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Amnesty International Condemns Mass Executions in DRC's Angenga Prison
Amnesty International has expressed grave concern over reports of more than 170 individuals being transferred to Angenga ...
Iran executed at least 901 people in 2024, U.N. reports
Human rights groups accuse Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool following nationwide ...
Texas' Robert Roberson case is reason why the state should abolish death penalty | Opinion
Robert Roberson’s case only scratches the surface of the multitude of faults that permeate this system of death in Texas.
Roy Cooper’s commutations should signal the death penalty’s end in North Carolina | Opinion
Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...
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How a Kentucky death penalty case could have national implications
David Sanders not only wants a judge to overturn his death penalty conviction, but to declare a law unconstitutional. The ...
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New Orleans attack: Search continues for Bourbon Street ‘people of interest’ as state AG vows death penalty
The FBI is searching for potential accomplices to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was killed by police in a shootout after ramming ...
Governor Commutes Sentence of Man Who Raped, Killed Elderly Woman
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper commuted death row inmate Christopher Roseboro's sentence to life without the possibility of parole.
Families who lost loved ones to violence find relief, doubt in California’s death penalty
Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...
Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty almost 20 years after its last hanging
Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago ...
Zimbabwe scraps the death penalty – tracking the path to abolition
Countries that retain the death penalty often argue that the public supports it. In Zimbabwe, research helped challenge this narrative.
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A bill filed for the 2025 legislation session would abolish the death penalty
The recent execution of convicted murderer Joseph Corcoran has sparked a conversation about the death penalty in the state of Indiana. In 2025, lawmakers will decide whether to abolish it.