Death Penalty Quotes
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Remarks from participants and spectators as the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of executing people who were age 16 or 17 when they committed crimes.
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WASHINGTON - The number of people sentenced to death reached a 30-year low in 2003, when the Death Row population fell for the third year in a row, signaling the continuation of a slow trend away from state- and federally ordered executions, according to
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The use of the death penalty dropped this year for the fifth year in a row, as questions grow about the guilt of the condemned and more states take a hard look at their use of executions, says a report by a group critical of the punishment.
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The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday called for a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to abolishing executions, approving a resolution opposed by the U.S., China and Iran.
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Quotes from the candidates on Tuesday's New Hampshire primary:
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Redwood City, California. KAZINFORM quotes CNN -- Laci Peterson&#39;s stepfather said Scott Peterson &quot;got what he deserved&quot; when the jury in his murder trial recommended Monday that he die by lethal injection for killing his 27-year-old pregnant wife.
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From their cells on Virginia's death row, the inmates can hear Percy Walton laughing. His chuckles come from nowhere, inmates say, and are often mixed with shouts and incoherent babbling.
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The case of a painter on death row walks a thin line between 'murderabilia' and prisoners' rights.
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In the past 45 years, Tennessee has executed one death row inmate. On Tuesday, the state was preparing to administer lethal injection to two condemned murderers on the same day.
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It's not official, but a "creeping  moratorium" on the death penalty in the United States is taking  hold as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a challenge to the  method of lethal injection.
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Defense attorneys and death penalty opponents were outraged Thursday over an execution in which the condemned man took more than half an hour to die, needed a rare second dose of lethal chemicals, and appeared to grimace in his final moments.
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Lethal injection, when used for the first time in Texas nearly 22 years ago, was touted as a more humane way to execute prisoners than the firing squad, hanging, the gas chamber or even the electric chair. Today, though, death penalty opponents are challenging that notion based on the Constitution's Eighth Amendment, which prohibits "cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
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Quotes from the third Republican debate:
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.  - The Kansas Supreme Court on  Friday ruled that state's death penalty unconstitutional,  handing another victory to opponents of capital punishment.
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Texas remained the most active death penalty state in 2004 with 23 executions, down from a year ago and about average for the past decade. But legal experts and death penalty opponents suggest there are signs that increased judicial scrutiny is giving pause to juries and prosecutors considering capital punishment.
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Tycho:  Did I not tell you?  Did I not suggest that when natural justice fails, another burning energy may deliver that result which is good and proper?  Despair, mine enemies!  Unless you like swamps, in which case you might find my wrath pleasant.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments today on whether lethal injection causes excruciating pain for death row inmates and violates the Constitution's ban on "cruel and unusual punishment." The three dozen states that perform lethal injections use the three-drug mixture at issue in this case.