Capital Punishment

• Japan’s ‘Twitter Killer’ sentenced to death for serial murders

  Takahiro Shiraishi was arrested in 2017 after police found several victims in cold storage at his apartment.

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  Dec 15, 2020
  
• U.S. to carry out 1st federal execution of woman in nearly 70 years

  Lisa Montgomery, who was found guilty of strangling a pregnant woman in Missouri, will be executed by lethal injection at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana.

  World

  Oct 16, 2020
  
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• Killers of Black people less likely to face U.S. death penalty than Black criminals: report

  The federal government this year began carrying out executions again after a 17-year hiatus despite waning public support for the death penalty.

  World

  Sep 15, 2020
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• With hours to go, U.S. judge blocks federal executions

  A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before a lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out.

  World

  Jul 13, 2020
• Singapore man sentenced to death on Zoom call due to coronavirus pandemic

  Punithan Genasan, 37, was sentenced to death on Friday for masterminding a 2011 heroin transaction.

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  May 20, 2020
• White supremacist executed after gruesome 1998 dragging death of black man

  An avowed racist who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history was executed Wednesday in Texas for the dragging death of a black man.

  Crime

  Apr 24, 2019
• Ben Stiller’s high school punk band releases first song in 36 years

  Ben Stiller's high school band, Capital Punishment, have reunited and recorded a brand new EP.

  Entertainment

  Oct 24, 2018
• How the Pope’s death penalty stance could be a quandary for Catholic politicians

  Experts say Francis' change could shift political debates, loom over Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and make it difficult for devout Catholic judges to uphold the law as written.

  World

  Aug 6, 2018
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• Vatican declares death penalty inadmissible in every circumstance

  The 1.2 billion-member Catholic Church had for centuries allowed the death penalty in extreme cases.

  World

  Aug 2, 2018
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• ‘Send him home:’ Dad of Canadian on death row breaks silence weeks before passing away

  Ronald Smith's father still had a bedroom and a vintage car waiting for the day his son might come home to Alberta from the Montana prison where he has been on death row for 35 years.

  Features

  May 7, 2018