The death penalty or capital Punishment, is the execution of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from Latin capitalis, literally "regarding the head" (Latin caput). A capital crime was originally one punished by the severing of the head.
The death penalty, can be considered to be a culturally universal, excluding those with state religious proscriptions against it. Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union will prohibit capital punishment.
60% of the worldwide population live in countries where executions take place insofar as the four most populous countries in the world the People's Republic of China, India, United States and Indonesia, apply the death penalty.
News China teen seen as hero for killing local official
01-20-2010
AP
Few of his fellow villagers mourned the local Communist Party official many say made their lives hell by seizing land, extorting money and bullying people for years.
News High court votes to put man to death
01-19-2010
AP
The Supreme Court threw out a ruling that had set aside the death sentence of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in a racially tinged case that has made the former Black Panther an international cause celebre.
News Lawyers Fight to Halt Ohio Execution Condemned as Human Experimentation
12-09-2009
Guardian co.uk via Rense.com
Lethal injection involves anaesthetic used on pets(!)
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News Muhammad executed for sniper killing
11-10-2009
Washington Post
John Allen Muhammad, the sniper who kept the Washington region paralyzed by fear for three weeks as he and a young accomplice gunned down people at random, was executed Tuesday night by lethal injection.
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News Controversy Builds in Texas Over an Execution
10-19-2009
NY Times
Questions about whether Gov. Rick Perry allowed the execution of a man some arson experts say may have been innocent, and then hindered an investigation into the evidence, continue to reverberate across Texas, where issues surrounding capital punishm
News Judge Delays Another Ohio Execution
10-19-2009
NY Times
A federal judge has indefinitely delayed an execution scheduled for Dec. 8, the fourth execution to be postponed in Ohio since technicians failed for two hours last month to administer lethal drugs to a man convicted of murder and rape.
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News More Strange Turns in Texas' Possible Execution of an Innocent Man
10-18-2009
by Radley Balko (Reason)
More odd developments in the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, the Texas man executed in 2004 for killing his 3 daughters by intentionally setting fire to his own house. 9 arson experts have denounced the testimony of the forensic arson specialists w
News Texas man faces execution after jurors consult Bible to decide fate
10-16-2009
AP
It later emerged that while deciding whether he should be given the death penalty, jurors consulted the Bible. Four jury members admitted that several copies had been in the jury room and that highlighted passages were passed around.
At one point,
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News Texas governor: Executed inmate was 'a monster'
10-15-2009
AP
[kinda defensive for a murderer, Gov.] A man put to death in 2004 for killing his three children was "a monster," and suggestions that he may have been innocent are anti-death penalty propaganda, Gov. Rick Perry said.
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News Ohio Death Penalty Case May Influence Lethal Injection Protocols
10-11-2009
Washington Post
Romell Broom knew he was about to die when the Ohio prison warden came to his cell, escorted by guards, and read his death warrant. A court had rejected his final appeal. Soon, two nurses arrived and told Broom to lie down as they tried to insert a n
News Ruling puts AZ closer to resuming executions
10-09-2009
Arizona Republic
Jeffrey Landrigan was sentenced to death for killing a Phoenix man in 1989, but his execution was stayed in 2007, pending a U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed condemned prisoners to question their state's method of execution by lethal injection
News Nightline: The Wrongful Execution of Cameron Todd Willingham
10-04-2009
Youtube (h/t The Agitator)
A September 17, 2009, Nightline report on the execution of an innocent man in Texas. Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted and executed of arson murder based mainly on discredited arson analysis.
Now that all of the evidence against Willingham has
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News Ohio Plans to Try Again as Execution Goes Wrong
09-16-2009
NY Times
The State of Ohio plans to try again next week to execute a convicted rapist-murderer, after a team of technicians spent two hours on Tuesday in an unsuccessful effort to inject him with lethal drugs.
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News The Case for Killing Granny
Rethinking end-of-life care.
09-15-2009
Newsweek
But the need to spend less money on the elderly at the end of life is the elephant in the room in the health-reform debate. Everyone sees it but no one wants to talk about it. Until Americans learn to contemplate death as more than a scientific chal
News Georgia Lawmaker Calls For Executing Marijuana Offenders
09-15-2009
Freedom Fighter Radio
State Republican lawmaker Tommy Benton (31st House District) favors caning minor marijuana offenders and executing those who sell the drug, according to a recent correspondence sent by the representative to a constituent.
