death penalty

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/05/iran.stoning/index.html?video=true?video=true&hpt=T1

'...Barring a last-minute stay of execution, five anonymous marksmen bearing rifles will take their places late on Thursday in a prison room to carry out the request of death-row inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner: execution by firing squad. ...' From...

While the world is concentrated on Gaza and the unfortunate death of nine people on the Mavi Marmara ship, Iran is planning mass executions on the anniversary of last year's riots. http://missionfreeiran.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/june-executions/ Apparently, 26 in total will be executed, 13...

Dirtball :rolleyes:

Ali Hassan al-Majid has been found guilty of gassing thousands of Kurds and will soon hang. Good riddence. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/gassing-of-kurds-is-saddams-legacy/story-e6frg6zo-1225820978361 According to the Times article: QFT

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6802314.html Apparently this story didn't travel very far outside of Texas. I cannot find many news articles about it. I am having a hard time believing that they correctly calculated a monthly decline for an event that can occur 30-40 times per...

This is tragic: Allegedly Shaikh thought he was travelling to China to launch a pop career that would bring world peace. Hopefully China will come to its senses.

The Chinese have not yet told Akmal Shaikh he is to be executed and will not do until 24 hours before he is to die. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8431750.stm I can't see much in this method that is truly humane. If you are to take someone's life would it hurt to let them make final farewells...

I've checked my caldendar and yeah, it IS the 21st Century. :(

Georgia tax revenues are down so much that defence lawyers are leaving cases because they aren't getting paid. We have an asian who killed seven people in his community in Atlanta Ga and hes an indigent. Georgia is having problems assembling a defence team to defend him. The crimes he is...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6338320/Texas-man-faces-execution-after-jurors-consult-Bible-to-decide-fate.html Well, it's Texas...what do you expect? Bibles that say, "Thou shall NOT kill? Add to that the fact that Khristian obviously spells "christian'...

A long but fascinating and disturbing article about the use of pseudo-science and folk wisdom in forensic investigations. Also touches on the unreliability of eye witness testimony. A must read. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann?currentPage=all In December...

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...

Aileen Wournos was executed by lethal injection for murdering several men who picked her up hitchhiking. She robbed them and shot them to death. Ok investigating into her past reveals a life filled with abuse both sexual, physical and mental. Was she mentally competant to even stand trial...

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

I've been told that if a society executes a person say like Dennis Rader then the society that executes the murderer is as bad as the murderer. I say no. What do you guys say?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/washington/26scotus.html?_r=2&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1214548240-wajFtUxvqzXTHlCLfgJhdQ Is there a difference between correction and defense of society? Is there a line over which one may not cross? I can't type any more, because...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080626/ap_on_el_pr/obama_child_rape_case I am no fan of the death penalty. But I have to agree with Obama. Child rapists...especially those who do it multiple times to the same child..should be put to death. Child abuse is not a crime of passion...perhaps...

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Ernest van den Haag speaks about the death penalty and deterrence from an obituary written by William F. Buckley Jr.: h/t: Keith Burgess-Jackson

Unless the child is murdered I say no. Not because the perp doesn't deserve death but I believe if the perp was facing the death penalty they would be more likely to kill the kid after the crime. Leave the death penalty up to the other inmates.

Great to see the newly-created free and open society in Afghanistan - coming at the cost of billions of dollars and thousands of lives - continuing on its merry way, just as if those thousands of lives and billions of dollars hadn't been spent. QED

Just another story about a (possibly) innocent person spending about 20 years in the death row, for a crime maybe he has never committed. If you are interested, read here: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/07/freed.man.ap/index.html and here...

The reason for a death penalty. http://pysih.com/2007/12/03/christopher-ryan-richardson/

Hereby, I am willing to demonstrate to you why death penalty is wrong. PART I Let` s assume you are an husband, you have a nice wife and two little kids One day, at 3 a.m., your wife wakes you up, as she hears some noises from the other rooms. She goes downstairs, but, you have not woken up...

An article from YAHOO News, about the 'Bible Belt' influence in Texas executions: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070813/ts_nm/texas_executions_dc;_ylt=AlqDeLOaM1qqp92XK8KSxeB34T0D

A Marine infantryman convicted earlier this week of kidnapping and conspiracy to murder an Iraqi man was sentenced by a military jury yesterday to a demotion and bad-conduct discharge, but no prison time. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/21/world/middleeast/21marine.html Now, where are all the...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin "Hang 'Em High" Scalia cites his Christian faith as a reason to be completely unconcerned about the possibility of the U.S. Justice system incorrectly executing an innocent person. As the state of Georgia prepares to murder a man for a crime it cannot be...

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I'm trying to see why this is a bad thing.