The hardest case for mercy: inside the effort to spare the Parkland school shooter [the death penalty]
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US and British citizens among thirty-seven sentenced to death in DR Congo coup trial
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How the 18th-century gay bar survived and thrived in a deadly environment
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Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud
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Kyoto Animation arsonist given death penalty over 2019 mass murder
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AI models found to show language bias by recommending Black defendents be 'sentenced to death'
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What happens when prosecutors offer contradictory versions of the truth?
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Family of Swedish EU diplomat Johan Floderus, imprisoned in Iran for more than 663 days, fear death penalty verdict is imminent
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What happened at the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account
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Iran has accused Swedish EU employee Johan Floderus of spying for Israel and "corruption on earth", a crime that carries the death penalty under Tehran's Islamic laws
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Saudi Arabia: Brother of prominent UK based scholar sentenced to death over tweets
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The false evolution of execution methods
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Malaysia ends mandatory death penalty for serious crimes
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Carrying out executions took a secret toll on workers — then changed their politics
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Iran has ruled out a potential prison swap involving an Iranian-Swedish academic who has been sentenced to death for spying
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They went to prison as kids. Now they’re on death row.
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What's your stance on capital punishment?
I want to hear what you think. Is it morally wrong? Should it be abolished or reinstated? What's the situation where you live?
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District attorney urges new trial for man on Alabama’s death row
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Paul Skalnik is a liar, a con artist and a snitch. The state of Florida is planning to execute a man based largely on his word.
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The government’s arguments for restoring the death penalty all fail
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Mother of Danish student suspected killed by jihadists in Morocco demands death penalty
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Sweden rejects Chinese request to extradite fugitive former official Qiao Jianjun
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Brunei will not enforce death penalty for gay sex following backlash
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Brunei introduces death by stoning as punishment for gay sex
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For some Colorado lawmakers, the death penalty debate is personal
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‘The hangman was too tired to hang me – three times’
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Gov. Gavin Newsom will halt executions in California
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Supreme Court orders new hearing for death row inmate with dementia
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Texas attorney general Ken Paxton’s strange quest to execute an intellectually disabled man
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China executes 'godfather of crystal meth' Cai Dongjia whose village supplied one third of the country's methamphetamine
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Edmund Zagorski's plea for mercy
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Short Story: "Thirteen Cuts"
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Saudi Arabia seeks its first death penalty against a female human rights activist
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In a precedent, the Saudi prosecution calls for the beheading of female human rights defender Israa Al-Ghomgham
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Pope revises catechism to say death penalty is 'inadmissible'
Current news: Catholic News Service: Pope revises catechism to say death penalty is 'inadmissible' British Broadcasting Corporation: Pope Francis declares death penalty inadmissible in all cases...
Current news:
Catholic News Service: Pope revises catechism to say death penalty is 'inadmissible'
British Broadcasting Corporation: Pope Francis declares death penalty inadmissible in all cases
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Pope Francis changes teachings to oppose death penalty in all cases
New York Times: Pope Declares Death Penalty Inadmissible in All Cases
The lead-up:
CNN (3 years ago): Death penalty showdown: The Pope vs. the Supreme Court
America: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture
(1 year ago): Pope Francis: The death penalty is contrary to the Gospel
And... a contrary opinion from The Catholic World Report one year ago: Why the Church Cannot Reverse Past Teaching on Capital Punishment
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For two decades, defending death row inmates
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Teenage bride, 19, appeals against death sentence for fatally stabbing man she was forced to marry as he raped her while his cousins held her down
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Australian woman sentenced to death for drug offences in Malaysia
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Was Kevin Cooper framed for murder?
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