... . Supreme Court ruled that juries - not judges - must impose capital punishment. For prosecutors, that's a much bigger hurdle. To ... County Prosecutor Al Barrus announced he would not seek capital punishment in the first-degree murder case of Gerry Salgado, ... lethal injection in 1994. Unless the Supreme Court changes the rules, capital punishment is the longest of longshots for Idaho prosecutors ...

... . He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer." (Romans 13:2-4, emphases mine) ... for now until its secrets will be revealed in Glory. Then again, maybe God has instituted capital punishment, a life for a life, precisely because he does value life. One life is being put down so that many others will be spared. As not only citizens of heaven but also citizens ...

... with a newly released national poll of police chiefs who put capital punishment at the bottom of their law enforcement priorities." The report ... expensive and wasteful program with no clear benefits. All of the studies on the cost of capital punishment conclude it is much more expensive than a system with life sentences as the maximum penalty. In a time of painful cutbacks, states are pouring ...

I sure hope so. Recently, I have said that I don't believe in capital punishment; anyway, Canada does not have it any more. Note: I am not in any way soft on crime or inclined to make excuses for serious perps. I ... in cutting them any slack. That said: a key problem is the drama that usually unfolds around capital punishment. A perp declaiming speeches at the foot of the scaffold sounds way ...

... all executions in the United States take place in Texas, where "once rock-solid faith in capital punishment shaken by overturned convictions, judicial scandals and growing evidence that at least one innocent ... the trend depicted in the graph and the event on which we've also posted, the American Law Institute consensus against "the current system of capital punishment in America"?

Capital punishment has been the center of a long debate. Do murderers, rapists, child molesters, etc. deserve to die? Should we use death as a punishment? I find many people divided on this issue, Christian and non-Christians. Some argue that these people did something horrible to someone else, so they they deserve to ...