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This past Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed a new bill which would allow for the execution of Palestinian prisoners, drawing harsh criticism for further promoting the selective application of punishment in the apartheid state.

The Malaysian government plans to abolish the death penalty and to stop its 1200 pending executions, a move which has drawn copious amounts of praise from the human rights community. Malaysia’s Law Minister Liew Vui Keong told Channel NewsAsia, “All death penalty will be abolished. Full stop. Since we are abolishing the sentence, all executions […]

Dylann Roof will receive a life sentence after pleading guilty to murdering nine Black victims in South Carolina’s historic Emanuel AME Church in 2015. Doing so will prevent him and, most importantly, the victims’ families from having to endure a second trial to sentence him to the death penalty. 

Dylan Roof, the (alleged) shooter of a historically black church in South Carolina, may receive the harshest punishment possible if convicted. According to the Grio, the Justice Department is seeking the death penalty tied to his nine counts of murder. Roof’s attorneys reportedly say they were considering a guilty plea until the death penalty became a […]

From The Huffington Post: Attorney General Eric Holder called Tuesday for a moratorium on the death penalty pending a Supreme Court decision on the use of lethal injection drugs in Oklahoma. Speaking at a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Holder, noting that he was speaking in a personal capacity and not as a member of the […]

  A Texas man is facing the death penalty after killing a police officer who was part of a raid on his home. On Friday, May 9, 2014, Marvin Louis Guy shot an officer who he thought was an intruder. They were looking for drugs, yet none were found in the home. 

A South Dakota judge sentenced a man who killed a woman as part of a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama to death on Tuesday. The hearing formalized a unanimous vote of a jury to sentence 44-year-old James McVay to death. 

The men who went on a shooting spree in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s black community will face hate crime and 1st degree murder charges. Many community members are calling for prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Watts and England.

According to a study released by the researchers In Michigan and Pennsylvania, more than 4 percent of inmates sentenced to death row in the U.S. are innocent. The article, “Rate of False Conviction of Criminal Defendants Who Are Sentenced to Death” — was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States […]

A Missouri death row inmate’s life has been spared just hours before he was set to be executed. The U.S. Supreme Court granted a temporary stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate Herbert Smulls on Tuesday night. 

Two white men were arraigned on charges in connection with the beating death of 16-year-old Dione Payne of Dayton, Ohio. Payne had been staying at the home of Michael A Geldrich, who is accused of beating the teen the death while robbing him for drugs and money.

NC Republicans overrode Dem. Governor Beverley Perdue’s vetoe of a law that would make it more difficult for death row prisoners to use evidence of racial bias when challenging their sentences.