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Capital Punishment Videos

German envoy appeals India 'not to implement' death penalty to Bhullar
April 18, 2013 | Asian News International

Tallahassee Rollergirls roll into spring with Apr. 13 match
April 11, 2013 | WTXL ABC 27 Tallahassee

James Holmes Offers Guilty Plea to Avoid Death Penalty
March 28, 2013 | Newsy.com

Capital Punishment Wikipedia Information

Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. Historically, the execution of criminals and political opponents was used by nearly all societies—both to punish crime and to suppress political dissent. Among countries around the world,...

Sacramento Connect

British firm moves to end supply of execution drugs to US
May 15, 2013
May 15, 2013 - A UK pharmaceutical firm has announced that it is "putting in place concrete steps" to stop the use of its drugs in executions. Hikma PLC, which...

Five ‘crimes’ that can get you killed
April 15, 2013
April 15, 2013 - Even though most of the world has turned its back on the death penalty, some countries continue to impose capital punishment for acts like...

UN chief reaffirms call for moratorium on death penalty
February 26, 2013
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. UN Photo/Rick Bajornas Feb. 25, 2013 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to...

Pillay says Saudi Arabian executions violate international standards
March 14, 2013
GENEVA, March 14, 2013 - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday strongly condemned the executions of seven Saudi Arabian nationals,...

Death Penalty: A decade on, executions are on the wane but challenges remain
October 10, 2012
October 10, 2012 - The last decade has seen significant progress towards abolishing the use of the death penalty worldwide, but serious challenges remain before...

Lily Hughes: Why did death penalty repeal fail in California?
November 27, 2012
Nov. 17, 2012 - Proposition 34 (or the SAFE Act), the ballot measure that would have replaced the death penalty in California with life without parole (LWOP),...

From around the web

Mississippi Denies Inmate DNA Test, Set to Execute Him on Tuesday
May 04, 2013 | Gawker
The State of Mississippi has denied an inmate on death row the opportunity to be exonerated through DNA testing, a procedure that is almost always followed nowadays for prisoners facing capital punishment ...

Right Alternative: Do conservatives need to get over their hero worship of Ronald...
April 29, 2013 | indystar.com
And I continue to hope that someday, Americans will look back on the twin moral blind spots of infanticide and capital punishment - yes, even for terrorists - and wonder what we...

Limited death penalty backed
February 26, 2013 | DesMoinesRegister.com
The Des Moines Register's latest Iowa Poll shows that 65 percent of those surveyed say they favor reviving capital punishment ... Poll respondent Anne Gerken of Newton, a former innkeeper who describes herself as a'' card-carrying liberal,'' strongly opposes capital punishment ... The Legislature has not had a vote on capital punishment ...

Pulitzer Transcript
February 17, 2013 | DesMoinesRegister.com
She had always supported capital punishment ... It was not a smart thing to do to get Nancy Ziegenmeyer started on her views about capital punishment. Eventually, the anger turned to...

Maryland will be 18th state to ban death penalty
March 14, 2013
The Maryland General Assembly approved a measure to ban capital punishment. ...

Maryland Lawmakers Vote to Repeal Death Penalty
March 15, 2013 | New York Times
The bill is expected to be signed by the governor, who has long pushed for banning capital punishment in the state. ...

Capital Punishment on twitter

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	RT @CitiesforLife: Running Scared in #Nebraska: #DeathPenalty Loving State Senators Hide Behind a Filibuster -- http://t.co/wUt5mQLk3i via @aclu Twitter: @StefPir
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	FARE EVADER HAS BEEN REMOVED AT HITCHIN -CAPITAL PUNISHMENT WOULD BE TOO LENIENT Twitter: @Armchaireverton
	When parliament abolished capital punishment it did not have the backing of the electorate. #justsaying Twitter: @dsa99uk
	Capital Punishment: Historic Supreme Court Decisions - http://t.co/sLeOcZ6ihb Twitter: @landmarkpx

YouTube Videos

The Death Penalty: The Story of Capital Punishment (excerpt)
March 14, 2013

The Story of Capital Punishment 1 of 6
April 12, 2011

The History of Capital Punishment in the United States
January 27, 2012

Capital Punishment Books

Morality's Muddy Waters: Ethical Quandaries in Modern America
George Cotkin, $20.86

Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures
Beth A. Berkowitz, $52.47

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