Frank Spisak: Nazi Sympathizer Executed in Ohio

Nazi Sympathizer Frank Spisak Executed for Triple MurderFrank Spisak, a Nazi sympathizer who has spent nearly 30 years on Death Row for killing three people, was executed at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. Frank Spisak was executed via lethal injection.In 1982, Frank...

DRC Death Penalty Debate

Some activists say that the country is still too violent for its abolition. By Melanie Gouby, Passy Mubalama - International Justice - ICC ...

Back to “Old Sparky”

What does it mean that we are out of lethal injections? Does it mean firing squads or just rehabilitating “old sparky,” the electric chair? Side-by-side chairs could save money and maybe they can call it...

Service with slices: SF priest preaches against death penalty

Before sharing pizza at a special Mass celebrated on San Francisco's Civic Center plaza, a flock of some 20 parishoners were reminded that Jesus suffered the death penalty. Ten pizza pies were divided among the congregants, including homeless...

UK considers banning Ugandan MP if "kill the gays" bill succeeds

UK considers banning Ugandan MP David Bahati, sponsor of "kill the gays" legislation in Uganda. " Civil servants in the Foreign Office, the Department for International Development and the Borders Agency are...

Ohio Lawmakers Searching for a Doctor to Help Execute Prisoner

In the aftermath of the botched execution of Romell Broom in Ohio, lawmakers are searching for a doctor to help execute prisoners sentenced to death.  It would seem that the Hippocratic Oath which demands that the physician "do no harm" interferes with deliberately...

Suicide: Desensitization and the "Doctrine of Can't"

            For the fourth time in a little more than four months a student attending California's Palo Alto High School has committed suicide. The most recent occurrence was carried out by jumping in front of...

The Death Penalty: Feasibility Lost

The death Penalty Information Center has released a study that found that American states are wasting huge amounts of money because the death row system functions inefficiently.  With death row waits being as long as 3 decades due to a lack or organization of resources...

Blogging for Justice: Against Police Pretrial Electrocutions 4/24

A Day of Blogging for Justice: Standing Up AgainstPolice Pre-Trial Electrocution - April 24, 2009Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and Electrocuted While Black.. When I first proposed renaming "tasering" "police pre-trial electrocution and execution", some...

HUMAN RIGHTS: Uganda moves towards abolishing death penalty

It seems that Uganda, a country in central Africa, is one big step closer of banning capital punishment. On January 21, the Ugandan Supreme Court ruled that death sentences will be turned into life imprisonment...

'Texas 7' member volunteers to be executed

Michael Rodriguez worked for a year to convince the courts he was competent to drop his appeals and volunteer for the death penalty, and this Thursday he will get his wish.He says he feels remorse for his involvement in a violent prison break and crime spree that saw one...

Laypeople to decide death penalty in Japan

Starting next May, jury duty in Japan will become an even heavier responsibility, as the country's new "lay-judge" program will sometimes empower ordinary citizens to deliver death sentences.The ethics of the death penalty aside, I find it fascinating--and terrible,...

Thomas Arthur Doesn't Get It! Executions Are Fun for Folks - No Offense Inte...

THE TROUBLE WITH DEATH PENALTY OPPONENTS is that they miss the point - executions are just plain fun!  Capital punishment is very stimulating and has long been used as entertainment for folks.  The sport...

Cuba to commute death sentences

"Cuba's President Raul Castro says nearly all death sentences are to be commuted to prison terms of between 30 years and life. It is the latest in a series of liberalising measures. Mr Castro said the decision was humanitarian and not due to international pressure. Three...

Mom on Trial - Microwaved her 1yo infant daughter

China Arnold, age 27, (pictured) has been accused of of murdering her infant, by placing the 1 month old baby girl in a microwave oven and burning her to death.Potential jury members were examined - especially...

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