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In the News (Wed 11 Nov 09)

  
  Death Penalty Focus
Death penalty opponents from Death Penalty Focus, California People of Faith Working Against the Death Penalty, and Amnesty International USA will embark on a 800 mile Walk to Stop Executions on September 15, 2007.
The purpose of the walk is to draw attention to the issue of the death penalty, unite local activists, and to encourage the district attorney in every county along the walk route not to seek the death penalty in any case.
Sign the petition for abolition of the death penalty.
www.deathpenalty.org   (350 words)

  
  LII: Law about...the Death Penalty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Georgia, 433 U.S., the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty is a grossly disproportionate punishment for the crime of rape of an adult woman.
Simmons (03-633) (2005), the Supreme Court invalidated the death penalty for all juvenile offenders.
The Supreme Court has established that for death penalty sentencing the sentencer's discretion be narrowly guided as to the circumstances that justify imposing the death penalty and that the sentencing process should be individualized.
www.law.cornell.edu /topics/death_penalty.html   (277 words)

  
 Death Penalty
Death penalty critics argue that the high reversal rate in death penalty cases illustrates the fallibility of the criminal justice process.
Because of the intense scrutiny and numerous appeals applied to death penalty cases, a growing number of legal professionals have begun to oppose the death penalty for economic reasons, arguing that the costs of trial and appeals for a capital case are greater than would be the case if the death penalty were not sought.
Death penalty proponents maintain that life imprisonment without possibility of parole is still less expensive and there does not yet appear to be an academic study that has thoroughly evaluated this issue.
www.newsbatch.com /deathpenalty.htm   (1367 words)

  
 History of the Death Penalty & Recent Developments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Death Penalty in the U.S. brief history of the death penalty in the U.S. since 1930, when death penalty statistics began to be collected on a regular basis.
This history emphasize death penalty statistics and the constitutional history of the death penalty and is based primarily on the annual capital punishment bulletins of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.
Texas is the leader in the use of the death penalty in the U.S. Analysis of Texas' experience from an abolitionist viewpoint is a jumping-off point for discussing the implications to the nation as a whole of the possibility of official misconduct in death penalty cases, racism, and inequities in legal representation.
justice.uaa.alaska.edu /death/history.html   (3001 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Capital Punishment (Death Penalty)
Thus, in Exodus 21, that penalty is prescribed for murder, for a wilful assault upon the father or mother of an offender, for cursing a man's father or mother, and for man-stealing.
In the case of the imposition of any penalty upon a criminal in the courts of Athens, the prosecutor proposed the penalty in the first instance and then the person condemned had the privilege of suggesting a different punishment.
The death penalty was publicly inflicted by the guillotine in France, Belgium, Denmark, Hanover, and two cantons of Switzerland.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12565a.htm   (4176 words)

  
 Focus on the Death Penalty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Death Penalty in the United States: A brief history of the death penalty in the U.S. since 1930, when death penalty statistics began to be collected on a regular basis.
Cost of the Death Penalty: Studies on the subject are fairly consistent in concluding that the death penalty is extremely expensive, more expensive even than life imprisonment without possibility of parole.
Moratorium on the Death Penalty: The American Bar Association, Amnesty International, and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions have called for a moratorium on executions in the U.S. until inequities in the application of the death penalty can be addressed.
www.uaa.alaska.edu /just/death   (1596 words)

  
 Death Penalty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
A popular claim against the death penalty is that if the public was given a choice of sentencing murderers to life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty, they would choose to put them in prison.
From the moment an indictment that carries the possibility of the death penalty is handed down, mental suffering or pain is experienced by innocents---the friends and family of the accused---as well as the accused.
If the death penalty is to be part of our system of justice, due process of law and the fair trial guarantees of the Sixth Amendment require that standards and safeguards governing the kinds of evidence juries may consider must be rigorous, and constitutional rights and liberties scrupulously protected.
www.thepubliccause.net /DeathPenalty.html   (9087 words)

