Oct. 9
USA:
Error rates a sobering aspect of death penalty
For a minute there, we paid attention to the death penalty.
Death sentences aren't something we contemplate often here in New York, where
the death penalty is on the books, but not in force because our state's highest
court
Oct. 6
USA:
Death penalty an unnecessary punishment
Troy Davis, convicted of killing a police officer in 1991, was put to death on
Sept. 21, but Davis insisted he was innocent until his dying moment.
There have been 1,268 executions since the death penalty was reinstated in
1976, but
Jan. 1
USA:
Abatement of capital punishment continues in U.S.
Executions and new death sentences each continued their sharp nationwide
decline in 2008, as states wrestled with legal, moral and financial
concerns about capital punishment.
37people were executed in 9 states, the lowest
Sept. 25
USA:
Court to decide lethal injection, voter ID cases
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider the constitutionality of
lethal injections in a case that could affect the way inmates are executed
around the country.
The high court will hear a challenge from 2 inmates on
July 13
USA:
Reports, polls, court ruling point to thorny death penalty questions
2 high-profile executions scheduled for July and one capital sentence
blocked by the Supreme Court in June provide examples of the range of
issues surrounding the death penalty in the United States.
August 30
USA:
4 scheduled to be executed in September
4 death row inmates are scheduled to be executed in September. The 1st
execution is scheduled for September 12th, with 2 the following week and 1
in the final week of the month. Those scheduled for execution include 1
man who suffers
APril 7
USA:
Law professors say foreign laws influence constitutional issues
The United States must to begin adopt the international consensus against
the death penalty and torture in order to recognize universal human values
and rights, said Michael Tigar, a research professor of law at
Jan. 31
USA:
Call to reprieve mentally ill death row inmates
Amnesty International today called for hundreds of mentally ill inmates of
death row in the United States to have their sentences commuted.
The human rights group said in a report that an estimated 10% of prisoners
facing
Jan. 15
USA:
'CSI' and 'Law Order' lead jurors to great expectations
Reality TV they are not, but two hit shows are so convincing as imitations
of life in the criminal justice system that some legal experts worry
they're distorting the expectations of real jurors.
The influence of the
Nov. 29
USA:
Execution capital
Nearly all modern democracies have abolished the death penalty. Advanced
countries realize that a society is degraded by putting people to death.
Mostly, the ancient custom occurs today only in brutal places like Saudi
Arabia, China and the like. Sadly,
March 29
USA:
Justices Consider Rights of Foreigners
The Supreme Court seemed divided over how best to handle a dispute over
the role of international law in U.S. death penalty cases yesterday, as
the justices heard oral arguments in the case of a Mexican who says Texas
violated his
June 29
USA:
Ray Krone, of Dover, Pa., was freed from death row after DNA cleared him
in a murder. For ex-death-row inmates, freedom can be grim reality
Once known as the Snaggletooth Killer when he was on Arizona's death
row, Ray Krone got an Extreme Makeover after DNA cleared him
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
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