July 12
USA:
Worse Than Death
Last year a German teenager named Sven Jaschan released the Sasser worm,
one of the costliest acts of sabotage in the history of the Internet. It
crippled computers around the world, closing businesses, halting trains
and grounding airplanes.
Which of these
July 13
USA:
Exonerations in the United States, 1989 through 2003
SAMUEL R. GROSS -- University of Michigan Law School
KRISTEN JACOBY -- University of Michigan Law School
DANIEL J. MATHESON -- University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Law School
NICHOLAS MONTGOMERY -- University of Michigan
July 14
USA:
Justice delayed and denied
THE WELL-DOCUMENTED margin of error in our judicial system -- especially
the effects of racial bias and the inadequacy of legal representation for
the poor -- is a good reason to rethink the death penalty. The exoneration
of several men on
Friends---
I forward the following inquiry please contact Robyn directly,
offline, if you can be of any assistance.
Thanks!
RH
***
-Original Message-
From: Robyn Linde rlinde.polisci.dept@polisci.umn.edu
Sent: Tue, 19 Jul 2005
July 31
USA:
A Killer's Insanity, CuredHis recovery could mean freedom, and renewed
controversy.
At his murder trial in September, Michael Kane was described as dangerous,
a schizophrenic who would require medication and supervision for years to
come. That testimony came from a
August 1
USA:
Double-Edged Sword
Following the discovery in Illinois that 13 convicted prisoners on death
row were in fact innocent, Republican Governor George Ryan in January 2000
instituted the nation's first moratorium on state executions. Ryan
announced, Until I can be sure with moral
August 1
USA:
On a Big Issue, Little Is Known
Activists on both the left and right have focused intently on every shred
of possible evidence that Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. would
vote to overrule the court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that recognized a
constitutional right
death penalty news
August 10, 2005
USA / NEW YORK:
Death penalty's history housed at UAlbany library
During a taxi ride in 1983 in Washington, D.C., two men actively
involved in the national debate over the death penalty discussed strategy.
Except for a single private letter
August 11
USA:
The Panopticon and the Public Spectacle
Capital punishment in America has a sordid history. Unlike European
countries, which abandoned the death penalty on moral grounds and as a
prerequisite for admission to the Council of Europe, the United States has
stuck with it for
death penalty news
August 16, 2005
USA:
Catholics and the Death Penalty
It's not clear where Turley got his misinformation.
In a column about Judge Roberts' personal views
on controversial social issues, Jonathan Turley,
a law professor at George Washington University,
declared that
death penalty news
June 3, 2004
USA:
We should let life in prison be the ultimate penalty in American society
By Michael A. Kroll
San Francisco - The efforts of city police and a powerful California
senator to make an alleged cop killer face the death penalty are ironically
providing two
death penalty news
June 9, 2004
USA:
CON: State must refrain from taking life
Editor's note: David Paul Hammer, a federal death row inmate, was scheduled
for death by lethal injection this week at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre
Haute. However, Hammer was granted a stay of execution by the
JULY 2004 EXECUTION ALERTS
Scheduled Executions:
July 7: Troy Kunkle (TX):
http://capwiz.com/ncadp/issues/alert/?alertid=3D6021791
July 9: Darnell Williams (IN):
http://capwiz.com/ncadp/issues/alert/?alertid=3D6022046
July 9: Arthur Wise (SC):
June 24
USA/TEXAS:
A Death Penalty Case the Supreme Court May Review Shows the Dysfunction of
the Federal Judiciary When It Comes to Capital Punishment
Today, June 24, the Supreme Court will decide whether to take up - for the
2nd time in as many years -- the 19-year-old Texas capital
July 2
USA:
Investigators discuss prostitute slayings
More than 20 law-enforcement officials learned Friday that 2 to 3 truck
drivers - not just 1 - may be killing prostitutes across the nation.
Authorities came from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Indiana and Arizona
The following are excerpts from the issues2000 website
(http://www.issues2000.org).
