Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and MukeshIndia's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of four men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi.Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh were given the death penalty by a
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In early April 1976, Potter Stewart, Lewis Powell, and John Paul Stevens met for lunch at the Monocle, a venerable Washington steakhouse, and decided the future of the American death penalty. The three U.S. Supreme Court justices were in a bind. Each harbored substantial misgivings about capital04
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Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty for Patrick Schroeder, the inmate facing murder charges in the strangling death of his cellmate last month.After a brief hearing Wednesday, Schroeder was whisked away and headed back to the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution north of town.In04
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Executions for drug crimes, rising religious intolerance, and the repression of activists and journalists in Papua were some major criticisms lodged against Indonesia's human rights record at the nation's Universal Periodic Review in Geneva on Wednesday.The delegations from around 100 countries04
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MINSK, 3 May (BelTA) - Death penalty issues were discussed in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus on 3 May.Attending the meeting were MPs and foreign experts, BelTA has learned. Andrei Naumovich, Chairman of the Human Rights, National Relations, and Mass Media04
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Ali Maleki (Photo: Iran Human Rights)Iran Human Rights (MAY 4 2017): On Wednesday May 3, eight prisoners, including two unidentified women, were reportedly hanged at Karaj's Rajai Shahr Prison. According to close sources, the majority of these prisoners were executed on murder charges. Five other
Ledell LeeLedell Lee’s first hard-knock moment came even before he was born. His mom, 16 and on her third pregnancy by a man years older than she was, drank and smoked through his pregnancy. Because of her substance abuse, Ledell was born with a fetal alcohol syndrome disorder, a
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Iran Human Rights (MAY 3 2017): On Sunday April 30, a prisoner was reportedly executed at Hamadan Central Prison on murder charges, and another prisoner was returned to his cell after his execution was temporarily halted. Close sources have identified the prisoner who was executed as Imran
The chair that convicts are strapped to before they are executed in Utah.As Arkansas rushes to execute several death row inmates due to execution drugs expiring soon, an even more macabre immorality is developing in Utah: 3 death row
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Arkansas' Governor Asa HutchinsonAfter an aggressive plan to execute several inmates by the end of April put him and Arkansas at the center of the national death penalty debate, Gov. Asa Hutchinson was poised to return to a more familiar role as policy wonk with a special session
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Supporters of Asia Bibi protest against the blasphemy laws.The Supreme Court of Pakistan has turned down the request for an early hearing of the case of a Catholic mother sentenced to death for blasphemy, that her supporters and rights activists hold hard-line Islamic lobbyists responsible Leggi01
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Alabama's death rowAn Alabama senator wants to expand the recently enacted law that halted the practice of allowing judges to impose death on convicted capital murder defendants despite a jury's recommendation of life without the possibility of parole.State Sen. Hank Sanders, D-Selma, introduced a
Texas death row, Polunsky Unit, Livingston,I was three weeks into life on death row when a killing came calling. Over the course of my twelve years there, I’d eventually see the state kill more than three hundred and fifty men. The first was Warren Bridge, known then
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Oklahoma's death chamberMost Oklahomans believe the devil is real.State Rep. Mike Ritze thinks that's why they overwhelmingly support capital punishment, despite highly publicized problems with lethal-injection drugs that prompted state officials to put a temporary moratorium on executions in04
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The mother of a British primary school teacher murdered in Qatar 4 years ago has spoken of her relief after the killer had his death sentence upheld.Badr Hashim Khamis Abdullah Al-Jabar was found guilty by a court in Doha in 2014 of killing Lauren Patterson, 24, in the Gulf state
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Egyptian authorities execute man convicted of raping and murdering 5-year-old girl in Minya governorateEgyptian prison authorities executed Wednesday a 22-year-old man convicted of raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl in Upper Egypt's Minya governorate in March 2014.Investigations in the case04
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Anthony Ray HintonAlabama recently took a small but important step forward in reforming its criminal justice system when the legislature voted to eliminate judicial override in capital cases last month, but all of that progress could come to a screeching halt if the “Fair Justice Act” is allowed to03
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Cameron Todd WillinghamTHE COURTHOUSE IN Corsicana, Texas, roughly 60 miles southeast of Dallas, has been meticulously restored to its original 1905 glory, a time when the county was awash in oil money. Its main courtroom has soaring, two-story pink walls and gold-flecked architectural details that
Febyanti Herewila Chan (right), widow of Bali Nine member Andrew ChanThe widow of convicted drug trafficker Andrew Chan has spoken out about his death, two years after he was executed by a firing squad for his crimes.
