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Activist Sister Helen Prejean has counseled popes, governors on death penalty: ‘She’s not a scold; she appeals to your reason’

Prejean, 84, addresses Catholic lawyers in Chicago, reminisces about fights against capital punishment — and will likely attend her seventh execution later this year.

Chicago Sun-Times

South Carolina legislature passes ‘barbaric’ law shielding identity of lethal injection drugmakers

The fate of the bills will impact the larger ways capital punishment is administered in the state

The Independent UK

Singapore executes man for coordinating the delivery of cannabis

Singapore on Wednesday executed a man accused of coordinating a cannabis delivery, despite pleas for clemency from his family and protests from activists that he was convicted on weak evidence.

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Singapore executes man for abetting trafficking of cannabis

Singapore has executed a man for abetting the trafficking of cannabis, despite pleas for clemency and protests that he was convicted on weak evidence

The Independent UK

Singapore chides billionaire Branson over call to spare cannabis trafficker

Singapore government on Tuesday accused British billionaire Richard Branson of peddling falsehoods and disrespecting its justice system, hitting back at the tycoon over his call to spare a man set to be executed this week for drug trafficking.

Reuters

Ugandan president says bill that imposes death penalty on homosexuals not harsh enough

He plans to send the Anti-Homosexuality Bill back to parliament for ‘strengthening’

Evening Standard

Family pleads for clemency ahead of Singapore drug execution

Tangaraju Suppiah was convicted in the city-state in 2018 but his family says he did not have adequate legal counsel.

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Singaporean on death row denied access to lawyers, say activists

Tangaraju Suppiah, due to be hanged this week, forced to self-represent after unsuccessful appeal

The Guardian - UK

Trial to begin in 2018 killing of 11 at Pittsburgh synagogue

Jury selection is set to begin in the federal death penalty trial of a truck driver accused of shooting to death 11 Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history

The Independent UK

DeSantis signs law making Florida state with lowest threshold for death penalty in US

Florida has high level of exonerations from death row

The Independent UK

Uganda’s president refuses to sign new hardline anti-LGBTQ+ bill

Yoweri Museveni sends bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality back to parliament for reconsideration

The Guardian - UK

Ugandan president refuses to sign LGBTQ bill, seeks changes

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has refused to sign into law a controversial new bill against homosexuality that prescribes the death penalty in some cases, requesting that it should be amended

The Independent UK

DeSantis signs bill giving Florida lowest death penalty threshold in US

TAMPA, Fla. — People in Florida can now be sent to death row with an 8-4 jury vote, instead of a unanimous requirement, after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law Thursday morning.

Tribune News Service

Ron DeSantis Signs Florida Law Setting Lowest Threshold for Death Penalty Sentences in the Country

Florida will now only require an 8–4 majority for a jury to recommend a death sentence. Alabama is the only other state that allows split juries to recommend death sentences.

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Florida eases path for death penalty after Parkland verdict

A Florida bill ending the unanimous jury requirement in death penalty sentencing is now law after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it in a private ceremony Thursday

Reason

Will Ohio Kill The Death Penalty?

Recent efforts from the governor, the attorney general, and state legislators suggest the state is moving away from capital punishment.

Bangkok Post

Reforms 'can't end' with legalised cannabis

MELBOURNE: Former New Zealand prime minister and current member of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, Helen Clark, has praised Thailand for decriminalising cannabis, but has also called on the country to end capital punishment, especially for those convicted of drug offences.

Tribune News Service

Picking a jury for the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial won't be easy

PITTSBURGH — Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys will begin the process next week of choosing a jury to hear the case against accused Tree of Life synagogue shooter Robert Bowers.

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The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter is about to stand trial, more than 4 years after a day that shook the city

PITTSBURGH — It's been more than four years since Robert Gregory Bowers opened fire on Shabbat services on a gray and rainy fall Saturday — since his name, and by extension Pittsburgh, became inextricably linked to the worst attack on the Jewish faith in American history.

The Independent UK

Lori Vallow Daybell: Timeline of ‘doomsday cult mom’s’ mystery case

After two years of delays in the trial, Lori Vallow has been found guilty of the murders of her children. But the case spans a deeply disturbing pattern of unexplained deaths and bizarre cult beliefs about killing zombies

The Independent UK

Florida dramatically loosens death penalty requirements after Nikolas Cruz sentencing

Florida will soon no longer require unanimous jury recommendations for judges to impose death penalty sentences

The Independent UK

Lori Vallow: Timeline of ‘doomsday cult mom’s’ mystery case

After two years of delays, Lori Vallow is now on trial for the murders of her children Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow. But the case spans a deeply disturbing pattern of unexplained deaths and bizarre cult beliefs about killing zombies

Asharq Al-Awsat

Two Rights Groups: Iran Executions Surge in Bid to 'Spread Fear'

Two rights groups revealed on Thursday that Iran is using death penalty as an “execution machine” aimed at spreading fear as protests shook the country in 2022. According to Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and France's Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), Iran hanged 75 percent more people in 2022…

The Independent UK

Post-Parkland, Florida OKs easier path for death penalty

Florida will soon no longer require unanimous jury recommendations for judges to impose death penalty sentences

The Independent UK

Florida executes ‘Ninja Killer’ Louis Gaskin for double murder as DeSantis increases the rate of executions

Florida has executed a man known as the “ninja killer” for the 1989 slayings of a couple visiting the state from New Jersey

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