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Supreme Court restricts prisoners’ ability to show attorneys were incompetent in death penalty cases

‘To put it bluntly: Two men whose trial attorneys did not provide even the bare minimum level of representation required by the Constitution may be executed because forces outside of their control prevented them from vindicating their constitutional right to counsel,’ Justice Sonya Sotomayor writes in dissent

The Independent UK

John Grisham: ‘There are tens of thousands of innocent people in prison and you don’t believe it because you’re white’

The author and lawyer said during a speech at the Santa Fe Literary Festival that ‘white people love the death penalty’ but ‘Black people know the truth’ about criminal justice in the US

The Independent UK

Yasin Malik: India convicts top Kashmir separatist of ‘terrorism’

The charge against the founder of JKLF rebel group carries a maximum sentence of death penalty or life imprisonment.

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Indian court convicts Kashmiri rebel leader of terrorism

An Indian court has convicted a top Kashmiri separatist leader in a terrorism-related case that carries a maximum punishment of the death penalty or life imprisonment

The Independent UK

The Independent is a Digiday Media Awards 2022 finalist for its End the Death Penalty campaign

End the Death Penalty campaign aims to create awareness, encourage action, and ultimately end capital punishment

The Independent UK

Belarus leader Lukashenko approves wider death penalty use

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has approved changes to the country's criminal code that would make attempted acts of terrorism punishable by the death penalty, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday.

Reuters

Perarivalan case: Vindicated in our stand that death penalty could go wrong, says activist

Perseverance paid off for Perarivalan, says rights activist

The Hindu

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Fearing protests, Cuba clamps down on dissent, independent media with new criminal code

Cuba’s National Assembly has approved a new criminal code that maintains the death penalty for several crimes, punishes criticism of government officials with jail time and makes it illegal for independent media to receive funds from abroad, the latest step in a relentless government campaign to squash dissent following mass…

Miami Herald

Russian negotiator says Ukraine's Azov fighters 'don't deserve to live'

A Russian lawmaker taking part in peace talks with Kyiv said on Tuesday that Russia should consider the death penalty for what he called nationalist fighters from Ukraine's Azov regiment.

Reuters

Death penalty sought in Texas for man who admitted killing 5

Prosecutors in Texas say they will seek the death penalty for a man who authorities have said confessed to killing five people, including three whose dismembered bodies were found in a burning dumpster last year

The Independent UK

Jury selection in trial of confessed Parkland school shooter enters second phase

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Jury selection in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting case entered the second of three phases Monday, with lawyers looking to weed out those whose views on the death penalty are too inflexible to be part of a fair trial.

Tribune News Service

Jury selection for Florida school killer enters 2nd phase

Jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz has entered its second phase with the attorneys asking questions of potential jurors individually

The Independent UK

Grishma murder case in Surat: Gujarat government moves HC for confirmation of death penalty

AHMEDABAD: The state government has approached the Gujarat high court seeking confirmation of the death sentence awarded to Surat’s youth Fenil Goyani by a trial court for killing 21-year-old college student Grishma Vekariya in February.

The Times of India

Jim Fitton: Briton facing death penalty in Iraq ‘did not know he had broken law’

Retired geologist says there were no guards or signage alerting him to fact taking items was prohibited

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The Death Penalty Makes Us Forget Our Humanity. Don’t Let It.

When fighting against the cold machinery of death, we must all the more cling on to empathy and care for one another.

The Independent UK

Florida judge was assigned to school shooter case at random

The judge presiding over Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz's death penalty trial was assigned the case despite never having overseen a major trial

The Independent UK

Experts: Arizona executioners took too long to insert IV

The first execution in Arizona in nearly eight years was carried out more smoothly than the state’s last use of the death penalty, when a condemned prisoner who was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination gasped for air hundreds of times over nearly two hours

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U.S. inmates condemned to die are spending more time on death row

Research shows the average time between sentencing and execution has increased by two-thirds in the past 20 years.

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The Independent UK

Execution ends Arizona 8-year hiatus with the death penalty

Arizona’s nearly eight-year hiatus in using the death penalty has ended with the execution of Clarence Davis for the killing of a college student 44 years ago

The Times of India

Bihar: Four awarded death in Supaul gang rape and murder case

PATNA: A Pocso court in Supaul on Wednesday awarded death penalty to four persons for gang rape with two women and a minor girl of the same family and killing one of them when she tried to flee from the spot on October 8, 2019.

The Independent UK

Jim Fitton: Government urged to stop ‘nightmare’ of Briton facing death penalty in Iraq

‘I am deeply concerned by the nature of the Foreign Office’s engagement with my constituent’s case,’ Wera Hobhouse says

The Times of India

Bihar: Pocso court awards death penalty to four in gang-rape, murder case

PATNA: A POCSO court at Supaul on Wednesday handed over death penalty to four persons for committing gangrape with two women and a minor girl and shooting to death one of the women who tried to flee from the spot.

Daily Mirror

Retired Brit facing death penalty for 'stealing artefacts' to stand trial in Iraq

Father-of-two Jim Fitton, 66, was arrested and slung in an Iraqi jail after trying to take home 12 stones and pieces of broken pottery from an archaeology trip

The Independent UK

Clarence Dixon: Arizona man set to be executed despite concerns over his mental health

Clarence Dixon, 66, is scheduled to be put to death at a state prison on Wednesday morning

The Independent UK

Arizona plans to execute 1st prisoner in nearly 8 years

An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 is scheduled to become the first person to be executed in the state after a nearly eight-year hiatus in its use of the death penalty

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