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If Colorado's courts won't allow Nathan Dunlap's legal team to lobby Gov. John Hickenlooper for the life of their client, we'll do it for them.Hickenlooper - as we've said before - should commute Dunlap's death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.As Hickenlooper noted02
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Executing adolescents in Iran, not a rare occurrenceAt least 90 people on death row in Iran are under the age of 18, says a group of UN experts who are calling for authorities in the Middle Eastern nation to immediately put an end to
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Hong says will execute criminals on death rowSouth Korean presidential candidate Hong Joon-pyo of the conservative Liberty Korea Party said he would revive capital punishment if elected, saying criminals are "going on the rampage.""Because we no longer carry out death penalty, high-profile murder01
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When a three-drug lethal-injection cocktail was administered to Ledell Lee at 11:44 p.m. Central time last Thursday — the first drug to render him unconscious, the second to halt his breathing, and the third to stop his heart — Alan Blinder and Manny Fernandez, two New York Times journalists, were05
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Raymond Riles, on Texas death row since February 1976For some Texas death row inmates, being condemned can feel like a life sentence.Roughly 13 percent (30 of 238) of the inmates awaiting execution in the Lone Star State have been on death row for 25 years or more.That length of
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Arkansas' recent spate of executions of prisoners on death row, conducted with the use of nearly expired and improperly obtained drugs, was marred by reports that the drugs used were ineffective and caused the inmates to suffer. But uncertainty about what happened to inmates in the death chamber
Pahang Pardons Board plans to adopt Islamic law of “diyat” or blood money.Human rights body says 'diyat' inconsistent with international human rights laws and is discriminatory as it puts the poor at a disadvantage.ETALING JAYA: Amnesty International Malaysia says
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Al-Shabaab militantsMogadishu — SOMALIA is under criticism following the execution of some children suspected to be members of the Al-Shabaab terror group.Five boys, aged between 14 and 17, have been [executed] in the northeastern Puntland region for their alleged role in the killing of three04
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a review petition of a 55-year-old man and sent him to gallows for raping and stoning to death a four-year-old girl in 2008.A bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said “no case is made out” and dismissed the review petition.The bench, which also comprised03
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Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsA 27-year-old has been sentenced to amputationSaturday morning of April 29, henchmen in Gohardasht prison in Karaj attacked some of the wards of this prison and transferred 10 young prisoners to solitary confinement for execution.The brutal attack, which was02
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Richard Glossip and Sister Helen PrejeanThe Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission after more than a year of work has recommended that a moratorium on carrying out capital punishment in the state be continued indefinitely. "It is undeniable that innocent people have been sentenced to death in02
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Governor John Kasich has pushed back the execution dates so a federal appeals court has time to rule on a controversial sedative's constitutionality. Critics argue midazolam leads to cruel and unusual punishment.In a setback for death penalty supporters, Ohio Governor and former US presidential
A final decision on whether former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav will face the gallows or not is expected to be taken by Pakistan in about 6 to 7 months, sources have said.But the intensifying civilian-military tussle in that country over the Dawn news leaks issue may well have
Once complete, researchers will be able to log in and search thousands of executions by name, state, method and much more.(TNS) -- During his life, M. Watt Espy searched libraries and courthouses across the country gradually building what is widely considered the most comprehensive record of01
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Alabama's death rowAppointed Feb. 13 by ousted “Love Gov” and misdemeanant Robert Bentley, Alabama’s Attorney General Steven Marshall is new on the job.This could, in theory, be one reason Marshall is taking to Twitter, Facebook and Alabama’s news media to drum up support for the so-called “Fair