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Marking Youth Day, Morocco's King Mohammed VI has granted his pardon to 588 convicts, revealed a statement by the ministry of justice. A total of 15 inmates benefited from pardon over their remaining prison term. Up to 391 prisoners had their prison terms reduced. One inmate had her prison sentences…

Asharq Al-Awsat

LGBTQ rights across the globe: marriage to the death penalty

Singapore announced on Sunday that it will repeal a law criminalising gay sex but in many other parts of the world homosexuality is illegal and sometimes subject to the death penalty.

Bangkok Post

Vegas man faces death penalty in boy’s body-in-freezer case

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for a Las Vegas man accused of killing his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son and hiding the body in a freezer

The Independent UK

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Malaysia aims to learn from Thailand in push for medical use of cannabis

Malaysia plans to learn from the cannabis policy of neighbouring Thailand in its effort to legalise use of the drug for medical purposes, a health ministry official said on Wednesday, in a country where possession can bring the death penalty now.

Reuters

Joe Nathan James Jr: Critics call for investigation into ‘abhorrent’ three-hour Alabama execution

Lethal injection one of longest in US history

The Independent UK

Three Britons captured by rebels in Ukraine plead not guilty to being mercenaries

All the captured men could face the death penalty if found guilty of being mercenaries

The Independent UK

Harrowing images of Brits who face death penalty if convicted of being Ukraine ‘mercenaries’

John Harding, Andrew Hill and Dylan Healy are on trial in a court in Donetsk which is run by Kremlin-backed separatists

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Man jailed for life after crushing girlfriend's infant son against van floor

Mohamed Aliff Mohamed Yusoff, 29, escaped the death penalty after crushing the tot's head against the floor of his van

Daily Mirror

India, Italy negotiate legal assistance treaty

Treaty yet to be signed amid concerns over death penalty provisions in India

The Hindu

Three Brits face death penalty after Russia accuses them of being 'mercenaries'

Three more Brits will be tried in a secret Russian court, and are facing the merciless death penalty. They also face terrorism charges after being accused of being 'mercenaries'

Daily Mirror

Death penalty looms over NYC bike path attack jury selection

About 200 potential jurors for the trial of a man charged with killing eight people on a New York City bike path in a terror attack have filled out questionnaires posing questions about the death penalty

The Independent UK

NY AG may seek "corporate death penalty"

NY law allows AG to seek to dissolve businesses that operate "in a persistently fraudulent or illegal manner"

Salon

Singapore executions under scrutiny as more hanged for drugs

Questions being asked over speed of executions, legal representation, and the ethnicities of the condemned.

Al Jazeera

Victim’s son delivers heartbreaking statement as prosecution rests in Parkland shooter death penalty trial

“Every Saturday we ran to Dunkin’ Donuts and walked back,” recalled Corey Hixon

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Daily Record

Millionaire facing death penalty after killing wife with shotgun on safari trip

Lawrence 'Larry' Rudolph, 67 - convicted of killing his wife of 34 years Bianca Rudolf - faces the death penalty or life in prison after Monday's verdict.

Daily Mirror

Millionaire may face death penalty after being found guilty of shooting wife on safari

Big game hunter Lawrence Rudolph, 67, was convicted of shooting his wife Bianca Rudolf in the heart on the final day of their African safari trip, but maintains she accidentally shot herself

The Conversation

Myanmar: death penalty the latest tactic for military junta's murderous regime

Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s death penalty moratorium has been a myth. The junta has routinely targeted civilians for extra-judicial killing, including using army snipers to callously pick off peaceful protesters. There have been killings of prisoners too, with many of the dead reportedly exhibiting signs of torture on their…

The Independent UK

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

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The Guardian - 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

Daily Mirror

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

Tribune News Service

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.

The Independent UK

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

Tribune News Service

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…

Los Angeles Times

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.

Al Jazeera

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.

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