Lawyers' group urges death penalty moratorium
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The American Bar Association said on Monday it was renewing its call for a nationwide moratorium on executions, based on a three-year study of death penalty systems in eight states that found unfairness and other flaws.
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Mark Geragos&#39; task now is to save the life of his client, a convicted double murderer facing a possible death sentence. His problem is that the usual defense approach to the penalty phase of a capital case
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Convicted murderers are being sentenced to death half as often as they were five years ago, and the population of death row is declining as a result, an anti-capital punishment information organization reported Tuesday.
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Attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of a teen sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his grandparents when he was 12, arguing that the sentence is cruel.
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A Christian law group is fighting for a ban on gay members
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Leading contenders for the presidential nominations all support the death penalty. A look at their positions:
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Pakistani rights activists called on   the government on Sunday to suspend Islamic laws on rape and   adultery until controversy over them is settled.
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Death penalty opponents called on the state to halt executions after prison staff struggled to find suitable veins on a condemned man's arm to deliver the lethal chemicals.
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Attorneys for Zacarias Moussaoui Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bar the government from seeking the death penalty and from presenting evidence related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at his trial.
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Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and two former aides sentenced to death lodged appeals on Sunday, the Iraqi prosecutor said, following a trial slammed by some rights experts as unfair and fundamentally flawed.
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Italy's premier Tuesday called for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its complete abolition, a move he said would guarantee better justice around the globe and an end to cultures of vengeance.
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A lawyer for one of the Bali bombers on death row criticised Wednesday Indonesia&#39;s Supreme Court for announcing the rejection of his client&#39;s final appeal before he was notified.
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Serious problems in state death penalty systems compromise fairness and accuracy in capital punishment cases and justify a nationwide freeze on executions, the American Bar Association says.
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Australian civil libertarians call for a review of the case against the man convicted of killing a British backpacker.
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MORATORIUM: No prisoner has been put to death in the U.S. since Sept. 25, due to the Supreme Court's current examination of lethal injections.
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A United Nations human rights body called on Iran on Friday to abolish the death penalty as well as amputation, flogging and stoning for people who committed crimes as minors.
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Lawyers for the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein lodge an appeal against his death sentence.