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Southern Azerbaijan: AHRAZ Publishes Report on Death Penalty in Azerbaijani Turkish-populated Cities in Iran (2015-2016)The Association for the human rights of the Azerbaijani people in Iran (AHRAZ) published a report on the use of the death penalty in Azerbaijani Turkish-populated cities in Iran between October 2015 and October
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Arkansas' death chamberGhoulishness envelops Arkansas’ decision to pump deadly drugs into eight men over the next fortnight. Although two of the eight scheduled executions have definitively been stayed and a temporary restraining order has been issued as to the remaining six, the state plans an15
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Kanae KijimaThe Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence given to a 42-year-old woman for killing 3 men she met through an online dating service in the Tokyo area in 2009.Although Kanae Kijima had pleaded not guilty to the murders, the top court ruled she killed all 3 --
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Arkansas' death chamberAmerica’s largest drug wholesaler is suing the state of Arkansas to stop the use of dishonestly-obtained medicines in eight lethal injection executions between April 17th and 27th.It is the first time in US legal history that a private company has brought direct legal action14
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Duane BuckThe 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted Texas death-row inmate Duane Buck the right to pursue his claims of ineffective counsel and relief under a rule that covers mistakes and neglect - a move that could spare him from execution.In February, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that race14
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Public hanging, Arak, Iran, April 13, 2017Iran Human Rights (APR 13 2017): A prisoner who was sentenced to death on six counts of murder charges was hanged in public in the city of Arak (Markazi province).According to a report by the Iranian state-run media, ISNA,
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Ivan TeleguzPressure is building on Governor Terry McAuliffe to grant clemency in the case of a former Harrisonburg man who could be executed later this month. New evidence suggests prosecutors and police used questionable tactics to convict him, and witnesses who pointed a finger at him are now13
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President Recep Tayyip ErdoganPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he believes the government should submit a draft on reinstating the death penalty in the event that the constitutional amendments are approved in the upcoming referendum on April 16."After April 16, with God's permission, the13
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Seven executions by lethal injection, scheduled by the US State of Arkansas for the period between 17 April and 27 April, would break the de-facto moratorium on the death penalty observed by this US State since November 2005. Arkansas would also become the first State in the US to conduct seven
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Arkansas' death chamberABA President Linda Klein has asked the governor of Arkansas to delay an unprecedentedly accelerated series of executions scheduled for this month.The state has not executed a single person in 12 years, but it plans to execute seven men over an 11-day period beginning April
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Police authorities confirmed that 2 militants were hanged in Sahiwal jail today, reported Waqt News. According to reports both militants were involved in several terrorist activities. Both had been convicted by military courts and had been kept in Sahiwal jail for a long time.Their dead bodies
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Iwao Hakamada and his sister, shortly after his release from death rowJapan's justice system is under increasing scrutiny following a historic declaration from the country's largest legal association to bring to light the country's high conviction rate and continuing use of executions.The
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ATLANTA — A federal judge on Saturday blocked the State of Arkansas from carrying out six executions over 10 days, a new blow to an unprecedented schedule in capital punishment’s modern history in the United States.Arkansas planned to begin a series of executions on Monday night, less than two
Death-penalty opponents on the front steps of Arkansas' Capitol to protestthe state's plan to execute seven inmates before the end of April.LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ push to resume
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‘Thank you for taking your time to hear my voice, because our voices are rarely heard.’Given unusual access to California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, one of the most notorious super-maximum security prisons in the United States, the filmmaker Cali Bondad and the reporter Gabrielle Canon
A German pharmaceutical manufacturer whose drugs ended up in Nebraska's lethal injection supply never intended for state officials to obtain them and tried unsuccessfully to get the corrections department to return them, a company spokesman said Thursday.Nebraska's corrections department was only14
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Two major pharmaceutical companies are making a last-minute legal intervention to stop the state of Arkansas from executing eight prisoners between 17th and 27th April.The companies, Fresenius Kabi and West-Ward, are throwing their weight behind a suit challenging the state’s lethal injection13
