The Latest Breaking News from Death Penalty

Lee Anderson argues with Nottingham BBC presenter and asks if she's lied 10 times

Controversial MP was being interviewed in wake of calling for return of the death penalty

Nottingham Post · Feb 9, 2023

Rishi Sunak flew back to London from Dorset last night before flying to Cornwall this morning, No 10 confirms – as it happened

PM rejected overnight stay in west country and used helicopter to return to London before flying to Cornwall in plane

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2023

Rishi Sunak rebukes Tory vice-chair for backing death penalty

Lee Anderson, who was given role on Tuesday, also called for a naval ‘standoff’ in the Channel over small boats

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2023

'100 per cent success rate': Tory deputy chairman backs DEATH PENALTY

THE newly appointed deputy Conservative Party chairman has said he would support the return of the death penalty because “nobody has ever…

The National (Scotland) · Feb 9, 2023

A man pleads guilty to federal charges in the El Paso shooting that targeted Latinos

Sentencing is not scheduled until later this year, but the U.S. government had previously announced it wouldn't seek the death penalty.

WEKU · Feb 9, 2023

New Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson: I would support death penalty return

The outspoken MP said he did not want to ‘pay for’ criminals such as Fusilier Lee Rigby’s killers to be imprisoned.

The Independent UK · Feb 9, 2023

Suspect in Texas anti-immigrant shooting changes plea to guilty

Patrick Crusius faces hate crime charges for a mass shooting in the US city of El Paso in 2019 that killed 23 people.

Al Jazeera · Feb 8, 2023

Missouri executes Leonard Taylor, convicted of 2004 murders, despite innocence claim

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Leonard “Raheem” Taylor, who was convicted in a 2004 quadruple murder but maintained his innocence, died by lethal injection Tuesday night at a prison in eastern Missouri.

Tribune News Service · Feb 8, 2023

The politics of blasphemy: Why Pakistan and some other Muslim countries are passing new blasphemy laws

On Jan. 17, 2023, Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously voted to expand the country’s laws on blasphemy, which carries the death penalty for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. The new law now extends the punishment to those deemed to have insulted the prophet’s companions, which could include thousands of early Muslims, with…

The Conversation · Feb 6, 2023

‘Can you spell lynching?’: lawyer’s shocking note in Texas execution case

Appeals court submission exposes racial toxicity in case of John Balentine, a Black man sentenced to death for 1999 triple murder

The Guardian - US · Feb 5, 2023