New Jersey to abolish death penalty
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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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Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Iran to abolish the "grotesque and horrific" practice of stoning people to death.
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A murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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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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"Texas Death Row: Executions in the Modern Era" (Plume. 432 pages. $16), edited by Bill Crawford: In the state where everything is bigger, the death penalty is practically supersized.
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Alabama is set to breach an unofficial U.S. moratorium on executions on Thursday by putting to death by lethal injection a convicted rapist and murderer.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Death penalty critics on Thursday asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt lethal injections after a convicted killer took 34 minutes to die from the procedure and witnesses said he appeared to suffer.
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The UN General Assembly votes for a moratorium on the death penalty as a step towards eventual abolition.
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The state becomes the first in modern times to abolish capital punishment, as momentum builds across the country to reconsider seldom-used death-penalty statutes
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With New Jersey on the cusp of abolishing capital punishment, death penalty foes are hoping the move will inspire other states to do the same.
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A small New Jersey town repealed a law designed to crack down on illegal immigration in the latest setback for U.S. cities seeking to enact similar measures, civil rights campaigners said on Tuesday.
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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.
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The Supreme Court said on Friday it would decide whether the death penalty can be imposed for the crime of raping a child, expanding its review of how capital punishment is carried out in the United States.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday stopped the execution of a Texas convict scheduled to be put to death for the 1998 killing of his parents, two days after the court said it will consider whether lethal injection violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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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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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to assess the morality and propriety of states' executing murderers who killed at age 16 or 17 - the ultimate punishment carried out in few places outside the United States.    The court has outlawed executions for those 15 and under when they committed their crimes...
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The decision means that the only person on New Yorkâs death row will now be re-sentenced to life without parole.