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All viewpoints on the death penalty

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This section of our web site deals with the execution of criminals found guilty of having committed serious crimes.

This used to be a universal practice. Most democracies in the world have abandoned the death penalty. The U.S. and Japan and South Korea are the only exceptions.

You may be infuriated by what you read in this section. Like other topics elsewhere in this website, we try to explain objectively all viewpoints. Thus, no matter what your beliefs are, you will certainly see material with which you strongly disagree.

Topics covered in this section are:

	Introduction: Selected quotations; overview
	Facts about the death penalty: Part 1: Death penalty data; U.S. Trends, worldwide practices, grounds, methods. Part 2: Racial bias, Part 3: Executing the mentally ill, International abolition drives. Part 4: Executing child criminals Executing innocent people World and U.S. maps showing status of death penalty; countries with no death penalty; & 2007 executions The execution of Saddam Hussein Does execution by lethal injection violate the U.S. Constitution?
	Status and developments of the death penalty in the U.S. U.S. execution data for the year 2002 Abolition of the death penalty by New Jersey, 2007-DEC
	Widening the range of the death penalty beyond murder: Quotes, existing grounds, child molestation and rape Motivation; executing innocent adults; Louisiana case before the Supreme Court
	Arguments pro and con: Reasons people give for and against the death penalty Public support of and opposition to the death penalty
	Religious factors: What the Bible says about the death penalty The first murder. The rest of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) Specific capital crimes in the Hebrew Scriptures Specific capital crimes in the Christian Scriptures (New Testament) Policies by various religious groups: The early Christian movement Policies of present-day faith groups
	Alternatives to the death penalty
	Extraditing accused murderers to the U.S.
	Current news items: A feed of news items on the death penalty
	Recent developments: 1997,  1998, 1999, 2000,  2001,  2002, 2003,  2004,  2005, 2006,  2007,  2008, 2009.
	Death penalty web sites, essays and books - pro and con

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