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Executions are on the rise in the US after years of decline
The Explainer This year has brought the highest number of executions in a decade
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Sheikh Hasina: why ousted Bangladesh PM has been sentenced to death
The Explainer The country’s longest-serving leader spearheaded a ‘ruthless, state-led crackdown’ of protestors in 2024, and faces extradition from India
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Dead Man Walking: searing contemporary opera is a ‘triumph’
The Week Recommends Death row drama ‘deals with the very essence of morality, judgement and conscience’
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Why are American conservatives clashing with Pope Leo?
Talking Points Comments on immigration and abortion draw backlash
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Judge rejects top state charges in Mangione case
Speed Read If convicted, Mangione faces up to life in state prison
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Bondi seeks death penalty for Luigi Mangione
Speed Read Mangione was charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year
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'Do we really need another mountain named McKinley?'
Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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South Carolina to execute prisoner by firing squad
speed read Death row inmate Brad Sigmon prefers the squad over the electric chair or lethal injection, his lawyer said
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'Most troubling is his long record of anti-vaccine advocacy'
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Biden commutes most federal death sentences
Speed Read The president downgraded the punishment of 37 of 40 prisoners on death row to life in prison without parole
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Biden sets new clemency record, hints at more
Speed Read President Joe Biden commuted a record 1,499 sentences and pardoned 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes
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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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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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