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Lockerbie bomb suspect will not face death penalty

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi appeared in a federal court in Washington on Monday.

The Independent UK

Iran carries out second protest-related execution in its 'killing spree'

Iran carried out its second execution linked to the anti-government protests challenging the country’s theocracy on December 12. Our Observer, Hadi Ghaemi, who works as the Executive Director of the ‘Centre for Human Rights in Iran’, told us this “killing spree” to crush protests is likely to shift into “high…

France 24

U.S. indicts Mauritanian man for role in deadly Mali restaurant attacks

A Mauritanian man who received a death penalty in Mali for involvement in attacks that killed dozens including an American in 2015, was extradited to the United States to face a six-count indictment related to the same crime, the Justice Department said on Saturday.

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Dentist facing death penalty for murdering wife on safari admits 'I'm a dead man'

Lawrence Rudolph, 67, from Pennsylvania, US shot dead his wife Bianca in Zambia in 2016, to try and claim her $4.8 million life insurance in order to build a new life with his mistress Lori Milliron

Daily Mirror

Guilty plea possible from Buffalo gunman on federal charges

A lawyer for the white gunman who pleaded guilty to state charges in the killing of 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket says he would be willing plead guilty to federal charges if spared the death penalty

The Independent UK

Shraddha Murder Case: Father Demands Death Penalty For Aaftab; Seeks Restrictions On Dating Apps

Vikas Walker, father of Shraddha Walkar, who was allegedly brutally murdered, demanded the death penalty for accused Aaftab Poonawalla. Read on for details:

Dynamite News

Iran carries out the first known execution of a prisoner arrested in recent protests

Other detainees also face the possibility of the death penalty for their involvement in the protests, which began in mid-September, first as an outcry against Iran's morality police.

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Iran hangs protester for 'waging war on God' in first execution after nationwide unrest

Other detainees face the possibility of the death penalty for their involvement in the protests as an outcry against Iran's morality police for the killing of a woman who refused to wear a hijab

Daily Mirror

Iran executes first Mahsa Amini protester as fears grow for other detainees

Iran said Thursday it executed a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country's ongoing nationwide protests, the first such death penalty carried out by Tehran.

France 24

Belarus seeks death penalty for treasonous officials and soldiers

Belarusian lawmakers gave their initial backing on Wednesday to a proposal to introduce the death penalty for treasonous officials and soldiers, and to make discrediting the army a criminal offence punishable by up to four years in jail.

Reuters

Iran protesters hold strikes even as state warns of executions

Businesses in some parts of Iran went on strike on Monday as part of anti-government protests, even as the Islamic Republic vowed to implement harsh sentences on people demonstrating, including the death penalty.

Tribune News Service

UN says Myanmar military uses death penalty to ‘crush’ opposition

UN rights chief Volker Turk said that more than 130 opponents of Myanmar’s military regime have been sentenced to death.

Al Jazeera

Treaty recommended despite death penalty

A parliamentary committee has recommended Australia ratify a defence treaty with Japan despite concerns that troops could be subject to the death penalty.

AAP

Missouri ignores daughter’s pleas and executes man over 2005 murder of police officer

On Tuesday evening, the conservative-heavy US Supreme Court denied Kevin Johnson’s request for a stay of execution, based on arguments that racial bias played a part in his sentence

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Death row murderer makes no final words and refuses last meal before execution

Kevin Johnson was handed the death penalty for the murder of police officer William McEntee.

Al Jazeera

Singapore tightens rules on last-minute death penalty appeals

New law follows a series of late-stage applications filed by prisoners after exhausting the appeal and clemency process.

Daily Record

Brother of Scots groom 'abducted and tortured' in India claims 'blood could be on UK Government's hands'

Gurpreet Singh Johal has expressed his terrifying fears that his brother Jagtar, who is detained by the India authorities, could be subject to the death penalty.

The Independent UK

Missouri to execute Kevin Johnson despite daughter’s pleas and findings of racist conviction

Local official argues prosecutor had biased intent seeking death penalty

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Death row inmates sue 'cruel' system as they're told just hours before they're hanged

Japan is one of the few economically developed countries to still have the death penalty, and hanging has been its sole execution method for around a century and a half

The Conversation

Alabama’s execution problems are part of a long history of botched lethal injections

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has announced a pause in her state’s use of capital punishment. It follows a run of botched lethal injection executions in the state, including two where the procedure had to be abandoned before the inmates succumbed to the cocktail of death drugs.

The Independent UK

Judge mulls arguments in Mississippi death penalty protocol

A federal judge will decide whether to block Mississippi from using three drugs when it puts inmates to death

The Conversation

Qatar's death row and the invisible migrant workforce deemed unworthy of due process

Qatari authorities are ignoring international law by failing to inform embassies when their citizens are arrested, detained or are pending trial for a death sentence.

Tribune News Service

‘An Odd Cross to Bear’: The choices Ruth Bell Graham made as Billy Graham’s wife

She believed in the death penalty and said that in countries where they have it, “I feel safer walking down the street.” Yet in 1978, Ruth Bell Graham befriended North Carolina’s death row inmate Velma Barfield, convicted of murdering seven people, including her own mother. And while there was no…

Salon

Alabama halts executions; can't fix them

After a gruesome series of executions gone wrong, Gov. Kay Ivey hits pause. But there's no fixing the death penalty

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israeli Lawmaker Calls for ‘Targeted Assassinations’ against Palestinians

Itamar Ben-Gvir, an extremist Israeli lawmaker and who is set to become the minister in charge of police under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, called for the resumption of “targeted assassinations” against Palestinian factions. “We must exact a price from terror,” he said at the scene of one of two explosions…

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