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Jacques Fesch was arrested in Paris on February 25, 1954 after having committed a hold-up at a currency exchange stand. While fleeing the scene, he killed a policeman and wounded three persons.

Jacques Fesch killed a cop in the 1950s. Here's why the French Catholic Church wants to make him a saint.

Gerard Fesch was 40 when he learned his father, Jacques Fesch, had been executed for murder in France.

Jacques Fesch killed a cop in the 1950s. Here's why the French Catholic Church wants to make him a saint.
The execution chamber at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence is shown.

A former executioner has become a leading advocate for ending the death penalty

A former executioner has become a leading advocate for ending the death penalty
Inmates wait before they are released from Thanh Xuan prison outside Hanoi on Aug. 29, 2010.

Here's one way to escape death row in Vietnam: Get pregnant

Here's one way to escape death row in Vietnam: Get pregnant
The death chamber at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas is seen through steel bars from the viewing room.

Prisons enter a sketchy world to obtain drugs to kill death row inmates

Prisons enter a sketchy world to obtain drugs to kill death row inmates
President Barack Obama talks to Cardinal Sean O'Malley during an interfaith memorial service for Boston Marathon bombing victims at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross on April 18, 2013.

Does God want Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to get the death penalty?

Does God want Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to get the death penalty?
Israel's Ofer Prison, located near Jerusalem.

Why Israeli courts refuse the death penalty for terrorists

Israel courts have only allowed the death penalty once in the country's history, for concentration camp mastermind Adolf Eichmann. But many families of terrorism victims want the state to start imposing the death sentence on the people who killed their loved ones.

Why Israeli courts refuse the death penalty for terrorists
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is shown in a courtroom sketch on the first day of jury selection at the federal courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 5, 2015.

Massachusetts isn't OK with the death penalty, but Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's jurors had to be

The state of Massachusetts doesn't allow the death penalty, and most of the state's residents are against it. But for the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the jurors who decided his fate in a federal trial had to allow for that possibility.

Massachusetts isn't OK with the death penalty, but Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's jurors had to be

Song for Wuornos

Song for Wuornos