“That $14.6 million every year would be better spent on tax breaks for hardworking Nebraska families, or to aid some of the struggling state agencies”LINCOLN - One week before voters decide the fate of the death penalty, two conservative Nebraska State Senators said today, that the State’s expected budget shortfall of nearly
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"If we insist on pumping caustic, corrosive drugs into other human beings,our Constitution demands it not cause excruciating pain."Alabama’s last execution may have burned a man alive because the “consciousness assessment” it administers is about as scientific as someone jostling you when you nod31
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Al-Ghali, left, and Al-Ghamdi, right.After 15 years on the death row, a Chadian prisoner was released due to the efforts of the National Human Rights Society. A source said Chadian prisoner Bashir Al-Ghali was sentenced to death for murder 15 years ago.“The prisoner spent 5,500 days in
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court has stayed the execution of a severely mentally ill man who was due to be hanged this Wednesday (2nd).Imdad Ali has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Recent prison medical assessments have described Mr Ali as “insane”, and concluded that his is “a31
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Peter GardnerA Kiwi facing the death penalty for attempting to smuggle 30 kilograms of methamphetamine out of China will begin his 3rd year in jail without knowing his fate.And Peter Gardner will have to wait for at least another 3 months after the Chinese court deliberating his fate had extended
Screenshot from 'Rectify', by Ray McKinnon (2013)About a decade ago, actor Ray McKinnon became fascinated with several stories he'd seen about death-row inmates who had been freed because of DNA evidence. "I just started wondering what their lives must be like the first day they got out," he says30
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Click here to sign Reprieve's online clemency petition.Over 60 lawyers from common-law countries around the world have urged Pakistan’s President to halt the execution of a severely mentally ill man next Wednesday (2nd November).A series of medical assessments have confirmed that death rowEuropean Union politicians have warned that Pakistan’s preferential trade status with the EU could be under threat from an executions drive in the country that has seen over 400 people hanged since 2014. EU trade delegates are due to visit the country on Monday (31st) – two days before theConcerns have been raised over wrongful executions in Pakistan, after two brothers who had already been hanged were found to be innocent.The news comes amid fears for a mentally ill prisoner who is due to be executed on Wednesday (2nd), in violation of Pakistani and international law.The wife of28
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Hassan Rouhani (L), Recep Erdogan (center), Ali Khamenei (R)Three Turkish citizens were reportedly executed in Iran 11 days after Erdogan paid an official visit to Tehran.Iran Human Rights (October 27 2016): Iran Human Rights (IHR) has discovered that three Turkish citizens were executed Leggi28
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Iskandar Rahmat3 years after he murdered 2 men, former police officer Iskandar Rahmat is fighting to save his own life.The Court of Appeal reserved judgment on Wednesday (Oct 26) on Iskandar's appeal against 2 death sentences handed down to him for the murder of Mr Tan Boon Sin, 67, and
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Darkness at Noon: Collective hanging in present-day Iran (file photo)Anti-human regime of mullahs hanged 12 prisoners in the central prisons of Karaj, Shiraz, Sepidar of Ahvaz and Salmas during days 23 to 25 October.One of the five prisoners that were hanged collectively on
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Death row cell, San Quentin prison, CaliforniaVoters in California will decide to abolish capital punishment or put in place measures to allow more killingsAs the only fully westernised country to use capital punishment, the US is a glaring outlier in the developed world. Seen from
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William Ernest KuenzelThe U.S. Supreme Court today denied the appeal of death row inmate William Ernest Kuenzel, a former Goodwater resident sentenced in 1988 for the murder of Sylacauga convenience store clerk Linda Jean Offord.Without comment, the justices turned down Kuenzel’s appeal petition
Darkness at noon: Watching a public execution in IranIran's justice minister is looking for an "effective punishment" for criminals instead of execution, according to local media.Mostafa Pourmohammadi said he thought the number of capital crimes should be revised, the Tasnim News Agency said."In31
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A SERVICE has been held to remember soldiers who were executed for mutiny during the First World War.The names of three soldiers were added to the National Memorial Arboretum’s Shot at Dawn memorial, which commemorates 306 soldiers killed for desertion or cowardice during the conflict.One of the30
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The US state of Texas has come under fire for its use of a character from "Of Mice and Men" in determining if defendants are mentally ill. The so-called "Lennie Standard" has put several men on death row.In November, the United States Supreme Court will hear a case that might shock even
