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Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.

Public opinion on the death penalty remains surprisingly strong, despite decades without it on the books, according ... in four (77 per cent) think capital punishment is “always appropriate ...

Her focus is reporting on abortion rights, race, education, sexual abuse and capital punishment ... Shane Jett quoted several verses from the Book of Proverbs on Tuesday as he argued that the ...

California has not carried out an execution since 2006 but the death penalty remains on the books, and prosecutors continue to seek capital punishment in expensive trials that add millions to the ...

Capital punishment remains a key pillar of the sharia-based judicial ... though other methods remain on the statute books. Two of last year's executions were in connection with the nationwide protests ...

Capital punishment remains a key pillar of the sharia ... though other methods remain on the statute books. Executions Over Protests Two of last year's executions were in connection with the ...

Capital punishment remains a key pillar of the sharia ... though other methods remain on the statute books. Two of last year’s executions were in connection with the nationwide protests that ...

It would remain on the books for another 87 years ... There have been repeated attempts since 1965 to resume capital punishment in Iowa. Former Gov. Terry Branstad made restoring the death ...

Her focus is reporting on abortion rights, race, education, sexual abuse and capital punishment ... had ordered an "off the books" investigation targeting Trump's 2016 campaign.

As the conversation meandered throughout the day, it occurred to me to get his thoughts on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ...

The book’s title is taken from the two-word ... refuses to consider abortion “pre-eminent” among pro-life issues such as capital punishment. Shenon writes that he is “relieved” to ...