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| | LII: Law about...the Death Penalty |
 | | Georgia, 433 U.S., the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty is a grossly disproportionate punishment for the crime of rape of an adult woman. | | | The Court came to this conclusion by considering objective indicia of the nation's attitude toward the death penalty in rape cases. | | | Simmons (03-633) (2005), the Supreme Court invalidated the death penalty for all juvenile offenders. |
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/death_penalty.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Capital Punishment (Death Penalty) |
| | The court which prescribed this penalty was the Court of the Areopagus. | | | In the case of the imposition of any penalty upon a criminal in the courts of Athens, the prosecutor proposed the penalty in the first instance and then the person condemned had the privilege of suggesting a different punishment. | | | The infliction by due legal process of the penalty of death as a punishment for crime. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12565a.htm
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| | Fight the Death Penalty in USA |
| | And with new rules for review of death penalty cases the politicians have minimized your chances to have your sentence overthrown, even if you are able to provide new evidence demonstrating your innocence. | | | Despite the courts' efforts to fashion a death penalty scheme that is just, fair and reliable, the system is not working. | | | And apparently they also ignore their own police chiefs whos belief in the effect of the death penalty is rather limited. |
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http://www.fdp.dk
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| | Welcome to Death Penalty Information @ DPINFO.com |
| | However, when scrutinizing death penalty opponents claims, we find that when reviewing the accuracy of verdicts and the post conviction thoroughness of discovering those actually innocent incarcerated, that the US death penalty process may be the most accurate criminal justice sanction in the world. | | | In addition, the US death penalty appears to be that criminal justice sanction which is the least likely to convict the factually innocent and the most likely to remedy such rare error upon post conviction review. | | | But the court's evidence for a consensus against the death penalty for those who murdered before their 18th birthday is pitifully thin. |
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http://www.dpinfo.com
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| | Death Penalty Links |
| | At the dawn of the 21st century, the death penalty is considered by most civilized nations as a cruel and inhuman punishment. | | | Death Penalty in Indiana - by the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney | | | While international documents have restricted and in some cases even banned the death penalty, its application is still not against customary international law. |
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http://www.derechos.org/dp
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| | The Death Penalty Worldwide |
| | Death penalty is permitted only for exceptional crimes, such as crimes committed under military law or in wartime. | | | If death penalty was outlawed for ordinary crimes before it was outlawed in all cases, the earlier date is given. | | | EU urges end to death penalty worldwide as it marks first world day against capital punishment (AP Worldstream) |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777460.html
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| | Death Penalty Issues |
| | The Supreme Court has abolished the execution of mentally retarded offenders, imposing one of the most significant restrictions on who is liable for the death penalty since the court permitted states to resume capital punishment in 1976. | | | Baltimore County (MD) State's Attorney Sandra A. O'Connor says the only fair way to approach the death penalty is to seek it in all cases that meet the minimum statutory requirement. | | | In a landmark ruling Tuesday, the court found that it is unconstitutional to put to death those who were under age 18 at the time of their crime. |
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http://www.truthinjustice.org/dpissues.htm
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| | Death Penalty |
| | Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Created to galvanize and empower the religious community in the United States to work against capital punishment. | | | Death Penalty Statements by Bishop Kenneth A. Angell of Burlington, VT Creating New Hearts: Moving from Retributive to Restorative Justice 1995 pastoral letter from the bishops of New Zealand | | | European/American Conventions on the Death Penalty Find out which countries have signed, ratified, or taken no action. |
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http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/death.htm
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| | Juvenile Death Penalty Home |
| | On August 26, 2003, the Missouri Supreme Court set aside Christopher Simmons' death sentence, ruling that the execution of those who committed crimes while under the age of 18 violates evolving standards of decency and is therefore prohibited by the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution. | | | On June 29, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution to Mauro Barraza, a juvenile offender who was scheduled for execution by the state of Texas that evening. | | | Please note that this site is concerned with abolishing the juvenile death penalty. |
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http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/juvjus/juvdp.html
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| | Coloradans Against The Death Penalty |
