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Death penalty skeptics in Kansas seize ‘pro-life,’ high cost, wrongful conviction arguments

Rep. Bill Sutton’s opposition to the death penalty was conceived through Catholic faith, magnified by conservative wariness ...
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Kansas death penalty skeptics seize 'pro-life' arguments

Rep. Bill Sutton’s opposition to the death penalty was conceived through Catholic faith, magnified by conservative wariness ...

‘Heinous but not premeditated’: Allahabad High Court commutes man’s death penalty to life term in minor’s rape case

The Allahabad High Court was hearing the confirmation proceedings and the appeal of a death row convict in a rape and murder case of his minor cousin when it communted his punishment to life term.

Houthi court in Yemen hands down death sentences to 17 people accused of spying

A Houthi-controlled court in Yemen has sentenced 17 people to death for allegedly spying for foreign governments.