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Vintage Girl
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 Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:01 am Post subject: Georgia poised to resume capital punishment. |
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| Quote: | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Georgia's Parole and Pardon Board has denied a condemned inmate's request for clemency, paving the way for William Earl Lynd to die by injection at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
William Earl Lynd faces execution on Tuesday by the state of Georgia.
1 of 2 Lynd, convicted of a 1988 murder, had hoped to avoid the dubious distinction of becoming the first person executed in the United States in more than seven months.
Georgia is poised to resume capital punishment after the Supreme Court in April voted to uphold Kentucky's lethal injection protocols. Executions had been on hold across the country since the high court agreed to hear a challenge to the injection method last September.
Lynd still has legal appeals pending, including one with the Georgia Supreme Court.
About a dozen states have announced they would resume capital punishment in the next several months. |
A disappointing outcome although not an unsurprising one.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/05/georgia.execution/index.html
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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This is deeply disappointing and downright depressing.
America is supposed to be a beacon of freedom and progress to the rest of the world, yet they continue a practice that the rest of the civilised world rightly regards as barbaric.
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| BlueEmperor wrote: | This is deeply disappointing and downright depressing.
America is supposed to be a beacon of freedom and progress to the rest of the world, yet they continue a practice that the rest of the civilised world rightly regards as barbaric.
B.E. |
Well its the only western country and along with Japan, one of only two countries regarded as 'civilised' that still practices capital punishment.
The other countries that practice capital punishment are dictatorships, theocracies and those with poor civil rights/human rights records.
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wakeyboy
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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Countries that have abolished capital punishment for ALL crimes:
Albania
Andorra
Angola
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belgium
Bhutan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Canada
Cape Verde
Colombia
Costa Rica
Côte d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Guinea-Bissau
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland, Republic of
Italy
Kiribati
Liberia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia, Federated States of
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Norway
Panama
Paraguay
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Serbia
Seychelles
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Timor-Leste (East Timor)
Turkmenistan
Turkey
Tuvalu
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Uzbekistan
Uruguay
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Countries that have abolished capital punishment for ordinary crimes but retain it for crimes comitted under exceptional circumstances or under military law:
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
El Salvador
Fiji
Israel
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Peru
Abolitionist in practice...
Countries which retain the death penalty for ordinary crimes such as murder but can be considered abolitionist in practice in that they have not executed anyone during the past 10 years and are believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions. The list also includes countries which have made an international commitment not to use the death penalty:
Algeria
Benin
Brunei Darussalam
Burkina Faso
Central African Republic
Congo (Republic)
Eritrea
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Grenada
Kenya
Korea (South)
Laos
Madagascar
Malawi
Maldives
Mali
Mauritania
Morocco
Myanmar
Nauru
Niger
Papua New Guinea
Russian Federation
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Swaziland
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Togo
Tonga
Tunisia
Zambia
Retentionist...
Countries and territories that retain the death penalty for ordinary crimes:
Afghanistan
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belize
Botswana
Burundi
Cameroon
Chad
China
Comoros
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Cuba
Dominica
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Ethiopia
Guatemala
Guinea
Guyana
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Korea (North)
Kuwait
Lebanon
Lesotho
Libya
Malaysia
Mongolia
Nigeria
Oman
Pakistan
Palestinian Authority
Qatar
Saint Christopher & Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent & Grenadines
Saudi Arabia
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Somalia
Sudan
Syria
Taiwan
Thailand
Trinidad And Tobago
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
United States Of America
Viet Nam
Yemen
Zimbabwe
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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You have to ask yourselves whether Americans really feel comfortable being on the opposite side of the argument to their English-speaking allies in the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand - not to mention the whole of Europe - and instead occupying space on the same list as countries such as the People's Republic of China, Syria, Pakistan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Somalia and The Sudan.
The Governor of Georgia should bear in mind that if he ever attended an international summit of world leaders defending the death penalty he would find himself sharing a platford with Colonel Gaddafi, Kim Jong-Il, Robert Mugabe and the Ayatollah.
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