Death Penalty

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• Uganda’s Aids Solution: Kill The Queers!

  
  Godless Blogger — Authority: 131
  I saw this over at Pharyngula today. The FUCK Uganda? Here is what is being proposed: According to Clause 2 of the Bill, a person who is convicted of gay sex is liable to life imprisonment. But if that person is also HIV positive the penalty — under the heading “aggravated homosexuality” — is death. The ...
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• Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill Proposes Death Sentence for Gay Sex

  
  Blog Out - Just Out Newspaper — Authority: 143
  It was first reported last month that Uganda’s parliament would be weighing a brand new anti-homosexuality bill, which, among other things, was poised to create a new crime of “aggravated homosexuality,” as well as targeting gay people who have sex while HIV-positive.Now, the bill has reached parliament, and ...
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• President rejects clemency of Yong Vui Kong

  
  Readings From A Political Duo-ble — Authority: 411
  Source: Singabloodypore The following is a statement from the Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign. The President has responded to the petition for clemency of Yong Vui Kong sent in by the Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign (SADPC) through his Principal Private Secretary Mr Tan Eng Beng. “I am directed ...
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• 1871: Louis Rossel, Théophile Ferré, and Sergeant Bourgeois, Communards

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 469
  On this date in 1871, three very disparate men of the recently quashed Paris Commune were shot together at Satory. Louis Rossel (top) and Theophile Ferre. The mysterious Bourgeois will have to be imagined. Louis Rossel ( French Wikipedia link | English ) got the press — the public sighs, the clemency ...
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• Uganda proposes death penalty for HIV positive gays

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed. Gordon Brown followed Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, in telling Uganda that the legislation was unacceptable. Mr Brown made his views plain in a breakfast ...
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• Uganda: "The Family" Involved in Effort to Criminalize Gays, Push Death Penalty for Homosexual Behavior

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 444
  The C Street home housing the Christian power broker group The Family, where Nevada Sen. John Ensign and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford sought refuge and advice — is also notable for its involvement in another realm of anti-gay legislation: Ugandas bill criminalizing homosexuality. We already ...
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• Clemency of Yong Vui Kong Declined

  
  Singabloodypore — Authority: 421
  The following is a statement from the SADPC. The President has responded to the petition for clemency of Yong Vui Kong sent in by the Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign (SADPC) through his Principal Private Secretary Mr Tan Eng Beng. “I am directed to refer to the petition for clemency of Yong Vui Kong and ...
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• President rejects clemency petition for Yong Vui Kong

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 544
  Andrew Loh Yong Vui Kong’s death sentence “should stand”, the Principal Private Secretary (PPS) to President Nathan said in a letter from the Istana. In a one-sentence response to the petition for clemency for Yong, which was sent to the President a month ago by members of the Singapore Anti-Death Penalty ...
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• 1911: Ah Q

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 469
  On this date in 1911, the fictional title character of Lu Xun’s The True Story of Ah Q was shot in “Weichuang village,” China. Ah Q wins another victory. Image from the Marxist Internet Archive . A modern masterpiece that remains standard reading in China, The True Story of Ah Q was also one of the ...
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• Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty In Dolla’s Murder Case

  
  Wordonthestreetsmag.com — Authority: 437
  Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Berry for the murder of Dolla.Related posts: Man Accused of Witness Tampering in C-Murder Case Update:Suspect In Custody Of AJ Murder Case C-Murder Found Guilty Of 2nd Degree Murder
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• Fact checking, comments - NH Death Penalty Study Commission

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 445
  To: The Commission to Study the Death Penalty in New Hampshire and to others Re: Fact checking, comments - Your Nov 6, 2009 meeting From: Dudley Sharp Dear Committee members: Some corrections and clarifications. I have listed the speaker, the material and the page number from your minutes, below, with my ...
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• 1600: Hansel Pappenheimer, following his family

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 469
  A few months ago, Executed Today detailed the dreadful fate of the Pappenheimers , a family of poor itinerants swept into a witch scare and horrifically executed. 10- or 11-year-old Hansel Pappenheimer was made to provide some of the testimony that condemned his parents and older siblings to a torturous public ...
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• C Street “Family” behind Uganda’s death penalty for gays?

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air, Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power , discussed the connection between the Family and Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act , which prescribes the death penalty for acts of “aggravated homosexuality.” Mr. SHARLET: Well, the ...
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• Can the Death Penalty for Terrorists Fuel Violence?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 743
  Attorney General Eric Holder (WDCpix) When Attorney General Eric Holder announced earlier this month that the suspected plotters of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would be tried in civilian court, he also promised to seek the death penalty for all of them. But the heated debate that followed over the supposed ...
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• TEXAS EMPTIES MUCHO TRASH IN NOVEMBER

  
  Angry White Dude — Authority: 138
  ROBERT THOMPSON - TELL ALLAH HELLO FOR US! I do love me some Texas! Down here, we execute more murderers in a week than Massachusetts does in a century! In November, Texas has put the juice to four murderers…and the month isn’t over! Now Angry White Dude doesn’t get all caught up on if the death penalty is ...
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• The deterrent effect of capital punishment

  
  Notes from underground — Authority: 121
  From The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser . Friday 20th July, 1849 EFFECT OF EXECUTION - A correspondent informs us that JOHN VANSTONE and WILLIAM LEE, were executed at Bodmin on the 1st of September, 1802, for burglary; the daughter of one of them saw her father executed and immediately afterwards went into ...
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• Consequences of 9/11 trials in New York build globally

  
  American Blog — Authority: 131
  Written by Michael VassI don’t know how many people noticed this. It’s not the biggest news in regard to the 9/11 trials that are going to happen in NYC. But the ramifications of this trial, and how that affects Germany, is critical to Americans sleeping at night.As reported by the N Y Post, Germany will [...]
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• Consequences of 9/11 trials in New York build globally

  
  1800blogger — Authority: 168
  Submitted by All American BlogWritten by Michael VassI don’t know how many people noticed this. It’s not the biggest news in regard to the 9/11 trials that are going to happen in NYC. But the ramifications of this trial, and how that affects Germany, is critical to Americans sleeping at night.As reported by the N ...
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• 1326: Hugh Despenser the Younger, King Edward II’s lover?

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 469
  On this date in 1326, the power behind Edward II’s throne — and the presumed lover in his bed — was hanged, drawn and quartered and pointedly emasculated in a grisly public execution as the Queen and her lover took control of England. (Wince.) The younger Despenser, being carved up in an illustration from ...
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• Casey Anthony: Andrea Lyon Bashes Judges, Calls Jurors “Killers”

  
  Kreuzer's Korner — Authority: 145
  Here’s an interesting article from WFTV.com today. It seems that the station has obtained an audio recording of Andrea Lyon, a member of Casey Anthony’s defense “dream team”,  bashing judges, female prosecutors, victim’s advocates and even calling jurors killers. From WFTV : Lyon made the comments at a ...
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