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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)

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventieth session, 1 October, 2015.

Israeli PM asks Avigdor Lieberman to be defence minister in shock move
The Guardian Binyamin Netanyahu makes U-turn to offer hard-right politician key cabinet job after first pursuing deal with centrists... (photo: UN / Cia Pak)

With the Philippine National flag in background, Filipino boxing great and now Senator Manny Pacquiao stands while a citation is being read to him during ceremony at the Commission on Elections Thursday, May 19, 2016 in suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines.

Manny Pacquiao's Senate victory brings him closer to presidency
Boston Herald MANILA, Philippines — Boxing great Manny Pacquiao was proclaimed Thursday as a winner of a Philippine Senate seat, bringing him closer to a possible crack at the presidency. At the proclamation... (photo: AP / Bullit Marquez)

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File - President Barack Obama makes Thanksgiving Day phone calls from the Oval Office to U.S. troops stationed around the world, Nov. 26, 2015.

Obama calls Duterte, highlights shared human rights values

CNN (CNN)President Obama has personally called his counterpart in the Philippines with a subtle message about the importance of human rights. Just weeks ago, in his last... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)

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... (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... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)

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)