capital punishment

In 2011, Illinois extended the moratorium begun under Governor Ryan into a full ban on capital punishment.

Hickenlooper won election saying he supported capital punishment, but once in office changed his mind.

The council reinstated capital punishment earlier this year.

Most Pennsylvanians now support a moratorium on capital punishment until its efficacy can be determined.

Another week, another botched killing under the legal euphemism of capital punishment.

He spoke against capital punishment, against church-rates, against flogging in the army, and against the Irish Established Church.

A gallows was erected in the court, where the intractable underwent capital punishment as a warning to the rest.

Some, however, were in favour of capital punishment, in spite of the law Portia.

In consequence of this service, the commission recommended that his capital punishment be changed to imprisonment.

A decree condemning André de Beaumont to suffer capital punishment as being guilty of high treason.