Capital Punishment

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• An American way of death

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Ohios new method would supplant a three-drug cocktail that has become the main way of putting prisoners to death since it was introduced in the late 1970s. An intravenous drip is inserted into the prisoners arm through which sodium thiopental, an anaesthetic, is first introduced to put the prisoner to sleep; then ...
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• Lawyers fight to halt Ohio execution condemned as human experimentation

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • Lethal injection involves anaesthetic used on pets • Change of method follows previous failures in state Lawyers acting for a prisoner on death row in Ohio were scrambling to delay his scheduled execution tomorrow morning using a new method of lethal injection that is widely used to put down pets. The procedure ...
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• Cost an Issue as New Hampshire Study Commission Begins Work

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  The New Hampshire Commission to Study the Death Penalty began its work Friday.  The site has links to earlier study commissions conducted in other states. " Addison trial cost state nearly $3m ," is the title of Kevin Landrigans report for the Saturday edition of the Nashua Telegraph. The taxpayer cost to ...
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• Live Webcast

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  The Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is about to hold a Texas State Capitol news conference to release its 2009 annual report.  You can watch the webcast from the Speakers Committee Room, here .
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• Ohio Prepares for Single-Drug Lethal Injection

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Kenneth Biros is scheduled to be executed by Ohio tomorrow morning.  Attorneys for Biros are challenging the new procedure.  Heres a roundup of the latest developments. " Judge In Ohio Rejects Stay In 1st 1-drug Execution ," is the AP report filed earlier this morning.  Its written by Andrew Welsh-Huggins. A ...
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• Kentucky Halts Lethal Injection Until Hearings

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Thats the title of an AP report via Sundays New York Times.  LINK Executions are suspended in Kentucky after the state said Fridaythat it would not appeal a ruling that found it had failed to followproper administrative procedures when it adopted its lethal injectionmethod. The state must hold public hearings ...
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• LONDON PROTEST AGAINST UGANDAN ANTI-GAY BILL

  
  Gay London videos and news, gay interviews, gay clubbing, gay health, gay comment and gay views on HOMOVISION.TV Gay TV, gay London videos and news, gay interviews, gay clubbing, gay health, gay comment and gay views on HOMOVISION.TV — Authority: 136
  Outrage is supporting a protest this Thursday 10th December against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill that’s currently being debated in the Ugandan parliament. The bill proposes the death penalty for agrreavated and serial homosexual acts and extends the existing penalty of life imprisonment for anal sex to all other ...
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• 1549: Robert Kett, rebelling against enclosures

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 424
  On this date in 1549, Robert Kett (sometimes “Ket” or “Kette”) was hanged over the side of Norwich Castle for a Reviews here and here . Possibly England’s last medieval peasant rising, and possibly its first modern revolt, Kett’s Rebellion pitted the agrarian feudal commons against the ...
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• The Death Penalty

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 507
  Who is against the death penalty? Why are so many people opposed to the death penalty? Why are so many people opposed to capital punishment when the evil that man does at times is no less capital than the death penalty itself? I have in mind politicians who plunder national resources without regard for the suffering ...
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• Calling for an end to the mandatory death penalty

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 555
  Let Yong Vui Kong be rehabilitated under the Yellow Ribbon Project Monday, 7 December 2009 The NOT IN OUR NAME: NO TO THE DEATH PENALTY campaign welcomes the encouraging decision by the High Court to grant a stay of execution to Yong Vui Kong, a 21-year-old convicted of drug trafficking. We ask the ...
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• 1823: Dr. Edme Castaing, the first to kill with morphine

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 424
  On this date in 1823, French physician Edme Castaing expiated upon the scaffold history’s first conviction for murder with morphine. The good doc used the drug , a new twist on an ancient remedy only recently brought to market, apparently to poison off one of two wealthy brothers with the connivance of the ...
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• Singapore – the darker side

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 555
  The following video was created by  students for the Singapore American School’s Modern Asian Perspective course.Related Posts Singapore – on the bright side The unknown side of Singapore The Widjaja family tells their side of the story Related Posts Singapore – on the bright side The unknown side ...
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• Kentucky Halts Lethal Injections Until Hearings

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  The state said it would not appeal a ruling that found that the state must hold the hearings and take public input on the injection technique.
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• Guest Blogger: Nadia Bernaz

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 479
  Its IntLawGrrls great pleasure to welcome Dr. Nadia Bernaz (right) as todays guest blogger. Nadia is a Lecturer in law at Middlesex University Business School in London, where she teaches Legal Method, Civil Liability, Contract Law, and the Criminal Justice System. She previously held a lectureship in human rights ...
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• U.S. capital punishment stance in global context

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 479
  (Many thanks to IntLawGrrls for inviting me to contribute this guest post.) Since the reintroduction of the death penalty in 1976, 1,173 people have been executed in the United States, and 3,297 currently live on death row. For more liberal Europeans (a group I pride myself on belonging to), the fact that the ...
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• 1950: Werner Gladow, teen Capone

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 424
  On this date in 1950, 19-year-old gangster Werner Gladow was beheaded in East Germany for his brief but scintillating criminal career terrorizing the postwar ruins of Berlin. Werner Gladow Young Gladow (German link) was just young enough not to get drafted as cannon-meat for the Red Army at the end of World War ...
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• Parliament of World Religions

  
  Bruce Llama — Authority: 113
  Like a swarm of gnats descending on a pile of shit the parliament of the worlds religions has landed in Melbourne. The streets are adorned with much love and people wearing silly hats and dresses.  The worlds largest interfaith event is on its way.  Never mind that they can’t agree on the simple things, like ...
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• Uganda: Unjust and infamous

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  David Bahati, the MP for Ndorwa West in the Ugandan parliament, would not normally come to international attention. His name is becoming notorious, however, as the sponsor of a wretched piece of legislation intended to rile the west and torment an already suffering part of his countrys population. Ugandas ...
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• News From New Mexico

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Todays Albuquerque Journal has two news articles of interest.  First, Scott Sandlin reports, " Court Adds Jury To Capital Cases ." New Mexico repealed the death penalty effective July 1. But for the handful of existing or potential capital cases unaffected by the repeal, including Michael Paul Astorga, the New ...
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• Yong Vui Kong meets his mother in jail

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 555
  Yong was allowed to see his mother through a glass panel on Wednesday. Upon seeing his mother, Yong knelt down and bow to her three times. Rachel Zeng Related Posts President rejects clemency petition for Yong Vui Kong A young patriot goes to jail Kangaroo t-shirt trio found guilty, sentenced to jail
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