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...
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...
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 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...
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...
opinion by Barbara McPherson | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 166 views | 31 recommendations | 4 comments
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...
opinion by Grace H | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 518 views | 28 recommendations | 6 comments
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...
created by Gordon Clark | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 121 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
opinion by francislholland | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 174 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by Miriam Mannak | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 497 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments
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...
created by Rob Peters | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 364 views | 7 recommendations | 1 comment
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,...
created by Rob Peters | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 431 views | 15 recommendations | 1 comment
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'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...
created by AlanEvans | 4 years ago 368 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
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...