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In England and Wales, whole-life imprisonment is the harshest sanction available to the courts, emerging in the decades after the abolition of the death penalty. The whole-life order requires people to spend their whole lives in prison with no prospect of release, except on exceptional compassionate grounds.

Burkina Faso’s military-led government has taken a step toward reinstating the death penalty, adopting a new penal code that once again allows capital punishment for crimes including treason, terrorism and espionage.

The country had abolished capital punishment in 2018

The 23-year-old man who admitted desecrating the tomb a few hours before the former French justice minister's entry into the Panthéon on 9 October was sentenced on Wednesday by the Nanterre court.

Gary Ridgway, aka the Green River Killer, pleaded guilty in 2001 in a deal to avoid the death penalty

Kial Robinson, 29, appeared in court over drug smuggling charges

Up to 1,000 women globally await execution in prison, with mitigating factors such as child abuse and coercion ignored

Newly released footage shows Decarlos Brown's January crisis before stabbing Iryna Zarutska. Trump demands death penalty amid schizophrenia revelations and Iryna's Law.

Experience of domestic violence is at the heart of why many women are driven to commit violent crimes

Mangione, 27, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal murder charges

Slotkin, a former CIA analyst, has been given around-the-clock security over the incident