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Uganda To Drop Death, Add Forced “Conversions”
9 hours ago ago from Reality Bong
via Box Turtle Bulletin : Bloomberg is reporting that Uganda’s political leadership has decided to drop the death penalty and lifetime imprisonment from their proposed Anti-Homosexuality Act : Uganda will drop the death penalty and life imprisonment for gays in a refined version of an anti- gay bill expected to be ready for presentation to Parliament in two weeks, James Nsaba Buturo, the minister of ethics and integrity, said. ...
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53 minutes ago ago from Indiana Coalition Acting to Suspend Executions
Today's Evansville Courier & Press contains an article laying out the arguments against the death penalty which includes a poll asking the reader's view of the death penalty. Take a look at the article and make sure your opinion is heard! An excerpt from the article on lack of deterrence: And in the public, support of the death penalty has decreased by almost 30 percent since 1985. According to a Gallup Poll conducted in 2006, only 34 ...
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20 hours ago ago from Capital Punishment Book
According to the Texas Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Texas juries as of December 4, 2009 had returned the death sentence in just eight cases. That’s the lowest number over the last decade. The previous low was 11 death sentences in 2006. Since 2005, there has been a sharp decline in the number of death sentences returned each year over the previous five years.. Texas has executed 447 inmates since it ...
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17 hours ago ago from The West Ranch Beacon - News & Commentary for the Santa Clarita Valley
(From the N.Y. Times) Saying he was now “paroled to my Father in heaven,” a convicted killer in Ohio on Tuesday became the first person in the United States to be executed with a one-drug intravenous lethal injection. The new method, which involved a large dose of anesthetic, akin to how animals are euthanized, has been hailed by most experts as painless and an improvement over the three-drug cocktail used in all other states that employ ...
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12 hours ago ago from Crime and Consequences Blog
Guantanamo Bay Detainees Begin New York Trials: New York Daily News writers John Marzulli and Bill Hutchinson report that a federal grand jury in Manhattan has begun hearing evidence against alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four of his Al Qaeda henchmen. The jurors are expected to hear testimony and be presented with evidence that the men plotted the 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. The controversial decision ...
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