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Guilty plea rejected for Colorado theater shooter James Holmes
US prosecutors rebuffed a reported offer by Colorado theater massacre suspect James Holmes to plead guilty in exchange for escaping the death penalty, legal documents showed. A prosecutors’ filing cited by the Denver Post and other media was scathing about a defense motion Wednesday which suggested a guilty plea in…
Death penalty removed from Ugandan ‘Kill the Gays’ bill
Ugandan lawmakers removed the death penalty from an anti-LGBT bill set to be debated by the country’s parliament next week, the BBC reported Saturday. The proposal, called the “Kill The Gays” bill when first introduced three years ago, has undergone other unspecified “revisions,” said MP Medard Segona, who was part…
Reprieved Oregon death row prisoner granted right to be executed
Convicted murderer Gary Haugen has rejected clemency of Oregon governor John Kitzhaber, and says he wants to die America’s emotional debate over the role of the death penalty has taken a strange new twist after a convicted killer has been granted the legal right to insist on his right to…
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