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Capital Punishment - It's Not the Answer in a Civilised Society

Rob Atkinson | Posted 21.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Murder, Public Opinion, Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Execution, Justice, Prison, Rape, Crime, UK Lifestyle News
Rob Atkinson

Capital punishment is no easy answer. It is a barbaric, horrific and out-dated relic, tainted by the nightmare grisly ceremony of the whole process, something incongruous to a modern society and rightly consigned to the dustbin of history. It must never return.

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Why "Execution-Style Killings" Are Anything But

Rob Atkinson | Posted 09.05.2013 | UK
Read More: Murder, Law, Living, Death Penalty, Execution, Justice, Death, UK News
Rob Atkinson

"Execution-style Killing". It's one of those chilling news-story phrases that are fairly frequently-used, lazily, thoughtlessly and as a knee-jerk re...

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Iranian Opposition TV Gets Record Backing

Abbas Rezai | Posted 31.01.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Telethon, Human Rights, Execution, Democracy, Iran, Intv, Iranntv, Mek, Sima, Pmoi, Syma, UK Politics News
Abbas Rezai

This weekend's telethon was met with an unprecedented enthusiasm. Callers phoned from Europe, US, Australia, Canada... but most importantly from Iran.

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'Cannibal Monster' Who Sold Human Flesh As Ostrich Meat Is Executed

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 11.01.2013 | UK
Read More: China-Human-Flesh, Execution, Ostrich, Zhang-Yongming, Cannibalism, Cannibal, Death Penalty, Mao Zedong, China, UK News

A Chinese man convicted of murdering 11 people was executed on Thursday. Zhang Yongming is said to have chopped up his victims and sold the flesh...

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The Footage

Tim Cumming | Posted 10.07.2012 | Home
Read More: Gaddafi, History, Politics, Libya, North Africa, Execution, Poems, Violence, Youtube, Contemporary Poetry, Torture, Home News
Tim Cumming

With the imminent release of The Dictator, Baron Cohen's despot comedy this new blog post is a new poem, begun on a flight to Khartoum last October, t...

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Hu and Wen, Why?

Benedict Rogers | Posted 12.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Forced Repatriation, Human Rights, Execution, Kwan-Li-So, Un, China, Gulag, Refugees, Prison Camps, North Korea, Torture, UK News
Benedict Rogers

Even if prisoners are not actually executed, life in North Korea's gulags is virtually a death sentence. Over 200,000 people are incarcerated in labour camps reminiscent of those set up by Stalin, where every day is a struggle for survival.

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European Parliament "Iran Delegation" Plans Shameful Trip To Tehran

Siavosh Rajizadeh | Posted 19.12.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Iran, Execution, Human Rights, European Parliament, Hanging, European Union, Death Penalty, United States, Tehran, Brussels, Delegation, Eu, Cronberg, Mep, UK Politics News
Siavosh Rajizadeh

European Parliament's delegation for relations with Iran is planning to pay a five-day visit to Tehran at the end of this month. The request for this...

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Camp Ashraf: Iran and Iraq's Crime Against Humanity

Naghmeh Rajabi | Posted 28.11.2011 | UK
Read More: Freedom, Afsaneh Rajabi, PMOI/MEK, Iran, Execution, Zahra Rajabi, Human Rights, Iranian Women, Middle East, Iraq, Camp Ashraf, UK News
Naghmeh Rajabi

Since the beginning of this year, Iran has hanged 490 prisoners, according to the International Campaign for Human Rights in that country. Under the ...

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Troy Davis: Sacrificing the Innocent

James Abbott-Thompson | Posted 22.11.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Troy Davis Execution, Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Execution, American Death Penalty, Troy Davis, UK Politics News
James Abbott-Thompson

Hope descended into horror on Wednesday, as the US Supreme Court considered, and then rejected, a request from attorneys acting on behalf of Troy Davis to stay his execution. All the while, I am told, he was strapped to the gurney in the execution chamber waiting to die.

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Britain Now Leads From the Front in Supporting Our Nationals Facing the Death Penalty Abroad

Clive Stafford Smith | Posted 01.10.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: UK Foreign Policy, Foreign Office, Death Penalty, Execution, China Human Rights, Akmal Shaikh, UK Politics News
Clive Stafford Smith

There has been a surfeit of bad news of late. Yet there are positive developments in the Summer of our discontent, and they merit underlining.

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Reality Television: Innovation and Misery

Charles McLeod | Posted 02.09.2011 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Reality Television, Charles McLeod, Reality TV, Televised Execution, State Execution, Execution, Pay-Per-View-Tv, Great Recession, Innovation, Media-Innovation, Recession, Uktv, Uksoaps, UK Entertainment News
Charles McLeod

One question I am consistently asked with the release of my first novel is, "Where did you get the idea for it from?" The "it" being referred to here is the book's central plot; specifically, the protagonist's solution to solve his money woes by tattooing a condemned prisoner with corporate logos and putting said prisoner's execution on pay-per-view television

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