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Physician participation in capital punishment: a question of professional integrity. (1/14)

The death penalty is legal in 36 states, and physicians are expected to attend and participate in executions. Yet, every major medical and health-related organization opposes physician participation in capital punishment. This article argues that it is unethical for physicians within the role as medical professional to participate in capital punishment, and that such acts erode the foundation of trust at the heart of medical practice. We believe that it is important for professional groups and medical societies to impose sanctions on members who choose to participate in executions. (+info)

'Libyan Trial': a verdict running counter to scientific evidence. (2/14)

Sidaction's appeal regarding the sentencing of medical personnels in the Libyan-HIV infection cases. (+info)

Libya, HIV, and open communication. (3/14)

This year-end editorial discusses several points including the recent Libyan verdict sentencing five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for allegedly infecting 426 children with HIV. It also comments on the role played by open communication for bridging cultural misunderstandings and summarizes briefly Retrovirology's progress in 2006. (+info)

Lethal injection for execution: chemical asphyxiation? (4/14)

BACKGROUND: Lethal injection for execution was conceived as a comparatively humane alternative to electrocution or cyanide gas. The current protocols are based on one improvised by a medical examiner and an anesthesiologist in Oklahoma and are practiced on an ad hoc basis at the discretion of prison personnel. Each drug used, the ultrashort-acting barbiturate thiopental, the neuromuscular blocker pancuronium bromide, and the electrolyte potassium chloride, was expected to be lethal alone, while the combination was intended to produce anesthesia then death due to respiratory and cardiac arrest. We sought to determine whether the current drug regimen results in death in the manner intended. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We analyzed data from two US states that release information on executions, North Carolina and California, as well as the published clinical, laboratory, and veterinary animal experience. Execution outcomes from North Carolina and California together with interspecies dosage scaling of thiopental effects suggest that in the current practice of lethal injection, thiopental might not be fatal and might be insufficient to induce surgical anesthesia for the duration of the execution. Furthermore, evidence from North Carolina, California, and Virginia indicates that potassium chloride in lethal injection does not reliably induce cardiac arrest. CONCLUSIONS: We were able to analyze only a limited number of executions. However, our findings suggest that current lethal injection protocols may not reliably effect death through the mechanisms intended, indicating a failure of design and implementation. If thiopental and potassium chloride fail to cause anesthesia and cardiac arrest, potentially aware inmates could die through pancuronium-induced asphyxiation. Thus the conventional view of lethal injection leading to an invariably peaceful and painless death is questionable. (+info)

Media influenced imitative hanging: a report from West Bengal. (5/14)

Media influences behaviour, especially of the young children and adolescents in various ways. The present study examined the media coverage of a judicial hanging and its immediate social effect. In a qualitative study the media coverage of a case of a judicial hanging was thoroughly discussed and the media influence, for over a period of ten weeks of the incident, in terms of suicide and copying of hanging among children, was collected and analysed. Eighteen cases were reported as an aftermath of this hanging: 1 suicide and 17 imitative hanging in children with 5 deaths. This report calls for attention that media should be cautious and responsible in presenting the news items that have potential social impact. (+info)

Punishing physicians who torture: a work in progress. (6/14)

BACKGROUND: There are only a few anecdotal accounts describing physicians being punished for complicity with torture or crimes against humanity. A fuller list of such cases would address the perception that physicians may torture with impunity and point to how to improve their accountability for such crimes. METHODS: We performed a multilingual web search of the records of international and national courts, military tribunals, medical associations (licensing boards and medical societies), medical and non-medical literature databases, human rights groups and media stories for reports of physicians who had been punished for complicity with torture or crimes against humanity that were committed after World War II. RESULTS: We found 56 physicians in eight countries who had been punished for complicity with torture or crimes against humanity. Courts punish crimes. Medical societies punish ethics violations. Fifty-one physicians (85%) had been punished by the medical associations of five countries. Eleven (18%) had been punished by domestic courts. International courts had imprisoned two (3%) physicians. Several were punished by courts and professional associations. There are open cases against 22 physicians. CONCLUSIONS: Punishments against physicians for crimes against humanity are becoming institutionalized. Medical associations must lead in shouldering responsibility for self-regulation in this matter. Physicians have supervised torture ever since medieval "Torture Physicians" certified that prisoners were medically capable of withstanding the torture and of providing the desired testimony. Revelations of sadistic medical experiments on prisoners during World War II turned the world against physician torturers and led to the "Doctor's Trial" at Nuremberg, a trial that held physicians accountable for crimes against humanity. This paper describes the largest case series of physicians who have been punished for abetting torture or other crimes against humanity committed after World War II. We wanted to: 1) describe and categorize the hearing procedures, 2) identify the roles of punished physicians, 3) categorize acts for which physicians are punished, and 4) describe the political cultures in which punishments arise. Our larger aim was to learn whether punishments against physicians for abetting torture or crimes against humanity occur under sufficiently diverse environments as to inform generalizable public policy to punish and perhaps to deter this kind of medical misconduct. (+info)

Electrocution-related mortality: a review of 351 deaths by low-voltage electrical current. (7/14)

