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Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson, appears in Manhattan Supreme Court on New York state murder and terrorism charges in New York City, U.S., February 21, 2025.

Mangione faces federal charges, death penalty in UnitedHealth executive's killing

A freed Palestinian prisoner is carried by people after he was released by Israel as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 25, 2025.

The Hamas prisoner release is a justification for death penalty for terrorists

The Tree of Life synagogue at the intersection of Shady and Wilkins avenues, in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, on Oct. 30, 2018.

Will Pittsburgh synagogue shooter be spared the death penalty?

By Jonathan D. Salant/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS

American citizen Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, 36, has been sentenced to death for his involvement in a failed coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

American Jewish man sentenced to death in Congo for involvement in failed coup

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Minister of National Security attends a National Security committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on November 20, 2023.

Ben-Gvir calls for death penalty in response to hostage killings

By ELIAV BREUER

Illustrative image of a court gavel.

Jews were excluded from California county’s death penalty juries for decades, new evidence reveals

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA

Police officers walk at the entrance of the district Judicial Complex in Islamabad, Pakistan November 28, 2023.

Pakistan’s senate human rights committee votes against public hanging for rapists

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE

Burundi's President elect Evariste Ndayishimiye takes oath of office during his inauguration ceremony at the Ingoma stadium in Gitega, Burundi June 18, 2020.

Burundi's president says gay people should be stoned

By REUTERS

Iranian women chant during a protest condemning the Shiraz attack and unrest in Tehran, Iran October 28, 2022.

Iranian protester faces execution for murder blamed on gov't

Israelis whose family members are being held abducted by Hamas terrorists in Gaza since Oct 7, react as they attend a National Security committee meeting in the Israeli parliament on November 20, 2023

Death penalty for terrorists harms Gaza hostages, families tell Knesset

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

MK Almog Cohen seen shouting at hostages' families during a National Security Committee discussion on November 20, 2023

Terrorist death penalty debate risks hostages, families charge Otzma Yehudit

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

General overall view of the Doha downtown city center skyline and cityscape and the Doha Bay, Doha, Qatar, Sep 26, 2019.

Indians accused of spying for Israel in Qatar given death penalty

By REUTERS

Nobel Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen announces the winner of Nobel Peace Prize for 2023.

Tehran attacks 'anti-Iranian' move to award jailed activist Nobel Peace Prize

By REUTERS

Reverend Sylvester Edwards, President of the Terre Haute NAACP, stands near the Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute, to express his opposition to the death penalty and execution of Daniel Lewis Lee. July 13, 2020

As execution day nears, advocates for Texas Jew on death row say hopes are dimming

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

This image widely distributed by US media on October 27, 2018 shows a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) ID picture of Robert Bowers

Judge to pronounce death sentence for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter after jury vote

By REUTERS

A GROWING series of violent attacks on Jewish facilities began at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, in October 2018.

Jury demands to see guns of Pittsburgh synagogue shooter

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

Police officers guard the Tree of Life synagogue following Saturday's shooting at the synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 28, 2018.

Pittsburgh jury finds synagogue attacker eligible for death penalty

By REUTERS

A CROWD attends a vigil outside the Tree of Life synagogue, marking one week after the deadly shooting there, in Pittsburgh, in 2018.

3 reasons why Tree of Life shooter Robert Bowers shouldn't be executed - opinion

By SHIRA HOFFER