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I was taught when I was a child that murder is the most heinous crime that can be committed. Well, by the time I gained maturity I realised it was rape, not murder. Honestly, given an option I would rather respect a murderer than a rapist. Now I get to...
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Capital punishment, more popularly known as the death penalty is the execution of a person by the state as punishment for a crime. The discussion regarding the death...
made popular Jul 28 2008
International divide: Mexico rejoices the World Court's verdict on Texas executing Mexican nationals
According to El Norte, after months of intense review,the World Court and Congress’ Howard Berman and Zoe Lofgren submitted their resolution. Close sources of the...
made popular Jul 17 2008
The Supreme Court of United States declared on Wednesday that executions are too severe a punishment for raping children, despite the ‘years of long anguish’ for...
made popular Jun 26 2008
The US Supreme Court has struck down a law that would have allowed the execution of someone convicted of raping a child.
made popular Jun 25 2008
In a move that could bring some reprieve to Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, Pakistan government on Saturday announced plans to commute the death sentences of...
made popular Jun 21 2008
Mexico asked the World Court on Thursday to take urgent steps to stop imminent U.S. executions of five Mexicans on death row who were denied their rights to consular...
made popular Jun 21 2008
New Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Monday that all death sentences had been commuted to prison terms of 30 years to life, with the exception of three people...
made popular Apr 30 2008
# The US Supreme Court upheld the three-drug lethal injection method clearing the way for an unofficial moratorium on executions to be lifted.
# In the three-drug...
made popular Apr 17 2008
# The US highest court has set arguments on whether death penalty for the crime of raping a child represents unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.
# The...
made popular Apr 14 2008
UN human rights committee holds a historic vote today on a global moratorium over a possible ban on death penalty.
Yes # Capital punishment is a cruel man made law that...
made popular Nov 15 2007
Capital punishment should only be given to an extremely small number of serious offenders. People, it’s about China. Some sigh of relief from the stringent law in...
made popular Sep 15 2007
On Thursday, the Bench of Justices B N Agrawal and P P Naolekar in Supreme Court imposed death penalty on the accused couple from Hissar, Sonia and Sanjiv for mass...
made popular Feb 17 2007
It is not easy for those children who survive sexual assaults or are molested. As they grow, they develop various coping mechanisms. Some may become sexually active...
made popular Jan 17 2007
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam seems to be the only one who can save Mohammad Afzal Guru from the hanging rope now. On Friday, the Supreme Court dismissed the remedial...
made popular Jan 13 2007
A former United States of America soldier was indicted by a federal grand jury in Louisville (US) on November 02 on charges that include the rape of an Iraqi girl and...
made popular Nov 6 2006
China is known as the country, which carries out more court-ordered death penalty than any other country. Now, Chinese government has enacted a new kind of legislation...
made popular Nov 2 2006
To hang or not to hang debate is still on in the political and intellectual sphere in India. The President of India has got and sent the clemency demand to the Home...
made popular Oct 19 2006
Indian Media has almost divided the opinion of Indian people on the issue of death penalty award to Mohd Afzal in the connection with attack on Parliament case, 2001....
made popular Oct 9 2006
The Supreme Court today upholds the death punishment for two women from Maharashtra. They were thieves and used to kill children during the robbery. They were charged...
made popular Aug 31 2006
Anti-death penalty activists are using blogs as part of a new strategy to carry their message to a wider audience.
The most recent example is that of Vernon Lee Evans...
made popular Feb 2 2006
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The Supreme Court of United States declared on Wednesday that executions are too severe a punishment for raping children, despite the ‘years of long anguish’ for...
made popular Jun 26 2008
Today, my loud thoughts are directed at abnormal sex acts that have rocked the world. Just the other week, the world news was awash with a bizarre story about an...
made popular May 7 2008
# The US highest court has set arguments on whether death penalty for the crime of raping a child represents unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.
# The...
made popular Apr 14 2008
A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by three police persons in a park in posh Civil Lines area in the district, police said on Saturday.
made popular Apr 12 2008
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