Capital Punishment

Supermarket mass shooter faces the death penalty after killing 10 victims

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BUFFALO, NY – The Justice Department plans to seek the death penalty against the man accused of a mass shooting at a supermarket. The gunfire claimed the lives of ten African Americans, according to an announcement made Friday in a federal court filing. Payton Gendron, a self-proclaimed white supremacist, is already serving a life sentence without parole after admitting guilt on state murder and hate crime charges related to the 2022 assault. Although New York …

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Female drug trafficker executed

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In a rare event, Singapore carried out the execution of a woman for the first time in nearly two decades on Friday. This marked the second execution by hanging in the same week, both for convicted drug traffickers. Saridewi Djamani, a 45-year-old woman, was handed the death sentence in 2018 after she was found guilty of trafficking almost 31 grams of pure heroin. The Central Narcotics Bureau stated that the quantity of the drug was …

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