• Death Penalty Focus (DPF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty through public education, grassroots and political...
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  • Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment...
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    reducing all pending death sentences to life imprisonment at the time. Subsequently, a majority of states enacted new death penalty statutes, and the court...
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    Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as a punishment for a crime. It has historically been used...
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  • The death penalty is the popular term for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s power to ban a school from competing in a sport for at...
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    Mike Farrell (category American anti–death penalty activists)
    causes. He has been the President of Death Penalty Focus since 1994. He is a long-time opponent of the death penalty. In 2001, Farrell said of the work:...
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  • The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on disseminating studies and reports related...
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    discretion on the death sentence. The fundamental contribution of Bachan Singh was that the focus of sentencing policy in regards to the death penalty shifted from...
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    Monica Mountains 2008 Tedi Winograd Courage Award - Outside the Party Death Penalty Focus 2007 Rose Elizabeth Bird Commitment to Justice Award United for Peace...
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  • years running. In 2021, Brous received the Human Rights Award from Death Penalty Focus. Karen Bass presented the award. Brous has contributed to the books...
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  • Aqeela Sherrills is a campaigner against gang violence and the death penalty who lives in Watts, Los Angeles, United States. In 1992, Sherrills brokered...
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    Rubin Carter (category 2014 deaths)
    the Innocence Project. Carter received the Abolition Award from Death Penalty Focus in 1996. In March 2012, while attending the International Justice...
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  • Sidney Sheinberg (category 2019 deaths)
    Award. In 2008, he received the Mike Farrell Human Rights Award from Death Penalty Focus. Sheinberg Place (a street on the Universal Studios lot in Los Angeles)...
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    kidnapping—warrant the death penalty under Singapore law. In 2012, Singapore amended its laws to exempt some offences from the mandatory death sentence. In a...
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    Murders of Charlie Keever and Jonathan Sellers (category Deaths by person in California)
    incarcerated.[citation needed] J. Harry Jones (September 22, 2003). "Death penalty focus of Erskine case". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Archived from the...
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    the Justice in the Arts Award from Death Penalty Focus, an organization dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty. He previously received an award...
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    the Death Penalty Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law in Berkeley, California. In 2009, he received the Abolition Award from Death Penalty Focus. He...
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    Amy Biehl (category 1993 deaths)
    ISBN 978-1-77025-354-4. Peacemaker Hero: Amy Biehl "Annual Awards Dinner". Death Penalty Focus. Archived from the original on 2009-11-23. Retrieved 2010-05-31....
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    Robert Badinter (category French anti–death penalty activists)
    French lawyer, politician, and author who enacted the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981, while serving as Minister of Justice under François...
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    moratorium on the death penalty) 2008: Focus on Asia 2009: Educate to abolition 2010: Death penalty and democracy 2011: Death penalty and cruel, inhuman...
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  • some called for complete abolition of the death penalty, the elimination of public hangings was the main focus. Initially, abolitionists opposed public...
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    Retrieved 2 September 2019. "International Views on the Death Penalty". Death Penalty Focus. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved...
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    Bill Richardson (category 2023 deaths)
    to abolish death penalty". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on March 22, 2009. "Past Honorees - 26th Annual Death Penalty Focus Awards Dinner"...
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  • override Governor Chris Sununu's veto on a bill that abolished the state's death penalty 16–8. Since the veto had previously been overridden by the state House...
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  • belief with its implicit assessment that the death penalty can deter even those who act recklessly. "A narrow focus on the question of whether or not a given...
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    Capital punishment in Greece (category Death in Greece)
    November 2015 "International Views on the Death Penalty" Archived 2012-11-06 at the Wayback Machine, Death Penalty Focus, accessed 24 November 2015 Chart of...
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    Steve Allen (category 2000 deaths)
    received the Rose Elizabeth Bird Commitment to Justice Award from Death Penalty Focus in 1998. He was a student and supporter of general semantics, recommending...
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  • offense in states where execution is a legal penalty, the judge will give the jury the option of imposing a death sentence or life imprisonment without the...
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  • Against the Death Penalty In the United States Campaign to End the Death Penalty Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty Death Penalty Focus National...
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  • Norman Felton (category 2012 deaths)
    Lifetime Membership of the Producers Guild of America. In 2013, Death Penalty Focus awarded Felton with their Human Rights Award. He died of natural...
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