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• 1942: Eleven members of the Red Orchestra

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 129
  On this date in 1942, eleven members of a Berlin-based anti-Nazi resistance circle were executed at Plotzensee Prison — five by hanging, six by guillotine. These members of the group organized around leftist Luftwaffe communications officer Harro Schulze-Boysen and intellectual Arvid Harnack were one of three ...
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• Commentary From Florida

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 483
  " Wrongful ways : Innocence commissions safeguard society ," is the title of a Sunday Tallahassee Democrat editorial.   Last year, the Florida Legislature passed a law that automaticallygrants former inmates who have been found innocent $50,000 for eachyear they were wrongfully incarcerated, so long as they were ...
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• Additional Coverge of DPIC Report

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 483
  The Death Penalty Information Center report, “The Death Penalty in 2009: Year End Report ," is in Adobe .pdf format. The Los Angeles Times reports" Californias death row grows as death sentences decline nationwide ," written by Carol Williams and Jack Leonard. Los Angeles County sent more people to ...
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• Monday law blog round-up

  
  On the Record — Authority: 124
  Happy icy Monday! Drive and walk carefully. I don’t know how conditions are by you, but here, the roads are OK but the sidewalks are a little treacherous. Baltimore Police are sending “Dear John” letters (clever!) to guys neighborhood observers have tagged as cruising for prostitutes. A noted Baltimore ...
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• Proportionality Questions in Tennessee

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 483
  " The uneven hand of justice in TN murders ," is the title of John Seigenthalers report in the Tennessean.  Heres the beginning of this must-read: There was no obvious link between the two recent national headlines. One said: "Woman who killed preacher husband gets custody of their three children." The other ...
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• Kansas Legislature to Consider Repeal in 2010

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 483
  " Legislature to consider end to death penalty ," is the title of Ron Sylvesters report for the Wichita Eagle, via the Kansas City Star. Kansas will consider abolishing the death penalty next year as death sentences are declining across the United States. Fewerpeople were sentenced to death this year than any ...
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• The Latest on the Troy Davis Case

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 483
  " Troy Davis case raising novel legal issues ," is the title of Bill Rankins Atlanta Journal-Constitution report. Condemned inmate Troy Anthony Davis filed the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary when he petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a hearing on his innocence claims. But in August, for the first time in nearly ...
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• CHURCH GROUP WANTS GAYS DEAD

  
  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: 135
  Stephen Green, director of Christian campaign group Christian Voice has given his spport for the death penalty for gays.In a statement, he says: “Gay people who have sex knowing they are HIV positive should be given the death penalty because they have “committed murder”. Capital punishment is acceptable because ...
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• Remember Yong

  
  Mustafa K Anuar's blog — Authority: 120
  A 21-year-old Malaysian, Yong Vui Kong, has been sentenced to death by Singapore’s High Court for trafficking 47 grammes of heroin. Yong, who was 19 years old at the time of offence, is now facing impending execution. The Singapore Anti Death Penalty Campaign (SADPC) has launched a petition to seek clemency ...
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• Human Rights Maps (75b): Death Penalty in the U.S., State by State

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 506
  death penalty map of the United States ( source ) You can view an interactive version of the map here , and find out the method of execution and the date of the last execution for individual states. About the methods of execution, there’s another map here . And another one here giving the numbers of ...
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• 1624: Marco Antonio de Dominis, posthumously

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 129
  On this date in 1624, the recently-deceased body of unscrupulous Croatian prelate Marco Antonio de Dominis was burned at Rome’s Campo dei Fiori, along with all his manuscripts. Hypothesizing As a precocious young man Dominis taught mathematics, rhetoric and philosophy; in 1611, he produced a scientific treatise ...
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• The Sunday Independent’s Survey of SA Writers’ Top Books of 2009

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 480
  Alert! As has become tradition this time of year, Maureen Isaacson has solicited the opinions of a number of prominent writers - many of whom review for her excellent books page - on 2009’s top books. Michiel Heyns, Karina Brink , André Brink , Imraan Coovadia , Chris Dunton, Leon de Kock , Nadine ...
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• Innocent man free after 35 years in prison

  
  Wilson's Blogmanac — Authority: 128
  James Bain spent 35 years in prison for a kidnapping and rape that he didnt commit. DNA testing proved it, and hes been released, displaying remarkable forgiveness to the system and people who fucked him over. Its another nail in the coffin for capital punishment. Just imagine if Mr Bain had been executed, as many ...
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• "Why is use of the death penalty going down?"

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 572
  The title of this post is the headline of this piece from The Christian Science Monitor .  Here is how it begins: Fewer people received a death sentence over the past 12 months than in any year since 1976 — the year that capital punishment was reinstated in the US. That finding was released Thursday by the ...
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• AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: SINGAPORE/MALAYSIA/ BRUNEI NOTES

  
  Singabloodypore — Authority: 467
  19 December, 2009 To: Singapore/Malaysia/Brunei Network Friends, There have been significant developments in Singapore and Malaysia -- and in Brunei -- which I have tried to summarise in the following Notes. Please take this information as reported, not necessarily validated by Amnesty ...
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• Should heterosexuals face execution?

  
  gaelick — Authority: 132
  You may or may not have yet heard about the BBC poll earlier this week, which asked the question, “ Should homosexuals face execution? ” No doubt as a result of worldwide outrage at the question, the Beeb has, of course, since quietly changed the title to “Should Uganda debate gay execution?” That’s ...
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• 1974: Mun Segwang, errant assassin

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 129
  This morning in Seoul, Mun Segwang (various similar transliterations possible) was hanged for an assassination attempt four months earlier. Mun, a Japanese-reared Korean who needed a translator for his subsequent trial, tried to gun down dictator Park Chung-hee at a Independence Day speech Aug. 15. Mun missed ...
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• America Under Barack Obama; An Interview with Nat Hentoff

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  "I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had." — Nat Hentoff Nat Hentoff has had a life well spent, one chock full of controversy fueled by his passion for the protection of civil liberties and human rights. Hentoff is known as a civil ...
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• Moonshine trade in Gujarat will invite death

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Gandhinagar, Dec 19 (IANS) After a marathon debate that stretched from afternoon into the night, the Gujarat assembly has again passed a bill proscribing the maximum of death penalty for those trading in spurious liquor.The Bombay Prohibition (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 2009, was first passed in July after a liquor ...
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• 1862: An unknown Confederate deserter

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 129
  From a letter written by one Private Thomas Warrick of Alabama, cited in The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy by Bell Irvin Wiley : I saw a site today that made me feel mity Bad I saw a man shot for deserting there was twenty fore Guns shot at him thay shot him all to pease … he went ...
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