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The white man who opened fire on Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, killing 10, is due in federal court, a day after authorities announced hate crime charges that could bring the death penalty

Alan Norton was sentenced to death by hanging in 1966, after his sister was found stabbed to death, but the death penalty was then abolished.

Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old white man accused of hunting and killing 10 Black people in a Buffalo supermarket, could face the death penalty.

Malaysia expects capital punishment will no longer be mandatory in the country by January, once it obtains the required approvals from parliament, according to Law Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.

An Egyptian criminal court on Saturday sentenced to death by hanging the defendant in the murder of Father Arsanios Wadeed Rizkallah, priest of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Karmouz. Last month, the criminal court in Alexandria asked the country’s top mufti, the highest religious authority for Islam, to…

Malaysia's law minister says the government has agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty and allow judges to set alternative punishments for a range of offenses

Malaysia has agreed to abolish the mandatory death sentence and replace it with other punishments at the discretion of the court, its law minister said on Friday, revisiting a pledge made over three years ago.

There has been a lot of attention paid, rightly, to the leaked opinion showing that the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. But another opinion, both cruel and absurd, issued by the Republican supermajority deserves attention, as well.

Malaysia is one of only a few countries in the world to still impose a mandatory death sentence for certain crimes.

Malaysia has agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty and give judges the discretion to mete out other punishments to offenders in what were previously capital crimes, three years after a previous government made the same decision.

Brits Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner have been sentenced to death by the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) after being accused of acting as mercenaries for Ukraine, however their families insist they are prisoners of war