penalty
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Appeared in the January 23, 2026, print edition as 'How the PGA Tour Won Back a LIV Star With a Hefty Penalty'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
He was a board member of Death Penalty Watch, an organization whose goal is to abolish the punishment.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025
As the Death Penalty Information Center notes, “at least 41 parents and caregivers across 21 states and the military have been exonerated since 1992 after being wrongfully convicted based on the ‘Shaken Baby’ hypothesis.”
From Salon • Jun. 29, 2025
Over the past decade, as the Death Penalty Information Center reports, death penalty states across the country “have enacted new secrecy statutes that conceal vital information about the execution process.”
From Slate • May 6, 2025
The Death Penalty Information Center reported that Walter was the fiftieth person to be exonerated in the modern era.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Vocabulary lists containing penalty
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