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Rangimārie Te Turuki Arikirangi Rose Pere CBE (25 July 1937 – 13 December 2020) was a New Zealand educationalist, spiritual leader, Māori language advocate, academic and conservationist. Of Māori descent, she affiliated with the iwi Ngāi Tūhoe , Ngāti Ruapani and Ngāti Kahungunu .
The case motivated proponents of Connecticut's death penalty and was cited as a reason that any repeal of the capital punishment in the state should not extend to those already on death row. The Hartford Courant listed the Cheshire murders and the subsequent death penalty repeal as some of the top stories that shaped the 2010s. "The Cheshire ...
Glossip v. Gross, 576 U.S. 863 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held, 5–4, that lethal injections using midazolam to kill prisoners convicted of capital crimes do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The Alameda County District Attorney's office was ordered by a federal judge to review more than 30 death penalty cases after Black and Jewish jurors were purposefully excluded in the conviction ...
Days after the convictions and death sentences, the United Nations requested that the DRC continue their de facto moratorium on the death penalty, stating, "We reiterate the Secretary-General’s opposition to the use of the death penalty in all circumstances. . . . Noting that there is a de facto moratorium on the imposition of the death ...
The ex-wife of a Los Angeles doctor has been arrested over his alleged "ambush-style" murder, alongside four other suspects. On Thursday, Dec. 12, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) shared ...
Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment. Opponents of capital punishment often cite cases of wrongful execution as arguments, while proponents argue that innocence concerns the credibility of the justice system as a whole and does not solely undermine the use of the death penalty.
The Harris County District Attorney is seeking the death penalty for the two illegal migrants from Venezuela who are accused of killing 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Texas in June.