Chinese-forums.com - Capital Punishment In Taiwan The movement in Taiwan s parliament to abolish capital punishment is likely In my opinion, the death penalty is a barbaric form of punishment that must http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?t=3538&page=1
Executing The Innocent, Sojourners Magazine/August 2005 to the death penalty Information Center, as has citizen support for capital While some theologians argue that capital punishment is permitted in http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0508&article=0508
Arbitrary, Racist, And Unfair, Sojourners Magazine/May-June 1997 Four out of every five people polled say they favor capital punishment. The death penalty is administered through a haphazard maze of unfair practices http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj9705&article=9705
Smash World Forums SmashBoards.com - Death Penalty etc, none of them allow capital punishment. It is in countries communist North The death penalty isn t so much a punishment as a preventive measure. http://smashboards.com/archive/index.php/t-18065.html
Death/Electric Chair/electric Chair History John Laurence s A History of capital punishment reports that Westinghouse the electric chair for fear of undermining support for the death penalty. http://tafkac.org/death/electric.chair/electric_chair_history.html
Extractions: A sporadic a.f.u. topic, I came across a law review Note on the subject ("The Madness of the Method: The Use of Electrocution and the Death Penalty," 70 Tex. L. Rev. 1039 (1992). It's in the same issue as "Big Breasts and Bengali Beggars: A Reply to Richard Posner and Martha Nussbaum.") and thought I'd inject some facts into this newsgroup. The first victim of the electric chair was William Kemmler, a Cayuga County, NY, fruit-peddler. In re Kemmler, 136 U.S. 436 (1890). New York had recently replaced hanging with electrocution as its means of execution, and Kemmler appealed his sentence as cruel and unusual punishment. John Laurence's "A History of Capital Punishment" reports that Westinghouse and other electric companies financed the appeal, reportedly to the tune of over $100,000 for fear of the bad publicity from such a dangerous use of the product.
Extractions: The Ohio Supreme Court has cleared the way for the March 3 execution of murderer Wilford Berry. Berry is often referred to as "the volunteer" because he wants to waive the legal appeals to his conviction and death sentence. While the federal courts may yet intervene, the approaching execution date has brought the death penalty back into the public mind. Ohio has not executed anyone since 1963. Among other reasons, the case is important because it causes us to reflect on the arguments at the heart of the death penalty debate. Opponents of Berrys execution contend that Berry is "sick"that he is incapable of making responsible decisions, and that therefore the courts ought not hold him accountable either for his crimes or for the choices he makes as a criminal defendant. Such arguments reflect a line of thinking in criminal justice that became dominant in the 1960s and 1970s. Liberal intellectuals and other elites became convinced that crime is not the fault of criminals. Instead, they argued, crime is the consequence of mental illness, or adverse socio-economic circumstances, or both. Since these conditions essentially force criminals to commit crimes, since criminals have no real freedom to choose their actions, then society ought not punish. Instead, society owes it to criminals to "treat" or "cure" what is really a disease.
Extractions: In February, the Ashbrook Center will have the privilege of hosting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. For friends of the Center, this is a rare treat an opportunity to spend time with one of todays leading interpreters of our Constitution. The Constitution has guided our civic life for 209 years. In that time, it has seen 42 Presidents, 106 Congresses, and 108 Supreme Court Justices. It has survived rebellion, assassinations, and world wars. It has been denounced as a "dangerous folly" and a "covenant with death." It has even burned in effigy. Yet, as our Founders understood, the ultimate threat to the Constitution is not invasion but indifference the indifference of "we the people" who are its final guardians. Above all, the Founders feared that we might forget the fundamental principles which the Constitution is meant to embody and promote. They worried we might not remember that our freedoms to worship God without persecution, to make a better life for our families, to pursue our happiness ultimately depend on the vigilance of an enlightened citizenry who understand the documents that bind us together as one people. Today their fears are not without some basis. According to a 1998 survey, more teenagers can name the Three Stooges than the three branches of government. Barely half of Americans of any age know that the Bill of Rights is the first ten Amendments to the Constitution. When pressed, very few of those who know can give even the vaguest idea of the Amendments contents.
