Mississippi lawmakers have shot down the firing squad as a means of execution for death row inmates.The change, by a state Senate committee, came after the lower chamber passed a proposal Feb. 8 that would have allowed death by nitrogen gas chamber, firing squad and electrocution as alternatives to the current method
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Suthar and Rames BatumalaiThe execution of 2 brothers convicted for murder is now set to proceed as planned at the Kajang Prison.The 2 - 44-year-old Rames and 39-year-old Suthar Batumalai - were originally due to be executed on Friday morning, but had received a stay at the 11th
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Senator Leila de LimaManila, Philippines (CNN) -- One of the fiercest critics of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, Senator Leila de Lima, was arrested Friday morning.She is accused of having abetted the illegal drug trade in the New Bilibid Prison when she was justice secretary from 2010 to24
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Seven Republicans in the Iowa Senate are backing bills that propose the reinstatement of Iowa's death penalty, with most pointing to the 2005 death of a 10-year-old girl from Cedar Rapids who was kidnapped and murdered as a reason.Iowa abolished the death penalty in 1965. State law currently
Justice Sonia SotomayorThe Supreme Court said Tuesday that it would not hear the case of an Alabama inmate whose execution the justices delayed in November. This decision was accompanied by a critical dissent written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who questioned whether lethal injection — the primary23
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The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines on Wednesday said the last battleground to stop the reimposition of the death penalty would be the Supreme Court should Congress approve its reimposition.CBCP Commission on Prison Pastoral Care Executive Secretary Rodolfo Diamante said anti-death
DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Lawyers here expressed their objection to the re-imposition of the death penalty in the country, saying that it would endanger and a disadvantage to the poor because of the “corrupt” criminal justice system in the Philippines.Speaking in a forum titled “Thou Shall Not Kill22
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The nation's highest court on Tuesday refused to hear the appeal of a Virginia death row inmate who killed a hospital security guard and sheriff's deputy during an escape that sparked a massive manhunt that shut down Virginia Tech's campus in 2006.William Morva argued that he should have beenThe Supreme Court blocked the execution of a Texas murderer Wednesday because of racially discriminatory testimony presented by his own defense team.The 6-2 ruling was the second in the court's new term to overturn a death sentence, and it could be a harbinger of things to come. The justices heard
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal appeals Court plans to consider arguments over the constitutionality of Ohio's lethal injection process as the state tries to start carrying out executions once again.At issue is whether a contested sedative, midazolam, is powerful enough to put inmates into a deep state
Thomas ArthurThe U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to take up a challenge to Alabama's method of lethal injection, which employs a drug used by at least four other states to carry out the death penalty.Thomas Arthur, who faces execution for killing a man in a murder-for-hire-scheme, contended
The trial of over 40 officers and soldiers accused of attempting to assassinate Turkey's president during the July 15, 2016 attempted putsch started on Monday. The case could be a test for the restoration of the death penalty in Turkey.The trial of more than 40 Turkish soldiers accused of
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey could hold a referendum on reinstating the death penalty, if parliament fails to pass such a measure.Erdogan made the comment on Friday while campaigning for a "yes" vote in a referendum on whether to expand his powers.Since a failed coup in24
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Sophia SchollSophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at theSuthar and Rames BatumalaiKUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24 — Brothers Rames and Suthar Batumalai temporarily avoided execution today after their family filed a plea for clemency yesterday over their murder conviction.Uma Muthukrishnan, who is the duo’s sister, said a police officer had informed her that the23
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Charles Amos Wilson IIIA former Robins airman accused of killing his fiancee and her unborn child will serve life in prison without parole, but not the death penalty.A military court-martial panel on Wednesday delivered their sentence on Charles Amos Wilson III.He's a former support team member23
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2 Texans on death row for separate slayings in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have lost appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court.Without comment, the justices refused Monday to review the cases of 52-year-old Joseph Lave and 54-year-old Juan Segundo.Lave was condemned to die in a 1992 robbery in which 223
