They can dangle like the sword of Damocles the notion of the death penalty from a treason charge over this guy's head. |
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I oppose the reinstatement of the death penalty with every fibre of my being. |
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I've never proactively analysed the issue to see what my own stance is, possibly because it won't align with my abhorrence of the death penalty. |
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That gives a total of one hundred and six countries that have abolished the death penalty in practice. |
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The film caused huge debate in Poland and was at least partially instrumental in the abolition of the death penalty. |
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They escaped the death penalty by only a couple of months as abolition took effect four weeks before their arrest. |
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In this modern perspective, the death penalty expresses not the divine judgment on objective evil but rather the collective anger of the group. |
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The novel is about an innocent white man on death row, railroaded because officials needed to prove that the death penalty isn't racially biased. |
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Those people who are against the death penalty as a matter of principle are not eligible for jury service. |
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Psychologists can play a role in the juvenile death penalty debate in several ways. |
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Wearing another hat, he is also well known in these columns for his advocacy of the death penalty. |
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He is outspoken in advocacy of the death penalty, an issue over which I have respectfully jousted with him twice. |
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Agroterrorism would be punishable by fines, imprisonment for up to life, and carry the death penalty in the most serious cases. |
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Whether those kangaroo courts or the regular federal courts will have recourse to the death penalty remains to be seen, but it seems likely. |
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If the Judge is indeed recused from death penalty cases, this will make the average Ninth Circuit death penalty case more anti-death-penalty. |
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Anyone who kills a dying person is liable to the death penalty as a common murderer. |
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Turkey, for example, has abolished the death penalty and legalised broadcasts in Kurdish. |
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I would vote against any reinstatement of the death penalty without a second's hesitation and support plans to rehabilitate criminals. |
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Because their crime was committed before the death penalty was reimposed in 1994, the killers were not eligible to receive the death penalty. |
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State politicians whipped up a further frenzy by calling for reinstatement of the death penalty. |
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The U. S. colonial government is trying to reinstitute the death penalty in Puerto Rico. |
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Some wanted retribution and called for the death penalty for convicted police murderers, while others lamented the decline of their communities. |
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It is possible there could be more charges, some carrying the death penalty, as the American investigation continues. |
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Notwithstanding the laudability of this goal, this isn't about the death penalty, it's about who decides the death penalty. |
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She asked Congress on Saturday to legislate stiff punishments for illegal loggers, stopping short of calling for the death penalty. |
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The death penalty is assigned not only for violent crimes but also for acts such as bribery and corruption. |
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This led to a movement toward rewording the death penalty statutes to attempt to avoid the inequality in application. |
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He gives them the single best reason to extort the virtues of the death penalty over a life sentence. |
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If found guilty, he could face the death penalty as he has been charged under new government antiterrorism regulations. |
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The Justice Project study paints an overall picture of a death penalty system rife with error. |
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Under his government, the death penalty was reintroduced and freedom of the press was rigorously restricted. |
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Yet another problem is the high degree of likeliness that a defendant possibly subject to the death penalty if found guilty will be found guilty. |
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I believe that if the action is taken anywhere against them, as you so aptly said, you can't invoke the death penalty more than once. |
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For most people, the death penalty for adultery sounds too much like Arabic laws that call for stoning scarlet women. |
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From time to time the death penalty was exacted for murder, espionage and terrorism. |
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Yes, but the thing is, though, he said he wants to plea bargain so he gets out of the death penalty. |
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The US is planning to introduce secret military tribunals which can impose the death penalty. |
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Legal Lynching is a convenient vade mecum on the death penalty, descriptive as well as critical. |
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The debate on whether the death penalty must be abolished or not will go on till the cows come home. |
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He was falsely accused of treasonous crimes that could have resulted in the death penalty. |
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The alternative is to face a military show trial with the likelihood of an even longer jail term or the death penalty. |
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He did not shrink from openly intervening in Irish, Filipino and other national politics to push for an abolition of the death penalty. |
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The death penalty is ostensibly reserved for the most blameworthy criminals. |
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Gradually she uncovers not only a prostitution ring but a possible serial killer with links to a high profile death penalty case. |
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Very rarely do you get a bond or bail if the death penalty is being sought. |
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I agree, but abolishing the death penalty wouldn't mean that we would let crimes go unpunished. |
