Questions tagged [capital-punishment]
Punishment by death.
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Would the Guillotine be considered "cruel and unusual"?
History of the Guillotine
In the first days of the French Revolution, the staunch advocate for the abolition of the death penalty Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was unsuccessful in getting the assembly to ...
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How does the Supreme Court review stays of execution so fast?
I've been reading the Wikipedia article about the Execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, and the section about the first execution attempt says:
at 7:59 p.m. the Eleventh Circuit issued a stay of ...
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Can a medical professional give purely palliative care to a prisoner being executed?
In the United States, medical professionals are not allowed to participate in executions of prisoners. Are they allowed to give palliative care to the prisoners during the process, if the care given ...
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Is capital punishment for prisoners of war legal?
The Third Geneva Convention guarantees several human rights to prisoners of war. Suppose Country A captures prisoners of war, puts them to trial for a specific offense, gives them a good defense ...
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Could a life sentence prevent an execution?
Suppose (A) has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in (State 1) and has also been sentenced to death in (State 2). (A) happens to currently be incarcerated in (State 1).
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Are there any countries that impose the death penalty for being in the country illegally?
I'm referring to simply being in the country without authorization, or having entered illegally; what is called in the US "undocumented", and which most countries treat with deportation.
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Crimes commited in foreign country with capital punishment
So the death penalty does not exist in the UK, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I beleive our laws also state that a person may not be extradited for prosecution if the conviction of the crime will ...
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What sentences could be imposed on a terrorist (caught alive)?
If a terrorist is caught alive, what sentence would the United States Supreme Court impose? What about the highest court in the Russian Federation?
Is it death by hanging, life imprisonment, or ...
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Could a doctor be sentenced to death for abortions in any US state?
Are there any US states where a doctor could be sentenced to death for performing abortions?
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What capital offences were repealed in Canada as of 2022?
In Canada, what offences specified death as a possible punishment but were repealed while death was still specified as a penalty? Or are there none?
Specifically, I want to know the set S (which could ...
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What offences are punishable by death in Canada in 2022?
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It is possible to charge with, convict of, and sentence for serious offences at any time, even 120 years later.
The punishment is determined by checking the punishment at two points in time: ...
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Were USA states really this disconnected in 1964, and was bigamy really punished by death?
I've just watched the The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode Three Wives Too Many from 1964.
In it, a man has a wife in four different USA states, traveling between them constantly and keeping them secret ...
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Have there been any murderers in America who would have been put to death under the following (proposed) "three strikes" rule?
Let's say that society is technically in favor of capital punishment, but fears executing innocent people. So it adopts a "three strikes" rule that says that capital punishment can be ...
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Can a legally sentenced but escaped offender be legally executed by a drone attack?
Imagine the fictional situation: someone (e.g. a U.S. citizen) commits a capital offense, he is arrested and legally sentenced to death.
Then he somehow escapes.
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Did Texas and other US states actually execute people with intellectual disabilities just because they were disabled?
I have many times heard how Southern US states used to (or maybe still do) execute retarded/mentally challenged people.
I always thought that this sounded crazy, because I assumed that they did this ...
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