Tag: death-penalty
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U.S. executions hit 25-year low as capital punishment wanes-study
The number of U.S. executions fell to a quarter-century low in 2016 as new death sentences plummeted, indicating capital punishment is on the decline, a study released on Wednesday showed. The number of U.S. executions in 2016 was 20, the lowest since 1991, according to the study from the Death Penalty Information Center, which monitors…
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U.S. executions hit 25-year low as capital punishment wanes-study
The number of U.S. executions fell to a quarter-century low in 2016 as new death sentences plummeted, indicating capital punishment is on the decline, a study released on Wednesday showed. The number of U.S. executions in 2016 was 20, the lowest since 1991, according to the study from the Death Penalty Information Center, which monitors…
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Residents in China’s north complain as smog alert enters fifth day
Northern China was shrouded in smog for a fifth straight day on Wednesday as citizens complained that the state's emergency measures were still not being implemented properly. Residents in Shijiazhuang, the capital of heavily industrialized Hebei province that surrounds Beijing, complained that schools were still open even though the city remained on red alert with…
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Sales executive pleads guilty in fatal meningitis outbreak
BOSTON (AP) — Two men facing multiple murder charges stemming from a national meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people will be tried separately, a federal judge has ruled.
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Israel considers treating Aleppo refugees in its hospitals
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel was looking into the possibility of bringing wounded refugees from the Syrian city of Aleppo to Israeli hospitals for treatment. Many wounded in Syria’s civil war have been brought discreetly across the Israeli-occupied Golan frontline to Israeli hospitals for the past three years, although Israel and…
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Sex exists to avoid disease, study shows
From an evolutionary perspective, sexual reproduction could be seen as a non-starter. Compared to cloning, which also exists in Nature, it's a major waste of time and energy. Others, like the Komodo dragon, can work it either way, though asexually produced Komodo babies — produced by their mothers — are not clones.
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Arizona says it has run out of drugs for executions
The Arizona Department of Corrections' supply of midazolam, a sedative, expired on May 31 and it has not been able to replace it, state lawyers said in the filing in Phoenix's U.S. District Court. “What is more, the Department's source of midazolam has vanished under pressure from death penalty opponents,” the court document said. The…
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Arizona says it has run out of drugs for executions
The Arizona Department of Corrections' supply of midazolam, a sedative, expired on May 31 and it has not been able to replace it, state lawyers said in the filing in Phoenix's U.S. District Court. “What is more, the Department's source of midazolam has vanished under pressure from death penalty opponents,” the court document said. The…
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Texas executes man who killed city inspector in 2005
Texas on Tuesday executed a convicted killer who repeatedly shot a city code officer inspecting piles of garbage at the death row inmate's former home, a department of criminal justice official said. Adam Ward, 33, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville. The execution…
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Texas executes man who killed city inspector in 2005
Texas on Tuesday executed a convicted killer who repeatedly shot a city code officer inspecting piles of garbage at the death row inmate's former home, a department of criminal justice official said. Adam Ward, 33, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville. The execution…