MINISTER'S STATEMENT ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Anne McLellan responds to the Canadian Police Association's call for reinstatement of the death penalty in Canada. http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/news/nr/1997/deathp.html
Extractions: Department of Justice MINISTER'S STATEMENT ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Ottawa, August 29, 1997 In response to the resolution passed by the Canadian Police Association today calling for the return of the death penalty in certain cases, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Anne McLellan, issued the following statement: "Capital punishment has been debated and voted on in free votes in the House of Commons twice in the past two decades. In 1976, Parliament voted to abolish capital punishment and in 1987 Parliament voted against reinstating it. It is not the intention of the Government of Canada to reinstate the death penalty," said Minister McLellan. Ref.: Pierre Gratton Minister's Office (613) 992-4621 Aboriginal Justice Learning Network Child Support Family Law Assistance Services Parenting After Divorce ... More... Last Updated: 2003-04-24 Important Notices
Thoughts that is conveniently overlooked by anti capital punishment campaigners is unacceptableto be sentenced to death by a obvious merits to both the pro and anti http://www.geocities.com/trctl11/thoughts.html
Extractions: There have been a total of 820 executions since 1977 to the end of 2002, with 71 executions in 2002. The application of the death penalty is very patchy with two states, Texas and Virginia accounting for more than half of all executions whilst six retentionist states have had no executions since 1976 and seven of these have 5 people, or less, on death row. New Hampshire is the only one of these to have no one on death row. California has a staggering 617 on its death rows - the highest in the country and yet has had fewer executions (10 in all) than Delaware which has 1/43rd of California's population. (see Analysis by state ). Delaware has the highest execution rate per head of its population in the U.S.
Extractions: Cost A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS The death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights. It violates the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is the ultimate cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment. In , the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration, adopted without dissent, is a pledge among nations to promote fundamental rights as the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world. The Declaration proclaims each person's right to protection from deprivation of life, and it categorically states that no one shall be subjected to cruel or degrading punishment. The death penalty the pre-meditated and cold-blooded killing of prisoners in state custody violates both of these rights. In In In In , the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty. It binds the states that are parties to it not to carry out executions and to abolish the death penalty.
Fight The Death Penalty In USA Danish website about the American capital punishment system. Articles and information plus writings from a Texas death row inmate. http://www.fdp.dk/
Extractions: This website is dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty in the USA. It is not run by an organization, just by me, and I hope that you will find it useful and that it will provide you some food for thought, even if you are a proponent for the death penalty or you oppose it like I do. Anyway: Welcome and enjoy the stay here.
The New American - Ten Anti-Death Penalty Fallacies - June 3, 2002 Article by Thomas R. Eddlem. Asserts the case against capital punishment relies on myth, misinformation, and misplaced emotionalism. http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/06-03-2002/vo18no11_fallacies.htm
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Extractions: Amnesty International is opposed to the death penalty in all cases. However, the execution of children is particularly outrageous. International standards exempt children from the death penalty, not to excuse their crimes or to belittle the suffering of their victims, but in recognition of their immaturity and capacity for change. As a principled message of hope, international standards call upon governments to respond to child offenders by maximizing the potential for their eventual successful reintegration into society. Juvenile Offenders on Death Row [ Source: Death Row, U.S.A.
The Death Penalty An essay that considers capital punishment to be inhumane. The foundation for the this thesis is that a criminal suffers the same way an innocent person suffers, and in that context to cause suffering without purpse, especially when a jail is sufficient to protect the public, is humane. http://www.punkerslut.com/articles/deathpenalty.html
Extractions: By Punkerslut [Author's Note: I started writing this 9/13/01, but finished it Sunday, December 9, 2001.] [PUBLIC DOMAIN] Once again, I have felt that this issue is so in need of attention that I have made this article public domain. This article may be reproduced in part, or in whole, electronically, on paper, or digitally, without cost or permission. -Punkerslut Thirty eight states allow the death penalty and twelve states disallow the death penalty. Like abortion, it is a hotly debated issue. The primary problem with the Death Penalty as it stands today is that it results in executing many innocents. In 1915, Joe Hill was executed and was later proven innocent. There are obviously major flaws with the system as it stands. To quote a qualified source in regards to Capital Punishment... Whether you support or oppose capital punishment, there is mounting evidence that the system is broken. A review of death penalty judgments over a 23-year period found a national error rate of 68 %. In a matter of life and death, we are getting it wrong more than 2 out of every 3 times. We need a moratorium on executions to give us time to figure out why the system is not working. [*1] *1. ACLU.
