Tag: penalty
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Trump calls for death penalty against migrants who kill U.S. citizens
Former President Donald Trump on Friday repeatedly called for using the death penalty against migrants who kill U.S. citizens and law enforcement officers. “I’m hereby calling for the death penalty for any migrant who kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada. The former president…
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Supreme Court hears Oklahoma death penalty case in which state and inmate agree conviction should be tossed
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday will weigh whether inmate Richard Glossip’s murder conviction should be thrown out — an unusual death penalty case in which the attorney general of Oklahoma has sided with a defendant. Glossip, who is now 61, was convicted of arranging for the murder in 1997 of his boss at…