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Death Penalty Dying?
23 hours ago ago from Matthewman's Murder Blog
Here is an article from CNN reporting that death penalty prosecutions and death sentences are declining rapidly . Some states are even abandoning the death penalty. The decline in death sentences may be due to many factors, including the high cost of a death penalty prosecution , the alternative of life sentences without parole, better trained capital defense lawyers, and the continued release of some inmates from death row due to claims of ...
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3 hours ago ago from Sentencing Law and Policy
The title of this post is the headline of this piece from The Christian Science Monitor . Here is how it begins: Fewer people received a death sentence over the past 12 months than in any year since 1976 — the year that capital punishment was reinstated in the US. That finding was released Thursday by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). But it doesn’t mean that capital punishment is headed for immediate extinction: The ...
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15 hours ago ago from thamanjimmy
There were 106 death sentences imposed in 2009, the Death Penalty Information Center estimated in its annual report released Friday. That number is the smallest since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 and compares with an annual average of 295 death sentences during the 1990s. Fifty-two people were put to death in 11 states this year, nearly half as many executions as 10 years ago. The center, which opposes capital ...
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23 hours ago ago from Readaloo - Just the good stuff
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6 hours ago ago from Civil Commotion
An organization called Christian Voice, headquartered in Wales, has issued a statement endorsing a Ugandan law which contemplates the death penalty for homosexuals. THE Welsh leader of a Christian campaign group has spoken out in support of the death penalty for homosexuals. [ ... ] Capital punishment is acceptable because it is ordained by God in the Bible; THE Welsh leader of a Christian campaign group has spoken out in ...
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