- World Congress Against the Death Penalty to Be Held February 24-26 2010
"Geneva, Switzerland will serve as a host to the 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty and over 1000 abolitionists from across the world..."
(ncadp.org)
- Greenville Correctional Center
  
"is a prison facility located in Jarratt, Virginia...
98 executions by electrocution or lethal injection have occurred in the L Building."
(Wikipedia)
Sniper executed with lethal precision - Greenville Correctional Center, Virginia
"The condemned man is injected first with thiopental sodium, which induces a state of unconsciousness.
The second chemical, pancuronium bromide, stops the breathing.
And the third - potassium chloride - stops the heart...
Punctually, at 2100 (0200 GMT), he was led into what is called the "death chamber".
Six state witnesses and three representatives of the media were in an adjacent room watching the execution.
Relatives of the victims were in another room, this one darkened, "to protect their privacy."...
"He was strapped to the gurney, first by his legs, then his arms and chest...
For three weeks (in 2002), Muhammad spread fear and terror around the DC area, targeting random residents with his then teenage accomplice...
The two had even adapted their car, cutting a hole in its bodywork to fit their rifle."
Read the sniper's profile.
(BBC)
- Texas executes Mexican murderer (6 August 2008)
"A Mexican man whose case has drawn international legal attention is executed in Texas for rape and murder...
Medellin's execution was the fifth this year in Texas"
(BBC)
- DEATH
PENALTY - WHEN LIFE GENERATES DEATH (LEGALLY) - INDEX
- History of death penalty
- Death penalty today in the world
- Death tools
- Stuff about death penalty
- International laws about death penalty
- Polls and debate about death penalty (tell us your opinion!)
- Thanks and greetings
(library.thinkquest.org)
- US
to decide on lethal injection
"The US Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on whether to ban
lethal injections - the means of execution in most states."
(BBC)
- Capital
punishment (Wikipedia)
1 Terminology
2 History
3 The death penalty worldwide
4 Ethical views on capital punishment
5 Religious views on capital punishment
6 Methods of execution
7 The death penalty in arts and media ...
- Ethics
and the Death Penalty - University of San Diego (ethics.sandiego.edu)
- History
of the Death Penalty (deathpenaltyinfo.org)
- DEATH
PENALTY IN THE UNITED STATES (United States
Embassy in France) - Overview and links
(paris.usembassy.gov)
- Causing
Death - (library.thinkquest)
"Does any society have the right to take the life of one of
its citizens?
In many countries around the world, capital punishment is legal and
practiced. In others it is considered barbaric and wrong..."
- For teachers
: "the history of the death penalty, stages in a capital case,
interactive US maps and state data and policies,
arguments for and against the death penalty, and four actual courtroom
cases, along with lesson plans for teachers" (see For students) - (teacher.deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu)
- Crime Library
- Latest news - Serial killers - Notorious murder cases - Gangsters
& outlaws -
The criminal mind - Terrorists, spies and assassins - Crime fiction...
(crimelibrary.com)
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