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Rock Hill’s Jimmy Robertson asks to drop SC death row appeal. Is execution next?

The Herald - Rock Hill 08 Apr 2025
Exclusive. James Robertson has been on death row since 1999 after he was convicted of killing his parents in Rock Hill. Now he wants to relieve his lawyers, and represent himself ....
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This Palm Beach County man has lived on death row for nearly 50 years. Here's the story

The Palm Beach Post 08 Apr 2025
Paul Scott, convicted of murder in Palm Beach County, is one of the longest-serving inmates on Florida's death row.Only three Palm Beach County men have been executed since the reinstatement of the ...
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'M'sia reduces death row numbers but increase new sentences'

Malaysia Kini 08 Apr 2025
Country remains among 54 that still retain the death penalty - Amnesty. .
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Global executions surged to highest level since 2015, Amnesty reports

Jurist 08 Apr 2025
Similarly, Japan acquitted Hakamada Iwao—who spent nearly 50 years on death row—in September 2024. In the US, Alabama death row inmate Rocky Myers was granted clemency in March 2025 after a global campaign pushed to end his death sentence.
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South Carolina’s highest court denies appeal to stay upcoming firing squad execution for cop killer

New York Post 08 Apr 2025
Mahdi will be the second death row inmate in South Carolina this year to be killed by a firing squad if his execution goes forward as planned ... Sigmon was also the first death row inmate in 15 years to choose death by firing squad.
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Death sentences keep rising in Indonesia as global executions hit new record: Amnesty

The Jakarta Post 08 Apr 2025
Despite the rise in executions, only 15 countries executed their death row convicts last year, the lowest number on record for the second consecutive year, the group noted, adding that 113 countries ...
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South Carolina’s highest court refuses to stop second firing squad execution

News-Press Now 08 Apr 2025
Prosecutors said Mahdi was able to present much more evidence during a 2011 appeal that had to be heard inside a prison because Mahdi had stabbed a death row guard during an escape attempt.
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Ram Charan's wife Upasana Konidela reveals "secret sauce" of their successful marriage

International Business Times 08 Apr 2025
He's a very, very secure man ... You can't give up ... The Rebel Kid is back to Instagram; shares screenshots of death, rape threats she got after IGL row ... The Rebel Kid is back to Instagram; shares screenshots of death, rape threats she got after IGL row ... .
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'Cops planted evidence': SC acquits death row convict after a decade

The Times of India 08 Apr 2025
After a decade in jail under the shadow of death, Supreme Court not only quashed his sentence but also acquitted him.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sanjay Karol and Sandeep Mehta, after examining ...
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Global executions reach highest figure in almost a decade

The Times of India 08 Apr 2025
... rights at the center of their drug policies.In Malaysia, however, some 1,000 people who were on death row — many on drug charges — have been reprieved as a result of reforms set in motion in 2023.
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Florida man faces execution for killing of woman on break from work at The Miami Herald

Newsday 08 Apr 2025
STARKE, Fla ... Tanzi, 48, would become the third inmate on Florida's death row executed this year, with another lethal injection scheduled on May 1 under death warrants signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis ... Get the latest breaking news as it happens. Sign up.
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Four convicts awarded life imprisonment for 2008 Jaipur serial bomb blasts

Hindustan Times 08 Apr 2025
The death row convicts challenged their punishment in the high court, which acquitted them on March 29, 2023 and confirmed the acquittal of Shahbaz.
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2024 saw the highest number of executions in nine years with China the capital punishment ...

The Daily Mail 08 Apr 2025
Methods of capital punishment used around the world from public beheading to nitrogen gas and Chinese death vans ... US President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 out of 40 inmates on federal death row before he left the Oval Office.
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Apoorva Mukhija returns to Instagram after India’s Got Latent controversy, EXPOSES disturbing abuse and rape threats

Bollywood Life 08 Apr 2025
By Pooja Darade Published ... Today, The Rebel Kid shared a post of all the hate, death and rape threats she has been receiving for the past few weeks ... The post contains mentions of acid attacks, rape threats and death threats." ... Also Read - IGL row ... .
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Michael Tanzi to be executed in Florida today for Miami woman's murder. What to know.

Usatoday 08 Apr 2025
Florida is set to execute Death Row inmate Michael Tanzi on Tuesday for the murder of a beloved Miami Herald employee who was attacked on her lunch break ... Ron DeSantis, who signed Tanzi's death warrant in March.

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