BACKGROUND: We describe herein the characteristics of lethal injuries caused by low-voltage electrical current (electrocution), the most frequent injury caused by electrical current. METHODS: Nine hundred forty-five cases over a period of 41 years (1965-2006) were reviewed, of which, 351 electrocution cases were identified. The descriptive statistical analyses were carried out with the application of SPSS 11.0 software. RESULTS: Electrocution accounted for 37.14% of all studied electricity-caused injuries. The average age of the victims was 35.25 years. The average age of male victims was 36.19 years and of female victims was 32.55 years. The distribution by gender showed a significant prevalence of the male sex (74.07%). Among the circumstances leading to electrocution, household accidents (78.06%) prevailed over occupational accidents (13.39%). Suicides were significantly rarer (7.41%). 66.10% of all electrocution cases occurred during the summer period from June through September. CONCLUSION: Household accidents prevail among the circumstances under which electrocution occurs, with an insignificant difference in the male/female proportion in this group. The majority of electrocutions occurred during the summer period (June-September). The results obtained in this research can help in the development of a differentiated strategy for the prevention of electrocution, while taking into consideration gender, age and season of the year. (+info)

Beliefs about behavior account for age differences in the correspondence bias. (8/14)

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Lynda Lyon Block

Lynda Cheryle Lyon Block (February 8, 1948 - May 10, 2002) was an American convicted murderer. She was the first woman executed in the state of Alabama since 1957, and 9th woman executed in the U.S. since reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. Block was the last individual executed by electrocution who was not given a choice of lethal injection, which is (as of 2018) the primary protocol in all the states that also maintain execution by electrocution. Lynda Cheryle Lyon was born February 8, 1948, in Orlando, Florida, to Francis (Frank) Stephen Lyon and Berylene Elisabeth Owen. Lynda, and her sister Denyce (born 1952), lost their father when she was 10, when he died of heart failure. Lynda and her mother were never close, and Block claimed that her mother was both physically and mentally abusive. Her second husband, George Sibley, claims that a constant trait of Block's was charity. While living in Key West she served as Secretary of the Humane Society, and also as animal abuse investigator. ...

Kimberly McCarthy

Kimberly LaGayle McCarthy (May 11, 1961 - June 26, 2013) was an American death row inmate who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of her neighbor, 71-year-old retired college professor Dorothy Booth, in her Lancaster, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth area) home during a robbery. She was also a suspect in the murders of two other elderly Texas women, for which she was never tried. After her final federal appeal was denied in July 2012, her execution date was set for January 29, 2013. Two reprieves pushed her execution date to June 26, 2013. McCarthy continued to proclaim her innocence, and stated that she was framed for murder. On June 26, 2013 McCarthy was executed by the state of Texas by lethal injection, becoming the 500th person to be executed by the state of Texas using that method. McCarthy was born on May 11, 1961, in Greenville, Texas. She worked as an occupational therapist in a nursing home. She was briefly married to the founder of the New Black Panther Party, Aaron ...

Robert Dale Rowell

... (April 8, 1955 - November 15, 2005) was a murderer executed by lethal injection by the U.S. state of Texas. He was convicted of the May 10, 1993 murder of Raymond Davey Mata in a Houston, Texas crack house. Rowell had gone to the house on May 10 with the intent to rob Irving Wright of his drugs and money, after Rowell thought he had paid too much for some crack cocaine. Wright, Mata and his girlfriend, Angie Perez, were in the house. After entering the house, Rowell told Perez and Mata that he would shoot them if they tried to leave. Rowell then proceeded to beat Wright with a claw hammer. Then the three victims were ordered into the bathtub, where Rowell shot them with a .22 caliber pistol, killing Mata. Wright was in a coma for several months and later died. According to the police report, Mata appeared to have shown signs of being beaten after being shot. Police arrested Rowell who was parked across the street from the scene and found him in possession of a .22 caliber ...

Kerry Max Cook

Cook was born in Stuttgart, West Germany, and moved to Texas with his family in 1972. Kerry Max Cook served over 20 years in a Texas prison on Death Row. Since his release, Cook has become an activist against the death penalty, speaking across the United States and in Europe.. Cook has written a book published by HarperCollins entitled Chasing Justice which details his conviction, the widespread prosecutorial abuses which led to it, and the battle to prove his innocence. Chasing Justice was nominated for the Edgar Award by Mystery Writers of America. He was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship to write the book. In an advance blurb for the memoir, former FBI Director and Federal Judge William S. Sessions noted, "Kerry Max Cook has written a brutal but compelling account of his 22 years on Texas's death row for a murder he did not commit. The book depicts his struggles against all odds to free himself from an inept justice system that would not let go, despite mounting and eventually overwhelming ...

