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4 Prisoners Including Afghan Citizens Hanged on Drug Charges4 prisoners, including 2 Afghan citizens, were reportedly hanged at Taybad Prison (Razavi Khorasan province, northeastern Iran) on drug related charges.According to a report by the human right news agency HRANA, the executions were carried out on Wednesday January 18.
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UK government has been criticised for its links with the Bahraini Sunni monarchy.Bahrain could be poised to execute 2 prisoners who claim their confessions were extracted through torture.Mohammed Ramadan and Husain Moosa were sentenced to death in 2014 for their alleged involvement in a bomb
Mohamed Ramadhan Issa Ali Hussain and Hussain Ali Moosa Hussain Mohamed are at imminent risk of execution following the execution of three men on 15 January 2017.Their death sentences were upheld by the Court of Cassation on 16 November 2015 and have been passed to the King who has the authority19
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"Midazolam will produce relaxation and that relaxation may be sufficiently severe to produce sleep, but in studies we've conducted, it does not eliminate sensation to pain." - S. Stevens Negus, professor of pharmacology at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAttorneys for Ricky Gray, a prisoner19
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"Midazolam will produce relaxation and that relaxation may be sufficiently severe to produce sleep, but in studies we've conducted, it does not eliminate sensation to pain." - S. Stevens Negus, professor of pharmacology at Virginia Commonwealth University(CNN)--Virginia executed Ricky Gray, 39, by19
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(Left to right) Sami Mushaima, Ali al-Singace and Abbas al-SameaOn Sunday 15th January, three men were executed by firing squad in Bahrain. Their names were Ali Al-Singace, Abbas Al-Samea and Sami Mushaima.The UN Special Rapporteur, Dr Agnes Callamard, called their executions
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Ricky GrayRicky Javon Gray, 39, was sentenced to death for the 2006 murders of Harvey sisters Ruby, 4, and Stella, 9. Gray also killed the girls' parents and another Richmond family.Ricky Javon Gray was executed by injection Wednesday night for the slaying of 2 young Richmond sisters on New Year's
Ricky GrayA Virginia inmate set to be executed on Wednesday for murdering 2 young sisters during a 2006 killing spree has asked the Supreme Court for a stay, arguing that the 1st-ever use of compounded lethal drugs violates his constitutional rights.Ricky Gray, 39, is scheduled to die by lethal18
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Public hanging in Bektash, Iran on January 16, 2017Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi called on the UN Security Council and other relevant international authorities to condemn the wave of executions.The religious fascism ruling Iran has kicked off the New Year with merciless18
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40 years after the first execution of Gary Gilmore under contemporary laws, 18 anti-death penalty activists were arrested at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. The group unfurled a 30-foot-long banner that read "STOP EXECUTIONS!" on the steps of the Court.On the sidewalk, a crowd of over 8018
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The death penalty is plagued with racial disparities.In states across the country, African Americans are disproportionately represented on death row and among those who have been executed. Black people make up 13 percent of the population, but they make up 42 percent of death row and 35 percent17
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)RIYADH -- Saudi Arabia carried out its first death sentence of the year on Tuesday, following more than 150 executions in 2016.Mamdouh Al Anzi was sentenced to death following his conviction for shooting dead another Saudi in a dispute,
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Indonesia: open letter on anniversary of first executions under President Widodo -- Amnesty International.On the occasion of the second anniversary of the resumption of executions under President Joko Widodo, eight organizations have written to the Indonesian authorities to bring to their
Isaiah McCoy walks out of H. R. Young Correctional Institution as a free man.Isaiah McCoy, a death row prisoner for years, walked out of the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington and into his young
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Cell 1 is the last cell Florida inmates stay in before they’re executed. It’s where they say their goodbyes, make peace with death or mount their final legal stands against death. It’s where many hope their sentence will be delayed or commuted. Some inmates get pulled out of Cell 1 to return19
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"S Prabagaran has always maintained his innocence."Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has called on his country's Foreign Ministry to look into the case of S Prabagaran, reported Malaysiakini. Prabagaran a Malaysian is facing the death sentence here for19
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Advocates for repealing the death penalty in Colorado are back with a legislative effort for the 1st time in 4 years, motivated by their belief the issue is gaining traction in battleground and red statesBut proponents still face an uphill battle in the legislature.The Better Priorities
