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As the clock ticks down on Nebraska voters' decision on whether to retain the Legislature's decision to repeal the death penalty, the anti-death penalty campaign on Tuesday zeroed in on wrongful murder convictions.Retain A Just Nebraska, the organization that wants voters to replace the death penalty with life in prison for 1st-degree
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Authorities in Pakistan have handed down an execution warrant to a death-row prisoner who is severely mentally ill.Pakistan's interior ministry today handed down a so-called ‘black warrant’ confirming that it plans to hang Imdad Ali, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, next Wednesday (2nd)25
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Iranian authorities hanged 5 prisoners early Tuesday morning for alleged drug related offenses, but Iranian official sources are silent about these executions.5 prisoners were reportedly hanged early morning on Tuesday October 25 for alleged drug related offenses. Close sources say the execution
Missouri's Death ChamberA reporter suing over Missouri's refusal to allow him to witness an execution isn't constitutionally guaranteed a right to see someone put to death, the state argued in asking a federal judge to throw out the case.The state, in a court filing last week, also said that25
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Myuran Sukumaran (left) and Ben Quilty in Kerobokan's painting workshopThe first major exhibition of artworks by Myuran Sukumaran, who was executed by Indonesia for heroin smuggling, is to be held during next year’s Sydney festival.Sukumaran, one of a group known as the
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Voters on Nov. 8 will decide the fate of the long-dormant death penalty in California.2 competing propositions address the controversial practice, which was last used by the state corrections system more than 10 years ago.Proposition 62 would repeal the death penalty and commute the sentences
Iran Human Rights (October 19 2016): 14 prisoners were reportedly executed today on drug charges at Karaj's Ghezel Hesar Prison (Alborz province, northern Iran).According to close sources, Iranian authorities hanged 14 prisoners at Ghezel Hesar Prison on the morning of Wednesday October 18.The23
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Hundreds of thousands of pounds of UK funding for international counter-narcotics operations may be contributing to higher numbers of death sentences and executions abroad, international human rights organisation Reprieve has found. Reprieve has written to the Home Office - the lead department on22
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With public support for the death penalty at its lowest point in more than 4 decades, the U.S. is on track for its fewest executions in a quarter century.So far in 2016, 17 inmates have been executed, according to a database maintained by the Death Penalty Information Center. 3 additional22
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Alabama, Delaware and Florida were in a very small club at the start of 2016, but Alabama now stands alone - last in the nation to embrace a set of rules, deemed unconstitutional elsewhere, that increases the likelihood of a death sentence.All 3 states were the only ones in
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A judge presiding over a lawsuit that protests how Arizona carries out the death penalty extracted promises in court from the state Wednesday that it won't use the sedative midazolam in future executions.Lawyers for the state are seeking to dismiss the lawsuit's claim that midazolam can't ensure20
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Gregory Paul LawlerGeorgia on Wednesday executed a man who opened fire on Atlanta police with an AR-15 rifle in 1997, killing one officer and critically wounding another after they had given his intoxicated girlfriend a ride home.Gregory Paul Lawler, 63, was scheduled to be executed by injection
Prince Turki Bin Saud Bin Turki Bin Saud Al KabeerVictim’s father refused to accept blood money from Prince Turki’s family, insisting on executionManama: The Saudi prince who was executed on Tuesday for the murder of a friend met his family for
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Add caption29 year old Prabagaran A/L Srivijayan has been condemned to death. The only thing that will prevent the execution is if the President pardons him, or if an appeal, which has been made to the court and is under consideration, actually succeeds.Caught at the CheckpointPrabagaran was
The Supreme Court today put on hold till further order the execution of Vikram Singh alias Vicky and Jasbir Singh, both sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Abhi Verma alias Harry, a student of Hoshiarpur's DAV School, in February 2005.A 3-member Bench headed by Justice Dipak
President Uhuru KenyattaNAIROBI, Kenya — With a stroke of his pen, President Uhuru Kenyatta spared the lives of thousands of prisoners on Kenya’s death row on Monday by commuting their sentences to life in prison.Kenyan law allows capital punishment and convicts are regularly sentenced to death24
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Barbarism. There is no other way to describe the senseless bloodlust and spiteful vindictiveness that characterises what passes for the criminal justice system in Pakistan.In a judgment that will long be remembered for its sheer idiocy and mind boggling insensitivity, the Supreme Court of23