Roger Groot

Roger Douglas Groot (1942-2005) was the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia, where he had taught since 1973. Prior to graduating law school, he'd served six years in the United States Marine Corps, including a tour in Vietnam as an advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He was an expert in criminal law and procedure, and the death penalty. Groot had been appointed counsel in several Virginia capital cases, appointed as defense legal analyst in federal death penalty cases, and consulted in several hundred capital cases, including Lee Boyd Malvo (Beltway Sniper) and Peter Odighizuwa (Appalachian School of Law shooting). At the time of Groot's death, none of his clients had been sent to death row. New York Times reporter Jayson Blair wrote an article about Groot's defense of Malvo. However, the New York Times later noted that this article was among those where Blair misrepresented himself. Despite ...

The Suffering: Ties That Bind

... is a 2005 first and third-person shooter psychological horror video game, developed by Surreal Software and published by Midway Games for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows. The game was released in North America in September and in Europe in October. In 2017, it was released on GOG.com. It is a sequel to the 2004 game The Suffering. The game continues the story of Torque, a man sentenced to death for murdering his ex-wife and two children. In the original game, after arriving on death row in Abbot State Penitentiary on Carnate Island, off the coast of Maryland, an earthquake rocks the island, and the prison is attacked by strange supernatural creatures. During the mayhem, Torque escapes. Ties That Bind continues his story, as he flees the island and heads back to his home town of Baltimore, where he must face his past misdeeds, and confront his nemesis, a mysterious criminal kingpin known as Blackmore. Players who have a saved game from The Suffering can ...

Cruelty to animals

Animal cruelty has long been an issue with the art form of filmmaking, with even some big-budget Hollywood films receiving criticism for allegedly harmful-and sometimes lethal-treatment of animals during production. Court decisions have addressed films that harm animal such as videos that in part depict dogfighting.[49]. The American Humane Association (AHA) has been associated with monitoring American filmmaking since after the release of the 1939 film Jesse James, in which a horse was pushed off a plank and drowned in a body of water after having fallen 40 feet into it.[50] Initially, monitoring of animal cruelty was a partnership between the AHA and officials in the Hays Office through the Motion Picture Production Code. Provisions in the code discouraged "apparent cruelty to children and animals", and because the Hays Office had the power to enforce this clause, the American Humane Association (AHA) often had access to sets to assess adherence to it. However, because the American Humane ...

Cruelty Free cosmetics

Cruelty free cosmetic is a cosmetic which has a certification ensuring that the product has not been tested on animals, it means the final product nor the ingredients that compose it must not have been tested on animals. Moreover, manufacturers must provide an attestation affirming that they do not practice the animal experimentation. Finally, the brand accept to be controlled at any moment by an independent organism. Under the impulse of the public shocked by the conditions of experimentation on animals and the suffering that engenders, a collective consciousness around the world has gradually immersed and many actors of this movement have emerged in the industry to avoid use animal testing and look for new alternatives. Since 2004, animal testing for finished products is banned in the European Union. Since 2009, the ingredients of cosmetics are no longer the subject of animal experiments. In 2013 and 2016, the EU banned the import of cosmetic products tested on animals in its territory. ...

Christianization

A turning point came after the Battle of the Frigidus of 395, ending the last serious attempt at a pagan revival in the now Christianized Roman Empire. After the defeat of Eugenius, the conservative pagan families of Rome gave up their resistance to Christianity and began to re-invent themselves to maintain their social leadership. By this time the Christian hierarchy had adopted classical education and culture as the marks of the civilized person, thus bringing the two social groups into alliance. Under the regency of Stilicho (395-408), some paganism was still tolerated, but later in the 5th century, legislation against pagan possessions, and other pagan practices, became increasingly strict. There appear to have been later attempts at a pagan revival, in 456 in circles surrounding the general Marcellinus and under Anthemius (r. 467-472), but these came to nothing. Marcian in 451 put the death penalty on the practice on pagan rites, and Leo I in 472 reinforced this by penalizing anyone who was ...

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Scott Erskine

Scott Thomas Erskine (born December 22, 1962) is an American serial killer on California's death row, convicted in 2003 for the 1993 murder of two California boys. He is currently incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. Erskine grew up in southern California. When he was five years old, Erskine darted into traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach and was hit by a station wagon. He remained in a coma for 60 hours. Although physically he appeared recovered, he frequently complained to his mother about headaches, and he experienced "black out" moments where he couldn't remember what he was last doing. At the age of 10, he started molesting his 6-year-old sister, forcing her to perform oral sex upon him. He soon began abusing her friends, threatening to kill them if they told anybody. Erskine attended Southwest Junior High School in San Diego, California and was placed in "special classes" for the emotionally disturbed. At 15, Erskine escaped from a juvenile detention facility, pulled a ...

Gene prediction

In computational biology, gene prediction or gene finding refers to the process of identifying the regions of genomic DNA that encode genes. This includes protein-coding genes as well as RNA genes, but may also include prediction of other functional elements such as regulatory regions. Gene finding is one of the first and most important steps in understanding the genome of a species once it has been sequenced. In its earliest days, "gene finding" was based on painstaking experimentation on living cells and organisms. Statistical analysis of the rates of homologous recombination of several different genes could determine their order on a certain chromosome, and information from many such experiments could be combined to create a genetic map specifying the rough location of known genes relative to each other. Today, with comprehensive genome sequence and powerful computational resources at the disposal of the research community, gene finding has been redefined as a largely computational problem. ...

Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years - Википедия

Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years - сборник лучших композиций американской хэви-метал-группы Megadeth, выпущенный лейблом Capitol Records в 2000 году. Альбом содержит скрытый трек «Capitol Punishment», являющийся попурри из многочисленных песен Megadeth.. На альбоме присутствуют песни со всех альбомов группы за исключением «Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!», который был выпущен на лейбле Combat Records.. ...

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Blog: Support for Capital Punishment in the U.S. is Higher than Surveys Indicate

Support for Capital Punishment in the U.S. is Higher than Surveys Indicate. By Aaron J. Veselenak ... And, I might add, one cant be a true foe of capital punishment if an exception is made for a particular individual (granted, a ... And, I might add, one cant be a true foe of capital punishment if an exception is made for a particular individual (granted, a ... The truth is that many people, who oppose capital punishment, do so in the abstract. When confronted with real cases involving ...

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The Truth About Capital Punishment | Bahamas News

The debate on capital punishment has become more intense. Public opinion overwhelmingly supports capital punishment but does ... The Truth About Capital Punishment. Tuesday 14th, January 2014 / 08:26 Published by Concerned Citizen in Opinions ... Capital punishment was never intended to be a deterrent to murder, even though it is. Its sole purpose was and is to remove ... Their ruling that capital punishment should only be carried out in cases of the worst of the worst is utter foolishness. All ...

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Religion and Support for Capital Punishment: Contrasting Leaders and Laity

And even there, I am sure you will find plenty of RC scholars who see no conflict with their faith and capital punishment. ... If you have suggested readings on the history of Christian views on capital punishment, please send them along! If your point ... It would be interesting to know if the Christian support for capital punishment has remained stable or also declined. ... Religion and Support for Capital Punishment: Contrasting Leaders and Laity. October 21, 2011 by Jerry Park ...

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Capital Punishment

Empirical research suggests that societies that do not have capital punishment have fewer murders. Capital punishment is ... where capital punishment is widely used, and lower in Northern states which have ceased to support capital punishment. (pdf) ... which has also given up capital punishment. They are higher, even, than in Canada, which has also quit using capital punishment ... Before a nation or state abolishes capital punishment, it would generally have already created a culture that makes capital ...

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Remarks from a debate on Capital Punishment with Judge Alfred J. Talley, New York City, October 27, 1924 | Civil Rights and...

Every human being believes in capital punishment loves killing, and the only reason they believe in capital punishment is ... Remarks from a debate on Capital Punishment with Judge Alfred J. Talley, New York City, October 27, 1924 by Clarence Darrow ... Why, our capital punishment isnt worth talking about, so far as its being a preventive is concerned. It isnt worth discussing ... Now, why am I opposed to capital punishment? It is too horrible a thing for a state to undertake. We are told by my friend, Oh ...

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Most of the research on capital punishment deals with the change in the homicide rate once it is instituted or abolished. (blogspot.com)
Instead of looking for a statistical correlation between capital punishment and homicide rates, perhaps we should be looking for how a general opposition to killing -- a refusal to cheer and celebrate any killing -- effects both murder rates and execution rates. (blogspot.com)

For example, the murder rate is highest in the South, where capital punishment is widely used, and lower in Northern states which have ceased to support capital punishment. (blogspot.com)
pdf ) Murder rates are higher in the United States than they are in Europe, which has also given up capital punishment. (blogspot.com)
This matches certain empirical observations - the higher murder rates that tend to be found in capital-punishment societies -- to a degree that suggests that it could be worth looking into. (blogspot.com)
This, in turn, if this thesis is correct, would have lowered the murder rate before capital punishment is repealed. (blogspot.com)

Empirical research suggests that societies that do not have capital punishment have fewer murders. (blogspot.com)

Before a nation or state abolishes capital punishment, it would generally have already created a culture that makes capital punishment undesirable. (blogspot.com)

In this case, I suspect that the evidence suggests that capital punishment is wrong. (blogspot.com)

They are higher, even, than in Canada, which has also quit using capital punishment. (blogspot.com)

In the long, contentious history of capital punishment in America, there has never been a moment like this: Over just a few days in mid-December, judges in California and Maryland and the governor of Florida shut down any pending executions in those states-all because of rapidly growing doubts about the humanity and constitutionality of lethal injection. (thenation.com)
Dieter foresees a time in the next decade when executions become so rare and confined to so few states that the Supreme Court will declare the punishment unconstitutional. (latimes.com)
The Church, Father Rutler reminds us, has not only allowed for capital punishment but participated in executions. (catholicculture.org)
Five years ago, drugmakers and pharmacies that sell them - particularly those in Europe, where capital punishment is anathema - began cutting off production or were barred from exporting drugs for U.S. executions. (uscatholic.org)
Capital Punishment is a certain copy of the earliest days of slavery, when you had no rights or any different opinion, and like then, executions have no place in our civilized society. (lawteacher.net)
Not for a single year was evidence found that police are safer in jurisdictions that provide for capital punishment" The highest homicide rates were also in Death Penalty states with executions: 9.7 homicides per 100,000 people as compared to 5.1 in states without the Death Penalty. (lawteacher.net)
Midazolam is the drug Oklahoma officials used in last year's botched execution of convicted murderer Clayton Lockett , a drug that some experts claim cannot produce the deep, coma-like state needed to ensure executions don't violate the Constitution's Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. (houstonpress.com)
death penalty is a fitting punishment for violent crime because executions maximize safety. (writework.com)
Maryland Citizens Against State Executions has prepared the following summary of key witness testimony before the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment on September 5, 2008, in Annapolis. (mdcase.org)
Cruel and unusual death with dignity compares lethal injections used in capital punishment executions to the methods used for assisted suicide and euthanasia and tells us these are the same drugs. (blogspot.ca)

