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State has long history of lynchings

The Knesset on Wednesday advanced a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian captives, approving it in its preliminary reading. The primary legislation stipulates that courts will be able to impose the death penalty on those who have committed a nationalistically motivated murder of an Israeli. According to the…

STARKE, Fla. — Florida executed Donald David Dillbeck on Thursday evening, three decades after he stabbed to death Faye Vann outside the Tallahassee Mall.

NEW YORK — West Side bike path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov’s father wept uncontrollably at his son’s death penalty trial in Manhattan Federal Court on Thursday.

The sobbing father of a man convicted of killing eight people on a New York City bike path has apologized to victims and professed love for his son in the death penalty phase of the defendant's trial

The European Union on Thursday condemned a death penalty imposed by an Iranian court on an Iranian-German dual national and expressed concern about the increasing number of EU citizens in Iran's jails. Tehran's Revolutionary Court convicted Jamshid Sharmahd, 67, on Tuesday on charges of playing a role in a deadly…

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Three Republican House members are among those joining the call for a moratorium on the death penalty in Oklahoma

A federal judge has barred the public and media from a courtroom where defense lawyers say emotional testimony from victims has spoiled the death penalty phase of the trial of a man who admits that he killed eight people on a bike path on behalf of a terrorist group