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3 days ago · Recorded executions in the region more than tripled from 11 in 2022 to 38 in 2023 and recorded death sentences across sub-Saharan Africa increased sharply by 66%, from 298 in 2022 to 494 in 2023. Furthermore, no country in the region abolished the death penalty in 2023.
5 days ago · Established in 1990, The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. Their primary mission is to serve as an informational resource on the death penalty for the public and media. In addition, under the section labeled ‘For Educators,’ you can find high school and college curricula ...
2 days ago · As of December 2023, 112 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes and another 23 countries no longer perform executions. Unfortunately while the abolitionist movement has made significant progress over that time, the countries that still execute are doing so at alarming rates.
4 days ago · Here is a brief history of the death penalty in the state of Oregon. 1864 - Death penalty is first adopted by statute. 1914 - Death penalty is voted out. Over the next two decades, it was restored and then repealed. 1981 - Oregon Supreme Court strikes down the death penalty. 1984 - Voters reinstate the death penalty.
5 days ago · Since the death penalty was enacted in Ohio in 1981, there have been 341 death sentences. Of those, 56 inmates have been executed, 119 remain on death row, and 11 inmates were exonerated. (The others either died of natural causes or had their sentences commuted to another penalty for various reasons.)
5 days ago · abolitionism, (c. 1783–1888), in western Europe and the Americas, the movement chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery. The intensification of slavery as a system, which followed Portuguese trafficking of enslaved Africans beginning in the 15th century, was ...
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4 days ago · The second bill lists the number of deaths in London for just one week in September 1665. It shows that 7,165 people died from plague. Other deaths recorded point to the high infant mortality of early modern England; 17 chrisomes, or infants who died in the first month of life; 121 teeth, or infants who died when still teething. Fifteen ...
