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Court order comes days after government introduced death penalty for rape amid growing anger over sexual violence.
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The government approves changes to law following unprecedented protests across the nation against sexual assaults.
Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest-held death row prisoner and his sister fight for his freedom.
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Christopher Vialva is the first Black man to be executed since the punishment resumed this year after...
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Judge rules the government’s lethal injection protocol breaks law, orders halt to federal execution planned for Friday.
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A total of 16 Native Americans have been executed by eight states since 1976, groups tracking capital punishment say.
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The execution came after legal claims over the mental fitness of the condemned were denied by the Supreme Court.
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‘Unprecedented’ online reaction against Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death penalty for three young protesters.
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The order blocks two further planned executions which the Trump administration heralds as a return to law and order.
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Execution of Daniel Lewis Lee goes ahead after late-hour US Supreme Court ruling ended legal challenges.
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Three men convicted of murder were scheduled to die by lethal injection this week at an Indiana prison beginning Monday.
Daniel Lee execution was expected on Monday, but family of victims now says will appeal, citing right to view execution.
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Roughly 2,500 are on death row in the US. Executions are legal in over half the states, though their use is decreasing.
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Punithan Genasan, a 37-year-old Malaysian, received the sentence for his role in a 2011 heroin transaction.