CNN - Woman Thanks God As Execution Commuted - Jan. 16, 1996 Over Garcia s objections, death penalty opponents Sister Miriam and Amnesty United States since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. http://www.cnn.com/US/9601/garcia_execution/
Extractions: Web posted at: 11:55 p.m. EST SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (CNN) Just 14 hours before Guinevere Swan Garcia was about to become the second woman in 20 years to be executed in the United States, her death sentence was commuted to life in prison with no chance of parole. Garcia, who earlier had fought to keep her execution date, said "thank God this has happened" when she heard Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar's decision. Garcia, 37, was scheduled to be put to death shortly after midnight Tuesday for shooting her husband during an argument. Over Garcia's objections, death penalty opponents Sister Miriam and Amnesty International's Bianca Jagger campaigned for her clemency. They argued that Garcia has had a long history of abuse that included alcoholism and sexual molestation, and that her execution would be inhumane in light of her harrowing past. But Garcia said she was prepared to accept her fate. She told the Illinois Prisoner Review Board that "this is not a suicide, I am responsible for these crimes." Gov. Edgar, who had never before overturned a death sentence, said Garcia's crime did not justify execution and that her husband's murder was not premeditated. "Horrible as was her crime, it is an offense comparable to those that judges and jurors have determined over and over again should not be punishable by death," Edgar said in a statement.
Sfbg.com Discussing Anderson s fate, capital punishment foes did the usual. The federaljudiciary could rule that California s death penalty scheme is http://www.sfbg.com/36/19/news_capital_punishment.html
Extractions: PERSONALS ... SEARCH Cruel and unconstitutional California's death penalty is legally unsound In the first minutes of Jan. 29, convicted murderer Steven Anderson became the 10th person killed by the state of California since the reinstatement of capital punishment some 25 years ago. In 1980, Anderson, 48, broke into the house of an 81-year-old woman, robbed her, and shot her in the face with a 45-caliber handgun. But they didn't bring up one salient point: California's application of the death penalty, in the eyes of some fairly astute legal scholars, is patently unconstitutional.
Sfbg.com Ryan presented a scathing review of that state s capital punishment process The antideath penalty movement, which has been stalled for years now, http://www.sfbg.com/36/30/news_ed_executions.html
Extractions: EARLIER THIS MONTH a blue-ribbon commission assembled by Illinois governor George Ryan presented a scathing review of that state's capital punishment process: innocent people are being condemned (13 of them at present count have been exonerated); defense lawyers are failing their clients; prosecutors are behaving unscrupulously; race is a huge factor; and more than half of the cases are reversed on appeal. If all that wasn't enough, the panel also pointed out another problem – one that's garnered little media attention anywhere in the country. Some commissioners, concerned about the massive financial costs of imposing each death sentence, "questioned whether the dedication of so many resources to a relatively small number of cases was prudent."
BillOReilly.com: The O'Reilly Factor Flash The morality and legality of the death penalty remain as controversial as ever.One leading opponent of capital punishment is Sister Helen Prejean, http://www.billoreilly.com/show?action=viewTVShow&showID=86
ASC S CRITICAL CRIMINOLOGY DIVISION/TITLE /HEAD Body Bgcolor underscored the magnitude of the death penalty debate in Illinois. Though hehas long supported capital punishment and said he would continue to do so, http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/dp/dpill/Exec/12koko.html
ERUUF's Death Penalty Abolition Web Site Unitarian Universalists for Alternatives to the death penalty. Feel like discussingyour opinions with the America s Debate (capital punishment discussion) http://www.eruuf.org/capital_punishment.htm
Extractions: This website is to serve you by gathering information for you to disseminate and offer you a chance to interact with the on-line community about the Death Penalty. Sister Helen Prejean's website Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Death Penalty Information Center The Moratorium Campaign ... Unitarian Universalists for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Feel like discussing your opinions with the world? alt.prisons newsgroup (longstanding website where prison reform and capital punishment are discussed) America's Debate (capital punishment discussion)
Extractions: Raymond McInnis Link This Blog! PermaLink In the Blogroll Video: Alternative Views Censured Casualties features rare footage of war crimes against the Iraqi people suffered during and after the Gulf War. The footage is from former Attorney General Ramsey Clark in his attempt to document the injustice of United States military actions in the region.
Blog Left Critical Interventions Warblog (war Blog, Iraq Resolute to Retain death penalty, Ashcroft Undermines current practices for change US President George W. Bush s strong support for capital punishment. http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/2003/02/resolute-to-retain-death-penalt
Error: Invalid Article Key (TL,20050806,APA,508061002,AR). an unusually stinging criticism of capital punishment Saturday evening, br br Stevens stopped short of calling for an end to the death penalty, http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20050806&Category=APA&A
Legal Issues Of Cannabis - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Use of capital punishment against the drugs trade Under the 1994 Crime Act,the threshold for sentencing a death penalty in relation to marijuana is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_of_cannabis
Extractions: Many countries have laws regarding the cultivation, possession, supply or use of cannabis hemp ). Non-drug cannabis products (eg fibre and seed) are legal in many countries, and these countries may license cultivation for these purposes. The herb is a controlled substance in most, though its use is condoned in some locales for medicinal purposes. In some countries, such as Portugal , cannabis drug material is legal for personal use, though restrictions may apply to its sale, distribution or consumption. In Germany , the consumption of cannabis is legal, although it is illegal to possess, sell or distribute it. If the amount of cannabis a person possessed is considered as "minor", a law suit may be dropped. In the U.S.A (nationwide, in 2004) a person is arrested on "marijuana charges" every 42 seconds. edit Cannabis was criminalized across most of the world in the early parts of the 20th century. The reasons for and approaches to criminalization vary from country to country. At a
Extractions: hostName = '.beldar.org'; Main I'll tell you what's wrong with the United State Supreme Court's 6/3 decision today in Miller-El v. Dretke . And if you understand how our state and federal trial and appellate courts are supposed to work, you'll see that it's wrong â regardless of whether you support or oppose the death penalty. And, because I'm a crusty old trial-lawyer writing for a blog instead of a law review, I'll tell you a war story to help make my point. Thomas Joe Miller-El is black. He was convicted of capital murder by a Dallas County jury and sentenced to death. Today's majority opinion , written by Justice David Souter, held that he's entitled to federal habeas corpus relief â essentially a federal order commanding the State of Texas to either retry or release Mr. Miller-El â on grounds that the prosecutors impermissibly used racial discrimination in exercising their peremptory jury strikes, with the result that some black potential jurors weren't selected. The resulting jury that convicted and sentenced Mr. Miller-El comprised seven white females, two white males, and three other males who were, respectively, black, hispanic, and Filipino (although you must turn to Justice Thomas' dissent , in which Justice Scalia and Chief Justice Rehnquist joined, to find that out.)
BeldarBlog: The Malvo Verdict of capital murder ultimately voted against imposing the death penalty. If you believe in the capital punishment system as it currently exists in http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2003/12/the_malvo_verdi.html
Extractions: hostName = '.beldar.org'; Main Texas redistricting Plan 1374C is legal, sez court in Session v. Perry Despite the initial leanings of some of them, the twelve members of the Virginia jury that convicted 18-year-old sniper Lee Boyd Malvo of capital murder ultimately voted against imposing the death penalty. Predictably, prosecutors and family members of his victims have expressed their disappointment. Although I haven't seen any polls, I suspect that a substantial portion of the public, probably a fair-sized majority, may also disapprove of the jury's decision and believe that his crime warranted the death penalty â and indeed, on the basis of what I know , that would be my personal opinion as well. Like me, however, disapproving members of the public can, at best, have followed the trial from a remote distance, filtered through press accounts. We have not been privy to all the evidence; we have not seen what the jury saw or heard what it heard; and most importantly, we have not sworn the oath that jury swore nor participated in the deliberations its members conducted in the fulfilling of that oath. We should therefore be loathe to second-guess its decision. From what I know through press reports, I have no reason to doubt that the prosecutors who attempted to persuade this jury to sentence Malvo to death â for a crime committed while he was still technically a juvenile â were capable and skilled professionals who did their jobs competently. I have no reason to doubt that through their efforts, the State of Virginia got a fair trial. Nor do I have any particular reason to suspect that there was a gross imbalance in the quality and capabilities of the prosecution and defense teams that could have resulted in a skewed process.
Death Penalty Links On capital punishment and the death penalty (Canada); Canadian site from the What About capital punishment? Short prodeath penalty biblical essay by http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/links/dplinks.htm
Extractions: Add URL, report dead links, suggestions, comments, contact Steve Stewart: prosatty@aye.net Top 10% Pro-Death Penalty.Com (Justice For All) A comprehensive pro-death penalty site with articles, links, and up-to-date death penalty info and news. Wesley Lowe's Pro-Death Penalty Homepage Thoughtful pro-death penalty essay addressing arguments re: deterrence, cost, racism, DP vs LWOP, morality, christianity, constitutionality, and risk of wrongful executions. Clark County Indiana Prosecuting Attorney Comprehensive information on the Death Penalty in Indiana, including statistics, executions since 1900, current death row (with photos), Indiana death penalty laws, history, and methods of execution, with factual and legal summaries of all death penalty cases since 1977; Up-to-date information on the Death Penalty in the United States; Almost 2,000 death penalty links arranged by subject, including 100+ pro-death penalty links. The Bible's Teaching on Capital Punishment by Logos Christian Resources.
