# execution - Saturday 16 March, 2013
As the US state of Maryland votes to abolish it, we’re asking: do you agree with capital punishment?
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# execution - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
Frederick Treesh died by lethal injection today, prison officials said.
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# execution - Saturday 9 February, 2013
The attack on the parliament in 2001 almost sparked a war between India and Pakistan.
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# execution - Wednesday 21 November, 2012
25-year-old Mohammed Kassab was hanged for his role in the attacks which killed 166 people in 2008.
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# execution - Wednesday 7 November, 2012
Oklahoma executed a convicted murderer who referenced the presidential race in his final words last night.
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# execution - Monday 17 September, 2012
Ohio death row inmate Ronald Post shot and killed a hotel clerk in northern Ohio almost 30 years ago.
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# execution - Wednesday 8 August, 2012
Lawyers for 54-year-old Marvin Wilson had argued that he should have been exempt from capital punishment because he had an IQ of 61.
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# execution - Saturday 4 August, 2012
The Irish-Australian outlaw’s remains were discovered in a mass grave outside an old prison last year and will be given to his descendants for first time since his 1880 execution.
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# execution - Monday 30 July, 2012
Scandal centred on bank loans through allegedly forged or illegally-obtained letters of credit to buy several state companies.
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# execution - Tuesday 24 July, 2012
Warren Hill, who is intellectually disabled,was sentenced to death for killing a fellow prisoner.
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# execution - Monday 23 July, 2012
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that state forces executed at least 23 people yesterday.
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# execution - Sunday 22 April, 2012
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
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# execution - Friday 20 April, 2012
Human rights office says death sentences were not approved by the Palestinian president as required.
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# execution - Sunday 1 April, 2012
“By the grace of God, we have won the most sensational victory in British political history.”
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# execution - Tuesday 27 March, 2012
Nine things to know this morning…
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A new report says that the number of countries who have the death penalty is declining but there has been a surge in the number of executions in the Middle East.
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# execution - Sunday 18 March, 2012
The EU’s foreign policy chief has voiced concerns over the trial of the men convicted for the April 2011 bomb which killed 15 people in Minsk.
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# execution - Monday 9 January, 2012
Conviction comes as US-Iranian relations increasingly sour.
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# execution - Monday 12 December, 2011
Colm O’Gorman of Amnesty International Ireland has called the killing an “appalling and sickening act”.
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# execution - Thursday 8 December, 2011
The Phillipine president made an appeal on humanitarian grounds to avert today’s execution.
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# execution - Tuesday 15 November, 2011
Although attorneys argued that Brooks was a paranoid schizophrenic and not mentally competent to be tried for murder, he was executed by lethal injection for the 1982 killings of his three sons today in Ohio.
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# execution - Friday 16 September, 2011
The execution of a man in Texas has been halted after his legal team produced the testimony of a psychologist from the original trial – in which it was said that black people were “more likely” to commit violence.
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# execution - Thursday 8 September, 2011
The tragic case of Irish immigrant John Gordon, whose brother hid key evidence from a Rhode Island court in 1845, sparked the abolition of the state’s death penalty.
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# execution - Friday 12 August, 2011
Footage of the 18-year-old being fatally injured generated anger across the country after it was broadcast on TV.
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# execution - Wednesday 27 July, 2011
Legal analyst Andrew Cohen argues in The Atlantic that legal argument on lethal injections cannot continue without those involved in the debate seeing exactly what happens in the death chamber.
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# execution - Thursday 21 July, 2011
Mark Stroman was on death row following two murders in the aftermath of 9/11. One of those who survived his attacks campaigned for his release.
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# execution - Friday 8 July, 2011
The Obama administration wanted time to consider the impact this execution could have on other foreign citizens living in the US – and US citizens abroad.
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# execution - Wednesday 1 June, 2011
If no qualified hangman can be found, prison rules would allow a convict to volunteer to carry out the execution.
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# execution - Thursday 31 March, 2011
Rhode Island politician determined to clear name of Irishman put to death in 1845.
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# execution - Monday 17 January, 2011
Reports suggest death sentence of Iranian woman condemned for adultery and the murder of her husband was never actually confirmed.
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# execution - Wednesday 3 November, 2010
Human rights group says Ashtiani will be hanged tomorrow, but French foreign minister says an Iranian minister assured him that information was false.
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