News So Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man? Do you care?
09-10-2009
The Agitator
There has long been a sentiment among death penalty opponents that
proof of an executed innocent would turn public opinion on the death
penalty. Im pessimistic thats going to happen. But it does raise the
question for supporters of capital punishment: Does Willinghams case
make you rethink your position? If not, how many more cases of an
executed innocent person would it take to make you change your mind?
News China Moves to Cut Use of Executed Inmates' Organs
08-26-2009
AP
China has launched a national organ donation system to try to reduce
its dependence on body parts harvested from executed prisoners, who
make up the majority of donors.
Organ transplantation in China has long been criticized as
profit-driven and unethical, with critics arguing death row inmates may
feel pressured to become donors, violating personal, religious or
cultural beliefs.
News Judge: Closing court before appeal wasn't a ruling
08-18-2009
AP
A Texas judge on trial for closing her court despite knowing that a
death-row inmate's final appeal was running late testified Tuesday that
denying a request to stay open was no judicial ruling on her part.
"I did not believe I was making a decision," said Judge Sharon Keller,
the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
News Texas Judge Goes to Trial Over Execution
08-17-2009
NY Times
The highest-ranking criminal judge in Texas, the woman who presides
over the most active execution chamber in the country, sat at a defense
table to face charges of intentionally denying a condemned
man access to the legal system.
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News Judges Dissents for Death Row Inmates Are Rising
08-13-2009
NY Times
It took just 80 words for a federal appeals court to deny Kevin
Coopers most recent plea to avoid execution. But attached to that
order was a forceful 101-page dissent by a judge, all but pleading to spare Mr. Coopers life.
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News Police Bash National Anthem in front of Live Media, Public Audience
07-06-2009
youtube-entertainment for the whole family! ;)
Chatanooga TN Police Department supports blatant disemboweling of our National Anthem in front of live audience. There are over 5 different camera angles at this public event and top ranking police personnel in nearly every frame. If it garnered so much official support and media coverage planning and staffing for it was broad in the very least. If this nations local and state law enforcement cannot hire pirates who know grade-school-level patriotism as a minimum, then what kind of policing is truly in place here in the land of the sheep and home of the slave? If you or I stood up in front of a bunch of police and media, altering the words to the Pledge of Allegiance, National Anthem etc. WED BE CHARGED WITH TREASON! This was a blasphemous attack on our beloved Americas most highly regarded song about itself which directly translates to every U.S. citizen. It creates the kind of shame that doesnt wash off after a self-inflicted national tragedy or several generations of bon
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Charles Gillespie
News Texas picks up the pace on executions
03-12-2009
Star Telegram
As more states debate whether to stop executing criminals, Texas long the nationwide leader in executions has geared up and is on pace to execute perhaps more than twice as many Death Row inmates this year as in 2008.
News To execute or not: A question of cost?
03-08-2009
AP
After decades of moral arguments reaching biblical proportions, after long, twisted journeys to the nation's highest court and back, the death penalty may be abandoned by several states for a reason having nothing to do with right or wrong: Money
News Citing Cost, States Consider Halting Death Penalty
02-24-2009
NY Times
When Gov. Martin OMalley appeared before the Maryland Senate last week, he made an unconventional argument that is becoming increasingly popular in cash-strapped states: abolish the death penalty to cut costs.
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News Texas judge charged with blocking execution appeal
02-20-2009
AFP
A legal commission began work investigating the conduct of a Texas judge who sent a condemned man to his death rather than receive his last-minute appeal after office hours. Sharon Keller -- the Presiding Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
News Another 11th-hour stay for US death row inmate Troy Davis
10-24-2008
AFP
[It is working. Keep up the pressure.] Troy Davis, a black American who has spent 17 years on death row for the murder of a white policeman, was Friday granted a stay of execution, three days before he was due to be put to death, court documents show
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News Ga. cop killer gets last-minute execution reprieve
9-23-2008
AP
The U.S. Supreme Court gave a reprieve to a Georgia inmate less than two hours before he was to be executed Tuesday for the 1989 slaying of an off-duty police officer.
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News Georgia set to execute probably innocent man for officer's death
9-23-2008
AP
[cuz someone's got to made example for harming the King's man] A Georgia man convicted of killing an off-duty police officer was set to be executed even though witnesses have recanted their testimony and questions remain about his guilt
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