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SHARJAH - A 19-year-old Pakistani student has been handed the death penalty for stabbing to death a countryman in a row over a football match.The teenager claimed that he stabbed the victim in self-defence in Bu Taina, Sharjah, in August 2015, after the man attacked him with a knuckle
A Dover man on death row for 1st-degree murder has had his death sentence vacated, officials from the Delaware Department of Justice confirmed Tuesday.Juan J. Ortiz, who had been on death row since 2003, is now sentenced to mandatory life in prison without benefit of probation or parole.Ortiz had22
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House of Representatives, Manila, PhilippinesThe execution of the 1st convict may not happen in the next 4 to 5 years under the term of President Rodrigo Duterte even if the death penalty bill is passed by Congress and becomes law, Majority Leader Rodolfo Farinas said."Even with the
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PurposeThe purpose of this position statement is twofold. First, to address the role of nurses in capital punishment. Second, to express the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) overall views on capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty. Registered nurses, along with other health21
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Opposition lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Tuesday scored the leadership's plan to railroad the death penalty bill by bypassing the plenary debate and putting the bill to a vote next week.In a press conference at the House of Representatives, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman said
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The bill to repeal Wyoming's Death Penalty is no longer being taken under consideration in the Legislature's House.House Bill 240 (HB 240), sponsored by Representative Marti Halverson proposed a complete repeal of Wyoming's death penalty law."I'm pretty adamantly opposed to the death penalty, so24
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Public flogging in IranPolitics of demonization’ upbringing division and fearAmnesty International releases its Annual Report for 2016 to 2017. The report, The State of the World’s Human Rights, delivers the most comprehensive analysis of the state of human rights around the world, covering 15924
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Antonio WilliamsAssistant county prosecutor accused of pressuring witnesses to name him in double murderThe family of a death row inmate who died at Harris County Jail while in Houston to appeal his conviction are suing county officials for his wrongful death by suicide two years ago.Antonio23
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Suthar (left) and Rames BatumalaiPETALING JAYA: Amnesty International Malaysia (AIM) is urging the Government to stop the execution of two brothers on Friday in view of a pending application for a royal pardon.Brothers Rames and Suthar Batumalai, who were convicted for murder in April 2010, have23
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Former CEO and sales manager at state-owned company found to have stolen millions in country's largest embezzlement scandalA Vietnamese court issued the death penalty Wednesday for 2 former executives at state-owned shipbuilding firm Vinashin in the largest embezzlement scandal to hit the23
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Dylann RoofIn the spring of 2015, Dylann Roof told friends he wanted to see something happen in South Carolina that would make global headlines, like the September 11 terrorist attacks did for New York. Just weeks later, he walked into Charleston's Emanuel AME Church and gunned down nine black22
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a death row inmate's challenge to Alabama's execution method, prompting liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor to assert that the court should have considered whether the lethal injection procedures amounted to unconstitutional cruel and unusual22
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an attempt by Arkansas inmates to stop their executions over claims that their deaths would be "intolerably painful."The 9 inmates asked the justices to review an Arkansas Supreme Court decision upholding a law that keeps secret the source of the lethal
Iranian regime's head of judiciary has ordered that Sunni prisoners convicted of drug trafficking to be executed as soon as possible so that they won't be subject to the new legislation approved by regime's Parliament.According to reports, a senior judiciary official has revealed a secret decree21
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Executed for being gayAmong hundreds of gay city guides and gay-friendly travel destinations, some parts of the world are places of hostility.We all remember the terrifying images of the “Kill the Gays” bill in Uganda, and you need to know where it is and is
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The UK Government is training senior members of Ethiopia's security sector, despite the illegal detention of a British father on the country's death row.The news comes as 53 MPs and peers call on the Foreign Office to secure Andy Tsege's return from unlawful detention.A freedom of information
An Egyptian court upheld Monday death sentences against 10 people convicted over rioting that claimed 74 lives at a stadium in Port Said in 2012, judicial and security officials said.The ruling by the Court of Cassation, which is final, excluded an 11th defendant who remains at large after his