LII: Law About...the Death Penalty The death penalty, or capital punishment, may be prescribed by Congressor any state legislature for murder and other capital crimes. http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/death_penalty.html
Extractions: Law About . . . collection home search tell me more LII home ... donate The death penalty, or capital punishment, may be prescribed by Congress or any state legislature for murder and other capital crimes. The Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty is not a per se violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Furthermore, the Sixth Amendment does not require a jury trial on the sentencing issue of life or death. In the landmark case, Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977) , the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty is a grossly disproportionate punishment for the crime of rape of an adult woman. The Court came to this conclusion by considering objective indicia of the nation's attitude toward the death penalty in rape cases. At the time, only a few states allowed for executions of convicted rapists. More recently, in Atkins v. Virginia
Open Hand Capital Punishment Page Facts, arguments and essays against the death penalty. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~spragge/capital.html
Extractions: Capital Punishment: Facts and Arguments This page aims to discuss capital punishment as rationally as possible. I propose to present information which may help people make up their minds about whether or not capital punishment keeps them safe, makes economic sense, or provides a satisfactory "closure" for the victims of homicide. How, if at all, this information affects your response, either emotional or political, to capital punishment remains entirely up to you. The questions of fact concerning capital punishment fall into three general areas: does capital punishment save money , freeing social resources for better purposes than warehousing and feeding murders, or does it actually cost more, consuming resources that could go into preventing crime? Does capital punishment strike fear into offenders, saving innocent lives by deterring would-be killers? And, finally, the courts make mistakes; what does capital punishment mean to an innocent person wrongly accused These questions fit together to define a complex problem. If experience showed capital punishment saved lives by deterring offenders, the cost would not matter; a certainty that capital punishment would save innocent lives might even make the risk of wrongful convictions acceptable. If no risk at all existed of an error by the courts, the question of whether capital punishment saves innocent lives by deterring murder might matter less. And we cannot limit the cost of capital punishment simply to money, since society has limited resources, and can only spend so much on criminal justice. A society that spends money on executions can't spend that money on police officers, courts, or jails; to say nothing of schools, vocational programs, or other measures aimed at preventing crime.
New Yorkers Against The Death Penalty New Yorkers Against the death penalty (NYADP) is a statewide coalition of organizations and individuals committed to the abolition of capital punishment. http://www.nyadp.org
Extractions: Skip Navigation and view content. JOIN NYADP's first Moratorium/Leadership Training Day was a big success. You can help us with the follow-up. Kaczynski writes on death penalty and mental health. NYADP Director describes problems faced by accused mentally ill. Religious leaders adopt statement on death penalty. Interfaith group declares its "unambiguous" opposition to capital punishment. Buy spring and summer baseball tickets and help NYADP!
Cornell Death Penalty Project Elements include a capital punishment clinic, a commitment to provide continuing education programs for capital defense attorneys and the active collection and study of data in this field. http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawlibrary/death/index.html
AUSTRALIAN COALITION AGAINST DEATH PENALTY Organization for the abolition of the death penalty internationally, and preventing the reintroduction of capital punishment in Australia. http://www.angelfire.com/stars/dorina/index.html
Extractions: RESOURCE ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ACADP is a registered non-profit human rights organisation with no political or religious affiliations. ACADP is the primary source of factual information on issues surrounding the use of the death penalty around the world. We are a united team of activists - a professional group of volunteers - providing researched information, educating the public and campaigning for the abolition of capital punishment worldwide. ACADP is the Australian voice calling on all nations to establish moratorium on executions - with a view to completely abolishing capital punishment worldwide. In addition, ACADP is the 'watchtower' organisation that maintains vigilance and takes action against calls for the re-introduction of capital punishment in Australia. Human rights belongs to all of us ... human rights are universal ... human rights is everyones' business ... the death penalty cannot be separated from human rights. As members of the human race, every human being has a born right to guard and protect the life of another human being regardless of global location. No culture, custom, tradition, religion or political system can be used as an 'excuse' to legally exterminate a human being.
Death Penalty Institute Of Oklahoma Provides analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. Includes names of prisoners who have been executed in the U.S. http://www.dpio.org
Home Page National advocacy organization working for the abolition of the death penalty in the United States. Promotes greater awareness of Catholic Church teachings that characterize capital punishment as inappropriate and unacceptable. http://www.igc.org/cacp/
Extractions: The General and the Senator Wes's Bloopers Give Hillary's Troops Hope The Mourning Show A Star Shares Some Horror Stories The Profit's Bodyguards U.S. Companies Want Protection From Violence Dems for Death How the Candidates Come Down on Capital Punishment The Rumsfeld Watch More Quackery From the Secretary of Defense hile seeking to sugarcoat their positions, six of the nine candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination are for the death penalty. Only Dennis Kucinich, Al Sharpton, and Carol Moseley Braun are in outright opposition. Here's the way each one comes down on the issue: Wesley Clark has serious doubts about how it is being used. He would support mandatory review of all death penalty sentences. "I'll tell you, I'm uneasy about the death penalty," Clark said answering a question recently in Arkansas. "A government like the United States has the right to, in extraordinary cases, take the life of a criminal, but I don't like the way the death penalty has been applied in America," Clark said. "I think it's been applied in an unfair and discriminatory fashion and I think we need to go back and use modern technology and unpack all those cases on death row."
