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Accused can’t be held guilty on basis of motive, abscondence: Allahabad HC

PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court has acquitted a murder accused who was awarded death penalty by a trial court, saying that "though motive and abscondence may give rise to strong suspicion, merely on the basis of these two circumstances, an accused cannot be held guilty".

The Times of India

Breakaway east Ukraine territory defends death penalty as it opens Moscow embassy

(This content was produced in Russia, where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine.)

Reuters

This doctor helped send Ramiro Gonzales to death row – now he’s changed his mind

Texas plans to execute Gonzales this week even though the expert witness says he isn’t a threat to society, write Maurice Chammah and Keri Blakinger

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Singapore hangs 2 drug traffickers despite opposition

Two drug traffickers have been hanged in Singapore, bringing the number of executions this year in the city-state to four

The Independent UK

Brit fighter captured in Ukraine launches desperate appeal to overturn death penalty

Aiden Aslin, 28, was captured by Russian forces in Mariupol while fighting for Ukraine and is now appealing against his death sentence for alleged "mercenary activities", which he denies

Daily Mirror

Singapore urged to halt hanging of Malaysian drug trafficker

Anti-death penalty activists in Malaysia are urging Singapore’s government to halt the execution of a convicted Malaysian drug trafficker this week, the second in less than three months

The Independent UK

Two more Britons captured in Ukraine could face death penalty

Russia has charged former soldier Andrew Hill and Dylan Healy, believed to have been doing humanitarian work, with fighting as mercenaries

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Turkey's Erdogan Says Ready to Back Reinstating Death Penalty

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would approve possibly reinstating the death penalty if parliament were to send a bill on the matter to him, broadcaster NTV cited him as saying on Friday. Erdogan's justice minister said at the weekend Turkey would consider turning back the 2004 abolishment of capital…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia-backed separatists to start using death penalty from 2025 - criminal code

Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine where two Britons and a Moroccan have been sentenced to death say the death penalty will start being used from 2025, according to an updated criminal code of the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

Reuters

Turkey's Erdogan says ready to back reinstating death penalty -media

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would approve possibly reinstating the death penalty if parliament were to send a bill on the matter to him, broadcaster NTV cited him as saying on Friday.

Reuters

Former deputy minister gets death penalty

The Appeals Court on Friday sentenced a former deputy minister of commerce to death, instead of life imprisonment as earlier imposed, for the murder of a judge's brother.

Bangkok Post

Thousands protest in India’s Udaipur after Hindu tailor murdered

Holding saffron flags and placards, about 7,000 people demand death penalty for two Muslims accused of beheading Teli.

Al Jazeera

European court tells Russia to ensure two Britons do not face death penalty

The European Court of Human Rights issues said on Thursday it had issued interim measures to instruct Russia to ensure the death penalty on two Britons who were captured after fighting for Ukraine was not carried out.

Reuters

Smuggling charges filed against 2 men over Texas migrant tragedy that killed 53 people

Suspected truck driver and his alleged conspirator could face death penalty if convicted.

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Bangkok Post

Weed warning from Singapore, S Korea

Thai embassies in South Korea and Singapore are the latest authorities to warn travellers from Thailand not to bring cannabis-based products or cannabis extracts with them. Otherwise, they may face a jail term or even the death penalty.

The Hindu

Judiciary has never tried to make death penalty redundant: SC judgment

‘Capital punishment cannot be ignored as long as it is in the law books’

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: The death penalty is wrong — even for racist mass killers

A judge has asked federal prosecutors whether they will seek the death penalty against the white man accused in the killing of 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, on May 14.

Reuters

White House: Suggestion Americans captured in Ukraine should face death penalty is 'appalling'

A White House official said on Tuesday it is "appalling" that a public official in Russia would suggest the death penalty for Americans captured in Ukraine.

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The Texas Tribune

Texas judge won’t let prosecutor cancel scheduled execution of John Ramirez

Nueces County District Attorney Mark Gonzalez said he is ethically opposed to the death penalty, but an employee wrongfully requested the execution date against his wishes. Gonzalez sought to cancel the execution two days later.

The Guardian - UK

US volunteer fighters captured in Ukraine could face death penalty, says Russia

Alexander Drueke, 39, and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, 27, from Alabama have been taken into detention in Donetsk

Al Jazeera

Death penalty for captured US citizens not ruled out, Russia says

The Kremlin says the pair were ‘soldiers of fortune’ who should be held responsible for their ‘crimes’.

The Independent UK

Buffalo supermarket gunman due in court on hate crime counts

The white man who opened fire on Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, killing 10, is due in federal court, a day after authorities announced hate crime charges that could bring the death penalty

Daily Record

Last Brit sentenced to hanging has died and denied killing sister until the end

Alan Norton was sentenced to death by hanging in 1966, after his sister was found stabbed to death, but the death penalty was then abolished.

Tribune News Service

Buffalo supermarket shooting suspect Payton Gendron faces federal hate crime charges, possible death penalty

Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old white man accused of hunting and killing 10 Black people in a Buffalo supermarket, could face the death penalty.

Bangkok Post

Malaysia to table bill ending death penalty in October

Malaysia expects capital punishment will no longer be mandatory in the country by January, once it obtains the required approvals from parliament, according to Law Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.

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