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Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment is mentioned in 85 articles and has appeared on 4 TIME covers

Capital Punishment Articles

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  • In Prison with Jodi Picoult
    Feb. 29, 2008 | By Andrea Sachs
    The author's 15th novel, Change of Heart, ponders capital punishment.
  • Death Penalty Walking
    Jan. 3, 2008 | By David Von Drehle
    Capital punishment costs millions of dollars to enforce. Untrained personnel are administering lethal injections. Now a Supreme Court case may force us to consider whether this system makes sense
  • Numbers: May 14, 2007
    May. 14, 2007
    CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 1,010 Estimated number of people who were executed in China in 2006, according to public reports. But credible sources suggest that the total is closer to 8,000 25 Number of countries that held executions in 2006, compared with 40 a decade ago. The U.S. is one of only five democracies that still impose ...
  • Capital Punishment: Killing the Death Penalty
    Jul. 7, 1967
    CAPITAL PUNISHMENT By inches, the death penalty is dying in the U.S. It has been abolished or drastically restricted in 13 states. U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has publicly stated his opposition. Executions have declined from an alltime recorded high of 199 in 1935 to seven in 1965 and one last year. There has been ...
  • POLITICAL NOTES: Capital Punishment
    Feb. 15, 1926
    The House Committee in the District of Columbia was holding hearings on a bill to abolish capital punishment in that little rectangle of land set apart for the business of governing the nation. A witness appeared to be questioned. He wore baggy clothes, was weary looking. A cigaret drooped from his mouth. But his eyes ...
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