Despite support for clemency from Oklahoma’s top prosecutor, a death row inmate appears set to die on May 18.
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This major survey on social trends shows how far the UK has come in terms of attitudes towards homosexuality, casual sex and divorce. Views on the death penalty remain conservative, however.
Research finds that the threat of being sentenced to death has no bearing on how people contemplate violent crime.
South Carolina has had trouble securing enough lethal injection drugs for executions. So it has turned to an old form of killing: the firing squad, last used in the Civil War.
Criminal trials in these courts often occur behind closed doors presided over by clerics, and there’s often no evidence beyond a confession extracted by means of torture.
Iran may refuse entry to UN human rights inspectors following alleged abuses connected to the recent wave of protests.
The decision is likely to be relied on by courts to order the Department of Correctional Services to grant offenders parole.
Alabama has paused the carrying out of death sentences after a series of cases in which the state struggled with the procedure.
Kenya has not carried out the death penalty since 1987, but executions could resume while the law remains on the books.
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.
An expert on grief says give people space and time to come to terms with loss and don’t expect them to need – or want – ‘closure.’
Some reasons people oppose abortion seem to be at odds with other positions they hold. Evolutionary social science points to a surprising motivation for anti-abortion attitudes.
Referenda may well have a place in the country’s democracy, but if the form of an electoral system can be referred to a referendum, why not capital punishment, abortion or LGBT rights?
People make decisions throughout their lives about their health. But when they are terminally ill they are not allowed to decide when they want to die.
There was little controversy when President Bill Clinton nominated Stephen Breyer to the bench in 1994. His tenure on the Supreme Court reflects those less partisan times.
When death is looming, the warmth of a held hand can communicate deeply where words fail.
A video of Ahmaud Arbery was widely seen and shared by the citizens who could be called on to judge the accused killers. The issue was recently argued before the Supreme Court.
Indonesian public support for the death penalty declines when they learn more about its scope and administration.
A scholar who has visited Guantanamo 11 times to observe legal proceedings in the 9/11 terrorism case explains why the conflict continues to delay the case going to trial.
The court has lived up to its promise in most cases, issuing some progressive and ground-breaking decisions and remedies.
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor, Director of Eleos Justice, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Director of the University of Oxford Death Penalty Research Unit, Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
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Associate Lecturer, School of Government, Universitas Jendral Achmad Yani
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Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Death Penalty Project, University of Oxford
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Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne
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Director, La Trobe Asia and Associate Professor, La Trobe University, La Trobe University
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Dean of the Faculty of Law, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya
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Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations, The University of Western Australia
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Assistant Professor of History, Emory University
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Term Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology Law and Society, George Mason University
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
