Peshawar Central PrisonThe top court annulled orders of subordinate courtsISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Supreme Court (SC) has acquitted a death row inmate in a murder case after at least 24 years over inconclusive evidence.The top court annulled orders of subordinate courts and ordered immediate release of the inmate named
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoganISTANBUL (AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday warned the European Union he would sign a law bringing back the death penalty if it was approved by parliament.“Democracy, it’s respecting the people’s will,” Erdogan said in a speech in25
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There has been an atrocious rise in the number of executions in Iran under the mullahs’ president, Hassan Rouhani, according to dissident writer Heshmat Alavi writing in the American Thinker on November 23.The following is the text of the op-ed: November 23, 2016 Hassan Rouhani: Iran's24
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Medieval and barbaric: Four men were hanged in public on the Island ofQeshm, Iran, on Wednesday November 23, 2016. Photo: Iran Human RightsIranian Regime’s Member of Parliament: 5,000 young people of 20 to 30 years old
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Well-known actors including David Tennant, David Morrissey, Tobias Menzies and Olivia Colman have voiced a collection of ‘last words’ from prisoners facing the death penalty and other abuses around the world.In a short film narrated by David Morrissey (The Walking Dead), released today by23
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A 17-year-old here was arrested for possession of 1,730 stimulant pills worth RM 17,300.District police chief Superintendent Mohd Zamri Mohd Rowi said a narcotics team raided the Form Five student's home at Kampung Gong Penaga here following a tip-off on Thursday at 6.15pm.He said the suspect23
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Rodrigo DuterteReligious groups on Tuesday gave contrarian opinions to lawmakers on the morality of imposing death penalty even on the most heinous of criminals.Various religious groups read out their position papers during the House justice subcommittee on judicial reforms hearing, which22
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TRENTON — Two state lawmakers are looking to reverse New Jersey's landmark ban on the death penalty and restore the punishment for serious crimes.On Monday, Senators Steve Oroho (R-Sussex) and Jeff Van Drew (D-Cape May) introduced a bill that would restore capital punishment in certain murder22
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"We are spending 4 times more on death penalty cases than on comparable caseswithout death sentences despite having only executed 2 people since the 1960s."Cases with death sentences in Oregon, on average, cost more than double - and as much as $1 million more - than aggravated murder cases with20
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Dylann RoofA closed hearing will be held Monday to determine whether Dylann Roof, who faces 33 federal hate crime charges for allegedly murdering 9 people in a Charleston, S.C., church, is mentally competent to stand trial.Jury selection in the trial has been delayed since the defense filed a
Chijioke Stephen ObiohaThe Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has described the execution of a Nigerian in Singapore on Friday for drug related offences as heartbreaking.She also urged Nigerians to avoid drug trafficking which can18
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Filipina death row inmate Mary Jane VelosoFilipina in Indonesian gallows for drug charges in positive disposition, even manages to work for her familyFilipina death row inmate Mary Jane Veloso remains calm and completely in control of her behavior and emotions despite being in prison for Leggi25
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The Shot at Dawn Memorial, Staffordshire, UKOn Saturday 29 October 2016, a bracing Autumnal morning, and with a light drizzle threatening, three additional stakes were added to the Shot at Dawn Memorial (created by Birmingham artist Andy deComyn) at the National Memorial Arboretum in
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Iranian authorities have executed seven prisoners in northern Iran.Iran Human Rights (NOV 25 2016): According a report by the Iranian state-run news agency Jame Jam, two prisoners were hanged in the Gilan province (northern Iran) on murder charges.The report does not mention the identities of the24
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Florida's death chamberFlorida's highest court has thrown out the death sentence of a man responsible for a Central Florida murder.The big question: How will this affect others on death row?The legal community is debating that right now.Florida lawmakers this year passed a new law demanding at23
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Gallows at Tokyo Detention Center, JapanTwo prominent lawyers, one for the death penalty and the other against it, held a heated debate last Thursday at a symposium in Tokyo that sought to deepen discussion on Japan's capital punishment system.Yuji Ogawara, a Tokyo-based lawyer, contended that the
Meth bust at Malaysian airport (file photo)2 Turkish Cypriots, who appealed death sentences imposed on them last year in Malaysia for drug offences had their punishments reduced to 20 years' imprisonment, the foreign ministry announced on Tuesday."The supreme court of Malaysia, met yesterday23