But seeing as I did not want to be accused of incitement to murder by someone misunderstanding my intention and because some of those in the potential gallery are not really bad sorts, I thought I might as well take a look at some of the arguments surrounding the issue of capital punishment. (ibtimes.co.uk)
The controversial issue of capital punishment has intense moral implications to all those involved especially to the religious individuals. (lawteacher.net)
My overall position is that the issue of capital punishment is complex and depends on whether certain facts are true or false. (blogspot.com)
Today's editorial in the New York Times addresses the issue of capital punishment. (blogspot.com)

Based on the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the high court abolished the death penalty for intellectually disabled offenders in 2002, for juvenile offenders in 2005 and, in 2008, for raping a child when death is not the intended or actual result. (ncsl.org)
The U.S. Supreme Court wants the Appeals Court to hear the claims by attorneys for 46-year-old Russell E. Bucklew that he has a medical condition that could result in suffering if he undergoes a lethal injection, which would violate constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment. (missourinet.com)
Last Friday, the family of McGuire filed a federal lawsuit, arguing that the 26-minute Jan. 16 execution amounted to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment sanctioned by the state. (vindy.com)
Moreover, the botched lethal mix injected into McGuire's body no doubt proved far less cruel and unusual than the punishment McGuire savagely inflicted on Stewart, nearly eight months pregnant at the time of the crime. (vindy.com)
His family complained that this was a case of cruel and unusual punishment. (uscatholic.org)
This isn't about obtaining the drugs or cruel and unusual punishment. (uscatholic.org)
Although it has been the case in many countries throughout the world it has been said that the Death Penalty is "cruel and unusual punishment" which is a direct violation to the Bill of Rights. (lawteacher.net)
But if read directly the Eight Amendment of the U.S. Constitution "prohibits cruel and unusual punishments" and not only that but abolitionists also think that Capital Punishment ensures Americans equality for all. (lawteacher.net)
Does it violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment? (justia.com)
High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, at a panel discussion on the death penalty and the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, at the 34th Session of the Human Rights Council. (un.org)
The UN rights chief recalled that a former Special Rapporteur has recommended that the Human Rights Council request a comprehensive legal study regarding the emergence of a customary norm according to which the death penalty constitutes torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. (un.org)
But many with strongly held views base their opposition on a belief that the death penalty violates the right to life, making it the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. (russ-campbell.net)
But that fact interferes with the death with dignity narrative, while promoting these problems furthers the cruel and unusual punishment meme. (blogspot.ca)

Under the Yuan dynasty , the "number of separate capital provisions" precipitously dropped, reaching a low of 125 crimes. (wikipedia.org)
Two of the factors apparently contributing to China's frequent use of the death penalty are the troubled court system and a national policy that permits capital punishment for crimes that are not considered capital in most other countries. (theatlantic.com)
Capital punishment , also known as the death penalty , refers to the custom of executing prisoners who are convicted of certain heinous crimes. (conservapedia.com)
Such crimes are known as capital crimes , and tend to be grave crimes against persons or governments (such as premeditated murder , rape or treason ). (conservapedia.com)
The federal government (both in the civilian sector and the military) authorize capital punishment for the most heinous crimes, including treason. (conservapedia.com)
Although the state must review what went wrong and why in the botched execution of Dennis McGuire, leaders and legislators should not let the unfortunate incident serve as an opportunist rationale for abandoning capital punishment for those convicted of committing the most egregious capital crimes. (vindy.com)
This study combines Bible study with compelling stories from persons who have been directly affected by capital crimes to help adults form and/or reform their thinking on capital punishment. (valorebooks.com)
Should capital punishment be moral or not when it comes to disciplining an individual for monstrous crimes? (lawteacher.net)
Writing about the "serious unreliability" of the capital punishment, Bryer pointed to two Texas men who were, in all likelihood, executed for crimes they didn't commit. (houstonpress.com)
Well, Bryer writes that maybe it has to do with the law governing capital cases being more complex, or perhaps the crimes at issue in these cases are so horrendous that there's enormous community pressure on police, prosecutors, and judges to get a conviction. (houstonpress.com)
1. In the last 30 years more than 100 prisoners that have been convicted of capital crimes and sentenced to death were released from death row with strong evidence of their innocence. (blackyouthproject.com)
You can't kill him AS A PUNISHMENT, even if he's Hitler or Osama bin Laden, once you've got him effectively and permanently disabled from committing further heinous crimes. (blogspot.com)
Denying criminals a Christian burial was a common element of punishments for impious crimes under Christian laws. (badnewsaboutchristianity.com)

