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Iran Executions: 29 in a Single DayIran executed 29 prisoners for various crimes Sunday morning. The total executions in Iran is second only to China. But executions are up worldwide... -
Executions of Whites Versus African AmericansDo the few executions of Whites for crimes against African Americans adequately demonstrate that the application of the death penalty is not arbitrary or discriminatory?
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NC Supreme Court Rules Doctors Can Participate in ExecutionsThe NC Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state Medical Board can not prevent doctors from participating in the executions of criminals. The decision split the court's members along gender lines.
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DEA Raids State Owned Drugs Stopping ExecutionsGeorgia and other states are looking at the DEA for their next step regarding their seizure of the sedative sodium thiopental, a main drug in the death penalty. It is suspected this act may delay other executions in other states as well. -
Supreme Court Halts Two Southwest ExecutionsThe U.S. Supreme Court is under attack of death penalty cases that are hitting home for many abolitionists fighting to repeal these laws. Cases are being blocked and reviewed to see if there are legal reasons to stop these executions.
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Death Penalty Executions Delayed Due to Drug ShortageDeath Penalty Executions Delayed due to Pentothal Shortage
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China Ranks First in State ExecutionsChina leads all nations in state sponsored executions, according to a new list compiled by Foreign Policy magazine.
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Executions in the United StatesThis is an article regarding whether executions in the states are really humane.
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Public Executions: Is This the Right of Condemned Inmates?The Right To Videotape Executions -
Executions, Torture and War, (Oh My)The paradox of the Christian conservatives role in supporting executions, torture, and war.
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Nation Prepares for Three ExecutionsJune 26th 3 states will carry out executions by lethal injections -
Supreme Court Gives the OK to Proceed with ExecutionsYesterday, in a vote of 7-2, the court has decided that executions may resume. -
Capital Punishment: Two Killers, Two Executions, Too Much PressIn early May, Georgia put an inmate to death after a seven-month moratorium on executions.
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Why Executions Are Carried Out at NightImagine what it must be like to go through the last day of your life knowing that you would die at one minute after midnight. I mean Cinderella's couch turned into a pumpkin at midnight but the condemned is turned into a corpse.
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Death Penalty, Drug Shortage, Executions on Hold47% of people prefer the death penalty, while 48% of people prefer life without parole and 5% have no opinion.
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DEATH TAKES a HOLIDAY: Executions, Nationwide, Delayed by Shortage of Execution DrugA look at the nationwide shortage of a drug manufactured only by Hospira of Lake Forest, Illinois: (sodium thiopental_, and how the shortage has caused execution delays,
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Last Executions Held in Paris, 1972You wouldn't expect the job of chief executioner to be a hotly-contested position. But Andre Obrecht waited most of his adult life for the job to be his.
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Why Are Executions Done at Night?Imagine what it must be like to go through the last day of your life knowing that you would die at one minute after midnight. I mean Cinderella's couch turned into a pumpkin at midnight but the condemned is turned into a corpse.
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Iran Stepping Up Executions of Its Own PeopleIt truly is a matter of life and death for Iran's citizens.
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Cameras at Executions - Should They Be AllowedI do not believe that cameras should be allowed in the death chamber during an execution.
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Televised Executions: Will Society Ever Get to this Point?A look into the polls and the semantics of the question. -
Sedating Inmates Before Executions: The Humane Thing to Do?It's unnatural to know exactly when you are going to die -
Two Texas Inmates Go on Hunger Strike to Protest Their ExecutionsKenneth Foster Jr., John Joe Amador are to be executed by lethal injection one day apart from each other. -
Association of Iranian-Americans Enraged at Iranian Government's ExecutionsThe AIA members present were Iranian exiles who had fled their homeland to escape the tyranny of the current regime.
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Green Party Candidate McKinney Accuses Government of Mass Inmate ExecutionsDepartment of Defense gave the order to execute 5000 inmates with a single gunshot to the head,
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China: Executions and Death Vans - Leading the World in Capital PunishmentChina has faced vast criticism for human rights within their country. One recent call is for the lessening of capital punishment.
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China Milk Recall 2008 Unearths Another 170 Tons of Melamine Milk Powder in 2010In 2008, melamine tainted powdered milk and infant formula led to the deaths of six children, the hospitalization of another 860 babies and two executions of guilty parties. Now more powdered milk - from the China milk recall - is discovered. -
Highlights of the Tower of LondonThe Tower of London is a living monument to Norman architecture and has stood strong throughout the last nine centuries through civil unrest, royal coronations and judicial executions. What are some of the highlights of the Tower of London?
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Condemned Iranian Adultress Recieves 99 Lashes Before ExecutionIn in second and third world countries like Iran, it's hard to believe in the year 2010 that barbaric executions such stoning deaths for adulters still exist in countries around the world such as Iran -
Place Stock Orders like a ProFifty-year stock veteran gives some buying and selling tips.
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How Poor Treatment of Staff Negatively Impacts on Business PerformanceMistreating employees dis-empowers them resulting to ineffectiveness and inefficiency in duty executions.
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Inside Stock Quotations for a Trading EdgeChecking real-time stock quotes and "spreads" before placing orders provides a means to improve stock executions.
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The Execution of Detainees in IraqThe repercussions of allowing executions on a whim would lead to anarchy and upheaval. Supporting our troops abroad should not include condoning murder.
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Opposing the Death Penalty in Principle?There were two executions last night, but capital punishment's opponents are focusing only on one of them.
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Brewer, Davis Executions Highlight Best, Worst of Capital PunishmentTwo men were executed Wednesday for murders they were convicted of. Troy Davis was executed in Georgia, despite public pressure from people all over the world. The other man who was executed was Lawrence Russell Brewer. Their two stories represent the best and worst of the death penalty in our count
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Kentucky Justice...With Or Without PrejudiceThe American Bar Association has announced a study released Wednesday recommending that Kentucky suspend executions due to serious flaws in the legal system. A recent local case is a perfect example of this flawed and corrupt system.
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The Case Against the Death PenaltyThe United States will be facing many more death penalty cases where reasonable doubt exists.But governments insist on killing people anyway. More than ever, a moratorium on death penalty cases and executions is called for.
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Remembering the Dead in Katyn ForestIn 1940, Russian secret police began the executions of thousands of Polish leaders and military officers. Some 4,000 were buried in Katyn Forest and blamed on the Nazis. The West accepted this tale as one price for Stalin's aid.
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Death Penalty: The Courts Don't Always Get it RightThough these midnight executions seem more private, when you have media coverage in some high profile cases it becomes a spectacle
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A Death Warrant is Only Valid for a DayAndy Bowers states the major reason for executions carried out at night is that a death warrant is only good for one day - a 24 hour period according to California law