The specific cites below can be found at
/http://www.issues2000.org/2004/John_Edwards_Crime.htm
From the Feb. 26, 2004 primary debate at USC:
SHARPTON: Senator Edwards, are you saying, since you agree that
July 13
-Message-
From : Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
[mail to: cc...@primus.ca]
Re: Prisoner Art Submissions
Please forward to all death row support groups and print and mail to all
death row prisoners :
We are currently in the middle of collecting artwork by
death penalty news
July 19, 2004
USA:
The Death Penalty: A Capital Idea!
I would venture that the question over which Americans are most
passionately divided isn't abortions or even whether or not Julia Roberts
has any sex appeal, but the issue of capital punishment.
Frankly, I don't
death penalty news
July 19, 2004
USA:
Juvenile Death Penalty Opposed; Opinion to be Shared in Supreme Court Case
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Society for Adolescent
Medicine (SAM) released a joint policy statement today opposing the death
penalty for juvenile offenders,
July 19
USA:
Deadline on NBC on July 30th.
Watch a New Documentary on the Death Penalty
July 30, 8 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
NBC's Dateline
Can capital punishment be justified in a criminal justice system so fraught
with error that in Illinois, 13 of 25 inmates slated for execution were
death penalty news
July 19, 2004
USA:
Some major Supreme Court cases on capital punishment:
* In 1972, in a case called Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court declared
capital punishment unconstitutional.
* In 1976, in Gregg v. Georgia, the court reinstated the death penalty.
* In 1986, in
Actual Text of NAACP Resolution for
New Trial for Mumia and a National Death Penalty Moratorium
(Adopted at NAACP National Convention, Philadelphia, PA, July 15, 2004)
EMERGENCY RESOLUTION REAFFIRMING OPPOSITION TO THE DEATH PENALTY
WHEREAS, the NAACP adopted a resolution in 2001
July 23
USA:
The U.S. Supreme Court has finally scheduled a date for arguments in Roper
v. Simmons. This is the juvenile death penalty case out of Missouri.
The case will be argued at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 13.
(source: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty)
July 26
USA:
Shameful superlative -- U.S. leads world in execution of young offenders
A first kiss, a first time behind the wheel, a first college-entrance exam
-- these are the experiences of teen-hood. Death row shouldn't be one of
them.
The United States is one of just five countries
death penalty news
July 27, 2004
USA:
No longer pushing the death penalty
The Democratic party platform that will be adopted this week includes one
particularly significant change from the platforms adopted by the party
conventions of 1992, 1996 and 2000. During the platform-writing
July 27
USA:
Court should end juvenile executions
Christopher Simmons was 17 and should have just graduated from high school
at the time a Missouri jury sentenced him to death. A decade later, his
sentence is the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court case, scheduled for oral
arguments in the
August 12
USAre: City councils passing supporting a moratorium on USA
executions
Alabama and North Carolina are neck in neck with 28 and 27 local
governments each. California comes in 3rd place with 15 local governments.
And Connecticut leads the pack for abolition resolutions -- 2
NCADP: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
UPCOMING EXECUTIONS
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9/21 Andrew Flores (TX) TAKE ACTION
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Friends---
I have received the following note (below)---please respond directly to
Paul if you have any pertinent information regarding his query.thanks!
*
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:45:02 -0500
From: Paul
Sept. 15
USA:
Fewer Death Sentences Being Imposed in U.S.
Juries imposed far fewer death sentences in each of the last 4 years than
they did on average over the previous decade, according to a new report.
The Death Penalty Information Center, which is to release the report
tomorrow,
Sept. 19
USA:
Capital punishment goes undebated in U.S. election
Capital punishment is the worst form of assassination, wrote George
Bernard Shaw in Maxims For Revolutionists in 1903, because it is invested
with the approval of society.
A century later, this legalized form of execution
death penalty news
September 21, 2004
USA:
Why capital punishment is pro-life
Robert Meyer
Recently, there has been a renewed call to put an end to the death penalty,
culminating in the moratoriums and outright commutations in various
jurisdictions. There is a long history of opposition to
Sept. 22
USA:
Senate Committee Passes DNA Crime Bill
DNA testing would be expanded to help clear the innocent and snare the
guilty, particularly in death-penalty cases, under a long-stalled bill
passed on Tuesday by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
On an 11-7 vote, the panel sent the
death penalty news
September 26, 2004
USA:
FOR DEAR LIFE
Rick Halperin doesn't celebrate his birthday anymore.
