Capital Punishment Articles page 2

Newsday - WASHINGTON - Stop executions for a while and perhaps they can be stopped forever. That calculation has been part of the strategy of capital punishment opponents for decades. The Supreme Court-inspired slowdown in executions offers the first ...

Greenville News - Death penalty cases are more expensive to carry out than trials that don't involve capital punishment. A capital case must be approved by the U.S. Attorney General's office. In a speech last October at Furman University, William W. Wilkins, a senior ...

Detroit News - Michigan, the first state to abolish capital punishment, has one man awaiting execution ordered by a jury in Grand Rapids and three more facing possible death penalties in Detroit. The apparent contradiction stems from the fact Michigan, which banned ...

International Herald Tribune - When the U.S. Supreme Court last week granted a stay of execution for a murderer in Mississippi, it imposed a de facto moratorium on capital punishment in the United States. With prosecutors in Texas and other states now saying they will stop seeking ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - WASHINGTON - Stop executions for a while and perhaps they can be stopped forever. That calculation has been part of the strategy of capital-punishment opponents for decades. The Supreme Court-inspired slowdown in executions offers the first ...

Washington Post - The Georgia Supreme Court cleared the way yesterday for the execution of convicted murderer Jack Alderman , even as other states have halted capital punishment to allow the nation's top court to decide whether lethal injection violates the ...

San Diego Union-Tribune - Data collected by rights group Amnesty International showed a fall in worldwide executions to 1,591 in 2006 from 2,148 in 2005, and a fall in the number of countries imposing the death penalty. Some 99 countries ban capital punishment, while 69 ...

Forbes - The highest annual total was 98 in 1999, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which opposes capital punishment. So far this year, 42 people have been executed. Texas, where 26 prisoners have been executed this year, plans no more ...

Santa Barbara Independent - del.icio.us. A small contingent of people gathered at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Friday to rally against the death penalty and capital punishment executions . Members of the group Walk to Stop Executions are on an 800-mile walk from San ...

As Support for Capital Punishment Slips, Texas Carries On