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J.W. Ledford Jr.The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied clemency for J.W. Ledford Jr., who will be executed Tuesday for the January 1992 murder of 73-year-old Dr. Harry Buchanan Johnston Jr. in Murray County.The decision by the five-member parole board "came after an exhaustive review
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Despite the shocking spectacle of assembly-line executions in Arkansas earlier this year, the use of the death penalty is in decline. Arkansas’s willingness to execute four men in eight days, including two in a single night, demonstrates the extreme lengths to which proponents of capital punishment15
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The suspected crematory at the Sednaya Prison complex outside Damascus.Washington (CNN) -- The US said Monday it believes the Syrian government has built a large crematorium near the notorious Saydnaya Military Prison in an effort to hide mass atrocities carried out there,
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Louisiana's death rowBATON ROUGE, LA (WVUE) - A bill that would eliminate the death penalty in Louisiana will hit the Louisiana State Senate floor Monday afternoon.The bill cleared a committee last month on a 6-1 vote and Monday the full senate is expected to debate the death penalty at
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Teng walked out a free man on Dec 22 , 2016. He is picturedwith his parents (right), Judy and MPI chairman Chang Jih Ren.HOW do I resume life after losing 18 years of it to prison and death row? Can I just walk back in and pick up the pieces or do
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Tilon CarterA Fort Worth man who claims he did not intentionally kill an 89-year-old man had his looming execution halted Friday afternoon.Four days before he was set to die, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday halted the execution of a man convicted in a 2004 Fort Worth home
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Louisiana's death rowLouisiana's death penalty is an incredibly expensive, entirely arbitrary, and an error-prone monument to the failures of big government. The Louisiana Legislature is considering 2 bills to replace the death penalty with life without parole, saving Louisiana - under conservative12
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If Pope Francis has been criticized for ambiguity in Amoris Laetitia, he certainly can’t be faulted for it in his latest comments on the death penalty.In his homily today, the pontiff called for a deeper understanding of Christ in the context of our times and of human progress.
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Former Navarro County prosecutor John H. Jackson, Texas.After a trial of more than two weeks, a Texas jury on Wednesday found that former state prosecutor John Jackson had not committed misconduct in the 1992 death penalty trial of Cameron Todd Willingham.By an 11-to-1 vote,
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Following Germany and Belgium, Swiss deputies also declared that a possible death penalty referendum by the Turkish government can’t be allowed to take place on Swiss soil.Switzerland’s Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter spoke with caution on the issue of the death penalty referendum.The
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan on Wednesday hanged four more Taliban terrorists convicted of "heinous" terrorism-related offences by controversial military courts, taking the number to over 160 since the Peshawar terror attack in 2014.The terrorists, who were involved in the killing of innocent civilians11
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William Charles MorvaAn execution date has been set - again - for William Charles Morva.This time, however, the death sentence that Morva received in 2008 seems likely to be enacted. In February, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Morva's final appeal.After a Tuesday conference call with16
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Catholic Church leaders in Indonesia have deplored the nation’s rejection of the abolition of the death penalty in the southeast Asian nation.Abolishing the death penalty was one of the recommendations put to Indonesia by member states at the 27th session of the U.N. Universal Period Review in15
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The number of countries criminalising consensual, private same-sex sexual activity between adults has decreased to 72, while the variety of law relevant to sexual orientation continues to expand steadily.On May 15, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA)15
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Ledell Lee and Stacey Johnson were both convicted before modern DNA methods. Both maintained their innocence but were denied new DNA tests. Johnson is alive today, but Lee is dead.It made big national news on April 24 when Arkansas carried out the United States' 1st double execution since 2000, of15
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Ali al-NimrPresident Trump is preparing to visit Riyadh, as concerns grow for three Saudi juveniles who face imminent execution for attending protests.President Trump will reportedly travel to Saudi Arabia on Friday (19th).International human rights group Reprieve has written to the President12
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In theory, executions by lethal injection using three drugs can be efficient, effective and humane. But lately, in practice, they have been anything but.Take the execution of Kenneth Williams last week in Arkansas: Media and attorney witnesses reported movements indicating that Williams did not
