death penalty
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Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to return to her country in December, despite facing the death penalty there for crimes against humanity.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
"While the pardon does not claim she was innocent of killing David Blakely, it replaces the death penalty with a sentence of life imprisonment to recognise a profound injustice in this exceptional case," he added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Prosecutors seeking the death penalty in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk began laying out their evidence Monday as they push for a murder trial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Father Hidalgo, the priest who raised the cry of independence in 1810, demanded that slave owners free the enslaved at once, “grant them the necessary freedom documents,” or risk the death penalty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
So even in a death penalty advocate’s best-case scenario, capital punishment could explain only one twenty-fifth of the drop in homicides in the 1990s.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