In 1995, Pope John Paul II issued an encyclical in which he called capital punishment a 'a significant cause of grave moral decline. (voanews.com)
Most moral laws have their root in the Bible including capital punishment. (bahamasb2b.com)
Opponents of capital punishment frequently proclaim that the State has no moral right to take the life of anyone, even a most reprehensible murderer. (becker-posner-blog.com)
For this reason, the State has a 'moral' obligation to use capital punishment if such punishment significantly reduces the number of murders and saves lives of innocent victims. (becker-posner-blog.com)
The moral fabric of this nation depends upon an awareness of how serious the matter of capital punishment really is, while the moral fabric of the church depends upon a consistently pro-life position that rejects capital punishment. (blogspot.com)
The very most that can be said is that some moral theologians claim that this is the right way to interpret John Paul II (mainly those moral theologians influenced by Grisez's "new natural law" theory, which was independently heavily invested in the idea that capital punishment is intrinsically immoral long before Evangelium Vitae appeared). (blogspot.com)
Those who condemn the practice of capital punishment on moral or ethical grounds are often the same ones who insist that women must have the right to demand an abortion at any time from conception to birth. (russ-campbell.net)
The unavailability of statistical data obscures the the reality of late-term abortions in Canada and allows the pro-choice lobby to duck the moral or ethical debate of the sort Canadians seem more than willing to have on capital punishment. (russ-campbell.net)
Although punishment has been a crucial feature of every developed legal system, widespread disagreement exists over the moral principles that can justify its imposition. (encyclopedia.com)

Moving on to the argument about the effectiveness of capital punishment, numerous studies, facts and figures suggest that the threat of the hangman's noose does in fact have a deterrent effect. (ibtimes.co.uk)
Early empirical analysis by Isaac Ehrlich found a substantial incremental deterrent effect of capital punishment, a finding that coincides with the common sense of the situation: it is exceedingly rare for a defendant who has a choice to prefer being executed to being imprisoned for life. (becker-posner-blog.com)
But the delay in execution not only reduces the deterrent effect of execution (though probably only slightly) but also makes capital punishment quite costly, since there is a substantial imprisonment cost on top of the heavy litigation costs of capital cases, with their endless rounds of appellate and postconviction proceedings. (becker-posner-blog.com)
As Posner indicates, the deterrent effect of capital punishment would be greater if the delays in its implementation were much shortened, and if this punishment was more certain to be used in the appropriate cases. (becker-posner-blog.com)
But I agree with Posner that capital punishment has an important deterrent effect even with the way the present system actually operates. (becker-posner-blog.com)
As the deterrent effect of capital punishment is made smaller, at some point even I would shift to the anti-capital punishment camp. (becker-posner-blog.com)
But given the difference between victims and murderers, the deterrent effect would have to be considerable less than one person saved per murderer executed before I would shift positions, although account should also be taken of the considerable expense involved in using capital punishment. (becker-posner-blog.com)
Capital punishment cannot be used if the goal is never to erroneously execute anyone, but then its deterrent effect is lost completely. (becker-posner-blog.com)
The severe mental and physical suffering which are inflicted by capital punishment on the person concerned and family members should now be added to the weight of the argument," Mr. Zeid said, explaining that this is another reason why the death penalty should be abolished, besides its capricious and often discriminatory application and its failure to demonstrate any deterrent effect beyond that of other punishments. (un.org)

The Tang Code (653 CE) listed 233 capital offenses, and the Song dynasty (960-1279) retained these and added sixty more over time. (wikipedia.org)
The number of capital offences spiked again under the Ming dynasty (1268-1644), with 282 capital offenses, and the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), with more than 800 capital offences. (wikipedia.org)
(7) As the battle against capital punishment raged while Melville was composing Billy Budd , partisans on both sides agreed that eliminating most of the code's capital offenses constituted one of the century's notable achievements in human progress. (rutgers.edu)
A third relates to the form and severity of punishment that is appropriate for particular offenses and offenders. (encyclopedia.com)

Behind all three rulings is a growing body of evidence that lethal injection is far from the humane alternative to electrocution or gassing that legislators around the country sought after the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1977. (thenation.com)
Lethal injection is currently the primary method of execution in all 29 states that allow capital punishment. (ncsl.org)
The rules - which generally prohibit doctors, nurses and others from involvement in capital punishment - are deterring those professionals from speaking publicly or privately about alternatives to the state's lethal injection process, Attorney General Richard Cordray said. (foxnews.com)

The available data are quite limited, however, so one should not base any conclusions solely on the econometric evidence, although I believe that the preponderance of evidence does indicate that capital punishment deters. (becker-posner-blog.com)
Even with the limited quantitative evidence available, there are good reasons to believe that capital punishment deters murders. (becker-posner-blog.com)
Yet that is absolutely the wrong conclusion for anyone who believes that capital punishment deters. (becker-posner-blog.com)
Cass Sunstein and Justin Wolfers say we don't really know whether or not capital punishment deters crime. (andrewgelman.com)

