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2022-08-12 Newly uncovered letter casts doubt over sole testimony in Oklahoma death row

2022-08-11 Statement to condemn the end of the unofficial moratorium on executions in Myanmar - WCADP

2022-08-11 Former Illinois Death-Row Prisoner Marilyn Mulero, Framed by Disgraced Chicago Detective, Exonerated After 29 Years

2022-08-10 Russian Scientists, Artists Ask Putin to Halt Death Penalty in Separatist Donetsk - The Moscow Times

Shelby County Voters Oust Prosecutor Who Sought to Execute Pervis Payne

2022-08-08 Sister Calls for Investigation Into Alabama's Botched Execution of Joe James

2020-08-08 Ahmaud Arbery killers sentenced to life in prison for federal hate crimes

2022-08-08 Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot says death penalty for rape leading to murders, faces backlash

2022-08-06 Facing death penalty, Marvin Gabrion’s appeal rejected in 1997 killing of Rachel Timmerman

2022-08-05 Albert Woodfox, Activist Wrongfully Imprisoned for 43 Years, Dies at 75

2022-08-05 Infographic: Which States Have the Death Penalty?

2022-08-02 Commentary: Despite Strong Evidence of Innocence, Courts and Officials 'Pass the Buck' Keeping Toforest Johnson on Alabama's Death Row

2022-08-01 Female journalist told skirt too short when reporting on Alabama execution

2022-08-01 Massachusetts Formally Exonerates Last ‘Witch’ Wrongfully Condemned During Salem Hysteria. Will Connecticut Follow Suit?

2022-08-01 SC death penalty cases are in court for years. More than half end up reversed.

2022-07-31 Which countries still have the death penalty? | FairPlanet

2022-07-29 Alabama Execution of Joe Nathan James Marred by Failures to Set IV Line, Embarrassing Dress-Code Controversy, and Disrespect of Victim’s Family

2022-07-29 Iran: Ex-child bride among three women executed in one day - report

2022-07-28 DJ Dave, Kidd Santhe in third single penned by death row inmate - Citizens Journal

2022-07-27 Parkland shooter’s death penalty trial poses severe test for opponents of capital punishment

2022-07-28 Trump calls for 'quick' death penalty for drug dealers saying US is 'going to hell very fast'

2022-07-26 ‘We can’t play God’: daughter opposes death penalty for mother’s killer

2022-07-26 Japan executes man over Tokyo stabbing rampage – reports

2022-07-25 Former Oklahoma Governor and His Death Penalty Review Commission Co-Chair Call for Execution Halt

2022-07-24 Myanmar: Military executes four democracy activists including ex-MP

2022-07-24 Police chief fired after bragging about killing 13 people in racist recording

2022-07-24 Richard Glossip Has Eaten Three Last Meals on Death Row. Years Later, the State Is Still Trying to Execute Him.

2022-07-23 Christian bicycle shop owner in Pakistan gets death penalty for blasphemy

2022-07-23 Chinese man executed for murder of former wife during live stream

2022-07-22 Singapore: Amnesty calls for an end to executions as fifth person hanged in under four months

2022-07-22 Oklahoma Death-Row Prisoner James Coddington Asks Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Parole to Commute Sentence

2022-07-19 Will the Parkland gunman get the death penalty?

2022-07-19 My name is Brian: the prisoner whose treatment put Switzerland on trial

2022-07-15 Mississippi Supreme Court Denies Additional DNA Testing to Death-Row Prisoner

2022-07-14 Ex-Gambian spies get death sentence for killing activist under Jammeh

2022-07-14 World News — Executions Surge in Iran in First Half of 2022

2022-07-13 ‘It’s inhumane’: how US prison work breaks bodies and minds for pennies

2022-07-12 Texas court stays Ramiro Gonzales’s execution amid questions over expert testimony

2022-07-11 Michigan’s last execution 84 years ago: That man’s story and a look at the death penalty today

2022-07-11 This doctor helped send Ramiro Gonzales to death row – now he’s changed his mind

2022-07-09 Trump urges death penalty for drug dealers: "China has no drug problem"

2022-07-08 Ukraine: Russia-backed separatists lift death penalty moratorium

2022-07-07 Oklahoma’s planned execution spree underlines death penalty’s errors

2022-07-07 Florida Supreme Court Rejects State Attorney General’s Attempt to Block DNA Testing in 46-Year-Old Death Penalty Case

2022-07-07 Singapore executes 2 despite opposition to death penalty | DW | 07.07.2022

2022-07-05 Ramiro Gonzales Video - Expert Testimony

2022-07-05 Texas death row inmate asks to delay execution so he can donate kidney

