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Extractions: A sporadic a.f.u. topic, I came across a law review Note on the subject ("The Madness of the Method: The Use of Electrocution and the Death Penalty," 70 Tex. L. Rev. 1039 (1992). It's in the same issue as "Big Breasts and Bengali Beggars: A Reply to Richard Posner and Martha Nussbaum.") and thought I'd inject some facts into this newsgroup. The first victim of the electric chair was William Kemmler, a Cayuga County, NY, fruit-peddler. In re Kemmler, 136 U.S. 436 (1890). New York had recently replaced hanging with electrocution as its means of execution, and Kemmler appealed his sentence as cruel and unusual punishment. John Laurence's "A History of Capital Punishment" reports that Westinghouse and other electric companies financed the appeal, reportedly to the tune of over $100,000 for fear of the bad publicity from such a dangerous use of the product.
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Extractions: The Ohio Supreme Court has cleared the way for the March 3 execution of murderer Wilford Berry. Berry is often referred to as "the volunteer" because he wants to waive the legal appeals to his conviction and death sentence. While the federal courts may yet intervene, the approaching execution date has brought the death penalty back into the public mind. Ohio has not executed anyone since 1963. Among other reasons, the case is important because it causes us to reflect on the arguments at the heart of the death penalty debate. Opponents of Berry's execution contend that Berry is "sick" that he is incapable of making responsible decisions, and that therefore the courts ought not hold him accountable either for his crimes or for the choices he makes as a criminal defendant. Such arguments reflect a line of thinking in criminal justice that became dominant in the 1960s and 1970s. Liberal intellectuals and other elites became convinced that crime is not the fault of criminals. Instead, they argued, crime is the consequence of mental illness, or adverse socio-economic circumstances, or both. Since these conditions essentially force criminals to commit crimes, since criminals have no real freedom to choose their actions, then society ought not punish. Instead, society owes it to criminals to "treat" or "cure" what is really a disease.
USATODAY.com - Life Without Parole Would Have Been More Punishing Thirtyfive of the nation's 38 death-penalty states now also offer life is the onlything that shakes the nation's majority support for capital punishment. http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2001-06-11-nceditf.htm
Extractions: Click here to get the Daily Briefing in your inbox 06/11/2001 - Updated 06:41 AM ET Life without parole would have been more punishing Even death penalty opponents must agree that there was no more suitable subject for the first federal execution in 38 years than Timothy McVeigh, who got the needle Monday in Terre Haute, Ind. His 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City stands as the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in the nation's history. It took 168 lives and shattered thousands more. Indeed, in every respect McVeigh seemed ripe for Monday's killing. His trial was not tainted by many of the doubts typical to capital cases. He had excellent attorneys, and he was not subject to the racial or economic bias that swirls around most death penalty cases. McVeigh was guilty as sin and remorseless as ice. To him, 19 dead children were "collateral damage." Conveniently, he refused further appeals of his sentence, expecting and even preferring death. Why not indulge him? One reason is that there was no point to it. Killing McVeigh didn't bring back his victims. And despite what death penalty proponents contend, it won't help prevent other crimes. There is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime. McVeigh actually demonstrates the opposite. Like many fanatical terrorists, he craved death as a path to martyrdom. Execution is the easy way out. It was a reward for McVeigh and others who may emulate him.
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Boston Globe Online / Living Arts / 'Exonerated' Survives Its it had to institute the death penalty in the testimony from six actors playing deathrowinmates the United States not to think twice about capital punishment. http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/022/living/_Exonerated_survives_its_predictabi
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Extractions: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 13:21:55 -0800 =====================_6153441==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: Greg Mitchell < gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:34:38 -0400 gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com To: parc@prisonactivist.org Subject: New anti-death penalty book WHO OWNS DEATH? Capital Punishment, The American Conscience and the End of Executions Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell "Bravo! WHO OWNS DEATH? makes plain that America has supported the death penalty only as an angry and confused response to a sickeningly violent society, and now is having secondand betterthoughts." Mario Cuomo, former governor of New York "Lifton and Mitchell take a penetrating look at the clashing impulses
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Electric Current Through An Electric Chair Laurence A History of capital punishment reports the This is a cruel descriptionof punishment. not use electric chairs for their death penalty; only lethal http://hypertextbook.com/facts/AprilDunetz.shtml
Extractions: Result Hewitt, Paul. Conceptual Physics . Massachusetts: Addison Wesley, 1987: 515. "A current of 0.070 ampere causes heart problems and may be fatal." Encyclopedia Americana . Connecticut: Grolier,1996: 124. "A lethal electric current goes through the body. An initial voltage of 2000 volts and 5 amperes is used." 5 A Washington Times . 7 June 1990. "Another method according to the Washington Times is 700-1000 volts at 6 amperes for one minute." 6 A Electric Chair History . alt.folklore.urban archive. "Laurence [ A History of Capital Punishment ] reports the common technique: 2000-2200 volts at 7-12 amperes for 60-90 seconds, possibly lowered and reapplied at various intervals until death." 7 - 12 A Biology of Electrocution . The Electric Chair.com. "First, a current [sic] of about 700 volts was delivered for almost seventeen seconds."
