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Despite a 90 % decline of executions since the height of the death penalty in the 1990s, the death penalty is still a hot topic that is widely debated throughout the U.S. Here are a few of the top death penalty headlines that are currently capturing the nation.ArkansasArkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced
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Between April 17 and 27, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson plans on doing what should be inconceivable: executing 8 prisoners in 10 days.After killing no prisoners in the last 12 years, the state is rushing to execute these 8 men before the controversial execution drug it needs to carry them out20
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"Farther away than ever from Turkey's accession to the EU."European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has warned Turkey that any return of the death penalty would be a "red line" in the country's stalled EU membership bid."If the death penalty is reintroduced in Turkey, that would lead to the
Sarin attack on Tokyo’s subway, March 20, 2017TOKYO — Japan on Monday marked the 22nd anniversary of a fatal nerve gas attack on Tokyo’s subway.About 20 Tokyo Metro staff at Kasumigaseki subway station on the Hibiya line held a moment of silence at 8
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Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege and his familyA father-of-three from London has now spent 1,000 days on Ethiopia’s death row, after the country’s security forces kidnapped and rendered him there in June 2014.Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege, a vocal critic of Ethiopia’s ruling party, disappeared while transiting
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan"I believe, God willing, that after the April 16 vote parliament will do the what is needed concerning your demands for capital punishment."Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that he expects parliament to move to allow capital punishment - a change18
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Vernon MadisonThe Alabama Supreme Court on Friday denied the appeal of Alabama Death Row inmate Vernon Madison, just two days after a federal court said he was incompetent and couldn't be executed anyway.Madison, 66, is one of Alabama's longest-serving death row inmates. He was convicted in the17
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Executions have been set for (top row, from left) Kenneth Williams,Jack Jones Jr., Marcell Williams, Bruce Earl Ward, and
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Zaw Lin (left) and Win Zaw HtunThe Myanmar government is sending a special legal team to file a second appeal of the verdict against two migrant workers from the country who were sentenced to death in Thailand for the 2014 murder of a British couple
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The inmate suffered two strokes that left him with memory loss and made itdifficult for him to communicate. He is “legally blind, cannot walk independentlyis incontinent and has slurred speech. Not enough to stop his execution, the 11thCircuit Court of Appeals Court had ruled.A panel of federal
Eleven Philippine legislators who voted against a bill to re-introduce capital punishment lost key posts in the country's Congress on Wednesday, in an apparent follow through of a threat by the house speaker to purge obstacles to the draft.Those removed as lower house committee heads included15
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James BigbyA former Kennedale auto mechanic who killed a father and his infant son in a 1987 Christmas Eve killing spree was put to death Tuesday.James Eugene Bigby, 61, was pronounced dead at 6:31 p.m. Bigby was the fourth inmate in Texas and the sixth nationally to be executed by
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Between April 17 and 27, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson plans on doing what should be inconceivable: executing 8 prisoners in 10 days.After killing no prisoners in the last 12 years, the state is rushing to execute these 8 men before the controversial execution drug it needs to carry them out
Judge Neil GorsuchWhen Judge Neil Gorsuch arrives on Capitol Hill on Monday morning to begin his confirmation hearings for a seat on the Supreme Court, he will give President Trump his first chance to make a lasting imprint on the federal judiciary — and Republicans a fresh test to
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Execution in Gaza City on October 2, 2013A Hamas military court on Sunday sentenced 2 Palestinians to death for drug smuggling in the Gaza Strip, in the 1st punishment of its kind in the enclave."The Gaza military court announced the death penalty for 2
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Prime Minister Dr Keith RowleyPORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday said he supports the death penalty and that his Administration is working towards having it implemented as it moves to deal with those citizens bent on committing murder “with impunity” in Leggi18
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A private member bill, ‘The Constitution (Amendment to Article 134) Bill, 2017’, to ensure natural and unrestricted right to appeal in the Supreme Court in all cases of death penalty, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Friday, by Member of Parliament, Mr. B. Vinod Kumar.“Through this Bill, Leggi17
