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Outside the US, the death penalty is a vestige from another time
Whatever arguments are used, the journey toward worldwide rejection of capital punishment will not be concluded quickly. But ...
Bringing the death penalty back to L.A. is politics and hubris, not justice
L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors in his office to consider pursuing the death penalty, a ...
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Countries that still have the death penalty
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Finally, a legal victory against the death penalty
In Kansas, Judge Bill Klapper concluded that “The scientific community has found no reliable evidence of the death penalty ...
Global executions at highest level since 2015, report says
The number of state executions around the world has reached its highest level in ten years, a new report by Amnesty ...
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Francis changed church policy on the death penalty and nuclear weapons but upheld it on abortion
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...
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Death penalty executions on the rise worldwide
Death penalty executions in the U.S. and worldwide increased in 2024 over the previous year according to a new Amnesty ...
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Luigi Mangione's case marks a shift in politics of the death penalty in the U.S.
The Trump administration's pursuit of the death penalty for Mangione marks a new development in the shifting politics of capital punishment in the United States, which has seesawed for more than ...
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Judge Maintains Death Penalty as Possible Punishment for Bryan Kohberger Despite Autism Diagnosis
Prosecutors have said they intended to seek the death penalty if Kohberger is convicted at his trial, which is set to begin in August. But his attorneys asked Judge Steven Hippler to remove the ...