KAMPALA, Uganda — The Ugandan parliamentarian behind an anti-gay bill that attracted worldwide condemnation said the most controversial part of the legislation – the death penalty provision – is likely to be dropped from th…
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Usually a soccer player does a back flip after scoring a goal. FC Baar’s Joonas Jokinen, however, decided to do add a back flip to his penalty kick. In the middle of Swiss side FC Baar’s match against FC Sempach, Jokinen somehow scored on a …
By Reginald FieldsReligion News ServiceCOLUMBUS, Ohio — The Catholic bishops of Ohio are calling on Gov. John Kasich and state lawmakers to abolish the state’s death penalty.Read More…
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Two fathers, wrongly accused in the murders of their children, on Friday called for an end to the death penalty in Illinois.Kevin Fox, who was falsely accused of raping and killing his daughter Riley, and Jerry Hobbs, who was falsely accused…
In a “skeleton defense” posted on his lawyers’ website today, Julian Assange’s team posits that he could be subject to “being detained at Guantanamo Bay” or subject to the death penalty were he to be extradited to Sweden, which could lead to…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Senate voted Tuesday to abolish capital punishment, sending the historic issue to Gov. Pat Quinn and putting the state back at the center of an ongoing national debate.Quinn wouldn’t say whether he woul…
HOUSTON — Prosecutors on Monday told a judge presiding over an unusual court hearing on the constitutionality of the death penalty in Texas that they won’t participate in the legal proceeding and will “stand mute” during the hearing.De…
WASHINGTON — In 1976, just six months after he joined the Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens voted to reinstate capital punishment after a four-year moratorium. With the right procedures, he wrote, it is possible to ensure “evenhanded…
SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle Corp.’s courtroom clash with archenemy SAP AG has paid off handsomely.A jury on Tuesday ordered SAP to pay $1.3 billion – more than half of its total profit last year – for a subsidiary’s skullduggery…