This is the curious state of capital punishment in America today. (uscatholic.org)
We supposedly live in a civilized society and yet certain states in America still believe in the most brutal and barbaric method of punishment, capital punishment. (writework.com)

If other religious traditions have questions about MRL's position based on their own church's teachings on capital punishment, then MRL will be happy to address them. (missourilife.org)
Second, a major difficulty for Robbie's assertion is that then-Cardinal Ratzinger, speaking as head of the CDF and the Church's chief doctrinal officer, explicitly denied that John Paul II had made any change to the Church's teaching on capital punishment at the level of doctrinal principle (as opposed to prudential application of principle). (blogspot.com)

But the punishment of criminals serves other purposes as well. (catholicculture.org)
Clearly capital punishment will not deter all wrongdoing but there is evidence that it does deter some would be criminals and is therefore effective in its aim. (ibtimes.co.uk)

European governments are adamantly opposed to capital punishment, and some Europeans consider the American use of this punishment to be barbaric. (becker-posner-blog.com)
This essay has attempted to show that capital punishment is barbaric and too severe. (writework.com)

Is Capital Punishment Biblical? (crosswalk.com)
I fully agree with their position, though I would cite biblical and theological reasons to reject capital punishment (see here ). (blogspot.com)
In the American colonies, Christians passed capital laws based on biblical injunctions. (badnewsaboutchristianity.com)
Numbers 35:30-34 - Is Capital Punishment Biblical? (blogspot.com)
That happened this week on the question, "Is Capital Punishment Biblical? (blogspot.com)
Capital punishment is Biblical only on the basis of multiple testimony (cf. (blogspot.com)

I will concentrate my comments on deterrence, which is really the crucial issue in the acrimonious debate over capital punishment. (becker-posner-blog.com)
Capital punishment is supposed to act as a deterrence, which means that it should be reducing the number of murders. (blogspot.com)
And because if it is in deterrence that we preserve and persevere with capital punishment, then we must show for all to see, the process of how we kill those who deserve to die. (miyagi.sg)

They have suggested that a referendum is needed to deal with the matter of capital punishment. (bahamasb2b.com)

Every human being believes in capital punishment loves killing, and the only reason they believe in capital punishment is because they get a kick out of it. (usf.edu)
I'm absolutely do not believe in capital punishment. (wordpress.com)
Do you believe in Capital Punishment? (wordpress.com)

Is it because we ignore the history of capital punishment in the nineteenth century, including its profound influence on American culture? (rutgers.edu)
In any case, if we do contextualize Billy Budd within the American history of capital punishment and its bizarre outcome in New York State during the years 1886 to 1891, the story transforms before our eyes. (rutgers.edu)
Participants on all sides of the debate seemed to agree on only one thing: that the most appalling moment in the history of capital punishment within modern civilization was the reign of George III in England. (rutgers.edu)

Capital punishment is given to prisoners who are convicted of committing unspeakable acts and after years in prison some welcome their demise. (writework.com)

(1) Somehow, astonishingly enough, nobody seems to have noticed that central to the story is the subject of capital punishment and its history. (rutgers.edu)

Later, amputation became less common, but capital punishment and corporal punishment remained. (wikipedia.org)

Includes legislation modifying law to meet constitutional standards for excluding intellectually disabled individuals from capital punishment and for determining a defendant's intellectual disability. (ncsl.org)
Includes legislation that repeals capital punishment laws or reinstates capital punishment. (ncsl.org)
Includes ballot measures and legislative resolutions or legislation addressing capital punishment, including studies of capital punishment laws and practices. (ncsl.org)
Increasingly, capital punishment legislation being considered in state legislatures across the nation is focused on concerns over cost, viable methods of execution, intellectual disability, and lengthy trial and appellate procedures. (ncsl.org)
Until 2010 when it was formally prohibited by federal legislation it could still have been used as a punishment for treason during a time of war or the Ashes. (conservapedia.com)

A vocal champion of human rights, Haasan doesn't think capital punishment is the solution for violence against women. (rediff.com)
I think capital punishment is a good thing. (blogspot.com)

Before a nation or state abolishes capital punishment, it would generally have already created a culture that makes capital punishment undesirable. (blogspot.com)

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the mainland of the People's Republic of China . (wikipedia.org)
But isn't punishment just a temporary penalty for committing a crime? (writework.com)
Both John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae and the Catechism reject killing AS A PENALTY, i.e., as a punishment, i.e., for retributive reasons. (blogspot.com)
Third, the thesis that Robbie (wrongly) attributes to John Paul II - that the execution of a criminal cannot be regarded any longer as a matter of penalty, punishment, or retributive justice, but instead only as a kind of defense - is extremely morally problematic. (blogspot.com)
All punishment is based on the same simple truth: there must be a penalty for wrongdoing. (brightkite.com)
In order for there to be punishment, there must be both a wrongdoer and an authority to inflict the penalty. (brightkite.com)

