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23 hours ago · Global executions hit the highest level since 2015, with serious increases mainly in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, Amnesty International said in its 2023 annual report on the global use of the death penalty on Wednesday. 1,153 executions were recorded in 2023 globally, marking an increase of more than 30 per cent from 2022.
23 hours ago · Published on May 29, 2024 at 11:48 am. A double murder in Jacksonville could become a pivotal case over whether Florida’s death penalty law is arbitrary. Michael James Jackson was convicted of burying Reggie and Carol Sumner alive in 2005. Now groups are using his case to argue that the state’s law on death penalty cases is unconstitutional.
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May 30, 2024 · Somalia and the United States also saw an uptick in death sentences last year at 38 and 24 respectively. The number of countries employing the death penalty fell to a record low in 2023, after countries such as Belarus, Japan, Myanmar and South Sudan failed to record executions.
7 hours ago · The jury recommended the death penalty by a 11-1 vote. The trial judge took the jury’s recommendation and sentenced Mills to death. If Mills is executed, it will be the second execution in the state for the year and there are two other executions pending. More: Nitrogen gas execution: Kenneth Smith convulses for four minutes in Alabama death ...
50 minutes ago · Daybell, 55, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder, insurance fraud, and conspiracy to commit murder and grand theft in connection with the 2019 deaths of Tammy Daybell, 7-year-old ...
6 hours ago · Defense witnesses included Dr. Kathy Raven, a forensic pathologist who reviewed reports from Tammy Daybell’s autopsy and said she believed the cause of death should have been classified as ...
6 hours ago · They have said they will seek the death penalty if Daybell is convicted. Daybell’s defense attorney, John Prior, contends there simply isn’t enough evidence to conclusively tie Daybell to the deaths, or even to prove that his late wife, Tammy Daybell, was killed instead of dying from natural causes.
