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Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates

Washington: President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office. While running for president in 2020, Biden's campaign website said he would work to pass legislation …

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Singapore steps up executions and pressure on anti-death penalty groups

Al Jazeera

Singapore has executed nine people so far this year and dozens more are on death row for drug trafficking offences. ‘Losing another son, he couldn’t accept it’ Like almost all of Singapore’s prisoners on death row, Masoud was convicted for drug offences. Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau said the fact that Masoud’s execution was carried out in advance of the upcoming …

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Bengal man gets death sentence for minor’s rape and murder

The Hindu

A court in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Friday awarded death sentence to a convict, and life imprisonment to another, for the rape and murder of a minor in Farakka on October 13, 2024. Additional Director General West Bengal Police, Supratim Sarkar, said that the main target of the police was to submit the chargesheet as early as possible so …

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Mamata Banerjee lauds state police for securing conviction in 2 rape, murder cases

Hindustan Times

West Bengal chief minister on Friday lauded the state police after a local court sentenced to death one person and awarded life imprisonment to another in the rape and murder of a minor girl in Farakka in October. “Barely a week ago, West Police and our justice system secured capital punishment within just 62 days for the perpetrator of a …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

'Monster Like Conduct': Punjab & Haryana High Court Confirms Death Penalty Of Man Convicted For Rape And Murder Of Minor Girl

Live Law

The Punjab & Haryana High Court on Thursday confirmed death sentence of a man convicted for the rape and murder of a 3-year-old girl in 2018, observing that the "gruesome murder" of a girl child after committing rape upon her is an example of "monster like conduct of the convict. The Punjab & Haryana High Court on Thursday confirmed death …

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Singapore hangs 4th person in three weeks

Raw Story

Singapore hanged a 35-year-old Singaporean-Iranian man for drug trafficking on Friday, its fourth in less than a month, despite appeals from Tehran to "reconsider" his execution. Calling him "an Iranian citizen", Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi also appealed to his Singaporean counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan on Thursday to halt the execution. "Araghchi expressed Iran's respect for Singapore's legal framework but appealed …

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South Carolina executes Richard Moore for 1999 killing despite pleas from former jurors

The Independent

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Committee Revokes Subpoena, Leaves Roberson's Fate Uncertain

CNN

The Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence has issued an extraordinary subpoena seeking Robert Roberson's testimony, potentially causing his execution to be halted. The case remains fluid, with the committee facing a court battle over the subpoena and the attorney general's attempt to overturn a temporary restraining order. Roberson's attorneys argue for his testimony to be heard in person, despite …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad or even nitrogen gas: the execution methods still used in the world today as one death row inmate in the US faces an impossible choice

Daily Mail

After languishing on Death Row for almost 25 years, convicted murderer Richard Moore now faces an agonising decision – choosing how he will be executed. Richard Moore, 59, a South Carolina Death Row inmate, has the choice to either die by the firing squad, electric chair or lethal injection Moore has now been on South Carolina's Death Row for 23 …

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2 months, 1 week ago

"Bizarre and quite Kafkaesque": Experts call out Supreme Court's "absurd" death penalty hearing

Salon

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a rare capital punishment case that's seen the Oklahoma attorney general side with death row inmate Richard Glossip's request to have his murder conviction overturned due to alleged prosecutorial misconduct. "There's a potential for an even split, which would ultimately mean that the lower court decision stands," Hoag-Fordjour said, "affirming or …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Next Stage in the Effort to End the Death Penalty

Slate

The death penalty in the United States is not really a legal problem. This is another example of what French writer Alexis de Tocqueville observed of the United States when he visited in the early 19th century: “Scarcely any political question arises … that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.” Although courts have on occasion stepped …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Experts: Marcellus Williams execution shows "how much politics factors into capital punishment"

Salon

The Tuesday execution of Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams, a Missouri man held on death row for 23 years for a 1998 murder he maintained he did not commit, followed months of pleas to have his life spared. The original prosecuting office's "concession of error" in this way makes Williams' case both "unusual" and "quite extraordinary," argued Austin Sarat, a Salon contributor …

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3 months ago

Award-winning BBC show returning to screens 10 years on from first ever episode in epic comeback

Daily Mail

An award-winning BBC show will be returning to screens 10 years after its first episode aired. Life and Death Row, which was a fan favourite when it appeared a decade ago, will crash back on to screens with three brand new episodes. An award-winning BBC show will be returning to screens 10 years after its first episode aired in an …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Vikrant Massey interview: Who doesn’t love money? I love money

The Hindu

A lot can happen in a year. He was an untiring civil service aspirant in the 2023 sleeper hit 12th Fail, a star-crossed crime reporter in Blackout, a one-armed fugitive in Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba, and, in Sector 36, streaming on Netflix from September 13, he’s transformed into a full-blown serial killer. “It’s been a lifelong aspiration of mine to …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Castration A Bigger Deterrent Than Capital Punishment, Doctors Shouldn't Go On Strike: Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar

News 18

Trinamool Congress Barasat MP Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar was one of the members of the Parliament Standing Committee to frame anti-rape laws after the Nirbhaya gangrape case of 2012. With her own party’s government passing the Aparajita law in West Bengal, making capital punishment a strong provision, Ghosh, while speaking exclusively to News18, said, “I may have my doubts about …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

