The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty plans to work through state legislatures to abolish the death penalty for offenders under age 18 in the 22 states where it is still allowed, said Steven Hawkins, executive director of the group.
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We all want to abolish the things that Wells wants to abolish.
Proposals to abolish the right to cross-examine at public inquiries have been ruled out.
The defence minister, Antonio Martino, is also seeing through a plan to abolish conscription and to overhaul the arms-procurement system.
It is also the intention of the Chavez regime to abolish private property and to repress independent groups in society.
Thus, the most important step to take is to recognize gold bullion (at the very least U.S. Mint bullion coins) as legal tender, and then to abolish all taxes relating to transactions with bullion, or related items such as banknotes and bank accounts based on bullion.
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Well, McConnell would have to abolish all the rest of government to get to balance by 2020.
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He is determined to abolish the right of some defendants to opt for a trial by jury.
They point out that the government will allow parental ballots to abolish grammar schools, but not to set them up.
So Mr Dewar thinks it is time to abolish quasi-feudal rights and to give tenants of large estates the right to buy the land at a price fixed by the government when the landlord decides to sell.
Ministers also plan to abolish the dual mandate that allows AMs to sit as MPs.
First, Islamist parties are trying to use current democracy in order to abolish it later, when they come to power.
Were the Scottish executive to abolish fees, however, the cost to taxpayers would be less than this, because students would need to borrow less from the government.
The Geneva Conventions, for instance, are shown coming about when one branch of the peace movement stopped trying to abolish war, and worked with governments to humanise the way that wars were fought.
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (essentially head of the treasury and czar of all things financial) explained that the decision to abolish the stamp duty tax was meant to benefit small and medium sized businesses.
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He says the point of his rearguard action is not to defend the hereditaries but to ensure that the reformed house is at least as independent as the present one, and that the government does not use its newly announced royal commission as an excuse to abolish the hereditaries and then do nothing to fill the vacuum.
Moreover, there is a simple way more or less to abolish the effect of climate change on yield to date.
He was the only Tory backbencher to support Sidney Silverman's bill to abolish hanging, and one of the few to refuse to back the Tory government over Suez.
Staying true to his principles, Sheridan used his new status to see through legislation to abolish the poindings and warrant sales, used to seize the assets of people in debt.
Unlike many countries in Latin America, in the seventies, that used the excuse of guerilla activity to abolish democratic institutions, Colombia has been able to maintain a parliamentary and constitutional regime.
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They haemorrhaged support to newer, smaller parties, which promise to abolish the austerity measures that have brought the country to its knees.
The US state of Maryland is poised to abolish the death penalty after its lawmakers voted 82 to 56 in favour of the move.
To meet the Council's requirements, the Russian government has promised to abolish the death penalty, although it has yet to win ratification of this pledge from a reluctant Duma.
Professor Bob Morris, honorary senior research fellow at University College London's Constitution Unit, says it could actually be easier to abolish hereditary peers in the Lords than make changes to male primogeniture.
Following the preliminary ruling by US District Judge Richard Sullivan in New York, Apple has dropped plans to ask shareholders to vote on whether to abolish a contractual right that the company currently enjoys to issue such preference shares without limit.
The minister insisted he was "profoundly concerned" by the UK Government's plans to abolish Council Tax Benefit and outlined the Welsh governments proposals to develop and implement a new scheme.
The liberals' influence has been seen in recent decisions to abolish Egypt's harsh state-security courts and to create a human-rights body though these moves have yet to put an end to torture and extra-judicial punishments.
The message was, said Mr Jones, aimed at a Tory Government in Westminster who would "be able to abolish the assembly at a whim" if it wanted to - not, you might argue, that likely.
In his speeches he promises to abolish the Alternative Minimum Tax (a secondary system designed to prevent wealthy people avoiding tax, which now hits millions of taxpayers), though the campaign's fine print suggests patching rather than eliminating it.
Neil Record says the sums involved would be so large, and the litigation so ruinous, that the best option would be to abolish the euro as soon as one country leaves, so as to invalidate all euro contracts.
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