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.
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News How America's Death Penalty Murders Innocents
05-22-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by David A. Love
The evidence is in: the US criminal justice system produces wrongful convictions on an industrial scale – with fatal results
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News Did Texas Execute Another Innocent Man?
05-15-2012
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The Agitator
The book sets out in precise and shocking detail how an innocent man was sent to his death on 8 December 1989, courtesy of the state of Texas. Los Tocayos Carlos: An Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution, is based on six years of intensive detective work b
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News Mistaken Identity? 10 Contested Death Penalty Cases
05-15-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Stephanie Pappas
A death penalty case long surrounded by questions has been brought to the surface again, with a new report suggesting that the 1989 execution of Carlos DeLuna killed an innocent man. DeLuna's is not the first case to raise such red flags.
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News Connecticut abolishes the death penalty
04-26-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, Agence France-Presse
Connecticut abolished the death penalty on Wednesday, but the repeal will not affect 11 people still on death row, including two men convicted over a gruesome 2007 “home invasion” attack.
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News California to vote on ending death penalty
04-24-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Question to appear on November ballot after more than 500,000 people signed up to back the proposal.
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News Connecticut becomes 17th state to repeal death penalty
04-12-2012
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Los Angeles Times
Connecticut has become the 17th state to repeal the death penalty, with lawmakers voting 86-62 on the measure after a marathon debate that stretched into the night and revived memories of some of the state's most heinous crimes.
Gov. Dannel Malloy
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News Seeking an End to an Execution Law They Once Championed
04-06-2012
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New York Times
The year was 1978, and the California ballot bristled with initiatives for everything from banning gay teachers to cracking down on indoor smoking. Proposition 7, sailed through: expanding the state’s death penalty law to make it among the toughest a
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News Justices Rule for Inmate After Mailroom Mix-Up
01-18-2012
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New York Times
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that an Alabama death row inmate who missed a filing deadline thanks to a mix-up in the mailroom of a prominent New York law firm must be given another chance.
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News Gary Johnson: Gingrich ‘proposed the death penalty for marijuana’
12-13-2011
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rawstory.com
Over the weekend, struggling Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson reminded MSNBC viewers that GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich had once to called to punish some drug offenders with death.
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News Overcoming Barriers to Killing
12-06-2011
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lewrockwell.com
With the continuing collapse of the pyramidal power structure with which political systems exercise their defining monopoly on the use of violence, governments have had to scramble to reinforce their coercive authority
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News On Bringing Back the Firing Squad
10-13-2011
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The Agitator
Florida State Rep. Brad Drake is taking heat for suggesting the state bring back the firing squad. He’s actually sort of right. But as is usually the case when a politician says something sort of sensible, he’s right in ways he didn’t really intend.
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News Hank Skinner Execution Date Less Than a Month Away
10-11-2011
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The Agitator
While the Troy Davis execution was awful because there were significant doubts about his guilt, and the Willingham execution because there has since been an overwhelming consensus among forensic arson experts that he was convicted with junk science,
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News Dead Letter Office
10-09-2011
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Slate
Cory R. Maples is facing execution because his lawyers got lost in the mail. At oral argument in his case this morning, Justice Antonin Scalia found himself all alone in thinking that was OK. Yet it is Scalia who notes, toward the end of the hourlong
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News Texas man to go free after DNA shows he did not kill wife
10-04-2011
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Reuters
A Texas man imprisoned for 25 years in the beating death of his wife will walk free this week after new DNA evidence linked another man to the crime, the prosecutor told Reuters on Monday.
Michael Morton was expected to be exonerated in the 1986 m
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News Thousands attend funeral of executed convict Troy Davis
10-02-2011
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Reuters
Thousands of people packed a church in Georgia on Saturday for the funeral of Troy Davis, who was executed for the murder of a police officer in a case that drew world attention because of claims by his advocates that he was innocent.
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Headlines: Thousands attend funeral of executed convict Troy Davis -- Texas man to go free after DNA shows he did not kill wife -- Dead Letter Office -- Hank Skinner Execution Date Less Than a Month Away -- On Bringing Back the Firing Squad -- Overcoming Barriers to Killing -- Gary Johnson: Gingrich ‘proposed the death penalty for marijuana’ -- Justices Rule for Inmate After Mailroom Mix-Up -- Seeking an End to an Execution Law They Once Championed -- Connecticut becomes 17th state to repeal death penalty -- California to vote on ending death penalty -- Connecticut abolishes the death penalty -- Mistaken Identity? 10 Contested Death Penalty Cases -- Did Texas Execute Another Innocent Man? -- How America's Death Penalty Murders Innocents --
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