Article: Supreme Court bans executions in rape of children.(Front)

Article: The cost of capital punishment: death-penalty opponents are using a new argument for tough economic times: that capital punishment is too expensive.(NATIONAL)
New York Times Upfront;  April 20, 2009 ;     700+ words ......deathpenaltyinfo.org The Death Penalty Information Center...information regarding capital punishment. Maryland Governor...to abolish the death penalty. Its Governor...supporter of capital punishment, said that cost...Americans for the death penalty seems ...

Article: Resistance to death penalty growingQuestions about justice, expense undermining political support for capital punishment.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  April 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the equity of capital punishment and made bold...repealing the death penalty, slowing the...opponent of capital punishment. Skepticism...resistance to the death penalty have been building...lobbies against capital punishment. Efforts to...rethink the ...

Article: Capital Punishment: "It's Time To Abolish the Death Penalty"
Tennessee TRIBUNE, The;  June 21, 2000 ;     700+ words ......06-21-2000 Capital Punishment: "It's Time To Abolish The Death Penalty" Since capital punishment or the death penalty was reestablished...that the death penalty deters others...that link capital punishment with the...crimes. Some death ...

Article: DEATH PENALTY Many reasons to reject capital punishment
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 17, 2002 ;     585 words ...DEATH PENALTY Many reasons to reject capital punishment Tuesday...consideration of the death penalty again rears...absence of capital punishment in our state...reinstate capital punishment in Wisconsin...reinstating the death penalty is ...

Article: Va. Death Penalty Expansion Approved; Bills Likely to Go To Kaine, a Foe of Capital Punishment
The Washington Post;  January 27, 2007 ;     660 words ......increase the use of capital punishment, which comes...repealing the death penalty, would make accomplices...whether to expand capital punishment. He has said he will uphold the death penalty despite his personal...according to the Death Penalty Information ...

Article: The Future of America's Death Penalty: An Agenda for the Next Generation of Capital Punishment Research
Justice System Journal;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......of America's Death Penalty: An Agenda for...Generation of Capital Punishment Research, edited...of America's Death Penalty is a collection of essays on capital punishment by many of the...history on the death penalty, and a variety...examining the ...

Article: ELECTION 2006; DEATH PENALTY; Capital punishment supported by voters; But with Doyle opposed, making it law won't be easy
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ......adopt the death penalty, a law it...the idea of capital punishment in Wisconsin...Should the death penalty be enacted...expect the death penalty to be enacted...Legislature passed a capital punishment bill, Doyle...forever." Death penalty ...

Article: The death penalty debate: the United States is one of the few industrialized nations that still uses capital punishment. Under increasing scrutiny by the courts, it continues to stir strong feelings on both sides.(Cover story)
New York Times Upfront;  February 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ......state abolish the death penalty. The commission...evidence that capital punishment serves a legitimate...Debate over the death penalty is nothing new. Many supporters of capital punishment point to the...government. The death penalty in the U.S. ...

Article: Death penalty: Fair retribution or immoral fraud? Though a proposal for a statewide advisory referendum on reinstating the death penalty in Wisconsin was killed by the state Senate last week, capital punishment is sure to be an issue in this fall's legislative elections. Here the Senate's chief proponent of the death penalty and a local police chief debate the question. No other sanction offers justice in cases of vicious murder
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 31, 1996 ;     658 words ......reinstatement of capital punishment. Senate Bill...requiring the death penalty in certain...reinstate the death penalty in Wisconsin...sentiment supported capital punishment. Silencing...reinstating capital punishment. Introduction...argument against ...

Article: Should the death penalty be abolished? Capital punishment is on the books in 37 states, and in the federal courts.(DEBATE)
New York Times Upfront;  December 10, 2007 ;     500 words ......rarity. But capital punishment was commonplace...abolished the death penalty. It is time...sentences. Because death penalty trials are lengthy...alternative to capital punishment: life in prison...abolish the death penalty. --DAVID ELLIOT...Abolish the ...

Article: What sways US views on death penalty: Americans favor capital punishment by a 2-to-1 edge - down from a 5-to-1 margin in the 1990s, a time of high urban crime.(USA)
The Christian Science Monitor;  June 8, 2001 ;     700+ words ......TIPP poll found capital punishment is most firmly...favor of the death penalty led by 61 percent...opposition to the capital punishment reach a high...opposed to the death penalty (47 percent...opposition to capital punishment shrank to 13...to Abolish the ...

Article: Ultimate question of life or death ; Two men in Antigua face the possibility of the death penalty if convicted of murdering a Swansea Valley couple on their honeymoon. BEN WRIGHT looks at Swansea's own grim history of capital punishment and the arguments for and against the ultimate act of retribution
South Wales Evening Post;  August 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ......possibility of the death penalty if convicted...history of capital punishment and the arguments...highlight why capital punishment is wrong. A spokeswoman said: "Capital punishment is irrevocable...long as the death penalty persists, innocent...re-using ...

Article: EU urges end to death penalty worldwide as it marks first world day against capital punishment
AP Worldstream;  October 10, 2003 ;     327 words ......abolition of the death penalty in a declaration...Day Against the Death Penalty. The Italian presidency...that still have capital punishment to issue moratoriums...carry out the death penalty, said Michel Taube...Together Against the Death Penalty." ECPME ...

Article: BUSH AND GORE'S LIFE-OR-DEATH ISSUE ALTHOUGH BOTH AL GORE AND GEORGE W. BUSH ARE STRONG SUPPORTERS OF THE DEATH PENALTY, THE CONTROVERSIES ASSOCIATED WITH IT COULD MAKE THE CONSEQUENCES OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ONE OF THE MORE INTERESTING ISSUES IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
The Boston Globe;  June 18, 2000 ;     700+ words ......linked to the death penalty could create...to death under capital punishment can be turned...being against the death penalty, which is akin...percent say the death penalty should be applied...as soft on the death penalty, and thus soft...mandated ...