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Death Penalty

    Gulf War veteran executed for 1998 murders of his girlfriend and her three children
    Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to federal murder charges in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
    Texas man executed for the 2004 strangling and stabbing to death of young mother
    Oklahoma man killed by lethal injection as US executes three people in three days
    US to carry out first firing squad execution since 2010
    Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in historic corruption case
    Japanese court sentences man to death for arson attack at anime studio that killed 36
    Families of those killed in 9/11 attacks split over plea deal that excludes death penalty
    Man who killed 11 Jewish worshippers at a US synagogue in 2018 sentenced to death
    Singapore executes a woman for the first time in nearly 20 years
    US: Oklahoma executes convicted murderer with another set to die in Alabama today
    Man executed in Singapore for co-ordinating 1kg delivery of cannabis
    Oklahoma executes man who murdered elderly couple almost 20 years ago
    Former Texas police officer who hired hitmen to kill wife is executed
    US court rules 19-year-old daughter cannot witness execution of her father
    FactCheck: Iranian protesters have been arrested & killed, but 15,000 aren't sentenced to death
    Alabama prison calls off lethal injection after struggling to access inmate's veins
    Alabama executes man despite objections of victim's family
    Singapore executes disabled Malaysian man over drugs conviction
    Singapore court dismisses mentally disabled man's death sentence appeal
    US Supreme Court reinstates death sentence for man who bombed Boston Marathon
    Japan executes three prisoners for first time since 2019
    Convicted murderer executed in Missouri despite pleas for clemency
    Virginia becomes 23rd US state to abolish the death penalty
    Man executed by the US in Trump’s final days in office despite pleas for clemency
    US judge halts federal executions hours before resumption
    Texas resumes executions after months-long shutdown due to Covid-19
    Missouri executes man whose last words were to maintain his innocence
    Saudi Arabia makes move to abolish death penalty for minors
    Man who murdered 19 people at disability care home in Japan is sentenced to death
    Florida to execute serial killer who preyed on older, gay men along US east coast
    The US government is to start executions again and five murderers have already been given deathdays
    US mother asks that ex-husband who murdered their five children be spared death penalty
    Alabama had to call off an execution at the last minute after it was unable to lift a court order
    'A human rights pariah': Brunei implements death by stoning for gay sex and adultery
    Temporary reprieve for more than 700 death row inmates as California suspends executions
    Alabama executed a Muslim inmate and refused his request to have an imam in the chamber
    'Hostage politics': Campaigners condemn death penalty for Canadian citizen in China
    Death row inmate chooses electric chair over lethal injection, second inmate to do so in last two months
    Texas executes Mexican man who killed his wife and two young children
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