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Pennsylvania's death chamberFive times a year, Pennsylvania corrections officials meet inside a white block masonry field house on the grounds of the prison near Penn State, and carry out a mock execution.They escort the "inmate" to the execution chamber. They strap that person onto the gurney. And then they
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Georgia's death chamberGeorgia inmate J.W. Ledford Jr. used his final moments to quote from the movie "Cool Hand Luke" and toss out an insult."What we have here is a failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So that's why we have here what we have here today.
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Saudi's Supreme Court in Riyadh confirmed death penalty for 14 activists from Qatif over taking part in protests in 2011.Human rights sources reported that the suspects were not able even to appoint a lawyer, noting that all their confessions were under torture and abuse.To be implemented, the
Florida's death chamberTALLAHASSEE — Florida can start executing condemned killers again, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has let stand the state’s changes to its death-penalty law, experts say.But so far, Gov. Rick Scott hasn’t signed a warrant for any of the 366 prisoners on Death Row.“Other
Mary Jane VelosoThe camp of Filipino death row inmate Mary Jane Veloso would elevate to the Supreme Court (SC) its plea to allow the deposition of testimony against her alleged recruiters from her jail cell in Indonesia.According to National Union of Peoples' Lawyers (NUPL) president Edre Olalia
Jakarta. Despite the mounting pressure locally and internationally for Indonesia to review Article 156a of the Criminal Code on blasphemy, the Justice and Prosperity Party, or PKS, said that the law should not be repealed."Constitutionally and by law, the blasphemy law [embodied in Article 156a of
Saudi Arabia has upheld a protest-related death sentence for a protester who was tortured so badly that he was rendered completely deaf in one ear. The judgment marks the first such move for several months, and comes days after President Trump visited the Kingdom.Munir Adam (23), who has impaired
Nine executions on May 23The mullahs’ regime in Iran has immediately relaunched its domestic crackdown machine after the election farce, especially through executions and torture in prisons across the country.Ten inmates in the prisons of Tabriz, Zahedan, Ardebil, Kermanshah and Isfahan, and25
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Tommy Arthur7 times in 16 years Tommy Arthur has had his execution delayed. As he prepares for what could be his final appointment with the death chamber, he tells Ed Pilkington about a grisly - and traumatic - cycleTommy Arthur is caught in a ghoulish production of Groundhog Day. 7
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6 prisoners were executed in 2 different Iranian prisons early (...) morning, May 24According to the Kurdish Human Rights Network 5 prisoners were hanged in the prison of Tabriz.Three of the prisoners were identified as "Kazem Hajaji", "Seyed Ali Mousavi" and "Jaber Fakhri". All the 5 prisoners24
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'A grotesque display of medieval torture.'On Tuesday, a gay couple in Aceh was punished with 85 strokes of the cane — despite protests from human rights advocates — for violating the province’s Islamic bylaw that bans homosexuality. (See YouTube video below.)In North Jakarta on Monday, police24
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EU, Norway condemn 3 death sentences against killers of senior Hamas terrorist Mazen Faqha.The European Union (EU) Heads of Mission and the Head of Mission of Norway in Jerusalem and Ramallah on Monday condemned the 3 death sentences that were issued in Gaza against the suspected assassin and 228
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An unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by "Islamists", local officials revealed, the first such incident since jihadist groups were driven out of the region.Jihadists seized key northern cities in March 2012, and though they were driven out by a French-led militaryIran Human Rights (MAY 26 2017): At least one prisoner was hanged at Kermanshah's Adel Abad Prison on Tuesday May 23 on murder charges. According to close sources, the prisoner's name is Mehran Ashrafi and he was in prison since his arrest in 2012.
