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Hace 4 días · Executions worldwide have reached their highest level since 2015, with 1,153 carried out in 16 countries in 2023, a 31% increase from the 883 recorded in 2022.
Hace 5 días · Zimbabwe on right side of history as it prepares to abolish the death penalty. By Lucia Masuka. The death penalty is a cruel, inhumane, and degrading form of punishment which violates the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Hace 3 días · The same factors drive wrongful convictions in non-capital cases and death penalty cases, including:. erroneous eyewitness identifications; false and coerced confessions
Hace 5 días · The U.S. Supreme Court has said a defendant’s mental illness makes him or her less morally culpability and must be taken into consideration as an important reason to spare his or her life. However, as was initially the case with intellectual disability and young age, the Court has not barred the death penalty for those with serious mental ...
Hace 2 días · Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, [1] [2] is the state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime, usually following an authorised, rule-governed process to conclude that the person is responsible for violating norms that warrant said punishment. [3]
Hace 4 días · In February this year, anti-death penalty campaigners welcomed the Zimbabwean Cabinet’s approval of principles for a bill to remove the death penalty from the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform Act) Chapter 9:23 and the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act Chapter 9:07, as well as the granting of leave for a private member to introduce a private members’ bill in Parliament.
Hace 2 días · With coauthors, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jackson Jr., and Bruce Shapiro, the anti-death penalty voice was heard very publicly. The book was published, at a time when public opposition to the death penalty was at a historically high level, by two of America's most prominent civil rights leaders.
