DC Circuit Digs Into Resumption of Federal Death Penalty
Two Trump appointees sat on the D.C. Circuit panel Wednesday that considered the government’s bid to resume executing federal prisoners after a 16-year moratorium.
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Pakistan Court Annuls Musharaff’s Death Sentence
A Pakistan court on Monday annulled the death sentence handed to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, ruling a special court which found him guilty of treason last year was unconstitutional, a government prosecutor told AFP.
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Indian Court Orders Bus Rapists Hanged on January 22
An Indian court Tuesday ordered the execution on January 22 of four men convicted of the infamous 2012 gang rape and murder of a Delhi university student.
Read moreChina Denies It Sentenced Uighur Professor to Death
China denied on Friday that detained Uighur academic Tashpolat Tiyip was secretly tried and sentenced to death, after U.N. experts demanded answers from Beijing.
Read moreReport: 5th Straight Year With Under 30 Executions in US
Fewer than 30 people were executed in the United States and under 50 new death sentences were imposed for the fifth straight year, part of a continuing decline in capital punishment that saw only a few states carry out executions, a new report issued Tuesday said.
Read moreFormer Pakistan Leader Musharraf Sentenced to Death
Exiled former Pakistan military leader Pervez Musharraf was sentenced to death Tuesday after being found guilty of treason, an unprecedented move in a country where the armed forces are often considered immune from prosecution.
Read moreMississippi Man Freed Months After Court Rules Racial Bias
A Mississippi man whose murder conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court for racial bias was released from custody Monday for the first time in 22 years.
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Boston Trial of Marathon Bomber Called Unfair on Appeal
Fighting for a retrial of the Boston Marathon bomber, a lawyer told the First Circuit on Thursday morning that it violated Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s rights to try him so close to the site of the largest terrorist attack since 9/11.
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LA County District Attorney Candidates Promise Reforms, Chide Incumbent
Candidates vying to be Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor promised Friday to cease death penalty convictions, bolster police accountability and rollback policies embraced by incumbent District Attorney Jackie Lacey, who skipped the campaign debate.
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Arizona Killer’s Death Sentence Fought at Supreme Court
One of the brothers behind a string of fatal home robberies told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it was wrong to put him on death row without letting a jury hear about the difficult circumstances of his childhood.
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Judge Blocks Federal Execution of White Supremacist
A federal judge in Indiana granted a stay of execution late Thursday to a white supremacist convicted 20 years ago of killing an Arkansas gun dealer and his family, blocking what would have been the first execution carried out by the federal government since 2003.
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Convicted Killer Asks Sixth Circuit to Vacate Death Sentence
A death-row inmate convicted of the 1985 rape and murder of a 12-year-old boy argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Thursday that his intellectual disabilities render his sentence unconstitutional.
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DC Circuit Refuses to Lift Block on Federal Executions
The D.C. Circuit on Monday kept in place a federal judge’s order blocking the Trump administration from carrying out the first federal executions in nearly two decades.
Read moreExecution of Buddhist Inmate in Texas Delayed Again
The Fifth Circuit agreed that a Buddhist death-row inmate’s new claims of disparate treatment should be vetted, upholding a stay of his execution that was set for Wednesday night.
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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday changed the death sentence of a convicted murderer to life in prison because he is intellectually disabled.
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The Supreme Court of Georgia reinstated Nicholas Cody Tate’s death sentences for the murder of a woman and her 3-year-old daughter.
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