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Detained on charges of forgery, Meriam Ibrahim is not yet free
By Fredrick Nzwili — June 25, 2014
(RNS) Ibrahim’s lawyer said she is accused of forging a document, an offense that could result in a five-year prison sentence under Sudan’s penal code.
As execution drugs grow short, states scramble on capital punishment
By Gregg Zoroya — March 10, 2014
(RNS) In a nation in which the overwhelming method of execution is via lethal injection, corrections officials are having difficulty getting their hands on the drugs they need.
Exonerated inmates push Ohio to scrap the death penalty
By David Yonke — October 23, 2013
TOLEDO, Ohio (RNS) As a state task force reviews the administration of the death penalty in Ohio, a man who spent 15 years on death row said lawmakers “should not be looking at fixing the death penalty; they should be looking to get rid of it.”
Death penalty grows rarer in U.S.
By Lauren Markoe — December 18, 2012
(RNS) Though states put the same number of people to death this year as last, an anti-death penalty group says several other indicators show capital punishment is on the wane. By Lauren Markoe.
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