While some opposition is to be expected, indications are that the general Zimbabwean public will take the government’s lead on abolition.
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Death Row – Análisis y Comentarios
Despite support for clemency from Oklahoma’s top prosecutor, a death row inmate appears set to die on May 18.
Research finds that the threat of being sentenced to death has no bearing on how people contemplate violent crime.
New data mapping death sentences in the Gulf states once again highlights Qatar’s questionable human rights record.
In 1972, justices handed down a decision that attacked discriminatory and capricious death sentences. But it left the door ajar for states to continue the practice.
The Malawi court’s decision provides a roadmap for future challenges to the death penalty in other southern African countries.
The Justice Department has approved alternatives to lethal injections for federal executions. But no method of capital punishment has been without gruesome stories of what went wrong.
A law professor from the University of California, Hastings considers why a moratorium in California could be influential.
Trump’s promise to appoint conservatives to the Supreme Court could mean the fate of the death penalty rests in the court of public opinion.
In Oregon and Washington, the costs of seeking and administering the death penalty have increased significantly since the 1980s.
The US Supreme Court is bitterly divided over the death penalty. One reason for that is all the convictions based on coerced confessions
Abolition has become a political football – and many politicians see the advantage of supporting it.
More than 150 people have been released from death rows around the US after having their wrongful convictions overturned. Most continue to face social stigma and unemployment.
Whatever you think of capital punishment, if your police force helps convict people of capital crimes, you are complicit to some degree.