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Editorial: The death penalty is wrong — even for racist mass killers

A judge has asked federal prosecutors whether they will seek the death penalty against the white man accused in the killing of 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, on May 14.

Los Angeles Times

White House: Suggestion Americans captured in Ukraine should face death penalty is 'appalling'

A White House official said on Tuesday it is "appalling" that a public official in Russia would suggest the death penalty for Americans captured in Ukraine.

Reuters

Texas judge won’t let prosecutor cancel scheduled execution of John Ramirez

Nueces County District Attorney Mark Gonzalez said he is ethically opposed to the death penalty, but an employee wrongfully requested the execution date against his wishes. Gonzalez sought to cancel the execution two days later.

The Texas Tribune

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US volunteer fighters captured in Ukraine could face death penalty, says Russia

Alexander Drueke, 39, and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, 27, from Alabama have been taken into detention in Donetsk

The Guardian - UK

Death penalty for captured US citizens not ruled out, Russia says

The Kremlin says the pair were ‘soldiers of fortune’ who should be held responsible for their ‘crimes’.

Al Jazeera

Buffalo supermarket gunman due in court on hate crime counts

The white man who opened fire on Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, killing 10, is due in federal court, a day after authorities announced hate crime charges that could bring the death penalty

The Independent UK

Last Brit sentenced to hanging has died and denied killing sister until the end

Alan Norton was sentenced to death by hanging in 1966, after his sister was found stabbed to death, but the death penalty was then abolished.

Daily Record

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Buffalo supermarket shooting suspect Payton Gendron faces federal hate crime charges, possible death penalty

Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old white man accused of hunting and killing 10 Black people in a Buffalo supermarket, could face the death penalty.

Tribune News Service

Malaysia to table bill ending death penalty in October

Malaysia expects capital punishment will no longer be mandatory in the country by January, once it obtains the required approvals from parliament, according to Law Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.

Bangkok Post

Egypt: Murderer of Alexandria Priest Receives Death Sentence

An Egyptian criminal court on Saturday sentenced to death by hanging the defendant in the murder of Father Arsanios Wadeed Rizkallah, priest of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Karmouz. Last month, the criminal court in Alexandria asked the country’s top mufti, the highest religious authority for Islam, to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Malaysia agrees to abolish mandatory death penalty

Malaysia's law minister says the government has agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty and allow judges to set alternative punishments for a range of offenses

The Independent UK

Malaysia renews pledge to abolish mandatory death penalty

Malaysia has agreed to abolish the mandatory death sentence and replace it with other punishments at the discretion of the court, its law minister said on Friday, revisiting a pledge made over three years ago.

Reuters

Commentary: The new court’s absurd inhumanity: To preserve procedure, an innocent man must die

There has been a lot of attention paid, rightly, to the leaked opinion showing that the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. But another opinion, both cruel and absurd, issued by the Republican supermajority deserves attention, as well.

Tribune News Service

Malaysia to abolish mandatory death penalty

Malaysia is one of only a few countries in the world to still impose a mandatory death sentence for certain crimes.

Al Jazeera

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Bangkok Post

Malaysia to end mandatory death penalty

Malaysia has agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty and give judges the discretion to mete out other punishments to offenders in what were previously capital crimes, three years after a previous government made the same decision.

Daily Mirror

Family of Brit sentenced to death in Ukraine demand he's treated 'with respect'

Brits Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner have been sentenced to death by the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) after being accused of acting as mercenaries for Ukraine, however their families insist they are prisoners of war

The Conversation

Ukraine: British POWs sentenced to death after 'show trial' which appears to violate Geneva Conventions

Two Britons captured while fighting in Ukraine’s armed forces have been sentenced to death after what has been condemned as a “show trial”. Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, who surrendered to Russian forces during the siege of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, were convicted on the charge of “being a…

The Independent UK

Pussy Riot activist Aysoltan Niyazova released from Croatia jail

‘The only thing I felt was the injustice of the whole situation,’ Aysoltan Niyazova says

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What we know about the three men risking the death penalty after being captured by Russia

Three men are at risk of facing the death penalty after they were captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine. Here's what we know about the case.

Reuters

Two Britons, Moroccan risk death penalty after guilty pleas in Donetsk court

Two Britons and a Moroccan who were captured while fighting for Ukraine could face the death penalty after pleading guilty in a court of one of Russia's proxies in eastern Ukraine, Russia's RIA news agency reported.

Daily Mirror

Russia tries to link Brit fighter to Ukraine mass grave as captured dad faces trial

Andrew Hill, 35, from Plymouth, faces a possible death penalty and is one of three captured Brits currently on trial in the unrecognised Donetsk People’s Republic for "monstrous crimes"

Nottingham Post

Newark man Aiden Aslin could face death penalty after being captured by Russian forces in Ukraine

A new video has appeared of him in a Donetsk pro-Russian court

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Not everything should go to the ballot. Lawmakers, do your job

November elections often leave California voters contending with too much of a good thing: a heap of propositions that clutter the ballot. Remember 2016, when the ballot had 17 measures, including two on the death penalty and another two on plastic bags?

The Independent UK

Arizona set to execute Frank Atwood, who killed girl in 1984

An Arizona prisoner convicted in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl is scheduled to be executed Wednesday

The Independent UK

Aiden Aslin: Brit captured by Russian forces faces death penalty

Aiden Aslin attended court with one of his co-accused Shaun Pinner in the Donetsk People’s Republic

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