Tag: Death Penalty

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 20:09 UTC

  US: First transgender inmate slated for lethal injection

  

  Transgender inmate Amber McLaughlin is scheduled to become Tuesday the first person with that condition to be put to death by lethal injection after Missouri Governor Mike Parson (R) denied that last clemency request. She was convicted of killing her girlfriend in 2003.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Cuba's new penal code keeps death penalty as an option

  

  Cuba's one-party legislature Sunday passed a new Penal Code, which was considered to be “modern” and adjusted to the country's socialist “reality,” it was announced in Havana.

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2021 - 12:04 UTC

  Japan carries out three executions in one day

  

  Japanese judicial authorities Tuesday hanged three death row inmates in the first executions since Dec. 26, 2019 -when a Chinese citizen convicted in the 2003 killing of a family of four in Fukuoka was put to death-, and the first under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa said he gave the order to resume capital punishment.

• Monday, October 11th 2021 - 21:40 UTC

  European Union presses for worldwide suppression of the death penalty

  

  The European Union (EU) has insisted governments should move forward with abolishing the death penalty worldwide.

• Thursday, March 25th 2021 - 05:00 UTC

  Death penalty abolished in the once prolific executing US state of Virginia

  

  Virginia Governor Ralph Northam Wednesday signed into law a bill whereby the death penalty has been abolished after over 400 years in the force, thus making his state the 23rd to take such a step.

• Thursday, October 11th 2018 - 15:03 UTC

  Malaysia to join list of countries that have abolished death penalty

  

  Malaysia's government has pledged to amend the law and abolish capital punishment. It will also halt all pending executions, it was reported.