Many prosecutors have become more discriminating, calling for death only in the worst cases.
The panel also recommended that those found guilty of rape leading to death spend the rest of their life in prison, but it stopped short of calling for the death penalty, something which many in India had pushed for, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder reports from Delhi.
The Dhaka protesters, backed by influential bloggers, have been calling for the death sentence for Islamist politicians found guilty by a war-crimes tribunal looking into atrocities committed during the country's 1971 war of independence.
Stuart's parents, Joanna and David Cunningham-Jones, who have become campaigners for better bus safety for school children, have been calling for an inquest into his death to be carried out for some time.
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However, both Perry and Cain are similarly calling for repeal of the death tax.
Sadr's supposed arch-foe, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who leads al-Qaida in Iraq and whose operational commanders are in Iran, responded to his death by calling for attacks against Israel.
Other new petitions considered included one on behalf of Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, calling for a strategy for reducing levels of stillbirths and neonatal deaths.
More than 100, 000 signed a petition set up earlier this year calling for a fresh inquest into Kevin's death.
More than 100, 000 people have signed an e-petition calling for a fresh inquest into Kevin Williams' death to be held swiftly as his mother is suffering from cancer.
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Adding insult to injury, customers stuck listening to the "click of death" found that calling the company for help was expensive and time consuming.
Thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for a Daily Mail columnist to be sacked after the death of a teacher in Lancashire.
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"We are talking about a death by a thousand cuts, " he said, calling for an amnesty to bring the full extent of past doping in the sport into the open, and to provide a new start for cycling.
The return of the death penalty heads the list of demands, with dozens of separate campaigns calling for it.
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