Death penalty

Chinese state media announced on Tuesday that a high-ranking Communist Party official named Shi Wenqing has been sentenced to death on bribery charges.

Former President Donald Trump called on drug dealers, human traffickers, and those who kill police to get the death penalty during a Save America rally held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Friday night.

ESPN claims to be ultra-woke and supportive of the radical LGBTQ agenda. Yet, it has remained completely silent on the NBA’s decision to hold games in the United Arab Emirates, a country where gays face the death penalty.

The NBA has signed a deal to play games in the United Arab Emirates despite that the country has the death penalty for homosexuality.

Populist presidential Marine Le Pen has hinted at the possibility of a referendum that could see the death penalty return to France.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) lauded the Supreme Court ruling permitting death row inmate John Ramirez to receive spiritual assistance prior to his execution.

The Supreme Court on Friday reinstated the death penalty for Boston Marathon Bomber now-28-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has withdrawn the death penalty in at least a dozen cases, according to The Houston Chronicle.

An illegal alien has finalized his guilty pleas for murdering four Americans in Nevada in 2019, avoiding the death penalty.

A jury sentenced an ex-Texas nurse to death this week for taking the lives of four patients by injecting air into their arteries following heart surgery.

A jury found a Texas nurse guilty of capital murder of four patients after prosecutors asserted the nurse injected the patients with air while recovering from heart surgeries.

The Supreme Court of the United States will ultimately decide whether to reinstate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence.

SCOTUS is expected to rule Wednesday on whether the death penalty should be reinstated for the Boston Bomber.

President Biden pledged he would protect LGBT human rights around the globe but abandoned them to the Taliban in Afghanistan.

A Texas jury deliberated for about eight hours before handing down the death penalty to a man convicted of killing a San Antonio detective. The sentence follows his conviction in July for the ambush-style killing of Detective Benjamin Marconi in November

A former Planned Parenthood director has accused the abortion giant of practicing “deception” in drumming up business for the abortion industry, the Christian Post reported Monday.

A new demographic in California is speaking out about why Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom should be recalled: the families of murder victims.

An illegal alien accused of murdering 24 elderly Americans should face the death penalty, Angel Families of the suspect’s alleged victims say. 

An accused illegal alien serial killer will escape the death penalty in the murder trial against him, Dallas County, Texas prosecutors revealed this week.

Senior Iranian official Majid Tafreshi, a member of the Iranian regime’s High Council for Human Rights, argued on Wednesday that executing underage children is not a “symbol of violations of human rights.” Tafreshi said Iran executes children under 18 about “three or four times” a year.

A poll from the Pew Research Center released Tuesday shows that the majority of Americans favor the death penalty for serious convictions like murder.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed Thursday that she is a “planned parenthood baby” after her mother used the organization for pre-natal care when she was pregnant.

Democrat Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is slated to sign historic legislation Wednesday that would abolish the death penalty in the state.

The Supreme Court announced it would consider reinstating Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence on Monday.

South Carolina lawmakers seek to resume executions in the state after going nearly ten years without executing an inmate.

Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland struggled Monday with questions about the death penalty during his confirmation hearing in the Senate.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — State lawmakers gave final approval Monday to a bill that will end capital punishment in Virginia, a dramatic turnaround for a state that has executed more people in its history than any other.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a suspect charged in the 2020 killing of an Indianapolis police officer fatally shot while responding to a domestic violence call.

Freshman Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) is receiving backlash from her supporters after urging them to “say the names” of 13 inmates executed during President Donald Trump’s four years in office, including a white supremacist convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in 1996.

VA Gov. Ralph Northam said in his state of the Commonwealth speech earlier this week that the death penalty needs to be abolished.

The Boston Marathon bomber is suing the federal government for $250,000 over what he claims is unlawful and discriminatory treatment at the prison where he is serving his life sentence.

Lethal injection is no longer a method for capital punishment in Ohio, and lawmakers must opt for a different method before any prison inmates can be sentenced to death in the future, Gov. Mike DeWine (R) announced Tuesday.

The leaders of the United States Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) have issued a special Advent appeal for a moratorium on federal executions.

An illegal alien gang member has pleaded guilty to murdering 33-year-old Newman, California, police officer Ronil Singh in December 2018 and will thus avoid the death penalty. 

Participants brought signs with various sayings written on them, such as “We Are Not Ovary-Acting” to the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

Kindergarten teacher Wang Yun was sentenced to death on Monday by a court in China’s Henan province for putting sodium nitrite poison into porridge that was served to students for breakfast. The March 2019 incident made 25 children sick, killing one of them after a protracted illness.

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.”

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.

French public support for the reintroduction of the death penalty has surged in 2020, according to a poll that stated 55 per cent of French residents want to see capital punishment make a return. The figures come from the annual Ipsos/Sopra

President Donald Trump on Sunday rallied support for the two Los Angeles deputies that were shot on Saturday night.