Trump calls for death penalty for Uzbek man charged in NY attack
US President Donald Trump called for the death penalty on Wednesday for an Uzbek immigrant accused of plowing a truck down a New York City bike path,...
death penalty
Arkansas’s fourth execution in 8 days ends death chamber flurry
Arkansas on Thursday executed its fourth inmate in eight days, administering a lethal injection to a man who killed two people after escaping from a...
Arkansas executes first inmate in 12 years
By Steve Barnes Arkansas executed its first inmate in 12 years on Thursday after a protracted legal battle that questioned aspects of the use of...
Arkansas court halts two executions, U.S. court OKs others
By Steve Barnes Arkansas’ Supreme Court halted two executions hours before they were due to take place on Monday, while a federal appeals court overruled...
Jury condemns Dylann Roof to death for South Carolina church massacre
By Harriet McLeod White supremacist Dylann Roof deserves to die for the hate-fueled killings of nine black churchgoers at a Bible study meeting in a...
Iran says may spare condemned tycoon if he pays back debt
Iran may spare the life of businessman Babak Zanjani, sentenced to death for fraud, if he can pay back large sums he owes to the...
Catholic church in Manila issues prayer against expanded death penalty
By Manuel Mogato Roman Catholic churches in Manila on Sunday read a prayer against Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s plans to re-impose the death penalty on...
Turkey could draft ‘limited measure’ on death penalty, PM says
Turkey could draft a “limited measure” to bring back the death penalty if a political compromise could be reached on the issue, Prime Minister Binali...
Constitution amended to rule out death penalty resurgence
The House plenum on Friday approved a constitution amendment to scrap a provision that could allow for legislation to impose the death penalty for a...
House to delete the death penalty from the constitution
The scrapping of a constitutional provision allowing for legislation to impose the death penalty for certain crimes will be put to a plenary vote on...