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Dow noted that the Supreme Court was already nibbling away at the death penalty. |
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I say that the death penalty can act as both deterrent and public vengeance upon the perpetrator. |
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And you have condemned countless numbers of your own citizens to death via the death penalty. |
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Jo and her employer, an attorney who vigorously opposes the death penalty, do all they can to win a reprieve for Taylor. |
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Mary, none of the four people who visited with us tonight or those featured in the documentary after innocence were death penalty cases. |
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Until it becomes so, any conclusion linking the death penalty with the murder rate will be null and void. |
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In 1972, the Supreme Court, in Furman v. Georgia, voided all existing state death penalty statutes, thus suspending the death penalty. |
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The story is no prettier in states where the death penalty is even more enthusiastically embraced. |
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The death penalty is imposed for drug smuggling, and caning is still used as a punishment. |
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The independent senator had also not supported the death penalty when the two men were initially sentenced to hang for the crime. |
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The police federation nationally has always been in favour of the death penalty for certain capital crimes. |
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The State of Texas has accordingly charged Yates with capital murder, a crime for which she may face the death penalty. |
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Muhammad is being tried for a capital crime that carries the death penalty. |
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They emphasize violent criminals to build prisons and they fill them with drug offenders, and insist on the death penalty. |
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Juries in death penalty cases are always quizzed about their attitudes on capital punishment before the start of the trial. |
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Georgia, the Supreme Court temporarily ended the death penalty in America, deeming its application arbitrary and capricious. |
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There have been calls on both sides of the death penalty debate to shorten the time taken to reach a final decision. |
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If Parliament won't bring back the death penalty, we might have to settle for compulsory castration or locking offenders away until they die. |
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Personally, I'm opposed to the death penalty, but I can't understand why this person deserves it less than others who don't get clemency. |
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This is why the death penalty is usually reserved for only the most heinous criminals. |
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With capital punishment in the news lately, American opinion on the death penalty seems particularly changeable in response to media coverage. |
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George Ryan's work on the death penalty has brought him mention as a contender for the peace prize. |
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And now that she apparently doesn't face the death penalty in Bali either, my sympathy for her histrionics is in fairly short supply. |
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If not, he warned, the perpetrator could face years in chokey or even the death penalty. |
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Britain has consistently refused to extradite terror suspects to any country, including America, that has the death penalty. |
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Because then they get to purge the jury panel of anyone who expresses qualms about the death penalty. |
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Some supporters of the death penalty argue that more innocents have been killed by released or paroled murderers than have been executed. |
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But there is also a curious symmetry between opponents of the death penalty, and opponents of euthanasia and living wills. |
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One such edict imposed the death penalty on anyone forcing a free Indian to become a pearl diver. |
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If that means the death penalty, if it means life imprisonment, we are going to do what the law permits us to do. |
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Unanimous rather than majority vote of seven military commissioners will be required to impose the death penalty. |
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Under the original order, unanimity among the judges was not required, even to impose the death penalty. |
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Administering the death penalty is far more expensive than imprisoning the offender for life. |
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Doesn't the church's about-face on the death penalty make threats to politicians who favor it seem facile? |
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It was here that we found the four petitions that sought pardon or commutation of his death penalty. |
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The death penalty has long isolated the United States among Western industrial nations. |
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He opposed the death penalty because it is inequitably applied to minorities and the poor. |
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The death penalty applied to homicide, infanticide, rape, robbery, and a number of non-violent crimes, like theft. |
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The death penalty was prescribed for anyone caught in the act of pillage during a raid. |
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Here, I will consider the death penalty solely as a constitutive element of our political arrangements. |
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The death penalty was applied to a narrower range of offences, and sentences of internal exile abolished. |
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He is facing a string of charges ranging from perjury to economic plunder, a crime that carries the death penalty or life in prison. |
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The converse question is, what do we sacrifice by adopting the death penalty? |
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When I was a candidate, the polls said that the majority of New Jersey voters disagreed with my opposition to the death penalty. |
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To justify the death penalty, the Texas sentencing jury has to find that the defendant will always pose a risk of danger to others. |
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Morally, this guy is a poster child for the death penalty if he is tried and convicted of these crimes. |
