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US Supreme Court Weighs Death Sentence For Boston Marathon Bomber
President Joe Biden's opposition to capital punishment will be put to the side Wednesday when the US Justice Department tries to convince the Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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US Resumes Use Of Death Penalty After Two Decades, Schedules 5 Executions
The US Justice Department on Thursday reinstated a two-decades long dormant policy allowing the federal government's use of capital punishment and immediately scheduled the executions for five death row federal inmates.
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US Man Convicted Of Double Murder Put To Death In Electric Chair
A Tennessee man convicted of a double murder was put to death Thursday in the electric chair, after insisting on the rarely used method rather than lethal injection.
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Alabama Executes Inmate, 83, Oldest In Modern US History
Alabama on Thursday executed an 83-year-old man convicted of a deadly 1989 serial bombing spree, making him the oldest known person put to death in the modern era of US capital punishment.
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Alabama To Execute 83-Year-Old Inmate, Oldest In Modern US History
Alabama is set on Thursday to execute an 83-year-old convicted pipe-bomb killer, believed to be the oldest person put to death in the modern era of US capital punishment.
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Oklahoma To Use Nitrogen For Executions In First For US
Oklahoma officials said on Wednesday the state would resume executions using nitrogen gas, a move that would make it the first U.S. state to use the gas for capital punishment.
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Death Penalty May Be On The Way Out In US: Report
The days of capital punishment may be numbered in the United States, with sharp reductions in new death sentences and executions carried out amid waning public support, according to a report released Wednesday.
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US Executions Hit 25-Year Low In 2016: Study
The number of US executions fell to a quarter-century low in 2016 as new death sentences plummeted, indicating capital punishment is on the decline, a study released on Wednesday showed.
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Texas Man Executed Amid US Decline In Use Of Capital Punishment
The southern US state of Texas on Wednesday executed an inmate who had dropped all appeals and asked to be put to death for murdering his neighbors 13 years ago.
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Donald Trump's Son Clarifies 'Gas Chamber' Comment After Criticism
Donald Trump Jr. sought on Thursday to clarify his remark that the media would be "warming up the gas chamber" if the Republican Party behaved the same way as the Democrats during the US presidential campaign, saying it was a reference to capital punishment, not the Nazi-led Holocaust.
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US Executes 72-Year-Old Prisoner
The US state of Georgia executed its oldest death row inmate Wednesday, just days before his 73rd birthday, in a move critics denounced as emblematic of capital punishment's excesses.
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New Plan Could Allow Executions to Resume in California
California authorities proposed Friday a new method to execute inmates by lethal injection, potentially allowing the US state to resume capital punishment nearly a decade after legal challenges halted the practice.
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Convicted Murderer is Executed by Lethal Injection in Texas
The state of Texas today executed a death row inmate convicted of fatally shooting a man in 1998, after robbing his victim of eight dollars.
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Death Row Inmate to Ask US Top Court to Consider Death Penalty
A death row inmate in Oklahoma who unsuccessfully sought to ban a controversial drug used in lethal injections will ask the Supreme Court to consider if capital punishment is constitutional, his lawyer said Friday.
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Opinion: Hanging Yakub Memon Makes Us Murderers Too
Should our society be practising the philosophy of 'an eye for an eye'?
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US Supreme Court Weighs Death Sentence For Boston Marathon Bomber
President Joe Biden's opposition to capital punishment will be put to the side Wednesday when the US Justice Department tries to convince the Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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US Resumes Use Of Death Penalty After Two Decades, Schedules 5 Executions
The US Justice Department on Thursday reinstated a two-decades long dormant policy allowing the federal government's use of capital punishment and immediately scheduled the executions for five death row federal inmates.
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US Man Convicted Of Double Murder Put To Death In Electric Chair
A Tennessee man convicted of a double murder was put to death Thursday in the electric chair, after insisting on the rarely used method rather than lethal injection.
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Alabama Executes Inmate, 83, Oldest In Modern US History
Alabama on Thursday executed an 83-year-old man convicted of a deadly 1989 serial bombing spree, making him the oldest known person put to death in the modern era of US capital punishment.
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Alabama To Execute 83-Year-Old Inmate, Oldest In Modern US History
Alabama is set on Thursday to execute an 83-year-old convicted pipe-bomb killer, believed to be the oldest person put to death in the modern era of US capital punishment.
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Oklahoma To Use Nitrogen For Executions In First For US
Oklahoma officials said on Wednesday the state would resume executions using nitrogen gas, a move that would make it the first U.S. state to use the gas for capital punishment.
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Death Penalty May Be On The Way Out In US: Report
The days of capital punishment may be numbered in the United States, with sharp reductions in new death sentences and executions carried out amid waning public support, according to a report released Wednesday.
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US Executions Hit 25-Year Low In 2016: Study
The number of US executions fell to a quarter-century low in 2016 as new death sentences plummeted, indicating capital punishment is on the decline, a study released on Wednesday showed.
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Texas Man Executed Amid US Decline In Use Of Capital Punishment
The southern US state of Texas on Wednesday executed an inmate who had dropped all appeals and asked to be put to death for murdering his neighbors 13 years ago.
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Donald Trump's Son Clarifies 'Gas Chamber' Comment After Criticism
Donald Trump Jr. sought on Thursday to clarify his remark that the media would be "warming up the gas chamber" if the Republican Party behaved the same way as the Democrats during the US presidential campaign, saying it was a reference to capital punishment, not the Nazi-led Holocaust.
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US Executes 72-Year-Old Prisoner
The US state of Georgia executed its oldest death row inmate Wednesday, just days before his 73rd birthday, in a move critics denounced as emblematic of capital punishment's excesses.
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New Plan Could Allow Executions to Resume in California
California authorities proposed Friday a new method to execute inmates by lethal injection, potentially allowing the US state to resume capital punishment nearly a decade after legal challenges halted the practice.
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Convicted Murderer is Executed by Lethal Injection in Texas
The state of Texas today executed a death row inmate convicted of fatally shooting a man in 1998, after robbing his victim of eight dollars.
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Death Row Inmate to Ask US Top Court to Consider Death Penalty
A death row inmate in Oklahoma who unsuccessfully sought to ban a controversial drug used in lethal injections will ask the Supreme Court to consider if capital punishment is constitutional, his lawyer said Friday.
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Opinion: Hanging Yakub Memon Makes Us Murderers Too
Should our society be practising the philosophy of 'an eye for an eye'?
