Death Penalty
Tuesday June 27, 2006
Death Penalty: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - For many years, few questioned whether Carlos De Luna deserved to die.
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.
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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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.
Friday January 13, 2006
Death Penalty: DNA Tests Confirm Man Executed in 1992 for Rape, Murder in Virginia Was Guilty
Wednesday November 30, 2005
Death Penalty: AIUSA Says System Too Plagued with Error and Bias to be Fair, Just or Necessary
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Friday January 7, 2005
Death Penalty: BRIDGEPORT — As the execution of serial killer Michael Ross looms, Bishop William E. Lori this weekend invites the 400,000 Roman Catholics of the Diocese of Bridgeport to sign a petition calling for an end to the death penalty.
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