Florida's death chamberThe Florida Supreme Court has reversed the murder convictions of Ralph Wright Jr. Wright had been convicted of the 2007 murder of a Pinellas County woman and her son.The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that there was no direct evidence tying Wright to the murders. Wright was12
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Rev Christie Buckingham with portraits of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.When asked to take part in a new film about the journey to faith of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan – two Australian men, members of the ‘Bali Nine’, who were
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Dylann RoofAttorneys representing Charleston church killer Dylann Roof told an examiner Roof suffered from "blushing attacks," believed his forehead is "too large and ugly" and likely suffered from autism, according to a recently unsealed evaluation that was conducted to see if Roof was mentally11
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Xie Yang reading his final statement during his trial.Chinese human rights lawyer Xie Yang has been released on bail after he admitted to his crimes in what critics called a “show trial” on Monday, according to Amnesty International.Xie has worked on cases considered
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SINGAPORE - Four Malaysian members of a Malaysia-based drug syndicate have been arrested, along with two Singaporeans suspected of coordinating drug supply runs for the syndicate, after joint investigations by Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) and Malaysia's Narcotics Crime Investigation11
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Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis AyalaWhen State Attorney Aramis Ayala, a Democrat, announced in March that she would no longer seek the death penalty in capital cases, Republican Gov. Scott took away more than 20 murder cases in her jurisdiction. Now, Ayala is suing Scott to get them Leggi15
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The number of countries criminalising consensual, private same-sex sexual activity between adults has decreased to 72, while the variety of law relevant to sexual orientation continues to expand steadily.On May 15, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA)15
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Wang Ching-yuA man who beheaded a 4-year-old girl on the street in a gruesome knife attack in Taipei last year escaped the death penalty on Friday, being sentenced by a district court to life in prison.While prosecutors at the Shilin District Prosecutors Office had sought the death penalty Leggi
Iran Human Rights (MAY 13 2017): A prisoner identified as Koroush Langroudi was reportedly hanged at Bandar Abbas Central Prison on murder charges. According to close sources, the execution was carried out on Tuesday May 9 and the prisoner was 36 years old at the time of his
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The best argument against the death penalty is that the system is fallible. Lawyers are. Witnesses are. Courts are. Police are. Defendants are.But what about those cases in which there is no question of guilt? Can those cases, at least, be considered open and shut?Not always.There is a12
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Have you ever invited a friend to a protest on Facebook? Had sex outside marriage? Made a joke about a religious figure?These simple acts may not seem like crimes at all, but in some countries, they can lead to a death sentence.Here are five so-called “crimes” that you may not realise are Leggi
Tunnel between Gaza and EgyptThe accused were convicted earlier this year of smuggling tramadol, marijuana, and opium from Egypt via tunnels.A military court in the besieged Gaza Strip on Thursday sentenced 2 Palestinian men, identified by their initials only, to execution by firing squad.The 2
The Queen and the King of Bahrain at last year's Royal Windsor Horse Show.The Queen is to sit alongside the King of Bahrain at the Royal Windsor Horse Show tomorrow – despite the Kingdom’s recent lifting of a
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Recreation yard, Polunsky Unit. Click here to see recent photographsof the living conditions of confinement on Texas' Death Row.For the 2nd time this year, Tilon Carter faces execution - this time, he's set for Huntsville's gurney next Tuesday, May 16.Carter was convicted of capital murder in11
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William Barnhouse on the day he was released, March 8, 2017.(Indianapolis, IN – May 10, 2017) A judge today granted a motion by the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office to dismiss the 1992 rape charges against William Barnhouse based on new
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More than 1 000 Nigerians languish on death row.Governments in sub-Saharan Africa sentenced at least 1 083 people to death in 2016 - more than double the 443 people condemned to die in 2015, according to a recent report by international human rights organisation Amnesty International.The research
The Allan B. Polunsky Unit, Livingston, TexasFor the second time in a week, a Texas death row inmate had his sentenced tossed out. Robert Campbell, 44, has been on death row for nearly 25 years in a Houston kidnapping and murder.A Texas man on death
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