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In that same month, he, accused of kidnapping and garroting a small child in France, faced the death penalty in a media-saturated trial. |
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He had said his clients should be spared the death penalty because they are mentally ill. |
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Now the five are on trial for terrorism and subversion, charges that carry the death penalty. |
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For me the best argument I've heard for the death penalty is simply that a dead murderer never kills again. |
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The status of the victim is all important and the death penalty is a very selective way of punishing people. |
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So too, people state that it is less costly to implement the death penalty than to pay for life in prison. |
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The charge wouldn't be murder, the state wouldn't request the death penalty if he survived. |
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The public should have a say in whether the death penalty should be brought back. |
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We would need to amend regulations to replace the death penalty with other penalties. |
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So it's hard to support the death penalty as it is, in fact, being enforced. |
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There is a world of difference between cold-blooded murder and the justice of the death penalty. |
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Unlawful attempts to unseat him amount to treason and carry the death penalty. |
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In a country where the death penalty is still the ultimate sanction in some states, it is the end of the legal chain. |
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If convicted, however, he would have faced the death penalty since the homicide was intended. |
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I know I have a sense of vengeance, but how does that imply that I ought to support the death penalty? |
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Several of the children say they want the death penalty back, no doubt echoing what they have heard adults say. |
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In countries which apply the death penalty, even the right to life is not absolute. |
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While many also think the death penalty has a deterrent effect this is not the only motivation. |
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Should we should also consider reinstating the death penalty for the most serious offences? |
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With the re-introduction of the death penalty, we can also have a British death row. |
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The spiritual argument against the death penalty is equally as debatable as the one for it. |
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The U.S. attorney prosecuting that case has indicated that she may seek the death penalty. |
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He favors protectionist trade policies, the reinstitution of the death penalty, and emphasizes the importance of the family and Church. |
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Judges also often assign public defenders who have no experience in death penalty cases, such as tax lawyers. |
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Opponents of the death penalty in no way condone McVeigh's crime of mass destruction. |
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Amnesty says the death penalty is not a deterrent to the drug trade as runners, rather than the kingpins, are most at risk of facing the gallows. |
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A similar dilemma arises for those who condemn termination in any circumstances but support the death penalty. |
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Their three books together make a powerful and eloquent case for the abolition of the death penalty. |
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The death penalty is like human sacrifice in that it is not based on reason, but on emotion. |
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Both parties also seem disinclined to support Pawlenty's call for a reinstatement of the death penalty. |
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These days, the staff consists of two homeless ex-cons, a death penalty activist, and two women who married men in prison. |
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Despite the proliferation of the death penalty for many new offences, less than half the people condemned to death were executed. |
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Most shockingly, Americans still support the death penalty in large numbers despite an awareness that innocent people are executed. |
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If convicted on charges of espionage and aiding the enemy, he could receive the death penalty. |
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There's usually some restraint, there's usually some sort of reverence for the death penalty, in a sense, because it is such an extreme sanction. |
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The commission was supposed to be examining the arguments for tightening up the use of the death penalty. |
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The next crime for which I would sanction the death penalty is the murder of either a prison officer or another inmate whilst serving a life sentence. |
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The death penalty may only be imposed for the most serious crimes with sentenced persons enjoying the right to seek a pardon or other commutation of the sentence. |
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Medieval practices of guillotining, lynching, and public hanging belong to the same category as the death penalty by lethal injection or electrification. |
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To say things about the death penalty now amounts to kite-flying. |
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About 500 demonstrators, carrying placards and banners, protested the execution, while a half-dozen or so death penalty supporters were on hand, some waving confederate flags. |
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As the prosecutor called for the death penalty, accusing the editor of apostasy, the abandonment of the faith, the sentence appeared to have been a compromise. |
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For instance, jurors in Connecticut, New York and other northeastern states are much more reluctant than jurors in other parts of the country to impose the death penalty. |
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It was the moment that led Ryan to order a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois. |
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If I was in charge of the Correctional Services, I would lock you up in solitary confinement and throw away the key, better still, I would bring back the death penalty. |
