Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty two decades after last execution Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty, marking a significant shift for a nation that last carried out an execution nearly 20 years ago. 12/31/2024 - 7:34 am | View Link
Death penalty creates more sorrow, pain for most everyone involved President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. More than 2,000 others remain on death row in 27 states. Illinois abolished the death penalty more than a ... 12/29/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Biden’s pardons reveal examples of where death penalty would have saved lives President Biden’s sweeping use of the pardon power should remove any objections to the next administration’s expected exercise of clemency. 12/27/2024 - 6:02 am | View Link
Biden’s death penalty commutations are extraordinary — and insufficient The criminal justice system should not be in the life-taking business. 12/23/2024 - 9:15 am | View Link
Biden Commutes 37 Death Penalty Sentences — Critics Call for More Biden will exit the White House having failed to fulfill his 2020 campaign pledge to abolish the federal death penalty. 12/23/2024 - 6:01 am | View Link
NASA collected Mars rocks to haul to Earth. It still hasn’t decided how. The Washington PostNASA is fighting to return samples from Mars. Here are the two ways they might do it in the 2030s CNNNASA to Explore Two Landing Options for Returning Samples from Mars NASANASA Will Let Trump Decide How to Bring Mars Rocks to Earth The New York Times
For all of his dystopian rhetoric, by many traditional metrics, the America that Trump will inherit from Biden is actually in better shape than that bequeathed to any newly elected president since Bush came into office in 2001. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/u
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt.bsky.social) 2025-01-05T15:08:03.902Z
Why not three months ago? Oh, I think we know.
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