Skip to main content.
Religion News Blog is a non-profit service providing academics, religion professionals and other researchers with religion & cult news
ReligionNewsBlog

Religion news articles about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues

Navigation:
A Random Image


Death Penalty

This is Religion News Blog's news page on Death Penalty. See our front page for more religion news.
Tuesday January 8, 2008
Death PenaltyHuman Rights ViolationsMichael W. RyanUSA:
“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.”
» Full Story

Sunday December 30, 2007
Death PenaltyHuman Right ViolationsUSAWest 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.
» Full Story

Sunday December 16, 2007
Death PenaltyEthicsHuman Rights ViolationsUSA:
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.
» Full Story

Monday September 3, 2007
Death PenaltyEthicsHuman Rights ViolationsUSA:
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.
» Full Story

Monday August 13, 2007
Death PenaltyHuman Rights ViolationsUSA:
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.
» Full Story

Tuesday April 24, 2007
Death PenaltyHuman Rights ViolationsUSA:
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?
» Full Story

Death PenaltyHuman Rights ViolationsUSA:
Research reveals some people executed by lethal injection in the US regain consciousness while they are dying.
» Full Story

Tuesday April 10, 2007
Death PenaltyEthicsHuman Rights ViolationsUSA:
Questions about justice, expense undermining political support for capital punishment.
» Full Story

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.
» Full Story

Death PenaltyHuman Rights ViolationsUSA:
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.
» Full Story

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.
» Full Story

Tuesday June 27, 2006
Death Penalty:
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - For many years, few questioned whether Carlos De Luna deserved to die.
» Full Story

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.
» Full Story

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.
» Full Story

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.
» Full Story

Death Penalty:
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.
» Full Story

Death Penalty:
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.
» Full Story

Friday January 13, 2006
Death Penalty:
DNA Tests Confirm Man Executed in 1992 for Rape, Murder in Virginia Was Guilty
» Full Story

Wednesday November 30, 2005
Death Penalty:
AIUSA Says System Too Plagued with Error and Bias to be Fair, Just or Necessary
» Full Story

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.
» Full Story

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.
» Full Story

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.
» Full Story

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.
» Full Story

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.
» Full Story

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.
» Full Story

Older »


Death Penalty Research Resources

RSS News Feed Our Death Penalty news feed with only items about Death Penalty

Books about Death Penalty

Apologetics Research Resources on Death Penalty


Factlet

Check it out:
What is a cult: Cult Definition


Advertisement




About Religion News Blog

Religion News Blog (RNB), published by Apologetics Index, highlights news items and other resources on world religions, cults, religious sects, new religious movements, alternative religions, abusive churches and - to a lesser extent - related issues (e.g. ethics, human rights).

The information is provided for research and educational purposes.

RNB's non-profit news clipping service is used by - among others - Christian apologists, countercult professionals, anticult organizations, cult experts, teachers, religion professionals, reporters and other researchers.

Categories / News Trackers:
Samples of the hundreds of religious news subjects covered in Religion News Blog include (click links for respective news trackers): the Alpha Course, Alternative Healing, Catholic Church, Christianity, Cults, Falun Gong, Hate Groups, Interfaith issues, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism / Mormon Church, Polygamy, Religion Trends, Scientology, Transcendental Meditation, Unification Church, Wicca / Witchcraft, and many more.
[More info : How to link]

Home
Latest Headlines
RSS news feed [?]
Headlines by Email
News Trackers
Free content for your site
About RNB
Privacy Policy
Contact RNB
Link to RNB
Advertise on RNB
Apologetics Index
Cult FAQ
Apologetics Search Engine
CounterCult Search Engine