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Do you support the death penalty?

The death penalty or capital punishment is the punishment by death for a crime. Currently 58 countries worldwide allow the death penalty (including the U.S.) while 97 countries have outlawed it.

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Response rates from 12.8k Portugal voters.

28% Yes	72% No
18% Yes	64% No
11% Yes, but only for horrific crimes with undeniable evidence	6% No, spending life in prison is a harsher sentence
0% Yes, but the victim’s family should decide the punishment	2% No, too many people are innocently convicted

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Plea Deal For 9/11 Accusers Revoked

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Friday overruled the overseer of the war court at Guantánamo Bay and revoked a plea agreement reached earlier this week with the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two alleged accomplices.The Pentagon announced the decision with the release of a memorandum relieving the senior official at the Defense Department responsible for military commissions of her oversight of the capital case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his alleged accomplices for the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, at the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field.The overseer, retired Brig. Gen. Susan K. Escallier, signed a pretrial agreement on Wednesday with Mr. Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi that exchanged guilty pleas for sentences of at most life in prison. In taking away the authority, Mr. Austin assumed direct oversight of the case and canceled the agreement, effectively reinstating it as a death-penalty case. He left Ms. Escallier in the role of oversight of Guantánamo’s other cases.Because of the stakes involved, the “responsibility for such a decision should rest with me,” Mr. Austin said in an order released Friday night by the Pentagon.

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Revokes Plea Deal for 9/11 Mastermind and Co-Conspirators

In a surprising move, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has revoked plea deals that would have avoided the death penalty for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and two of his alleged accomplices. This decision also included the dismissal of the official…

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Taiwan Escalates Travel Alert to China Amid Death Penalty Threats for Independence Supporters

Taiwan has significantly raised its travel advisory for China, urging its citizens to avoid non-essential travel following Beijing's announcement that 'diehard' supporters of Taiwan's independence could face the death penalty. This stern warning comes in the wake of a legal document published by China,…

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