Psychiatry related information on Capital Punishment

• Who--and how--to kill are focus of US death penalty cases. Questions about prisoners' mental competence and use of pancuronium bromide ignite recent controversy [1].
• Behavioral science data included in an amicus brief has been introduced into a recent Supreme Court decision (Thompson v. Oklahoma) involving the juvenile death penalty [2].

High impact information on Capital Punishment

• Loss of Bin1 in human tumors may promote malignant progression in part by helping to stanch the death penalty associated with c-Myc activation [3].
• We propose that loss of Bin1 may promote malignancy by blunting death penalties associated with oncogene activation [4].
• Following the 1972 Supreme Court decision on capital punishment, the Georgia legislature enacted a death penalty statute that attempts to avoid constitutional objections by establishing discretionary death sentencing for 361 rape cases in Georgia, comparing legal and nonlegal variables [5].
• There are at least 83 countries where homosexuality is condemned in the criminal code; 26 of these are Muslim countries and in seven the death penalty for persons presumed guilty of homosexual acts makes sexual minorities extremely vulnerable [6].
• NMA should advocate a national moratorium on the death penalty [7].

Associations of Capital Punishment with chemical compounds

• Capital punishment. Equity drought hits technology and service firms [8].
• A factor analysis of social characteristics of the states in 1980 showed that states with a death penalty were less socially integrated and more southern [9].

Gene context of Capital Punishment

• Civilization and its discontents: an ongoing update. Part 1: The death penalty [10].

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