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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'
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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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Death penalty: U.S. carried out historically few executions in 2022, but 1 in 3 were 'botched'
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Supreme Court declines death row inmate's appeal over prejudiced jurors
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Alabama delays execution after 5-4 Supreme Court rules it can continue
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How Britain changed over Queen Elizabeth’s reign
feature From Winston Churchill to Boris Johnson, the nation was transformed during her 70 years on the throne
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What's next for Melissa Lucio's death penalty case?
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