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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

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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.

WEKU

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

The Independent UK

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

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Justice is not free.

Tribune News Service

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.

WEKU

Buffalo shooter indicted on federal hate crimes charges

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

Axios

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".

The Times of India

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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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The Independent UK

Singapore urged to halt hanging of Malaysian drug trafficker

Anti-death penalty activists in Malaysia are urging Singapore’s government to halt the execution of a convicted Malaysian drug trafficker this week, the second in less than three months

The Guardian - UK

Two more Britons captured in Ukraine could face death penalty

Russia has charged former soldier Andrew Hill and Dylan Healy, believed to have been doing humanitarian work, with fighting as mercenaries

Asharq Al-Awsat

Turkey's Erdogan Says Ready to Back Reinstating Death Penalty

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would approve possibly reinstating the death penalty if parliament were to send a bill on the matter to him, broadcaster NTV cited him as saying on Friday. Erdogan's justice minister said at the weekend Turkey would consider turning back the 2004 abolishment of capital…

Reuters

Russia-backed separatists to start using death penalty from 2025 - criminal code

Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine where two Britons and a Moroccan have been sentenced to death say the death penalty will start being used from 2025, according to an updated criminal code of the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

Reuters

Turkey's Erdogan says ready to back reinstating death penalty -media

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would approve possibly reinstating the death penalty if parliament were to send a bill on the matter to him, broadcaster NTV cited him as saying on Friday.

Bangkok Post

Former deputy minister gets death penalty

The Appeals Court on Friday sentenced a former deputy minister of commerce to death, instead of life imprisonment as earlier imposed, for the murder of a judge's brother.

Al Jazeera

Thousands protest in India’s Udaipur after Hindu tailor murdered

Holding saffron flags and placards, about 7,000 people demand death penalty for two Muslims accused of beheading Teli.

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