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Rishi Sunak flew back to London from Dorset last night before flying to Cornwall this morning, No 10 confirms – as it happened

PM rejected overnight stay in west country and used helicopter to return to London before flying to Cornwall in plane

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak rebukes Tory vice-chair for backing death penalty

Lee Anderson, who was given role on Tuesday, also called for a naval ‘standoff’ in the Channel over small boats

The Guardian - UK

Editorial: Is it a good idea for Florida to make it easier to execute people?

The governor and many Florida lawmakers want to make it easier to sentence murderers to death. But will their plan live up to their expectations or will it just deepen the legal quagmire that already envelops state-sanctioned executions?

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New Tory party deputy chair Lee Anderson backs return of death penalty

The outspoken MP said of fusilier Lee Rigby’s killers ‘they should have gone, same week. I don’t want to pay for these people’

Evening Standard

Nottinghamshire MP Lee Anderson says he is in favour of death penalty

He said: 'Nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed'

Nottingham Post

Bring back the death penalty, says new Tory party deputy chair Lee Anderson

Outspoken MP also says Navy frigates should take Channel migrants back to France the same day

The Independent UK

'100 per cent success rate': Tory deputy chairman backs DEATH PENALTY

THE newly appointed deputy Conservative Party chairman has said he would support the return of the death penalty because “nobody has ever…

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A man pleads guilty to federal charges in the El Paso shooting that targeted Latinos

Sentencing is not scheduled until later this year, but the U.S. government had previously announced it wouldn't seek the death penalty.

WEKU

New Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson: I would support death penalty return

The outspoken MP said he did not want to ‘pay for’ criminals such as Fusilier Lee Rigby’s killers to be imprisoned.

The Independent UK

Suspect in Texas anti-immigrant shooting changes plea to guilty

Patrick Crusius faces hate crime charges for a mass shooting in the US city of El Paso in 2019 that killed 23 people.

Al Jazeera

Missouri executes Leonard Taylor, convicted of 2004 murders, despite innocence claim

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Leonard “Raheem” Taylor, who was convicted in a 2004 quadruple murder but maintained his innocence, died by lethal injection Tuesday night at a prison in eastern Missouri.

Tribune News Service

The politics of blasphemy: Why Pakistan and some other Muslim countries are passing new blasphemy laws

On Jan. 17, 2023, Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously voted to expand the country’s laws on blasphemy, which carries the death penalty for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. The new law now extends the punishment to those deemed to have insulted the prophet’s companions, which could include thousands of early Muslims, with…

The Conversation

‘Can you spell lynching?’: lawyer’s shocking note in Texas execution case

Appeals court submission exposes racial toxicity in case of John Balentine, a Black man sentenced to death for 1999 triple murder

The Guardian - US

New Florida legislation would let judges impose death penalties if juries don’t

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida could soon be the only state where a judge could override a jury’s recommendation for a life sentence and give the death penalty instead, under proposed legislation to re-craft Florida’s capital punishment system.

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The Guardian - UK

Rate of executions in Saudi Arabia almost doubles under Mohammed bin Salman

Last six years among bloodiest in kingdom’s modern history despite push to modernise

Reuters

U.S. deeply concerned by release of Sudanese man found guilty of killing diplomat

Washington is deeply concerned over the release this week of a Sudanese man facing the death penalty in connection with the killing of a U.S. diplomat in 2008, the State Department said on Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Judge rules Tree of Life death penalty sentencing would occur in 2 phases

PITTSBURGH — If Robert Bowers is found guilty later this year of killing 11 worshipers inside a Squirrel Hill synagogue in 2018, his sentencing will be broken into two separate phases, a judge ruled this week.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Stepping up on ending capital punishment in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s costly, ineffective and immoral death penalty statute remains active, even though the state hasn’t executed anyone since 1999. With more than 100 prisoners on death row, one of the nation’s largest, the statute’s exorbitant legal costs still mount, as local prosecutors continue to try people under the death penalty,…

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Sheriff asks Gavin Newsom to lift death penalty ban for Goshen massacre. Arrest may be close

FRESNO, Calif. — Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux gave a brief update Monday on the investigation into the cartel-style massacre of six people in Goshen, including a 16-year-old mother and her 10-month-old baby.

Reuters

Sudan releases man found guilty of killing U.S. diplomat - family

A Sudanese man facing the death penalty in connection to the killing of an American diplomat in 2008 has been released, his brother told Reuters on Monday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Rights Group: Iran Executed more than 50 People so far this Year

Iranian authorities have executed 55 people in 2023, Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said Friday, adding that the surging use of the death penalty aims to create fear as protests shake the country. IHR said it has confirmed at least 55 executions in the first 26 days of this year.…

WEKU

A man who killed 8 bicyclists in Manhattan is convicted and may face the death penalty

Sayfullo Saipov was found guilty of running down riders with a rental truck on a Manhattan bike path in 2017. Prosecutors said the Halloween attack was inspired by his reverence for the Islamic State.

The Independent UK

Court demands more info in South Carolina death penalty case

A circuit court must get more information from the South Carolina Department of Corrections regarding the agency's attempts to acquire lethal injection drugs

Al Jazeera

New York City bike path attacker convicted for 2017 rampage

Sayfullo Saipov, who killed eight people after driving a truck down a busy New York City bike path, faces death penalty.

The Independent UK

Isis-inspired Sayfullo Saipov guilty of eight NYC bike path murders in first Biden death penalty case

Jurors needed less than a day to determine killer guilty on all counts

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