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Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo
Attorney 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 soon be a fourth round of executions.
"We never said we
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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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Gov. John Bel Edwards said he's interested in hearing the debate about abolishing the death penalty in Louisiana, but won't commit one way or the other on the issue."I acknowledge that it costs a lot in terms of the criminal justice system to have the death penalty," Edwards said during interview
Arkansas' death chamberThis article was published in collaboration with Vice.Arkansas, which has not put anyone to death since 2005, is about to embark on a grimly accelerated task. The state plans to execute seven men — a full fifth of its death row — over 11 days beginning later this month. The
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India awarded as many as 136 death sentences in 2016 as compared to 75 death sentences in 2015.India registered an increase of 81 % in death sentences imposed in 2016 compared to 2015, a study released by Amnesty International has said.As per the global report on death sentences and executions
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Malaysia was placed 10th among the world's top executioners after carrying out 9 death sentences last year, human rights watchdog Amnesty International Malaysia (AI-M) said in its report.AI-M Executive Director Shamini Darshni Kaliemuthu said the number of executions in Malaysia has also
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Jakarta: More than 60 people were sentenced to death in Indonesia last year but proposed changes to the country's penal code could save the lives of future prisoners if they can demonstrate good behaviour.In a sign Indonesia is slowly edging away from capital punishment, the House of
Chinese death-row inmates are marched to a nearby execution ground wherethey will be put to death with a shot in the back of the head.BEIJING — When Jia Jinglong, a villager in northern China, was executed late last year for killing an official he blamed for the demolition of his home, the news
Robert SemanRobert Seman has thrown himself off the fourth floor of the Mahoning County Courthouse and is dead.Seman had a status hearing in his death penalty case and threw himself off the balcony onto the floor of the rotunda.A Vindicator reporter witnessed the jump.“He must have made Leggi
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Arkansas' death chamberDeath-row prisoners set to die within 11 days of each other in April unless attorneys can convince judge that rushed injections will lead to undue sufferingLawyers representing seven death row prisoners in Arkansas who are all scheduled to die within 11 days of each other
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Senate Majority Leader Vicente "Tito" Sotto III said he was almost certain that the majority of senators would vote for the proposed death penalty if it would be implemented through lethal injection and imposed only on high-level drug traffickers."High level drug trafficking and lethal injection
Neil M. Gorsuch joins the Supreme Court just in time to cast potentially significant votes in cases that pit religious liberty against gay rights, test limits on funding for church schools and challenge California’s restrictions on carrying a concealed gun in public.Such issues arise either in
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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
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The United States was among the world's 10 largest executioners in 2016, coming in at No. 7, according to a new report.The U.S. dropped out of the top 5 global executioners for the 1st time in a decade. The country executed 20 people in 2016, the lowest number since 1991.In its annual death
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Damien EcholsDamien Echols has nightmares about being back in Arkansas. As a member of the West Memphis 3, Echols spent nearly 2 decades on death row in Arkansas - accused of the 1993 murder of 3 8-year-old boys - but was later released due to new DNA evidence.But he is set to return on Friday
Japan executed 3 people last year and imposed 3 new death sentences in what Amnesty International has also described as a secretive system.A global report on death sentences and executions for 2016 cited the executions last March of Yasutoshi Kamata, 75, and Junko Yoshida, 56, and the November
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Secrecy around executions continues to plague some Southeast Asian countries, with newly released figures showing the "disturbing" use of the death penalty in Vietnam, Amnesty International says.At least 1032 people were executed worldwide in 2016, while at least 3117 were sentenced to death
UK allies are bucking a trend towards the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, according to new figures.A new Amnesty report has found that there are fewer executions worldwide, and fewer countries using the death penalty. However, the annual study found that far more people than in previous
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A doctor who specializes in anesthesiology expressed concerns in federal court Monday over the three-drug mixture with which Arkansas plans to execute seven men next week.The testimony kicked off a three-day hearing scheduled by U.S. District Court Judge Kristine G. Baker after she was asked to
Arkansas' death chamberArkansas is preparing to execute 7 death row inmates in 11 days because it wants to carry out the sentences before its supply of an execution drug expires May 1.Judge Kristine Baker, who was appointed to U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas by President
A military court in Pakistan has sentenced to death a former Indian navy officer arrested last year on charges of spying.Kulbhushan Jadhav was arrested in the restive Balochistan province and accused of "espionage and sabotage activities against Pakistan".Shortly after his arrest, Islamabad
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Medieval and barbaric: Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaThree Pakistani nationals were executed in Saudi Arabia on Sunday after being convicted of smuggling heroin into the ultra-conservative kingdom.Saudi Arabia on Sunday executed three Pakistani nationals convicted of smuggling heroin, bringing
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Medieval: Public caning in Indonesia's Aceh provinceIndonesia’s Aceh province was allowed to implement Sharia law in 2014. Public canings like the one in the photo on the left of a man accused of adultery have been staged ever since. Now two men accused of gay sex could become the first to face a
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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
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Duterte meets King Salman Bin Abdulazziz, April 12 2017MANILA, Philippines — Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella has clarified that during the bilateral meeting between President Rodrigo Duterte and King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud of Saudi Arabia, the issue on Filipinos on death rows was
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By sentencing Indian national Kulbushan Jadhav to death, Pakistan's military court system has once again showed how it "rides roughshod over international standards", Amnesty International said on Monday, questioning the secretive court's ability to dispense justice."The death sentence given to
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Public hanging in IranIn a heinous crime on April 5, 2017, a seriously ill prisoner was hanged in Esfahan prison. Houshang Servati was executed while 2 days earlier, after his transfer to solitary confinement, he had suffered a heart attack. He had 5 children.The regime's henchmen keep
Dylann RoofCHARLESTON, S.C. -- Convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof was given nine consecutive life sentences in state prison after he pleaded guilty to state murder charges Monday, leaving him to await execution in a federal prison and sparing his victims and their families the burden
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At least 1,032 people were executed in 23 countries in 2016. In 2015 Amnesty International recorded 1,634 executions in 25 countries worldwide - a historical spike unmatched since 1989.Most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan – in that order.China remained the
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"You can’t detain and harass someone who doesn’t exist in the republic." Dozensof gay men are held in a former military headquarters in Argun, Chechnya.Reports from inside Chechnya reveal that more than 100 gay men detained in a recent “purge” are being held in a former military headquarters in
Rodrigo Duterte10 Filipinos are now in death row in various jails here after they had been convicted of various major offenses, according to figures released by the Philippine Embassy.The 7 men and the 3 women on death row, who were convicted of crimes punishable with death penalty here, are
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Saddam Hussein's execution on December 30, 2006The execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was accelerated due to the belief that the then Libyan leader, Muammar El-Gaddafi, had a plan to rescue him from prison, Judge Mounir Haddad revealed today.Hadad, who presided over the trial of
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Execution of Hani Abu Aliyan in Gaza City on October 2, 2013Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned Hamas, after the terrorist group executed three men in Gaza who were accused of "collaborating" with Israel.In a statement quoted by AFP, the organization urged Hamas to stop the "barbaric"
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Rioting inmates on the roof of Colombo's Welikoda prisonThere could be some reprieve for prisoners on death row as well as for those serving life sentences, if the Govt. accepts the recommendations of a special Task Force (TF) appointed by the Cabinet to look into congestion in prisons.The report