N.C. governor commutes 15 death penalty sentences before leaving office
Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison ...
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Zimbabwe abolishes the death penalty
Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...
Death penalty creates more sorrow, pain for most everyone involved
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. More than 2,000 others remain on ...
NC district attorney: Biden’s commutations should guide us to end death penalty | Opinion
As a state prosecutor and district attorney, I became keenly aware that the death penalty does not serve victims or our ...
Biden’s pardons reveal examples of where death penalty would have saved lives
President Biden’s sweeping use of the pardon power should remove any objections to the next administration’s expected ...
Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty almost 20 years after its last hanging
Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two ...
Donald Trump reminds everyone that he isn’t playing about enforcing the death penalty
President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to reinstate the death penalty following President Joe Biden’s decision ...
Military court upholds plea deal, spares 9/11 suspects the death penalty
A military appeals court has upheld a plea deal for the alleged orchestrators of the 9/11 attacks, allowing them to avoid the ...
Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...
Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper follows in Biden’s footsteps with last-minute death sentence commutations
In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of first-degree murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole on ...