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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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• ‘Thou Shalt Not Suffer…’

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 540
  Witchcraft , magic , and sorcery have been concerns of mankind around the world and, apparently, for most of human history. In some cultures, ‘witches’ were honored, as shamans or folk medical practitioners of a sort. In others, they were feared and condemned. Over time, however, cultures affected by the Age of ...
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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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• U.K. cops arrest people ‘just for the DNA’

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 124
  More than three-quarters of young black men aged between 18 and 35 are on the system, the report said. Set up in 1995, the database contains the DNA profiles of five million citizens, eight percent of the population, making it the world’s biggest in proportion to population size. “Parliament has never formally ...
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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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• U.S. A.G Eric Holder to give Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan the "Electric Chair" from our benefits.

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan to get the “Electric Chair” from our wonderful U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder; “I Didnt Pay A Penny Out Of Pocket For My Power Chair", says Hassan. All of the other Gitmo 9/11 suspects face the same benefits. Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
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• Kentucky’s Highest Court Halts Executions in State

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  The Supreme Court of Kentucky ruled that officials did not follow state law in adopting its procedures for killing inmates.
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• A Few Thoughts on Andrew Bluebond On Blackface and Dexter

  
  The Claremont Conservative — Authority: 134
  Jaccuse , Mr. Bluebond, jaccuse de navoir pas é tudier les consequences Earlier in this semester Andrew Bluebond co-wrote a piece for Campus Progress decrying the supposedly rampant rise of blackface in the world, titled, "The Troubling Resurgence of Blackface." (This symposium on blackface ranks the ...
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• C Street “Family” behind Uganda’s death penalty for gays?

  
  Inside, Looking Out — Authority: 123
  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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• The Case of Bobby Woods

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  The Texas Observer has streaming video of Bobby Woods to complement Renee Feltz report, " Possibly Retarded Prisoner Faces Execution ." When Texas reopens its execution chamber after a Thanksgiving break, the first man set to die may be mentally retarded. A 2002 Supreme Court ruling bans the execution of mentally ...
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• Doctors Help Sought in Failed Ohio Execution Try

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  Thats the title of an AP report by JoAnne Viviano, via Google News.  LINK As an Ohio execution team tried to find a vein during anunsuccessful lethal injection attempt, prison staff sought help from adoctor — a move generally discouraged by ethical and professionalmedical rules — federal court papers show. ...
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• Can the Death Penalty for Terrorists Fuel Violence?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 750
  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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• National Briefing | Midwest: Ohio: Doctor’s Help Was Sought During Failed Execution Attempt

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  As an execution team tried to find a vein during an effort at lethal injection, prison staff members sought help from a doctor — a move generally discouraged by ethical and professional medical rules.
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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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• Taking out the trash

  
  CRUSADER RABBIT — Authority: 533
  News.com.au - CHINA today executed two people for their role in a tainted milk scandal that killed at least six children and further sullied the made-in-China brand. Nearly 300,000 children fell ill last year after drinking milk intentionally laced with melamine, a toxic industrial compound that can give a fake ...
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• Taking out the trash

  
  Down under on the right side — Authority: 422
  News.com.au – CHINA today executed two people for their role in a tainted milk scandal that killed at least six children and further sullied the made-in-China brand. Nearly 300,000 children fell ill last year after drinking milk intentionally laced with melamine, a toxic industrial compound that can give a fake ...
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• China executes two for tainted milk scandal

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Official news agency says death sentences carried out on pair who added industrial chemical to infant formula China executed two men today for their roles in a tainted milk powder scandal in which at least six children died and more than 300,000 became sick. Zhang Yujun was executed for endangering public safety and ...
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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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• Review of Louisianas Post-Conviction Process

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  " Kimball: Justice must be efficient but fair ," is one of two articles written by Alison Bath for the Shreveport Times.  Both appeared in Sundays edition. In September, LouisianaSupreme Court Chief Justice Catherine D. Kimball announced theformation of a court committee to study the states ...
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• More Harm Than Good: Why Capital Punishment Doesn’t Work

  
  The Criminal Lawyer — Authority: 112
  Without much media fanfare, the Supreme Court has already decided two capital-punishment cases this month. The first, Bobby v. Van Hook , came down on the 9th, and dealt with a case from early 1985. Nearly 25 years ago, Van Hook went looking for someone to rob, trolled a Cincinnati gay bar, and seduced a guy he ...
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