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STLtoday.com Top News Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says the euthanized Kentucky Derby horse Eight Belles probably died more humanely than death row prisoners do. Stevens's comments Friday night came a month after he voted with a majority of the Supreme Court to approve the most widely used method of lethal injection, while saying for the first time that he now believes the death penalty is...
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BIG BLUE WAVE (Free subscription) | yesterday
Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani is prominent dissident journalist in Yemen. He faces the death penalty for "insulting the president" and "demoralizing the military." He will be sentenced on May 21st. QUOTE: He is charged with insulting the president and demoralizing the military with an article about the Sa’ada war. He is an internationally renowned journalist and one of Yemen's most prominent...
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Positive Liberty (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Dr. Benjamin Rush was one of the earliest notable American opponents of the Death Penalty. As will be seen, his anti-capital punishment position was derived from his understanding of the Bible. Regarding his theology, Rush described it as “a compound of the orthodoxy and heterodoxy of most of our Christian churches.” Basically, [...]
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Opponents of proposed constitutional amendments designed to streamline death penalty appeals said Thursday that the measures are too broad and would upset the balance of powers among the three branches of government.
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Conquest Chronicles (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
ESPN's Pat Forde Weighs in on Mayo This is rich…if not premature. In a just world, USC basketball would have something in common with SMU football in the near future. The death penalty. When I first read that this morning I said, Wow! That didn't take long, think he had this one in the can ready to go? For the most part I have always respected Forde’s work but he is a bit premature here....
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Indonesia Matters (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... of the TPM had requested clarification from the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) on whether death by firing squad was a legitimate method of capital punishment within Islam. [3] After a person has been shot they don't die for 5 minutes, so it's torture, but if firing squads are deemed within the bounds of Islamic law [by the MUI], well then that's it. Impatient Another TPM lawyer, Achmad Midhan,...
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American Congress for Truth (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... by Western governments through UN agencies and Christian missionaries.Yasin advocates for the death penalty for homosexuality.Yasin justified the terrorist bombings in Bali because of years of Western oppression.Yasin says that the Quran permits wife-beating and that equal rights for women is a “delusion” and “foolishness”.Yasin calls the beliefs of Christians and Jews “filth”.Yasin...
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Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
... by Western governments through UN agencies and Christian missionaries. * Yasin advocates for the death penalty for homosexuality. * Yasin justified the terrorist bombings in Bali because of years of Western oppression. * Yasin says that the Quran permits wife-beating [cf. Qur'an 4:34] and that equal rights for women is a delusion and foolishness. * Yasin calls the beliefs of Christians...
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StateFans Nation (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a just world, USC basketball would have something in common with SMU football in the near future. The death penalty. It's not going to happen, because NCAA bylaws don't work that way. And besides, they're not likely to ever again disband a program for a year after the smoking crater it left at SMU. But USC [...]
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MNPublius.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... said. Nelson-Pallmeyer is to Franken's left on just about everything. He’s opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances, for nationwide legalization of same-sex marriages, a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in the next nine months, universal single-payer health insurance and a massive reduction in defense spending.
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Later On (Free subscription) | yesterday
... were automatically tough on crime and Democrats who feared being thought soft on crime. There were death penalty abolitionists, some of whom worried that Obama’s bill, by preventing the execution of innocents, would deprive them of their best argument. Vigorous opposition came from the police, too many of whom had become accustomed to using muscle to “solve” crimes. And the incoming...
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The Chief Source (Free subscription) | yesterday
We know that as Governor of Texas, Bush liked to execute people. It was this approach to the death penalty that was my number one reason for opposing Bush in 2000. He cared so little for human life that he even laughed about some of the executions. He also had no problem executing the mentally retarded and juveniles. Fortunately, in 2005 the Supreme Court explained that Bush's conduct...
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... procedures, photo identification requirements for voters and Texas' treatment of a Mexican on death row — have had six or seven justices, including Stevens, in agreement on the outcome. Just one case has been decided by a 5-4 vote. Two others split 4-4 with a justice not participating. Another was 5-3. Taking stock of the court with half its decisions still to come is a bit like wrapping...
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Global Features (Free subscription) | yesterday
International Human Rights Activist to "Walk 4 Life" to Abolish the Death Penalty From Trenton New Jersey to Texas Andre Latallade, also known as Capital-"X" will walk from Trenton New Jersey, approximately 1,700 miles to the Governors mansion in Texas in an attempt to bring awareness to the death penalty. The death penalty has recently been abolished in New...
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gumir | 03/28/2008
“Theoretically I do not rule out the possibility that Sarsenbaiuly and Nurkadilov’s murder cases will be revisited,” Marat Kolkobaev, head of the investigation department of the Kazakh National Security Committee (KNB) told a Thursday press conference. One can conclude from the press conference that these cases may be revisited in the light of the new facts about Rakhat Aliev’s planning a coup for
