Co Founder of LA Gang, Crips, speaks from dead

Alvin Yang 7 months ago Region: California

Today, the US is one of many nations who still retain the death penalty. Pro Capital Punishment arguements are that it it gets rid of uncurable criminals. A shining example that contradicts this theory is Stanley "Tookie" ... more

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Death Penalty for Madagascar Farmers in Land Dispute

Global Voices a year ago Region: Madagascar

Posted by Lova Rakotomalala to Global Voices Online 21 farmers from the locality of Ankorondrano-Analavory (90 km west of Antananarivo, Madagascar) were sentenced by the state court of Miarinarivo to various sentences b... more

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The Death Penalty and the Constitution

Gwen Ellen Ochsenbein 2 years ago Region: Indiana

The controversy between whether Capital punishment is unconstitutional and biblical contradiction has been going on for close to 50 years.  We must take into consideration that in order to translate the variances of t... more

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Mark Schwab, Convicted Child Killer, To Be Executed In Florida At 6 PM EST

Can Tran a year ago Region: United States

On Tuesday, July 1, 2008, which is today, Florida will carry out its first execution since 2006. The person on death row is 39 year old Mark Dean Schwab, the convicted child killer. Schwab has been charged for the death of... more

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Stephen Bryant Sentenced to Death for 2004 Murders

Joe DeFranceschi a year ago Region: South Carolina

Stephen Bryant, 27, was sentenced to death today for three murders he committed over the course of a week in 2004. He hung his head as a South Carolina Circuit Judge read that he was to be sentenced to life in prison for t... more

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Obama: 'People That Rape Children Deserve The Death Penalty'

Can Tran a year ago Region: United States

Presumed GOP nominee Senator John McCain of Arizona and presumed Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama of Illinois may have just one thing in common as of late. Recently, the Supreme Court had ruled that it was illegal t... more

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India Is Urged To Stop Implimenting The Death Penalty

Can Tran a year ago Region: India

According to the human rights group known as Amnesty International, it is concerned about discrimination in regards to the courts handing out the death penalty. As a result, it has urged India’s government to ban exe... more

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Lethal Injection Not Unconstitutional In Recent US Supreme Court Ruling

Can Tran a year ago Region: United States

As the US Supreme Court has rejected the 2004 case by two death row inmates Ralph Baze and Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr., on the use of lethal injections, it has given US prisons the “OK” to restart the carrying out... more

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Another pair of Filipino workers in the Middle East awaits death in the gallows

Nomadicasian 2 years ago Region: Philippines

The families of the two female Filipino workers who were meted the death penalty in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait just recently, are hoping that their loved ones would be spared of the death sentence. The cases which was delib... more

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A Golden Signature on a Death Warrant

Laura McCallum 2 years ago Region: United States

Please Mr. Governor, set us free! Does anybody out there, besides me, realize that we have done over 500 executions of criminals in our prisons? What is it that made us go from hippie happy days to vigilante terrorists? Al... more

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