| | South Carolina, No. 04-1327, the Court will consider whether the state's rules regarding such evidence deprived Holmes of his due process rights to present a complete defense. | | | You can now donate securely online - just click the Donate to CADP button. | | | Website copyright 1999-2005 CADP - Page updated or verified 10/10/05 |
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http://www.coadp.org
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| | SpeakOut.com - Death Penalty |
| | Reproduction of material from any SpeakOut.com pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. | | | It was re-legalized by a Supreme Court decision in 1977. | | | The death penalty is currently implemented in 30 states. |
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http://www.speakout.com/activism/deathpenalty
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| | Death Penalty Information, High School Curriculum, TEACHER EDITION |
| | Sign up for our free Teacher Updates and receive a printable teacher's guide, timely updates on significant death penalty news and events for classroom discussion, and access to death penalty experts. | | | Death Penalty Information, High School Curriculum, TEACHER EDITION |
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http://teacher.deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu
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| | Death Penalty |
| | The committee is involved in assisting members in achieving due process and justice for their clients through a number of projects: holding Making the Case for Life, an annual death penalty defense seminar focusing on voir dire and mitigation investigation; writing the "Death Watch" column and procuring the "Capital Cases" articles for | | | Mental Retardation and the Supreme Court; Racism a | | | ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty cases |
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http://www.criminaljustice.org/public.nsf/freeform/DeathPenalty?OpenDocument
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| | NCADP: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty |
| | I write on behalf of the American Bar Association to express our strong opposition to S.1088, the Judiciary Committee-adopted substitute to the proposed "Streamlined Procedures Act of 2005" (SPA) expected to be considered this week by the Committee. | | | Deciding whether to uphold the death penalty was the most difficult ethical issue she has confronted, former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno said during a lecture Monday. | | | ">Amid Supreme Court Victories, Death Penalty Opponents to Gather |
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http://www.ncadp.org
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| | Death Penalty News & Updates |
| | Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. | | | This information along with other death penalty information is archived at the Abolish archive site. | | | For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. |
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http://people.smu.edu/rhalperi
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| | Pro-death penalty.com |
| | With very few exceptions, these sites are anti-death penalty. | | | Is this because the majority of people are against the death penalty? | | | It is simply because people who are adamantly opposed to the death penalty tend to take an activist stance and become involved in working to stop the death penalty. |
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http://www.prodeathpenalty.com
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| | Death Penalty Religious: Home |
| | Coordinated by the American Friends Service Committee's criminal justice program, the Project provides people of faith with the tools and resources they need to become effective advocates for abolition. | | | The Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project was created to galvanize and empower the religious community in the United States to work against capital punishment. | | | Nearly every large religious body in the United States has a strong statement condemning the death penalty. |
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http://www.deathpenaltyreligious.org
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| | Death Penalty Information Center |
| | In its first death penalty case this term, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Brown v. | | | The U.S. Supreme Court overturned his capital conviction in 1989 in Penry v. | | | U.S. Supreme Court Hears California Death Penalty Case |
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| | Death Penalty Focus |
| | Dean Polden’s letter to the Justice Commission states, “[t]he study raises significant questions about whether the death penalty is being administered fairly in this state. | | | SAN FRANCISCO - Only weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court is to issue its decisions in three California death penalty cases involving an African-American, a Latino and a Native American man, the first statewide study examining how race, ethnicity, and geography affect death sentencing in California has been made public. | | | They cited the death penalty’s failure to reduce violent crime as one of the many reasons why they were supporting the bill and called for a redirection of resources into successful crime prevention measures, such as mental health services and gun control programs. |
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http://www.deathpenalty.org
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| | Campaign To End The Death Penalty |
| | Former death row prisoners, family members and activists reveal the truth about the death penalty and the injustices of our criminal justice system. | | | Fighting the Death Penalty: A New Civil Rights Struggle | | | Darby Tillis, exonerated Illinois death row prisoner; Gloria Johnson, mother of Illinois prisoner Montell Johnson; Alice Kim, national organizer, CEDP |
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http://www.nodeathpenalty.org
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