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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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…

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

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

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

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