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Diagram of Clayton Lockett's 2nd autopsyLengthy 2014 execution at McAlester involved an improperly inserted IVDENVER — An appeals court ruled Tuesday that the controversial 2014 execution of an Oklahoma man, which lasted 43 minutes, was not cruel and inhumane.“Everyone acknowledges that (Clayton) Lockett suffered
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A new study claims the trial and incarceration costs connected with the death penalty are almost twice as expensive than those for life sentences or other lesser penalties.Researchers at Lewis & Clark Law School and Seattle University reviewedhundreds of aggravated murder cases from 1984 to
Nick Yarris was charged with rape and murder when he was 20.Nick Yarris spent more than two decades on death row in the US after he was wrongly convicted of rape and murder, before a DNA test eventually freed him.
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Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsIranian authorities executed at least nine prisoners on Sunday November 13.Eight of the prisoners were reportedly hanged on drug related charges.Iran Human Rights (NOV 15 2016): On the morning of Sunday November 13, three unidentified prisoners were16
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In North Carolina prisons, inmates in solitary confinement typically spend 22to 23 hours a day inside cells that are smaller than a parking space. This cell, atCentral Prison in Raleigh, is smaller than 100 square feet. Photo: J. MillerIn North Carolina’s prisons, about half a dozen inmates have15
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'President Obama became the first U.S. President to visit a U.S. prison.'Gridlock and opposition in Congress forced Obama to resort to executive orders during his pronounced late-presidency focus on prisons, sentencing and policing – an ultimately
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"My question to the American public is: How many people need to be exonerated before we realize we do not need a death row in this country?"This was the focus of Anthony Ray Hinton's presentation at the UNM Law School on Thursday, where he was invited by UNM's Innocence and Justice Project.Leggi14
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The Supreme Court of Pakistan has today ordered doctors to examine Imdad Ali, a death row inmate who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Pakistan recently tried to hang Mr Ali despite having signed international treaties banning the execution of mentally ill prisoners.Although several doctors
Alabama officials want to lessen the amount of time convicted murderers spend on death row - and the amount of time and money the state spends fighting their appeals."I'm frustrated with the whole process, not just Tommy Arthur," said Rep. Lynn Greer, R-Rogersville.Arthur, one of the state's13
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The Supreme Court of Indonesia on Friday upheld the death sentence against 3 Taiwanese men who were convicted last year of smuggling drugs into the country.In its ruling, the court said the crime committed by the 3 defendants would cause great harm to Indonesians, particularly young people.Chen
Bali's notorious Kerobokan prisonSCHAPELLE Corby. The Bali Nine. Peter Greste.They’re names synonymous with Australians who, at some stage or another, have found themselves banged up abroad.There are currently 391 Australians convicted and serving a jail sentence overseas, according to a new12
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2016
Dr William PetitWilliam Petit is elected to Connecticut state House 9 years after his wife and daughters were killed in a vicious home invasionThe doctor whose wife and 2 daughters were murdered in a horrific home invasion in 2007 has been elected to the Connecticut [22nd State House
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San Quentin's death row, CaliforniaA civil liberties group on Tuesday filed a lawsuit that could slow California's plans for resuming executions.The ACLU of Northern California challenged a state law that gives the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation wide flexibility in establishing16
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Faiq Akhtar is assisted after collapsing in Semarang District Court on Tuesday as he was sentenced to life imprisonment for smuggling 97 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine while his fellow pakistani got death penalty.The panel of judges at the Semarang District Court in Central Java has16
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court has indicated that the Government cannot execute mentally ill death-row prisoners such as Imdad Ali, who suffers from schizophrenia.At a hearing this morning, judges said that if Imdad Ali, who suffers from schizophrenia, can be proven to have been mentally ill at the time16
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'State-condoned extrajudicial killings have soared since Duterte took office.'Since Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines, in May, more than three thousand people have been killed in a vicious drug war.Duterte does not, as he has put it, “give a shit” about
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Ronald PhillipsOhio has been fumbling its lethal injection protocol for years — dating back most notably to a failed execution in 2009 — and a series of events are about to collide in a most unpredictable manner.Ronald Phillips was sentenced to death for the 1993 rape and murder