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.Turkish President Erdogan has said his country's parliament will consider whether to reintroduce the death penalty. Such a move would likely put Turkey on a collision course with the European Union.In a speech in Ankara, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan29
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"Nebraska spends an average of $14.6 million annually to keep the death penalty."Dr. Ernie Goss, professor of economics at Creighton University, is frustrated with death penalty proponents' constant challenge of his study on the cost of capital punishment
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President Rodrigo DuterteTOKYO— Before it goes on Christmas break, the House of Representatives plans to approve on third and final reading a bill that would bring back the death penalty, a priority measure of President Rodrigo Duterte, who has often threatened to kill criminals.Speaker Pantaleon
Imdad Ali lives, or exists, in Pakistan. He is on death row. He may not live much longer. Indeed, he very well may die, thrashing in the hangman's noose, as early as next Wednesday.[UPDATE: Since this was written, Imdad's execution date has been set for Wednesday, 2 November, 2016 - please join28
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Cornell Law LibraryA new center at Cornell Law School aims to help eliminate the death penalty across the globe through research and lawyer training.The school on Tuesday announced the launch of the Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide - an initiative made possible by a $3.2 million grant from26
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An anti-death penalty group is crying foul over radio advertisements in which the secretary of state tries to "clarify" ballot language that will decide the fate of capital punishment in Nebraska.Retain a Just Nebraska sent a letter to the Nebraska Broadcasters Association asking it to stop01
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Discussions on the reinstatement of the death penalty are expected to be taken to the General Assembly of the Turkish Parliament in the near future.The topic, which has been widely advocated by the public in the aftermath of the failed July 15 coup attempt, was once again brought to the forefront31
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Tommy ArthurDouglas Arthur and his sister, Sherrie Stone, have been on an emotional rollercoaster for 40 years, and now they are preparing for what they believe could be their last ride.Their father, Tommy Arthur, is scheduled to be executed Nov. 3, for his involvement in the 1982 murder-for-hire31
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The Council of Europe warned Turkey against re-establishing the death penalty on Oct. 30."Executing the death penalty is incompatible with membership of the Council of Europe," the 47-member organization, which includes Turkey, tweeted a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his government
Dozens, if not hundreds, of criminal convictions in Ohio could be in jeopardy because a longtime forensic scientist at the state crime lab now stands accused of slanting evidence to help cops and prosecutors build their cases.The credibility of G. Michele Yezzo, who worked at the Ohio attorney30
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Time to retire unworkable penaltyWe are former Nebraska judges united in our call to retain LB 268, which was passed by the Nebraska Legislature in 2015 repealing the state’s death penalty and leaving in place life imprisonment. Each of us is intimately familiar with our state’s legal system, and29
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Click here to sign Reprieve's online clemency petitionCourt had earlier ruled that schizophrenia was not an illnessWith hope in her eyes, the wife of a schizophrenic convict once again knocked the door of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, asking for a review petition before her husband's execution28
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Add captionGeorgia on Thursday scheduled the lethal injection of Steven Frederick Spears, who thus far has chosen not to fight his death sentence for murdering his girlfriend in 2001.If he dies by lethal injection on Nov. 16 as scheduled, Spears, 54, will be the 8th person Georgia has executed
Jessica Wongso sits in court next to her lawyer.Jakarta. High-profile coffee murder suspect Jessica Kumala Wongso was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the Central Jakarta District Court on Thursday (27/10) for the premeditated murder of 27-year-old Wayan Mirna Salihin.Presiding judge
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A 27-year-old Filipino labourer will be hanged for murdering a local man in Keningau 7 years ago after losing his final appeal in the Federal Court here on Wednesday.Justices Tan Sri Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin, Tan Sri Richard Malanjum, Tan Sri Ahmad Hj Maarop, Tan Sri Hasan Lah and Dato' Balia Haji
New figures have shown that 94% of prisoners recently hanged in Pakistan had nothing to do with terrorism – throwing doubt on claims that an executions drive which began in the country nearly two years ago is designed to combat ‘terrorism.’The figures, collated by human rights organizations26
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Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Canada and Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion.'If we asked Canada to send...a Canadian citizen, in Canadian jail, to Saudi Arabia, do you accept that?' the Saudi ambassador asks.PUBLISHED : Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 12:00 AM. Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to
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