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Increasingly, Doctors in U.S. Refuse to Do Harm
By Fritzroy Sterling
NEW YORK - When Stanley "Tookie" Williams was strapped to a gurney awaiting his execution last December, things did not go as planned. California executioners had trouble finding a suitable vein in which to inject a lethal combination of drugs.
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Japan Needs Public Debate
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO - A rare essay posted on the web by a crime victim who does not call for the death penalty for the culprit has become a potent symbol for activists who face an uphill battle to abolish Japan's capital punishment laws.
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Condemned for Being Different in Iran
By Alberto Cremonesi
NEW YORK - Say we go back one year, to Jul. 19, 2005. Say we move from New York to Mashad, a city in northeastern Iran. There, one year ago, two teenagers named Ayaz Marhoni and Mahmoud Asgari were put to death for a crime involving homosexual intercourse, after being detained for 14 months and tortured with lashing.
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No Outrage for Nigerians in Singapore
By Sam Olukoya
LAGOS - When Uzonna Tochi picked up the phone last week he heard the most chilling words of his life. "Please do something fast to save my life; they might execute me anytime now," Uzonna's older brother, Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, pleaded from Singapore.
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Europe Squeezes Russia
By Kester Kenn Klomegah
MOSCOW - Though Russia first declared its willingness to abolish the death penalty more than a decade ago, that determination has foundered because many legislators believe it is a necessary tool to fight terrorism.
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Rapid Death in China by Roaming Vans
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - Responding to criticism that it cruelly and arbitrarily executes a large number of its citizens each year, Chinese officials now are gradually moving toward what they say is a more discreet way of killing its prisoners: Mobile vans..
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Blacks with Stereotypical Features Executed Most Often
By Fritzroy A. Sterling
NEW YORK - Juries in the U.S. tend to hand down the death penalty twice as often to black defendants with stereotypically black features like darker skin, bigger noses and fuller lips, than to those perceived to have less stereotypically black features, according to the findings of a new study.
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News
from International NGOs:
Iraq: 'hanging will be saddam's death penalty if convicted' - China: banker sentenced to death - Thailand: man sentenced to death for murder of 4 - Moldova ratifies conventions outlawing death penalty - Russia: six points for the g7 - 3 human rights defenders released, many others still detained
WORLD
PRESS REVIEW:
No one should be put to death, not even Saddam-Vatican… Indonesia refuses eu request on cancellation of death penalty… Death penalty worldwide diminishes, report says… Death penalty needs fixing, say critics… Polish leader wants eu to return to death penalty… Uganda govt not ready to abolish death penalty… Former chinese policeman lifts lid on organ harvesting.
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