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About 200 potential jurors for the trial of a man charged with killing eight people on a New York City bike path in a terror attack have filled out questionnaires posing questions about the death penalty

NY law allows AG to seek to dissolve businesses that operate "in a persistently fraudulent or illegal manner"

Taipei (AFP) - A Taiwanese woman who set off the island's deadliest fire in decades to get back at her boyfriend escaped the death penalty Friday as the court handed down a life sentence.

Questions being asked over speed of executions, legal representation, and the ethnicities of the condemned.

Miami (AFP) - A jury deciding whether to impose the death penalty on the killer of 17 people at a Florida high school visited the still-bloodstained and bullet-scarred building on Thursday where the shooting occurred.

“Every Saturday we ran to Dunkin’ Donuts and walked back,” recalled Corey Hixon

Lawrence 'Larry' Rudolph, 67 - convicted of killing his wife of 34 years Bianca Rudolf - faces the death penalty or life in prison after Monday's verdict.

Big game hunter Lawrence Rudolph, 67, was convicted of shooting his wife Bianca Rudolf in the heart on the final day of their African safari trip, but maintains she accidentally shot herself

Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s death penalty moratorium has been a myth. The junta has routinely targeted civilians for extra-judicial killing, including using army snipers to callously pick off peaceful protesters. There have been killings of prisoners too, with many of the dead reportedly exhibiting signs of torture on their…

Ex-president makes his first speech back in Washington since he left the presidency

Editorial: Though capital punishment is in global decline, there are horrifying exceptions to the general trend