16 h. ago Death row inmates sue to stop Trump from sending them to prison that housed Timothy McVeigh and the Unabomber

Attorney says Trump administration is ‘just assuming they are the worst of the worst by virtue of their death sentences’

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17 h. ago FSU shooting victims include a school employee whose dad was a Cuban exile turned CIA operative

Two people were killed and six others were injured when a gunman opened fire at Florida State University, sending students fleeing from the student union and putting the Tallahassee, Florida campus under lockdown

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35 h. ago FSU shooting latest: Gunman, 20, who killed two and injured 6 ‘is a cop’s son who used mom’s former service weapon’

Phoenix Ikner, the 20-year-old shooting suspect, also had a shotgun on him but police say it’s not immediately clear whether he fired it at the scene

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35 h. ago Luigi Mangione is indicted on federal charges over UnitedHealthcare CEO's murder

Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of CEO Brian Thompson, a necessary step for prosecutors to seek the death penalty.

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36 h. ago UnitedHealthcare killing suspect Luigi Mangione indicted as prosecutors push for death penalty

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel in December, has been indicted in a New York court on four charges including a count eligible for the death penalty

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37 h. ago FSU shooting latest: Gunman, 20, who killed two and injured 5 ‘is a cop’s son who used mom’s former service weapon’

Phoenix Ikner, the 20-year-old shooting suspect, also had a shotgun on him but police say it’s not immediately clear whether he fired it at the scene

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49 h. ago Who are the death row executioners? Disgraced doctors, suspended nurses and drunk drivers

These are just the US executioners we know. But they are a chilling indication of the executioners we don’t knowBeing an executioner is not the sort of job that gets posted in a local wanted ad. Kids don’t dream about being an executioner when they grow up, and people don’t go to school for it. So how does one become a death row executioner in the US, and who are the people doing it?This was the question I couldn’t help but ask when I began a book project on lethal injection back in 2018. I’m a death penalty researcher, and I was trying to figure out why states are so breathtakingly bad at a procedure that we use on cats and dogs every day. Part of the riddle was who is performing these executions. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Foreign Office tells Brits 'don't get involved' or face death penalty in stark warning

Travel advice has been updated for tourists travelling out of the European Union to Bali.

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4 d. ago The return of the firing squad is a defeat for death penalty supporters | Austin Sarat

The method is a vivid reminder of the brutality of state killing. That undermines the pro-capital-punishment narrativeOn 11 April, South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi by firing squad. Mahdi had been convicted and sentenced for the 2004 killing of an off-duty law enforcement officer.One month before his execution, South Carolina put Brad Sigmon to death using the same method. He was the first person since 2010 to be killed by the firing squad. Both Mahdi and Sigmon chose the firing squad from a menu of three ways to die, the others being lethal injection and the electric chair. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Police hunting ‘Liverpool fans’ over Tube train racist attack on Asian men after Wembley loss

Officers believe males in CCTV images may have details to help their probe into ‘headbutting’ on Metropolitan line train

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7 d. ago Infamous Supermax prison that's world's most secure is rocked by murder mystery as inmate is killed

Ishmael Petty, 56, will face trial for allegedly murdering cocaine dealer LaMarcus Hillard, 40, about 9.15am on September 19, 2020, inside ADX Florence.

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7 d. ago Mexico to give Donald Trump 40 top drug lords who could face death penalty in US

Mexico could hand 40 drug cartel operators over to the US - where they may face the death penalty - in an extraordinary mass expulsion to 'placate' Donald Trump

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8 d. ago Justice Department seeks death penalty for man who killed fellow supermax inmate

The Justice Department will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a fellow inmate at the federal government’s “Supermax” prison in Florence, Colorado, while serving a life sentence for killing his cellmate at another lockup

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9 d. ago Fleeing Taliban fighters, Ibrahim begs the country he helped – Australia – to save his family

Mohammed Ibrahim Danish spent four years as a translator for aid workers who taught children and trained doctors. In today’s Afghanistan the penalty for that is death Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastHuddled on Afghanistan’s chaotic border with Pakistan, his young son shivering in the cold, Ibrahim Danish stared at the unmoving metal gates – willing them to open, even just for a moment.“We spent the night there in the middle of the street with little Daniel and it was [the most] difficult night of my life,” he says. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Police share CCTV of pensioner’s final moments before fatal attack as teenagers found guilty

Bhim Kohli is seen walking his dog in the final moments before a fatal attack in CCTV footage released by Leicestershire Police.

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1 week ago Daughter of elderly dog walker says 'disgusting' teenage killers 'humiliated' him before brutally beating him to death in racist attack

Bhim Kohli, 80, was racially abused and slapped in the face with a shoe by a balaclava-clad boy in Leicester while a girl filmed part of the attack and laughed.

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1 week ago The emoji killers: How teen thug, 14, laughed to friends 'feds know it's me' and girl, 12, told police she found it 'a bit funny' after elderly dog walker was beaten to death in racist attack

The boy, now 15, and the girl, now 13, were found guilty of killing Bhim Kohli, 80, who was injured and racially abused just yards from his home in Braunstone near Leicester on September 1 last year.

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1 week ago Girl, 13, and boy, 15, are found guilty of beating pensioner to death as he walked his dog: Grandfather, 80, was battered and stamped on as laughing teen filmed racist attack

The teenager was just 14 when he donned a balaclava and viciously attacked retired factory owner Bhim Kohli, 80, in Leicester.

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1 week ago Boy, 15, is found guilty of killing defenceless dog walker, 80, just metres from his home: Grandfather beaten with a slider before being stamped to death as laughing girl, 13, filmed racist attack

The teenager was just 14 when he donned a balaclava and viciously attacked retired factory owner Bhim Kohli, 80, in Leicester.

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1 week ago The alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer faces the death penalty. Will a jury impose that punishment?

Even if he’s convicted, a jury might decide on a lesser punishment for Luigi Mangione in the trial’s penalty phaseIt was a decision that everyone expected to come. But it still had all the drama of a made-for-television legal show: would the government seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering a top health insurance executive on a Manhattan street?The answer came last week: yes. Continue reading...

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