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  Capital punishment in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Capital punishment in the United States is officially sanctioned by 36 of the 50 states, as well as by the federal government and the military.
Capital punishment was suspended in the United States between 1973 and 1976 as a result of several decisions of the United States Supreme Court, primarily the case of Furman v.
In Furman, the United States Supreme Court specifically struck down Georgia's "unitary trial" procedure, in which the jury was asked to return a verdict of guilt or innocence and, simultaneously, determine whether the defendant would be punished by death or life imprisonment.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States   (3801 words)

  
 United States Marine Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the U.S. military, which along with the U.S. Navy, is under the United States Department of the Navy.
In many conflicts, members of the other armed forces of the United States have complained that the Marine Corps often emphasizes its prowess at the expense of the reputation of Army or Navy units which are nearby.
Units of battalion size or larger may be reinforced by the addition of supporting tank or artillery units, as in the Battalion Landing Teams comprising the GCEs of Marine Expeditionary Units.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps   (9570 words)

  
 List of individuals executed by the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of individuals executed by the United States.
The United States federal government (in comparison to the separate states) applies the death penalty for certain crimes: treason, espionage, federal murder, large scale drug trafficking and attempting to kill a witness, juror, or court officer in certain cases.
Since 1963, three people have been executed by the federal government of the United States.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_individuals_executed_by_the_United_States   (274 words)

  
 Capital punishment in the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
These had led to 820 executions, 3557 prisoners on death row—all for murder, 268 who died while incarcerated of natural causes, suicide or murder, 176 whose sentences were commuted by governors or state pardon boards, and 2403 who were released, retried or resentenced by the courts.
Capital punishment was suspended in the USA between 1967 and 1976 as a result of several decisions of the United States Supreme Court, primarily the case of Furman v.
Sixteen was held to be the minimum permissible age in the 1988 Supreme Court of the United States decison of Thompson v.
capital-punishment-in-the-united-states.kiwiki.homeip.net   (1799 words)

  
 List of individuals executed in Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A total of 17 individuals convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Indiana in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977.
Since the reinstatement of the death penalty, three people have had their sentences carried out at Terre Haute, including Timothy McVeigh, implicated in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings.
These executions are separate from those on this list, which is for those executed by the state government of Indiana.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_individuals_executed_in_Indiana   (198 words)

  
 The New Yorker: Fact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The states were almost all dynastic, with shifting frontiers, and it is surely significant that, in the immensely rich historiography of the Islamic world in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, there are histories of dynasties, of cities, and, primarily, of the Islamic state and community, but no histories of Arabia, Persia, or Turkey.
Ironically, it was the United States, in the end, that was left to orchestrate an Islamic response to Soviet imperialism in Afghanistan.
The United States' abandonment of Afghanistan after the departure of the Soviets was understood in much the same way as its abandonment of the Iraqi rebels.
www.newyorker.com /fact/content/011119fa_FACT2   (8153 words)

  
 friendly dictators
Although Ronald Reagan's State Department asserted "there has not been a single clear-cut case of political killing, within months of Cerezo's inauguration, opposition leaders attributed 56 murders to security forces and death squads, while Americas Watch claimed that "throughout 1986, violent killings were reported in the Guatemalan press at the rate of 100 per month".
Saudi Arabia is supported by the United States and other western democracies because of the enormous oil wealth that lies below the country's desert sands, its pro-West stance, and the royal family's staunch anti-fundamentalist position.
Indonesia is a totalitarian state and its uncontested ruler for over 20 years, General Suharto, is one of the most brutal dictators in history.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html   (9246 words)

  
 United States of America - Amnesty International
Military commissions are executive bodies, not independent or impartial courts, with the power to hand down death sentences; there is no right of appeal against their decisions to any court.
Osvaldo Torres’ execution was subsequently commuted by the governor of Oklahoma following an appeal for clemency from the President of Mexico and a recommendation for commutation from the state clemency board.
Kelsey Patterson, diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, was executed in Texas on 18 May. The Texas governor rejected a recommendation for clemency from the state Board of Pardons and Paroles in his case.
web.amnesty.org /report2005/usa-summary-eng   (3264 words)

  
 USA - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The autopsy report listed the cause of death as “positional asphyxia, secondary to the application of restraints in the setting of acute cocaine intoxication”.
The moratorium on executions in Illinois, announced by the state Governor in January 2000 because of the number of wrongful convictions in capital cases, was still in force at the end of 2002.
In May, the Governor of Maryland announced a moratorium on executions in his state pending the outcome of a study into racial and geographic disparities in its capital sentencing, which had not been published by the end of the year.
web.amnesty.org /report2003/usa-summary-eng   (3076 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This is so that those interested in the subject can monitor changes to the pages by clicking on Related Changes in the sidebar and on the bottom of the page.
This list is not necessarily complete or up to date - if you see an article that should be here but isn't (or one that shouldn't be here but is), please update the page accordingly.
List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council and House of Lords cases
www.braindex.com /encyclopedia/legaltopics.htm   (465 words)

