death penalty debate

• Deciding whether the death penalty should be abolished Voices of the Death Penalty Debate: a citizen's guide to capital punishment.

The issue of the death penalty, like abortion, deeply divides this country. To most americans, the answer to the question of whether the death penalty...

• Suffolk University Law Review
• Vol. 43 Nbr. 4, January 2011

• Commentary: Death Penalty Debate

Wednesday's execution of Troy Davis in Georgia has reignited a fierce debate concerning the death penalty. Indeed, this topic has sparked emotional arguments on both sides for decades, and has touched squarely on issues of race, class, gender, geographic residence and more.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• October 12, 2011

• Capital Punishment Still Sensitive Issue: ; Emotions Run High at Death Penalty Debate

Victim's families, religious leaders and human rights activists engaged in passionate and emotional debate Tuesday over whether or not West Virginia should reinstate the death penalty. At the request of Delegate John Overington, R-Berkeley, the House Judiciary Committee held a public hearing on the issue in the House chamber.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• February 16, 2011

• Davis Execution Renews Death Penalty Debate

When Troy Davis was executed in Georgia last month for the 1989 murder of police officer Mark MacPhail, opponents of capital punishment nevertheless took solace in hoping that the death penalty was on its way to being abolished. After all, Davis had more going for him than almost any of the 1,270 U.S. prisoners put to death since 1976. About 650,000 Americans had signed petitions opposing his execution. Those pleading for his life included Pope Benedict XVI, ex-president Jimmy Carter and former FBI director William Sessions.

• Press Telegram
• October 01, 2011

• Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate.

INTRODUCTION I. THEORY: WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE DEATH PENALTY FOR HOMICIDE RATES? II. A CENTURY OF MURDERS AND EXECUTIONS III. THE IMPORTANCE...

• Stanford Law Review
• Vol. 58 Nbr. 3, December 2005

• People v. Cahill: domestic violence and the death penalty debate in New York.

INTRODUCTION For much of its history, New York has been a death penalty state. In 1995, after much controversy, and with great fanfare, Governor Pat...

• Albany Law Review
• Vol. 68 Nbr. 4, September 2005

• Death Penalty Debate Rages On in Justices' Cert Denial Dissents

Even in cases they decide not to review, justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are not shy about openly debating the hot-button issue of capital punishment. Justice John Paul Stevens famously used the vehicle of a statement accompanying a denial of certiorari to explain his contention that the death penalty system violated the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

• Lawyers USA
• December 28, 2010

• Death Penalty Debate Puts Us All On Trial

So we have a national moratorium of sorts. An unofficial stay of execution. All quiet in the death chambers. In the days since the U.S. Supreme Court decided to take on another death penalty case, 11 states - including Texas, the capital of capital punishment - have suspended executions. In two more states, inmates slated for death this week might be granted a reprieve. Even the Europeans who led Wednesday's World Day Against the Death Penalty must have missed having their favorite international target.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• October 15, 2007

• The death penalty debate: after a seven-month break, executions have resumed in the U.S.--and so has the debate over capital punishment itself.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Two days before Christmas in 1988, William Lynd shot his 26-year-old girlfriend, Ginger Moore, in the face during an argument...

• New York Times Upfront
• Vol. 141 Nbr. 1, September 2008

• Separately, Church and State Debate the Death Penalty

In April, Episcopal priest and environmental activist the Rev. Canon Sally G. Bingham spoke in Raleigh about "Interfaith Power & Light," a ministry she founded that confronts global warming and species extinction from a theological perspective. The San Francisco-based group has 27 chapters, including N.C. Interfaith Power & Light (www.ncipl.orj), which is part of the N.C. Council of Churches. "If you knowingly drive a Hummer that gets 13 miles on the gallon and you don't care because you're big and important, that's a sin," Bingham said. As for economic injustices, during "From Hostility to Hospitality: Immigration and People of Faith," the Rev. Maria Palmer of Chapel Hill retold the parable of Lazarus, but substituted for him "Lupita," a poor housekeeper who worked for a rich f...

• Independent Weekly, The; Durham, N.C.
• August 27, 2009