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

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There is an observable trend towards the abolition of the death penalty in Africa.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

In the latter (or, to hear him tell it, middle) portion of his career, those causes have often been philanthropic rather than commercial ones: drug law reform, death penalty abolition, ocean conservation.

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

In the House of Lords, the chief justice of the Kings Bench, Lord Ellenborough, predicted that the next step would be abolition of the death penalty for stealing five shillings from a house; thereafter no one could «trust himself for an hour without the most alarming apprehension that, on his return, every vestige of his property [would] be swept away by the hardened robber» (quoted by Herbert B. Ehrmann in «The Death Penalty and the Administration of Justice,» in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], p. 415In the House of Lords, the chief justice of the Kings Bench, Lord Ellenborough, predicted that the next step would be abolition of the death penalty for stealing five shillings from a house; thereafter no one could «trust himself for an hour without the most alarming apprehension that, on his return, every vestige of his property [would] be swept away by the hardened robber» (quoted by Herbert B. Ehrmann in «The Death Penalty and the Administration of Justice,» in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], p. death penalty for stealing five shillings from a house; thereafter no one could «trust himself for an hour without the most alarming apprehension that, on his return, every vestige of his property [would] be swept away by the hardened robber» (quoted by Herbert B. Ehrmann in «The Death Penalty and the Administration of Justice,» in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], ppenalty for stealing five shillings from a house; thereafter no one could «trust himself for an hour without the most alarming apprehension that, on his return, every vestige of his property [would] be swept away by the hardened robber» (quoted by Herbert B. Ehrmann in «The Death Penalty and the Administration of Justice,» in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], p. 415in «The Death Penalty and the Administration of Justice,» in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], p. Death Penalty and the Administration of Justice,» in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], pPenalty and the Administration of Justice,» in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], p. 415in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], p. Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], pPenalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], p. 415in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], p. 415).

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 abortioIn 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 abortioin 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.

The Growth, Mobilization and Activism Coordinator of Amnesty International Ghana, Frank Doyi, said this at a public forum on the abolition and campaign against death penalty at Wa in the Upper West Region.

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.

Wilson's government was responsible for a number of sweeping social and educational reforms under the leadership of Home Secretary Roy Jenkins such as the abolishment of the death penalty in 1964, the legalisation of abortion and homosexuality (initially only for men aged 21 or over, and only in England and Wales) in 1967 and the abolition of theatre censorship in 1968.

He hopes to continue a record of «effective progressive accomplishment» in the House, citing his floor leadership in Maryland's passage of medical marijuana and death penalty abolition.

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.

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