7 h. ago UK's last death penalty victim as calls grow for return of capital punishment

Polling shows that 50% of Brits support the reintroduction of capital punishment and 42% of the public say it should be typical sentence when it comes to murder

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11 h. ago Starmer shuts down Lowe’s calls for a referendum on the death penalty: ‘It is not the answer’

Sir Keir Starmer has shut down Rupert Lowe’s recommendation that the death penalty be reintroduced for foreign criminals.

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13 h. ago Keir Starmer breaks silence on bringing death penalty back to UK

Independent MP Rupert Lowe asked Sir Keir Starmer to put the reintroduction of the death penalty before the public in the form of a legally binding referendum in the wake of 'brutal murders'

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39 h. ago Israeli parliament backs death penalty bill targeting Palestinians

Bill passed by 39 votes to 16 but must clear two more parliamentary votes to become law

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50 h. ago Murderer has gruesome decision to make 35 years after raping and killing student

Harold Wayne Nichols was given the death penalty in 1990 after raping and murdering Karen Pulley, a 21-year-old student at Chattanooga State University in Tennessee

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5 d. ago Woman faces deportation after harassing Madeleine McCann’s parents

Julia Wandelt was made the subject of a restraining order on Friday.

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6 d. ago PHOTO ESSAY: One woman’s journey with lupus, the disease of 1,000 faces

Ruth Wilson doesn’t look sick yet “everywhere hurts all the time” – because her immune system is attacking her own body.

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6 d. ago Death row drug mule gran seen for the first time since jail release

Lindsay Sandiford was given the death penalty in 2013 for smuggling 1.6m of cocaine into Indonesia.

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6 d. ago Brit drug mule gran Lindsay Sandiford pictured for first time after 13 years on Death Row

Frail pensioner, Lindsay Sandiford is due to land back on British soil after facing death by firing squad in Indonesia - the gran was released under an agreement reached with the Indonesian government

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6 d. ago Death row gran Lindsay Sandiford seen for first time in DECADE as she leaves jail

Pensioner Lindsay Sandiford - given the death penalty in 2013 for smuggling 1.6m of cocaine into Indonesia - left her cell today for the 8,000-mile journey home to Britain

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6 d. ago Death row gran Lindsay Sandiford, 69, seen for first time in DECADE leaving jail

Pensioner Lindsay Sandiford - given the death penalty in 2013 for smuggling 1.6m of cocaine into Indonesia - left her cell today for the 8,000-mile journey home to Britain

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6 d. ago Woman shares simple fitted sheet folding trick and people say 'it's magic'

An Australian woman was left red-faced when she was accused of 'witchcraft' for her simple folding trick - and people say it's 'magic'

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7 d. ago Emotional moment Aussie facing the death penalty after he was accused of smuggling cocaine into Bali hugs his family outside court

Lamar Aaron Ahchee, 43, gave his testimony in Denpasar District Court on Tuesday.

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8 d. ago A California woman put her face on giant billboards searching for love. Then ‘next

Lisa Catalano, frustrated with dating apps, purchased billboards to advertise a website where men could apply to date her

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9 d. ago Mass murderer George Banks, spared from death penalty, dies in prison 43 years after rampage

George Banks, one of the most notorious mass murderers in the U.S., has died

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9 d. ago 'I was spared by train attack knifeman after screaming four desperate words'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. When looking into the face of death aboard the horror Huntingdon train, one woman made a brave four-word plea to the violent attacker, which ultimately saved her life

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1 week ago Scots woman faces hysterectomy fighting chronic disease that has 'ruined her life'

Lisa Thomson, 28, lives in daily pain and said a hysterectomy to remove her uterus is just a "a matter of when," a prospect she finds "soul destroying".

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1 week ago Small boat asylum seeker who grabbed woman in nightclub and marched her out to rape her in alleyway faces years in jail

Eid Anwar Fathi Najjar, 20, arrived in the UK illegally on a small boat three years ago and now faces a lengthy prison sentence after being branded 'a sexual predator'.

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2 w. ago Former police officer accused of killing pregnant woman now faces charges in death of unborn child

A former Massachusetts police officer, who earlier pleaded not guilty to killing a woman he is accused of sexually exploiting when she was underage, faces an additional charge of causing the death of her unborn son

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2 w. ago Worst date ever? Dater arrested and accused of trying to run down woman he chatted with on Facebook

Alexander Dennis Jr., 33, allegedly tried to run over his date twice with a stolen vehicle

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