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Arya Mistry

'Number of executions much higher than 55' - India - The Times of India - 0 views

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  • 1,422 executions were carried out just in one single decade (1953-1964).
  • Tamil Nadu topped the list with 485 executions followed by 397 in UP. Punjab and
    Andhra executed 140 and 119 people during the same period
  • the government was considering enactment of a stringent law to act as a
    deterrent against the heinous crime of rape.
Arya Mistry

Capital punishment in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Capital punishment in India is legal but rare
  • The Supreme Court of India ruled in 1983
    that the death penalty should be imposed only in "the rarest of rare cases."[
  • crimes are murder, gang robbery with
    murder, abetting the suicide of a
    child or insane person, waging war
    against the government, and abetting mutiny by a member of the armed forces
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • Between 1975 and 1991, about 40 people were executed.
  • official government statistics claim that only 55 people had been executed since
    independence, but the People's Union for Civil
    Liberties     cited information from Appendix 34 of the 1967 Law
    Commission of India     report showing that 1,422 executions took place in 16 Indian states from 1953 to
    1963, and
  • The death penalty is carried out by hanging. After a 1983 challenge to this method, the
    Supreme Court ruled that hanging did not involve torture, barbarity, humiliation
    or degradation
  • At least 100 people in 2007, 40 in 2006, 77 in 2005, 23 in 2002, and 33 in 2001
    were sentenced to death
Arya Mistry

BBC NEWS | South Asia | India and the death penalty - 0 views

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history project death penalty-india

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  • Capital punishment is rarely carried out in India
  • In India the death penalty is carried out by hanging
  • The last execution in India was held in August 2004 when Dhananjoy Chatterjee,
    convicted of raping and murdering a schoolgirl in 1990, was hanged to death
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  • Under Indian law, the death penalty can be imposed for:

    • murder
    • gang robbery with murder
    • abetting the suicide of a child or insane person
    • waging war against the government
    • abetting mutiny by a member of the armed forces

    In recent years, however, special courts have also extended the penalty to
    cases of terrorism under anti-terror legislation

Arya Mistry

India: The Death Penalty in India - 0 views

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history project death penalty-india

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  • over the last two decades, India has reduced the number of executions carried
    out.
  • The Indian judiciary has ruled that the death penalty for murder must be
    restricted to the "rarest of rare" cases, but this instruction has been
    contradicted by the legislature increasing the number of offences punishable by
    death
  • The death penalty is mandatory under two of the relevant laws, including for
    drug-related offences. Death sentences have been imposed on people who may have
    been children at the time of the crime, and on people suffering from mental
    illness.
  • ...9 more annotations...
  • In the past three decades, great strides have been made towards a world free
    from executions.
  • Within the IPC, nine offences are punishable by death
  • The most recent law to be passed that provides for the death penalty is the
    Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Ordinance 2004
  • According to the latest official figures, there were 273 persons under sentence
    of death as of 31 December 2005
  • Amnesty International believes this figure to be a gross underestimate. At least
    140 people are believed to have been sentenced to death in 2006 and 2007
  • Death sentences imposed in such trials must be reviewed by the High Court
  • In the High Court, a bench comprising a minimum of two judges must, on
    appreciation of the facts, come to its own conclusion on guilt and award
    sentence as deemed fit in the circumstances of the case

  • Based on its assessment of
    the evidence on record, the High Court may




    1. confirm the death sentence or
      impose another sentence in its place;


    2. annul the conviction and
      convict for any other offence of which the Sessions Court might have convicted
      the defendant, or order a new trial on the basis of the amended charge;
      or


    3. acquit the
      defendant.

  • At independence in 1947, India retained the 1861 Penal Code which provided for
    the death penalty for murder, requiring judges to state the reasons if a death
    sentence was not imposed
Sahil Sud

Death Penalty : The History of California's Death Penalty - 0 views

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California death penalty history

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  • Sahil Sud
    Sahil Sud on 28 Oct 09
     
    History of the death penalty in California. 
Sahil Sud

THE COST OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN CALIFORNIA - 0 views

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California death row penalty financial

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  • Sahil Sud
    Sahil Sud on 28 Oct 09
     
    More in depth on the financial disadvantages of the death penalty, California. 
Sahil Sud

ACLU of Northern California : KNOW THE FACTS: California Death Penalty Fact Sheet - 0 views

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california death row penalty capital punishment

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  • Sahil Sud
    Sahil Sud on 28 Oct 09
     
    Very good article agreeing with the side I will be taking on the issue.
Akshara Date

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  • Many religious right groups oppose distribution of Plan B (Levonorgestrel), arguing it is a form of abortion. In a number of states, anti-abortion pharmacists have refused to stock or fill prescriptions for Plan B, arguing doing so violates their right of conscience.
Arya Mistry

Can death row inmates be reformed? | Oakland Tribune Newspaper | Find Articles at BNET - 0 views

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  • Kevin Cooper is known as a thug, a rapist, and one of the worst killers in
    California history.
  • Yet Cooper, 46, who claims he is innocent, is also an artist and a born-again
    Christian who works with troubled kids
  • After 19 years on death row, the middle-aged man is nothing like the young man
    who was convicted for murdering
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • The average death row inmate in California spends nearly two decades in prison
    before they are executed, time for many to begin a new career or to die quietly
    without lethal injection.
  • By the time some executions are carried out, many argue it's possible that the
    state is putting a rehabilitated prisoner to death.
  • To think that we are going to spend millions of dollars to execute them, and
    they are not the same people as when they entered
Arya Mistry

Capital punishment in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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history project death penalty

