death penalty Articles

This week, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office revised its global human rights goals. It dropped priorities including the abolition of the death penalty, in favour of three broad areas: democratic values, human rights and the rule of law. For most people, this change...

Leo Abse was arguably the 20th century’s most influential backbench member of parliament. Born in Cardiff on 22 April 1917, he read law at the London School of Economics. During the second world war, he served in the RAF, and was in Egypt when the ‘Forces Parliament’...

On 3 July 1976, just over 37 years ago, the US Supreme Court gave judgement in Gregg v Georgia 428 US 153 (1976). The ruling reinstated capital punishment in the United States. Four years earlier, in Furman v Georgia 408 US 238 (1972), capital punishment had been...

A national debate on the death penalty may be just around the corner. The death penalty will make some victims feel better, no doubt about it. Some victims won't feel any better though. Capital punishment won't achieve objective goals in a proportionate manner; it is...