The Latest Breaking News from Death Penalty

‘Capital punishment cannot be ignored as long as it is in the law books’

A judge has asked federal prosecutors whether they will seek the death penalty against the white man accused in the killing of 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, on May 14.

Washington (AFP) - A US judge on Thursday asked the Biden administration to decide quickly if it will seek execution for the teenager who shot dead 10 African Americans at a supermarket in May, warning that doing so would cost taxpayers more money.

The white man who opened fire on Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, killing 10, is due in federal court, a day after authorities announced hate crime charges that could bring the death penalty

Alan Norton was sentenced to death by hanging in 1966, after his sister was found stabbed to death, but the death penalty was then abolished.

Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old white man accused of hunting and killing 10 Black people in a Buffalo supermarket, could face the death penalty.

Doha (AFP) - Australia beat Peru in a sudden death penalty shootout on Monday to secure the penultimate free place at the 2022 World Cup finals.

Malaysia expects capital punishment will no longer be mandatory in the country by January, once it obtains the required approvals from parliament, according to Law Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.

An Egyptian criminal court on Saturday sentenced to death by hanging the defendant in the murder of Father Arsanios Wadeed Rizkallah, priest of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Karmouz. Last month, the criminal court in Alexandria asked the country’s top mufti, the highest religious authority for Islam, to…