With Arkansas' supply of lethal injection drugs expiring soon, the future of capital punishment in the state is unclear.The state had planned to execute 8 death row inmates in a span of 11 days in April before its supply of sedatives used in the process expired. The clock was ticking.In the midst
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At least 130 executions were carried out in 11 Asian countries in 2016. The vast majority of them were executed in Pakistan. However there is no data available about executions in China, still believed to be by far the world's top executioner.Overall the number of executions has decreased in the
Alabama Gov. Kay IveyAlabama Gov. Kay Ivey has been in office less than three weeks and she will soon face a life and death decision.As governor, Ivey has the power to commute the death sentence of an inmate to life or grant a reprieve to delay an execution.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Saudi ArabiaGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has been urged to use a visit to Saudi Arabia today to press for the release of three juveniles who face beheading for allegedly attending protests.Mrs Merkel is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia today for talks focused28
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Kenneth WilliamsState puts 4th inmate to death in 8 daysWitnesses describe execution; inmate was 'striving for breath,' AP editor says3 minutes after his lethal injection began, Arkansas inmate Kenneth Williams began coughing, convulsing and lurching with sound that was audible even with a26
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More than 30 men were arrested after a private party in the Bahadoran region of Isfahan, Iran was raided by the police, Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees reported Thursday.Their charges are sodomy, drinking alcohol and using psychedelic drugs and they face the death penalty if found guilty.The23
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VARNER, Ark. — They often enter in silence. They almost always leave that way, too.The death penalty holds a crucial, conflicted place in a nation deeply divided over crime and punishment, and whether the state should ever take a life. But for such a long, very public legal process, only a small23
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Ledell LeeArkansas executed Ledell Lee on Thursday night, after it fought and won a complex and sometimes confusing legal battle. The state executed him in spite of Lee's insistence that he was not guilty of murdering Debra Rees, a crime committed more than 20 years ago. It did so
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Artur SegarraArtur Segarra found guilty of murdering and dismembering David Bernat in bid to access his savingsA Spanish national was on Friday given the death sentence after being found guilty by a Thai court of murdering fellow countryman David Bernat in Bangkok.The victim had traveled to the22
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Lynn Scott, the sister of Arkansas death row inmate Jack Jones, Jr.Jack Jones' sister says she wants to be there for her brother in his final hour.LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (News release) - Lynn Scott, the sister of Arkansas death row
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Changi Prison, SingaporeMohd Jeefrey bin Ismail was hanged in the early hours of Friday morning, 21 April, at least according to the scheduled execution date given to his family by the Singapore Prison Service.He was executed after the Public Prosecutor decided that Jeefrey had not “substantively21
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Ten young Indian workers in Al Ain jail, convicted of murdering a Pakistani worker, are expected to learn whether they will be pardoned as early as next month.The Al Ain Appeals Court on Wednesday completed the hearing in the case and adjourned the matter to May 25 to pronounce the verdict, head
Arkansas will have a more difficult time obtaining additional lethal injection drugs after an unprecedented court challenge by a drug distributor and possible complications during at least one of the four executions the state carried out this month, experts said.The state launched an ambitious01
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USP Terre Haute, IndianaDylann Roof latest inmate, but feds haven't executed anyone since 2004Dylann Roof - the newest and youngest inmate housed on federal death row - now waits with 51 others sentenced to die by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute.Roof - the 23-year-old30
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With the state’s supply of the sedative midazolam due to expire, the proposed schedule came to resemble a lethal clearance sale.By the opaque reasoning of capital punishment, the state of Arkansas grew some unknowable fraction safer last Monday evening, when Jack Jones, a fifty-two-year-old26
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Kenneth WilliamsOZARK, Mo. (KSPR) - The family of a man from the Ozarks who was killed by an escaped murderer almost two decades ago said they do not want his killer to be executed."I believe justice has already been served. He hasn't been able to kill anyone else. Executing him
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Jack Harold JonesJack Harold Jones was put to death by the state of Arkansas Monday night by way of lethal injection.Authorities began administering the execution drugs at 7:06 p.m. and Jones was pronounced dead at 7:20 p.m., according to the Arkansas Department of Correction.Asked if he had any23
