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  • February 29, 2008
    'Christian' societies and the death penalty

    Radio shock-jock and Sun tabloid pundit John Gaunt has been bigging up the death penalty on TV this week. His millions of followers can't be wrong, he reckons.

  • January 16, 2008
    The death penalty shows its true colours

    Ex-Conservative MP Michael Portillo was on TV last night, documenting his attempts to discover whether there is a "humane" way for the state to kill people found guilty of heinous crimes.

  • January 16, 2008
    Amnesty launches campaign against stoning in Iran

    The global human rights group Amnesty International has called on the government of Iran to immediately abolish the "grotesque and horrific" practice of publicly stoning people to death.

  • January 8, 2007
    Saddam hanging farce leads to new global push against death penalty

    Human rights, religious and civic political activists are stepping up the global campaign for the abolition of the death penalty, in the wake of overwhelming worldwide criticism of the manner and impact of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's execution.

  • January 1, 2007
    Williams should have helped indict Saddam to avert war, says MP

    Welsh Labour MP Ann Clwyd, a long-term campaigner for human rights in Iraq, has said that Dr Rowan Williams did not do enough to get Saddam Hussein indicted for mass murder before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 ‚Ä' when he was Archbishop of Wales.

  • December 30, 2006
    WCC seeks peace and justice in Iraq after dictator's demise

    Following the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein earlier this morning(30 December 2006), the general secretary of the World Council of Churches issued a statement asking God to grant the nation of Iraq "the mercy, justice and compassion that it has long been denied" and "an end to fear and death that marked Saddam Hussein's rule and that continue now".

  • November 5, 2006
    Comment on trial of Saddam Hussein
  • November 17, 2005
    Catholic bishops back campaign to end US death penalty

    Catholic bishops in the US have emphatically endorsed a campaign to end the use of the death penalty in America, saying that the country cannot "teach that killing is wrong by killing those who kill."

  • November 15, 2004
    Churches encouraged by fall in death penalty figures

    Christians encouraged by fall in death penalty figures

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  • March 24, 2004
    Tutu visits death row inmate

    Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been to death row in Texas to visit an inmate condemned for the slaying of a Houston man more than 12 years ago.