Capital Punishment
# capital-punishment - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
Death penalty stats show increase in executions but drop in death sentences
The Amnesty International figures have revealed that while the number of people executed last year rose by two, there were 201 less death sentences handed down.
# capital-punishment - Saturday 16 March, 2013
Poll: Do you agree with the death penalty?
As the US state of Maryland votes to abolish it, we’re asking: do you agree with capital punishment?
# capital-punishment - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
Petitions in three Irish cities to mark World Death Penalty Day
Amnesty International Ireland will collect signatures hoping to prevent the execution of Anthony Haynes in Texas this month.
# capital-punishment - Tuesday 24 April, 2012
Poll: Do you agree with the death penalty?
Which is more appropriate, a death penalty or a life in prison without parole? Have your say…
Californians to vote on measure to abolish death penalty
Supporters of the measure argue it could save the state millions of dollars. No one has been executed in the state since 2006.
# capital-punishment - Tuesday 27 March, 2012
China is the world’s ‘number one executioner’ – Amnesty report
A new report says that the number of countries who have the death penalty is declining but there has been a surge in the number of executions in the Middle East.
# capital-punishment - Monday 12 December, 2011
South African woman executed in China
Janice Bronwyn Linden was executed after being convicted for smuggling drugs into China – despite an appeal for clemency from the South African president.
# capital-punishment - Sunday 18 September, 2011
In pictures: the Kilmacud Crokes Sevens
Some of Gaelic football’s biggest names lined out for the annual tournament in the capital this weekend.
# capital-punishment - Thursday 4 August, 2011
British MPs may debate death penalty reintroduction
Capital punishment debate petition has been generating support online, but needs 100,000 signatures before being considered for House of Commons debate.
# capital-punishment - Wednesday 27 July, 2011
Column: A view to a kill – Why lawyers and judges should witness executions
Legal analyst Andrew Cohen argues in The Atlantic that legal argument on lethal injections cannot continue without those involved in the debate seeing exactly what happens in the death chamber.
# capital-punishment - Tuesday 7 June, 2011
Chinese student executed for road rage murder
The 21-year-old student stabbed a young mother to death after accidentally hitting her with his car so he would not have to pay compensation.
# capital-punishment - Thursday 28 April, 2011
Bahrain sentences four to death after anti-government demos
Four demonstrators are sentenced to death, and another three given life in prison, for killing police officers last month.
# capital-punishment - Monday 20 September, 2010
Virginia to execute first woman in nearly a century
The state of Virgina is getting ready to execute a woman – despite claims that she suffers from severe learning difficulties.
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