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Triple hanging in Kuwait in April 2013Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III expressed hope the government could still save the life of another Filipino worker on death row in Kuwait who was convicted for killing a fellow overseas worker.This after Bello saw the wife of the
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Iran: Barbaric and medieval punishmentsNCRI - Criminal Court of the Western Lorestan province in Iran, condemned a man and a woman accused of so called ‘unethical relation’ to medieval capital punishment of death by stoning.According to the verdict of the Criminal Court Branch 1, in Lorestan
Tilon CarterTilon Carter, 37, received a stay Friday afternoon from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. His execution was set for Tuesday.For the 2nd time this week, a Texas execution has been stopped days before the man was set to die.Carter was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to04
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Belarus President Alexander LukashenkoI am ready to impose a moratorium on the death penalty if such a measure is supported by the majority of Belarusians, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said at the meeting with the members of the public, representatives of the Belarusian and foreign mass03
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GENEVA (2 February 2017) – A group of United Nations human rights experts has appealed to the Islamic Republic of Iran to immediately halt the execution of juvenile offender Hamid Ahmadi, who is scheduled to be executed by hanging on Saturday, 4 February. This is the third time that Mr.
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Lawyers for death-row inmates said recent changes to Arizona's procedures for carrying out the death penalty didn't do enough to confront abuses in the state's power to decide the methods and amounts of drugs used in executions.The state released the revisions to the procedures earlier this month03
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Ronald RyanFifty years ago, Australia carried out its final execution amid a swirl of protest and political pressure. But as Jamie Duncan reports, capital punishment remains firmly in the nation's consciousness despite the abolition of the death penalty.Ronald Joseph Ryan was a robber with a long02
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Steven J. MurrayAUGUSTA, Ga. (CNS) -- Saying "justice needs to be tamed by mercy," Bishop Felipe J. Estevez of St. Augustine, Florida, and two brother bishops called Jan. 31 for the state of Georgia to drop the death penalty in the case of accused priest killer Steven J. Murray.
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Public execution in Mashhad, Iran, January 28, 2017Two prisoners were reportedly hanged at Rasht's central prison and a total of four prisoners were hanged in public in two different Iranian cities on armed robbery and rape charges.Iran Human Rights (FEB 1 2017): On the
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Plenary discussions on the bill for the reimposition of the death penalty will have to wait another day, with lawmakers opposed to the proposed legislature taking the floor as a "clear message" against fast-tracking its passage.Deputy Speaker Fredenil Castro and Oriental Mindoro Rep. Rey Umali01
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A man convicted of killing a woman and her two children after a break-in at their home in southern Missouri in 1998 was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday.Mark Christeson, 37, was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. CST (0105 GMT on Wednesday), according to the Missouri Department of01
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Derek BentleyThe death penalty was suspended in Britain 54 years ago as a result of resolute campaigning following a number of miscarriages of justice but now some dream of bring it back.64 years ago at 9am on January 28 1953 a young man called Derek Bentley was hanged for murder at
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A plan that would expand capital punishment in Utah so that criminals convicted of aggravated human trafficking or child sex exploitation that leads to death could be executed has made it through its 1st test on Friday.Members of a House law enforcement and criminal justice committee voted 6-505
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Steven Dean GordonSteven Dean Gordon, the serial killer who says he deserves to die for his crimes, found no disagreement last year from the jury nor, on Friday, from the judge.Orange County Superior Court Judge Patrick H. Donahue sentenced Gordon to death for the abduction and murder of four03
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Changi Prison, SingaporeKUALA LUMPUR: The family of a Malaysian man sentenced to hang in Singapore has filed a judicial review at the KL High Court, claiming he had been deprived of a fair trial. Datchinamurthy Kataiah, 32, was convicted of trafficking 44g of heroine across the Causeway from03
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Iran: Barbaric and medieval punishmentsThe Iranian authorities hanged 87 people in the month of January 2017, that's one execution every nine hours. Iran Human Rights (FEB 3 2017): According to reports compiled by Iran Human Rights, the Iranian authorities hanged 87 people in the month of January03
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Supreme Court repeatedly delayed judgement for Mohamed Cheikh Ould M'khaitir, accused of blasphemy.A Mauritanian court will re-examine the case of a young blogger, Mohamed Cheikh Ould M'khaitir, who is facing execution following his death sentence for "apostasy" - the abandonment of Islam.In a03