2022-07-04 A list of recent high-profile shootings in the US

2022-07-04 Abolishing the mandatory death penalty | #ExpertOpinion

2022-07-04 Garland weighs racial equity as he considers death penalty in Buffalo

2022-07-02 Oklahoma lawmaker will fight to end death penalty if Glossip executed

2022-07-01 Oklahoma Plans to Execute 25 Prisoners in 29 Months

2022-07-01 Opinion: What a hip-hop star on death row has to do with dictators everywhere

2022-06-30 President Biden's silence on death penalty speaks volumes | Opinion

2022-06-30 DPIC Analysis Finds Prosecutorial Misconduct Implicated in More than 550 Death Penalty Reversals or Exonerations

2022-06-30 Iran: Swedish-Iranian At Risk Of Retaliatory Execution

2022-06-28 50 years after SCOTUS ruled death penalty cruel and unusual, race factors heavily in executions

2022-06-28 ‘Why did you murder my father?’ How Liz McGregor confronted a killer

2022-06-27 Biden must take action on promise to end federal death penalty

2022-06-27 Officials: Georgia man sentenced to die kills self in prison

2022-06-26 Man gets death penalty in blasphemy case in AJK, Pakistan

2022-05-25 Saudis free youngest prisoner who faced execution

2022-06-25 Turkey Re-Evaluating Death Penalty After Erdogan's Wildfires Comment - Minister

2022-06-24 India's Supreme Court Confirms Death Penalty To Man For Rape & Murder Of Minor Girl

2022-06-23 Ramiro’s Story: Ramiro Gonzales' background

2022-06-22 Even in the most heinous cases, judicial killing has no place in a civilized society.

2022-06-22 On 20th Anniversary of Atkins v. Virginia, Supreme Court Denies Petition to Review Procedural Loophole Permitting Execution of Intellectually Disabled Prisoners

2022-06-22 When Will Texas Stop Executing People Whose Death Sentences Were Unconstitutional?

2022-06-22 Inadequate counsel and unjust trial leaves a man on death row! Save his life!

2022-06-21 British mum to wed pen pal she’s never met— because he’s in jail for brutal murder

2022-06-20 Georgia prisoner sentenced to die in guard killings

2022-06-17 Oklahoma Legislature Releases Independent Review of Richard Glossip Case

2022-06-16 Save Richard Glossip in Oklahoma

2022-06-15 US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year for pittance

2022-06-15 Last Brit to face hangman has died - and protested innocence until dying day

2022-06-14 After Initially Reversing Decision, Supreme Court Refuses to Review Texas Case of Gross Attorney Ineffectiveness a Second Time

2022-06-13 Oklahoma Attorney General Requests 25 Execution Dates Despite Independent Investigation and Claims of Innocence, Serious Mental Illness, and Brain Damage

2022-06-10 Myanmar: Death sentences ‘vile attempt at instilling fear’, rights experts charge

2022-06-10 Malaysia moves to abolish mandatory death penalty

2022-06-09 Britons sentenced to death after ‘show trial’ in Russian-occupied Ukraine

2022-06-09 Behind the black curtain: Republic reporter describes 'surreal' Frank Atwood execution

2022-06-08 Iran hangs 12 inmates including woman in mass execution horror

2022-06-08 Arizona executes inmate for 1984 killing of 8-year-old girl

2022-06-07 Stop the Execution of Frank Atwood in Arizona

2022-06-06 Amnesty International: Mixed Global Trends on Death Penalty as More Nations Abolish and Record Few Conduct Executions, But Extreme Practices, Widespread Secrecy Reported in Outlier Nations

2022-06-06 A federal judge rules Oklahoma's lethal injection method is constitutional

2022-06-04 Federal judge weighs Arizona prisoner Frank Atwood's request to delay execution

2022-06-04 Nigeria: un homme brûlé vif par une foule en colère à Abuja

2022-06-04 She was jailed for losing a pregnancy. Her nightmare could become more common

2022-06-03 Court Documents Reveal Widespread Irregularities in Tennessee Executions

2022-06-02 A Death Penalty Lawyer Grapples With the End of Roe

2022-06-02 Arizona Violated Court Order to Allow Media to Witness Execution, Lawyer for Newspapers Says

2022-06-02 Opinion | The US Supreme Court Also Has Blood on Its Hands

2022-06-01 Autopsies Show Excess Fluid in Lungs of All Four Prisoners Put to Death in Oklahoma Execution Spree

2022-05-31 Mainstreamed White Supremacy Sits Behind Social Media Hate of Kamala Harris – Byline Times