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Ronald GrayAn Army soldier convicted almost 30 years ago of serial murder and rape has moved one step closer to the death chamber.Private Ronald Gray lost his latest appeal last week, the Fayetteville Observer reported. Gray had asked the Army Court of Criminal Appeals to vacate his death27
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Gov. Kay Ivey Friday signed a bill that would shorten the death penalty appeals process in Alabama. Ivey signed the legislation early Friday afternoon, according to her office. Both supporters and opponents of the bill agreed that it would cut the time in the death penalty appeals process. But26
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Caning of two gay men in Aceh: A "cruel and sickening punishment."Trent Zimmerman says Australia cannot ignore the ‘cruel and sickening’ punishment, and Derryn Hinch wants foreign aid suspendedA Liberal MP says the “cruel and sickening” caning of two
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The execution was filmed and broadcast live from a nearby building.The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas executed 3 people in the Gaza Strip on Thursday over the assassination of 1 of its military leaders allegedly on behalf of Israel.2 men were hanged
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Iran has demonstrated its utter disregard for children’s rights by executing a man arrested for a crime committed while he was 16 years old in a brazen violation of international human rights law, said Amnesty International. The man, who has been identified in state media only by the name “Asqar”25
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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- After a field military court in the Gaza Strip rapidly issued death sentences to the suspected assassin and two suspected accomplices for the murder of Hamas leader Mazen Fuqahaa in March, the attorney general of the Hamas-run government in the besieged coastal enclave
Pakistan today hanged 2 hard core Taliban terrorists convicted by the military courts of their involvement in the 2014 Peshawar school massacre which left over 150 people dead, mostly students.Pakistan Army said Atta Ullah and Taj Muhammad were active members of the proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban24
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People over 15-years-old in the Kingdom are tried as adults and can be executedThe United Nations has called on Saudi Arabia to repeal laws that allow stoning, amputation, flogging and execution of children.Children over 15 years are tried as adults and can be executed, "after trials falling24
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 24 — Amnesty International Malaysia criticised prison authorities for executing two men earlier today at the Sungai Buloh prison in a secretive manner.The NGO also demanded the government to establish a moratorium on carrying out death penalties.In a statement, Amnesty said that28
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Joseph AmrineJoe Amrine selected the music for his funeral service.He wasn't sick, nor was he elderly. He was on Missouri's death row awaiting lethal injection.In November 2001, Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon asked the Missouri Supreme Court to set an execution date for Amrine and 9 other
Matthew Norman was initially given life, upped to the death sentence onappeal, and then reinstated to life in jail after a full confession.AS Schapelle Corby’s Bali nightmare for drug smuggling comes to a close, what does the future hold for the remaining seven of the infamous Bali Nine?As oneTommy ArthurAlabama's quest to kill an inmate who spent decades on death row for murder became a high-stakes game of beat the clock after the U.S. Supreme Court finally cleared the way for his execution.Faced with a deluge of last-minute defense appeals and a legal deadline of midnight to execute
Top Chinese cop Zhao Liping executed for murderA former regional police chief in China was executed for murder, state media said Friday, after reports described his victim as a lover more than three decades his junior.Zhao Liping, 65, was found guilty of murder, bribery and possession
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Tommy Arthur(CNN) Alabama executed death row inmate Tommy Arthur early Friday after a lengthy court battle that included multiple lethal injection delays.Arthur, 75, was convicted in the 1982 murder-for-hire of romantic rival Troy Wicker.The inmate, who was nicknamed the "Houdini" of death row
The Malaysian Bar is deeply troubled that 2 persons - Yong Kar Mun, aged 48, and an individual whose identity has not been reported - were executed by hanging at Sungai Buloh Prison yesterday morning. The prison authorities there had written to the family of Yong Kar Mun on May 19,
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Taiwan's top court ruled government must recognise same-sex unions within 2 years.Same-sex marriage, which Taiwan's top court ruled in favour of Wednesday, is currently legal in around 20 countries around the world, 13 of which are in pioneering Europe.Such unions
Leggi TuttoTommy ArthurTommy Arthur, who was first sentenced to death in 1983, has long imagined what could be his end: time in a so-called death cell, a choice of a last meal, the final telephone calls and then a lethal injection.That end could come Thursday, his eighth execution date in a
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Highly immoral and inhumane to continue with executionsIn the wee hours of this morning, May 24, 2017, two men had been executed at Sungai Buloh Prison - a Chinese Malaysian and Yong Kar Mun, 48 who was sentenced to death in 2009 for armed robbery.The double execution this morning comes as
'An act of treason': Suspected coup plotters are paraded ahead of trial.Trial of 221 main suspects of July 15 coup bid begins amid heavy security and calls for death penalty.More than 220 suspects, including over two dozen former Turkish generals, have gone on
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A white supremacist sentenced to death for killing nine worshippers in a racist attack at a Charleston church has petitioned an appeals court for mercy.Attorneys for Dylann Roof filed notice Tuesday they were appealing his conviction and sentence to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court