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The case of 8 men who could face imminent execution following a military trial shows why Egyptian authorities should place a moratorium on the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today.The 8 civilians, 6 of whom are in custody, were sentenced to death on May 29, 2016, after a
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Julian McMahon and Paris Aristotle with self-portraits by Myuran SukumaranBarrister who works pro bono for people on death row and refugee advocate among those recognised in Queen’s birthday listThe abolitionist lawyer Julian McMahon and the refugee advocate Paris Aristotle have been recognised11
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California's death chamberCalifornia voters faced a binary choice in November’s election over the state’s death penalty system. Proposition 62 aimed to end capital punishment and convert all existing death sentences to life in prison without parole. Proposition 66, on the other hand, sought to11
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The Arkansas State Medical Board on Thursday ended its investigation into how lethal-injection drugs were acquired by the state prison system, after determining no licensed doctors in Arkansas were involved.The monthlong look into the procurement of execution drugs began after one supplier, the
A Kenyan woman was sentenced to death by a Malaysian court after she was found guilty of trafficking in methamphetamine 4 years ago.According to Malaysian Daily Express, Rose Achieng Ojala had stuffed 3 capsules of the drug into her private parts and swallowed another 68 capsules, all weighing09
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TOKYO - A newly compiled DVD of a drama reenacts how police interrogated a 24-year-old man who was arrested in 1963 over the murder of a 16-year-old female high school student in Sayama, near Tokyo, while claiming his innocence.The drama was created in line with recorded tapes of the questioning08
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Robert Melson(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Alabama is preparing to execute an inmate for the shooting deaths of three fast food restaurant workers during a 1994 robbery.Robert Bryant Melson, 46, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday evening at a south Alabama prison.State prosecutors said08
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On Friday, May 25, 2017, the Office of the South Carolina Attorney General elected not to appeal a decision vacating the death sentence of Justice 360 client William Bell.In November 2016, Circuit Judge R. Lawton McIntosh found Mr. Bell intellectually disabled and, therefore, ineligible for the08
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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday halted the execution of a man convicted in the murder of a McKinney real estate agent in 2007.Another Texas execution has been stopped by the state’s highest criminal appellate court, giving relief to the man convicted in 2007 in the robbery and07
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Robert MelsonThe execution of Robert Bryant Melson is back on for Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court tonight lifted a stay that had been granted last week by an appeals court.The stay of the execution was lifted in an order issued by U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas shortly
Clinton YoungClinton Young was sentenced to death in 2003 for two murders committed in 2001.Judge Robert Moore, visiting judge for the 238th District Court, issued a warrant of execution on Monday for Clinton Lee Young, according to the Midland County District Attorney’s Office.The 33-year-old06
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Indiana officials probably don't want to have a big debate about the death penalty, but they more or less have to. The issue has been hijacked by capital punishment opponents, who have pushed the state into a corner by challenging the lethal cocktail used to carry out state-sanctioned executions12
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NCRI - Iran’s public prosecutor in the city of Ghazvin, northwest Iran, said 20 individuals are sentenced to lashing and financial fines for “eating during fasting hours.”These individuals are amongst the 90 persons who were arrested on such charges in this city, said Ismaeel Sadeghi Nia on June11
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A recent letter to the editor from Shaun Moser published June 7 questions why Ashley Hunter isn't facing a death sentence. I would like to try and explain a few things about North Dakota's history with the death penalty.First of all, no one has been executed in North Dakota
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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was sentenced to death by a court in Tripoli in 2015Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, second son of the late deposed Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, is said to have been freed under an amnesty, in a move which could fuel further instability.His father's preferred successor, he had
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Zabol Central Prison, Iran30 prisoners in Zabol Central Prison are reportedly in imminent danger of execution after their death sentences were confirmed by Iran's Supreme Court.Zabol, located in the province of Sistan & Baluchestan, is one of the poorest cities in Iran. Zabol Central Prison is
Nine Filipinos who were part of an armed group that invaded and occupied part of Malaysian Borneo in 2013, in an episode that left scores dead, have been sentenced to hang.The bloody incursion by some 200 Islamic militants from the southern Philippines was