The end of the abolition era: Democrats quietly drop their opposition to the death penalty

Salon

What a difference four years make. “Because we can’t ensure that we get these cases right every time,” candidate Biden tweeted, “we must eliminate the death penalty.” That year the party also voiced its opposition to the death penalty in its platform. That changed in 2016, when as the Huffington Post points out, “the Democratic Party became the country’s first …

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Democrats Scrub Death Penalty From Campaign Platform

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING In 2016, the Democratic Party became the country’s first major political party to formally call for abolishing the death penalty. When Joe Biden entered office the following year, he became the first president to publicly oppose capital punishment — a dramatic shift from his time in the Senate, when he once bragged that the sweeping crime bill …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Belarus’ authoritarian president pardons German man sentenced to death on terrorism charges

Associated Press

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus’ authoritarian leader on Tuesday granted a pardon to a German citizen who had been sentenced to death on terrorism charges. Krieger’s lawyer Vladimir Gorbach, who took part in the meeting, told the Belarusian state TV that Lukashenko said he would consider Krieger’s request for pardon and announce his decision later. Pavel Sapelka of Belarus’ Viasna human …

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Kamala Harris: What her California years reveal

Raw Story

This article originally appeared in CalMatters, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics. After nearly a decade in Alameda County and a short stint as a deputy district attorney in San Francisco, in 2000, Harris joined the San Francisco city attorney’s office under Louise Renne. She knew it was an important one and it should be celebrated.” …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Nitrogen hypoxia execution doesn’t seem headed for widespread adoption as bills fall short and nitrogen producers object

CNN

CNN — The day after Alabama carried out the first-known US execution using nitrogen gas, its attorney general sent a clear message to death penalty states that might want to follow suit: “Alabama has done it, and now so can you.” Indeed, in the weeks immediately following the January execution of Kenneth Smith, it appeared a handful of states were …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

Red states are using the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade to expand the death penalty

Salon

Even as support for the death penalty wanes across the country, Republican governors, led by Florida’s Ron DeSantis, are signing into law legislation expanding the death penalty. Before looking more closely at the Tennessee law and the political strategy behind it and the others, let’s recall what the Supreme Court has said about using the death penalty for non-homicide cases …

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Created Fear & Vulnerability Amongst Women, Had Profound Impact On Society: Kerala High Court Confirms Death Sentence Of Man Convicted Of Brutal Rape-Murder

Live Law

The Kerala High Court today confirmed the death sentence imposed upon Muhammed Ameer-Ul Islam, a migrant labourer from Assam for committing the rape and murder of a law student in Perumbavoor on April 28, 2016. It said, “The Court stated that the brutality committed by the accused on the body of the victim to cause her death can only be …

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Project 2025 should be a wake-up call to the Biden administration on the death penalty.

Slate

A blueprint for a second Trump term issued by conservative groups contains many alarming wake-up calls for progressives. The section of “Mandate for Leadership” dedicated to laying out a program for the future Trump Justice Department locates the discussion of the federal death penalty in a broad but familiar context. It argues that a “disturbing number of state and local …

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Editorial: Of course the death penalty is racist. And it would be wrong even if it weren’t

LA Times

Civil rights organizations and defense attorneys last month asked the California Supreme Court to invalidate the death penalty in this state for being irredeemably racist. Opinion Editorial: Bureaucracy of death may snag condemned Oklahoma man, guilty or not There’s no better example of the death penalty’s randomness than the case of Richard Glossip in Oklahoma, who even the district attorney …

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Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates

Singapore steps up executions and pressure on anti-death penalty groups

Bengal man gets death sentence for minor’s rape and murder

Mamata Banerjee lauds state police for securing conviction in 2 rape, murder cases

'Monster Like Conduct': Punjab & Haryana High Court Confirms Death Penalty Of Man Convicted For Rape And Murder Of Minor Girl

Singapore hangs 4th person in three weeks

South Carolina executes Richard Moore for 1999 killing despite pleas from former jurors

Committee Revokes Subpoena, Leaves Roberson's Fate Uncertain

Lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad or even nitrogen gas: the execution methods still used in the world today as one death row inmate in the US faces an impossible choice

"Bizarre and quite Kafkaesque": Experts call out Supreme Court's "absurd" death penalty hearing

The Next Stage in the Effort to End the Death Penalty

Experts: Marcellus Williams execution shows "how much politics factors into capital punishment"

Award-winning BBC show returning to screens 10 years on from first ever episode in epic comeback

Vikrant Massey interview: Who doesn’t love money? I love money

Castration A Bigger Deterrent Than Capital Punishment, Doctors Shouldn't Go On Strike: Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar

The end of the abolition era: Democrats quietly drop their opposition to the death penalty

Democrats Scrub Death Penalty From Campaign Platform

Belarus’ authoritarian president pardons German man sentenced to death on terrorism charges

Kamala Harris: What her California years reveal

Nitrogen hypoxia execution doesn’t seem headed for widespread adoption as bills fall short and nitrogen producers object

Red states are using the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade to expand the death penalty

Created Fear & Vulnerability Amongst Women, Had Profound Impact On Society: Kerala High Court Confirms Death Sentence Of Man Convicted Of Brutal Rape-Murder

Project 2025 should be a wake-up call to the Biden administration on the death penalty.

Editorial: Of course the death penalty is racist. And it would be wrong even if it weren’t