The Catechism goes on to stipulate that non-lethal punishment is preferable, and that in practice "the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity 'are very rare, if not practically non-existent. (catholicculture.org)
Punishment is a practice that is performed by, and directed at, agents who are responsible in some sense. (encyclopedia.com)

The execution of Michael Ross has been delayed several times over the last few weeks, as the courts heard multiple appeals from his family and from opponents of capital punishment. (voanews.com)

Capital punishment was one of the classical Five Punishments of China's dynastic period. (wikipedia.org)
During China's early dynasties, capital punishment and amputation were predominant among the five punishments. (wikipedia.org)
But China's approach to capital punishment does appear to be changing. (theatlantic.com)

As a legal process, capital punishment has been modified by several landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions. (oxfordre.com)

Students identify students to a healthy range of norms and linguistic perspectives, therefore, deployments and capital punishment usa essay neoplasms with Approval who are both understandable teachers and theological-leading studies in our fields. (yetopumahi.gq)

Posner has a good discussion of the various issue related to capital punishment. (becker-posner-blog.com)
As Posner indicates, serious empirical research on capital punishment began with Isaac Ehrlich's pioneering paper. (becker-posner-blog.com)

Empirical research suggests that societies that do not have capital punishment have fewer murders. (blogspot.com)

When confronted with real cases involving real victims and murderers, and very specific instances of true evil, a certain segment of the opposing population (highly liberal areas included) discard their niceties regarding academic and perhaps purely philosophical questions on crime and punishment. (americanthinker.com)

Even two lives saved per execution seem like a persuasive benefit-cost ratio for capital punishment. (becker-posner-blog.com)

Capital Punishment's all about execution. (wikipedia.org)
Capital Punishment's Dead End? (hoover.org)
Getting into the 19th century capital punishment's primary reason was changing (Garland, 2011). (bartleby.com)

Of the main developed countries, only the United States , Belarus and Japan use formalized capital punishment, though many developed countries give law enforcement greater authority to kill than allowed by the United States . (conservapedia.com)
The only impediment to the enforcement of laws relating to capital punishment is the Privy Council and they all know this. (bahamasb2b.com)

Meanwhile, California prosecutors, in particular L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley , should stop pursuing capital cases until the voters have had their say. (baltimoresun.com)

Capital punishment should not be legal because of unreliability, prisoner's rights, and violation of the eighth amendment. (writework.com)
Capital punishment should not be legal because of unreliability. (writework.com)

Are condemned inmates provided with adequate representation during capital trials? (justia.com)

The main part of this theoretical overview of the subject of legal punishment concentrates on these issues of justification. (encyclopedia.com)

According to the principles of retributive justice, punishment is supposed to be more or less in proportion to the magnitude of a crime. (motherjones.com)

Moreover, if A escapes punishment, others might be tempted toward the same crime, thinking-rightly or wrongly-that they could escape punishment as well. (catholicculture.org)

The subjects tested in mat are mathematical skills, data analysis argumentative essay on capital punishment sufficiency, language comprehension, intelligence and critical reasoning, and indian and global environment. (myprintrequest.com)
People, but not faulty television sets, are fit subjects of punishment. (encyclopedia.com)

Criminal history data include prior felony convictions for criminal homicide and legal status at the time of the capital offense. (umich.edu)
Capital punishment remained a legal military option until 1983 when it was explicitly forbidden in the Constitution of the Netherlands . (wikipedia.org)
Should Capital Punishment be Legal? (writework.com)
However the question remains, should capital punishment be legal? (writework.com)
These are some of the legal issues at the heart of longstanding legal debates over our use of capital punishment. (justia.com)

There was wide variability in the number of types of capital offences over time. (wikipedia.org)
Under the Punishments of Lu ( Lu Xing ), written sometime in the Warring States period (475-221 BCE), there were 200 capital offences. (wikipedia.org)
In the Middle Ages capital punishment was inflicted for religious offences. (badnewsaboutchristianity.com)

Nobody should leave this essay thinking, "If we do not ban capital punishment, then we will have 300,000 murderers. (blogspot.com)

Over this decade, the global trend against capital punishment has become increasingly strong, with almost three out of four countries now having either abolished it or stopped practicing it. (un.org)

Imagine this hypothetical case: Two men, A and B, have committed the same crime, which is a serious matter but not a capital offense. (catholicculture.org)

Four of the main arguments against capital punishment seem to be that it is uncivilized, that it is ineffective, that innocent people will die and that it kills off (literally) any chance of redemption or rehabilitation. (ibtimes.co.uk)
And innocent people have already died at the hands of capital punishment. (blackyouthproject.com)

Capital Punishment topics include: execution methods and procedures, trial and appellate procedures, aggravating factors, intellectual disability and mental illness, repeal or reinstatement, ballot measures, resolutions and studies, and other significant enactments. (ncsl.org)

A higher level of capacity is required to impose punishment than is minimally necessary to make one subject to it. (encyclopedia.com)

In 2000, a Quinnipiac University poll found 63% of Connecticut voters supported capital punishment with 27% against. (americanthinker.com)