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  • Anne Taylor asked the judge in a slew of motions to remove capital punishment as an option using the same legal playbook that she tried — and failed — to use in Kohberger’s case.

  • A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant for Aaron Gunches.

  • Human rights groups accuse Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool following nationwide protests.

  • Capital punishment remains one of society's most controversial topics of conversation.

  • If Biden’s federal death row commutations had been based on principle, they would have been made right away when Biden took office.

  • Iran in 2024 executed at least 31 women, an NGO said on Monday, warning that female prisoners were increasingly being caught in a surge in the use of capital punishment in the Islamic .

  • Mangione was arrested on Dec.

  • The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), under the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, has released its annual "Capital Punishment, 2022 – Statistical Tables.

  • In its history, the Granite State has executed 26 people.

  • Opponents of capital punishment should have been pleased by Joe Biden's commutation of 37 federal death sentences.