death sentence

Watching the Parkland jury verdict was wrenching. Survivors need more agency.

By Beth Kissileff — October 19, 2022
(RNS) — I mostly felt profound grief and sadness at the haunted, broken, anguished faces of the families. I don’t think anyone else needs to experience this stress.

For Baha’is, Yemen man’s death sentence is grimly familiar

By Winston Nagan — March 1, 2018
(RNS) — While this new wave of persecution against the Baha’is may seem arbitrary, it strongly echoes the state-sponsored program of persecution against the Baha’is in Iran.

Bible Belt state with nation’s highest execution rate considers death penalty flaws

By Bobby Ross Jr. — May 3, 2017
OKLAHOMA CITY (RNS) Last week, the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission recommended that the moratorium on the death penalty be extended.

Meriam Ibrahim released from death row in Sudan

By Fredrick Nzwili — June 23, 2014
Many in the Muslim-majority nation held that Ibrahim should never have become a Christian because her father was a Muslim.
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