Lee U-cheol, a 'long-unexecuted death-row inmate' who killed a member trying to defect and the member's partner, died of illness while serving his sentence.
In the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, nine police officers were sentenced to death on April 6, 2026 for the in-custody deaths of P. Jeyaraj and his son J. Benniks, two Dalit Christians.
Death penalty ‘profoundly unreliable’
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