Toronto Patterson - Texas Death Row Images from Focus on capital punishment American University Texas on the chargeof capital Murder 2002 Canadian Coalition Against the death penalty This page http://www.ccadp.org/torontopatterson.htm
Extractions: I invite you all to my funeral. We are still family..." - From Toronto's Final Statement Toronto Patterson's Personal Webpage Since 1998 - Links and updates posted by the CCADP Poetry by Toronto Patterson Art By Toronto Patterson CCADP Press Release: Execution of Toronto Patterson - Juvenile, Age 17 at time of offense CCADP Press Release in Spanish:
Sun-Sentinel: News Local in prison after concluding that the capital punishment system was Friends and foesof the death penalty said the day after Ryan pardoned four death Row inmates http://www.fadp.org/news/jan12-1.html
Extractions: Friends and foes of the death penalty said the step, which empties Death Row of 156 inmates and 11 others who had been sentenced but were awaiting hearings, was unprecedented. The action will have ramifications for the intensifying national debate on the issue and came a day after Ryan pardoned four Death Row inmates whom he said had been tortured into false murder confessions. Three were released immediately and are already home with their families. The action was the culmination of an exhaustive review of Illinois Death Row cases which began three years ago when Ryan ordered a moratorium on executions after disclosures that 13 Death Row inmates had been wrongly convicted. The result was a complete change of heart for Ryan, who became convinced the entire system was simply too error-prone.
Florida Man Freed After 16 Years On Death Row sociologist who studied Florida's death penalty extensively when controversy overthe capital punishment system in that provide lawyers for death row inmates http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-holton25jan25001440.story
Mormon News For WE 11May01: With McVeigh Execution Approaching Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of American also oppose the death penalty. andin what circumstances the state should impose capital punishment as a http://www.mormonstoday.com/010511/T1DeathPenalty01.shtml
Extractions: and the LDS Church Sent on Mormon-News: 10May01 By Vickie Speek With McVeigh Execution Approaching, LDS Church Remains Neutral on Death Penalty SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH As the execution date for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh approaches, the Utah state parole board must make a similar decision - whether to put inmate Elroy Tillman to death or whether to allow him to live. According to some religious leaders and church members, that's not necessarily a choice the state should make. Other religious organizations, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, maintain a hands-off attitude toward the death penalty, taking the position that the death penalty is solely a matter of law. While stopping short of barring the death penalty, the Catholic church has decreed there is virtually no reason to put prisoners to death. The United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of American also oppose the death penalty. Jewish leaders have declared that "God alone is the author of life."
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Extractions: News Feature Cover Story Magness Feature ... Headlines BOB ABERNETHY , anchor: In this country, debate about the death penalty has been revived and sharpened, on all sides, by last weekend's dramatic actions in Illinois. The outgoing Republican governor, George Ryan, pardoned four death row inmates and commuted the death sentences of all 167 others on death row. Ryan called the capital punishment system "arbitrary and capricious, therefore immoral." STEVE MILLS (CHICAGO TRIBUNE): Well, it's been very sharply divided. Prosecutors like Dick Divine in Cook County here say that the governor overstepped his bounds. And families, they just think the governor has betrayed them entirely. Defense lawyers and death row inmates and their families are very heartened by what happened.
Alternative Law Journal Abstracts December 2002 capital punishment death for the most deserving by Greg Heaton. US cases that havenarrowed the categories of people who can be given the death penalty in the http://www.altlj.org/artsandabs/DEC_2002abs.htm
Extractions: The life stories of Lorna Cubillo and Peter Gunner - the two representatives of the stolen generations at the centre of Cubillo and Gunner v Commonwealth of Australi a [2000] FCA 1084 - are detailed, stories that the trial judge, O'Loughlin J, accepted as the circumstances of their removal and detention. The defeat of their claims is briefly discussed and a call is made to right the wrong done to them and the many other members of the stolen generations. Repairing the damage: Achieving reparations for the Stolen Generations The difficulties posed by litigation for the stolen generations and the need for redress for victims of forcible removal policies, formed the basis of a Public Interest Advocacy Centre proposal for the establishment of a Stolen Generations Reparations Tribunal. 'Repairing the damage - achieving reparations for the stolen generations' explores the development of a mechanism which offers a culturally appropriate and compassionate response to the injustices endured by members of the stolen generations.
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Extractions: according to press reports I am writing to you on behalf of the two Chechenians Deni Magomedsajew, aged 19 and Idris Arsajew, aged 16 who have reportedly been charged in connection with the hijacking of a plane in March 2001. A trial date has yet to be set but it seems that they are at risk of an unfair trial and that, if convicted , face the death penalty.
Boston.com / Latest News / Region / New York attorneys in New York and Connecticut to seek the death penalty for 12 defendantsin cases in which prosecutors did not ask for capital punishment or had http://www.thebostonglobe.com/news/newyork/
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