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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 killing his mother. The essay, previously unpublished, is featured in a new
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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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Thai prison: "Inmates live in inhumane and degrading conditions."Thailand's long-standing policy of harsh sentences for drug offenders including petty drug users and small time dealers has overcrowded its prisons, forcing female and male prisoners to live in inhumane and degrading conditions
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Hosni Mubarak waves to supporters in 2015 from a military hospital in Cairo.Mubarak faced numerous charges, some of which carried the death penalty as a potential sentence.CAIRO — Six years after baying crowds ousted him at the peak of the Arab Spring, former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was
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A Bahrain court sentenced three people to death and 14 others to lengthy prison terms on charges they established a terrorist cell with the intent of killing policemen.In addition to the three people sentenced to death Thursday, Bahrain's criminal court sentenced four others to life in prison in
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AS DONALD TRUMP stood in the East Room of the White House on January 31, congratulating himself for delivering “the very best judge in the country” for the U.S. Supreme Court, a man in Missouri was lying on a gurney, with lethal injection drugs entering his veins. The man, 37-year-old Mark
Mufti Abdul HannanConvicted of killing in terrorist attack, the chief of Bangladeshi chapter of Harkat ul Islam, Abdul Hannan, will seek presidential clemency after the apex court dismissed his plea to review death sentence, prison authorities said on Wednesday.Hannan, also known as Mufti Hannan
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Gallows trap door, Tokyo Detention Center, JapanKOBE — A court sentenced a 42-year-old man to death Wednesday for killing five people on Awaji Island in western Japan in 2015.The defendant Tatsuhiko Hirano’s mental condition was “normal” when he carried out the killings, Presiding Judge Hidenori
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Ninety-seven of the 122 people charged pleaded not guilty to wilful murderSYDNEY: A “berserk” crowd used bows and arrows, knives and axes to hack to death seven people including two small children accused of sorcery, a trial in Papua New Guinea has heard.Ninety-seven of the 122 people charged
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
The newly completed $860,000 death chamber at Ely State Prison, NevadaCARSON CITY — The death penalty may be ending in Nevada.Assembly Bill 237 in the Legislature would ban capital punishment and commute the sentences of inmates on death row to life in prison without the possibility of
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S. PrabagaranKUALA LUMPUR: The applications for leave for a judicial review by two Malaysians who are on death row in Singapore for drug trafficking have been dismissed by the High Court here.S. Prabagaran, 30, and factory worker K. Datchinamurthy, 32, and their mothers filed the leave
Lagos, NigeriaA Lagos State High Court in Igbosere on Thursday ordered the hanging of Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike who were charged with the murder of a post-graduate student of Nasarawa State University, Ms. Cynthia Osokogu.The judge said the convicts should be hung by the neck until they
Government agrees to give courts discretion in imposing death penalty for narcotics offences.The Malaysian government has agreed to do away with the mandatory death sentence imposed for drug offences.Azalina Othman Said, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, told Parliament that the
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'The Walls' Unit, Huntsville, TexasThe shrinking list of lawyers qualified to handle the growing list of capital murder defendants in Bexar County does not bode well for the criminal justice system.With 68 capital murder cases pending and only 11 lawyers living in the county who meet the minimum
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Iran is A Leading State in Women’s OppressionAll dictators are known to oppress their opponents, lie to society about their policies, and resort to any crime necessary to remain in power. Hitler believed a lie should be preposterous to make it believable.As the world marks International Women’s
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California's death row, San Quentin prisonA new Florida State Attorney, Aramis Ayala, made a bold move when she recently announced that capital punishment is "not in the best interest of the community or the best interest of justice," and vowed not to seek the death penalty in future cases.In
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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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Paul StoreyWhat his jurors did not know after all the evidence was presented at his trial may have doomed death row inmate Paul Storey, according to a clemency petition filed Wednesday with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.Storey, convicted in 2008 for the brutal execution-style murder of
Death Chamber From Witness Area, Cummins Unit, Grady, ArkansasThe state of Arkansas, which plans to execute eight inmates over a period of 10 days next month, is struggling to overcome a logistical problem to carry that out: There are not enough people who want to watch them die.A state law
Medieval and barbaric: public beheading in Saudi Arabia (file photo)RIYADH: Saudi Arabia executed two convicted drug traffickers on Thursday, bringing the number of prisoners killed in the kingdom to 20 so far this year.The state-run SPA news agency named the two men as Saudi Arabian national
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Blasphemy is a criminal offense in Pakistan and can carry the death penalty.ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Friday handed over three accused to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on a seven-day remand for allegedly posting blasphemous contents on social media
Mississippi's death chamberMississippi's lethal-injection litigation nightmares are coming mainly from the MacArthur Justice Center in New Orleans where attorney James Craig, who represents several Mississippi inmates on death row, works. In September 2015, three inmates on death row, including
Several states are considering a ban on capital punishment for people with mental illnesses or brain injuries.There is a difference between mental illness - which encompasses a wide range of diagnoses, including serious ones like schizophrenia and paranoia - and insanity, a condition that is much
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State Senator Ernie ChambersLINCOLN — She spent what would have been her mother’s 52nd birthday asking Nebraska lawmakers not to stand in the way of executing her mother’s killers.Christine Tuttle urged members of the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to reject a bill that would pull
A shortage of required citizen witnesses to watch 8 lethal injections over a 10-day period next month prompted the state prison director Tuesday to call on Rotary Club members to volunteer.Citizen witnesses are there to verify that the individual executions are carried out according to law. A