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2. The Death Penalty Will Not Discourage Crime (1764) Cesare Beccaria: Excerpt from An Essay on Crimes and Punishments. 3. Society Must Retain the Death Penalty for Murder (1868) John Stuart Mill: Excerpt from "Speech In Favor of Capital Punishment," in Hansard's Parliamentary Debate. 4. The Death Penalty Is State-Sanctioned Murder (1872 ...
The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery. Many ...
Estelle Irizarry (1937-2017) was a Costa Rican professor emeritus of Hispanic literature at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. [1] She was one of the first historians to provide objective evidence based on scientific criteria and methodology to solve the mysteries surrounding the identity of Christopher Columbus.
MADRID, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a ...
Spanish scientists said they will reveal details of the nationality of 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery. Countries ...
Anti-death penalty groups specifically argue that the death penalty is unfairly applied to African Americans. African Americans have constituted 34.5 percent of those persons executed since the death penalty's reinstatement in 1976 and 41 percent of death row inmates as of April 2018, [ 84 ] despite representing only 13 percent of the general ...
An international study, initiated in 2001 and led by forensic scientist and professor at the University of Granada, José Antonio Lorente, claimed on October 12, 2024 that Christopher Columbus was of Sephardic Jewish origin by examining the DNA in bone fragments of his remains in Seville Cathedral, stating that "Both in the 'Y' chromosome and ...
Van Sertima's Journal of African Civilizations was not considered for inclusion in Journals of the Century. [17] In 1997 academics in a Journal of Current Anthropology article criticised in detail many elements of They Came Before Columbus (1976). [4] Except for a brief mention, the book had not previously been reviewed in an academic journal.