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18 hours ago · Moratorium introduced 30 April 2004 by President Emomali Rahmon, which means instead of capital punishment, the individual shall receive a life in prison. Persons excluded from death row are: the elderly, women, pregnant women, intellectually disabled, the mentally ill, and teenagers who were under the age of 18 at the time of the crime.
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3 hours ago · The US Supreme Court tossed out a lower court’s decision to order a new hearing for an Arizona prisoner on death row. In a 6-3 ruling Thursday, the court said the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had departed from well-established rules that required Thornell Jones to show his attorney ...
18 hours ago · Sumner v. Shuman, 483 U.S. 66 (1987) – Mandatory death penalty for a prison inmate who is convicted of murder while serving a life sentence without possibility of parole is unconstitutional. Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for child rape and other non-homicidal crimes against the person.
