In 2006, TNS Sofres survey show opposition of the French people to death penalty generally 52 are now against death penalty and 41 are pro death penalty.

The conservative clerics, who had not investigated the case, demanded the death penalty.

Socrates could have escaped Athens and the death sentence, but he chose to stay and drink the poisonous cup.

Ron Williamson. Ron was convicted of the rape and murder of a barmaid at a club, and served 11 years of a death sentence.

Countries that became abolitionist for all crimes between 1999 and 2003

Balocuh has published a cartoon where a cleric tells a woman about to be executed Don t be upset, we'll execute you legally. Nikahang, a leading cartoonist and blogger, has published another cartoon where Ali Larijani,parliament speaker, is executing a blogger. Credit Nikahang

The fall in reported executions was especially notable in Belarus, China, Egypt, Nigeria, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Zimbabwe.

I believed that all lives regardless of whom they belonged to were absolutely sacred. This is why I stood against abortion, against war, against capital punishment.

Witchcraft in New England The executions at Salem were not the first of their kind in the American colonies, nor even in New England.

An Afghan appeals court overturned a death sentence Tuesday for a journalism student accused of blasphemy for asking questions in class about women's rights under Islam.

If there was such thing as justice, then alcoholics and drug dealers should be the 1st ones in line to be executed for causing alot more trouble on the streets and night clubs.

And a couple of weeks later when Zacarias Moussaoui was indicted on six counts of conspiracy to commit terrorism, and the U.S. government called for a death penalty for him, if convicted, my husband and I spoke out in opposition to that, publicly.

Dismayed that in a number of countries impunity, the negation of justice, continues to prevail and often remains the main cause of the continuing occurrence of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions in those countries,

An audio tape recorded 53 years ago of a death penalty execution in Japan, aired by Nippon Cultural Broadcasting on May 6th and and by Asahi television's Super Morning show on April 29th, has triggered conversations among bloggers about the country's death penalty system.