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Opponents Fear Trump's Return May Lead To More Executions

Advocates urge Biden to commute federal death sentences to prevent potential resumption of executions under Trump administration. Concerns over broadening ...

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A man charged in a deadly 2022 shooting rampage in Memphis is set to stand trial in July

A judge has set a July trial date for a man facing the death penalty in a daylong shooting rampage in Memphis, Tennessee

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Death penalty sought for an Idaho gang member accused of killing a man while on the run

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty if an Idaho white supremacist gang member is convicted of killing a man while he was on the run

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Calls mount for Biden to spare federal death row inmates before Trump retakes office

Advocates implore Biden to ‘commute the row’ of prisoners sentenced to death before Trump restarts executions

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US Death Row Inmate Stages Jazz Protest For Release In London Court

Some of Britain's most notorious cases have been tried at London's Old Bailey, including those attracting the death penalty until the punishment was abolished in the 1960s.

International Business Times

Burkina Faso aims to reinstate death penalty, government source says

Burkina Faso's military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty, which was abolished in the country in 2018, a government source told AFP news agency on Saturday.

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Burkina Faso wants to reinstate death penalty, government source says

Military regime considering move after capital punishment abolished in west African country in 2018

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US will appeal judge's ruling that 9/11 defendants can plead guilty and avoid the death penalty

A defense official says the Defense Department will appeal a military judge’s ruling that plea agreements struck by the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and two of his co-defendants are valid

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Fox News hosts joke that Trump prosecutors should ‘face death penalty’

‘They definitely need therapy. Maybe also the death penalty,’ Dana Perino said on The Five

The Independent UK

Bryan Kohberger fights to have death penalty taken off table of Idaho murders trial as he may face firing squad

Defense attorney Anne Taylor argued that keeping a person on death row without a way to execute them is ‘dehumanizing’

The Independent UK

Defense asks judge to ban the death penalty for man charged in stabbing deaths of 4 Idaho students

Lawyers for a man charged with murder in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students have asked a judge to take the death penalty off the table

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Jealous Kentucky Boss Offered Employee a Raise to Murder His Girlfriend's Ex-Husband: 'Truly Beyond Imagination'

A boss who offered his employee $2,000, a pickup truck, and a raise to kill his lover's ex-husband narrowly avoided the death penalty for his plot.

Latin Times

Texas Court Orders New Trial For Death Row Inmate Over Judge's Anti-Semitic Bias

Randy Halprin was part of the "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners. Ha had already won a reprieve from the death penalty in 2019 for the same reason

Latin Times

Judge reinstates controversial plea deal for 9/11 masterminds after Pentagon chief tried to void it

The ruling means that the three 9/11 defendants before long could enter guilty pleas in the U.S. military courtroom at Guantanamo Bay

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Kokila Annamalai, the first activist in Singapore to defy its ‘stifling’ online speech laws

The activist risks jail after refusing to ‘correct’ online posts criticising Singapore’s death penalty and drug laws, a first in the city state under its ‘Pofma’ act

The Independent UK

Nigeria releases 29 children who potentially faced death penalty for alleged involvement in protests

Nigerian authorities have released 29 children who have been detained for over two months and potentially faced the death penalty for their alleged participation in protests against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis following growing calls for their release

Evening Standard

MPs urge Starmer to secure release of British blogger facing India death penalty

Jagtar Singh Johal was arrested in November 2017 in Punjab, northern India, while in the country for his wedding.

International Business Times

Appeal Begins For Vietnam Death Row Tycoon

The appeal of a Vietnamese property tycoon given the death penalty for fraud totalling $27 billion will begin on Monday after she pleaded for a more "lenient and humane" sentence.

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29 Nigerian Children Face Death Penalty For Protesting Cost-Of-Living

Children in Nigeria face death penalty for protesting cost-of-living crisis, highlighting socio-economic challenges in the country.

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Nigeria Faces Crisis As Children Protest Cost-Of-Living

Children in Nigeria face death penalty for protesting cost-of-living crisis amid economic challenges and legal concerns.

The Independent UK

These children protested against the cost of living crisis – now they face the death penalty

Four of the minors collapsed in court due to exhaustion before they could enter a plea

The Guardian - US

South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite objections from judge and jurors

‘To my children and granddaughters, I love you and am so proud of you,’ Moore, 59, said in his last words

Latin Times

Trump Promises to Create Fund to Support People Impacted by Crimes Allegedly Committed by Migrants

He also said he will seek the death penalty for any migrant who comes into the country and kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer

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Black Man Seeks Supreme Court Reprieve In Murder Case

Richard Moore, a Black man on death row in South Carolina, seeks Supreme Court reprieve amidst broader death penalty debate and racial disparity concerns.

The Independent UK

Jurors, judge and former prison director all ask for mercy for condemned South Carolina inmate

South Carolina death row inmate Richard Moore has more than 20 people asking the governor to spare his life in a clemency petition filed just two days before he is scheduled to die by lethal injection for the 1999 killing of a store clerk

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