Death Penalty
Visit Rt.com for news and reports on the death penalty, or capital punishment, worldwide. The death penalty is the legal execution of a person by the government as punishment for a crime. Get news and updates about the terminology, use, and prohibition of the death penalty in different states. The US is the only Western country that still has the death penalty. China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are the counties with the most executions. Follow RT for the latest news and details about the death penalty in these and other countries, especially Saudi Arabia, where more than 130 executions were performed in 2017.
- ‘Let’s rock’: Tennessee double murderer's last words before electric chair execution
Moments before electricity went through his body, a Tennessee inmate astonished staff with his final words. Edmund Zagorski, convicted for slaying two people, became the first man to be electrocuted in the state for over a decade.USA News - Trump to announce anti-opioid plan with death penalty for dealers
President Donald Trump will soon lay out a plan that seeks the death penalty for drug traffickers, a White House official has announced. Earlier, an official hinted that petty dealers would receive less severe sentences.USA News - German woman sentenced to death in Iraq for joining Islamic State
An Iraqi criminal court has ruled that a German woman of Moroccan descent should incur the death penalty for joining Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), according to the court’s spokesman.World News - Over 50% of Tory activists support death penalty - poll
More than half of Tory activists support the death penalty for serious crimes, a survey has found. The poll uncovered glaring differences between Tories and the supporters of other political parties on a series of hot issues.UK News - Alleged British ‘drug smuggler’ escapes death penalty in Egypt
A young British woman has escaped the death penalty, yet been sentenced to three years in jail for bringing 290 pills of Tramadol into Egypt. The painkiller is legal in the UK but a banned narcotic in the north African country.UK News - Manhattan truck attacker should get death penalty – Trump
US President Donald Trump has tweeted that the suspect in the New York truck attack that killed eight people should get the death penalty.USA News
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