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New York terrorist who killed eight crashing truck into cyclists dodges death penalty

ISIS supporter Sayfullo Saipov rammed a truck along a busy New York City bike path killing eight people including two children in the October 2017 terror attack

Daily Mirror

South Carolina GOP bill could make abortion punishable by death penalty

Representative Rob Harris’s bill has so far attracted 21 co-sponsors

The Independent UK

New York bike path killer avoids death penalty as jury deadlocks

Sayfullo Saipov has received life in prison for a 2017 attack that left eight people dead and others severely injured.

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EXPLAINER: What's the status of the US death penalty?

The first federal capital case tried under President Joe Biden ended with a split among jurors, meaning the life of an Islamic extremist who killed eight people in a New York City will be spared

The Independent UK

Manhattan bike path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov spared the death penalty

NEW YORK — Islamic State-inspired terrorist Sayfullo Saipov on Monday was given the mercy he didn’t offer the eight victims he mowed down on a Manhattan bike path with a rented truck — being spared the death penalty.

Tribune News Service

Divided jury means no death penalty for NYC bike path killer

A split among jurors means there will be no death penalty for an Islamic extremist who maniacally raced a truck along a popular New York City bike path, killing eight people and maiming others

The Independent UK

Fox News faces "financial death penalty"

"Fox is now trapped in an ever-worsening spiral of lies of its own creation," former prosecutor says

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No verdict this week on death penalty in NY bike-path attack

Jurors have deliberated about five hours in the death penalty phase of a man convicted of killing eight people on a Manhattan bike path in 2017 before saying they would not reach a verdict until another day

The Independent UK

Jury mulls death penalty or life for man in bike path attack

A New York jury has begun deliberating whether to impose the death penalty on a Uzbekistan citizen who killed eight people on a Manhattan bike path in a terrorist attack five years ago

The Independent UK

Man executed for killing wife and her daughter tells family to ‘forgive me and move on’ in dying statement

Texas has executed Gary Green for fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub nearly 14 years ago

The Independent UK

Prosecutor seeks death for man in New York bike path attack

Prosecutors have urged a jury to impose the death penalty on a man who killed eight people on a Manhattan bike path in a 2017 vehicle attack

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh avoided death sentence because of ‘racial and class privilege,’ observers say

Murdaugh family has presided for generations over South Carolina courts

The Independent UK

Iran’s supreme leader swears those who poisoned schoolgirls will face death penalty

The unexplained poisoning incidents have come at a fraught time for young girls in Iran who have been targeted for their role in leading nationwide anti-government protests

Daily Mirror

Virginia DOC says execution audio tapes should remain secret

The Virginia Department of Corrections has recorded audio of at least 30 executions over the last three decades, but it has no plans to release the tapes publicly

The Independent UK

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Texas Observer

Two Executions, Many Questions about Mental Health, Innocence

Gary Green and Arthur Brown Jr. are set to be killed next week by the State of Texas.

The Independent UK

Shock as Tennessee Republican suggests lynching-style hangings as execution method

State has long history of lynchings

Asharq Al-Awsat

Bill on ‘Executing Prisoners’ Passes Preliminary Knesset Vote

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…

Tribune News Service

Florida bill seeks death penalty for child rapists, challenging US justices' prior rulings

TAMPA, Fla. — Acting on a proposal from Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida lawmakers filed legislation Wednesday to allow the death penalty for adults convicted of sexual battery of children younger than 12.

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The Independent UK

Israeli army arrests Palestinian suspects in deadly shooting

The Israeli military says Israeli troops arrested two Palestinians suspected of involvement in the killing earlier this week of an American-Israeli

The Conversation

God and politics in South Africa: the ruling ANC's winning strategy

Religion shapes some of the most controversial decisions that governments need to make: access to abortion, same-sex marriage, the death penalty and the legal status of sex work. Indeed, it is likely that most voters across the world consider religion to be essential to their lives.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Bringing back the firing squad in Idaho would expose barbarity of the death penalty

Taking the life of another human being is the most serious act imaginable, whether it’s a murderer taking the life of a victim or the state taking a life.

Tribune News Service

Florida executes Donald Dillbeck for 1990 Tallahassee murder

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

Tribune News Service

NYC bike path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov’s father weeps on the stand at death penalty trial as uncle decries ‘dirty ISIS bastards’

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 Independent UK

Emotional outburst disrupts death penalty trial in NY attack

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

Asharq Al-Awsat

EU Condemns Iran Over Death Penalty for Iranian-German

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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