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The 10 condemned terrorists were given capital punishment by special military courts set-up after the 2014 Peshawar school attack for speedy trial of terrorists.Ahead of his retirement, Pakistan Army chief General Raheel Sharif Tuesday confirmed death sentence handed down to 10 "hardcore22
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Oklahoma's death chamber"How merciless man is, how deaf to the cries of pity of other men; how light the pain of others seems to him, when his own is not mingled with it." - Roland Dorgelès, The Wooden CrossesOn April 29, 2014, the state of Oklahoma tortured Clayton Lockett
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A push to reinstate New Mexico's death penalty for certain violent crimes could end up stuck in neutral in the coming 60-day legislative session, after Democrats reclaimed the state House in last week's election and expanded their majority in the Senate.Rep. Gail Chasey, D-Albuquerque, who20
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Damantae GrahamAn Akron man convicted of shooting and killing a Kent State University student during the robbery of a Kent apartment on Super Bowl Sunday is headed to Ohio's death row.Citing the "lack of regard for human life this man has," Portage County Common Pleas Judge Laurie Pittman on19
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Chijioke Stephen ObiohaThis morning, at 6am, the execution of Chijioke Stephen Obioha took place. I am not even sure if his family from Nigeria were able to attend. Soon it will be all forgotten together with Chijioke's name, but for the many of us who fight and campaign
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"There is never any excuse for extracting forced 'confessions' throughtorture or other ill-treatment and broadcasting them in chilling videos."Iran's authorities have used crude propaganda tactics to dehumanize death penalty victims in the eyes of the public and divert attention away from the
Liu FeiyueThe editor of a Chinese website monitoring human rights issues has been detained on suspicion of subverting state power, according to an announcement on the website.Liu Feiyue, founder of the website Minsheng Guancha, was taken away earlier this month by police in the central Chinese25
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"Fatemeh, 11, once again a victim due to the inhumane Iran law of Qisas."A young girl blinded at the age of four chooses to approve the implementation of her attacker's retribution sentence.Iran Human Rights (NOV 24 2016): Fatemeh,
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Rodricus CrawfordRodricus Crawford, a local man previously convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death, was released from jail for now after a judge in Caddo District Court assigned him a $50,000 bond on Tuesday.The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office confirmed that Crawford bonded out of
The family of a man executed in Singapore last week is dismayed at the handling of his funeral service and says he has been cremated against their wishes.Chijioke Stephen Obioha, 35, convicted of drug trafficking in 2007, was hanged on Friday morning after nearly a decade behind bars.His legal23
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Nguyen Thi Huong was sentenced to death for trafficking over a kilo of heroin.An appeals court in Vietnam has commuted the death sentence of a 73-year-old Australian woman convicted of heroin trafficking.The online state media outlet Vietnamnet
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Australian teenager Jamie Murphy was taken to Denpasar police station.An Australian teenager could face up to 12 years in jail after being arrested in Bali, Indonesia, on suspicion of possessing a drug.Jamie Murphy, 18, was detained at the Sky Garden nightclub at Kuta
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Rodricus CrawfordThe Louisiana Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out the conviction and death sentence of a man whose case drew national attention to the state's use of the death penalty.In its decision , the court said it was sending the case of Rodricus Crawford back to a lower court for Leggi
India has opposed a UN resolution calling for a moratorium on the death penalty, saying it goes against Indian law and the sovereign right of countries to determine their own laws and penalties."The resolution before us sought to promote a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the
Rabbi Shlomo AmarIsraeli politicians and LGBT activists have called for the resignation of Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar after the high-ranked cleric said that homosexuality was punishable by death."This is a cult of abomination, this is clear," Amar said when asked of his attitude toward
John BattagliaA Dallas County judge ruled Friday that death row inmate John Battaglia is mentally fit to be executed for killing his two daughters.His execution date will remain set for Dec. 7. State District Judge Robert Burns said that Battaglia, who shot his daughters in an act of revengeFlorida's death chamberThe Florida Supreme Court is ordering that two murderers be removed from death row and sentenced to life.The court issued its ruling Thursday, reducing the sentences of men convicted of unrelated double-murders in Polk County and Jacksonville.Robert McCloud was convicted of