It's not his age that bothers him. It's the date: July 2.
On that day, in 1976, Halperin was sitting down to a creole dinner at the
home of friends in Auburn, Ala. The television
Sept. 28
USA:
Drastic Expansion of Death Penalty Linked to Overbroad Terrorism
Definition (section 110)
Section 110's expansion of the federal death penalty would be drastic.
In addition to creating 23 separate new death penalties in one stroke,
section 110 also creates an unprecedented
death penalty news
October 6, 2004
USA:
Capital punishment only justifiable in few instances
The death penalty is probably the oldest form of punishment known to man.
In ancient times it was carried out through such painful methods as
impalement and crucifixion, and it is still practiced
death penalty news
October 8, 2004
USA:
The Issues: Abortion and Capital Punishment
[...]
Capital Punishment
President Bush, a Texas native, comes out strongly in favor of capital
punishment. During the presidential debate in St. Louis in 2000, Bush
discussed Texas' No. 1 ranking for most
death penalty news
October 8, 2004
USA:
Turow critiques death penalty
In the midst of this election season, the question of capital punishment
has slipped under the radar, said attorney and award-winning author Scott
Turow at a speech last night in Cubberly Auditorium, in which he argued
death penalty news
October 8, 2004
USA:
John Kerry's Opposition to the Death Penalty: A Fatal Position?
There are a number of issues which reveal the liberalness of a politician.
In this context liberalness doesn't mean liberality, but political
liberalism, i.e., left wing, socialistic
DATE: October 7, 2004
RE: Roper v. Simmons
The United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Roper
v. Simmons on Wednesday, October 13th, 2004 - fifteen years after the
Court last considered the constitutionality of executing offenders for
crimes committed
Oct. 12
USA:
Jeffery Fagan's Research on Death Penalty for Juveniles to Play Role in
Roper v. Simmons CaseLaw Prof Fagan Sends Research to High Court
New research from Columbia law professor Jeffery Fagan will likely come
before the United States Supreme Court beginning tomorrow.
Oct. 13
USA:
Wrongly convicted walk away with scars
Even after his pardon, they called Kirk Bloodworth a child killer. After
nearly nine years in prison, Bloodworth walked away in 1993 when DNA tests
showed he was wrongly convicted of raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl.
He was now a
death penalty news
October 14, 2004
USA:
Supreme Court must uphold teenage execution eligibility
The United States Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments concerning the
constitutionality of teenage executions. The case is centered on
Christopher Simmons, who murdered a woman in 1993 at the
Oct. 14
USA:
Court to consider juvenile death penalty
A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed whether to ban the death
penalty for juveniles who kill, one of the highest-profile questions
confronting the justices as they continue re-examining who is subject to
capital punishment.
2
Oct. 15
USA:
Executing juvenile offenders is barbaric, ought to be ended
Christopher Simmons committed a horrible crime when he was 17. Simmons and
an accomplice broke into a woman's home, robbed her, tied her and threw
her into the Meramec River.
He should be punished by spending the
death penalty news
October 17, 2004
USA:
Head Case - Roper v. Simmons asks how adolescent and adult brains differ.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in Roper v. Simmons, a
juvenile death-penalty case in which scientific evidence highlighting
differences between adolescent and
Oct. 19
USA:
Executing teens cruel, unusual and barbaricOutside of the United
States, only seven countries still execute minors.
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Roper v. Simmons,
which will re-evaluate whether the state may continue executing juveniles.
Because
October 21, 2004
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URGENT ACTION
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death penalty news
October 29, 2004
USA:
Capital Punishment-Just or Unjust
My name is Tanya Thornton, I am going to tell you why I believe capital
punishment is unjust. I have found a lot of my research to not only be
compelling, but sad in some cases. I am going to start off by sharing a
Oct. 29
USA:
President's policies are in opposition to a culture of life
President George W. Bush has visited Michigan many times during the
campaign, including a recent visit to Farmington Hills, but he has never
stopped in Detroit's inner city. If he did, he would meet firsthand many
Nov. 3
USA:
Supreme Court considers standards for attorneys
After he received the death penalty from a Florida jury for the murder of
Jeanne Bickner, Joe Elton Nixon decided that he didn't care much for his
lawyer's strategy at trial.