  
 Darfur: Policy of Impunity
Annex 1: Partial list of individuals who should be investigated by the ICC
This list is not a comprehensive list of all individuals potentially liable for crimes in Darfur.
The individuals listed below are included because, as described in the text of the report, they are or were the senior government officials in their districts or states when crimes amounting to war crimes or crimes against humanity were committed by government forces.
www.hrw.org /campaigns/darfur/impunity/list.htm   (626 words)

  
 USDOJ: USPC: Our History
A federal offender serving his sentence in a state institution was eligible for parole under the same terms and conditions and by the same authority as a prisoner committed to that institution by a state court, but all such paroles were subject to approval by the United States Board of Parole.
The warrant may be executed by any officer of the prison from which the parolee was released or by any federal officer authorized to serve criminal process within the United States.
Executive Secretary of the Minnesota Governor's Second and Third State Conference on Youth; Chairman, Minnesota State Interagency Recreational Council; Chairman, Committee on Community Organization of the Minnesota State Welfare Conference; Delegate, Mid-Century White House Conference on Children and Youth; Chairman, Parole Council, Member of Board of Trustees, National Conference Committee, National Conference on Parole.
www.usdoj.gov /uspc/history.htm   (14829 words)

  
 USA - religious cults, sects, and human rights issues in America
The United States was the fifth-largest user of capital punishment in 2000, carrying out 85 executions, the non-profit group Hands off Cain [English version]- a Rome-based league of citizens and MPs for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide - said in late June.
Forty-five individuals were executed in 1998 as of September; the U.S. had broken its previous record in 1997, by executing a total of seventy-four persons.
In April 1998, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions released his report on the death penalty in the U.S. The special rapporteur found that the death penalty was applied in an unfair, arbitrary, and discriminatory manner.
www.apologeticsindex.org /usa-00.html   (5460 words)

  
 The Henry L. Stimson Center - History of the US Offensive Biological Warfare Program
February 1942: The requested National Academy of Sciences report concludes that human, animal and plant populations in the United States are susceptible to biological weapons attack.
In response to a Soviet assertion that biological and chemical weapons would be used in future wars, the United States decides to prepare for use of both chemical and biological weapons.
December 1966: The UN General Assembly passes a resolution urging all states to observe the 1925 Geneva Protocol and recommending that the United States establish a no-first-use policy for its biological weapons.
www.stimson.org /?sn=cb2001121275   (3651 words)

  
 The Wage Slave Journal: George W. Bush Scorecard of Evil
A State Department memo indicates that the administration is using the new AIDS funds as a tool to expand the gag rules it has put on foreign aid as a gift to the right-wing extremists who have Karl Rove's ear.
Reporting pollutants and their sources are one area where the United States outstrips Europe and other regions of the world in environmental responsibility.
With a chief of staff who used to be the head spokesperson for the auto industry and a bunch of campaign contributions from the same folks, it's hardly surprising to see Bush going to bat against California, against the environment, and for the profits of the car manufacturers.
jesseberney.com /scorecard_print.html   (12581 words)

  
 Religious Movements in the United States (Miller)
This religious diversity has been around for a long time, thanks in significant part to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees that no religion will have governmental endorsement and that all Americans are free to practice the religions of their choice.
Their movement was based in a critique of what they regarded as the cold, empty forms of their state churches; they sought to return to a religion of the heart, a religion of piety and discipline and community.
Immediately increased numbers of Asians began to move to the United States, and among them were spiritual teachers who brought new religious paths to a land previously dominated by certain mainstream forms of Christianity and Judaism.
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /essays/miller2003.htm   (5149 words)

  
 cars - Category:Lists of people who were executed in the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Category:Lists of people who were executed in the United States
This category contains lists of people who were executed in the United States.
Articles in category "Lists of people who were executed in the United States"
www.carluvers.com /cars/Category:Lists_of_people_who_were_executed_in_the_United_States   (83 words)

  
 WW2 Internment in the United States
He stated that he could not as to the Germans and Italians, but that he did not believe there would be very many more arrests of Japanese.
I told him that in preparing these lists care should be taken so that only the names of the persons we should arrest would appear on them; that this would eliminate the necessity of the Buraeu checking its files to verify the lists.
Similar action is to be started by police departments in other cities, towns and villages throughout the United States so that government operatives may be able to put their fingers on any alien in any community at almost anytime..
www.foitimes.com /internment/chrono.html   (1979 words)