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Chinese lawyer and crime fiction writer Prof He JiahongBorn into China's cultural revolution, He Jiahong spent years working in the fields before studying law to win over his girlfriend's parents. Now he is a leading authority on miscarriages of justice, and
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Alexander Lukashenko is the President of Belarus, in office since 20 July 1994.The 2019 European Games will take place in the Belarusian capital Minsk.The Netherlands was originally chosen to stage the second edition of the multi-sports event, but pulled
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Florida's death chamberFor the 2nd time this year, a court has ruled that Florida's death penalty statute is unconstitutional.This time, it was the Florida Supreme Court, handing down a pair of historic rulings on Oct. 14 that shifted Florida into the legal mainstream and are expected Leggi
Ohio's death chamberOhio is moving its death row for the third time in little over a decade, this time because of the growing number of aging inmates serving death sentences, state prison officials said Friday.Death row will go from Chillicothe in southern Ohio to the Toledo Correctional20
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court has today ruled that schizophrenia does not qualify as mental disorder, paving the way for the execution of Imdad Ali who suffers from severe mental illness.In an unprecedented judgement, they claim that schizophrenia is not a permanent condition and varied according toGregory LawlerJust an hour after hearing from those who wanted to see Atlanta cop killer Gregory Lawler executed, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied his request for clemency.Lawler, 63, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday at 7 p.m. for the Oct. 12,1979, murder of Atlanta police25
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Artist Ben Quilty surrounded by works painted by Myuran Sukumaran.With 24 hours left before he faced death by firing squad, Myuran Sukumaran could have been forgiven for wallowing in self-pity and regret. Yet Sukumaran, one of nine Australians arrested for heroin smuggling
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Warrant for public execution in Saudi ArabiaA warrant for a public execution in Saudi Arabia has emerged, shedding rare light on the death penalty in the country just days before the government hopes to be re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council.The document, published
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The recent furore which followed the Supreme Court judgment regarding schizophrenia is not without cause: The Court has concluded that since schizophrenia is "not a permanent mental disorder', it is "therefore, a recoverable disease, which, in all the cases, does not fall within the definition of24
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'Less than half of Americans say they support the death penalty.'Although the death penalty is still considered constitutional by the Supreme Court, Americans’ appetite for this barbaric practice diminishes with each passing year.The signs of capital punishment’s impending demise are all
Public execution of a Burmese woman in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi Arabia's rulers are not as popular as they used to be in the kingdom. With low global oil prices, officials have been forced to cut spending dramatically in a nation
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Chinese police officers demonstrate standard execution proceduresA Chinese man who killed a village chief who arranged for his house to be demolished will be executed in the coming days. The ruling against 30-year-old Jia Jinglong was delivered to his lawyer on Tuesday.Jia is from ShijiazhuangSaudi Arabia: Darkness at Noon3 Saudi juveniles remain on death row, 1 year after the UK began seeking 'assurances' that they would not be executed.Abdullah Hasan al-Zaher, Ali al Nimr, and Dawood al-Marhoon were aged 15, 17 and 17 respectively when they were arrested for
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Barbados: "A lot of our problems are societal problems."A recent study by this country's Criminal Justice Unit shows that 80 % of Barbadians support the retention of the death penalty on this country's statute books.However, Kim Ramsay, a senior researcher with the Government-run
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Iraqi-led forces push toward Mosul, Iraq.(CNN) ISIS rounded up and killed 284 men and boys as Iraqi-led coalition forces closed in on Mosul, the terror group's last stronghold in Iraq, an Iraqi intelligence source told CNN.Those killed Thursday and Friday had been used as human shields
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)DAMMAM — A man convicted of kidnapping and raping a minor girl was executed in Qatif on Tuesday.A source from the Ministry of Interior said 33-year-old Saad Al-Shimrani, a Saudi national, was charged with kidnapping and raping the 14-year-old
Leggi TuttoA judge presiding over a lawsuit that protests the way Arizona carries out executions is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday over a sedative that was recently abandoned as one of the state's lethal injection drugs.Lawyers for the state are seeking to dismiss the lawsuit's claim that the sedative