a crime someone else committed, the fear of a murderer walking free and looking to kill again.
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Death Penalty:
If the scheduled execution of Clarence Ray Allen goes forward on Jan. 16 the day after his 76th birthday he will be the oldest person executed in California since the death penalty was reinstated. But he will not be the first elderly, seriously ill inmate executed, nor will he be the last. Similarly, although his case received extraordinary media coverage, Stanley Tookie Williams was neither the first nor the last prisoner put to death who many believe had profoundly changed while in prison.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 - Criminal justice was not high on Mark Warner's to-do list when he was elected governor of Virginia in 2001. And he did not mention the subject in his farewell address to the legislature on Wednesday.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) New Jersey lawmakers voted Monday to suspend executions while a task force studies the fairness and costs of imposing the death penalty.
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Friday January 13, 2006
Death Penalty:
DNA Tests Confirm Man Executed in 1992 for Rape, Murder in Virginia Was Guilty
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Wednesday November 30, 2005
Death Penalty:
AIUSA Says System Too Plagued with Error and Bias to be Fair, Just or Necessary
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Monday November 21, 2005
Death Penalty:
LOS ANGELES -- Day and night, a cadre of the condemned -- 3,500 men and 54 women -- await their fate on the death rows of US prisons.
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Friday October 21, 2005
Death Penalty:
Bud Welch had always been against the death penalty, but he was never an activist until the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing killed his only daughter, Julie Marie, among 167 other people.
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Tuesday October 18, 2005
Death Penalty:
A Scot on death row in America will have to wait another two weeks before learning if his conviction remains overturned.
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Monday October 17, 2005
Death Penalty:
When pressed, many Americans who support capital punishment will say it's because the Bible requires it. But does it? In "The Biblical Truth About America's Death Penalty," a long and detailed study of the huge American support for the death penalty, Dale S. Recinella presents convincing exegeses of both Hebrew and Christian texts and concludes that, in using Scripture to justify capital punishment, we misunderstand Old Testament laws and ignore the Gospels and the example of Jesus.
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Sunday January 23, 2005
Death Penalty:
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian citizenship should be ended over the execution of a convicted killer in the US, a politician in Austria has said.
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Monday January 17, 2005
Death Penalty:
Ledyard Barbara Souder believes that all life is sacred, so she found it easy to agree when church leaders at Our Lady of Lourdes Church asked her to oversee a petition drive Saturday evening to abolish the death penalty.
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Most Read about Death Penalty
- New evidence suggests Texas execution was case of mistaken identity
- Religion, Culture Behind Texas Execution Tally
- Court upholds death penalty despite juror's Bible verses
- Resistance to death penalty growing
- Executed in US may be awake as they suffocate
- PLoS Medicine editorial: Lethal Injection Is Not Humane
- Victim's sister hopes to make death penalty personal for senators
- Satanist case may close death row
- China, Iran, Saudi, US main executioners: Amnesty
- Death row inmate stirs spiritual debate
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