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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What sort of framework am I looking for seeking a quick execution?
As advised on a previous question, I've decided to ask a more localised question for this question. For those unaware, I am trying to write a book where the character gets executed in the USA, 2019, ...
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Can a prisoner choose not to be autopsied after execution or is it a legal requirement?
I'm a writer so I've been trying to do some research for one of my MCs who ends up getting executed but has the ability to come back from the dead, preferably with a body intact so an Autopsy isn't ...
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What's the shortest amount of time can someone wait on death row before execution?
I am a writer where in my spy-novel, a character faces execution in the US, most likely by Lethal Injection, however, there are people in the government that want to speed the date of execution up ...
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1980s California murder trial transcript
I'm not a legal student or scholar, but I'm looking to get my hands on a full transcript of a California murder trial from the 1980s in which the defendant recieved the death penalty. Since the LA ...
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Does the UAE law set the method of capital punishment for a given crime?
The judicial system of UAE allows a court (a Federal court, I believe) to pass judgment of the capital punishment for crimes including homosexuality and denouncing Islam. The executions are carried ...
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Self defense during execution
Let's say someone has been sentenced to death and is about to be killed by lethal injection. While they are being brought into the execution room, they manage to escape the grip of the prison guards ...
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In the United States, can someone take the death penalty for someone else?
Could a person be executed in the place of someone else in United States?
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Can law enforcement/military shoot to kill for merely making a phone call that is deemed treasonous?
Warning: This question contains spoilers to the film Arrival (2016). If that bothers you, move on now.
In the 2016 film Arrival, humanity confronts a crisis with the arrival of a dozen alien ...
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Could someone who participated in a legal execution in the USA be arrested for murder in France?
According to Wikipedia France is the most visited country in the world. At the same time, the USA is still practicing the death penalty. For example, 28 people were executed in 2015. For each ...
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Was there ever a law that if someone sentenced to death survived their execution they would be released free?
I read in a biography that if someone was sentenced to death penalty and the execution squad misses when firing at him, he will be released as a free man. Is it true that there ever was such a law or ...
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Why do prisoners spend so long on death row?
In the USA, once appeals have been exhausted, why do prisoners spend so much time on death row?
My personal opinions on death penalty aside, I would expect that once the sentence is final, it should ...
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Sentenced to death when pregnant
What happens if a female is sentenced to death while pregnant. Would the execution be delayed until she gave birth? Or even longer (e.g., until the child is weaned)?
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How do Saudi judges decide whether or not a person has become an adult and is eligible for the death penalty?
One of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is that a person under the age of 18 - or else under the age of majority - can not be executed. Two countries - Saudi Arabia, and ...
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What happens if the Indonesian Constitutional Court rules in favor of an executed person?
Prior to the executions of drug smugglers in Indonesia earlier this year, Australian officials had pressed for a delay in the executions, due to a last-ditch appeal in the Constitutional Court of ...
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