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Protest against "blasphemer" Ahok in Jakarta, November 2016Nothing is surprising about the recent survey conducted by Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC), which found that 9.2 percent of respondents supported the formation of a theocratic Islamic state in Indonesia to replace the existing democratic
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(Beirut) – Saudi Arabia should immediately quash the death sentences of 14 members of the Shia community for protest-related crimes, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The Court of Appeal of the notorious Specialized Criminal Court upheld the sentences in May 2017, after they06
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China's latest cybersecurity law came into force last week and the sky did not fall and companies have not shuttered.After months of haranguing by foreign chambers of commerce, symposiums about draft versions of the law, and many news stories, the Cybersecurity Law went into effect. The law lists04
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Courts are supposed to be bastions of justice. But equal justice may be thwarted for some defendants owing to language barriers.Despite all the various training seminars and guide books preparing newly registered court interpreters for the job, the current pool of interpreters are not sufficiently03
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Chinese police officers rehearsing execution proceduresAN organ transplant can be the difference between life and death for many people.For those in need of one, the wait for a call from hospital to say a match is available is an excruciating one.Sometimes life outruns them before the
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When Arkansas recently made news for carrying out a spate of executions within a brief time span, that was the first time the state had used the death penalty for more than a decade.But that's not the first time a state has taken break from executions.In fact, there was a
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Pakistan says accusatory approach is unhelpful towards efforts for peaceISLAMABAD: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has approved execution order for 11 death row prisoners belonging to the Taliban and Haqqani Network, Afghan media quoted sources in the presidential palace as saying on Thursday.The01
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An Alabama death row inmate has asked a federal appeals court to block his execution for the slayings of 3 people 23 years ago.Robert Melson, 45, is set to die by lethal injection on June 8. His attorney, John Palombi with the Federal Defenders for the Middle District of Alabama, filed a Leggi
The Missouri Supreme Court won't review a lower court ruling that spares the state's prison system from having to reveal where it gets drugs used in executions, though attorneys pressing for the details plan more appeals using different arguments.Missouri's high court, without comment Tuesday01
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Bali's Kerobokan PrisonA PROMINENT Australian barrister has vowed to renew a fight to free Brisbane Catholic Scott Rush and the remaining members of the Bali Nine in jail in Indonesia.Scott Rush’s lawyer, Colin McDonald QC, has pinpointed a new legal avenue to fight for the Bali Nine,
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The death penalty is a distraction from the real measures that India needs to take to protect women's rights to safety, writes Gopika Bashi of Amnesty International.Earlier this month in the Rohtak district of India's northern state of Haryana, two men were arrested after the body of a young Dalit
Hit and run driver wounds five others as people celebrate Kuwait National DayManama | A court in Kuwait has sentenced a Kuwaiti to death for killing one police officer and wounding five others.The crime occurred in February 2016 as the country was celebrating its National Day.Reports said that06
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Federal Supreme Court, Abu Dhabi, UAETen Indians, convicted of killing a Pakistani man over a bootlegging feud in Abu Dhabi, were absolved of the death penalty in May 2017 after an amount of Rs 60 lakh was paid as blood money (diyah) to the victim's family.