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Arkansas' death chamberCrush of journalists from elsewhere expected at prison3 Arkansas journalists will be allowed to witness each execution at the Cummins Unit this month, and prison system officials are preparing for a media contingent from around the globe.The state Department of Correction13
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Mufti Abdul HannanBangladesh on Wednesday executed banned Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and his 2 associates for a 2004 attack on a shrine that killed 3 people and wounded the British High Commissioner at the time.Hannan was hanged at Kashimpur Jail in Gazipur along with hisRodney ReedHOUSTON (AP) — The top criminal appeals court in Texas on Wednesday refused to allow additional DNA testing of evidence in an inmate's lengthy death penalty case.Rodney Reed's attorneys sought the testing on more than 40 items collected in the investigation into the 1996 abduction
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Malaysia is ranked 10th among 23 countries that apply the death sentence worldwide, according to the 2016 Death Sentences and Executions Report by Amnesty International Malaysia (AIM).AIM executive director K. Shamini Darshni said Malaysia recorded 9 executions as of last year with 1,122
More than 1,000 death sentences were handed down in Africa in 2016. That's according to the latest report by Amnesty International. Botswana was singled out for resuming executions.DW: Could you briefly tell us the components of your report with a focus on the African countries?First of all, it's
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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey today signed into law a bill that says juries, not judges, have the final say on whether to impose the death penalty in capital murder cases.Ivey signed the bill, which had been passed by the Alabama House of Representatives on April 4.Rep. Chris England, one of the
Mississippi's death chamberMississippi does not have to publicly disclose details of how it carries out executions, the state's highest court ruled Thursday.In a 7-2 decision, the Mississippi Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit by the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center that argued the15
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Death-penalty opponents on the front steps of Arkansas' Capitol to protestthe state's plan to execute seven inmates before the end of April.LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Latest on
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LITTLE ROCK (TALK BUSINESS AND POLITICS) -- Two drug companies have thrown a new wrinkle in Arkansas’ planned executions of seven death row inmates with a late Thursday (April 13) filing indicating that state officials may have obtained two of the three lethal injection drugs from “an unauthorized
Richard GlossipDirector Joe Berlinger believes personal liberty is a fundamental American value.When the government and prosecutors have the power to take that liberty away, he says it should be done fairly and justly. In his opinion, this power was abused in the case of Richard Glossip, who has13
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Teresa Clark has watched three strangers die. She held her husband's hand the first time, but after that the experience began to feel normal.The couple, who run a chimney sweeping business in Waynesboro, Virginia, volunteer to watch executions. Teresa's husband, Larry, 63, went to the first one13
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A surgeon told a federal court in Arkansas on Wednesday that a sedative the state plans to use in its lethal injection mix is not suitable for surgery and should be prohibited when Arkansas holds an unprecedented series of executions later this month.Arkansas plans to kill 8 prisoners in dual13
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Prisoner with Mental Illness Executed on Murder ChargesA prisoner who reportedly suffered from a mental illness was hanged at Tabriz Central Prison on murder charges.According to the human rights news agency HRANA, the execution was carried out on the morning of Wednesday April 12. The prisoner
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Tommy ArthurAttorneys for Alabama Death Row inmate Tommy Arthur can't have access to phones during his execution to call a judge in case they see something go wrong, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.Arthur is set to be executed May 25 at Holman Correctional Facility for the 1982 murder-for-hire
Peshawar Central PrisonExhausted from a full day's work, 25-year-old student Sohail Yafat knew he had one last stop to make before heading home: a visit to a colleague's ailing father at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology hospital, in his native Lahore, Pakistan's second city.Yafat never expected
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Attorney General Muhammad PrasetyoAttorney General Muhammad Prasetyo indicated that Indonesia would continue to execute convicts when he confirmed that the government would not implement a moratorium on the death penalty despite mounting calls from human rights groups.He hinted that there would
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Florida Governor Rick ScottState Attorney Aramis Ayala says the governor is violating her constitutional rights.An elected prosecutor in Florida who has declined to seek the death penalty in a pair of high-profile murder cases is now suing the Florida governor for removing her from those cases