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The Vatican has made numerous statements criticizing capital punishment, and this may be a factor in the debate in Mexico. In 2003, the State of Mexico voted in a nonbinding referendum regarding the death penalty. 82% of the 806,416 people who voted, voted Yes for the death penalty on crimes of murder, kidnapping, child theft and violent assaults.
Capital punishment is abolished in Argentina and is no longer a lawful punishment in the country. Argentina abolished capital punishment for ordinary crimes in 1984 and abolished it for all crimes in 2008, supported by the president at the time, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. [1] [2] [3] Argentina voted in favor of the United Nations ...
Carlos Eduardo Robledo Puch (born 19 January 1952 [2]), also known as The Angel of Death and The Black Angel, is an Argentine serial killer.He was convicted of at least eleven murders (including the killing of at least one accomplice), one attempted murder, seventeen robberies, involvement in one rape and one attempted rape, one count of sexual abuse, two kidnappings, and two thefts.
7. Date. 17 May 1995. Country. Guatemala. Manuel Martínez Coronado (1964 or 1965 – 10 February 1998) was a Guatemalan mass murderer, convicted for the killing of seven people on 17 May 1995. Coronado was sentenced to death for the murders, and was executed in 1998, the first execution by lethal injection in Guatemala. [1]
During the Israel–Hamas war, a video described as Hamas executes people by throwing them off a roof of a building! circulated on social media. [54] Some derivatives of the meme claimed the men were executed for being gay. [citation needed] The video, however, was from 2015 and not from Palestine. [54]
Capital punishment in Chile is legally sanctioned, albeit with significant limitations. Since its abolition for civilian offenses in 2001, its application has been restricted to military personnel convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during wartime. [1] [2] This places Chile among the seven countries globally that have ...
A federal appeals court has reversed the conviction of a researcher who was accused of hiding work he did in China while employed at the University of Kansas. Feng “Franklin” Tao was convicted ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Laos.. The long list of capital crimes enumerated in the statute books of Laos include murder; terrorism; drug trafficking; drug possession; robbery; kidnapping; obstructing an officer in the performance of his public duties and causing his death or causing him physically disability; disrupting industry, trade, agriculture or other economic activities ...