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Defense attorney Michael LasherDefense attorney Michael Lasher answers his phone. There’s a convicted killer on the line.David Bollinger is housed on death row inside the Ely State Prison, where he has spent 23 years for the murder of an elderly Reno couple. The jury found the former temporary
"Scaffold" by Sam Durant at the Minneapolis Sculpture GardenSculpture tainted Dakota 38 memory, but Dakota elders say this is a teaching momentA day before what was to have been the celebrated grand re-opening of the Minneapolis Scuplture Garden, Dakota elders will oversee the
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In a blood-thirsty column clamoring for faster executions in the United States, John Steele Gordon, a writer specializing in financial and business history, asserts: “Had Hitler been captured alive, would anyone have suggested life without parole?”Yes. Me. I would have.Knowing the exorbitant02
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BERLIN — The European Union should continue accession negotiations with Turkey but a reintroduction of the death penalty would clearly put an end to the process, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Wednesday.Turkey abolished the death penalty in 2004 as part of a campaign for02
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. - A man serving a life sentence is denied an appeal hearing by Missouri’s Supreme Court, despite DNA tests proving the hair used at trial wasn’t his and the only eyewitness recanting her testimony.As 41 Action News first reported last year, Rodney Lincoln appealed his 1982 murder
Typical Texas death-row cell (Source: Minutes Before Six)Anthony Graves emerged from solitary confinement over 6 years ago to become a national crusader for justice reform, but it took a recent report by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin to add new urgency to his campaign
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Execution in Kuwait in April 2013Victim, 13, was abducted, taken to rented chalet and filmed during rapeManama: Kuwait’s Court of Appeals has sentenced seven defendants to death by hanging for kidnapping a 13-year-old mentally-retarded boy and raping him, overturning a ten-year jail sentence by a
Nikko JenkinsA man convicted of killing 4 people in Omaha in 2013 was sentenced to death Tuesday by a 3-judge panel - Nebraska's 1st death penalty sentence handed down since the punishment was reinstated by voters in November.The panel issued its ruling in the case of Nikko Jenkins, who was31
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday reaffirmed the death sentence for the only woman on death row in the state.The high court ruled 6-1 to uphold the death sentence for Donna Roberts, who was convicted in 2003 of conspiring with her lover to murder her ex-husband, Robert Fingerhut30
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"Scaffold" by Sam Durant at the Minneapolis Sculpture GardenThe Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will remove a gallows-like sculpture, following protests by Native Americans, who say it brings back painful memories of the mass hanging of 38 Dakota men in 1862.'Scaffold,' by
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San Quentin prison, CaliforniaThe California Supreme Court hears many high-stakes cases on issues such as individual rights, taxes, and the lawmaking powers of the state and its voters. But it has seldom confronted a case with such potentially dramatic consequences as Tuesday's hearing on the06
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Gallows at Tokyo Detention Center“Excessive bail shall not be required, or excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted,” says the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. You will find similar language in the Japanese constitution, included at the order of the United04
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Nebraska's death chamberA federal judge has given attorneys for an inmate on Nebraska's death row 6 months more to represent him but pressed them during a phone conference Friday about moving forward with whatever their next step will be.John Lotter, who was convicted in the killing that inspired03
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Robert MelsonA federal appeals court granted a stay of execution Friday for Robert Melson, who was scheduled to be put to death Thursday for the shootings of three fast food employees at a Popeye's in Etowah County in 1994.Melson is challenging his execution on grounds that the three-drug cocktail02
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The president’s first trip abroad also appears to have sparked crackdowns in Bahrain and Egypt.WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia this month encouraged the kingdom to expand its controversial use of the death penalty, including toward peaceful protesters, a top human rights02
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Indiana's death chamberIndiana cannot execute prisoners with its chosen lethal injection cocktail — one that has never been used in an execution in the United States — because the state did not follow proper procedures when it chose the drugs, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled.The decision01
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Dylann RoofIn early January, after a series of closed-court hearings, a federal judge in Charleston allowed Dylann S. Roof to represent himself as prosecutors sought his execution for a murderous 2015 rampage at a historic African-American church. Determined to block exposure of his mental health01
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William Morva is scheduled to be executed by Virginia on July 6, 2017.William Charles Morva was born in Virginia in 1982 to Elizabeth and Charles Morva. The family lived in the Chesterfield area and the kids attended local public schools. The whole family was very involved in the soccer31
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Pablo Ibar in 2009Nearly €1.1 million: that is how much Pablo Ibar, who has been behind bars in the United States for 23 years, needs to raise in order to retain a good lawyer who might prevent his execution for a triple murder that he denies having committed.
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A protest against Ahok on November 4, 2016“It’s over for Indonesia’s tradition of moderation… In ten years, Indonesia could be Pakistan.”Ahok’s imprisonment has sent shockwaves through Indonesia’s religious minorities and among moderate, pluralistic-minded Sunni Muslims. If a talented, popularOn 16th December 2012, a particularly disturbing case of gangrape and murder in New Delhi (‘the Delhi gangrape case’) set off massive nationwide protests. Widespread discussions on sexual violence in India led to significant criminal law amendments, including, the introduction of death penalty for