Death Penalty
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I’m against the death penalty, but Lucy Letby has shaken my stance
The arguments against are many, familiar and valid: no judicial system is free from error; there is always a risk…
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Iran executions surged in 2022 to ‘spread fear’ – report
2022 Iran protests The figure was the highest since 2015, according to Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and France’s Together…
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Women on Death Row in Singapore: how gender discriminations create a ‘double punishment’
Women on death row in Singapore face a stark reality of isolation, harassment and intimidation. Singapore’s enthusiastic application of the…
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Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in one day in largest mass execution in decades
The number dwarfed the 67 executions reported there in all of 2021 and the 27 in 2020. ABC News Offences…
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Egypt’s Court sentences 3 members of “Daesh of Libya” group to death
Three other defendants in the case received life terms and four others got 15 years rigorous imprisonment each. Egypt Today…
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Robert F. Kennedy Assassin Sirhan Sirhan Granted Parole
SAN DIEGO (AP) — California’s parole board voted Friday to free Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin after two of RFK’s sons…
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Death Penalty 2020: Despite COVID-19, some countries ruthlessly pursued death sentences and executions
21 April 2021 REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha The unprecedented challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic were not enough to deter 18 countries from…
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How The U.S. Is Killing Off The Death Penalty
The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty,” examines America’s uneasy history of capital punishment. Melissa Jeltsen HuffPost One of…
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UN condemns Iran execution spree, expresses particular concern for minorities
Iran has often faced criticism from world bodies and Western human rights groups for its rights record and high number…
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Brandon Bernard: First execution of Trump’s final days goes ahead
Death row inmate Brandon Bernard has been executed in Indiana after last-minute clemency pleas were rejected by the US Supreme…
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Navid Afkari: Iran executes young wrestler despite global outcry
Navid Afkari, 27, was sentenced to death over the murder of a security guard during a wave of anti-government protests…
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US carries out first federal execution in 17 years
Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, died by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Mike Brest & Jerry…
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US schedules first federal inmate executions since 2003
Attorney General William Barr has ordered the executions to begin in July of the men on death-row, who were all…
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Australian actor’s journey to a Chinese death sentence
The son of a sheep herder from Ballarat, the actor had bit parts in Blue Heelers before taking his own…
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Saudi Arabia ends death penalty for minors
The decision comes on the heels of another ordering judges to end the practice of flogging, replacing it with jail…
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Death penalty states urged to release stockpiled drugs for Covid-19 patients
Death penalty states in the US are stockpiling medicines for lethal injections that could save the lives of hundreds of…
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