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South Carolina to take a break from executions for the holidays
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A protestor looks on prior to the scheduled execution of Richard ...
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Biden Must Use Final Months in Office to Commute Federal Death Sentences
In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can ...
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Will Boko abolish death penalty?
FRANCISTOWN: The newly elected President of Botswana Duma Boko has consistently opposed the death penalty, which has been ...
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How disagreements about a Texas death row inmate’s guilt became a legal battle between branches of government
The Supreme Court of Texas is weighing whether death row inmate Robert Roberson — whose capital punishment was temporarily halted last month — must testify before a Texas House committee ...
Bangladesh top legal official seeks removal of words 'secularism' & 'socialism' from Constitution
Bangladesh's Attorney General proposed removing "secularism" and "socialism" from the Constitution, alongside the recognition ...
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UN demands halt to capital punishment in Afghanistan after public execution
The execution marks the sixth known public execution since the Taliban’s return to power, reigniting international outrage over the group’s use of capital punishment and corporal punishment, which ...
Bombay HC upholds death sentences for father, son in quadruple family murder case
The court ruled that the brutal killings, which stemmed from a property dispute, met the "rarest of rare" standard required ...