Based on the Trump administration’s refusal to put the death penalty off the table, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked sharing information with U.S. authorities about two suspected members of the Islamic State group cell tied to the beheading of reporter James Foley.
Read moreColorado Governor Jared Polis signed a bill Monday repealing the state’s death penalty and commuting sentences for the last three men on death row to life in prison without parole.
Read moreA Colorado district attorney said Thursday his office will not seek the death penalty against one of the two suspects in a deadly shooting at a STEM school in 2019.
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France’s highest constitutional body on Friday rejected a man’s attempt to have his father pardoned following his 1957 execution for killing a policeman in an armed robbery.
Read moreThe Colorado House of Representatives voted 38-27 to repeal the death penalty Wednesday, potentially becoming the 22nd state to remove the sentence from the books.
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The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday against a man convicted of murder who argued that he might have avoided death row if allowed to tell jurors about the difficult circumstances of his childhood.
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Shedding light on a death-row case turned down by the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Rodney Reed has presented compelling evidence that he was railroaded for the death of a white police officer’s young fiancée.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court granted a habeas petition for a potential retrial of a man convicted of murdering a police officer, finding that his counsel committed serious errors during his trial. The man’s death sentence has already been vacated because of counsel’s deficient assistance during the penalty phase.
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Oklahoma officials announced Thursday the state has secured a reliable new source of execution drugs and is resuming lethal injection executions after a five-year halt.
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A death sentence for an Iranian convicted of spying for the United States has been upheld by the supreme court, the judiciary spokesman said Tuesday.
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Louisiana cleans its execution chamber at the state penitentiary daily, but it’s been more than a decade since a condemned prisoner has laid on the chamber’s black-padded gurney to die.
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Convicted murderers no longer need a unanimous jury to sentence them to death, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in a dramatic reversal.
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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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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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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 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 moreFewer 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 moreExiled 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 moreA 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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