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17th US state opts to abolish death penalty

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:22:33 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Connecticut is about to become the 17th US state to abolish the death penalty, with both houses voting for a bill to ban it and the governor announcing 11 April he will sign the bill. Five states have abolished it in the past five years, says Human Rights Watch: New Jersey, New [...]

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Death penalty call for Egypt’s Mubarak

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:57:21 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Public prosecutors in Egypt have completed their case against former President Hosni Mubarak and they have called for the death penalty, by hanging, for him and seven government officials, including his interior minister, Habib El-Adly. They have argued that he was personally implicated in the deaths of several protesters during the uprising [...]

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Swiss call on Bahrein to end death penalty as four condemned

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 06 May 2011 09:48:52 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss government Friday morning called for Bahrein to end the death penalty, which it has rarely invoked, and to review the four sentences passed in the wake of anti-government protests. Switzerland is opposed to the death penalty and has been fighting for its universal abolition but the Federal Council notes [...]

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US charges soldier with 22 new counts in WikiLeaks saga

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:37:47 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Pvt 1st Class Bradley Manning of the US Army, who supplied WikiLeaks with the classified documents that opened a Pandora’s diplomatic box in late 2010, has been handed 22 new criminal charges. The charges include a capital offense, aiding the enemy, that can incur the death penalty, but according to news agency AP the Army’s [...]

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Death penalty in Arizona goes ahead with imported drug

Sean Ecker — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:03:41 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The state of Arizona, USA, has gone ahead with the execution of Jeffrey Landrigan after the US Supreme Court overruled two lower court decisions halting the execution 26 October. Landrigan’ lawyers had argued that the substance used as part of a “cocktail” of three drugs commonly administered in lethal injections was not up to US [...]

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Swiss death penalty proposal dies quick death

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:38:34 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – In one of the fastest political turnarounds in recent memory, a popular initiative to reinstate the death penalty has died, a day after it was announced. The committee, based in Langnau, published a notice on its web site early Wednesday 25 August, saying it will withdraw the referendum, which would have [...]

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Swiss popular initiative underway to bring death penalty back

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:18:37 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) - A Swiss popular initiative to bring back the death penalty, abolished in 1942, has gathered the necessary signatures and fulfilled other requirements to allow it to move to the next stage, the federal Chancellery announced Tuesday morning 24 August. The authors have until February 2012 to gather 100,000 signatures for a [...]

Iranian woman reportedly not to be stoned to death

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:26:29 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The Iranian Embassy in London is reported by the Times to say that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, will not be stoned to death, although it is unclear if Iran still intends to carry out the death penalty given the human rights activist. Ashtiani has spent five years in prison and received 99 lashes for adultery, [...]

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Amnesty Int’l. pressures China on death penalty statistics

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:20:40 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Amnesty International 30 March published its annual statistics on the death penalty worldwide, saying that in 2009 “at least 714 people were executed in 18 countries and at least 2001 people were sentenced to death in 56 countries,” but that the figures do not include China, which it accuses of putting to death “thousands” of [...]

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Death penalty under scrutiny in world congress

Sean Ecker — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:26:58 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Money will help people off the hook in capital punishment cases, according to a round table discussion at the fourth World Congress against the Death Penalty, held in Geneva 24-26 February. That, and the victim being a foreigner makes it unlikely that he or she will be put to death. Panelists [...]

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