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!["[P]rolonged isolation, Breyer wrote, “produces numerous deleterious harms."](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7-vRcqa1eiA/VyIdi75dtsI/AAAAAAAANGM/mKwXqr3h2sUcaG3auaAoCq5TrqZE3XoiACPcB/s400/Solitary%2BConfinement.jpg "\"[P]rolonged isolation, Breyer wrote, “produces numerous deleterious harms.\"")
"[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 representing
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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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In a statement, the Psychological Association of the Philippines (PAP) said: "Capital punishment does not deliver on its hopes for better justice, closure for all parties concerned, and better crime prevention. It does not give full cognizance of the implications of its irreversible effect, the
Bauchi State in NigeriaKidnapping in Bauchi State is now punishable by death or life imprisonment as Gov. Mohammed Abdullahi signed into law a bill in that direction.The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Ibrahim Umar, made this known on Tuesday while briefing newsmen in08
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Rolando RuizThe U.S. Supreme Court denied the appeals from attorneys trying to keep a paid hit man from execution in Texas for gunning down a San Antonio woman in a life insurance scheme nearly a quarter-century ago.Rolando Ruiz was convicted of accepting $2,000 to fatally shoot Theresa07
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Proposed extradition treaty with China still leaves some unnervedChinese state media call it the "fox hunt," the operation to catch and return Chinese citizens suspected of corruption who flee the country.The "fox hunt" is perhaps the most wide-ranging part of China's attempt to bring home06
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Aric Shayne WoodardA York murderer's execution, originally scheduled for Saturday, has been stayed, according to online court records.Aric Shayne Woodard, 43, formerly of West Jackson Street, was sentenced to death after being found guilty in 2013 of first-degree murder for fatally beating06
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The Tennessee prison system doesn't have the drug needed to carry out a lethal injection, and ongoing issues with accessibility of the drugs call in to question the likelihood Tennessee could obtain those drugs when the next execution is scheduled.But if executions resume in Tennessee - the last05
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The House of RepresentativesMembers of the House of Representatives should reflect before voting on the reimplementation of the death penalty, Amnesty International Philippines said Thursday, adding a 'yes' vote would bring shame to the Philippines."Amnesty International maintains that instead of05
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Rolando Ruiz, Jr.Texas Prepares for Execution of Rolando Ruiz on March 7, 2017Rolando Ruiz, Jr., is scheduled to be executed at 6 pm CST, on Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at the Walls Unit of the Huntsville State Penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas.44-year-old Rolando is convicted of murdering
Kiryl KazachokKiryl Kazachok has decided not to appeal the death sentence he was given on 28 December 2016 and is now at risk of imminent execution.Kiryl Kazachok’s appeal hearing at the Supreme Court of Belarus was scheduled for 21 March.However, he has refused to use his right to appeal the03
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OSAKA — The Osaka High Court has upheld a lower court decision that acquitted a man who had previously been sentenced to death for murdering his daughter-in-law and her son before setting fire to their apartment in Osaka in 2002.Takemitsu Mori, a 59-year-old prison guard on administrative leave08
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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 Halgheh
Abu Dhabi courtAdditional legal assistance has been assured to the Filipina household service worker (HSW), who was sentenced to death by execution in the UAE.Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III met with Jennifer Dalquez last week during his 3-day UAE trip08
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Kenya court in session (file photo)A 22-year-old mechanic was on Monday sentenced to death by a Kibera court for robbing a woman at her house in Kaberia, Riruta.Sospeter Simiyu was found guilty of the offence committed on November 14, 2014, and will therefore be hanged.Together with
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President Rodrigo DuterteMANILA - Philippine lower house lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the re-imposition of capital punishment for serious drug offences on Tuesday, clearing another hurdle in President Rodrigo Duterte's drive to use death as a deterrent against crime.Voting 216 to 54 with one
