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Governor Rick Perry today vetoed a bill to ban the execution of mentally retarded death row inmates, saying the state already has safeguards in place to protect them, the Associated Press …
read moreNumerous articles have debated whether Timothy McVeigh should be executed. Here is a sampling of the views expressed, which give an overview of the death-penalty debate in the United States. …
read moreThe blunders that led to the delay of Timothy McVeighs execution are rekindling the long-standing debate over the death penalty in America. The discovery that the FBI had failed to turn over …
read moreMuslims are now "encouraged to kill Christians" in Egypt after a court this week acquitted most of those accused of massacring Christians in January last year, a leading Coptic cleric charged. …
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