death penalty issues

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0223/Arizona-justice-Shawna-Forde-death-sentence-a-rebuke-to-border-vigilantes

The derail stems from the attempt to equate Willingham's failed appeals to Knox. Not my doing, merely questioning the logic. My name is Skwinty, not Squinty. It is apparent that neither do you have any idea of what happened. Please read the link below. It sure does, based on the court...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/01/19/iran.executions/ Most of the executed are of course Kurds, but that's just a coincidence, right? :rolleyes: I wonder what are the numbers of executions in China. If their number of execution per capita is the world's biggest, it must be tremendous.

Executed murderer may have been innocent of the crime after the only evidence (a strand of hair) linking him to the crime scene was found not to belong to him. This was also the last capital case involving George W. Bush, who was governor at the time...

The prosecution has finished their case. Now it is up to the defense to try to show that David Mitchell, who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart eight plus years ago is not guilty by reason of insanity. It is not really in question whether he did it or not. His wife has already confessed and been...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40071693/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts I'm normally against the death penalty but I do have my exceptions. This man and Dennis Rader are two of them.

Fortunately Scalia and Thomas do not echo the majority opinion on the Supreme Court at the moment. Supreme Court Orders New Look at Death Row Case So here's a not so unusual case of a man convicted of a serious crime, in this case one that got the death penalty, without any physical evidence...

Capital punishment is still murder, how can you endorse it? Split from Drunk driver runs over 13 year old girl in Houston

I heard a story on NR this morning about a man on death row in Georgia. Several witnesses have recanted their story and want a new trial. The reporter's words didn't overtly call for retrial, but her tone made it clear that she was lamenting this obvious miscarriage of justice. I am not so...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/21/texas.execution.ap/index.html Damn you Texas prison officials! Damn you to hell!!! :mad:

As the Moussaoui verdict unfolds, the tired and inevitable debate over the death penalty is once again dragged out among my peers. One argument that the pro-death penalty side seems to be hung (no pun intended) up is the question of parole. When I point out that I believe that violent criminals...

Ordinarily I wouldn't jump on everyone to get involved in something they didn't find their own way to... but I'm convinced this one is especially important. http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecurity.cfm?ID=15502&c=24 Here are the reasons they cite to oppose this in the strongest...

Does anyone know how many death penalties in the US are overturned at appeal? I think (although I may be wrong) that everyone on death row gets an appeal, by law - I was wondering exactly how much difference this made? (For use in another discussion on another board, connected with the whole...