Publications & Testimony

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Dec 31, 2003

The Death Penalty in Puerto Rico

Capital pun­ish­ment was used dur­ing the Spanish regime. The first ver­i­fied exe­cu­tions took place in 1514, when four slaves were hanged for upris­ing. The first Inquisition court in the west­ern hemi­sphere was estab­lished in San Juan in…

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Dec 31, 2003

Clemency News and Developments: 2003

Four Executions in Texas and Georgia Stayed, Clemency Recommended for Foreign National in Oklahoma Four stays were grant­ed for exe­cu­tions that were sched­uled to take place this week in Texas and Georgia, and Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board unan­i­mous­ly rec­om­mend­ed clemen­cy for a for­eign nation­al fac­ing exe­cu­tion in January 2004. In Texas, courts ordered three stays of exe­cu­tion. Two of the cas­es involved chal­lenges to the use of pan­curo­ni­um bro­mide as part of the…

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Dec 31, 2003

Facts: Sentencing (2001 – 2003)

“Capital Punishment 2001” — The Bureau of Justice Statistics released its annu­al report on the death penal­ty with sta­tis­tics from the pre­vi­ous year. The report con­tained a num­ber of interesting…

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Dec 31, 2003

Don’t Kill in Our Names: Families of Murder Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty

In ​“Don’t Kill in Our Names: Families of Murder Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty,” author Rachel King presents the sto­ries of 10 Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation mem­bers. Throughout the book, King exam­ines the rea­sons why these sur­vivors choose rec­on­cil­i­a­tion over ret­ri­bu­tion and why they active­ly oppose cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. Using first-hand accounts and third-per­son nar­ra­tive, King presents the sto­ries in the con­text of the nation’s on-going death penal­ty debate. King is…

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