CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - For many years, few questioned whether Carlos De Luna deserved to die.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DNA Tests Confirm Man Executed in 1992 for Rape, Murder in Virginia Was Guilty

AIUSA Says System Too Plagued with Error and Bias to be Fair, Just or Necessary

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.

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.

A Scot on death row in America will have to wait another two weeks before learning if his conviction remains overturned.

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian citizenship should be ended over the execution of a convicted killer in the US, a politician in Austria has said.

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.

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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