Capital Punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned homicide of a person as punishment for a crime. The sentence ordering that someone is punished with the death penalty is called a death sentence, and the act of carrying out such a sentence is known as an execution. A prisoner awaiting his or her execution is condemned and is "on death row". Crimes that are punishable by death are known as capital crimes, capital offences or capital felonies, and vary depending on the jurisdiction, but commonly include serious crimes against the person such as murder, mass murder, aggravated …
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Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2020 English
The journalist Mary Elizabeth Martens (1870–1939), who had grown up in the Colony of Natal under Responsible Government, published two novels in 1911 and 1915: A Woman of Small Account …
registration of Africans in urban areas, capital punishment for rape, and flogging and branding for indecent … measure in urban areas.29 Legislation imposing capital punishment for black-on-white rape had been disallowed …
Laws.Africa · 6 August 2019 English
officer responsible for carrying out the capital punishment ordered by the court of competent jurisdiction …
National Museums of World Culture · 10 February 2017 Swedish
have actually been made by the Ngombe... These swords were not used to execute a sentence of capital punishment by decapitation, as has sometimes been suggested". 1954.01.1708 African Metal Implements. Weapons …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 2016 English
This article discusses the abolishment of capital punishment. …
affirmed "the desirability of abolishing (capital) punishment in all countries" . (Resolution 2857 (XXC … 47 countries were then party., refers to capital punishment in the context of the right to life and also … invoked to delay or to prevent the abolition of capital punishment s by., any State . Party to the present Covenant" … . of the movement to have it abolished . Capital punishment has been with mankind since the dawn of history … Committee of 1930 and the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment of 1949, yet it pops up again and again …
DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 French
milliers d'anciens combattants Mau Mau au Kenya. On the occasion of the 5th world Congress against capital punishment, this magazine proposes a state of play Also on the program, the upcoming compensation of a …
DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English
Ebola envoy Walter Lindner makes third West Africa visit +++ Cameroon adopts laws authorizing capital punishment for acts of terrorism +++ Nigerian political parties hold primaries ahead of general elections …
DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English
first anniversary of Nelson Mandela's death +++ Human rights activists oppose planned law on capital punishment in Cameroon +++ Portrait of Senegalese singer Marema Fall …
DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English
first anniversary of Nelson Mandela's death +++ Human rights activists oppose planned law on capital punishment in Cameroon +++ Portrait of Senegalese singer Marema Fall …
DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English
Ebola envoy Walter Lindner makes third West Africa visit +++ Cameroon adopts laws authorizing capital punishment for acts of terrorism +++ Nigerian political parties hold primaries ahead of general elections …
Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2015 English
Nelson Mandela called the Black Sash, founded in May 1955 to contest legislation that removed coloured South Africans from the common voters’ roll in the Cape, the ‘conscience of white …
numerous projects including opposition to capital punishment, forced removals, bannings and detentions … and Sweden. Similarly the campaign against capital punishment was a long-standing and unifying issue for …
