Death penalty worldwide
Just heard about a new website started by the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern Law School’s Bluhm Legal Clinic called – you guessed it – Death Penalty Worldwide. From their about page:
The website and database are intended to fill a void in current information about the laws and practices relating to the application of the death penalty around the world. There is a great deal of conflicting information about the death penalty, and at times it is difficult to gauge the accuracy of reports one is able to find by searching the web. Although there are many excellent online sources of information relating to death penalty practices around the world—most notably, reports generated by Amnesty International and the database maintained by Hands Off Cain—none of these are devoted to academic and legal analysis of developments in this field. This resource is not intended to supplant those resources, but to supplement them.
The database is the centerpiece of the Death Penalty Worldwide project. It is intended to provide detailed and transparent information regarding the application of the death penalty in law and in practice in every country that retains it.
The database seems very comprehensive and informative, so be sure to poke around the site. You’re bound to learn something new.
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about 9 months ago
I wonder how they’re going to treat the impending execution of Troy Davis. His date should be set soon because Georgia has changed its drug to pentobarbital. The hysterical shrieking will only be eclipsed if and when Mumia Abu-Jamal gets executed.