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Lawyers: Feds seek 'eye for eye' from NYC bike path killer

Lawyers for a man convicted of killing eight people along a Manhattan bike path five years ago say prosecutors are unfairly using emotional testimony from victims' families to try to win a death penalty ruling from a jury

The Independent UK

Texas death row inmate who cut out his eyes seeks clemency citing ‘psychosis’

Attorneys for a mentally ill Texas death row prisoner, along with faith leaders and mental health professionals are working to stop his 5 April execution, saying he'll never be sufficiently competent to be put to death

The Independent UK

Tory deputy chairman says he’s ‘not a lunatic’ for wanting death penalty return

The MP for Ashfield says he has supported the death penalty since being a teenager

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Pennsylvania Governor Says He Won't Sign Execution Warrants

"This is a fundamental statement of morality, of what's right and wrong," Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro said Thursday. "And I believe Pennsylvania must be on the right side of this issue."

Reason

Dog-whistle politics and the futility of the death penalty

Letters: Support from Dr Tom Wilke, Dr Hamid Khan and Declan O’Neill for Duncan Campbell’s piece prompted by Lee Anderson’s controversial remarks about capital punishment

The Guardian - UK

Tory chief Lee Anderson says he's not a 'lunatic' for demanding return of death penalty

Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson insisted that millions of voters share his desire for capital punishment to be brought back. He was appointed by Rishi Sunak last week

Daily Mirror

Lee Anderson says ‘I am allowed to have opinions’ on death penalty

The outspoken MP for Ashfield was given the post of deputy Conservative chairman.

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Alabama takes steps toward using nitrogen as new execution method

But critics decry death penalty ‘experimentation’ that state is developing after a series of botched lethal injections

The Guardian - US

Buffalo supermarket shooter could still get death sentence

Now that the white supremacist gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket was sentenced to life without parole in state prison, attention is turning toward his federal hate crime charges and the potential for the death penalty

The Independent UK

Gov. Josh Shapiro asks Pennsylvania lawmakers to abolish the death penalty

PHILADELPHIA — Gov. Josh Shapiro called on the General Assembly to end the death penalty in Pennsylvania.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Lee Anderson backs out of deal to deliver 48,000 Lib Dem leaflets criticising him

The Ashfield MP told the Lib Dems if they sent him a stack of their new poster pointing some of his quotes on the death penalty, food banks and poverty he'd distribute them himself. So they did. Here's what happened

Daily Mirror

Commentary: How blasphemy laws are used to serve political ends

On Jan. 17, Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously voted to expand the country’s laws on blasphemy, which already carried the death penalty for insulting the prophet Muhammad. Now anyone in Pakistan deemed to have insulted the prophet’s companions, which could include thousands of early Muslims, can face life imprisonment.

Los Angeles Times

Trump is planning to bring back firing squads if re-elected

Former president granted clemency to drug offenders during his White House term

The Independent UK

Death penalty phase of trial looms for NYC bike path killer

A jury on Monday will begin considering whether an Islamic extremist should be sentenced to death for killing eight people people on a New York City bike path

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The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on the ‘red wall rottweiler’ fuelling Tory dreams of the death penalty

The appointment of Lee Anderson as deputy chair is a cynical attempt to woo a powerful section of the party’s right

The Guardian - UK

It’s not just that Lee Anderson is wrong about hanging: he’s also the wrong man to stop the Tories sinking

Hankering for the death penalty may get the deputy chair attention, but it won’t attract working-class voters with genuine problems, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

France 24

Iran's crackdown on protesters: Can the EU deter Tehran?

Iran has long been one of the world's most prolific executioners. But it seems to have taken the death penalty to a new level recently, with dozens of people executed in the last few weeks, according to the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights. The UN has denounced what it calls…

Daily Mirror

BBC Question Time: Tories blasted by 'appalled' audience over death penalty

A Tory minister was blasted for sitting through 'another round of musical chairs' on BBC Question Time following the controversy over Lee Anderson's appointment to a senior role

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The Guardian - UK

Dear Lee Anderson: Derek Bentley was innocent and hanged. We scrapped the death penalty for a reason

There were moral and practical considerations to ending the barbarity of state executions in Britain. They are still relevant today, says writer and former Guardian crime correspondent Duncan Campbell

Nottingham Post

Mixed views after Lee Anderson calls for return of death penalty and rows with BBC Nottingham presenter

The outspoken Ashfield MP has just been made deputy Conservative Party chairman

Evening Standard

Talking Point: What do you think of Lee Anderson backing the return of the death penalty?

The new deputy chairman of the Conservatives has defended his view that there are some instances where capital punishment is appropriate

Evening Standard

Tory MPs standing down spell trouble for Sunak

The new Tory deputy party chair, Lee Anderson, made headlines this morning for his views on the death penalty and after clashing with a BBC radio presenter over accusations of dishonesty. But it was the decision taken off-stage by a fellow red wall MP that tells us far more about…

Daily Record

Jagtar Singh Johal's brother writes to MI6 chief as Dumbarton man spends another birthday in prison

In an open letter to MI6 chief Richard Moore, Gurpreet Singh Johal says “with your help, maybe one day soon, he’ll be walking back through our front door in Dumbarton, instead of fearing the death penalty in Delhi”.

Evening Standard

When did the death penalty become illegal in the UK? Alabama killer was first to be executed with nitrogen gas

The death penalty is illegal in the UK and nobody has been executed here for nearly 60 years

The Independent UK

Sunak distances himself from Anderson’s death penalty views

Deputy Tory chairman Lee Anderson said ‘Nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed’.

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