Less Support for Death Sentence Cited for Decline in Executions
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Convicted murderers are being sentenced to death half as often as they were five years ago, and the population of death row is declining as a result, an anti-capital punishment information organization reported Tuesday.
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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 death row inmate convicted of murdering seven people was spared a lethal injection when federal courts declined to overrule a stay, frustrating the state&#039;s plan for back-to-back executions.
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More people were put to death last year &#151; 5,628 &#151; than in either of the previous two years, with China alone accounting for 5,000 executions, an anti-death penalty group reported Thursday.
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Even though more countries are renouncing the death penalty, more people were put to death last year &#151; 5,628 &#151; than in the past two years, an anti-death penalty group reported Thursday.
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Big cities were less deadly places to live in 2004 as murder rates declined in several urban areas, including New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C., according to a survey by The Associated Press.
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Leading contenders for the presidential nominations all support the death penalty. A look at their positions:
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The number of US state and federal inmates sent to prison under death sentences dropped to a 30-year-low in 2003 as they declined for the third consecutive year, the US Justice Department said Sunday.
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Polish lawmakers narrowly voted Friday against reintroducing the death penalty following a series of killings that outraged the nation, including the case of a young woman who was tortured and killed on a train, then dumped out the window.
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The death penalty continues to be a bone of contention, especially between the United States and Europe. While it has been abolished in most of the world&#146;s advanced democracies, the United States is near the top of the list in terms of executions worldwide. How many executions were carried out in the United States in 2006?
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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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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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BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi court changed the sentence yesterday for Saddam Hussein's former deputy from life imprisonment to death by hanging for his role in the killing of Shi'ites, ignoring pleas from the United Nations and human rights organizations.
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China's top court orders judges to be more sparing  with the death penalty, a key source of international worry.
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Experts said a Supreme Court decision will make juries in death penalty cases whiter and more conviction-prone.
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This December is the first month in  over a decade that no U.S. prisoner will be executed,  reflecting what experts say is a gradual shift in America's  views toward punishing its most violent criminals.
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Polish lawmakers narrowly voted against reintroducing the death penalty Friday, seven years after abolishing it to meet European human rights standards.