  
 Christianity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The formal charge cited in his execution was leading a rebellion (Luke 23:1-5): he was called the "King of the Jews" by Pontius Pilate (John 19:19-22, see Luke 16:8) on the titulus crucis or statement of the charge hung over the condemned on the cross.
Adherents to Fundamentalist Christianity, particularly in the United States, also perceived threats from new theories about the age of the Earth and the evolution of life.
These beliefs are stated in a number of creeds, of which the most important and widely used are probably the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, commonly known as the Nicene Creed.
christianity.ask.dyndns.dk   (5128 words)

  
 James Autry - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
James David Autry (August 27, 1954 – 14 March 1984) was a convicted murderer in the U.S. state of Texas, executed by lethal injection.
In October 1983 he had been strapped in the gurney in the execution chamber, with the needles in his arms, when a stay of execution came through.
He would be later executed on 14 March 1984, in the second execution in Texas since the reintroduction of the death penalty in the state after Gregg v.
www.voyager.in /James_Autry   (238 words)

  
 The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky by Keith Windschuttle
It was a largely anti-American tirade criticizing the United States’ international human rights record, blaming America for the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, accusing it of ignoring Iraq’s gassing of the Kurds, and holding it responsible for the purported deaths of 600,000 Iraqi children as a result of post-1991 economic sanctions.
There are dangerous tendencies in the ideology of the welfare state intelligentsia who claim to possess the technique and understanding required to manage our “postindustrial society” and to organize the international society dominated by the American superpower.
The left was willing to tolerate the most hideous acts of state terrorism by the Saddam Hussein regime, but was implacable in its hostility to intervention by Western democratic governments in the interests of both their own security and the emancipation of the Iraqi people.
www.newcriterion.com /archive/21/may03/chomsky.htm   (5630 words)

  
 Significant Terrorist Incidents 1961-2003: A Brief Chronology
Empire State Building Sniper Attack, February 23, 1997: A Palestinian gunman opened fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland, and France before turning the gun on himself.
The two anthrax cases were the first to appear in the United States in 25 years.
The diplomats were on their way to interview Palestinian candidates for Fulbright scholarships to study in the United States.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm   (10869 words)

  
 Executions in the United States
Executions by State, from 1608-1976 and 1976-present (Compiled from the Espy database)
Historical Executions: The Espy File - Executions in the United States, 1608-1987, viewable in PDF format
State Execution Rates (states ranked by per capita execution rate)
www.deathpenaltyinfo.org /article.php?did=414&scid=8   (81 words)

  
 United States Department of Justice
Under the Patriot Act, the definition of "domestic terrorism" is limited to conduct that (1) violates federal or state criminal law and (2) is dangerous to human life.
In some cases if criminals are tipped off too early to an investigation, they might flee, destroy evidence, intimidate or kill witnesses, cut off contact with associates, or take other action to evade arrest.
This tool can be used only with a court order, in extremely narrow circumstances when immediate notification may result in death or physical harm to an individual, flight from prosecution, evidence tampering, witness intimidation, or serious jeopardy to an investigation.
www.lifeandliberty.gov /subs/u_myths.htm   (902 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch: United States: :
HRW was concerned, however, about the substance of a number of the United States’ responses.
Since our last submission, the United States has enacted or begun to undertake new laws, policies, and practices that reflect the continuing failure of the U.S. to fully accept its obligations under the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Incompetence, negligence, and irresponsibility by U.S. states put condemned prisoners at needless risk of excruciating pain during lethal injection executions, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
www.hrw.org /doc?t=usa&document_limit=20,20   (1274 words)

  
 Nazi Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It disbanded state parliaments, transferred sovereign rights of the states to the Reich central government and put the state administrations under the control of the Reich administration.
It declared war on the United States in December of 1941 after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
Although a minority were sentenced to death and executed, Most were released by the mid-1950s on account of health and old age.
nazi-germany.iqnaut.net   (2821 words)

  
 CHRISTIAN RECONSTRUCTIONISM, DOMINION THEOLOGY AND THEONOMY
Its followers, called Dominionists, are attempting to peacefully convert the laws of United States so that they match those of the Hebrew Scriptures.
At that time that this essay was originally written, this was the only religious movement in North America of which we were aware which advocates genocide for followers of minority religions and non-conforming members of their own religion.
People will be executed for adultery, blasphemy, heresy, homosexual behavior, idolatry, prostitution, evil sorcery (some translations say Witchcraft), etc. The Bible requires those found guilty of these "crimes" to be either stoned to death or burned alive.
www.religioustolerance.org /reconstr.htm   (2302 words)

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