Until then, the groups campaigning to end capital punishment were marginal but they coalesced into a single umbrella organisation called Forum 90.

Previous cases have forced Britain to end corporal punishment in schools and to give greater rights to prisoners and to suspected terrorists.

The Bishop said that putting an end to abortion is a higher priority for him than ending capital punishment.

By the mid-1960s the long campaign for ending capital punishment was nearing a climax.

The Lithuanian parliament voted 76-to-3 to end capital punishment.

Conservatives say that would effectively end capital punishment in the United States.

To gain entry into the Council of Europe, Russia promised to end capital punishment.

It has held "children's parliaments" and worked to end corporal punishment in Pakistani schools.

Early in 1956 Johnson backed moves to end capital punishment, and when constituents complained he replied by inviting them to choose "a mere robot" instead.

Ultimately, there is only one argument that will ever end capital punishment in the United States: the execution of an innocent prisoner can never be reversed.