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Executions have been set for (top row, from left) Kenneth Williams,
Jack Jones Jr., Marcell Williams, Bruce Earl Ward, and (bottom row, from
left) Don Davis, Stacey Johnson, Jason McGehee and Ledelle Lee.
Since the Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty in 1976, Arkansas has executed just 27 people. It has not sent an inmate to the death chamber since 2005. But
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Imtiaz Shams (right) has set about combatting the intimidating atmospherefor nonbelieving Muslims on campuses by holding several Faith toFaithless meetings in universities around the UK.The penalty sharia law stipulates for apostasy is capital punishment.Sulaiman Vali is a softly spoken
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo and French President François HollandeDuring a meeting on Wednesday President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and French President Francois Hollande apparently failed to discuss Indonesia’s controversial policy on the death penalty that France has repeatedly
Execution in Gaza City on October 2, 2013In the 1st ruling of its kind since the creation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 1994, a military court in Gaza City sentenced 2 Palestinians convicted of selling drugs to death on March 18. The court condemned others convicted of the same charges to
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The July 2015 bombing of a police patrol in the Shiite quarter of Sitra killed two officers and wounded six othersDubai: A Bahraini court sentenced two people to death on Wednesday over a deadly bomb attack on a police patrol in 2015, a judicial source said.Five others were sentenced to life in
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State Attorney Aramis AyalaFlorida's governor has the right to remove a state attorney from a case after the prosecutor said she would not seek the death penalty, a judge said Tuesday as he denied a request to delay the proceedings.State Attorney Aramis Ayala said earlier this month that she
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Nevada's newly completed $840,000 death chamberNevada lawmakers want to abolish the death penalty because of concerns over costs, sparking opposition from prosecutors and some victims' families. Nevada is among 32 states that allow death as a sentencing option. But no inmate has been executed
Arkansas' death chamberThe Arkansas government is preparing to execute eight death-row prisoners in a ten-day span, before one of its lethal-injection drugs expires. It plans to execute two people per day over four days: April 17, 20, 24 and 27. The decision is dangerous for many reasons. As has
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In 2002, the playwright Arthur Miller wrote the brief essay below to help the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern's law school in its campaign to abolish the death penalty in Illinois. In it, Miller described the case of Peter Reilly, a teenager who was convicted in 1974 of brutally
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Gallows trap door, Tokyo Detention CenterTOKYO — Gen Sekine, a former pet breeder on death row for killing four people in Saitama Prefecture in 1993, died Monday while in detention, a person familiar with his condition said.The 75-year-old inmate—who was convicted of conspiring with his former
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Marcel WilliamsMarcel Williams has spent the last 2 decades on death row, and his execution is set to take place next month. But his lawyers argue he never received a fair trial in the first place.Marcel Williams is scheduled to die on April 24th, 2017. Williams was convicted in 1997 for the rape
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Abu Dhabi Court of AppealsAbu Dhabi: Ten young Indians in Al Ain jail can hope to escape a death sentence as the family of a Pakistani man, who was allegedly murdered by them, has agreed to pardon the convicts.The father of Mohammad Farhan [the victim] appeared in the Al Ain appeals court on
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Florida's death chamberORLANDO,Fla. - The Florida Supreme Court ordered for two Central Florida convicted murders Thursday to receive new sentencing after throwing out their original death sentences.Brandon Lee Bradley was convicted of the 2012 killing Brevard County Deputy Barbara Pill. When
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Mississippi is considering the use of firing squads as an option for capital punishment as House Bill 638 makes its way to Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, the Hattiesburg American reports.The bill, "To Revise The Methods By Which The Death Penalty May Be Carried Out; And For Related Purposes," also
Executions have been set for (top row, from left) Kenneth Williams,Jack Jones Jr., Marcell Williams, Bruce Earl Ward, and (bottom row, fromleft) Don Davis, Stacey Johnson, Jason McGehee and Ledelle Lee.Eight inmates due to be put to death over 10 days next month in Arkansas are making last-ditch
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Police officers on Nusakambangan island, where executions are carried out.JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia's President Joko Widodo said he would restore a moratorium on the death penalty if he won the backing of the people, after a spate of executions that drew international condemnation.Joko declared
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Serge AtlaouiL’ultime grand voyage international du président de la République, en Indonésie, devrait voir s’inviter le sort du Français Serge Atlaoui, condamné à la peine de mort pour trafic de drogue et emprisonné dans les geôles indonésiennes depuis 2005.François Hollande terminera ce mercredi