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Hamdan and three other men being arraigned this week face charges that could bring life in prison, but other detainees could face the death penalty. |
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It was that basic desire that the justices in Gregg relied upon to resurrect the death penalty. |
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These same children can, however, suffer the death penalty, the United States being the only industrialized nation that sentences minors to death. |
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He rebuffed calls to institute the death penalty, and his last term as governor ended in his defeat. |
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Civil rights groups say the death penalty is an anachronism for a modern nation, but Singapore officials have been unswayed by appeals to stop the execution. |
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The only great thing he did as governor was to insist that the death penalty was just wrong. |
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But a surge in thefts of treasured relics from ancient temples and monuments has reached such a level that an agonised debate has begun over bringing back the death penalty. |
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He said that plans to reinstitute the death penalty are going forward. |
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The father had correctly heard that the district attorney is presently planning to seek the death penalty. |
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To the delight of abolitionist groups, Robertson went even further this past April when he voiced his support for a general moratorium on the death penalty. |
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Some US states, such as Hawaii, have far more lenient laws than Texas in such cases and would allow treatment rather than a prison sentence or death penalty. |
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This is the kind of idea that makes death penalty zealots sweat bullets. |
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A Newsweek poll in 2000 that measured white and non-white attitudes toward the death penalty found that nearly 60 percent of non-whites support the death penalty. |
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I oppose the death penalty, but not for Stephen's squeamish reasons that one innocent person in 100 might get hanged, My opposition is more visceral than that. |
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Those who resorted to theft faced the death penalty if they were caught. |
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This evidence greatly unsettles moral objections to the death penalty, because it suggests that a refusal to impose that penalty condemns numerous innocent people to death. |
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Although there is a trend towards prohibition, twenty of the thirty-eight states that have a death penalty still permit execution of the mentally retarded. |
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How can the death penalty been seen as anything other than vengeance? |
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These petitions helped us understand that neither Wheeler's family nor his community regarded the death penalty as the only way to punish his crime. |
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Antonios, like his comrade in arms Martin Ssempa in Uganda, has called for the death penalty. |
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And generally what happens is when people seek the death penalty, jurors tend to want more evidence if they're going to put somebody to death than otherwise. |
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The ordinance, which is similar in content to an antiterrorism bill the government has drafted, calls for the death penalty for militants who plot or launch terrorist attacks. |
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Actual death penalty statistics are a closely guarded state secret. |
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If California dumps the death penalty this November, abolitionists will probably dance in the streets. |
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But while support for ending the death penalty was cold and actuarial, opposition to the measure was emotional and raw. |
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There is no more potent symbol of state power than the death penalty. |
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Meanwhile, as if to keep the paperwork straight, the separatist government in Donetsk has formally introduced the death penalty. |
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In the dense atmosphere of tobacco and conspiracy, one hot topic has been the death penalty. |
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Its blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty, is frequently invoked and just as frequently misused. |
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Georgia relied, in part, on the fact that, in the years after the Furman decision, numerous state legislatures had re-enacted death penalty statutes. |
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Brunei has had the death penalty for decades, yet its last execution took place in 1957, under British rule. |
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Even the death penalty was too mild for something like that. |
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Thirty-eight states revised and re-enacted their death penalty laws after the 1972 Court ruling that all but a few capital statutes were unconstitutional. |
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One whole shade of opinion, opposed to the death penalty, argued that his sentence should be commuted to life. |
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Earlier this year, a similar bill was rejected by the council because it called for the death penalty as the most severe punishment for anyone convicted by the tribunal. |
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Lethal injection is allowed as a form of execution in all thirty-two states that have the death penalty. |
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The movement away from the death penalty gained momentum during the second half of the present century with the growth of the abolitionist movement. |
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And there are certain crimes still that are so heinous, so wretched, and so abominable that, yes, they do cry out for vengeance, and they do cry out for the death penalty. |
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I am still struggling with death penalty issues, as I can see where a case could be made that society is defending itself in putting someone to death. |
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In fact, when the death penalty is applied, people are killed not for current acts of aggression, but for offences committed in the past. |
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Shortly prior to Francis's address, the Vatican had officially given support to a 2015 United Nations campaign against the death penalty. |
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In a 1991 social policy statement, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America officially took a stand to oppose the death penalty. |
