November 2014 trial set for Boston Marathon bombing suspect TsarnaevA jury trial is set to commence in the US case against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on November 3 of this year, according to a note appended to the defendant’s docket Wednesday.11:40 13.02.2014
Russian communists call for death penalty for terrorists – reportThe Communist Party proposes introducing capital punishment for terrorists, a party official told Izvestia newspaper.12:32 04.02.2014
Tsarnaev’s “betrayal” of the US contributed to death penalty decisionBoston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s “betrayal of the United States” after having obtained citizenship in the country is among the factors that would justify capital punishment if he is convicted, according to a notice of intent to pursue the death penalty filed Thursday by US prosecutors.13:45 31.01.2014
US prosecutors to pursue death penalty against TsarnaevUS Attorney General Eric Holder has chosen to pursue the death penalty against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.00:15 31.01.2014
Snowden’s lawyer says death penalty will not resolve terrorist threat in RussiaAnatoly Kucherena, Head of the Russian Civic Chamber’s Security Committee and attorney for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, urged restraint from demanding the death penalty for terrorists.16:34 30.12.2013
Saudi blogger faces possible execution for apostasyThe Jidda court, which heard the appeal of blogger Raif Badawi against his seven year prison sentence, has recommended that he go before a high court on a charge of apostasy, which would carry the death penalty upon conviction.13:37 26.12.2013
US execution rates fall by 10% in 2013Although America is stumbling far behind the majority of its counterparts in the international community as far as the death penalty is concerned, matters improved slightly in 2013 as executions fell nearly 10% when compared with 2012, according to a year-end report published by US advocacy group Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) Thursday.16:07 20.12.2013
Uncle of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un labeled traitor, executed – reportJang Song Thaek, uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a man who until recently was broadly seen as the country’s second in command, was executed Thursday in the immediate aftermath of a military tribunal’s conclusion that Jang had “committed such hideous crime as attempting to overthrow the state by all sorts of intrigues and despicable methods,” state media outlet Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Friday.15:43 13.12.2013
Prosecutors clash with Tsarnaev defense over death penalty protocolIn anticipation of Tuesday’s status conference, US prosecutors have challenged a request by the defense team for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzohkhar Tsarnaev that the court address issues that have arisen in light of the Attorney General’s pending decision on whether to pursue the death penalty, according to a series of recent court filings.17:26 23.09.2013
Prosecution likely to request capital punishment for Tsarnaev – attorneyThe prosecutors are likely to request capital punishment for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who denied all charges brought against again in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing on Wednesday, said Arkady Bukh, an attorney based in New York.11:00 11.07.2013
Court in China sentences ex-railway minister to deathA court in China sentenced on Monday a former railways minister, Liu Zhijun, to death penalty with a two-year reprieve after finding him guilty of bribery and abuse of power.09:17 08.07.2013
Belarus hands down third death penalty this yearA Belarusian court has handed down its third death penalty this year. Belarus remains the only European country that still uses the death penalty and repeatedly comes under harsh criticism from international organizations.15:04 14.06.2013
US soldier confesses to Afghan mass killings - reportUS soldier Robert Bales charged with massacring 16 people, nine of them children, in southern Afghanistan last year pleaded guilty in an attempt to avoid a death penalty.12:35 06.06.2013
British national sentenced to death in Egypt for drug smugglingA court in Egypt has sentenced a British national to death for the alleged attempted to smuggle three metric tons of cannabis (hashish) into the country.09:56 04.06.2013
UK denies legal funds for cocaine trafficker facing death in BaliThe Court of Appeal of England and Wales released a judgment Wednesday detailing its earlier decision to dismiss an appeal launched by Lindsay Sandiford – a 56-year-old British woman sentenced to death by firing squad in Indonesia after having been caught with ten packets of cocaine in the Bali airport – challenging the Secretary of State’s decision not to assist in funding her death-penalty appeal.15:02 23.05.2013
Belarus hands down first death penalty this yearA Belarusian court has handed down the first death penalty this year. Belarus remains the only European country that still uses the death penalty and repeatedly comes under harsh criticism from international organizations.16:26 30.04.2013
Russian senator proposes death penalty for child murderValentina Petrenko of the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, has called for lifting the moratorium on the death penalty in cases involving the murder of children.15:13 30.04.2013
Boston bombing suspect gets a prominent death penalty lawyerJudy Clarke, an expert in federal death penalty cases, has joined a public defense team representing 19-year-old suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.10:33 30.04.2013
Boston Marathon bombing suspect charged, faces death penaltyDzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is suspected with his brother of planting bombs at the finish line of last week’s Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured more than 200, was charged Monday from his hospital bed with using a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property, resulting in death, a crime that could carry the death penalty.10:01 23.04.2013
Capital punishment on the decline - Amnesty InternationalCountries are increasingly abandoning the death penalty as an official form of punishment, although a few countries did resume the practice in 2012, Amnesty International said in its annual report on capital punishment trends.12:11 10.04.2013