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Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) [1] was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland . Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
After Australian child rapist Peter Scully was arrested in February 2015, several Filipino prosecutors called for the death penalty to be reintroduced for violent sexual crimes. [47] During the 2016 election campaign, presidential candidate and frontrunner Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte promised to restore the death penalty in the Philippines.
Prisoners sentenced to death by the Philippines. People who were ultimately executed by the Philippines should be placed in Category:People executed by the Philippines. For people of Filipino nationality sentenced to death, see Category:Filipino prisoners sentenced to death.
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.
In the years that followed, more than 6,000 people were killed in his war on drugs, according to police data, though independent monitors believe the number of extrajudicial killings could be much ...
In 1994, a Gallup survey conducted routinely since the 1930s found a record 80% of Americans supported the death penalty for a person convicted of murder while 16% opposed it. Last year, those ...
Two Australian nationals and their Filipina companion were killed in a hotel in a popular resort city south of the Philippine capital and police were trying to identify and track down the suspects ...
People of Filipino nationality sentenced to death. Filipino people who were ultimately executed should be placed in Category:Executed Filipino people. For people who were sentenced to death by the Philippines, see Category:Prisoners sentenced to death by the Philippines.