capital punishment

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As well as campaigning against capital punishment and the obligatory headscarf for women, she has also regularly predicted the downfall of the clerical system that has ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

The Court had in prior decades issued many emergency orders in election and capital punishment cases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Prosecutors have yet to decide if they will seek capital punishment in the case.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

After many countries around the world abolished capital punishment, Israel is taking steps in the opposite direction.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026

The problem was so significant in Illinois that in 2003, Governor George Ryan, a Republican, citing the unreliability of capital punishment, commuted the death sentences of all 167 people on death row.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson