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Do you support the death penalty?

The death penalty or capital punishment is the punishment by death for a crime. Currently 58 countries worldwide allow the death penalty (including the U.S.) while 97 countries have outlawed it.

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34% Yes	66% No
25% Yes	62% No
8% Yes, but only for horrific crimes with undeniable evidence	3% No, spending life in prison is a harsher sentence
0% Yes, but the victim’s family should decide the punishment	1% No, too many people are innocently convicted

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Plea Deal For 9/11 Accusers Revoked

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Friday overruled the overseer of the war court at Guantánamo Bay and revoked a plea agreement reached earlier this week with the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two alleged accomplices.The Pentagon announced the decision with the release of a memorandum relieving the senior official at the Defense Department responsible for military commissions of her oversight of the capital case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his alleged accomplices for the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, at the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field.The overseer, retired Brig. Gen. Susan K. Escallier, signed a pretrial agreement on Wednesday with Mr. Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi that exchanged guilty pleas for sentences of at most life in prison. In taking away the authority, Mr. Austin assumed direct oversight of the case and canceled the agreement, effectively reinstating it as a death-penalty case. He left Ms. Escallier in the role of oversight of Guantánamo’s other cases.Because of the stakes involved, the “responsibility for such a decision should rest with me,” Mr. Austin said in an order released Friday night by the Pentagon.

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West Bengal Passes Landmark Bill Mandating Death Penalty for Rapists

In response to widespread protests following the rape and murder of a doctor, the West Bengal Assembly in India has passed a significant bill that introduces the death penalty for rape convictions. This legislative move, aimed at delivering justice and deterring heinous crimes, comes after the tragic…

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Japan's Longest-Serving Death Row Prisoner Acquitted After 55 Years

Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner, has been acquitted by a Japanese court after spending over five decades on death row. Convicted of murder in 1968, Hakamada, now 88, was granted a retrial a decade ago, and the Shizuoka District Court has now ruled him innocent. His case…

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