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ISIS killed hundreds of civilians in the Iraqi city of Mosul in the past two weeks.GENEVA — Islamic State fighters shot and killed hundreds of residents in the Iraqi city of Mosul in the past two
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For the 2nd year in a row, the Ohio Prosecuting Attorney's Association voiced strong opposition to a bill that would keep severely mentally ill people from being executed on death row.If passed, House Bill 81 would bar the possibility of the death penalty for people who can prove they had a
Screenshot from "Apprentice" by Boo Junfeng, 2016The road was quiet, with only the odd car or bus passing by. The sun was rising, the sky lighting up slowly behind the drab, grey walls of Changi Prison Complex. We sat three in a row, too weary for conversation.Somewhere behind those imposing walls07
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Emilia CarrEmilia Carr was convicted of first-degree murder in 2009 deathEmilia Carr, once Marion County’s only female death row inmate, will now spend the rest of her life in prison.After an evidentiary hearing May 19, the State declined to seek a new death penalty phase, according to court
Ohio's Toledo Correctional InstitutionSeven months after announcing the move, state prison officials are releasing few details about a transfer of Ohio’s death row inmates to Toledo.More than 100 prisoners awaiting execution will leave the Chillicothe facility for housing at Toledo Correctional
Ohio may have a path to obtaining a long-sought lethal injection drug if the state can locate the proper ingredients, the prison system's top lawyer said during a deposition in a legal challenge to Ohio's proposed execution drugs.The state has been unable to carry out executions on more than 2LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Arkansas' chief medical examiner says nothing in autopsy reports suggest that four inmates put to death in April suffered while they died. But that won't end the debate over whether the state's three-drug execution is cruel.The state's chief medical examiner, Dr. Charles11
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Pulaski County circuit judge Wendell Griffen taking part in an anti-deathpenalty demonstration outside the state governor’s mansion, Arkansas.Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen stood on the steps of the state Capitol on Friday and took aim at lawmakers and the Arkansas Supreme Court10
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Travis BredholdFayette Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone will soon decide whether to exclude the death penalty for a murder defendant who was 18 when he was charged with murder and robbery.In a 2005 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the execution of people who were younger 18 at the time10
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BAHWALPUR – An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday sentenced a man to death for sharing offensive content about Islam on social media, in a first ever penalty over online blasphemy.Bahawalpur’s ATC Judge Shabir Ahmed announced the sentence for the 30-year-old accused, who belongs to the Shia09
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Robert MelsonRobert Bryant Melson executed for 1994 triple slayingTonight Alabama death row inmate Robert Bryant Melson was executed by lethal injection for the 1994 slayings of 3 fast food restaurant workers in Gadsden. It was the 2nd execution for Alabama in 2 weeks.The execution of Melson --
Four suspects in the Khon Kaen bar girl dismemberment case are looking at the death penalty after being officially charged with premeditated murder yesterday.Apparently, authorities don’t believe murder suspect Preeyanuch Nonwangchai’s story that the killing was accidental and that she just meant08
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California's death rowCalifornia Supreme Court justices considering whether a ballot measure to speed up executions is unconstitutional expressed skepticism Tuesday about a provision that would require death sentence appeals to be completed within five years.Several justices peppered a lawyer from07
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Texas' Death RowIt was welcome news this week that the death penalty is continuing to fall out of favor with Texas juries.In the 15 death penalty cases tried in Texas since 2015, jurors have sentenced only eight men to death. In Dallas County, prosecutors have sought capital punishment in Leggi07
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An appalling and racialized standard of ‘future dangerousness’ has been used to condemn defendants. This lawyer fought it.The death penalty, like abortion, is one of those hot-button topics that keeps popping up into the public consciousness, a roach motel for meretricious ideas and bad public06
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Arizona's death chamberWhat's the best way to kill a death-row prisoner?That has been an issue in Arizona since the flawed execution of Joseph Wood, who in July 2014 gasped and snorted for nearly two hours as Arizona Department of Corrections personnel injected him with 15 doses of
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The Federal Government on Monday pleaded with the government of Indonesia to commute the death penalty passed on Nigerians in the country's prison, to life imprisonment.Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama, made the plea in a joint communiqué issued at the end of bilateral meeting between the