  
 The Death Penalty Debate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kansas provides the death penalty in cases of capital murder given one of seven aggravating circumstances; persons determined to be mentally retarded are excluded from capital sentencing.
"Requiring the Death Penalty in the Case of a Law Enforcement Officer Killed in the Line of Duty": A resolution of the National Assocation of Police Organizations (NAPO) expressing support for the death penalty for the murder of a law enforcement or correctional officer by a convict under federal jurisdiction.
An examination of death penalty issues from a Protestant Christian theological standpoint declares that capital punishment is in accord with Holy Scripture and the Lutheran Confession.
justice.uaa.alaska.edu /death/debate.html   (2593 words)

  
 Santorum rethinks death penalty stance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
According to www.ontheissues.org, which tracks voting on social issues, in 1994 Santorum voted against replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment, and in 1996 he helped to kill an effort to make it easier for death row inmates to appeal their convictions..
The March poll showed that 31 percent strongly opposed the death penalty and 17 percent somewhat opposed it, while 22 percent strongly supported the death penalty and 26 percent somewhat supported it.
In the last legislative session, her office supported a bill to ban the death penalty for mentally retarded Pennsylvanians, but it failed because the House and Senate defined mental retardation differently.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05081/475366.stm   (678 words)

  
 Death Penalty
Campaign to End the Death Penalty was founded as local chapters that stress grassroots organizing, regularly organizing to win support for prisoners currently on death row.
Death Penalty Focus is a non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives.
ASC publicly condemns this form of punishment and urges its members to use their professional skills in legislatures and the courts to seek a speedy abolition of this form of punishment.
talkjustice.com /links.asp?453053911   (953 words)

  
 ABCNEWS.com : Poll: Death Penalty Remains in Favor
Still, support for the death penalty is at its lowest level in 20 years, down from a high of 77 percent in 1996.
The Columbia University study, released earlier this month, found that more than two-thirds of death penalty sentences appealed from 1973 through 1995 were overturned by higher courts because of flaws in the way the cases were investigated or tried.
Men tend to favor the death penalty more than women do; whites are much more apt to favor it than are fls; and those with higher incomes are more likely to support it than are those who make less.
abcnews.go.com /sections/politics/DailyNews/poll000619.html   (559 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Penalty [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
used in the plural, penalties or sanctions, with the more restricted meaning of punishment for violating rules of procedure, or for abusing the judicial process.
in sports; for example, in football (soccer) there is a penalty area, otherwise known as the 'eighteen-yard box' due to its size.
Penalty kicks are taken from the penalty spot, twelve yards from the centre of the goal-line.
encyclozine.com /Penalty   (123 words)

  
 Message from the Prosecuting Attorney
Nevertheless, the value of the death penalty in our current system of justice is a limited one and should not be overstated.
However, the risk of making a mistake with the extraordinary due process applied in death penalty cases is very small, and there is no credible evidence to show that any innocent persons have been executed at least since the death penalty was reactivated in 1976.
The 100+ death row inmates "innocent", "exonerated" and released, as trumpeted by anti-death penalty activists, is a fraud.
www.clarkprosecutor.org /html/death/death.htm   (600 words)

  
 Death Penalty: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns
By working towards the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty looks to end the cycle of violence created by a system riddled with economic and racial bias and tainted by human error.
Kiraitu Murungi, pledged that his government was committed to abolishing the death penalty and was in the process of commuting all death sentences to life imprisonment.
Around the world, the death penalty is used as a tool of political repression and a means to forever silence political opponents or eliminate politically "troublesome" individuals.
www.amnestyusa.org /abolish/index.do   (635 words)

  
 Prison Activist Resource Center: Death Penalty
Abolition Road was founded to take the message of abolition of the death penalty on the road in order to educate the people on the real picture of what the death penalty is: an arbitrarily used, irreversible state sanctioned murder that is racially and economically biased and kills innocent people.
Bruderhof Death Penalty Page: Articles and links against the death penalty from this grassroots-oriented religious community.
NJustice: Opposing the death penalty in PA, giving a human face to those on the row.
www.prisonactivist.org /death-penalty   (428 words)