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The harshest sharia penalties such as stoning, beheading and other forms of the death penalty are enforced with varying levels of consistency. |
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To individuals who despise killings in any form, death penalty is undue punishment. |
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Last night, her grieving grandmother Sapolaite Albina, 81, said even the death penalty would be too lenient a sentence for her killers. |
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Of late, one rapist in India was given a life imprisonment and another rapist a death penalty. |
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The judge can impose the death penalty even if the jury recommends life without parole. |
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A US federal judge has ruled that prosecutors cannot seek the death penalty against a Pakistani man charged with hijacking an aircraft. |
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This prolonged execution marks yet another death penalty fiasco. |
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The will of the SPQR was binding on the consuls and the men, with the death penalty often assigned for disobedience or failure. |
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In 1550, the death penalty was introduced for all cases of unrepentant heresy. |
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The Methodist Church supported the campaign to abolish the death penalty in Great Britain and since then has totally opposed its reintroduction. |
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Saudi Arabia continues to use the death penalty for sorcery and witchcraft. |
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The emperor Charlemagne decreed that the burning of supposed witches was a pagan custom that would be punished by the death penalty. |
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He called for the abolition of slavery, the abolition of the death penalty, and the abolition of physical punishment, including that of children. |
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Supreme Court ruling striking down arbitrary imposition of the death penalty. |
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Meanwhile, several states have either abolished or struck down death penalty laws. |
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Protocol 6 prohibits the imposition of the death penalty in peacetime, while Protocol 13 extends the prohibition to all circumstances. |
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At the same, it recognised the common law, existing statutory provisions, and excluded the breach of royal proclamations from the death penalty. |
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Even though the acquittal of the death penalty was erroneous in that case, the acquittal must stand. |
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As of 2014 Qatar retains the death penalty, mainly for threats against national security. |
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It so happened that at that time the moratorium on the death penalty caused by the Supreme Court decision in the Furman case was still in effect. |
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He does, however, also mention the death penalty, presumably of outlaws, not as a regular form of punishment. |
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Portugal was one of the first countries in the world to abolish the death penalty. |
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Civilian hostages would be taken, and the death penalty immediately imposed for even the most trivial acts of resistance. |
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Before the trial, Martin had obtained from Maximus a promise not to apply a death penalty. |
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Francesco Carrara, an advocate of abolition of the death penalty, was one of the foremost European criminal lawyers of the 19th century. |
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Leopold II of Tuscany abolished the death penalty in Tuscany and reduced censorship. |
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Ghana retains and exercises the death penalty for treason, corruption, robbery, piracy, drug trafficking, rape, and homicide. |
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Moctezuma issued new laws that further separated nobles from commoners and instituted the death penalty for adultery and other offenses. |
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It has opposed the death penalty and supported the civil rights movement and affirmative action. |
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Also, the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states, prohibits the use of the death penalty by its members. |
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Most historical records and various primitive tribal practices indicate that the death penalty was a part of their justice system. |
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In many countries that use the death penalty, drug trafficking is also a capital offence. |
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In China, human trafficking and serious cases of corruption are punished by the death penalty. |
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However, the death penalty was restored only 12 years later in 759 in response to the An Lushan Rebellion. |
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Despite the wide use of the death penalty, calls for reform were not unknown. |
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Jeremy Bentham, regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism, also called for the abolition of the death penalty. |
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The death penalty there remains a contentious issue which is hotly debated. |
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In 2017 two majors countries, Turkey and the Philippines have their executives making moves to reinstate the death penalty. |
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The public opinion on the death penalty varies considerably by country and by the crime in question. |
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Sir Thomas More's Utopia, published in 1516, debated the benefits of the death penalty in dialogue form, coming to no firm conclusion. |
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Georgia case once again permitted the death penalty under certain circumstances. |
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Since World War II, there has been a trend toward abolishing the death penalty. |
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The use of the death penalty is becoming increasingly restrained in some retentionist countries including Taiwan and Singapore. |
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This trend has been followed by some African and Middle Eastern countries where support for the death penalty is high. |
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Some countries have resumed practising the death penalty after having suspended executions for long periods. |
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Some countries provide the death penalty for drug trafficking and related offences, mostly in West Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. |
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Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane and criticize it for its irreversibility. |
