Letters: Prop. 34 and California's death row
The Times points out that the campaign against Proposition 34, which would abolish the death penalty in California, is "going for the emotional jugular.www.latimes.com
Death penalty repeal backed by German official
Communist East Germany was responding to pressure from the then-West German government, Loening said, when it abolished its death penalty in 1987, three years before the two nations unified. Germany also was influential, he said, in persuading ...www.sfgate.com
Campaign to abolish California's death penalty begins airing ads
Opponents have said the projected savings from ending the death penalty are wildly inflated, and their ballot arguments suggest the measure could cost taxpayers.www.latimes.com
Amnesty welcomes abolition of death penalty
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 25, 2012): Amnesty International has welcomed the proposal to abolish the death penalty for drug trafficking but called on the government to remove capital punishment for all offences.www.thesundaily.my
Consider consequences of abolishing death penalty, says top cop
"If we want to abolish the death sentence for drug traffickers, we must abolish other death sentences as well - unless we officially drop the position of drugs as public enemy number one.www.mmail.com.my
Death row, but where there's life, there's hope
On the other hand, he said, the government did not want to abolish the death penalty now. Yudhoyono's apparent solution to this dilemma is to have what Lubis calls an ''unstated moratorium'' on people being put to death.www.smh.com.au
Kentucky's Egregious Death Penalty
The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights voted unanimously last week to recommend that the state abolish the death penalty. There is every reason for Kentucky to take the advice and become the 18th state to prohibit capital punishment. Opinion Twitter ...www.nytimes.com
"The death penalty is a joke."
The California death penalty is on the ballot as Prop 34; proponents are, with impressive chutzpah, now using the cost of defending against these appeals as an argument for abolition rather than as an argument for replacing the judges who abuse the law.www.pointoflaw.com
Why I think the death penalty should stay
The family fortune went up in smoke soon after the minister's death because several of his sons were drug addicts. I believe the poor family never recovered.www.theborneopost.com
Georgia Catholics Unite To Stop Death Penalty
More than 200 Catholic theologians, scholars and social justice advocates cite the executions of Troy Davis in Georgia and Lawrence Brewer in Texas that year as prompting their call for abolishing the death penalty. (Photo by Michael Alexander). In ...www.georgiabulletin.org
Time to abolish death penalty
THE wheels of justice never stop turning. Throughout history, they have evolved to take into account the changing circumstances of society, the value systems, the opening up of new knowledge frontiers and also technological innovations.thestar.com.my
Legalized doping, death penalty, veterans' benefits: Opinion roundup
Californians could choose to abolish the death penalty in November. The Los Angeles Times, while noting approval of Measure 34 trails in the polls, urges voters in the Golden State to "replace visceral notions of revenge with a thoughtful examination ...www.oregonlive.com
Letters: Prop. 34
In response to "State's absurd death penalty scenario needs to be abolished" (Oct. 20): [Matthew T. Hall's commentary] effectively and convincingly addresses the financial and practical reasons for abolishing the death penalty. All good and all ...www.nctimes.com
Non-Muslim groups all for abolishing capital punishment
"We welcome the decision to defer this death sentence, and hope the government will revise all laws to abolish capital punishment," he said.www.mmail.com.my
California Voters Get a New Reason to Abolish the Death Penalty
When California voters check off their ballots next month, they'll have the opportunity to make their state the eighteenth in the nation to abolish the death penalty. So far, proponents of the abolition ballot measure, Proposition 34, have stressed the ...www.tnr.com
Abolishing the death penalty
Amnesty International and other international human rights organisation's all term the death penalty as a denial of human dignity.www.nation.com.pk
Death Penalty Debate Rekindled
The ongoing exercise of collection of people's views on the have rekindled the old debate on the need to abolish or maintain the death penalty in Tanzania. Tanzania is considered as a de facto abolitionist country, in terms of the death penalty ...allafrica.com
Finally Abolishing the 'Love Penalty,' France Says 'I Do' to Same-Sex Marriage ...
In 1981 President François Mitterand, pushed by Minister of Justice Robert Badinter, abolished the death penalty in France.www.huffingtonpost.com
Making Communities Safer By Abolishing The Death Penalty: Live Internet Video ...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As Californians prepare to vote on a measure to repeal the death penalty, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty will present a live online conference exploring how communities ...www.sacbee.com
Former death row inmates speak out at abolition forum
RABAT - Former convicts on death row in the Middle East and North Africa described awaiting their dreaded fate as "daily torture" from which execution itself was a "deliverance," at an abolition conference in Rabat. "I spent 10 years on death row in ...www.google.com
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