Search results for 'capital punishment' (29)
On March 26, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal permission to appeal a September 2024 denial of his latest petition to reverse his conviction.
South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi by firing squad on 11 April. Mahdi had been convicted and sentenced for the 2004 killing of an off-duty law enforcement officer, and others followed.
Prosecutor Lynn Maro was asked for her reaction to letters Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins sent urging federal and state officials to help restore Ohio’s death penalty.
Zimbabwe has just banned the death penalty. While it should remove an exemption clause, the decision is another welcome step in the global journey towards abolition.
In December 2024 the President signed into law the Death Penalty Abolition Act, which abolishes the death penalty for all crimes and provides that dozens of people be resentenced.
A spate of high-profile death penalty cases in 2024 prompted unprecedented outburst of anger, as several claims of innocence have fought executions in the court of public opinion.
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