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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 November 2024. Fictional character from Star Trek For other uses, see William Riker (disambiguation). Fictional character William T. Riker Star Trek: The Next Generation character First appearance "Encounter at Farpoint" (1987) (The Next Generation) Created by Gene Roddenberry D. C. Fontana Portrayed ...
William Edward Riker (February 17, 1873 – December 3, 1969) was a White supremacist religious leader and perennial candidate who founded the community of Holy City, California, and was an unsuccessful candidate for California Governor. [1]
Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [206] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [207] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [208] [209] [210] or has a brutalization effect, [211] [212] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [213]
Vermont has abolished the death penalty for all crimes, but has an invalid death penalty statue for treason. [80] When it abolished the death penalty in 2019, New Hampshire explicitly did not commute the death sentence of the sole person remaining on the state's death row, Michael K. Addison. [81] [82]
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
A total of 21 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Indiana in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977. Before 1995, electrocution was the sole method of execution. This was replaced with lethal injection in 1995.
List of death row inmates held by the United States federal government; Capital punishment by the United States federal government; Capital punishment in the United States; List of people executed for crimes committed within the District of Columbia
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 ...