The resignation of a president and the kidnapping of an heiress. The reinstatement of the death penalty and the end of the Vietnam War.
...Reinstatement of the Death Penalty. Although the separate opinio...
When Robert Curley's 10-year-old son was sexually assaulted and murdered by two pedophiles 14 years ago, the Massachusetts man took the lead in pushing for reinstatement of the death penalty in his state. Sal Sicari was sentenced to life without parole in the 1997 murder, while Charles Jaynes was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after 23 years. The pair had lured the child to go with them by promising him a bicycle.
DES MOINES (AP) - Lawmakers vowed Wednesday to push for more restrictions on where offenders convicted of sex crimes against children can live, rejecting worries that those restrictions are driving people from their homes. They also called for more spending on law enforcement, as well as continuous real-time monitoring of sex offenders after they're released.
... Sutton is a Tennessee prisoner sentenced to death for murdering a fellow prisoner. He petitions for ... misconduct during the guilt and penalty phases; (3) that his counsel failed to object to t... cases reviewed on appeal after the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977. The Tennessee Suprem...
It was 30 years ago today that Gary Gilmore was strapped to a chair before a firing squad and uttered his famous last words: "Let's do it. The controversial execution that marked the reinstatement of the death penalty in the United States is being revisited in protests at the Utah State Prison this weekend.
Poll:67% support death penalty DES MOINES - Two-thirds of Iowans favor reinstatement of the death penalty, according to the latest copyright Iowa Poll in The Des Moines Register.
Even though Mumia's attorneys have made an incredible and obvious case of numerous constitutional violations in his trial, even though those same efforts unveiled a range of new evidence establishing his innocence, and even though there are precedents for the proper granting of a new trial, in hearing after hearing and in court after court - including tragically even the federal courts - the deep-seated race-based and political animosity facing Mumia has overridden the rule and principle of the law at every turn. Now we are faced with watching one of the most biased death penalty prosecutions seek the reinstatement of his death sentence, even though the world knows that this man is innocent. Even though Mumia's attorneys have made an incredible and obvious case of numerous constitutiona...
The Iowa Catholic Conference, which includes all the bishops, opposes the reinstatement of the death penalty in any form, even a "limited" death penalty. Although it appears that the Legislature will not debate and vote on the issue this year, the renewed interest, sparked by the brutal murder of an innocent child, challenges all of us to serious reflection.
BUCKHANNON - Meth-odists from across West Virginia have gathered in Buckhannon to worship and to set the church's agenda in the state for the next year. The West Virginia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church convened Thursday at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Resolutions to be considered during the four-day conference include one opposing reinstatement of the death penalty in West Virginia and others dealing with the environment.
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