On Tuesday he took his complaint - that his lawyer
Nov. 11
USA:
Gonzales Faces Questions on Death Penalty
The road to White House counsel Alberto Gonzales' confirmation as the 1st
Hispanic U.S. attorney general may run through 2 controversial places: the
notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Texas's death row.
Although most senators
Nov. 15
USA:
Jurors Find Death Penalty Cases Demanding, Often Tormenting
The death penalty is the underbelly of the American democracy's criminal
justice system, and the citizens who are asked to serve as jurors in
capital cases find it a demanding and often tormenting experience,
Nov. 15
USA:
Number of Death Sentences by State, Race
Prisoners with death sentences by state and race as of Dec. 31, 2003,
according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The figures in the total
column include races other than white and black. Only states with the
death penalty are
Nov. 17
USA:
A Matter of Death
The horrific life of Joe Elton Nixon, briefly referenced last week during
a narrow procedural hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, is at the heart
of a capital murder case that Eric M. Freedman predicts will be studied in
law schools for years to come.
Nov. 20
USA:
The Quaint Mr. Gonzales
Most Republicans and many Democrats have hailed Bushs nomination of White
House counsel Alberto Gonzales for attorney general as a brilliant choice.
Whereas John Ashcroft ruffled feathers with his coarse warnings that
opponents of Bushs post-9/11
Nov. 22
USA:
The World According to the Supreme Court
The already-intense debate over the role of international law in Supreme
Court decision making shifts into high gear this week when the justices
consider the case of Jose Medellin, a Mexican citizen on death row in
Texas.
The justices
DECEMBER 2004 EXECUTION ALERTS
Scheduled Executions:
Dec. 1: Frances Newton (TX):
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2
39
Dec. 2: George Banks (PA):
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2
41
Dec. 3:
Nov. 26
USA:
Photographer captures images of youths on death row in U.S.
The subjects of photographer Toshi Kazama -- all young boys and girls --
stare straight into the lens of his camera, some smiling shyly, others
looking serious.
Toshi Kazama stands in front of a photograph he took
Nov. 30
USA:
Luring Pro Bono Lawyers For Death Row's Forgotten
Robin Maher is a traveling saleswoman whose wares are condemned prisoners.
From Boston to Albuquerque, from Denver to New Orleans, she pulls out
their pictures and histories and makes her pitch. They have been sentenced
for
Nov. 30
USA:
Executing minors is unacceptable
Are we a state that executes children? asked Sen. Rod Smith,
D-Gainesville, during the last legislative session when the Florida Senate
passed a bill to end the imposition of the death penalty on minors.
Unfortunately, the House, under
Dec. 1
USA:
Cornyn proposes death for traffickers
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, on Tuesday in El Paso unveiled a new task
force to combat human trafficking, and he proposed imposing the death
penalty for the most heinous cases.
Where there is horrendous loss of human life, under
Dec. 2
USA:
Friends--
Is anyone aware if there is/are any inmate(s) currently on death row in
the USA who is/are deaf? Is anyone aware if any inmate executed since
1977 was deaf?
If you have any information, please contact me offline..thanks!!
Rick Halperin
**
Dec. 3
USA:
Seeking a voice for death row's forgotten
Robin Maher is a traveling saleswoman whose wares are condemned prisoners.
From Boston to Albuquerque, from Denver to New Orleans, she pulls out
their pictures and histories and makes her pitch. They have been sentenced
for sometimes
Dec. 8
USA:
Criminal lineups get a makeover
Defense attorneys have doubted eyewitness testimony throughout the annals
of crime, and often with good reason: People don't always accurately
recall what they see, even when the stakes are huge.
Consider the playgoers who sat helplessly as
Dec. 8
USA:
MURDER VICTIMS FAMILIES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
PRESS RELEASE
CONTACT:
Renny Cushing, MVFHR executive director
617-930-5196
2161 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140
rrcush...@earthlink.net
www.murdervictimsfamilies.org
SURVIVORS OF MURDER VICTIMS OPPOSED TO THE DEATH
Dec. 14
USA:
Lawyer Backed in Conceding Client's Guilt
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that faced with overwhelming evidence
that a client is guilty of capital murder, a defense lawyer can make a
reasonable strategic decision to concede guilt in open court, even if the
client has not
Dec. 14
USA:
Report: Fewer executions in 2004 - Group opposed to death penalty finds
5-year decline
Use of the death penalty by states continued a 5-year decline in 2004,
according to an annual report by a nonprofit group that opposes capital
punishment.
