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Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ conference (USCCB) have urged the Trump administration to cease all federal executions, insisting that capital punishment is not necessary to protect society.

The former Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles J. Chaput, has praised the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast for honoring U.S. Attorney General William Barr, calling him a man with a “moral spine.”

A Mexican border state mayor called for the government to take a hard line against drug lords. He suggested having them shot rather than taking a soft approach like the one that current Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been widely criticized for.

The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP) has blasted the “scandalous” decision to honor U.S. Attorney General William Barr at the annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.

“If they die, fast trial death penalty for the killer,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Only way to stop this!”

Iran executed a wrestler Saturday it accused of murder, defying international appeals led by U.S. President Donald Trump for the athlete to be spared. Navid Afkari, 27, was sentenced to death over the murder of a security guard during a

Representatives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) have called on the government to declare a moratorium on federal executions, citing the Church’s opposition to the death penalty.

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has written a letter to authorities in Texas advocating for the release of death row inmate Julius Jones.

Iran on Sunday halted the execution of three young men arrested during protests against the regime in November, one of the accused’s lawyers revealed.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has executed a former employee of the defense ministry who was convicted of spying on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency, the country’s judiciary said Tuesday. It was the second such execution in the past month.

“The bishops have been calling for an end to the death penalty for decades,” writes Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City in an appeal to the U.S. government not to go through with four pending federal executions.

A Chinese court sentenced an Australian citizen to death for alleged drug trafficking, the Guardian reported on Monday.

A man in Singapore has been sentenced to death via a Zoom call as the country remains on lockdown because of the coronavirus.

Saudi Arabia will no longer execute individuals convicted of crimes committed when they were minors, the U.N. Human Rights Commission said.

On Monday a Japanese man was sentenced to death for the 2016 mass stabbing of the severely disabled at a care home.

Iran has sentenced a man to death for allegedly spying for the CIA and attempting to share information about Tehran’s nuclear program, authorities said on Tuesday, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

Saudi Arabia executed 184 people in 2019 the most in six years, human rights organization Reprieve said on Monday.

China sentenced a man to death for producing and selling fentanyl and issued life sentences to his two accomplices, state propaganda outlet Global Times reported Thursday.

Former Congressman Beto O’Rourke said Monday he did not support the death penalty for the El Paso mass shooter.

Former Vice President Joe Biden may now be opposed to the death penalty, but his decades-long advocacy in favor of capital punishment is taking center stage as the Department of Justice (DOJ) readies the execution of five criminals.

The thesis of a new book by feminist Naomi Wolf is reportedly based upon the author’s misunderstanding of a British legal term, as Ms. Wolf learned to her distress while in the midst of a BBC radio interview last week.

Saudi Arabia executed 37 men convicted of terrorism offenses, including one who was crucified, the country’s state-run media agency revealed Tuesday.

CAIRO — After years of anxiously waiting in cramped prison cells, appointments with the noose can come fast to the many on Egypt’s death row.

South Bend Mayor and 2020 Democrat presidential contender Pete Buttigieg on Thursday called for capital punishment to be abolished in the United States, describing it as something that “has always been a discriminatory practice.”

Brunei has rejected growing global criticism of its implementation of Islamic laws that allow death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality.

Attorney General Jeff Landry (R-LA) said the “far left” seeks to destabilize America’s justice system by banning the death penalty.

Pope Francis said Wednesday that the Catholic Church’s vision of the death penalty has “matured” to the point that it now considers it to be a “grave violation of the right to life that every person has.”

CAIRO — Egyptian security officials say nine suspected Muslim Brotherhood members have been executed after being convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of the country’s top prosecutor.

TEL AVIV – The Shin Bet security agency has deemed the violent rape and murder of a 19-year-old Israeli by a Palestinian to be a terror attack.

Pope Francis has continued his crusade against capital punishment with a strongly worded address Monday, calling it a vestige of an age that ignored “the primacy of mercy over justice” while adding that life imprisonment should also be abolished.

The Vatican’s foreign minister said Wednesday that capital punishment may never be considered a form of legitimate defense, adding that it constitutes “cruel and degrading treatment.”

A Moroccan woman in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been accused of killing her boyfriend and later serving him as a traditional homemade dish, local officials said on Wednesday.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran executed the so-called “Sultan of Coins” and his accomplice on Wednesday for hoarding gold coins and other hard currency, signaling zero tolerance as it tries to shore up its currency in the face of an economic crisis.

Four inmates on Tennessee’s death row requested to be put to death by a firing squad because they felt death by lethal injection or electrocution was “cruel and unusual punishment.”

Legislation clearing the way for Israeli courts to sentence convicted Palestinian terrorists to death will be debated by lawmakers next week, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday while vowing to have it passed.

TEHRAN, Iran — A court in Iran sentenced to death a financial trader known as the “Sultan of Coins” on Sunday, along with another man, the judiciary’s Mizan Online news agency reported.