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Suthar and Rames BatumalaiPETALING JAYA: The two brothers who received a last-minute reprieve from a scheduled execution in February will now face the gallows on Wednesday [March 15], said Amnesty International Malaysia (AIM).If the executions take place, it will be the first time that it will take place
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Suthar Batumalai (left) and B. Rames BatumalaiBrothers Suthar Batumalai and B. Rames Batumalai whose execution was originally scheduled for 24 February 2017, have been informed that their execution has now been set for 17 March.On 24 February, the execution of brothers Suthar Batumalai and B14
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At first glance, the documents the retiree had spread out on a table in Tucson looked as if they could have been keepsakes from just about anyone’s career: a company magazine, a timeline, letters of commendation and congratulation.But Armin Walser had one item, elegantly printed and secure in a
Frank AmadoTransfer of Frank Amado, who faces death penalty for drug trafficking, prompts fears of new round of executionsIndonesia has transferred a convicted US citizen to its so-called execution island, prompting fears among rights organisations that the government may be preparing another13
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An Iranian and a US-Iranian dual national were sentenced to death in Iran on Sunday on charges of founding a “cult” and promoting moral corruption.The defendants, who have not been named, are believed to be a couple involved in the art industry who were arrested in July last year. They ran a
Execution in China: At 9:45 a.m. on the site for public trial, He Xiulingcried again. Among the two dozens of inmates to be executed that day,she was the only one that shed tears. She was also the youngest. Read more.BEIJING — The convictions of a prominent defense attorney and his associates11
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Hannah Witheridge and David MillerOn Friday, 3 March 2017 the Samui Times reported that a 23 year-old Russian girl, Valentina Novozhenova had vanished from Koh Tao and had not been seen or heard from since 15 February 2017.Many have wondered why it apparently took over two weeks
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Senator PacquiaoThe Philippines is inching closer to reinstating the death penalty, which it abolished in 2006 (it was also the first country in the region to ratify a United Nations protocol against capital punishment), and the process is pitting a Bible-thumping boxer against the Catholic
Cairo, EgyptCairo: An Egyptian court in the coastal city of Alexandria on Thursday sentenced an Islamist militant to death by hanging for murdering a Coptic alcohol vendor in the street earlier this year, legal sources said.The city’s Criminal Court unanimously issued the verdict against the09
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Pakistan executes 5 'terrorists' at prison in northwestPakistan's military says authorities have hanged 5 "hardcore terrorists" after they were found guilty of carrying out attacks in the country.A military statement says the executions were carried out on Wednesday at a prison in the09
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Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsIRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (MAR 7, 2017): The 9th annual report of Iran Human Rights (IHR) on the death penalty gives an assessment and analysis of death penalty trends in 2016 in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The 9th annual report of the organization
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Medieval and barbaric: A little girl watches a public hanging in IranMs. Asma Jahangir was appointed as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran by The Human Rights Council of the U.N., during
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Florida's death chamberTALLAHASSEE, Fla. - After more than a year of uncertainty, Florida is again poised to begin executions and prosecute death penalty cases after Gov. Rick Scott signed a law Monday aimed at fixing flaws in the state's capital sentencing procedure."Governor Scott's foremost14
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Welcome to Nusakambangan penal island, where executions are carried out.Lai Siu-cheung was convicted of trafficking 91kg of methamphetamineA Hong Kong drug offender facing the death penalty in Indonesia has been sent to Central Java's so-called "Execution Island".Lai Siu-cheung, who was convicted13
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Back to the Middle Ages: Watching a public execution in Iran.TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – Capital punishment will be removed for all drug-related offenses with the exception of 3 cases, vice-chairman of Parliament’s Judiciary Committee told MNA on Sunday.MP Yahya Kamalipour told MNA that the judiciary
11 March 1946 - British troops captured Rudolf Höss, SS-Obersturmbannführerand commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.Rudolf Höss (25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a Nazi German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel)
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Arizona will not be able to execute anyone on death row until at least October because of two ongoing federal court cases.Executions have been on hold in Arizona since July 2014, when the state miscalculated whether a new combination of drugs for lethal injection would kill efficiently.Death-row