  
 American Civil Liberties Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The decision highlights the need to continue to reassess the death penalty system, even when trying adults.
The death penalty is the greatest denial of civil liberties.
Where a death sentence is sought often determines whether a defendant is sentenced to death more than the circumstances of the crime.
www.aclu.org /death-penalty   (403 words)

  
 Death Penalty Links
At the dawn of the 21st century, the death penalty is considered by most civilized nations as a cruel and inhuman punishment.
The Death Penalty and the North Carolina Department of Correction - by the NC Dpt of Correction
A Declaration of Life - Document you can use to express your distaste for the death penalty and your desire for it not to be applied if you become the victim of murder.
www.derechos.org /dp   (1020 words)

  
 Death Penalty
Ethics Update's punishment and death penalty page has links to selected resources, including those to court decisions, legislation, statistical information, full text articles, information about particular sites, and NPR's "Talk of the Nation" programs on the death penalty.
Offers up-to-date information on the death penalty, including what's new, information on the number of executions (Execution Watch) and those on death row in the U.S., bibliography of resources, links to ACLU publications, congressional materials, links to other sites, and more.
Through public education and activism, the group works to increase opposition to the death penalty in the general public and among the state's leaders.
www.plu.edu /~libr/web/deathpen.html   (711 words)

  
 Death Penalty 2003
The Death Penalty in the United States - a look at the death penalty process and how it differs from the United Kingdom; section on appeals.
Mental Retardation and the Death Penalty - information and recent news from the Death Penalty Information Center; be sure to read summaries of the states' criteria for establishing and defining mental retardation.
Death Penalty: Uncertain Justice - a special report from Seattle P-I; be sure to click on the links that apply--there are data and graphs within the articles.
www.westirondequoit.org /ihs/library/deathpenalty.html   (1216 words)

  
 death penalty on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The death penalty as delineated by the Old Testament: from Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel to Noah and the Flood to Abraham and Sodom to Moses and the Ten Commandments, Biblical passages trace the roots for how modern...
Death penalty debate: as Connecticut's first execution since 1960 draws near, state's bishops urge Catholics to speak out.(Capital Punishment)(Cover Story)
A view to a kill: unlike capital punishment in the United States, Japan's death penalty is on the rise.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-deathpnlty.asp   (392 words)

  
 Death Penalty Links
The Pope Versus the Death Penalty by Fr.
Short opinion column expressing opposition to the death penalty in the abstract, but recognizing the difficulty of that position where the crime is brutal, the evidence clear, and the victim your child.
Pro-Death Penalty organization founded in 1977, whose primary mission is to defend and promote the principles of free enterprise and individual rights through advocacy of free-enterprise principles, limited government, property rights, and reform of the civil and criminal justice system.
www.clarkprosecutor.org /html/links/dplinks.htm   (10610 words)

  
 Project for Global Democracy and Human Rights: The Death Penalty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In reality the death penalty is reserved for people who do not have enough money to defend themselves.
America’s growing isolation on the death penalty and juvenile justice
Texas: a death penalty case costs an average of $2.3 million, about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years.
www.worldpolicy.org /globalrights/dp/deathpenalty.html   (466 words)

  
 HRW: The Death Penalty in the U.S.A.
These principles cannot be reconciled with the death penalty, a form of punishment that is unique in its barbarity and finality.
The intrinsic fallibility of all criminal justice systems assures that even when full due process of law is respected, innocent persons may be executed.
Stop the reinstatement of the death penalty in New York
www.hrw.org /campaigns/deathpenalty   (207 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / Tenth place in the world - success or not?
Only after receiving the goal, the Yugoslav footballers started attacking and at the beginning of the second halftime, already in 48th minute, Slobodan Komljenovic equalized, after captain Dragan Stojkovic sent the ball into the penalty area where Komljenovic received it hitting the ball with his head into a goal.
Vladimir Jugovic was fouled in the penalty area and Spanish referee Garcia Aranda showed at the 11m point.
The missed penalty so much demoralized the Yugoslav players that they gave away the initiative to aggressive Dutchmen.
www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-06/08/12393.html   (882 words)

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