When Ohio announced in 2009 that it planned to abandon the three-drug lethal injection protocol that virtually all jurisdictions had employed for the past three decades, many assumed that most other states would soon follow suit. After all, Ohio’s new protocol, which involved an overdose of a single barbiturate, was touted as
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After a series of challenges to the U.S. Supreme Court failed, Ledell Lee was put to death by lethal injection Thursday night in the 1st execution in Arkansas since 2005.Lee, who was sentenced to death in 1995 for the killing 2 years earlier of Debra Reese in Jacksonville, was the first to Leggi
A proposal that would let Nebraska officials hide the identities of lethal injection suppliers drew criticism Wednesday from death penalty opponents but support from lawmakers who say the state needs it to resume executions.It was unclear whether the bill had enough support to overcome a20
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President Tayyip ErdoganISTANBUL - Immediately after winning Sunday's referendum, President Tayyip Erdogan promised to reinstate the death penalty, a reform put in place 15 years ago that was seen as fundamental to Turkey's efforts to join the European Union.The move would be sure to delight his
Medieval and barbaric punishments: a death-row inmate is floggedin public prior to his execution in Karaj, Iran, August 2014.Two juvenile offenders facing executionThree inmates were executed on Tuesday, April 18 in the
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The following is a joint-press release by We Believe in Second Chances and the Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign.We Believe in Second Chances and the Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign (SADPC) note with dismay that the execution of Jeffrey bin Jamil has been abruptly scheduled for this19
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Arkansas had big plans to execute seven men in 10 days beginning Monday night, when Don Davis and Bruce Ward were scheduled to be taken from their death row cells in the state's Varner Unit and driven roughly 3 miles to the Cummins Unit, or "death house," near the small town of
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The Alabama Senate on Tuesday voted to offer condemned inmates the option to die by nitrogen suffocation, a method of execution untested on humans but which supporters argue might provide a more humane method of death than other methods.The bill, sponsored by Sen. Trip Pittman, R-Montrose, passed18
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's remarks over reinstating capital punishment following the approval of constitutional amendments in the April 16 referendum has triggered a fresh debate, collecting warnings from European allies.Erdogan said during his arrival to Ankara from Istanbul on April 1718
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Ivan TeleguzRICHMOND, Va. (WVIR) - Governor Terry McAuliffe will soon announce whether he will grant clemency to a Virginia inmate on death row.Ivan Teleguz is set to die next week. A jury convicted Teleguz of a murder-for-hire plot to kill his ex-girlfriend, Stephanie Sipe, in Harrisonburg in17
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After Amnesty International released its report last week that 1032 prisoners were executed last year - with China as the world's top executioner - how many Australians are on death row in foreign countries?At least 5 Australians have been under threat of death by firing squad in China, all for
A hotel manager was sent to the gallows by the Magistrate's Court here today after he found guilty of trafficking 82.38 gm of heroin last year.Judicial Commissioner Muhammad Jamil Hussin passed the death sentence to Muhammad Firdaus Abdullah, 29, after the defence failed to raise a reasonableIvan TeleguzVirginia Governor Terry McAuliffe called a 3:30 p.m. press conference to make a public statement “regarding his review of Ivan Teleguz’s petitions for a pardon and for commutation of his death sentence.”Teleguz was scheduled to be executed on April 25.“As a result of the thorough
Little Rock, Arkansas, April 14, 2017The Arkansas Supreme Court has halted 1 of 2 executions set for Thursday, saying the condemned inmate should have a chance to prove his innocence with more DNA testing.Stacey Johnson claims that advanced DNA techniques could show that he didn't kill
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WASHINGTON — Expect another long day of legal wrangling Thursday over Arkansas' plan to execute inmates in the coming week.Ledell Lee and Stacey Johnson were to be put to death Thursday night, but Johnson's execution was at least temporarily halted and Arkansas' ability to use one of its execution20
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Iran Human Rights (APR 19 2017): Seven prisoners were reportedly executed at Rajai Shahr Prison on murder charges on the morning of Wednesday April 19.These prisoners were among eleven who were transferred to solitary confinement on Sunday April 16 in preparation for their executions.The four19
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The push for multiple executions in Arkansas has shed a harsh light on the death penalty in America, especially in the South, where capital punishment is legal in every state including Kentucky.Here in the Commonwealth, it's been 8/1/2 years since the last execution and abolitionists say it's time
