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Australia’s first civilian jury was entirely female. Here’s how ‘juries of matrons’ shaped our legal history

It’s hard to imagine now, but for almost 1,000 years, pregnant women in England could avoid the death penalty just by virtue of being pregnant. A pregnant woman sentenced to death would receive a stay of execution until the baby was born. It was called “pleading the belly” and often…

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California prosecutors used anti-gay slurs to refer to prospective jurors

Handwritten notes show Alameda county DA’s office prosecutors using homophobic labels

The Guardian - US

Former White House staffer says Trump called for leaker to be executed

Trump’s demand that 2020 leaker be punished with death raises questions about retribution if he is re-elected

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Killer sporting Nazi face tattoos is found guilty of brutal strangling of two Florida women hours apart

Wade Wilson, 30, faces the death penalty for the October 2019 murders of 35-year-old Kristine Melton and 43-year-old Diane Ruiz

The Independent UK

Missouri Executes Man Convicted Of Double Murder In 2009

Missouri executes man convicted of double homicide, sparking debate on the death penalty and justice system.

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Chad Daybell convicted of killing his wife and Lori Vallow’s kids as murderer now faces death penalty sentence

Daybell could face life in prison or the death penalty. The same jury will decide his fate after a penalty phase of testimony

The Independent UK

Texas Republicans open to death penalty for abortion providers

GOP convention votes on wide-ranging platform including striking law protecting abortion providers from being charged with murder

The Guardian - US

TX GOP wants death penalty for abortions

"Equal protection for the preborn" is a "call for abortion to be treated as homicide," says Jessica Valenti

Salon

Three dead bodies and a thirst for money and sex: Prosecutors lay out Chad Daybell death penalty case

Chad Daybell faces life in prison or the death penalty if convicted of 2019 killings of Tammy Daybell, and Lori Vallow’s youngest children, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow

The Independent UK

Global executions at highest level in almost a decade, says Amnesty

Executions soared to their highest level in almost a decade in 2023, the rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday as it released its annual report on the global use of the death penalty.

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The Independent UK

US ranks in top 5 countries with most executions

Executions were up 33 per cent in the US in 2023

Salon

GOP pushing to expand the death penalty

Death penalty states want the Supreme Court to throw out its precedents and allow the execution of child rapists

International Business Times

Death Penalty Sought Again For 88-year-old In Japan Murder Saga

Japanese prosecutors again sought the death penalty in the retrial on Wednesday of an ex-boxer who was the world's longest-serving death row prisoner until his release in 2014, local media reported.

Evening Standard

Julian Assange wins right to fresh appeal in extradition battle with the US

Assange’s legal team say they have accepted an assurance that US prosecutors would not seek the death penalty

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The Guardian - US

Bad Bunny sports agency sues MLB players’ union over ‘death penalty’ ban

Bad Bunny’s representation firm sued the baseball players’ association Thursday, disputing a ban it says amounts to a ‘death penalty’ for its business

The Guardian - US

Prison officers traumatized by rate of executions in US death penalty states

Pursuit of ‘non-stop executions’ causing psychological distress to corrections staff as states urged to widen gap between executions

WEKU

What is the future of the death penalty in Kentucky?

There are topics which generate much debate and sometimes emotional commentary. One is abortion, which has been that kind of topic in Frankfort in recent years. There’s another which has not been formally debated but often carries a strong reaction as well.The death penalty is legal in Kentucky and has…

The Guardian - US

California county to review 35 death penalty cases after judge cites ‘pattern of misconduct’

Alameda county district attorney’s office said it unearthed records suggesting prosecutors deliberately excluded Jewish and Black jurors from capital trials

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Alabama Supreme Court Authorizes Execution Of Convicted Killer

Alabama Supreme Court authorizes execution of Keith Edmund Gavin for 1998 murder case, sparking debates on death penalty fairness and legal procedures.

The Guardian - US

Black death row inmates suffer botched executions at twice rate of whites in US

A glaring racial disparity is evident in the 73 botched procedures involving lethal injections since 1976, report by Reprieve finds

WEKU

States botched more executions of Black prisoners. Experts think they know why

A study showed states made more mistakes when executing Black prisoners by lethal injection than they did with prisoners of other races. Execution workers and race experts said they're not surprised.

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