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Original Technorati articles tagged “capital punishment”

• in Politics
  5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Death Penalty
  The fight against the death penalty is not over. There is much more to be done.
  by allisonmidorireilly / on Oct 14, 2011
• in Blogging
  Anonymous Plots Revenge Against Georgia For Troy Davis
  Anonymous: To avenge Troy Davis
  by makingsense / on Sep 22, 2011
• in Politics
  Troy Davis: Another U.S. Judicial System Victim
  Justice... Where? Not here on a sad day to be a U.S. citizen
  by makingsense / on Sep 22, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “capital punishment”

 

• 1697: John Fenwick, bitter

  
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  The Franco-Dutch War of the 1670s lifted to power the young stadtholder William of Orange , and made him a couple of noteworthy lifelong enemies. One was the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, whose decades-long rivalry with William tracked William’s interesting career all the way to the throne of England. ...
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• 1961: Wasyl Gnypiuk, sleep-killer

  
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  (Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this day in 1961, a Polish/Ukrainian immigrant with the unpronounceable name of Wasyl Gnypiuk was hanged for murder in Lincoln, England. The 34-year-old Gnypiuk was living in a toolshed in Worksop when he murdered his 62-year-old ...
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• 1894: George Painter, Chicago infamous

  
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  While there may be serious doubt about the wisdom of capital punishment it is at present imposed by the law of this State, and if it is to be applied in any case then it should be in this … Any man who will live off of the shame of a woman and beat her from time to time as he would a dog, and finally kill her, must ...
  2 days ago

• 1971: Ousmane Balde, Barry III, Magassouba Moriba, Loffo Camara, Keita Kara Soufiana, and many others in Conakry

  
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  On this date in 1971, at least four former members of Guinea’s government were publicly hanged for supposed complicity in the previous year’s Portuguese invasion from neighboring Guinea-Bissau.* The coup-threatened government of Sekou Toure was trying to send a message: It did not scruple to make ...
  3 days ago

• 1936: Allen Foster, who fought Joe Louis

  
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  More than twenty-five years ago, one of the southern states adopted a new method of capital punishment. Poison gas supplanted the gallows. In its earliest stages, a microphone was placed inside the sealed death chamber so that scientific observers might hear the words of the dying prisoner to judge how the human ...
  4 days ago

• 1536: The Münster Rebellion leaders

  
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  On this date in 1536, Bernhard Krechting, Bernhard Knipperdolling , and Jan van Leiden were chained to stakes in the Münster public square, tortured with flesh-ripping tongs for more than an hour, killed with daggers thrust into their hearts, and their remains hoisted in cages in the city cathedral as a warning ...
  6 days ago

• 1880: Daniel Searles, the first hanging in Tioga County

  
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  From the New York Evening Express , January 21, 1880 . DANIEL SEARLES HANGED. THE NEGRO MURDERER OF OLD MR. REWEY Sketch of a Brutal Crime — The Condemned Man Owns His Guilt and Admits the Justice of His Sentence. OSWEGO, N.Y., January 21. — The first instance of capital punishment in Tioga county ...
  1 week ago

• 1880: Prevost, predatory Parisian policeman

  
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  From a Paris Dispatch report via the New York Times . (Additional paragraph breaks have been added for readability.) It is just 10 years ago, day for day, that the notorious Troppman , the murderer of the Kink family, was executed on the Place de la Roquette. This morning another convict of the same stamp ...
  1 week ago

• Protest at the Supreme Court

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 120
  " Death Penalty Protesters Are Arrested at U.S. Supreme Court ," is the AP report via the New York Times.  Its also available via the Washington Post . Fourteen people have been arrested at the Supreme Court for protesting the use of the death penalty in the United States. A court spokeswoman, Kathy Arberg, ...
  1 week ago

• Lethal Injection Roundup - Nebraska, Oregon News

  
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  From Nebraska, the Omaha World-Herald reports, " Chambers letter twits Bruning ."  Its by Joe Duggan. Nebraskas most ardent opponent of capital punishment has accused Attorney General Jon Bruning of trying to gain a campaign advantage by conducting an execution before the election. Former State Sen. Ernie ...
  1 week ago

• News Coverage of the Delaware Commutation

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 120
  Todays New York Times carries the editorial, " A Death Penalty Commutation ." On Tuesday, Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware commuted the death sentence of Robert Gattis to life without parole. In doing so, he said he gave “great weight” to the careful decision of the state board of pardons to recommend that ...
  1 week ago

• Supreme Court rules in favor of Alabama death row inmate

  
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  The Supreme Court Wednesday ordered a new hearing for an Alabama death-row inmate who missed a critical appeals deadline because his lawyers at a prestigious New York law firm ceased to represent him without telling him or court officials. The circumstances surrounding the appeals of Cory R. Maples--which included a ...
  1 week ago

• Cory R. Maples Must Be Given Second Chance After Mailroom Mix-Up, Justices Rule

  
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  Time to appeal ran out before Cory R. Maples learned of a court ruling.
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• Fort Worth murderers ex-wife, partner in robbery say they were fearful of him

  
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  FORT WORTH — The ex-wife and a co-conspirator of convicted murderer Kwame Rockwell testified Wednesday that they were fearful of him, as jurors considered whether Rockwell will get a death sentence or life in prison. Rockwell was convicted Tuesday of the slaying of convenience store clerk Daniel Rojas during a ...
  1 week ago

• Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Alabama Death Row Inmate

  
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  The Supreme Court. ruling in Maples v. Thomas is available in Adobe .pdf format. " New hearing for death row inmate in mail mix-up " by Mark Sherman for AP. The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a new hearing for an Alabama death row inmate who missed a deadline to appeal when court notices to his lawyers at a ...
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• The Ohio Lethal Injection Appeal

  
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  Andrew Rosenthal posts, " Death Penalty Death Watch: Ohio ," at his New York Times Loyal Opposition blog. Charles Lorraine, who was convicted of killing an elderly man and his bedridden wife in 1986, was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection today in Ohio. But the Sixth Circuit court isn’t going to let ...
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• Tarrant County Death Sentenced Reduces for Brady Violation

  
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  The action was expected following an agreement reached last year.  " Chelsea Richardsons sentence officially reduced ," is the Fort Worth Star-Telegram report written by Alex Branch. If Chelsea Richardson felt relief when her death sentence officially became a life sentence, she did not show it. Richardson was ...
  1 week ago

• Iran confirms death sentence for ‘porn site’ web programmer

  
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk Iran confirms death sentence for ‘porn site’ web programmer Saeed Malekpour faces imminent execution on basis of confessions he retracted in letter, saying they had been beaten out of himIran’s supreme court has upheld the death sentence for a web programmer who faces ...
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• Iran upholds death sentence for porn site programmer

  
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  Saeed Malekpour faces imminent execution on basis of confessions he retracted in letter, saying they had been beaten out of him Irans supreme court has upheld the death sentence for a web programmer who faces imminent execution after being found guilty of developing and promoting porn websites . Saeed Malekpour was ...
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• The Loyal Opposition: Sixth Circuit Delays Death Penalty Case in Ohio

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 866
  The state of Ohio follows its written execution protocol. Except when it doesnt.
  1 week ago

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