Ivan TeleguzRICHMOND—A Virginia death row inmate convicted of hiring a man to kill his ex-girlfriend has asked a federal appeals court to put his April execution on hold so the U.S. Supreme Court can review his appeal.Attorneys for Ivan Teleguz filed a motion Tuesday asking the 4th U.S. Circuit10
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Florida's death chamberTALLAHASSEE — Eager to let prosecutors pursue the death penalty again, the Florida Senate acted quickly Thursday to pass a court-mandated fix to Florida's sentencing laws.The measure requires all 12 members of a jury to approve a death sentence. If just one juror dissents10
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Mike LambrixDeath Row inmate Mike Lambrix has lost his appeal for a new sentence.Lambrix was one of the subjects in the WLRN documentary Cell 1, where we looked at Florida’s death penalty and the limbo it was in for more than a year.In 1984, at his second trial,
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Gallows trap door, Tokyo Detention CenterThe Osaka High Court commuted a death sentence for a man convicted of indiscriminately murdering a man and a woman here in 2012 to a life prison term in a ruling on March 9."Considering that the crime was not carefully premeditated,
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"Housed alone for years in tiny concrete cells" - Death row cell, Polunsky Unit, TXFor many death row inmates, the long process leading to capital punishment is itself cruel—but not unusual.In 1979, Arthur Lee Giles, then 19 years old, was sentenced to death in Blount County, Alabama. Nearly 4008
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Imprisoned spiritual thinker Mohammad Ali Taheri has again been tried for the charge of "corruption on earth" despite being cleared of the same charge in 2015, his sister Azardokht Taheri told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).If convicted, the founder of the banned Erfan-e Halgheh14
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Nusakambangan Island, Indonesia“They betrayed my trust,” Santa said when The Jakarta Post visited the 43-year-old father-of-one at the Salemba detention center in Central Jakarta, recently. He repeated the phrase several times throughout the conversation, expressing strong disappointment in his13
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Feeding street children in ManilaIntroducing the death penalty and lowering the age of criminal responsibility could be a toxic combination in the Philippines.By age 12, Ryan had already sold crack cocaine, begged, and stolen from shops. He had been to prison five times, and was brutally tortured13
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TUCSON — When a chemist named Armin Walser helped invent a sedative more powerful than Valium more than 40 years ago, he thought his team’s concoction was meant to make people’s lives easier, not their deaths.Yet decades after the drug, known as midazolam, entered the market, a product more often
An international human rights group is accusing President Rodrigo Duterte of being criminally liable for the thousands of killings linked to the government's war on drugs.The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday released a 124-page report, titled "License to Kill," which gave an11
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Buddhist citizen gets whipped in Jantho, Aceh province on March 10, 2017.Jantho, Indonesia - Indonesia's only province to impose sharia law caned Buddhists for the first time Friday, after two men accused of cockfighting opted for
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Ray TibbettsThe execution of a 59-year-old man who killed his wife and the elderly man she cared for now may go forward after Ohio's parole board recommended Friday that Gov. John Kasich deny clemency.Ray Tibbetts, 59, is scheduled to be executed on July 26.The constitutionality of the state's10
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At least 7 other states are considering not allowing people with certain illness to be executed.People who can prove they were affected by severe mental illness when they committed a capital crime would be exempt from the death penalty under a new Texas law introduced Tuesday.Mental health09
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James BigbyJames Bigby, 61, is scheduled to be the 4th Texan executed this year when he goes to the Huntsville gurney on Tuesday, March 14.The Fort Worth native has spent the last 25 years on death row after a 2-day killing spree that left 4 people dead.The murders began on
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In the space of 10 days in April, Arkansas plans to execute eight men — nearly a quarter of its entire death-row population, and more than a third as many people as were put to death in America in 2016. It would be the fastest spate of executions in any
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"[P]rolonged isolation, Breyer wrote, “produces numerous deleterious harms."In a dissent, the Supreme Court justice makes a stirring case to eradicate capital punishment.On Tuesday night, Rolando Ruiz was executed in Texas after spending more than two decades on death row. The legal team
California's death rowCalifornia will no longer keep death row inmates in solitary confinement for years only because of their purported gang affiliations, according to a lawsuit settlement announced Monday.6 San Quentin State Prison inmates sued in 2015, saying they were being held indefinitely