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Japan executes 'Twitter killer' for murdering and dismembering 9 young people in his apartment
A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed, Japan's Justice ...
Opinion
Texas could soon execute a man before his appeal is heard — and set a dangerous national precedent
If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson could be dead by the time his appeal is heard. And what Paxton wants to do ...
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Kolkata gangrape accused had demanded death penalty for RG Kar rapist in post
Monojit Mishra took to Facebook in August last year following the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College in ...
On This Day: U.S. Supreme Court finds death penalty unconstitutional
On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...
Albuquerque Journal1d
Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for New Mexico man
Federal prosecutors in New Mexico said Friday they plan to seek the death penalty for the first time since 2018 in the case of a man charged in two homicides ...
WFSU News1d
As the number of executions in Florida grows, so do the questions
Gudinas’s execution is Florida’s seventh this year. And already, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an 8th warrant—tying the ...
Execution completed by lethal injection for Mississippi murderer Richard Jordan at Parchman
Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...
'Twitter Killer' who Raped and Murdered 8 Young Women — Then Kept Their Mutilated Remains as Trophies — Is Executed
Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...