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State prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for Alex Murdaugh when the disbarred attorney appears in court next month for a double murder trial that has drawn international attention

As protests spread in Iran, some worry the government is using technology to access mobile applications to surveil and suppress dissent, CNN reported. “They told me ‘Do you think you can get out of here alive? We will execute you. Your sentence is death penalty. We have evidence, we are…

Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti has been arrested by police after criticising the Government’s use of the death penalty against protesters.

Detention of one of Iran’s most famous performers sign state wants to crack down on celebrities who challenge regime

Seven of 20 attempted executions in 2022 were ‘visibly problematic’, research group says, but practice is in decline.

Executions and death sentences in the United States remained near 50-year lows in 2022, but “an astonishing 35%” of execution attempts were “visibly problematic,” according to a report released Friday.

Amber McLaughlin, 49, who was convicted of killing and raping Beverly Guenther on November 20, 2003, in St. Louis County, Missouri, US, has begged to be spared from the death penalty

Seven of the 20 execution attempts in the US over the past year were visibly problematic or took an inordinate amount of time, a Washington DC study reveals

An annual report on capital punishment says public support and use of the death penalty continued a more than two-decade decline in the U.S. in 2022

Annual review reveals that 35% of the 20 execution attempts carried out this year were visibly problematic

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Franc Cano, who with an accomplice abducted and killed several women in Anaheim and Santa Ana while on sex-offender probation, pleaded guilty to murder Thursday after prosecutors dropped their call for the death penalty.