2022-05-31 Saudi Arabia: Release Abdullah al-Howaiti, revoke death sentence

2022-05-30 Right from Wrong; Criminal; The Life Inside review – the problem with our prisons

2022-05-29 UN welcomes Zambia's pledge to abolish death penalty

2022-05-29 Iran sentences 51 people to death by STONING in twisted executions

2022-05-29 Mother forgives Satanist who murdered daughters – but police apology is ‘too late’

2022-05-28 Central African Republic abolishes death penalty - Vatican News

2022-05-27 What do American mass shootings have in common? Toxic masculinity | Eric Lewis

2022-05-27 Canada supreme court rules life without chance of parole is ‘cruel’ and illegal

2022-05-27 Zambia's President Calls for Abolishing the Death Penalty and Pardons Thousands

2022-05-27 Secretive Vietnam is one of the world's biggest executioners, rights groups say

2022-05-27 How a Singapore execution set off a wave of protest

2022-05-27 Toronto police fatally shoot man seen carrying rifle near elementary school

2022-05-27 Eighteen-year-old Americans can’t drink. Why can they buy assault rifles? | Ross Barkan

2022-05-27 New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern addresses Harvard on gun control and democracy

2022-05-25 The Death Penalty In Ghana: The woes of 83-year-old Konadu and her 40 years on the death row

2022-05-25 Analysis: Why the President, Congress and the Supreme Court can't -- or won't -- stop mass shootings

2022-05-25 Kim Kardashian: I am heartbroken, disgusted and furious about Texas

2022-05-24 Pelosi: Why doesn’t Catholic Church punish death penalty supporters?

2022-05-24 State-sanctioned killings rise as executions spike in Iran and Saudi Arabia

2022-05-24 The Supreme Court Just Said That Evidence of Innocence Is Not Enough

2022-05-22 Death by hanging, shooting or gassing for terrorists will tear away the soul of the State of Israel.

2022-05-22 John Grisham: ‘White people love the death penalty’

2022-05-17 Fallout From Aborted Tennessee Execution: Prosecutors Misrepresented Facts in Federal Lawsuit, 2 Members of Execution Team Knew Drugs Had Not Been Tested

2022-05-14 Kareem Jackson Receives Fourth Execution Reprieve in Ohio, Execution Date Re-Set for 2025

2022-05-15 The Far Side of the Moon by Clive Stafford Smith review – a death row lawyer’s soul-searching memoir

2022-05-13 Georgia Allegedly Violated Pandemic Agreement By Scheduling Execution of Virgil Presnell

2022-05-13 Lawyer says Georgia man set for execution should be spared

2022-05-14 The man who killed a stranger with a single punch, and then turned his life around

2022-05-13 Death penalty experts say medical staff took too long to insert IV in first Arizona execution in 8 years

2022-05-11 Arizona prisoner Clarence Dixon executed nearly 8 years after the state's last execution was botched

2022-05-11 Arizona man set to be executed despite concerns over his mental health

2022-05-10 ACLU Review of Quintin Jones Execution Documents Finds Texas “Woefully Unprepared to Carry Out an Execution"

2022-05-08 Life inside: testing a new Swiss prison

2022-05-10 As Arizona resumes the death penalty, a former executioner tells his story

2022-05-10 ‘My world fell apart’: life in prison with serious mental illness

2022-05-10 Inside the Bali prison where British grandmother awaits execution

2022-05-08 Daughter of Briton facing execution in Iraq ‘heartbroken and afraid’ on wedding day

2022-05-08 UK urged to act after UN panel rules detention of Briton in India ‘arbitrary’

2022-05-06 Investigation Shows Hundreds of US Cops Being Trained by Far-Right Extremists

2022-05-06 Japan mass murderer’s bid to escape gallows revives death penalty debate

2022-05-06 Inside the Division: how a small team of US prosecutors fight decades of shocking injustice

2022-05-07 Life in prison for stealing $20: how The Division is taking apart brutal criminal sentences

2022-05-03 Over 8,000 people on death row in South Asia

2022-05-05 Arizona won't disclose expiration date of death penalty drugs, federal public defenders seek answers

2022-05-04 Abortion, Prison and the Death Penalty - The Crime Report

2022-05-03 Prosecutors will seek death penalty for ‘cult mom’ Lori Vallow

2022-05-02 Tennessee halts executions to conduct review after prisoner’s last-minute stay

2022-04-30 A Conversation About Death Penalty Abolition and Social Practice

2022-04-29 Missouri plans another execution. Parson should grant clemency to Carman Deck

