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About this section:

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.

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Topics covered in this section are:

bulletIntroduction:
bulletSelected quotations; overview

 
bulletFacts about the death penalty:
bulletPart 1: Death penalty data; U.S. Trends, worldwide practices, grounds, methods.
bulletPart 2: Racial bias,
bulletPart 3: Executing the mentally ill, International abolition drives.
bulletPart 4: Executing child criminals
bulletExecuting innocent people
bulletWorld and U.S. maps showing status of death penalty; countries with no death penalty; & 2007 executions
bulletThe execution of Saddam Hussein
bulletDoes execution by lethal injection violate the U.S. Constitution?

 
bulletStatus and developments of the death penalty in the U.S.
bulletU.S. execution data for the year 2002
bulletAbolition of the death penalty by New Jersey, 2007-DEC

 
bulletWidening the range of the death penalty beyond murder:
bulletQuotes, existing grounds, child molestation and rape
bulletMotivation; executing innocent adults; Louisiana case before the Supreme Court

 
bulletArguments pro and con:
bulletReasons people give for and against the death penalty
bulletPublic support of and opposition to the death penalty

 
bulletReligious factors:
bulletWhat the Bible says about the death penalty
bulletThe first murder. The rest of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament)
bulletSpecific capital crimes in the Hebrew Scriptures
bulletSpecific capital crimes in the Christian Scriptures (New Testament)
bulletPolicies by various religious groups:
bulletThe early Christian movement
bulletPolicies of present-day faith groups

 
bulletAlternatives to the death penalty

 
bulletExtraditing accused murderers to the U.S.

 
bulletCurrent news items: A feed of news items on the death penalty

 
bulletRecent developments:
bullet1997,  1998, 1999
bullet200020012002,
bullet200320042005
bullet200620072008

bulletDeath penalty web sites, essays and books - pro and con

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Originally published: 1995-JUN-8
Last updated 2008-MAR-29

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