Recent Capital Punishment Articles page 5

Hindustan Times - The family of slain poetess Madhumita Shukla on Wednesday demanded capital punishment for former UP minister Amarmani Tripathi and others, who were awarded life imprisonment by a Dehradun court. Madhumita's mother Shanti Devi said the verdict was ...

Boston Globe - The rape and murder of his 10-year-old son a decade ago brought the state to the brink of reinstating the death penalty, but yesterday Robert Curley led an impassioned opposition to a capital punishment bill. After the killing of his son Jeffery in ...

Hampton Roads Daily Press - Is execution by injection humane, or horrible? The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing how most states carry out capital punishment, which could delay Va. proceedings. By Peter Dujardin 247-4749 October 22, 2007

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 ...

Financial Times - Since his release in 2002, the 50-year-old former US air force sergeant – a one-time supporter of the death penalty – has become a campaigner against capital punishment worldwide. He has been in New York to support a resolution on global ...

ABC News - ... to death row for pulling a trigger -- would make us think twice about committing these crimes. Yet these consequences don't factor into the decisions of many, which has many experts questioning such deterrents as drug testing and capital punishment.

Financial Times - Not even the prospect of having his brother-in-law executed for a crime he claims he did not commit is enough to put Padsha Khan, a casual labourer from Kabul, off capital punishment. For Mr Khan the dramatic end of a three-year freeze on executions ...

Greenwich Time - BOSTON -- Daisuke Matsuzaka, Dustin Pedroia and these Boston Red Sox are taking a sweet streak into the World Series, too. Boston charged to its third straight win, completing yet another October comeback by overpowering the Cleveland Indians 11-2 ...

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 ...

Los Angeles Times - BAGHDAD -- The U.S. military said its forces killed an estimated 49 militants during a dawn raid to capture an Iranian-linked militia chief in Baghdad's Sadr City enclave, one of the highest tolls for a single operation since President Bush declared ...