2022-04-28 There's a reason why we shouldn't kill Clarence Dixon (and it's not because he's innocent)

2022-04-29 Missouri should end the death penalty and spare Carman Deck Opinion • Missouri Independent

2022-04-28 Iran executions: Alarming rise in use of death penalty in 2021 - report

2022-04-27 Disabled Malaysian man executed over drugs charges in Singapore

2022-04-25 Melissa Lucio granted stay of execution by appeals court - follow live

2022-04-25 Egypt: Halt executions of all people tried in mass trials

2022-04-25 Texas mom faces death penalty (MSNBC video)

2022-04-21 A death row visit unlike any before: Eldest son ponders fate of Melissa Lucio

2022-04-22 Despite planned executions, capital punishment is at 50-year low. What's next for the death penalty?

2022-04-21 Tennessee execution delayed after oversight in lethal injection preparation

2022-04-21 Carl Wayne Buntion executed by lethal injection in the Texas Death Chamber

2022-04-20 Arizona death-row prisoner Clarence Dixon won’t be executed in gas chamber

2022-04-21 Texas mother set for execution – yet evidence suggests she did not kill her child | US news | The Guardian

2022-04-20 UPDATE: Bill to Eliminate Death Penalty Dead on Arrival

2022-04-20 Amanda Knox joins calls to halt execution of Texas death row inmate Melissa Lucio

2022-04-19 Texas death row inmates who escaped execution after wrongful convictions

2022-04-18 Upcoming Executions Shine Spotlight on US Death Penalty

2021-08-21 A Bunch Of Bunnies Showed Up In My Prison Yard And Then A Beautiful Thing Happened

2022-04-17 Prosecutor moves to stop execution of inmate whose religious freedom case reached U.S. Supreme Court

2022-04-16 The Patrick Lyoya shooting reopens debate about how police interact with Black people. Here are other high-profile cases

2022-04-15 Spartanburg's Richard Moore elects firing squad for scheduled April 29 execution

2022-04-15 South Carolina death row prisoner chooses firing squad over electric chair

2022-04-14 Kentucky Becomes Second State to Bar Imposing Death Penalty on Those Diagnosed as Seriously Mentally Ill

2022-04-13 Singapore hardens opinion against death penalty as ‘sense of injustice’ grows

2022-04-13 Texas prosecutor pushes back against pleas to stop execution of Melissa Lucio

2022-04-10 Murder charges dropped against Texas woman for ‘self-induced abortion’

2022-04-08 South Carolina schedules first execution after transition to firing squads

2022-04-08 ‘It means the world to us’: Black lawmakers’ euphoria greets Jackson confirmation

2022-04-08 Don't Let Arizona Restart Executions

2022-04-08 Stop the Execution of Richard Moore in South Carolina

2022-04-08 Texas lawmakers pray with Melissa Lucio on visit to death row, pledging to save her

2022-04-05 UAE sentences Israeli woman to death for cocaine possession

2022-04-03 Singaporeans protest the death penalty in rare demonstration

2022-03-30 Britons don’t tend to support the death penalty… until you name the worst crimes | YouGov

2008-01-01 Bitter Crop - a look back at Brandon Astor Jones' powerful article on the death penalty in 2008

2022-03-29 BBC World Service - Newsday, Singapore plans to execute mentally disabled man

2022-03-27 Opinion: Remembering Renny across the globe

2022-03-16 Like Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, I was locked in Iran's Evin jail. The struggle was trying to stay sane | Anoosheh Ashoori

2022-03-22 Facing Execution in One Month, Innocent Mom Melissa Lucio Still Hopes She’ll Be Free One Day - Innocence Project

2022-03-12 Saudi Arabia executes 81 people in a single day

2020-08-04 'I went from prisoner to PhD' - BBC Ideas

2022-03-15 Russia to quit Council of Europe, calls it an ‘instrument for anti-Russian policies’

2022-03-19 'Absolutely Barbaric': South Carolina OKs Firing Squad Executions

2022-03-21 From 'Dead Man Walking' to fighting to abolish the death penalty: Sister Helen Prejean’s journey

2022-03-27 Death penalty for abortions becomes pivotal issue in GOP runoff in Texas

2022-03-28 Bipartisan Majority of Texas House of Representatives Calls for Clemency for Melissa Lucio, Facing Execution for Likely Accidental Death of Disabled Daughter

2022-03-29 Man with low IQ loses last appeal against death sentence

2022-03-30 Man hanged in Singapore amid concern over surge of execution notices

2022-03-30 ‘No progress’ since George Floyd: US police killing three people a day