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Information from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections The current death penalty law was enacted in 1977 by the Oklahoma Legislature. The method to carry out the execution is by lethal injection. The original death penalty law in Oklahoma called for executions to be carried out by electrocution. In 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional … Read more…
Dear Sir: I will give your serious question a serious answer. Sexual orientation – gay or straight – is officially considered a naturally occurring physical phenomenon by The American Medical Association The American Psychiatric Association The American Psychological Association The National Association of Social Workers We who are “straight” did nothing to “decide” we were … Read more…
by Nathaniel Batchelder #1. Every western democracy and industrialized nation except the U.S. has abolished the death penalty. Till recently, only the U.S., South Africa, and the USSR among industrialized nations still used the death penalty. South Africa has renounced the death penalty. The USSR no longer exists. #2. Murder rates are lower in U.S. … Read more…
The death penalty is the ultimate, irreversible denial of human rights. By working towards the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, Amnesty International aims to end the cycle of violence created by a system riddled with economic and racial bias and tainted by human error. Amnesty International campaigns to abolish the death penalty in the … Read more…
Poverty and hunger are pandemic in our world, although we in the USA seem shielded from knowing or seeing the vast suffering it causes. Half of humanity survives on $2-a-day or less, without reliable access to safe water. Twenty percent of humanity — some $1.3 billion people — survive on $1-a-day or less with little … Read more…