The misconceptions of capital punishment
Columbia Daily Spectator - Mon Nov 30, 5:05 am ETIt seems funny to me that those against the death penalty will ardently fight for the human rights of a murderer while ignoring the rights of a victim.
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It seems funny to me that those against the death penalty will ardently fight for the human rights of a murderer while ignoring the rights of a victim.
By steering clear of the hazy pitfalls of moral assertions and instead focusing on effectiveness, a better claim for abolishing the death penalty can be made.
Legal experts say Obama was overly confident when he said that critics of the New York trial would be silenced 'when the death penalty is applied to' suspect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. After Zacarias Moussaoui -- the accused "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks -- was sentenced to life in prison in 2006 because one juror in Virginia refused to agree to the death penalty, Moussaoui clapped his ...
Casey Anthony's defense lawyers have filed a motion arguing that Florida's death-penalty procedure is unconstitutional.
Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against any of the three men charged in the death of New Iberia gun shop owner Sidney Long Jr.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state improperly adopted the same three-drug lethal injection protocol that was upheld in the nation's highest court and i...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn’t matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one — as his home state of Ohio has proposed — as long as the drug works efficiently.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) | The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state improperly adopted the same three-drug lethal injection protocol that was upheld in the nation's highest court and is used by dozens of other states. The ruling does not challenge the technique of using three drugs to put inmates to death. It only says the state did not follow proper administrative procedures ...
A Binghamton man charged with killing his ex-girlfriend in Arizona may get the death penalty. According to published reports, Maricopa County prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for 39-year-old Dzevad Selimovic. In September, Selimovic allegedly stabbed 27-year-old Emina Redza with a screwdriver several times in her Phoenix apartment. She died the next day. Selimovic is charged with first ...
FRANKFORT, Ky. — In a decision that puts executions on hold, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state's lethal injection procedure must be spelled out in a regulation.
JEFFERSON - An Auburn man, who faces the death penalty on charges that he killed his family in 2006, will appear in Jackson County Superior Court next week for pretrial hearings.
Maricopa County prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a Binghamton man charged with slaying his ex-girlfriend with a screwdriver.
A previously blocked execution set for Dec. 8 can now go forward due to a change in Ohio's lethal injection policies, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Ohio is the first to drop the three-drug approach in favor of one dose.
WASHINGTON - After Zacarias Moussaoui, the accused "20thhijacker" in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was sentenced to life inprison in 2006 because one juror refused to agree to the deathpenalty, he clapped and called out, "America, you lost and Iwon."
The recent decision by Ohio to change its method of executing inmates has put the state in the center of the national debate over the death penalty.