A bipartisan group of lawmakers announced Monday that they are pushing ahead with a legislative effort to bring back the death penalty in the First State after the Delaware Supreme Court last year struck down the state's capital sentencing statute as unconstitutional.Dubbed the Extreme Crimes
Members of the Islamic State stoning a young gay man in Mosul, Iraq.Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The Islamic State group has sentenced a youth to death by stoning in the city of Mosul, on charges of homosexuality.The terrorist group published photos on affiliated websites showing a number of IS Diwan
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a Texas man on death row who argued he was mentally disabled and could not be executed.In a 5-3 ruling, the court said the state's definition and standards for assessing intellectual disability "create an unacceptable risk that persons with intellectual
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Arkansas' death chamber(Reuters) - Eight Arkansas death row inmates who are scheduled to die over a 10-day period in April filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday to halt their executions, saying the state's rush to the death chamber was reckless and unconstitutional.Governor Asa Hutchinson
Zane Jack FieldsBOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho Maximum Security Institution inmate who has spent more than 25 years on death row was found dead in his prison cell on Monday morning, of apparent natural causes.Zane Jack Fields, 58, was found unresponsive in his cell about 7 a.m., the Idaho
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Christian Ranucci a été guillotiné le 28 juillet 1976 dans l'enceintede la prison des Baumettes, à Marseille. Geneviève Donadini a fait partie du jury populaire dans le procès de Christian Ranucci*, accusé du meurtre de la petite Marie-Dolorès Rambla, 8 ans. Le jeune homme de 22 ans a été
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Nie ShubinThe mother of a 20-year-old man who was wrongly executed for rape and murder more than two decades ago will receive about 2.7 million yuan (US$391,000 or HK$3.04 million) in compensation, including a record 1.3 million yuan for emotional damages, local media reported.The amount is far
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Our president is the same man who once paid $85,000 for full-page ads in the top four New York Daily newspapers to loudly express his wish: "Bring Back the Death Penalty!"He is perhaps the loudest proponent of capital punishment to ever take office. Yet, ironically, in the year he got elected
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Inmates on Louisiana's death are confined in inhumane isolation for 23 hours a day in windowless cells "the size of an average home bathroom," according to a lawsuit challenging the practice.Attorneys for three death row prisoners at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola filed a class action
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As of January 2017, there were 63 inmates on death row in Tennessee. Executions have been on hold pending a challenge by inmates to the single-dose drug protocol.The Tennessee Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the state's lethal injection protocols, potentially allowing executions to resume in
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2017
There are about 2,900 of death row prisoners in America. Between 20 and 50 of them are killed in any given year, at least over the past decade.
In a little more than 2 weeks, the state of Arkansas intends to put 8 prisoners to death in the span of 10 days.
It is an unprecedented
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Police mug shot of Walter Ogrod taken April 6, 1992This wasn’t the story that Tom Lowenstein had bargained for. The year was 2003 and the crusading writer had travelled to a prison in the remote southwestern corner of Pennsylvania to interview a death-row inmate named Walter Ogrod for what he
Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis AyalaFlorida's death penalty has been hit by controversy for decades, marred in the past by botched executions and more recently by court rulings condemning the way defendants were sentenced to death.The latest controversy over Orange-Osceola State Attorney
Florida's death chamberThe Foreign Secretary has refused to support the last appeal of a 78-year-old Briton, who has spent 3 decades in a US prison for a crime he did not commit.British businessman Kris Maharaj was arrested in Florida in 1986 and sentenced to death for murder, despite compelling
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Iranian courts have sentenced three individuals, including a woman, to death for the expression of their opinion.Iran Human Rights (MAR 27 2017): Three prisoners by the names of Sina Dehghan, Mohammad Nouri and Marjan Davari have reportedly been sentenced to death by Iranian courts based solely
Paul StoreyAs Paul Storey's execution looms, one juror is asking the Texas Legislature to clarify the jury instructions in death penalty cases, claiming he didn't know he alone could have stopped the sentence.When Sven Berger looked around at the other jurors in the deliberation room during a
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Every sign suggests that he would be at least as conservative a judicial activist as Samuel Alito.A ruggedly handsome Coloradan—this President cares a great deal about appearances—Gorsuch has an appealing manner and an impressive résumé. He did well in good schools, held prestigious clerkships