According to statistics to be
Dec. 14
USA:
Rehnquist Won't Vote in Every Case Heard This Term
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, ill with thyroid cancer, will not vote
in every case that has been argued this term, and will instead participate
in certain cases only when necessary to prevent a tie vote, the Supreme
death penalty news
December 15, 2004
USA:
Christian cheers for death penalty?
The article Tuesday in The Republic about Scott Peterson's sentencing had a
paragraph that began, A cheer went up outside the courthouse as the jury
announced its decision . . .
It behooves us all to step back a
death penalty news
December 15, 2004
USA:
Americans and the Death Penalty
Gallup reviews public opinion on the death penalty in wake of Scott
Peterson case
On Monday afternoon, a jury recommended death by lethal injection for Scott
Peterson for murdering his wife, Laci, and their unborn
Dec. 15
USA:
Capital punishment opponents say death penalty is 'on the defensive'
An organization working to end the death penalty in the United States
released a report yesterday showing that while state governments have put
59 people to death so far this year, the numbers of both
death penalty news
December 30, 2004
USA:
- book review -
Dead men walking away from justice - Sister Helen Prejean tries again to
stop the death penalty in America
By Steve Weinberg
When an obscure nun from Louisiana named Helen Prejean wrote the
bestselling book Dead Man Walking 12
Dec. 31
USA:
Death sentences, executions decline---Still, public backs capital
punishment
Signs of an apparent decline in the death penalty can be found in falling
numbers of executions and death sentences, in court rulings in two states
finding capital punishment laws unconstitutional
Jan. 1
USA-television note
The movie version of The Exonerated airs on the Court T.V. network --
on January 27th.-check your local listings for times.
Pending U.S. Executions (as of 12/29/04)
Please note that these dates are only tentative.
Execution dates known or thought to be considered SERIOUS are marked
with a *.The designation indicates that an
death penalty news
January 2, 2005
USA:
The Year in Death
Only a few years ago, in 1999, Americans saw 98 people put to death -- a
modern record following two decades of steady increases. Since then,
however, there has been a precipitous decline in capital punishment. Two
years after its
Jan. 5
USA:
The Attorney General Choice: Al Gonzales has serious questions to answer
Although the war on terror isn't a conventional confrontation, a memo
suggesting that some parts of the Geneva Conventions might be obsolete
and quaint is eyebrow-raising legal advice. So when Alberto
Jan. 9
USA:
Death penalty dehumanizes us -- Wrongful executions undermine confidence
in the justice system.
Omar Aldrete's comment In civilized society, execution necessary (Dec.
12, Insight) on the death penalty invites some questioning discernment.
He suggests pragmatic necessities
From: 'Molly Ramey' mra...@workingfilms.org
Subject: Empty Chair- request for moratorium/abolition actions
(please share this request with others.)
Greetings,
Justice Productions, with Working Films, is developing a national
outreach campaign, using the documentary film THE EMPTY CHAIR as
Jan. 11
USA:
The sister of mercy
To the men she tries to save from execution, Helen Prejean is nothing
short of a saint. But when Katherine Butler caught up with America's
best-known nun in New Orleans, she found an impatient crusader who's only
too aware of her human frailties
I am
Jan. 14
USA:
Death Penalty: Deterrent Or Ineffective?
In 2003 Governor Ryan of Illinois commuted the death sentences of all
death row inmates in that state to life imprisonment or less. This act has
once again spurred debate and controversy regarding the usefulness of the
death penalty.
Jan. 20
USA:
A Nuremberg LessonTorture scandal began far above 'rotten apples.'
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of
which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners
who were freed - were not, as some assumed, inflicted
Jan. 26
USA:
FROM STAGE TO TVSarandon again tackles death penalty
It wasnt the death penalty issue that first made Susan Sarandon interested
in making the movie Dead Man Walking.
