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
She spoke of one audience member, a relative of someone who was murdered, who became more open to a debate about the merits of capital punishment after seeing the opera.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Nowhere has this been more clearly on display than in the world of capital punishment.
From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026
In 2013, Alabama recorded the lowest number of new death sentences since the resumption of capital punishment in the mid-1970s.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
