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Striving for a World without Capital Punishment Subscribe NASHVILLE — Until August, Tennessee had not put a prisoner to death in nearly a decade. Last Thursday, it performed its third execution in This was not a surprising turn of events. In each case, recourse to the courts had been exhausted. In each case Gov. Bill Haslam, a Republican, declined to intervene, though there were many reasons to justify intervening. Billy Ray Irick suffered from psychotic breaks from wrong. Edmund Zagorksi’s behavior in prison was so exemplary that even the warden pleaded for his life himself when he was 6 years old. Questions about the humanity of Tennessee’s lethal-injection protocol were so pervasive following the execution of Mr. Irick that both Mr. Zagorski and M…. DEATH PENALTY: GLOBAL ABOLITION CLOSER THAN EVER AS RECORD NUMBER OF COUNTRIES VOTE TO END EXECUTIONS. After a record number of UN member states today supported at the final vote a key UN General As*embly resolution calling for a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty, Amnesty International’s Death Penalty Expert Chiara Sangiorgio said:  “The fact that more countries than ever before have voted to end executions shows that global abolition of the death penalty is becoming an inevitable reality. A death penalty-free world is closer than ever.  “This vote sends yet another important signal that more and more countries are willing to take steps to end this cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment once and for all.  “The result also shows the increasing isolation of the 35 countries that voted against the resolution. Those countries still retaining the death penalty should immediately establish a moratorium on executions as a first step towards full abolition.” Background 121 of the UN’s 193 member states voted in favour of the seventh resolution on a moratori… Maldives government on Monday vowed to enforce the death penalty but only after adequately reforming the countrys judiciary.