death penalty

• 24-March-1911 : Denmark abolishes the death penalty and flogging.
• 25-November-1926 : The death penalty is rereestablished in Italy.
• 29-March-1951 : Second Red Scare: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. On April 5 they are sentenced to receive the death penalty.
• 28-June-1956 : MP Sydney Silverman's bill for the abolition of the death penalty passes the British House of Commons.
• 12-October-1961 : The death penalty is abolished in New Zealand.
• 29-March-1971 : A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and 3 female followers.
• 25-May-1979 : John Spenkelink is executed in Florida, in the first use of the electric chair in America after the reintroduction of death penalty in 1976.
• 11-June-2004 : Terry Nichols is spared the death penalty by an Oklahoma state court on murder charges stemming from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The decision comes on the third anniversary of the execution of his cocodefendant, Timothy McVeigh, in Terre Haute, Indiana.
• 01-March-2005 : ''Roper v. Simmons'': The Supreme Court of the United States rules the death penalty unconstitutional for juveniles who committed their crimes before age 18.