Roy Cooper’s commutations should signal the death penalty’s end in North Carolina | Opinion
Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...
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Countries that still have the death penalty
The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.
New Orleans attack: Search continues for potential Bourbon Street accomplices as state AG vows death penalty
The FBI is searching for potential accomplices to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was killed by police in a shootout after ramming ...
Families who lost loved ones to violence find relief, doubt in California’s death penalty
Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commutes 15 death sentences, but 121 still on death row
Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them.
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Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty
Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa approved a law that will end capital ...
Death row prisoner is pushing Arizona to hurry up his execution after state’s nearly three-year reprieve
An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier ...
Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty two decades after last execution
Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...
Tallapoosa County hands down first death sentence in 29 years in horrifying murder spree
D.A. Mike Segrest sought death for Derrick Hightower. The last death sentence handed down in the circuit was by his father, retired Judge Dale Segrest, in 1995.
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Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty almost 20 years after its last hanging
Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two ...
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Zimbabwe ends death penalty after 20-year hiatus on executions
Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a top government official said Tuesday, saving the 60 prisoners currently on death ...
South Carolina schedules January 31 execution as death penalty resumes
South Carolina’s Supreme Court scheduled Marion Bowman Jr.’s Jan. 31 execution, amidst legal challenges and a pause for ...