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Reform movement urges against death penalty for alleged Capital Jewish Museum shooter

The Reform movement’s Washington-based advocacy arm is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi not to seek the death penalty for ...

U.S. Says It Will Not Seek Death Penalty Against 3 Drug Cartel Bosses

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...

State to seek death penalty for Tallahassee mother charged with murdering 5-year-old daughter

Missy was pronounced dead in May after being found unresponsive at her home in Tallahassee’s Southwood neighborhood. Her ...
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Judges reject calls for potential death penalty punishment in two cases

Three men awaiting trial in two separate murder cases will not face the death penalty if convicted, after judges rejected federal prosecutors’ requests to pursue capital punishment.

‘The Death Penalty Has No Place in This Country’

Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, was tried in federal court. There was no ...
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Florida bishops call for novena to end death penalty after ninth execution sets record

The novena began Aug. 6 and concludes Aug. 14, the memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Catholic priest executed in Auschwitz ...

U.S. declines to pursue death penalty against trio of accused Mexican cartel kingpins

The U.S. directed prosecutors to not seek capital punishment for three reputed drug lords, including one in a DEA agent's ...
Florida Phoenix16dOpinion

Extending the death penalty to this crime could put children in danger

A horrific crime leads to get-tough policies to ensure the tragedy never happens again. That happened in 2018, after a ...

Death row exonerees fight to end North Carolina’s use of capital punishment

On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O ...