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Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed MorsiDeposed Egyptian president no longer faces threat of execution but continues to serve long jail termsAn Egyptian court has overturned a death sentence against the deposed president Mohamed Morsi, and ordered a retrial.The Muslim Brotherhood leader was14
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Nigerian national Chijioke Stephen ObiohaVery soon, yet another individual is about to be executed in a state sanctioned hanging. According to Amnesty International, the date for the execution of Chijioke Stephen Obioha (a Nigerian national) has been set for this Friday, 18 November 2016.On 9
Steven Frederick SpearsGeorgia is preparing to carry out its 8th execution of the year with plans to execute a man who killed his ex-girlfriend 15 years ago.Steven Frederick Spears, 54, is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in13
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Muslim clerics in Mauritania on Sunday urged the authorities to execute a blogger who was sentenced to death in 2014 for apostasy after writing a blog post on Islam and racial discrimination.Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir's article touched a nerve in Mauritania, a West African country with deep13
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Even as California displayed its progressive streak across much of the ballot on Tuesday, one issue notably bucked the trend.Asked whether the death penalty should be abolished, voters said no by a solid margin.“To be honest with you, it was a surprise,” said Terry McCaffrey of California People
Public execution in Iran (file photo)Imprisonment and cash fine for those arrested in Sardasht protestFive prisoners were hanged in Kerman Prison (southern Iran) and a 24-year-old man was hanged in public in Chalmeh Sang village near Mashhad (northeast Iran).Another prisoner was hanged in public16
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Chijioke Stephen ObiohaSingapore must immediately halt the execution of Chijioke Stephen Obioha, a Nigerian national on death row for possession of drugs, Amnesty International said today.On Wednesday, Chijioke Stephen Obioha's family was informed that his appeal for clemency has been rejected. He16
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John BattagliaJohn Battaglia, the former accountant who murdered his daughters while their mother listened helplessly on the phone in 2001, appeared in a Dallas County courtroom Monday as a judge considered whether he's mentally fit to be put to death.Battaglia, 61, is set to be executed Dec16
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Italian judges have called for a ‘reevaluation’ of Italy's involvement in the Egyptian justice system, amid concerns over human rights abuses in Egypt.The Consiglio Superiore Della Magistratura (CSM) said today that the body was meeting to discuss its involvement in an EU project that aims to15
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"My question to the American public is: How many people need to be exonerated before we realize we do not need a death row in this country?"This was the focus of Anthony Ray Hinton's presentation at the UNM Law School on Thursday, where he was invited by UNM's Innocence and Justice Project.Leggi15
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After years of declining use of the death penalty across the United States and declining public support for capital punishment, last week's election gave hope to death penalty proponents. The results of balloting in California, Oklahoma and Nebraska as well as the election of Donald Trump seem to
'Jia Jinglong, 'a villager who became a symbol of injustices enduredby the country’s disenfranchised masses.'Villager convicted of murdering official said he was driven to it by the man ordering the illegal demolition of his home on eve of his weddingChinese authorities faced a bitter outcry14
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Lawmakers enacted new law to help fight crimes and terrorismManama: Kuwaiti teenage students have been warned that they could face the death penalty or heavy prison terms for certain crimes following the decision to lower the juvenile age from 18 to 16 in January."Starting next year, anyone aged13
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoganTurkey will decide whether or not to reinstate the death penalty, not the West, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Nov. 12."The issue on the reintroduction of death penalty is also on the government's agenda. I said 'I, as the president, will approve13
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Dylann RoofThe current mental status of accused Charleston church killer Dylann Roof has emerged as a key issue and may delay the start of his upcoming death penalty trial.Legal papers on the U.S. District Court internet site made public Friday make it clear that defense and prosecution lawyers12
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"Oklahoma now hopes to be able to use nitrogen asphyxiation."Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump's upset presidential election win has dominated global headlines, but for those against capital punishment, Election Day offered other surprise: three states voted to reinstate or otherwise support the
Trump could have a serious impact on the death penalty if he wanted to. Here's how.Over the past several decades, President-elect Donald Trump has proved malleable on a wide array of policy - from Iraq and abortion, to marriage equality and immigration.But he has been steadfast in his support for