Capital Punishment Articles page 5

Denver Post - Church writings state there are matters upon which reasonable people of informed conscience can disagree - even life-and-death issues such as war and capital punishment. The church opposes the death penalty but acknowledges it has a biblical ...

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Hampton Roads Daily Press - The Senate version of the bill is headed to the Courts of Justice Committee because of concerns over capital punishment. Virginia does not execute people if they are deemed mentally retarded, and lawmakers want to examine that portion of the state ...

St. Petersburg Times - The majority of the people are enthusiastic about capital punishment over rehabilitation, despite mounting evidence that innocent people may be put to death, that personal guilt is hard to prove, and that capital punishment debases the whole society ...

Reuters - ... the feminist movement, Mailer won Pulitzer Prizes in 1969 and 1980 for "The Armies of the Night" about Vietnam War protest and "The Executioner's Song" about the first person to be executed after the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment ...

Quad-Cities Times - What’s fascinating is that, though 67 percent of those polled by Gallup pollsters approve of capital punishment in murder cases (and 51 percent say it’s not imposed often enough), 64 percent admit it does not deter murder and 63 percent believe ...

American Reporter - Vermont will still outlaw capital punishment and let people in prison vote in elections. If Florida wants to pave over every square inch of its state and turn it into an endless sea of strip malls and cookie-cutter subdivisions, go ahead ...