The UK Foreign Office says there are currently 12 British nationals facing the death penalty abroad.
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Was he hinting at a plea bargain under which he might talk in exchange for not facing the death penalty?
"Sweden does not extradite individuals who risk facing the death penalty, " the Foreign Ministry said after Ecuador granted Assange asylum.
"Sweden does not extradite individuals who risk facing the death penalty, " a Swedish Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said, implicitly referring to the possibility Assange could be charged with crimes eligible for the death penalty in the United States, with whom it has an extradition agreement.
The brother of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius - accused of murdering his girlfriend - is also facing trial over the death of a woman.
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It would also be cruel to run brain scans on someone who was possibly facing the moment of death.
Munyaradzi Gwisai, a law lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, is facing treason charges, carrying the death penalty, after being held and tortured for more than three weeks.
It is a grim fact that by facing death on the battlefield, Eritrean women are forcing change at home.
Loughner was facing the possibility of a death sentence if convicted.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades.
The two key challenges related to what can appear to some Europeans an extreme system in the US. Prisoners can get life sentences without any possibility of parole - the five men facing extradition in this case would not face the death penalty.
Tsarnaev's younger brother, Dzhokhar, is in a prison hospital facing charges that could bring the death penalty.
At the time, he felt he had dodged the bullet, having received a good prognosis on his pancreatic cancer, but acknowledged that facing death directly made him all the more determined to get the most out of life.
Syria's children are the conflict's "forgotten victims - facing death, trauma and suffering, and deprived of basic humanitarian aid", the report said.
He later became an advocate of internet freedom, and was facing hacking charges at the time of his death.
Although Mr Larijani has responded by vowing to respect legal procedure, others in the judiciary say that those facing death sentences will meet their fate soon.
After controlling for various factors, researchers found that the death rate from heart attacks for patients treated at hospitals facing large Medicare payment cuts jumped when compared to hospitals where reimbursement reductions were lower.
Even before signing the contract for my "yoga detective" novel "Downward-Facing Death, " I needed to start writing.
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The desperate search for food to feed their families resulted in thousands facing imprisonment, transportation or death.
The study is facing widespread criticism in Scotland for being based on flawed research - with many claiming that its recommendations would sound the death knell for the industry, rather than providing the lifeline claimed by its authors.
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