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  • is applied rarely, in practice only for aggravated murder
    and even more rarely for felony murder or contract killing
  • The methods of execution and the crimes subject to the penalty vary by
    jurisdiction and have varied widely throughout time
  • Arguments for and against capital punishment are based on moral,
    practical, religious, and emotional grounds
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  • Capital punishment has been illegal in the U.S. state of Michigan since 1846, making Michigan's death penalty
    history unusual in contrast to many other states. Michigan was the first
    English-speaking government in the world to abolish the death penalty for all
    crimes except treason
  • Crimes subject to the death penalty vary by jurisdiction. All jurisdictions that
    use capital punishment designate the highest grade of murder a capital crime, although most jurisdictions
    require aggravating circumstances. Treason is a capital offense in several jurisdictions
  • Other capital crimes include: the use of a weapon of mass destruction resulting
    in death, espionage, terrorism, certain
    violations of the Geneva Conventions     that result in the death of one or more
    persons, and treason at the federal
    level; aggravated rape in Louisiana, Florida, and Oklahoma; extortionate kidnapping in Oklahoma; aggravated kidnapping in Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky and South Carolina; aircraft hijacking in Alabama; drug trafficking
    resulting in a person's death in Connecticut; train wrecking which leads to a
    person's death, and perjury which leads to a person's death in California
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      Arya Mistry on 27 Oct 09
       
      last exicutions done in 1964...
  • The legal administration of the death penalty in the United States is complex.
    Typically, it involves four critical steps: (1) Sentencing, (2) Direct Review, (3)
    State Collateral Review, and (4) Federal Habeas Corpus. Recently, a narrow and final
    fifth level of process—(5) the Section 1983 Challenge—has become increasingly
    important
  • Currently lethal
    injection     is the method used or allowed in all of the 36 states which allow
    the death penalty. Nebraska required
    electrocution, but in
    2008 the state supreme court ruled the method is unconstitutional. In mid 2009
    Nebraska officially changed its method of execution to lethal injection.[61][62][63]
    Other states also allow electrocution, gas chambers, hanging and the firing squad. From 1976 to
    September 22, 2009 there were 1,175 executions, of which 1,004 were by lethal
    injection, 155 by electrocution, 11 by gas chamber, 3 by hanging, and 2 by
    firing squad.
Arya Mistry

Death Penalty (Capital Punishment) in the United States - - 0 views

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  • lawful imposition of death as punishment for a crime
  • On average, every 9-10 days a government in the United States executes a
    prisoner
  • Blacks are executed at a rate significantly disproportionate to their share of
    overall population
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  • Texas leads the nation in death penalty convictions and executions.
  • Since the 1976 Supreme Court decision that re-instated the death penalty in the
    United States, the governments of the United States had executed 1,136, as of
    December 2008
  • There were 42 executions in 2007
  • More than 3,300 prisoners were serving death-row sentences in the US in December
    2008
  • juries are delivering fewer death sentences: since the late 1990s, they have
    dropped 50 percent
  • This latest report suggests that 60 percent of Americans do not believe that the
    death penalty is a deterrent to murder. Moreover, almost 40 percent believe that
    their moral beliefs would disqualify them from serving on a capital case.
  • DNA testing has resulted in 200 non-capital cases to be overturned since 1989
  • Mistakes like these shake public confidence in the capital punishment system
  • From the 1920s-1940s, criminologists argued that the death penalty was a
    necessary and preventative social measure
Arya Mistry

] Death Penalty (Pros & Cons, Arguments For and Against) - 0 views

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  • Financial costs to taxpayers of capital punishment is several times that of
    keeping someone in prison for life.
  • gives closure to the victim's families
  • another form of crime deterrent
  • ...16 more annotations...
  • violates the "cruel and unusual" clause in the Bill of Rights
  • Justice is better served.
  • DNA testing and other methods of modern crime scene science can now effectively
    eliminate almost all uncertainty as to a person's guilt or innocence
  • society have to move away from the "eye for an eye" revenge mentality if
    civilization is to advance.
  • It sends the wrong message
  • Prisoner parole or escapes can give criminals another chance to kill
  • Life in prison is a worse punishment
  • Other countries (especially in Europe) would have a more favorable image of
    America
  • prisoner's family must suffe
  • possibility exists that innocent men and women may be put to death
  • Mentally ill patients may be put to death
  • creates sympathy for the monsterous perpetrators of the crimes
  • useless in that it doesn't bring the victim back to life
  • The United States remains in the minority of nations in the world that still
    uses death as penalty for certain crimes
  • barbaric and against American values
  • very important tool in fighting violent pre-meditated murder
Yashu Madhavan

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ChildObiesity JunkFoodSchools

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  • hildhood obesity in American children
  • tacking the obesity crisis in children.
  • Institute of Medicine and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • ...10 more annotations...
  • exposed to unhealthy foods
  • increase in child obesity rates. Around 33.6 percent of children and adolescents were overweight
  • Obesity is linked to the so-called lifestyle diseases
  • The rate of type 2 diabetes is at an all-time high in American children.
  • risen alarmingly
  • growing menace to the society.
  • junk foods sold in school cafeterias and vending machines do not have to follow nutritional guidelines unlike the federal meals.
  • split the foods available in schools into two tiers based on their compliance with the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
  • Tier 1

  • Tier 2
Lynn Kelley

The future of copyright in India -- Chowdhury 3 (2): 102 -- Journal of Intellectual Propert... - 1 views

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copyright india black market

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  • main purpose of these provisions and measures is to prevent illegal commercial copying, a menace which hits the Indian movie and music industry significantly enough to ensure that the industry forms a strong lobby in such proposals. India has amended its copyright
Lynn Kelley

The Development and Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons - 1 views

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nuclear proliferation nobel

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  • Should the Germans be the
    first to develop the envisaged "atomic bomb," Hitler
    would have a weapon at his disposal that would make
    it possible for him to destroy his enemies and rule
    the world
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