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China has executed four Canadians over the last few months, Canada’s foreign affairs minister has said. Melanie Joly said she and former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau asked for clemency in the case of the dual citizens, who were accused of drug-related charges. Beijing’s embassy in Ottawa said the executions were because of drug crimes and noted China does…
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President Biden announced Monday that he had commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 current federal death row inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole. “These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder,” Biden said in a statement. Consistent…
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More than three decades ago, Alvin Kennard was given a life sentence without parole for robbery. Kinnard, then just 22 years old, has stolen $50.70 from a Bessemer bakery. Kennard has served 36 years of that life sentence, and Wednesday appeared in court for a hearing to change his sentence to life with parole, and…
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