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Supreme Court could revive lawsuit against Texas officer who shot motorist stopped for unpaid tolls
The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in Houston over unpaid tolls.
Trump suggests state death penalty for those commuted by Biden. Is that possible?
Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...
National Catholic Reporter1dOpinion
During the Jubilee Year, it's time to abolish the death penalty in the US
There is neither a better time nor occasion than the Jubilee Year to abolish the death penalty in the United States, ...
2 inmates sentenced to death don’t want President Biden’s commutation to life in prison
Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis filed petitions in federal court a week after Biden announced he would remove 37 out of 40 ...
Newsweek13d
Death penalty
Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said. Biden is commuting the death ...
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5 years later: Community remembers Florence airport police officer killed in line of duty
Winkeler was shot between nine to 11 times following a traffic stop at the airport ... Circuit Solicitor's Office filed in May of 2023 a Notice of Intent To Seek The Death Penalty against James Bell ...
The Hindu21d
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. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who once faced the death ...
Euronews21d
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa signs bill abolishing the death penalty
Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law a bill on Tuesday which will commute sentences of around 60 prisoners on death row to jail time.
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US court overrules attempt to stop 9/11 attackers from avoiding death penalty
US defense secretary Lloyd Ausin has lost the bid to block the plea deal reached by 9/11 attacks accused Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and two others which allows them to escape death penalty by pleading ...
Le Monde.fr22d
Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty
JEKESAI NJIKIZANA / AFP Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday, December 31, after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will commute to jail time the sentences ...
UPI22d
N.C. governor commutes 15 death penalty sentences before leaving office
Dec. 31 (UPI) --Outgoing North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison without the possibility of parole. "These reviews are among the ...
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Zimbabwe scraps the death penalty – tracking the path to abolition
Parvais Jabbar is the Executive Director of an international legal NGO specialising in death penalty issues. It is a not for profit organisation and is funded by a number of foundations as well as ...