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USA

US Attorney General AG Barr orders reinstatement of death penalty

Barr also directed the federal government to schedule the executions of five death-row inmates convicted of murder.

France

Eighty years since Versailles execution stopped public guillotinings

80 years ago, a crowd gathered for what was to become the last public execution by guillotine in France — a grim spectacle that was captured on film.

Iraq

Two more Frenchmen sentenced to death in Iraq over ISIS involvement

The two men — Bilel Kabaoui, 32, and Mourad Delhomme, 41 — are the latest defendants in a string of court cases that have already seen other nine French citizens and a Tunisian national be sentenced to death in the past weeks.

World

Julian Assange extradition could take "months or years"

Police dragged the 47-year-old from the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday, ending seven years of political asylum there.

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USA

Gov. Gavin Newsom expected to try to end death penalty in California

Newsom is expected to announce his plan to grant some sort of reprieve to 740 inmates on death row on Wednesday.

Europe News

The Brief: from death row to the European Parliament

European countries have long banned capital punishment, but Europeans can end up on death row around the world, so we look at how Europe can help to abolish the death sentence.

World News

Canada and China ramp up war of words over Canadian’s death sentence

Beijing and Ottawa have exchanged accusations after convicted drug smuggler Robert Lloyd Schellenberg’s 15-year jail term in China was replaced with the death penalty.

Germany

German state Hesse finally abolishes death penalty

A region in Germany has this week formally abolished the death penalty and with it fixed a quirk of history.

USA

German pharma company fails to block US execution

German pharma company fails to block US execution

United Kingdom

'Britain would not seek death penalty block for IS suspects': UK minister

Britain's home secretary has said that the UK will not oppose the use of the death penalty if two alleged Islamic state members were extradited to the US.

Japan

Cult members hanged in Japan for gas attack on Tokyo underground

Seven members of a Japanese doomsday cult were hanged for a deadly attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995 that killed 13 people

World News

Amnesty International report found fewer executions last year but admits it does not give the full picture

The number of executions it could confirm was lower in 2017 than the previous year. The figures do not include China, where Amnesty said the number of deaths could run to thousands

News

Botswana hangs man who murdered girlfriend and son in 2010

Joseph Poni Tselayarona, 28, was executed on Saturday after the 2010 murder of his girlfriend and her three-year-old son, the Botswana Prison Service said.

Israel

Israel takes step to make death sentences easier

Prime Minister Netanyahu says capital punishment may be appropriate "in certain cases".

Iraq

German teenager who joined ISIL: "stupid idea"

Linda Wenzel, 17, was briefly reunited with her mother and sister as she awaits for trial in Baghdad.

USA

Mexican national executed in the US

A Mexican national on death row in the US, has been executed despite Mexican authorities pleading for his life to be spared

France

France's final guillotine: 40 years since the end of the death penalty

USA

Alabama executes 75-year-old man

India

India's top court upholds death sentences for gang-rape attackers

India’s top court has upheld death sentences for four men convicted in the gang-rape and torture of a woman on a moving bus in New Delhi.

Saudi Arabia

Human rights VS business interests: Merkel's tricky talks in Saudi Arabia

German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves Saudi Arabia after a delicate balancing act of talks on economic relations and human rights.