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Died. 1931. Nationality. German. Georg Johann Pfeffer (1854–1931) was a German zoologist, primarily a malacologist, a scientist who studies mollusks . Illustration of the long-armed squid, Chiroteuthis veranyi ( Férussac, 1835), from G.J. Pfeffer (1912). Pfeffer was born in Berlin. In 1887 he became curator of the Hamburg Museum of Natural ...
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Oct 12, 2018 · The court’s action makes Washington the twentieth U.S. state to have judicially or legislatively abolished the death penalty, and the eighth to have done so this century. Governor Jay Inslee , who imposed a moratorium on all executions in 2014, hailed the ruling, saying, “Today’s decision by the state Supreme Court thankfully ends the ...
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Oct 11, 2018 · 10.11.18 By Innocence Staff. Today, the Supreme Court in Washington State unanimously declared the death penalty unconstitutional, ruling it had been used in an arbitrary and racially biased manner. Today’s decision makes Washington the 20 th state to abolish capital punishment, and the third state supreme court to strike down the death ...
1847 - Michigan becomes the first state to abolish the death penalty for all crimes except treason. 1890- William Kemmler becomes first person executed by electrocution. Early 1900s - Beginning of the “Progressive Period” of reform in the United States. 1907-1917 - Nine states abolish the death penalty for all crimes or strictly limit it.
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The Supreme Court addressed the constitutionality of executing someone who claimed actual innocence in Herrera v. Collins(506 U.S. 390 (1993)). Although the Court left open the possibility that the Constitution bars the execution of someone who conclusively demonstrates that he or she is actually innocent, the Court noted that such cases would be v...
In the 1970s, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), representing more than 10 million conservative Christians and 47 denominations, and the Moral Majority, were among the Christian groups supporting the death penalty. NAE’s successor, the Christian Coalition, also supports the death penalty. Today, Fundamentalist and Pentecostal churches,...
Women have, historically, not been given the death penalty at the same rate as men. They commit far fewer murders than men, and often the victims are relatives or acquaintances. From the first woman executed in the U.S., Jane Champion, who was hanged in James City, Virginia in 1632, to the present, women have constituted only about 3% of U.S. execu...
Jul 19, 2023 · This 1983 treaty provided for the death penalty’s abolition except in wartime. 40 The reframing of abolition as an international human rights issue entailed a universalist mission under which the Council and individual European states came to support abolition throughout the continent and worldwide. 41 They consequently refused to cooperate ...
Oct 11, 2018 · The Supreme Court of the state of Washington has ruled that the death penalty violates the state’s constitution. With today's decision, Washington becomes the 20th state to abolish capital ...