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'We are prepared to kill, and have done so more than most people thought.'Beware Vietnam's Death MachineOne Thursday in July 2013, Barack Obama and his Vietnamese counterpart, Truong Tan Sang, sat down in the Oval Office to discuss Thomas Jefferson. Sang brought to this historic meeting between
The FDA banned shipments of execution drugs states have been trying to get for months. BuzzFeed News obtained the letter that shows why.On Thursday, the federal government formally blocked 2 shipments of a massive amount of execution drugs on their way to Texas and Arizona.The decision to block22
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Dylann RoofConvicted church shooter Dylann Roof has been transferred to death row at Terre Haute Federal Prison in Indiana — the facility that houses male inmates awaiting execution under the federal government.Roof, the first person to be convicted of a federal hate crime and sentenced to the22
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Seema Mohan Gavit (red sari) and Renuka ShindeSERIAL killer sisters Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde are making a last desperate bid to avoid execution for abducting and murdering multiple children aged under five years old.The sisters, who with their mother abducted or brutally murdered
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Sister Helen PrejeanPrejean’s work opposing capital punishment was captured in her book and film Dead Man Walking, and now she’s speaking out against a spate of planned killingsSister Helen Prejean, the Louisiana nun who through the movie of her book, Dead Man Walking, became the face of the21
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Death Row Unit, Holman Prison in Atmore, AlabamaTied for seventh among states with the most exonerated defendants according to a February 2016 report by the National Registry of Exonerations, Alabama’s unsatisfied; it’d like to be much, much higher on this ignominious list.That’s why
Leggi TuttoIs unorthodox the same as cruel and unusual punishment?It's the central question of the current U.S. death penalty debate, highlighted by the latest execution involving a disputed sedative that appeared to involve discomfort to the inmate.States struggling to find lethal drugs believe they've got30
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Kenneth WilliamsThe execution of Kenneth Williams in the US state of Arkansas on Thursday (27 April) has stirred a controversy after his lawyers called for an inquiry alleging that the lethal injection procedure was "horrifying".The development came after witnesses of the procedure said that the29
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Michael CzugajThe youngest member of the infamous Bali Nine drug ring has spoken out about his agony on the second anniversary of the deaths of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.Michael Czugaj was only 19 when he was arrested and thrown into a Balinese prison cell after he was
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Military courts have sentenced 161 militants to death penalty since 2014 following Peshawar school attackAnother 4 militants, convicted by military courts for their involvement in terrorism, have been executed at a jail in northwestern Pakistan, an army spokesman said on Tuesday."Another 423
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Justice Neil Gorsuch and Donald TrumpIt’s not entirely fair to judge a Supreme Court justice based on his first vote. Urgent matters arise unexpectedly, and the court must sometimes act quickly.Still, it’s worth paying special attention to Justice Neil Gorsuch’s vote late Thursday night to deny a23
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William "Tommy" ZeiglerWilliam "Tommy" Zeigler, the 71-year-old man who has spent the last 4 decades on death row for the murders of 4 people, will not be allowed to test evidence in his case with touch DNA technology, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Friday.Zeigler was convicted of killing his23
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Supreme Court (left) Justice Neil M. Gorsuch and President Donald TrumpSupreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch cast his 1st consequential vote Thursday night, siding with the court's other 4 conservatives in denying a stay request from Arkansas death row inmates facing
Leggi TuttoThe conflict in Arkansas is the latest to politicize the death penalty — but for families of the victims and the prisoners, it also resurfaces the complicated issues of closure and the long-reaching effect of these executions on their communities.Arkansas justified its unusually swift schedule by22
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Changi Prison, SingaporeMohd Jeefrey bin Ismail was hanged in the early hours of Friday morning, 21 April, at least according to the scheduled execution date given to his family by the Singapore Prison Service.He was executed after the Public Prosecutor decided that Jeefrey had not “substantivelyTexas sued in January for the drug's release, saying in its lawsuit that it was importing the sodium thiopental for legal executions.A US regulatory agency told Texas and Arizona that more than a thousand vials of drugs they ordered for executions in their states from India in 2015, and seized by21
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"Drug kingpins and members of organized crime syndicates — younever hear about them getting arrested," - UNDOC's Jeremy DouglasJakarta. Indonesia's anti-drug policies should focus on combating organized crime and implementing new treatment and prevention programs to curb rising narcotics use in