Patrick LeonardAn Ohio man condemned to die for the slaying of his former girlfriend has killed himself on death row, the state prisons agency said Monday.Inmate Patrick Leonard died Sunday night of an apparent suicide on death row in Chillicothe, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and
Welcome to BaliIndonesia has been in the process of amending its Criminal Code (KUHP) over the past 53 years. To this day, the House of Representatives is still vigorously debating its various provisions.The current Criminal Code is a vestige of Dutch colonialism. It has been in force since 1918
When Juan Melendez was on Florida’s death row for a murder conviction, his mother built an altar with a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe surrounded by roses. She said five rosaries a day, asking for a miracle to exonerate him and bring him home safely. She also wrote Melendez
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Executions have been set for (top row, from left) Kenneth Williams,Jack Jones Jr., Marcell Williams, Bruce Earl Ward, and
Leggi TuttoExecutions have been set for (top row, from left) Kenneth Williams,Jack Jones Jr., Marcell Williams, Bruce Earl Ward, and
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The bodies of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran arrive home in Australia.The family of executed Bali nine drug smuggler Andrew Chan says the Turnbull government is putting more Australians at risk of the firing squad by turning its back on
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DES MOINES — A slow-moving crush of Senate committees working Thursday to beat an eligibility deadline claimed a GOP measure that sought to reinstate capital punishment in Iowa on a limited basis.Competition for meeting space and schedules waylaid by time-consuming private caucuses by legislators
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 indefinitely08
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The sharp spike in death sentences handed out by the lower judiciary in India is deeply distressing. According to a study, ‘Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics 2016,’ which was carried out by the Delhi-based National Law University’s Centre on the Death Penalty, 136 people were sentenced to
Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishments18 Executions Including 2 Women and 1 in Public and Mass ArrestsThe Iranian regime hanged 18 prisoners over the past 3 days in various cities.On March 6, 2 young prisoners in the prison of Sari, 2 other prisoners, including a 70-year-old man in
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JAKARTA, NETRALNEWS.COM – Indonesia’s National Narcotics Agency (BNN), in collaboration with the Directorate General of Customs, has managed to thwart drug trafficking carried out by a China-based international network that transported the drugs from Penang, Malaysia, to Aceh and Medan.BNN’s06
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US President Ronald Reagan and Antonin Scalia (right) on July 7, 1986The family of the late Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, has announced that it will donate his papers to the Harvard Law
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Iran Human Rights (MAR 6 2017): At least seven prisoners were executed in Iran on Saturday March 4.Four prisoners, including two women, hanged at Rasht's central prison, Lakan, Gilan province, northern IranAccording to close sources, on the morning of Saturday March 4, four prisoners, including
Screenshot from "Apprentice" by Junfeng Boo (2016)"The trick is to place the knot just behind the left ear and above the jaw."Those instructions on how to carry out a "humane" hanging are given early in the Singaporean film "Apprentice" by Rahim (Wan Hanafi Su), the chief executioner at a05
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Most people in the United States believe that the death penalty is a sentence imposed by 12 members of a jury. Some may be surprised to learn that in one state, and only one state, a jury's decision to impose a life sentence can be overridden by a trial judge, who then
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Country restored capital punishment by hanging in 2014 after eight year moratoriumJordan executed 15 people on Saturday, including 10 convicted on terrorism charges, government spokesman Mohammad al Momani said.Momani said those executed included one man who was convicted of an attack last year03
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"Laws used to settle personal scores or grudges"ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court freed an Islamic preacher who was sentenced to death four years ago on charges of blasphemy, a defense lawyer said Tuesday.Chaudhry Mehmood Akhtar said that a judge in the city of Rawalpindi
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Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong (left) and Indonesian Siti Aisyah2 face gallows over murderVietnamese Doan Thi Huong and Indonesian Siti Aisyah are facing the gallows for the alleged murder of a North Korean on Feb 13.The women were charged under Section 302 of
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