State executed Kenneth Smith with untested procedure that lawyers had argued amounted to cruel and unusual punishmentAlabama has carried out the first execution of a death row inmate in the US using nitrogen gas, an untested...
Read MoreLawyers failed to persuade courts to stay the execution, arguing procedure amounted to cruel and unusual punishmentAlabama has carried out the first execution of a death row inmate in the US using nitrogen gas, an untested...
Read MoreThe Tories’ new deputy chairman thinks he has the support of his constituency. But a tour around the market town says otherwiseDepending on your political instincts he’s a prime candidate for the “worst man in...
Read MoreThe appointment of Lee Anderson as deputy chair is a cynical attempt to woo a powerful section of the party’s rightThe argument in favour of capital punishment is not often made nowadays by senior politicians in this...
Read MoreThe Tory deputy chair, who has also criticised nurses who use food banks and migrants, could prove toxic for voters in marginal south-east seats The Liberal Democrats are to launch a digital advertising blitz in “blue...
Read MoreMPs voice deep concerns over trip after mass execution by regime and its continuing role in Yemen warBoris Johnson is facing scrutiny over a planned trip to Saudi Arabia to push for an increase in oil output amid an outcry over...
Read MoreNearly 140 parliamentarians warn trumped-up charges could result in death penalty for Jagtar Singh JohalNearly 140 MPs and peers have written to Dominic Raab urging him to do more to secure the release of a young Sikh man facing...
Read MoreWillie B Smith III’s lethal injection was called off after the US supreme court says state cannot proceed without pastor presentAn Alabama inmate won a reprieve from a planned lethal injection after the US supreme court...
Read MoreAyanna Pressley and Cori Bush lead calls for commutationsTrump administration rushed to execute 13 death row inmatesPodcast: Trump, the death penalty and America’s racist historyLed by two prominent African American...
Read MoreAlfred Bourgeois’s IQ put him in the intellectually disabled category, which should have barred execution, lawyers sayThe Trump administration continued its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions Friday...
Read MoreFirst federal execution during lame-duck period in 130 yearsSupreme court denied last-minute request to delay killingThe Trump administration has executed Brandon Bernard, after the US supreme court denied a last-minute request...
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