A study found 43 % of people executed between 2000 and 2015 had been diagnosed with a mental illness at some point.Upset that people with schizophrenia and other mental disorders have been put to death after murder convictions, lawmakers in a handful of states want to bar the use of the deathLittle Rock, Arkansas, April 14, 2017LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Barely a dozen hours had passed since a pair of execution warrants had expired.The two men the State of Arkansas had wanted to put to death on Monday night remained alive. And near the State Capitol
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The Iranian authorities must urgently stop the imminent execution of two long-time death row prisoners who were children at the time of their arrest, Amnesty International said today.One of the men, Mehdi Bahlouli, is due to be executed tomorrow morning in Karaj's Raja'i Shahr Prison, after more
Five death penalty bills were heard in a seven-hour-long meeting at the Capitol Monday night.The death penalty was a hot topic at the Texas Capitol Monday night.Testimony on five capital punishment bills was heard by the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee in a seven-hour-long meeting that
Pfizer Inc. said drugs that can be used to execute inmates by lethal injection were sold to the Arkansas Department of Corrections without its knowledge by the distributor McKesson Corp., in violation of the drugmaker’s policy.The statement followed a report in the New Yorker that the state of16
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Pulaski County circuit judge Wendell Griffen taking part in an anti-deathpenalty demonstration outside the state governor’s mansion, Arkansas.Republican lawmakers questioned Judge Wendell Griffen’s impartiality after he lay bound on a cot following his ruling to halt executionsThe judge who on20
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Study shows four states that adhere to capital punishment are hoarding stashes of medicines that could otherwise treat patients in life-or-death proceduresDeath penalty states, including Arkansas which will carry out a double execution on Thursday should the courts give the go-ahead as part of an20
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Arkansas’ attempt to put eight men to death in 11 days has ensnared the state in a host of legal battles.The state set an unprecedentedly fast execution schedule because one of the drugs in its lethal injections — a sedative called midazolam — is set to expire at the end of April. But the plan
Rodricus Crawford in Nov. 2016, shortly after his release from death row.Caddo Parish Prosecutors Drop Charges After Medical Evidence Suggests No Crime OccurredAt the request of local prosecutors, a Caddo Parish, Louisiana trial court has dismissed all charges against Rodricus
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America’s largest drug wholesaler has once again succeeded in blocking the use of dishonestly-obtained medicines in Arkansas’s planned “mass execution”.This afternoon a judge in the Pulaski County Circuit Court granted a temporary restraining order blocking the use of medicines in lethal injection19
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Ohio is responsible for many firsts in regards to the death penalty: it was the 1st state to suggest using the drug midazolam for execution and the 1st to attempt using a single lethal injection drug protocol.New to that list is the first state to have a ruling upheld in circuit courts
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The Supreme Court said Monday that Arkansas won't be able to execute two of its death-row inmates. And a growing number of conservatives, who see the death penalty as an anachronistic, religiously hypocritical and big-government waste of money, are just fine with that.In fact, the extreme nature18
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America’s largest drug wholesaler has re-filed suit against the state of Arkansas to stop the use of dishonestly-obtained medicines in four lethal injection executions between April 20th and 27th.Lawyers for healthcare giant McKesson had previously filed this suit — a US legal first — on Friday
Arkansas officials vowed to carry out a double execution later this week after the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a setback to the state's plan to resume capital punishment for the 1st time in nearly 12 years with a ruling sparing an inmate just minutes before his death warrant was set to
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VARNER, Ark. — After a pair of court defeats, the state of Arkansas was forced late Monday to abandon its plan to carry out its first execution in more than a decade. The canceled execution of a condemned prisoner here was a significant setback for the state, which had sought to put
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Little Rock, Arkansas, April 14, 2017State officials challenged one order Saturday and vowed to fight the other.The rally was attended by actor Johnny Depp and by Damien Echols, who spent almost 18 years on Arkansas' death row. Arkansas has said this scheduled is needed because one
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President Recep Tayyip ErdoganISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey on Sunday claimed victory by a narrow margin in a referendum that grants sweeping powers to his office, in a watershed moment that the country’s opposition fears may cement his one-man rule.With just under 99 percent