A young man's execution is halted at the last minute by his victim's parents.Mahyaddin spent the final hours of 2016 in solitude, deciding whether to spare the life of a man on death row for killing
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP/KMTV) - Nebraska voters brought back the death penalty in November but that debate will return to the unicameral.State Senator Ernie Chambers introduced his latest bill to eliminate executions two years after a similar measure became law.Chambers has tried to outlaw the18
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The Iranian judiciary has executed a juvenile offender who was just 16 years old at the time of the crime for which he received a capital sentence.Arman Bahr Asemani was hanged the morning of Monday, January 16 in Kerman Prison along with an older co-defendant, Shams Allah R., despite the protest
Georgia's death chamberA group of Georgia conservatives on Thursday will call for the state to re-examine the death penalty but thus far will stop short of calling for a end to state-sanctioned executions. The group, calling itself Georgia Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, will hold17
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A Bangladeshi court on Monday sentenced 26 people, including 16 members of the country's elite anti-terrorism force, to death, after a former member of the ruling Awami League party hired them to kill political rivals.The ruling was the 1st time that members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) had17
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Iran: Barbaric and medieval punishmentsIran Human Rights (JAN 16, 2017): A prisoner was hanged in the village of Bektash near Miandoab (northwestern Iran), reported official Iranian news agencies.The public hanging was carried out on the morning of Monday January 16.The man, who was not
Florida's death chamberThe Florida Supreme Court on Thursday threw out the death penalty for three murderers, including a man convicted of abducting an 81-year-old Lake County woman from a Publix parking lot and killing her in 2010.The decisions are the latest in a growing string of rulings sinceFlorida's death chamberThe Florida Supreme Court on Thursday threw out the death penalty for three murderers, including a man convicted of abducting an 81-year-old Lake County woman from a Publix parking lot and killing her in 2010.The decisions are the latest in a growing string of rulings since19
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Four prisoners were reportedly hanged on drug charges at Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison (northeastern Iran).Iran Human Rights (JAN 18 2017): Four prisoners were reportedly hanged at Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison on drug related charges. According to the human rights news agency HRANA, the executions19
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Trigger-happy Philippine President Rodrigo DuterteA new measure that seeks to reimpose death penalty on persons involved in the illegal drug trade has been filed in the Senate on Wednesday.Under Senate Bill No. 1294, Sen. Sherwin "Win" Gatchalian seeks to amend Section 11 of RA 9165 to impose19
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Nebraska Governor (R) Pete Ricketts: "I will make every effort to proceedwith the executions of the 10 men on Nebraska's death row."Nebraska prison officials would be allowed to hide the identities of their lethal injection suppliers under a proposal introduced Wednesday on the final day of bill18
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Public flogging in Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsIran’s persistent use of cruel and inhuman punishments, including floggings, amputations and forced blinding over the past year, exposes the authorities’ utterly brutal sense of justice, said Amnesty International.Hundreds are routinely18
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Attorney General Bob Ferguson today proposed bipartisan legislation to abolish the death penalty in Washington.In a demonstration of broad, bipartisan support for ending capital punishment in the state, former Attorney General Rob McKenna joined Ferguson at a press conference in the Capitol18
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Public execution in Iran, January 2017IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (17 January 2017): In a statement released today, three of the United Nations' rights experts called on the Iranian authorities to stop execution of the juvenile offender Sajjad Sanjari who is reportedly in imminent danger of execution and18
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Inmates meet their religious counselors in this room adjacent to the executionchamber shortly before their execution is carried out. Tokyo Detention Center.Japan is one of the few developed countries to still have the death penalty. Documentary filmmaker Mori Tatsuya looks at the issue of capital
Philippine President Rodrigo DuterteNot everyone in President Rodrigo Duterte's camp is backing his proposal to revive the death penalty.House opposition leader and Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman today revealed some administration stalwarts are among those opposed to the death penalty bill, with as many17
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Washington Governor (D) Jay InsleeFamily argues against reprieve for death penalty cases.20 years ago, Dwayne Anthony Woods was convicted of murdering 2 women, sentenced to die and sent to Washington's death row at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla.Claiming he was innocent, he launched a