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The Legacy of Blood Atonement? Gauging Mormon Support for the Death Penalty
Religions, 2023 American support for the death penalty has declined over time, but conservative religious groups have exhibited more favorable attitudes toward this practice than their mainline religious and secular peers.
John P. Bartkowski +2 more
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Black Lives Matter and the Call for Death Penalty Abolition [PDF]
, 2018 The Black Lives Matter movement has called for the abolition of capital punishment in response to what it calls “the war against Black people” and “Black communities.” This article defends the two central contentions in the movement’s abolitionist stance:
Cholbi, Michael, Madva, Alex
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In die Skriflig, 2002 The right to life This article deals with the practical application of the fundamental right to life with special focus on abortion, capital punishment and euthanasia. From a Christian ethical perspective and the biblical principle of life it is argued
J.M. Vorster
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Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature, 2016 This research is an investigation into the language use in peoples opinions of capital punishment for drug convicts in The Jakarta Post. Capital punishment was executed to six drug convicts on January 18th , 2015.
Arina Isti’anah
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE PERPECTIVE OF NON DEROGABLE RIGHTS
Brawijaya Law Journal, 2016 Capital punishment is still exist as one of kind punishments in Indonesia. The existence of capital punishment is based on the Penal Code and other laws. On the other hand, however, according to Constitution 1945, MPR Decree Number XVII/MPR/1988 on Human
Setiawan Noerdajasakti
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Are Forensic Experts Already Biased before Adversarial Legal Parties Hire Them? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 This survey of 206 forensic psychologists tested the "filtering" effects of preexisting expert attitudes in adversarial proceedings. Results confirmed the hypothesis that evaluator attitudes toward capital punishment influence willingness to accept ...
Tess M S Neal
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The Execution of the Innocent [PDF]
, 1998 Radelet and Bedau discuss the continuing and regular incidence of American trial courts sentencing innocent defendants to death, which was one of the problems that gave rise to the ABA\u27s moratorium on capital ...
Bedau, Hugo Adam, Radelet, Michael L.
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Capital punishment: a theoretical and cooperative analysis
Przegląd Prawniczy Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2016 Among all the different types of penalties that exist in the various juridical systems around the world, capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is one of the most controversial ones.
Tainá Corrêa Barbosa Ramos
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SAGE Open, 2016 Although a sizable number of studies have gathered information from college students regarding their varying degrees of support for capital punishment, few have explored the underlying rationales behind these students’ death penalty support or opposition.
Raj Sethuraju +2 more
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Reconsidering the Abolition of Capital Punishment in Ghana
Bratislava Law Review, 2022 The human rights argument for the abolishment of the death penalty has been firmly established in modern times in both practical terms and in the academic circles.
Prince Obiri-Korang
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