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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK

Jewish Community Conveys Relief And Gratitude After Verdict In Massacre Trial

Community Finds Closure as Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Receives Death Penalty

Zenger

Nearly every prisoner on Louisiana's death row filed for clemency this summer

Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, recently said he is against the death penalty. Now a legal effort is racing to get requests for clemency to Edwards before he leaves office.

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Delhi High Court permits virtual appearance by Yasin Malik in terror funding case

The Delhi High Court directed that separatist leader Yasin Malik be virtually produced before it from jail in connection with the NIA’s plea seeking death penalty for him in a terror funding case

The Hindu

Biden's inaction on death penalty may be a top campaign issue as Trump and DeSantis laud executions

Capital punishment could emerge as a major campaign issue in the U.S. presidential race for the first time in 30 years, with top GOP candidates already one-upping each other by touting tougher, more far-reaching death penalty laws

The Independent UK

Louisiana’s death row inmates make rare mass petition for commutation

Fifty-six of the 57 death row prisoners ask governor, who is coming to the end of his term, to act on his anti-death penalty convictions

The Guardian - US

Trump supporters falsely claim that former president faces death penalty

Prosecutors aren’t arguing Mr Trump is responsible for January 6 deaths, an aggravating circumstance which could trigger death penalty

The Independent UK

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Trump supporters falsely claim special counsel seeking death penalty in indictment over 2020 election

Prosecutors aren’t arguing Mr Trump is responsible for January 6 deaths, an aggravating circumstance which could trigger death penalty

The Independent UK

Pittsburgh synagogue gunman Robert Bowers to be sentenced to death penalty, jury decides

The 2018 massacre was the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history

Evening Standard

Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers who killed 11 sentenced to death

US federal jury recommends that Robert Bowers, who opened fire at Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, get the death penalty.

Al Jazeera

Pittsburgh synagogue gunman who killed 11 people gets death penalty

Robert Bowers perpetrated the deadliest attack on Jews in US history after killing 11 people at Tree of Life synagogue in 2018

The Guardian - US

Tree of Life synagogue shooter Robert Bowers sentenced to death

Bowers killed 11 people at the synagogue, including a 97-year-old woman

The Independent UK

Jury resumes deliberations over death penalty or life in prison for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter

A jury has resumed deliberations over the sentence for a gunman who killed 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue

The Independent UK

A jury deliberates over the sentence for the Tree of Life synagogue shooter

The man convicted of killing 11 worshipers and wounding six others at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 could face the death penalty. The attack is the deadliest antisemitic assault in U.S. history.

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The Independent UK

Jury begins weighing death penalty or life in prison for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter

A jury is deliberating whether the man who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue should receive the death penalty or life in prison without parole

The Independent UK

Lori Vallow Daybell sentencing: Timeline of ‘doomsday cult mom’ mystery case

After two years of delays in the trial, Lori Vallow was found guilty of the murders of her children. But the case spans a deeply disturbing pattern of unexplained deaths and bizarre cult beliefs about killing zombies

The Independent UK

Jury poised to deliberate death penalty or life sentence for gunman in Pittsburgh synagogue massacre

A jury is set to deliberate whether to impose the death penalty or a sentence of life in prison without parole on a truck driver who fatally shot 11 worshippers at a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community

The Week

Ghana abolishes the death penalty

Ghana’s parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty, offering a reprieve for 176 prisoners currently on death row in the country.

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The Independent UK

Lori Vallow Daybell sentencing: Timeline of ‘doomsday cult mom’ mystery case

WEKU

Singapore has executed a woman for the first time in nearly two decades

Singaporean national Saridewi Djamani, 45, was convicted in 2018 of trafficking over 30 grams of heroin. She is first woman to be hanged since 2004.

The Guardian - AU

Singapore executes a woman for first time in almost two decades

Saridewi Djamani was handed a death penalty after being convicted of trafficking 30g of heroin in 2018

Zenger

Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Trial: Defense Fails To Exhume Father’s Body For DNA

Judge deems motion untimely, focuses on mental health as defense argues against death penalty

WEKU

Singapore set to execute first woman in nearly 20 years, rights groups say

The announcement of the scheduled Friday execution of a woman comes as human rights groups say Singapore is out of step with the global trend of more countries moving away from capital punishment.

Evening Standard

Singapore executes a woman for first time in almost 20 years

Saridewi Djamani, 45, was executed on Friday on drugs charges

The Guardian - UK

Ghana abolishes death penalty, with expected reprieve for 176 condemned prisoners

Country joins growing list of African nations free of capital punishment, but execution remains for high treason

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