RIGHTS:      Poverty and Capital Punishment Go Hand In Hand
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BERLIN, Oct 17 (IPS) - In rich and poor countries alike poverty and the  death penalty are almost always inextricably bound together,  according to a worldwide survey of experts and human rights  activists carried out by journalists as part of the IPS Death  Penalty Abolition Project.
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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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Excerpts from Monday's arguments before the Supreme Court on a challenge to the three-drug system of lethal injection used on death row inmates in Kentucky and other states:
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Baze v. Rees is a case from two Kentucky death row inmates in which the justices are likely to decide what standard should be used in determining whether lethal-injection procedures violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.
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Leading contenders for the presidential nominations all support the death penalty. A look at their positions:
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A new journal focuses on common ailments that afflict the worldâs poor.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is considering whether the United States is out of step with the rest of the world, and with national and global standards of decency, by allowing teenage killers to be put to death.    Nineteen states allow capital punishment for 16- and 17-year-olds, and more than 70 juvenile murderers are on death row...
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Â· Grand chamber of human rights court to hear appealÂ· Women argue that one will lose house when other dies
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BRUSSELS, Jan 11 (IPS) - One of the most persistent criticisms levelled at  the European Union's conduct towards poor countries is that  it gives with one hand and takes with the other. Despite being  the world's largest donor of development aid, the EU pursues  trade, agriculture and fisheries policies that many anti-poverty  activists blame for perpetuating -- and exacerbating -- global  inequalities.
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Mark Geragos&#39; task now is to save the life of his client, a convicted double murderer facing a possible death sentence. His problem is that the usual defense approach to the penalty phase of a capital case
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There's an old saying, "Justice delayed is justice denied." But in the case of three civil rights workers slain in Mississippi four decades ago, some say time may be on justice's side.
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By J.R. Welsh, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 12--GULFPORT -- Sometimes Bob and Edna Boyd feel as if their fate is being held in the hand of a giant they cannot see. All they can do is feel the squeeze.
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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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PARIS, Feb 19 (IPS) - If it were not for a handful of countries  persisting  in carrying out executions, activists for the   abolition of the death penalty around the world would have  departed for  home after their  Third World Congress which took  place in Paris from Feb 1 to 3, saying:  "Mission   accomplished".
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And the question before the US Supreme Court today in a case from Missouri is whether, like mentally retarded killers, young killers should be spared execution under the Constitution&#39;s ban against &quot;cruel and unusual punishment.
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LOS ANGELES _ Justice delayed may be justice denied _but at the end of the day it is incontestably better than nothing. Societies that disrespect the professionalism of their courts ultimately court catastrophe.
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WASHINGTON - A deeply divided Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday over whether states should be allowed to execute teenage killers, with several justices raising concerns that the United States is out of step with the rest of the world.    Nineteen states allow capital punishment for 16- and 17-year-olds, and more than 70 juvenile murderers are on death row...