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Joe Biden called for an end to executions. So why is his DoJ seeking it in the case of Sayfullo Saipov?

Biden administration has offered mixed signals on capital punishment

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Amber McLaughlin: Missouri carries out first execution of openly transgender inmate for 2003 murder

Killing marks one of few executions of women in US since 1970s

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Ex-Marine says he’s ‘deeply remorseful’ as he’s executed in Mississippi for rape and murder of girl

Loden was found lying on the streets in 2000 with ‘I’m sorry’ carved on his chest

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Missouri ignores daughter’s pleas and executes man over 2005 murder of police officer

On Tuesday evening, the conservative-heavy US Supreme Court denied Kevin Johnson’s request for a stay of execution, based on arguments that racial bias played a part in his sentence

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Missouri to execute Kevin Johnson despite daughter’s pleas and findings of racist conviction

Local official argues prosecutor had biased intent seeking death penalty

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Alabama death row inmate describes state’s botched execution attempt

Kenneth Eugene Smith set to be put to death with nitrogen gas but spoke out angrily in December when his killing by lethal injection was abandoned after prison personnel struggled to place an IV

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Ex-Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal could get new trial in 1981 cop-killing case as new evidence emerges

Activist has been fighting conviction for over 40 years

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Supreme Court hears plea from death row inmate Rodney Reed

‘This is a procedural case, in its words. The arguments are basically incomprehensible to a non-lawyer (and many lawyers),’ legal reporter says

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Oklahoma denies clemency for severely mentally ill death row inmate barricaded in his cell

Benjamin Cole was sentenced to death for murdering his nine-month-old daughter

The Independent UK

Court orders Alabama to preserve evidence after ‘Kafkaesque’ botched midnight execution

Officials couldn’t place IV line for hours

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Alabama suspends execution after inmate demands novel way to die

Ruling gets at larger questions around state’s execution protocols

The Independent UK

‘How can I give back life?’ Texas death row prisoner asks for execution reprieve to donate kidney

Ramiro Gonzales, 39, is scheduled to be executed on 13 July

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Judge rejects Arizona prisoner’s bid to delay execution due to ‘excruciating’ back pain

A judge has denied an Arizona prisoner’s bid to delay his execution in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl

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Pelosi slams Catholic Church for death penalty hypocrisy after being denied Communion

‘I wonder about the death penalty, which I’m opposed to. So is the church, but they take no actions against people who may not share their view’

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Melissa Lucio’s son vows to ‘keep fighting until she gets home’ as death row case will return to court

Bobby Alvarez tellsThe Independent that the ‘fight still isn’t over’ to free his mother from death row

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Missouri execution to go ahead after governor declines to give 11th hour reprieve

‘No one is suggesting that Carman Deck should get out of prison and go home tomorrow’

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Missouri execution to go ahead after governor declines to give 11th hour reprieve (OLD)

‘No one is suggesting that Carman Deck should get out of prison and go home tomorrow’

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Tennessee halts executions ahead of a review of lethal injections

Lethal injections will remain paused through the end of the year

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Joe Biden grants clemency to 78 people – but no federal death row inmates

Biden ran on an election campaign that he wanted to abolish the federal death penalty and incentivise states to stop executions

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Emotional moment Melissa Lucio learns she has been granted a stay of execution

Melissa Lucio was told the news that Wednesday’s execution had been halted in a prison phone call with Republican state Rep Jeff Leach

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‘Fighting for momma bear’: Melissa Lucio’s son begs Texas to halt her execution for a crime he knows ‘she couldn’t have done’

EXCLUSIVE: In just six days, Melissa Lucio will be strapped to a gurney and injected with a lethal cocktail of drugs that will kill her for a murder that she not only says she didn’t commit – but that experts say didn’t even occur. Her son Bobby Alvarez tells Rachel…

The Independent UK

‘I thank God for my life’: Melissa Lucio is granted 11th-hour stay of execution by Texas appeals court

‘I thank God for my life. I have always trusted in Him. I am grateful the Court has given me the chance to live and prove my innocence,’ Melissa Lucio said in a statement following the appeals court’s ruling

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From Kim Kardashian to Amanda Knox: Famous names who have joined fight for Melissa Lucio and why

With two days to go until Melissa Lucio will be executed in Texas for a crime she says she didn’t commit, a growing number of famous faces have joined the fight to save her life. Rachel Sharp writes

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Sabrina Butler-Smith escaped execution after she was falsely accused of killing her son. Now, she’s fighting for Melissa Lucio

Sabrina Butler-Smith was exonerated from Alabama death row, and tells Josh Marcus that there’s still time to stop killing of another misunderstood mother: Melissa Lucio

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‘Fighting for momma bear’: Melissa Lucio’s son begs Texas to halt her execution for a crime he knows ‘she couldn’t have done’

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