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Sir Thomas dale starts the"laws divine, moral and martial" They include death for crimes such as blasphemy, adultery, and Trading with indians.
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Several people are killed for religious Crimes, first women executed in the colonies. Pennsylvanian government describes death Row candidates as traitors and murderers.
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Cesare Beccaria states "It is not neccesary to punish just by death." He is in favor of life imprisionment as an alternate punishment
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Pennsylvania as a a pioneer in the buisness of repealing death laws. Michigan wants no death penalty unless for treason. Rhode island and Wisconsin totally abolish it for 1852 and 1853.
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US supreme court rules that drawing and quartering, disembowling, and all other painful executions are listed as cruel and unusual punishment. They were later abolished.
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The world continues its methods of punishment. Six states abolished the death penalty and three make it only allowed in extremely rare cases. Several new laws were made On the concept of human rights.
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Abolishonist movement convinces Kansas to abolish the death penalty. 8 states extremely limit the death penalty.
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6 of the 8 states that limited the death penalty in 1907 bring the death penalty back into action.
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The death penalty reaches the highest point in history with about 167 executions per year.
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the last execution of a federal prisoner until the year 2001 by hanging.
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George E. Pataki rules the death penalty constitutional and brings it back as a punishment in NY.
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supreme court reverses pataki's decision a vote to make the death penalty null and void.
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activists and experts attend the 4th world congress against the death penalty to help organizations supporting human rights In other countries.