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Sailors assigned to the ballistic-missile submarine USS Alabama (SSBN 731) present an Alabama state flag that was flown over the submarine.

Alabama is the only state with this radical death penalty law
Business Insider In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, Armstrong and other defense attorneys have started filing motions in current capital cases arguing that the judicial override portion of Alabama’s death... (photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Joshua Treadwell/Released)

Death penalty changes easily clear House
Tampa Bay Online TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a compromise measure designed to cure the state’s death-penalty sentencing system, struck down by the U.S. Supreme... (photo: Creative Commons / Bjoertvedt)

Commissions building courtroom at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Alleged al-Qaida commander reveals new name in Guantanamo court
Stars and Stripes GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Tribune News Service) — An Iraqi captive accused of running al-Qaida’s army in Afghanistan after the U.S. invaded in 2001 told a judge through his lawyers Tuesday that... (photo: US Navy file / MCS1 Christopher Mobley)

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte answers questions from reporters during a press conference at the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Davao City, Philippines.

Changes Supported By Philippine President-Elect Duterte Not Popular With Everyone

WorldNews.com Presumptive Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has begun making policy pronouncements less than a week after winning the nation’s election based on an unofficial count, The Associated Press... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)

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Front-running presidential candidate Mayor Rodrigo Duterte smiles during a news conference shortly after voting in a polling precinct at Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School, Matina district, his hometown in Davao city in southern Philippines Monday, May 9, 2016.

Duterte vows to kill criminals and reintroduce hanging in Philippines
The Guardian Tough-talking president-elect says he bring back capital punishment, which was banned in 2006... (photo: AP / Bullit Marquez)

Five Australian terror suspects charged with trying to travel to Syria by boat

CNN (CNN)Australian police have charged five men suspected of planning to travel to Syria to join ISIS. The five men, who were on a terror watch list, were planning a journey... (photo: AP / Rob Griffith)

Pfizer says it's blocking use of drugs for lethal injections
The Times of India Pharmaceutical company Pfizer said on Friday that it was blocking use of its drugs in lethal injections, which means all federally approved drugmakers whose medications... (photo: AP / Richard Drew)

File - An aerial view, days after the terrorist attacks on American soil, the towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) sit as a pile of rubble in the streets of New York City.

9/11 judge and prosecutors should step down over 'destroyed evidence', defense demands
The Guardian Move throws case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed into chaos as defense team says ‘fatally flawed’ Guantánamo military tribunal should be ended... (photo: USAF File/SSgt. Michelle Leonard)

This undated photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Earl Forrest. Forrest, 66, is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday, May 11, 2016, for killing Dent County Sheriff’s Deputy Joann Barnes and two other people in 2002. It would be Missouri's first execution in 2016.

Missouri man scheduled to die for killing deputy, 2 others
Boston Herald ST. LOUIS — A man convicted of killing two people in a drug dispute and a sheriff's deputy in a subsequent shootout is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday in... (photo: AP / Missouri Department of Corrections)

File - A street barricade erected by the rebels to end British rule during the Easter Rebellion in Dublin, Ireland, April, 1916.

British execute insurgents involved in Dublin rising – archive
The Guardian 9 May 1916: The work of rounding up the rebels proceeds vigorously. In county Wexford already 300 are in custody... (photo: Public Domain / Unknown)

File - Manus Island regional processing facility, 25 October, 2012.

Papua New Guinea tells UN it accepts court decision on Manus Island illegality
The Guardian Human rights council assessment meeting advised that arrangements are being made for the 905 men still under detention... (photo: Creative Commons / DIAC)

Porter Alexander and his wife Mary, parents of murder victim Alicia Alexander face reporters after first-degree murder verdicts were returned against 'Grim Sleeper' killer Lonnie Franklin Jr., in the death of their daughter and nine others, in Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday, May 5, 2016.(Nick Ut)

Los Angeles man guilty in 10 'Grim Sleeper' serial killings
Stars and Stripes LOS ANGELES — A former Los Angeles trash collector was convicted Thursday of 10 counts of murder in the "Grim Sleeper" serial killings that targeted poor, young... (photo: AP / Nick Ut)

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami sits inside a police van after he was sentenced to death for his role in the deaths of thousands of people during the nation's independence war against Pakistan in 1971, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014.

Bangladesh Islamist leader Nizami to hang for 1971 war crimes
Asia Times (From Reuters) Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a final appeal by the leader of the top Islamist party against a death sentence for atrocities... (photo: AP / Tanvir Ahammed)