Swiss popular initiative underway to bring death penalty back
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) - A Swiss popular initiative to bring back the death penalty, abolished in 1942, has gathered the necessary signatures and fulfilled other...
View ArticleSwiss death penalty proposal dies quick death
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – In one of the fastest political turnarounds in recent memory, a popular initiative to reinstate the death penalty has died, a day after it was...
View ArticleDeath penalty in Arizona goes ahead with imported drug
GenevaLunch News The state of Arizona, USA, has gone ahead with the execution of Jeffrey Landrigan after the US Supreme Court overruled two lower court decisions halting the execution 26 October....
View ArticleUS charges soldier with 22 new counts in WikiLeaks saga
GenevaLunch News Pvt 1st Class Bradley Manning of the US Army, who supplied WikiLeaks with the classified documents that opened a Pandora’s diplomatic box in late 2010, has been handed 22 new criminal...
View ArticleSwiss call on Bahrein to end death penalty as four condemned
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss government Friday morning called for Bahrein to end the death penalty, which it has rarely invoked, and to review the four sentences passed...
View ArticleDeath penalty call for Egypt’s Mubarak
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Public prosecutors in Egypt have completed their case against former President Hosni Mubarak and they have called for the death penalty, by hanging, for him and...
View Article17th US state opts to abolish death penalty
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Connecticut is about to become the 17th US state to abolish the death penalty, with both houses voting for a bill to ban it and the governor announcing 11 April...
View Article5 in Indian family sentenced to death in honour killings
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Five members of a family who were found guilty of killing a young couple by electrocuting them, after torturing the pair, have been sentenced to death in...
View ArticleUN resolutions on death penalty moratorium gaining ground
GenevaLunch News Switzerland’s top human rights priority is for moratorium BERN, SWITZERLAND – The United Nations voted Monday 19 November in New York in favour of a resolution calling for a moratorium...
View ArticleAfghanistan ends death penalty moratorium
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The same day that Switzerland, a leader in the fight to abolish the death penalty worldwide, said progress was being made in gathering world support for a death...
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