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The Death Penalty Project 8/9 Frith Street Soho London W1D 3JB or via our website: www.deathpenaltyproject.org ISBN: 978-0-9576785-6-9 Cover image: Anti-death penalty demonstrators in the UK in 1959. Mary Evans PicturE Library Acknowledgements This monograph was made possible by grants awarded to The Death Penalty Project from the Swiss
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The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 received royal assent on 8 November 1965 and came into force the next day, on 9 November 1965. It suspended capital punishment in the case of persons convicted of murder in Great Britain until 1970. MPs voted to make this permanent on 16 December 1969, with Peers voting likewise the next day.
- Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Martin Luther King, Jr. Kings, Stars, Hate.
- Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life. Coretta Scott King. Justice, Death Penalty, Human Life.
- Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
- Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Can we expect a decent society if the state is allowed to kill its own people?” — Coretta Scott King “The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is: ‘Do we deserve to kill?’” — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption “Capita...
“The State is not God. It has no right to take away that which it cannot give back, if it should so desire.” — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, The Bet “Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and the discriminatory and arbitrary impos...
“True justice is restorative. It heals wounds. The death penalty only creates new wounds.” — Shane Claiborne, in a tweet “I can’t accept the judgment that killers need to be killed, a practice that merely perpetuates the cycle of violence.” — Bernice King “The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of...
“I learned the most important lesson of my life… I didn’t have to see somebody else die in order to bring healing.” — Bill Pelke, who lost his grandmother to murder by a group of teenagers “When Jeffrey was murdered, I wanted the men who killed him dead. I led the fight to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts in 1997. But time passes, and y...
“But secondly you say ‘society must exact vengeance, and society must punish’. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.” ― Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man “The state should not be killing people. Not through militarism. Not by police. Not because of ICE. Not by medical negligence. And not by de...
Mr Krone was sentenced to death in 1992 for the kidnapping and murder of Kim Ancona in Phoenix, Arizona. The case centred on bite marks that were found on the victim’s body, and at the trial the prosecution presented a so-called expert who testified that the bite marks on the body matched the impression that Krone had made on Styrofoam when he had been arrested.
Sep 21, 2011 · Arguments against the death penalty. The death penalty goes against our most basic human right - the right to life. Being killed by lethal injection or being electrocuted is not always smooth and ...
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The Funny Thing About Death. A hilarious memoir of two unconventional girls growing up in the 1970s. Jo Caulfield's official website. Latest Tour and live dates, video, pics and booking info.
