Komisarjevsky received his death sentence three months before the state repealed capital punishment in future cases.
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California voters in November by a 53% to 47% margin approved keeping capital punishment.
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Such a case has become a kind of grisly Holy Grail among opponents of capital punishment.
The Death Penalty Information Centre has found that 77% of Americans favour capital punishment.
Initial reforms to liberalize Russia, such as ending capital punishment, did not restore order.
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Capital punishment has strong support in the US, yet it remains an emotive issue.
He spoke out against alcohol, capital punishment, censorship, child labor, religious superstition and distinctions of class.
With elections around the corner, the debate over capital punishment looks set to pick up.
Over the years I have attended umpteen debates on the abolition of capital punishment.
For much of the rest of the world, however, capital punishment has become anathema.
China and the U.S. are the only nations that use this method of capital punishment.
Traditionally, capital punishment is meted out on execution grounds, sometimes even in a sports stadium.
Still others seem wickedly keen on widespread capital punishment for drug users and sellers.
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Yet though capital punishment remains on the statute books, it has long been suspended.
The Chicago Tribune recently examined all the 285 death-penalty cases since the reinstitution of capital punishment.
" To which the editor dryly wrote back: "This is an eloquent case for capital punishment.
In December the UN General Assembly votes on calling for a global moratorium on capital punishment.
The president, Ma Ying-jeou, a former Harvard law student, was also thought to oppose capital punishment.
The case emphasised the deep trans-Atlantic rift over capital punishment, which has been abolished throughout Europe.
The end of capital punishment would spare eight men who are on death row in New Jersey.
The Justice Department refused to provide figures to Asiaweek about the number of people awaiting capital punishment.
That had been a "chilling and intimidating" reference to capital punishment by the electric chair, he added.
They could face the death penalty if found guilty as Indian law sanctions capital punishment for murder.
Echegaray would have been the first to be executed since Congress instituted capital punishment in December 1993.
The murder charges in the Dec. 16 case allow authorities to seek capital punishment for the accused.
In a Harris poll carried out immediately after Mr McVeigh's conviction, 75% said they believed in capital punishment.
Equally, there are a variety of other matters that have had change in that time from capital punishment to the stocks.
How comfortable would we be with a decision on capital punishment taken via a TV debate and a vote on Twitter?
Opponents of capital punishment have used treaties to press the Supreme Court to stop the death penalty in Texas.
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The conflict in Syria made it impossible for researchers to establish whether capital punishment was carried out, it added.
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