death penalty

The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is the sentencing of someone to death for a crime. A report from March 2011 found that the use of capital punishment is on the decline worldwide, while the United States is in the top five of countries carrying out the most death sentences. The other four are China, Iran, North Korea, and Yemen.

Although 16 states in the US have abolished the death penalty, the country has the fifth highest execution rate in the world. CNN reports that the US position on the death penalty is unlikely to change much in the coming years, with only about 30 percent of people opposed to executions and 64 percent of Americans supporting the death penalty in murder cases.

Due to the controversy surrounding the issue, there are many great blogs out there, although most of them are against the policy. An excellent blog against capital punishment is Terry Lenamon on the Death Penalty, written by a Miami lawyer who has participated in over 100 death penalty cases in the state of Florida. For general information about capital punishment, there's the Death Penalty Information Center.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “death penalty”

• in Football
  NCAA to Penn State: Prepare for the Death Penalty
  To his credit, the President of Penn State, Rod Erickson, has agreed to cooperate with the NCAA investigation.
  by stephengfm / on Nov 18, 2011
• in Football
  The Death Penalty - Penn State Needs It Now!
  They need to confess that Institutional Control has been lost at Penn State and the Death Penalty is needed.
  by stephengfm / on Nov 10, 2011
• 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

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “death penalty”

 

• 1912: Albert Wolter, white slaver

  
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  A century ago today, 20-year-old Albert Walter strolled the 15 feet from the death cell to the Sing Sing electric chair, calling out “Good-bye boys” to his fellow-prisoners as he died for the murder of 15-year-old Ruth Wheeler in a possible white slavery crime two years earlier. Wolter left a note steadily ...
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• Joshua Komisarjevsky gets death sentence for home invasion murder

  
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  Joshua Komisarjevsky plead guilty for Conn. home invasion murders. Finally, the second killer of horrific home invasion murder, Joshua Komisarjevsky is sentenced to death by the court. Details!!!!! Conn. Home Invasion Killer Joshua Komisarjevsky Is Sentenced To Death How does a man move on with his life after losing ...
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• 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

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 111
  (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 ...
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• Triple killer in North Carolina taunts he is "gentleman of leisure" of death row

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 495
  This new AP story from North Carolina, headlined "NC killers taunt: Death row means leisure," highlights one reason it can be real hard to be a fan of an ineffective (or non-existent) system of capital punishment. Here is how the ugly story begins: A death row inmate accused of killing three North Carolina women ...
  4 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 ...
  4 days ago

• Trinidad and Tobago: Government working to implement death penalty

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 121
  January 22, 2012: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says Government will work to implement the death penalty in Trinidad as part of a serious crime reduction tool. Persad-Bissessar was delivering an address yesterday at the Ministry of National Security Planning Workshop organised by the Center for Hemispheric ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• Ohio asks SCOTUS to vacate stay of state execution

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 495
  As reported in this AP piece , "Ohio has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the state’s lethal injection procedures, arguing that minor deviations in policy don’t mean the system is unconstitutional." Here are the basics: The office of Attorney General Mike DeWine says that, without Supreme Court action, ...
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• Political quote of the day

  
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  As a friend of mine from Texas says: “I’ll believe corporations are people when the State of Texas executes one”. – Bill Moyers, in a interview on the Colbert Report (Dec. 10, 2011). (via The Quotation of the Day Mailing … Continue reading →
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• 1880: Daniel Searles, the first hanging in Tioga County

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 111
  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 ...
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• Death term sought for Katara murder convict (Lead)

  
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  New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) State prosecutors have sought death penalty to Sukhdev Pehalwan, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Nitish Katara murder case. On the prosecution plea, the Delhi High Court has sent Pehalwan a notice.Pehalwan was given life term by the trial court July 12, 2011, for abducting ...
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• Death term sought for Katara murder convict

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) State prosecutors have sought death penalty to Sukhdev Pehalwan, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Nitish Katara murder case. On the prosecution plea, the Delhi High Court has sent Pehalwan a notice.Pehalwan was given life term by the trial court July 12, 2011, for abducting ...
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• Debate Rages in China as Death Sentence Upheld for Young Tycoon

  
  WSJ.com: China Journal — Authority: 124
  As a former tycoon once listed as China’s sixth-richest woman shuffles down China’s death row, she’s given new life to public debate over the quality of mercy in the world’s most populous nation. Sina Weibo An image of former tycoon Wu Ying, whose death sentence on fraud charges was recently upheld, ...
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• SCOTUS says No to Alabama Prosecutors

  
  Tim Lennox OFFair and ONline — Authority: 114
        The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a new hearing for an Alabama Death Row inmate who was never informed of a court decision against him, because his lawyers had left their firm and never received word of the decision. Corey Maples (left) missed an appeal deadine because of the miscommunication. ...
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• 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 ...
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• Con Law I Roundup

  
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  I taught my first class of Constitutional Law today (thus, as one of my colleagues put it, making me officially a "professor of constitutional law"). I think it went well -- particularly the part where we had a vibrant discussion about the merits and demerits of what they did not know to be the North Korean ...
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• Pathfinder Online takes a look at death

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 137
  Filed under: Fantasy , Game mechanics , News items , Sandbox No matter what happens, sooner or later youre going to die in an MMO. Its pretty much a given. So its probably for the best that the fourth developer blog on Pathfinder Online is all about death -- what happens when you die, what happens ...
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