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Ivan TeleguzA federal appeals court has refused to put a Virginia death row inmate's execution on hold so he can appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has refused to put a Virginia death row inmate's execution on hold so he can appeal to
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Chief prosecutor Aramis D. AyalaMIAMI — In a startling denunciation of capital punishment in a state with one of the nation’s largest death rows, the new chief prosecutor in Orlando, Fla., said Thursday that her office would no longer seek the death penalty.The decision by the prosecutor Leggi16
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Norhidayah Mamid, left, Mohd Imran Mohd RamlyJOHOR BARU - A man and his girlfriend were sentenced to death by the High Court here after they were found guilty for the murder of his three-year-old son four years ago.Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah meted out the sentence
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The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a broad challenge to the state's law on capital punishment, rejecting arguments that there are too many possible circumstances making defendants eligible for possible death sentences.The justices dealt with the challenge in a unanimous ruling upholding
Blasphemy is a criminal offence in Pakistan and can carry the death penalty.Islamabad: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday ordered that “blasphemous” content on social media websites be removed or blocked and those posting such material “strictly punished.”Sharif’s tough talk15
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Brothers Suthar and Rames BatumalaiMALAYSIAN authorities acted in violation of international law when they executed two brothers on death row, even before the disposal of their appeal for clemency, local human rights defenders alleged.According to Amnesty International Malaysia director Shamini20
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Kentucky mentally ill inmate by Jenn AckermanOver the course of our state’s history, people with severe mental illnesses have faced serious consequences in the criminal justice system. All too often, these individuals faced capital punishment, a sentence that frequently extends an already20
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President Rodrigo DutertePhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte has berated the European parliament for passing a resolution condemning his plans to revive the death penalty for drug convicts.“I’ll talk in English,” he said, speaking to Filipino expatriates on a two-day state visit to Myanmar. “Do
In a special prayer, Catholic bishops have urged Filipinos to "make a stand" against restoring the death penalty. The bill, pushed by President Duterte, has already passed the lower house of the Philippine parliament.The clerics read out the homily at all masses across the Philippines on19
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Mufti Abdul HannanThe appellate division of the Supreme Court on Sunday upheld the death penalty of three men of banned militant outfit Harkatul Jihad al Islami (HuJi), including its chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, in a case filed for the grenade attack on the then UK envoy in Bangladesh
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B. Rames Batumalai (left) and Suthar BatumalaiDespite a pending clemency application before the state’s Pardon Board, brothers Suthar Batumalai and B. Rames Batumalai were executed at dawn on 15 March 2017. Contrary to international standards, their family were not provided adequate notice of the17
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Back to the Middle Ages: Watching a public hanging in IranReformists in Iran are under pressure, detainees face torture and abuse, and people are being executed at an “alarming” rate, the Pakistani human rights lawyer and United Nations Special Rapporteur for
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Alabama Senator Hank SandersHank Sanders closed his eyes, pressed his hand to his forehead and tried to recall the first time he petitioned the state of Alabama to abolish the death penalty.Was it 2000? Or maybe 1998, shortly after the American Bar Association called for a moratorium on
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Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsIran Human Rights (MAR 15 2017): Four prisoners were reportedly hanged at Darya, Urmia's central prison (West Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran), on drug related charges.According to the human rights news agency, HRANA, the executions were carried out on15
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Romell Broom, shortly after the failed execution attemptCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County prosecutors are urging the Ohio Supreme Court to schedule a second execution for Romell Broom, whose 2009 death by lethal injection was botched. Romell Broom, convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering
Three Islamic militants convicted by military courts were executed in a prison in central Pakistan on Wednesday, the Pakistani army announced.The militants were associated with the Pakistani Taliban and a second extremist group named Harkat-ul-Jihad e-Islami, the army said in a statement.They14
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Richard Masterson, 43, was killed by lethal injection in Texas. His last meal.You’ll see food in many of Henry Hargreaves‘s photographs, but the man is no ordinary food photographer. He uses it to create artistic images which are at turns whimsical, poignant, and thought-provoking. Food is his