Article: Death penalty.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

Article: DEATH PENALTY FOES RAP ASHCROFT SEEN TO BE ...
The Boston Globe;  September 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Critics of the federal death penalty have accused US Attorney General ... in a bid to "nationalize" the death penalty. The criticism came this week ... s endorsement, will seek the death penalty for two Dorchester gang members ...

Article: The death penalty.(arguments for and against ...
Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication;  April 3, 1995 ;     700+ words ...ALBANY, N.Y. - The death penalty . . . Is it justice - or legalized ... capital punishment, or the death penalty, is a step backward to a more ... state since 1976 to impose the death penalty. For 12 years, New York state ...

Article: DEATH PENALTY DEBATE MAKES RELIGION AN ISSUE
Roanoke Times & World News;  October 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Democrat Tim Kaine's position on the death penalty last week, Kaine's response once ... despite his moral objection to the death penalty. But even before the latest ads hit ... has a faith-based objection to the death penalty but would carry out executions unless ...

Article: DEATH-PENALTY LAWS CHANGED GIVING BALANCE NOT ...
Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  June 30, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Supreme Court pulled the plug on the death penalty, calling it unconstitutional. At ... the court said. Existing American death-penalty laws were unfair and inconsistent ... response, states began to rewrite their death-penalty laws, seeking the court's support ...

Article: Death penalty debate is cost vs. morality
Post-Tribune (IN);  November 14, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Commission presents its final report on the death penalty in Indiana sometime in the next year ... admits there is no answer about the death penalty. "This commission is not charged ... policy decision on if we should have a death penalty," said Alexa. "That decision will ...

Article: Death penalty in slayings in doubt.
Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE);  January 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... prosecutor waited too long to seek the death penalty against a Wisconsin teenager charged ... outlining his intention to seek the death penalty against Fester. Nebraska requires ... the District Court to explain why the death penalty is warranted. It was not until Dec ...

Article: DEATH PENALTY TIPS THE SCALES OF JUSTICE TOWARD ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  October 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... become convinced that the ways that the death penalty have been unfairly applied have been ... Prosecutors in her case pressed hard for the death penalty. Jurors instead sentenced the 37 ... that exposes just how thoroughly the death penalty has eroded our system of justice ...