This story doesn't seem to have received much attention in the media - but I think it deserves some.
Most countries have now turned their backs on judicial killing - but up till now it's often been somthing which has been done by politicians, with a nasty suspicion that if the people had their way, it'd be back.
But now in a referendum the Irish people have overwhelmingly voted to remove the possibility of the death penalty from the constitution of Ireland. In every constiutuency in the 26 counties people voted to guarantee the abolition of the death penalty, with an average of 62.08 per cent supporting the referendum.