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- 1From:USA Today (Vol. 151, Issue 2926)On the heels of the intended mass murders in Milwaukee after a Bucks' playoff game, incidents in which 17 were shot, and preceding the lethal killing and injuring of innocents outside a California church, much of our...
- 2From:National Review (Vol. 75, Issue 5)Saying that he could not explain to his son how killing could ever be a just punishment, Pennsylvania's Democratic governor Josh Shapiro announced that he would not sign any death warrants while in office and asked the...
- 3From:The Baltic TimesGrabbing a cappuccino at a small cafe inside Warsaw's grand Palace of Arts and Culture, it would be easy to mistake Aliaksandr Azarau as any one of the hundreds of typical tourists or Poles that visit the building each...
- 4From:Country Report: IranWhat's happened? Iran has imposed the death penalty on 17 people and executed four since the start of January for their role in widespread protests that started last September, drawing renewed international...
- 5From:MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History (Vol. 35, Issue 2)In his First World War memoir Good-Bye to All That, the British poet and former infantry officer Robert Graves wrote, "I had my first experience of official lying when I arrived at Le Havre in May 1915 and read the...
- 6From:Country Report: SingaporeThe repeal of section 377A, a penal code clause that criminalised sex between men, signifies a moderate tilt toward the liberalisation of social policy. A rethinking of meritocracy will materialise through the "Forward...
- 7From:Addis FortuneThere was a time, not so long ago, when an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence. AIDS, together with tuberculosis and malaria, killed millions of people and overwhelmed health systems worldwide - especially in Africa. But...
- 8From:America (Vol. 227, Issue 2)In Oklahoma, 25 death row inmates have been placed in an execution queue that extends through Christmas 2024. If the plan survives court challenges and public resistance, 58 percent of the people on Oklahoma's death row,...
- 9From:National Catholic Reporter (Vol. 57, Issue 7)Jonah should win an Oscar as best comedian of the Hebrew Scriptures. Imagine how Charlie Chaplin would play Jonah--avoiding God, endangering a whole shipload of sailors, going overboard and finally taking a three-day...
- 10From:The Progressive (Vol. 84, Issue 6)In March, a man detained at the Tacoma ICE Processing Center in Washington State began showing COVTD-19-like symptoms. He was vomiting as guards removed him, and others in his unit took notice. One called the local...
- 11From:Country Report: MalaysiaWhat's happened? The government has announced that it will bring forward legislation in October to end mandatory capital punishment. Courts will still be able to hand down capital punishment for serious crimes, but...
- 12From:National Catholic Reporter (Vol. 58, Issue 16)On April 25, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the execution of Melissa Lucio that was set for April 27. In 2008, Lucio was sentenced to death for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah, who died two days...
- 13From:New York Magazine (Vol. 55, Issue 9)DICK HARPOOTLIAN SLIPPED out of the South Carolina General Assembly on April 20 to tell me why people on death row should be allowed to die by firing squad. "My experience in this area probably exceeds most people's," he...
- 14From:National Review (Vol. 74, Issue 6)The Supreme Court reinstated the federal death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who killed three and wounded hundreds. The jury unanimously voted for capital punishment after weighing proof of the...
- 15From:Commonweal (Vol. 149, Issue 4)Melissa Lucio is scheduled to be executed on April 27, 2022. She is the first Latina woman to face the death penalty in Texas, but one of many people on death row whose guilt has been called into question. In Lucio's...
- 16From:Journal of Private Enterprise (Vol. 37, Issue 1)This paper examines the governance of the Russian ushkuiniki pirates in the medieval period. The ushkuiniki had to secure cooperation on their vessels privately. I hypothesize that the ushkuiniki captains screened their...
- 17From:State LegislaturesRobert Cushing Sr. was murdered in 1988 by a cop with a grudge. But his eldest son held none. When others suggested the killer should pay with his life, Robert "Renny" Cushing Jr. said he was honoring his father's...
- 18From:Publishers Weekly OnlineByline: Sarah Weinman In her mesmerizing new book, Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free, Sarah Weinman does a masterly...
- 19From:Geographical (Vol. 94, Issue 3)Papua New Guinea has repealed the death penalty after reintroducing it 30 years ago. The country's last execution took place in 1945 and capital punishment was abolished in 1970, before being reinstated in 1991. Prime...
- 20From:The Advocate (Issue 1120)From Bessie Smith to sodomy to sedation, the latest books cover the gamut Beyond the Law: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain by Charles Upchurch uses historical evidence and a queer history...