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'First' in 200 years: US woman who killed classmate at 18 faces execution at 50

Christa Pike and her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, were students at Knoxville Job Corps when Slemmer was killed. Prosecutors said Pike believed Slemmer was a romantic rival and lured her to an isolated area, where she and Shipp tortured and killed her. The case drew national attention because of the brutality…

The Times of India · Sep 29

Inside ‘Satanic panic’ teen murder that put Christa Pike on death row for 30 years

Pike was 18 when she was sent to death row following a murder committed in a jealous rage. Decades later she has survived an attempted execution

The Independent UK · Sep 28

Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh wins 2026 Vaclav Havel human rights prize

Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was awarded the Council of Europe’s Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize on Monday for her work defending activists, journalists, minorities and opponents of the death penalty.

Radio France Internationale · Sep 28

Texas man, charged with murder of his wife, escapes to Milan just before trial; Italy delays extradition, seeks formal assurance that there would be no death penalty

40-year-old Lee Mongerson Gilley, a Texas man charged with killing his pregnant wife, fled to Milan with a fake passport and preferred to be imprisoned in Italy instead of Texas, as the state has the death penalty for the crime he is accused of. The alleged murder took place in…

The Times of India · Sep 21

Nick Reiner wants to access family trust

Nick Reiner claims he hasn't received money from his family trust for the jail commissary at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, where he has been detained since December 2025.

BANG Premier · Sep 19

Alabama woman avoids death penalty after pleading guilty to killing newborn because she felt a baby would ‘cost too much’

She gave birth in secret.

We Got This Covered · Sep 17

Why Prosecutors Won't Seek the Death Penalty in the Nick Reiner Case, According to the DA

Los Angeles prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against Nick Reiner, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of killing his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, in December 2025.

International Business Times UK · Sep 17

'She Should Be Dead Too': Nancy Mace Calls for Public Execution of Accused Child Killer Lindsay Clancy

Nancy Mace has called for Lindsay Clancy to receive the death penalty and be publicly executed after a Massachusetts jury deadlocked over the alleged killings of Clancy's children.

International Business Times UK · Sep 16

Nick Reiner Says 'Yes' To Judge While Waiving Speedy Trial in Rob and Michele Reiner Case

Nick Reiner waived his right to a speedy trial in Los Angeles as prosecutors confirmed they would not seek the death penalty in the case involving his parents' deaths.

International Business Times UK · Sep 16

France gives guillotine the chop – archive, 1981

Deputies vote to end capital punishment despite opinion polls showing that two-thirds of French people favour the death penalty

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16