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The capital statute for first-degree murder under Title 11, Chapter 42, Section 09, of the Delaware Code was fully repealed on September 26, 2024. Delaware has the fourth highest number of executions per capita between 1976 and 2023, behind Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri [3] Sixteen people were executed in the state after the Gregg v.
In 2024, Tennessee saw moves to allow the death penalty for defendants convicted of child rape. [13] It passed the Tennessee House of Representatives with a 77-19-1 vote, and it passed the Tennessee Senate with 24-5. [14] [15] [16] Governor Bill Lee would sign the bill into law in May 2024. [17] [18]
Capital punishment was a legal penalty in Zimbabwe until 2024. [1] [2] The country carried out its last execution in 2005. [3] Zimbabwe abstained during the 2020 United Nations moratorium on the death penalty resolution. [4] On 31 December 2024, President Emerson Mnangagwa signed a law abolishing capital punishment in Zimbabwe. [2]
BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China launched "punishment" drills around Taiwan on Thursday in what it said was a response to "separatist acts", sending up heavily armed warplanes and staging mock ...
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Capital punishment was abolished in 1993 but was reinstated by Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council in August 1995 [88] In February 2018, Gambia announced a moratorium on the death penalty. [89] In September 2018, it ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In May 2019, it commuted 22 ...
Between 1718 and 2024, more than 680 people have been executed in South Carolina. [1] After the nationwide capital punishment ban was overturned in 1976, South Carolina has executed 46 people. [2] Between 2011 and 2024, no one has been executed in the state due to pharmaceutical companies not wanting to sell the drugs needed for lethal ...
As of August 2024, 96 people were on Pennsylvania's death row, all of whom are male. [ 16 ] 74% of inmates in Pennsylvania who are on death row have been on it for more than 10 years. [ 17 ] Some inmates who were facing death row have received re-trials or different sentencing strategies due to the 2015 moratorium.