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Andrew Chan (left) and Myuran Sukumaran in Kerobokan Prison's art studioThe Turnbull government has been urged to strengthen Australian Federal Police policy to prevent citizens being exposed to the death penalty overseas, as Australia marks 50 years since the last execution
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A Tennessee inmate who has been on death row since 1983 died of natural causes Monday at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, according to the state Department of Corrections. Officials said Walter L. Caruthers was pronounced dead shortly after 11:30 p.m.Caruthers was01
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Two child executions have reportedly been carried out in Iran since the start of 2017Iran Human Rights (JAN 28 2017): Two juvenile offenders were executed in Kerman (southeastern Iran) and Tabriz (northwestern Iran) prisons. This is in addition to the more than 70 people who have been executed01
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Fernando Eros CaroCalifornia death row inmate dies; convicted in San Jose murder trialA killer convicted in a high-profile Santa Clara County trial died of unknown causes Saturday at San Quentin State Prison.Fernando Eros Caro, 67, had been sentenced to death for the 1980 murders of 2 bicycling01
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Nebraska inched closer to executing prisoners, as its governor signed off on a new execution protocol with fewer confidentiality protections for manufacturers of lethal injection drugs."Finalizing the protocol will help carry out the will of the people of Nebraska in regards to the death penalty,"
A man on California death row has been found dead, prison officials say.SAN QUENTIN (KRON) — A San Quentin State Prison inmate on death row died Thursday morning of unknown causes, according to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.Condemned inmate, 69-year-old James David Majors of05
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A divided Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld a man's death sentence it once had thrown out in the 2004 shooting deaths of a woman and her boyfriend.The 4-3 ruling Friday let stand the Barton County sentence of 37-year-old Sidney Gleason in the killings of Mikiala Martinez and Darren Wornkey
Singapore's Changi PrisonFormer cop Iskandar Rahmat, convicted in 2015 of the brazen killing of car-workshop owner Tan Boon Sin and his son Tan Chee Heong, failed in his appeal to escape the death penalty on Friday (Feb 3).The Court of Appeal - comprising Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon and Judges03
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Feb 02, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to commute the sentences of 60 prisoners in death row to life sentences prisoners on account of the 69th Independence Day on February 04.President Sirisena has taken the decision to spare the lives of the prisoners based on the03
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Judge Neil Gorsuch (left) and Donald TrumpJudge Neil Gorsuch has heard - and sided with the government in - several recent and important execution cases.Judge Neil Gorsuch has been front and center as Oklahoma's death penalty process has been repeatedly called into question in recent
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The Maldives authorities must immediately halt plans to resume executions and instead impose a moratorium on the implementation of the death penalty with a view to its eventual abolition.Amnesty International has received reports that the resumption of executions could be imminent.The Maldives02
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The Walls Unit, Livingston, TexasMonths after Jeff Wood narrowly and temporarily avoided execution for a murder he didn’t commit, his case has motivated Texas lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to call for death penalty reform.Wood, 43, was convicted in the 1996 murder of Kriss Keeran, Leggi01
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2 days before death row inmate John Ramirez was scheduled to be executed, a federal district court in Corpus Christi halted the execution.A federal district court in Corpus Christi halted the execution of Texas death row inmate John Ramirez on Tuesday, 2 days before he was set to die.Ramirez, 3201
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Myuran Sukumaran stands in front of a self-portrait in Kerobokan's art studio.In just a few hours he would face the firing squad on the prison island of Nusakambangan, otherwise known as Indonesia’s notorious “death island”.Along with “mastermind” pal Andrew Chan, they
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Gov. Pete RickettsGov. Pete Ricketts said Monday he will continue working to restore the death penalty without waiting for lawmakers to decide a bill that would hide the identities of lethal drug suppliers.The governor said during a State Capitol press conference that there is no timeline for when01
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Jakatia PawaPresidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella reacts to a CBCP official who says the Philippines will lose 'any moral authority and legality to ask clemency' for Filipinos on death row if it restores the death penaltyFollowing the death of Overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Jakatia Pawa who was01
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Texas prison officials in 2015 arranged to buy lethal-injection drugs from a company in India that was busted for selling psychotropic drugs and opioids illegally to people in Europe and the United States, a new report claims.When that deal fell through, they bought $25,000 worth of execution