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Trump calls for ‘quick’ death penalty for drug dealers as he describes US ‘going to hell very fast’

Ex-president makes his first speech back in Washington since he left the presidency

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on the death penalty: a long way to go

Editorial: Though capital punishment is in global decline, there are horrifying exceptions to the general trend

The Guardian - UK

Brit facing death penalty for collecting artefacts to be FREED from Iraqi prison

Jim Fitton, 66, was jailed for 15 years after collecting artefacts souvenirs while visiting a site as part of an organised geology and archaeology tour in Iraq

Daily Mirror

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Myanmar executes activists in first use of death penalty in decades

Myanmar’s military regime has executed four individuals, including a deposed pro-democracy lawmaker and a prominent activist, in its first use of the death penalty in more than three decades, state media reported Monday.

Tribune News Service

Parkland shooting - live: Jury mulls death penalty for Nikolas Cruz as trial set to resume on Monday

Deadliest mass shooting in US history ever to make it to trial goes before a jury

The Independent UK

Graphic Parkland videos withheld from courtroom view, but jurors must endure every detail

Editor’s note: Prosecutors seeking the death penalty against confessed Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz are tasked with convincing a jury to vote for execution over a life sentence. They are presenting graphic testimony to the jury, some of which comes in the form of video that is being withheld from…

Tribune News Service

Nicholas Goldberg: Why the jury is stacked against the Parkland shooter — and why you should care

Nikolas Cruz is a mass murderer. He killed 14 students and three adults at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Valentine's Day in 2018, and he has confessed and pleaded guilty. Now it's time to sentence him.

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Singapore carries out fifth execution since March

Nazeri bin Lajim was hanged early on Friday morning for drug offences, the latest in a ‘relentless wave’ of executions.

Al Jazeera

Two men indicted in connection with deaths of 53 migrants who were found in tractor-trailer

The men could face life in prison or the death penalty. The gruesome crime scene and large number of people who died drew international outrage.

The Texas Tribune

Parkland shooting - live: Jury shown more graphic videos in Nikolas Cruz death penalty sentencing trial

Deadliest mass shooting in US history ever to make it to trial goes before a jury

The Independent UK

Parkland shooting - live: Killer Nikolas Cruz puts thumbs in ears as court hears shocking audio of massacre

Deadliest mass shooting in US history ever to make it to trial goes before a jury

The Independent UK

The prosecutor recounted the coldness and cruelty of Parkland gunman as trial begins

The prosecutor seeking the death penalty for the gunman who massacred 17 people at a Parkland, Fla., high school detailed for jurors how he coldly mowed down his victims.

WEKU

Parkland school killer Nikolas Cruz hides face as horrific videos of massacre played at death penalty hearing

Unanimous jury decision needed for death sentence

The Independent UK

Prosecutor urges jury to sentence Parkland school shooter to death

Jury to decide on death penalty or life in prison for gunman who pleaded guilty to murdering 17 people in 2018

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The Buffalo supermarket shooter pleads not guilty to federal charges

The white gunman charged with killing 10 Black people in a racist mass shooting was arraigned Monday on federal hate crime charges that could be punishable by the death penalty.

The Independent UK

Parkland school shooting - live: Jury hears opening statement in Nikolas Cruz death penalty sentencing trial

Deadliest mass shooting in US history ever to make it to trial goes before a jury

The Independent UK

Parkland school shooting - live: Nikolas Cruz sentencing begins as jury deliberate on death penalty

Deadliest mass shooting in US history ever to make it to trial is finally about to go before a jury today

Tribune News Service

The price of punishment: Seeking justice for the Parkland victims, and condemning a killer, carries ballooning cost

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Justice is not free.

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The Parkland school shooter faces the death penalty as his trial begins

Opening statements begin on Monday. A jury faces two options to punish the Parkland shooter responsible for killing 17 people in 2018: life in prison or the death penalty.

Axios

Buffalo shooter indicted on federal hate crimes charges

The charges carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment or the death penalty.

The Times of India

Accused can’t be held guilty on basis of motive, abscondence: Allahabad HC

PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court has acquitted a murder accused who was awarded death penalty by a trial court, saying that "though motive and abscondence may give rise to strong suspicion, merely on the basis of these two circumstances, an accused cannot be held guilty".

Reuters

Breakaway east Ukraine territory defends death penalty as it opens Moscow embassy

(This content was produced in Russia, where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine.)

The Independent UK

This doctor helped send Ramiro Gonzales to death row – now he’s changed his mind

Texas plans to execute Gonzales this week even though the expert witness says he isn’t a threat to society, write Maurice Chammah and Keri Blakinger

The Independent UK

Singapore hangs 2 drug traffickers despite opposition

Two drug traffickers have been hanged in Singapore, bringing the number of executions this year in the city-state to four

Daily Mirror

Brit fighter captured in Ukraine launches desperate appeal to overturn death penalty

Aiden Aslin, 28, was captured by Russian forces in Mariupol while fighting for Ukraine and is now appealing against his death sentence for alleged "mercenary activities", which he denies

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