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Execution dates set for Oklahoma inmates involved in Supreme Court case
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Justice Sotomayor compares the death penalty drug to 'being burned at the stake'
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Justice Breyer: The death penalty is 'likely unconstitutional'
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Supreme Court allows lethal injection drug used in botched executions
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Nebraska governor vetoes bipartisan death penalty repeal bill
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By Peter Weber Published
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Utah death penalty: is a firing squad really 'more humane'?
In Depth Utah becomes the only US state to approve death by firing squad because of a shortage of lethal injections
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With lethal injections on hold, Oklahoma is considering gassing death-row inmates
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Ohio postpones six executions to prepare new lethal-injection drugs
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By Sarah Eberspacher Published
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Oklahoma executes first inmate since botched execution
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Diverse coalition opposes execution of mentally ill convict in Texas
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Botched execution: Arizona prisoner takes two hours to die
In Depth Another botched lethal injection reignites debate over 'experimental' drugs used to carry out death penalty
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Meriam Ibrahim freed by Sudanese court
Speed Read Death sentence for apostasy overturned as Meriam Ibrahim is given her freedom
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Ariel Castro's fate: electric chair or an endless prison term?
In Depth Phillip Garrido's prison term was 431 years – and there was only one victim, Jaycee Lee Dugard, in his case
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