New Jersey scraps death penalty
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'Had not deterred murder' New Jersey's state assembly yesterday voted 44-36 to abolish the death penalty - the first state to do so since Iowa and West Virginia scrapped the punishment in 1965.â¦
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Anti-death penalty forces have gained momentum in the past few years, with a moratorium in Illinois, court disputes over lethal injection in more than a half-dozen states and progress toward outright abolishment in New Jersey.
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Pakistan's National Assembly brings in the death penalty for extreme cases of so-called honour killings.
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Just a few years ago, Missouri trailed only Texas and Virginia in the number of convicted killers put to death. Today, Missouri's death row is gradually being emptied out by the courts.
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A US state is to abolish the death penalty for the first time in 40 years following 44-36 vote
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida ended on Wednesday a moratorium on capital punishment spurred by a gruesomely slow execution at the end of last year, as Gov. Charlie Crist signed his first death warrant.
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A total of 134 countries have  given up capital punishment, 10 more than had done so at the  start of 2003, a campaigner against capital punishment reported  on Friday.
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The legislature appears poised to throw out the death penalty, which was reinstated by Governor George E. Pataki 10 years ago.
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WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed whether to ban the death penalty for juveniles who kill, one of the highest-profile questions confronting the justices as they continue re-examining who is subject to capital punishment.
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New Yorkâs highest court tossed out the death sentence imposed on a man for his role in the murders of five workers at a Wendyâs restaurant in Queens.
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The Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide whether the commonly used lethal injection method of execution for death row inmates violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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A Supreme Court decision makes it easier to remove potential jurors who express ambivalence about the death penalty.
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The first execution of a South Dakota prison inmate in 59 years was abruptly stopped after the governor said the law concerning lethal injection protocols was outdated.
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After years of false starts, state lawmakers voted Tuesday evening to reduce the steep mandatory prison sentences given to people convicted of drug crimes in New York State
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New Jersey allows cruelty  to farm animals by failing to ban practices such as castration  without anesthetic, animal rights activists said on Wednesday  in a lawsuit that might help set national standards for the  treatment of livestock.
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HARTFORD, Conn.  - Connecticut officials called  off New England's first execution in 45 years Monday after  serial killer Michael Ross changed his mind and admitted he may  be mentally incompetent.
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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.