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Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
The State Supreme Court did not rule out the possibility that the state legislature could enact a constitutional death penalty statute in the future. [27] In April 2023, Governor Inslee signed SB 5087, which formally abolished capital punishment in Washington state and removed provisions for capital punishment from state law. [2] [1]
After Australian child rapist Peter Scully was arrested in February 2015, several Filipino prosecutors called for the death penalty to be reintroduced for violent sexual crimes. [45] During the 2016 election campaign, presidential candidate and frontrunner Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte campaigned to restore the death penalty in the Philippines.
The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1. Texas executed eight inmates last year and five this year.
53 (27%) maintain the death penalty in law and practice. 23 (12%) permit its use but have abolished it de facto: per Amnesty International standards, they have not used it for at least 10 years and are believed to have a policy or practice of not carrying out executions. [10]
The death penalty law DeSantis signed is intended to get the conservative-controlled U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a 2008 ruling that found it unconstitutional to use capital punishment in ...
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The Sunnyside Sun absorbed the weekly Sunnyside Times in 1962. The paper was acquired by the Oregon-based Eagle Newspapers in 1984. [5] Eagle bought the competing Daily News as well, and merged the two in 1986 to form the Daily Sun News. [13] [14] [15] After the paper's sale to Andy McNab in 2018, the name was changed back to Sunnyside Sun. [16]