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35% of US executions ‘botched’ in 2022 as use of capital punishment remains near 50-year lows, report says

Executions and death sentences in the United States remained near 50-year lows in 2022, but “an astonishing 35%” of execution attempts were “visibly problematic,” according to a report released Friday.

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Transgender woman to be executed despite suffering brain damage as a child

Amber McLaughlin, 49, who was convicted of killing and raping Beverly Guenther on November 20, 2003, in St. Louis County, Missouri, US, has begged to be spared from the death penalty

Daily Mirror

Death penalty researchers call 2022 ‘Year of the Botched Execution’

Seven of the 20 execution attempts in the US over the past year were visibly problematic or took an inordinate amount of time, a Washington DC study reveals

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Report: Executions continued decline but many 'botched'

An annual report on capital punishment says public support and use of the death penalty continued a more than two-decade decline in the U.S. in 2022

The Independent UK

‘Surreal spectacle’: US botched 35% of execution attempts this year

Annual review reveals that 35% of the 20 execution attempts carried out this year were visibly problematic

The Guardian - US

Orange County serial killer Franc Cano gets life in prison after guilty pleas

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Franc Cano, who with an accomplice abducted and killed several women in Anaheim and Santa Ana while on sex-offender probation, pleaded guilty to murder Thursday after prosecutors dropped their call for the death penalty.

Los Angeles Times

Iranian student faces death penalty for giving 'chocolates and hugs' in protests

Mohammed Nasiri, 21, has reportedly been accused of "waging war against God" for his part in anti-regime protests in Iran where he was part of a group giving out chocolates and hugs to passers-by

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Mixed reactions to Oregon governor commuting death row

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown's decision to commute all 17 of the state's death sentences has drawn mixed reactions

The Independent UK

‘Inhumane’: Critics slam US vote against UN resolution condemning death penalty

Joe Biden campaigned on ending death penalty and imposed moratorium on federal executions

The Independent UK

Lethal injection: 40 years of failure

Invented on hunches and guesses, America's primary execution method has a dreadful record of cruelty and failure

Salon

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown explains why she commuted all of her state's death sentences

In her final weeks in office, Brown commuted the sentences of all 17 people on death row in the state. Capital punishment is legal in Oregon, though its last execution was in 1997.

WEKU

Ex-Marine says he’s ‘deeply remorseful’ as he’s executed in Mississippi for rape and murder of girl

Loden was found lying on the streets in 2000 with ‘I’m sorry’ carved on his chest

The Independent UK

Thomas Edwin Loden Jr executed after rape and murder of girl in 4-hour ordeal

Thomas Edwin Loden Jr, 58, from Mississippi, US, has received a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary after pleading guilty to the murder of Leesa Marie Gray back in 2000

Daily Mirror

‘She was failed’: Missouri woman scheduled for execution next month asks for clemency

Attorneys for a transgender woman scheduled to be executed next month in Missouri are asking for clemency, in part because of her history of abuse and intellectual disability.

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The Young Iranians Facing Death Penalty over Protests

A doctor, rap artists and a footballer are among around two dozen Iranians who risk being hanged as Tehran uses capital punishment as an intimidation tactic to quell protests, rights groups say. The executions in the past week of Mohsen Shekari and Majidreza Rahnavard, both 23 and the first people…

Reason

Oregon's Governor Commutes Sentences of All State Death Row Inmates

Brown: “The state should not be in the business of executing people.”

Daily Mirror

Man to be executed in just hours for murdering 16-year-old girl stranded with flat tyre

Thomas Edwin Loden Jr, 58, from Mississippi, US, has been on death row since 2001 after pleading guilty to capital murder, rape and four counts of sexual battery against Leesa Marie Gray

Daily Mirror

Death penalty branded ‘immoral’ as 17 criminals are spared executions by state

Oregon Governor Kate Brown used her executive powers to change the sentences to life in prison without a chance of parole. The Democrat politician has a history of releasing convicts

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The Independent UK

Mississippi set to execute man for killing 16-year-old girl

A Mississippi man who pleaded guilty to raping and killing a 16-year-old girl is scheduled to be put to death

The Independent UK

Oregon governor commutes all 17 of state's death sentences

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has announced she is commuting the sentences of all of the state's 17 inmates awaiting execution

Evening Standard

Lockerbie bombing suspect will not face death penalty

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi appeared in a federal court in Washington on Monday

Asharq Al-Awsat

Libyan Accused of Lockerbie Bombing Charged in US Court

An alleged former Libyan intelligence agent accused of making the bomb that blew up a Pan Am jet over Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people, appeared in a US court Monday to face charges for the deadliest-ever terror attack in Britain. Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir al-Marimi, who allegedly worked…

France 24

Lockerbie bombing suspect appears in US court, will not face death penalty

More than three decades after a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard, a former Libyan intelligence official accused of making the explosive appeared Monday in federal court, charged with an act of international terrorism.

The Independent UK

Lockerbie bomb suspect will not face death penalty

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi appeared in a federal court in Washington on Monday.

France 24

Iran carries out second protest-related execution in its 'killing spree'

Iran carried out its second execution linked to the anti-government protests challenging the country’s theocracy on December 12. Our Observer, Hadi Ghaemi, who works as the Executive Director of the ‘Centre for Human Rights in Iran’, told us this “killing spree” to crush protests is likely to shift into “high…

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