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Latvia abolished de jure the death penalty for war crimes in 2012, becoming the last EU member to do so. |
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The world's major religions have mixed opinions on the death penalty, depending on the sect, the individual believer, and the time period. |
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A basis can be found in Hindu teachings both for permitting and forbidding the death penalty. |
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There is disagreement among Buddhists as to whether or not Buddhism forbids the death penalty. |
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For example, Bhutan has abolished the death penalty, but Thailand still retains it, although Buddhism is the official religion in both. |
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Thomas Aquinas, a Doctor of the Church, accepted the death penalty as a deterrent and prevention method but not as a means of vengeance. |
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Moreover, both the sample median and mean are negative, suggesting an overall drop in murders following a readoption of the death penalty. |
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The second most consequential change in death penalty administration is the amount of time inmates spend on death row prior to execution. |
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If Willie Mak was going to get the death penalty, ng surely would, too. |
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After the attack, Rooney was charged with deforcement of messengers which used to carry the death penalty. |
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Sweden has said it will not extradite Assange to the US if he faces the death penalty for espionage. |
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In the UK it is customary to hold a vote every few years on whether to bring back the death penalty. |
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Cope describes what goes on in the few federal cases where the death penalty is on the table. |
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Lasting just 30 seconds, the shoot-out ended with three men dead, and left Earp facing the death penalty. |
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The Dharmasastras describe many crimes and their punishments and call for the death penalty in several instances, including murder and righteous warfare. |
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In addition to banning capital punishment for EU member states, the EU has also banned detainee transfers in cases where the receiving party may seek the death penalty. |
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The death penalty could be issued for offences such as being a communist, printing seditious leaflets, or even making jokes about Hitler or other top party officials. |
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Then there was a de facto moratorium on the death penalty in Turkey. |
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Many people have been proclaimed innocent victims of the death penalty. |
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The death penalty was overwhelmingly practised in poor and authoritarian states, which often employed the death penalty as a tool of political oppression. |
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A US grand jury has indicted 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo on two counts of capital murder in last year's sniper shootings, setting the stage for a death penalty trial. |
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In this book, Beccaria aimed to demonstrate not only the injustice, but even the futility from the point of view of social welfare, of torture and the death penalty. |
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Thus, if captured again by Billy Yank, they faced the death penalty. |
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Most French, Finns and Italians also oppose the death penalty. |
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However, a spike in serious, violent crimes, such as murders or terrorist attacks, has prompted some countries to effectively end the moratorium on the death penalty. |
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The-mother-of-two could face the death penalty if she is convicted after she was arrested with an alleged 5kg of drugs at the airport in Denpasar in May. |
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In Italy, parts of society also dramatically changed during the Enlightenment, with rulers such as Leopold II of Tuscany abolishing the death penalty in Tuscany. |
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Abolition of the death penalty is a condition for EU membership. |
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In medieval and early modern Europe, before the development of modern prison systems, the death penalty was also used as a generalized form of punishment. |
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Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. |
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The Romans also used death penalty for a wide range of offences. |
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Punishment included forfeiture of pay and allowances, flogging, branding, keelhauling, confinement, solitary confinement with bread and water, and the death penalty. |
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The EU opposes the death penalty and has proposed its worldwide abolition. |
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However, its severity was reduced by an act of 1540, which retained the death penalty only for denial of transubstantiation, and a further act limited its arbitrariness. |
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Joshua Marquis, cochair of a district attorney's capital litigation committee, also charges death penalty opponents with inflated statistics on wrongful convictions. |
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According to ALEF, the death penalty was requested for 196 people in 2012, some 148 of which were for those involved in the Nahr al-Bared clashes. |
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If the matter were brought before the ecclesiastical judge he inflicted at the same time the civil penalty, not, however, corporal punishments such as the death penalty. |
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Mennonites, Church of the Brethren and Friends have opposed the death penalty since their founding, and continue to be strongly opposed to it today. |
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Apostasy is a crime punishable by the death penalty in Qatar. |
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Church members are encouraged to work for the abolition of the death penalty in those states and nations that still practise this form of punishment. |
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The American Baptist Churches USA is against capital punishment and recommends its churches and members to support those seeking to abolish the death penalty. |
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Japan still imposes the death penalty, although some recent justice ministers have refused to sign death warrants, citing their Buddhist beliefs as their reason. |
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