35 h. ago DC museum shooter Elias Rodriguez told he could face death penalty as he appears in court

Elias Rodriguez, 31, appeared in federal court in Washington DC.

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36 h. ago Alleged gunman behind Israel embassy staff shootings 'faces death penalty' after being charged with murder

Elias Rodriguez is accused of murdering Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside a Jewish museum in Washington on Wednesday

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59 h. ago Sinister Trump dims the lights for another White House ambush

Like a Bond villain startling guests with noxious gas, the president pushed his 'white genocide’ delusion to Cyril RamaphosaWe knew he was a bore and boor. Now we have learned that Donald Trump is an honorary Boer.When he turned his attention to South Africa on Wednesday, it may come as no surprise that the US president – who has been sued for discriminating against Black apartment seekers, called for the death penalty for the Central Park Five, pushed the false claim that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries”, and blamed an air crash on DEI – was rooting for the whites. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Death row inmate seeks to volunteer to die after friends are executed in South Carolina

The inmate appears to want to die himself after his best friend was executed in January

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3 d. ago Pakistan’s top court upholds death penalty for man who beheaded girlfriend

Zahir Jaffer is scion of one of South Asian country’s richest families

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3 d. ago A British man on trial in Bali for a drug offense pleads for a lenient sentence

A British man on trial for drug offenses has pleaded for leniency in a court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali after a charge of trafficking that could carry the death penalty was dropped

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7 d. ago American basketball player could face firing squad in Indonesia after allegedly trying to smuggle cannabis candy

Police raided the former college basketball star’s apartment after package from Thailand addressed to him was flagged at airport

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8 d. ago Idaho judge wants an investigation of information leaks in Bryan Kohberger's quadruple

The judge overseeing Bryan Kohberger’s upcoming quadruple-murder trial says he wants to identify anyone who may have violated a gag order concerning the case

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8 d. ago Over 20 prisoners to be executed across America this year – a look back at their cases

States across the US continue to use capital punishment

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1 week ago Woman who cut foetus from pregnant victim to 'claim' it facing death penalty

Amber Waterman, 45, pleaded guilty last year to one count of kidnapping Ashley Bush and one count of causing the death of her unborn daughter

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2 w. ago Texas Republicans pushing for death penalty in all 50 states for undocumented murderers

GOP lawmakers seek to close ‘dangerous loophole’ preventing local prosecutors from seeking capital punishment for most serious crimes

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2 w. ago Revealed: Autopsy suggests South Carolina botched firing squad execution

Records obtained by the Guardian indicate shooters did not hit Mikal Mahdi according to protocol, which lawyers say caused prolonged sufferingA South Carolina firing squad botched the execution of Mikal Mahdi last month, with shooters missing the target area on the man’s heart, causing him to suffer a prolonged death, according to autopsy records and his attorneys.Mahdi, 42, was shot dead by corrections employees last month in the second firing squad execution this year in South Carolina. The state has aggressively revived capital punishment over the last seven months and brought back the controversial firearm method that has rarely been used in the modern death penalty era. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Eight migrants thought to be lost at sea after boat capsized are found alive in San Diego – but 10

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she’d be seeking the death penalty against the alleged smugglers

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2 w. ago Luigi Mangione becomes a MILLIONAIRE as he turns 27 while behind bars and facing death penalty

Luigi Mangione's defense fund hit a million-dollar milestone as the alleged killer spent his 27th birthday behind bars.

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2 w. ago Brit, 32, 'caught with kilo of MDMA' in Bali where drug crimes can mean execution by firing squad is hauled into court as trial begins

A British man has been hauled into court in Bali for allegedly smuggling a kilo of MDMA to the party island where drug crimes can result in the death penalty. 

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2 w. ago New poll shows 4 in 5 Brits think crime has worsened over past decade

Survey for TV channel also finds that more than half the population supports the return of the death penalty

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2 w. ago Mystery as Idaho murders trial judge hastily schedules SECRET hearing for suspect Bryan Kohberger

Ada County District Judge Steven Hippler has hastily scheduled a closed-door hearing just three months before Bryan Kohberger's capital murder trial gets underway.

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2 w. ago Most agonising execution method still used today, according to experts

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT As the death penalty continues to be a point of heated debate 60 years since the last person was executed in the UK, the Mirror takes a look at the agonising methods which are still in use around the world today

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3 w. ago Idaho judge denies Bryan Kohberger’s ‘hollow’ attempt to strike death penalty

This is the 13th time the judge has ruled against the defense’s attempt to remove the death penalty

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3 w. ago Federal judge says Idaho must let execution witnesses watch as lethal drugs are prepped and pushed

A federal judge says Idaho prison officials must allow media witnesses at executions to watch as the lethal injection drugs are prepared and administered to the condemned person

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