08 February 2020 :
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 to defer consideration of bill SB 449 until next year. Among other considerations for non-urgency also the fact that however there is no execution scheduled for the whole of 2020.
The Kumamoto District Court on January 28, 2026 rejected a retrial request from the family of a man with leprosy who was executed more than 60 years ago for a 1952 murder despite long claiming his innocence.
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The authorities in Puntland, a semi‑autonomous region of Somalia, have executed a woman convicted of murdering a 14‑year‑old girl, in a rare case in the region in which the death penalty has been carried out against a woman.
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