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Will Biden clear out death row before leaving office?
Today's Big Question Trump could oversee a 'wave of executions' otherwise
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Texas set to execute dad in disputed 'shaken baby' case
Speed Read Robert Roberson's hotly contested execution would be the first ever tied to shaken baby syndrome
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The pros and cons of the death penalty
Pros and cons Despite global progress towards abolition, public opinion remains divided as executions increase
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Missouri executes man despite DA's objection
Speed Read Marcellus Williams maintained his innocence and the killing was opposed by the victim's family
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Texas court allows execution in shaken baby syndrome case
Under the radar The state could be the first to carry out the death penalty for someone convicted due to the diagnosis, despite its controversial applicability
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Iwao Hakamada: Japan's record-breaking death row prisoner
Under the Radar Former boxer spent 46 years condemned to execution but his retrial could clear his name
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'Is the death penalty racist? Of course it is.'
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Texas executes man despite contested evidence
Speed Read Texas rejected calls for a rehearing of Ivan Cantu's case amid recanted testimony and allegations of suppressed exculpatory evidence
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'The death penalty, it seems, is just too embedded in America's DNA to go away'
Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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Why some critics are so horrified by Alabama's new execution method
The Explainer State officials have petitioned to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith with a largely untested method of killing
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Ghana abolishes the death penalty
feature It joins a growing list of African countries which are turning away from capital punishment
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Singapore executes man for trafficking 1kg of cannabis
Speed Read Human rights organisations criticise city-state for hanging Singaporean man whose case was ‘far from clear cut’
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DeSantis signs bill loosening requirements for death penalty vote in Florida
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Pennsylvania governor says he won't sign execution orders, calls for repeal of the death penalty
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