capital punishment

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The Justice Department also reauthorized single-drug lethal injections in an effort to expedite capital punishment cases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Prosecutors have yet to decide if they will seek capital punishment in the case.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Nowhere has this been more clearly on display than in the world of capital punishment.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026

South Korea has an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment -- the last prisoners were executed in 1997 -- with a death sentence effectively banishing Yoon to life behind bars.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

Even though capital punishment quadrupled within a decade, there were still only 478 executions in the entire United States during the 1990s.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt