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Why The Death Penalty In America Is Sexist

Teresa Lewis, for example, plotted to kill her husband and stepson for the insurance money. "Instea…

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The death penalty in America is sexist

Teresa Lewis, for example, plotted to kill her husband and stepson for the insurance money. "Instea…

Christina Sterbenz   


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Virginia just became the first southern state to abolish the death penalty

Including Virginia, 23 states in the US and Washington, DC, have abolished the death penalty. Virgi…

Connor Perrett   


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Why Support For The Death Penalty In America Is Plunging

There's also little evidence that the death penalty does anything to deter crime anyway. Currently …

Erin Fuchs   


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Rare Video Appears To Show A Public Execution In China

Little is known about the video. The uploader says it was filmed in November 2012, and the WSJ's Ch…

Adam Taylor   


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The Best And Worst Ways To Conduct Executions

It's impossible to know exactly how people feel when they're being executed. The guillotine does se…

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Ex-Death Row Guard Describes The Chilling Hours Before An Execution

"In fact, there was a man named William Neal Moore who was coming up for execution. He was hours aw…

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17 Democratic senators urge Attorney General Merrick Garland to stop seeking the federal death penalty

"There are serious concerns about arbitrariness in the application of the death penalty," the senat…

Oma Seddiq   


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OBAMA: The death penalty is 'deeply troubling'

Earlier this week, a bipartisan criminal-justice reform bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee,…

Maxwell Tani   


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Why the death penalty in America is sexist

Teresa Lewis, for example, plotted to kill her husband and stepson for the insurance money. "Instea…

Christina Sterbenz   


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Virginia has moved closer to abolishing the death penalty in a watershed moment for the Southern state

Virginia is on the cusp of becoming the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty, the result of shif…

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Merrick Garland says he's concerned about 'randomness' of death penalty and its 'disparate' impact on Black Americans

Since 1973, 185 people have been exonerated after being wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death…

John Haltiwanger   


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Brian Laundrie could face the death penalty if he winds up charged with murder in the death of Gabby Petito, experts say

Gabby Petito's body has been identified, and her death ruled a homicide. Police are searching for h…

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A 55-year-old mother of 9 was sentenced to death by hanging for possessing around 4 ounces of meth

A Malaysian court sentenced Hairun Jalmani to death after convicting her on possession charges.

Cheryl Teh   


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Arizona Woman Released After 2 Decades On Death Row

Milke was convicted in the death of her son who authorities believe was killed for a $5,000 insuran…

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An inmate who is scheduled to be executed just 5 days before Biden takes office tested positive for COVID-19

The federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where Dustin John Higgs is being held has over 300 conf…

Sarah Al-Arshani   


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Oklahoma overwhelmingly voted in favor of the death penalty

With 1,666 of 1,965 precincts reporting Tuesday night, 67% of voters cast ballots in favor of creat…

Michelle Mark   


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How America - Can And Will - Abolish The Death Penalty

Such appeals to emotion or faith are hard to answer, although the Bible also has passages about not…