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  • Thumbnail for World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
    The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is an international alliance of NGOs, bar associations, local governments and trade unions that aims to...
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    the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as a punishment for a crime. It has historically been used in almost every part of the...
    260 KB (10,548 words) - 03:52, 2 August 2024
  • Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for...
    197 KB (19,854 words) - 16:59, 3 August 2024
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    just penalty. Some advocates[who?] against the death penalty argue that "most of the rest of the world gave up on human sacrifice a long time ago." The murder...
    200 KB (20,718 words) - 20:56, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
    The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 104–132 (text) (PDF), 110 Stat. 1214, enacted...
    23 KB (2,196 words) - 18:54, 2 April 2024
  • participate in the 5th World Congress against the Death Penalty. Retrieved 1 August 2013. FIDH, Terrorism Archived 2013-08-04 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved...
    15 KB (1,626 words) - 21:39, 30 July 2024
  • World Coalition Against the Death Penalty announced that since 2007 at least 8,000 people per year were executed in China. Since 2006, the Chinese government...
    57 KB (6,341 words) - 01:42, 23 July 2024
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    Sakae Menda (category Japanese anti–death penalty activists)
    the 2007 World Congress against the death penalty, and lobbied delegates of the United Nations to globally abolish capital punishment, describing the...
    11 KB (1,141 words) - 00:12, 21 January 2024
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    Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (category Anti–death penalty activists)
    World Congress Against the Death Penalty. Elbegdorj Tsakhia (26 June 2016), Greetings to the 6th World Congress against the death penalty by the President...
    164 KB (16,686 words) - 04:49, 7 July 2024
  • "DEATH PENALTY AND DRUG CRIMES - Detailed Factsheet - 13th World Day against the Death Penalty" (PDF). World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. Archived...
    24 KB (1,476 words) - 14:31, 1 April 2024
  • Jerry Givens (category American anti–death penalty activists)
    expand the death penalty to accomplices of murders, and the World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Brussels in 2019. In 2012, Givens went on a speaking...
    10 KB (1,194 words) - 22:43, 2 November 2023
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    Nations. Spain and Norway have also been the two co-sponsors of the V World Congress against the death penalty, which was held in Madrid in June 2013....
    6 KB (691 words) - 19:16, 11 March 2023
  • to the death penalty in the vast majority of applications. During his papacy, John Paul II appealed for a consensus to end the death penalty on the ground...
    41 KB (4,768 words) - 05:59, 19 July 2024
  • In Israel, the Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law mandates a death penalty for those found guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or...
    69 KB (8,210 words) - 08:48, 28 April 2024
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    were abolished in 1814, 1790 and 1973 respectively. The penalty was used by later monarchs against people who could reasonably be called traitors. Many...
    74 KB (9,593 words) - 02:42, 4 August 2024
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    "No one can be sentenced to the death penalty" (French: Nul ne peut être condamné à la peine de mort). The death penalty was already declared illegal...
    29 KB (3,239 words) - 04:25, 30 June 2024
  • committed crimes rather than retaliating against them. For these reasons, Buddhism has generally opposed the death penalty. China and Japan, both historically...
    81 KB (9,540 words) - 12:27, 13 July 2024
  • prostitution, sorcery and witchcraft, theft, and treason. The following countries impose the death penalty for adultery: Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Maldives,...
    45 KB (4,937 words) - 15:00, 13 May 2024
  • Murder of Naina Sahni (category Violence against women in India)
    the murder by the Trial Court, Delhi High Court and Supreme Court. In October 2013, Sharma's death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment by the Supreme...
    6 KB (653 words) - 06:16, 22 July 2024
  • Washington abolished the death penalty within the last decade alone. Gallup, Inc. has monitored support for the death penalty in the United States since...
    76 KB (9,518 words) - 22:49, 3 August 2024
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