Recent Capital Punishment Articles page 4

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 ...

New York Times - A 2005 study by New Jersey Policy Perspective, a liberal research group, estimated that capital punishment had cost the state $256 million since 1983, including $60 million for defense, and the state has not executed a single inmate in that time. A ...

Washington Post - Death penalty opponents, who count Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) among their ranks, are gearing up for another attempt to abolish capital punishment. And supporters of gay marriage have vowed to turn to the legislature after a court ruling last month that ...

Newsday - In closing arguments Thursday, prosecutors said Stinnett's killing and mutilation is the kind of crime for which capital punishment is intended. "The death penalty is reserved for the worst crime," federal prosecutor Roseann Ketchmark told the jury ...

Scotsman - The right to life is a basic human right, otherwise capital punishment would still be with us. Some women use destruction of unborn life (abortion) as a contraceptive. I have heard all the hard luck stories before,and they dont wash with me . Unless ...

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 ...

Baytown Sun - Several things. The following items are taken directly from my Real Newsman Notebook. They’ve been saved for the appropriate time. Now is that time. We begin on a serious, sad, enraging note: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. There’s a reason I’m for capital ...

Boston Globe - Ryan, 73, promoted for several years for a Nobel because of his opposition to capital punishment, has been free on bond pending appeal since he was sentenced on September 6, 2006. In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ...

Slate - Endangered Pander? McCain supports legalization of illegal immigrants, loses 5 points over the month among Hispanic Republicans in California, according to SurveyUSA. Fred Thompson blasts the legalization bill from the right and his support among ...

wnbc.com - Two men who have been exonerated for murder are using their experience to speak out against the use of capital punishment. Jeffrey Deskovic spent 16 years in prison for the 1989 murder of a Peekskill High School classmate. Douglas Warney spent a ...