Sentences with phrase «abolition of the death penalty»

Through God she learned to forgive her sister's killer, and is now for abolition of the death penalty.

The UK has encouraged the complete abolition of the death penalty in the US after a decision in Maryland to repeal its use was signed into law on Friday.

The mainstream practitioners who were active in the years of Harold's premiership all indicate support and admiration for the way he held the Labour party together, sought to drag Britain into the modern era and presided over a series of liberalisation acts including abolition of the death penalty and the legalisation of homosexuality, abortion and divorce.

The Catholic magisterium does not, and never has, advocated unqualified abolition of the death penalty.

«Just last month, two African states — The Gambia and Madagascar — took major steps towards irreversible abolition of the death penalty,» he said.

Saudi Arabia is aware of our views and the UK is committed to advancing the global abolition of the death penalty.»

«In addition, Turkey has also ratified Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) concerning abolition of the death penalty.

Does the Bible provide principled grounds for abolition of the death penalty?

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Virgin Unite, Richard and the Global Commission on Drug Policy call for the abolition of the death penalty for drug offences, and ultimately for all offences.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) advocates the abolition of the death penalty, and the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has urged states to «consider the abolition of the death penalty for drug - related offences».

The abolition of the death penalty in formerly Christian countries may owe more to secular humanism than to deeper penetration into the gospel.

Since the murder of her family members, Jeanne Bishop has been an advocate for gun violence prevention, forgiveness and abolition of the death penalty.

Sister Helen Prejean is a Roman Catholic nun and a leading advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.

In his address to Congress, he supported the bishops in their calls for the abolition of the death penalty.

The empirical grounding in the arguments of the authors makes a powerful and eloquent case for the abolition of the death penalty.

Their three books together make a powerful and eloquent case for the abolition of the death penalty.

In the Home Office in the 1960s she oversaw the introduction of societal changes including the abolition of the death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the legalisation of abortion.

Stakeholders, particularly Parliamentarians, religious leaders and the media have been asked to add their voice on Amnesty International's call on the abolition of death penalty in Ghana.

It could be argued that by then, over 300 innocent people a year were dying because of the abolition of the death penalty.

This interview came almost 40 years after the abolition of the death penalty for murder.

For example the All - Party Parliamentary Group for the Abolition of the Death Penalty exists «to campaign for the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances.»

He is on record as saying he would not support the restoration of the death penalty and has served as the Joint Chairman of the All Party Group for the Abolition of the Death Penalty since 2012.

It spans the period from the abolition of the death penalty for buggery in 1861 to decriminalisation in 1967 and explores how seismic shifts in gender and sexuality found expression in the arts.

It will present work from the abolition of the death penalty for sodomy in 1861 to the passing of the Sexual Offences Act in 1967 — a time of seismic shifts in gender and sexuality that found expression in the arts as artists and viewers explored their desires, experiences and sense of self.

Actually the necessary treaty already exists (Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, among others) but the US hasn't signed it.