Dec. 16
TEXAS:
Why Texas' 'death penalty capital of the world' stopped executing people
Since the Supreme Court legalized capital punishment in 1976, Harris County,
Texas, has executed 126 people. That's more executions than every individual
state in the union, barring Texas itself.
Dec. 16
OKLAHOMAnew death sentence
Oklahoma man sentenced to death for beheading his co-worker
An Oklahoma judge on Friday sentenced a man to death for beheading a co-worker
in 2014 at a food processing plant.
Cleveland County District Judge Lori Walkley accepted a jury's
Dec. 16
GREAT BRITAIN:
On this day: December 16, 1969 - MPs vote to abolish death penalty
On December 16, 1969 MPs voted for the abolition of the death penalty in
Britain, as murderers could be punished by being hanged up until that year.
343 MPs voted in favour of its abolition