When I got the rights to the book, I was attracted to it because I
thought that it was a very
Jan. 27
USA:
Anti-death penalty film builds a strong case
The Exonerated is a simple drama sitting on one side of a very convoluted
issue. Adapted by actor-director Bob Balaban with sensitivity and, for
that matter, courage, from the award-winning off-Broadway play, the TV
movie weaves
Jan. 28
USA:
NCADP: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Dennis Bagwell (TX)
February 17, 2005
Take Action at
www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=350
The state of Texas is scheduled to execute Dennis Bagwell Feb. 17 for the
1995 murders of
death penalty news
Feb 14, 2005
USA (death penalty related):
BuzzFlash interview: Susan Jacoby
...liberals tend to be looking for common ground, but I don't believe the
right wing in this country wants common ground. To liberals and people who
believe in secular government ? I say forget
Feb. 17
USA:
Death Penalty Await Court
To be decided by the Supreme Court in the 2nd half of the term:
DEATH PENALTY: Is it unconstitutionally cruel to execute juvenile killers?
(Roper v. Simmons, 03-633.) Argument heard Oct. 13. And may the United
States try and sentence to death
Feb. 18
USA:
Time to question
Re: There's no room for error, Thursday Guest Commentary by Norman
Roberts.
At a time when there have been over 100 people who have been exonerated,
who could have been executed, we need to, as a society, say we are not
willing to take that risk. I think it
Feb. 24
USA:
Use of death penalty is not murder
Regarding Killing people is never an answer (Letters, Monday):
The letter writer's contention that we kill people who kill people to
show that killing people is wrong.
The fact is we kill people who murder people to show that murdering
MARCH 2005 EXECUTION ALERT
This alert will be mailed in two parts this month. * indicates alert is
forthcoming.
Scheduled Executions:
March 1: Stephen Mobley (GA):
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March 8: George Hopper (TX)
Feb. 28
USA:
Press release
Contact: Ajamu Baraka: 404 588 9761
US Behavior Creates Credibility Gap for State Department's Human Rights
Report says US Human Rights Network
In an unprecedented move, the US Human Rights Network, a network of more
than 160 US-based human rights
March 1
USA:
Press release -- For immediate release: 1 March 2005
Contact: Ajamu Baraka, tel. 404 588 9761
US Supreme Court decision on child offenders doesn't cleanse death penalty
system, says US Human Rights Network
While today's US Supreme Court decision outlawing the execution of
March 2
USA:
States reconsider death penalty laws
8 months after New York's highest court struck down the death penalty, the
battle over whether to reinstate the law continues with no clear end in
sight. And the state is not alone.
A moratorium on capital punishment in Illinois ordered
death penalty news
March 2, 2005
USA:
Death Penalty
Ruling correctly exempts 16- and 17-year-olds
The United States joined most of the world Tuesday in finally ending the
execution of killers who were under 18 when they committed their crimes.
By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled,
death penalty news
March 2, 2005
USA:
An end to killing kids
America?s Supreme Court has abolished the death penalty for those under 18
when they committed their crimes. It is just another nibble at the edge of
still-popular capital punishment?but does it show that America can
sometimes be
March 3
USA:
International Law And the Death Penalty
In regard to your Feb. 25 editorial Rule of (International) Law: The
U.S. Constitution makes treaties -- like the Vienna Convention, which
guarantees foreign nationals access to consular assistance -- part of the
supreme law of the
death penalty news
March 4, 2005
USA:
Small, Slow Steps Toward Abolishing Death Penalty
?Developed Nation? Needs to Focus on the Living, Not on Killing
On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court abolished the sentencing of
juveniles, namely 16 and 17-year-olds, to death in the case Roper
March 4
USA:
Convicted Mexicans allowed case reviews
The Bush administration has shifted its position in a Supreme Court case
with international significance, ordering state courts to consider
complaints by 51 Mexican nationals held on death row in U.S. prisons that
they were denied
March 4
USA:
Death penalty use shrinking
The United States made a step toward joining the civilized world Tuesday,
when the Supreme Court effectively banned the execution of men and women
who committed crimes as juveniles.
Since 1990, only eight countries have permitted capital punishment
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