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SALT LAKE CITY — A lawsuit filed by five Utah death row inmates claiming the state's capital punishment statutes equate to cruel and unusual punishment has been dismissed.On Friday, 3rd District Judge Coral Sanchez agreed with a motion filed by the Utah Attorney General's Office that the lawsuit filed by Ralph Menzies, Douglas Carter, Troy Kell, Michael Archuleta and Taberon Honie should
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Tallahassee—Florida is one of five states that regularly uses the death penalty — and in 2023 the state stood out for its efforts to increase and expand the use of capital punishment. The state’s moves to resume executions after three years, to lower the bar for juries to recommend death
Cairo: A member of the Saudi advisory Shoura Council has proposed amending the kingdom’s anti-drug law to allow abolishing flogging as a form of punishment, a Saudi news portal has reported.Akhbar24, citing unspecified sources, said the proposal had been made by the council’s member Hadi Al
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A federal judge has overturned the death penalty conviction of a Mississippi man, finding a trial judge didn’t give the man’s lawyer enough chance to argue that the prosecution was dismissing Black jurors for discriminatory reasons.U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills ruled Tuesday that the state
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Iran this week hanged a young woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, defying international pressure for her to be pardoned. The Islamic regime in Iran is engaged in a war against its own people as it executes them for minor offenses or no offense at all
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); December 19, 2023: An Afghan national and a Baluch minority were executed for drug-related charges in Karaj Ghezelhesar Prison. At least three others are at imminent risk of execution at the prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were
During this time, particularly individuals such as women, juvenile offenders, protesters, and political prisoners whose executions could elicit stronger reactions under normal circumstances are at greater risk.Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); December 16, 2023: Samira Sabzian’s postponed execution is
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KAMPALA, Dec 18 (Reuters) - As a Ugandan court hears a challenge on Monday to one of the world's harshest anti-LGBT laws, there's more at stake than the simple constitutionality of the statute.LGBT activists say the Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) has given Ugandans an implicit licence to abuse and
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The convict burnt the corpses in an attempt to cover up his crimeSaudi authorities have executed a citizen after he had been convicted of fatally stabbing his mother and sister and burnt their bodies.The execution was carried out on Saturday in Medina, the Saudi Interior Ministry said.The
Earlier this year, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed CS/HB 1297 into law, which made sexual assault and battery on children 12 or younger a capital offense, taking effect in October. Florida's Fifth Judicial Circuit could see the first application of the new law in a case now.Florida's
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Iran executed 1 person on charges of espionage for Israel’s Mossad intelligence service in Sistan and Baluchestan province, state media reported on Saturday.“This individual, while consciously engaging with foreign services, including Mossad, deliberately collected classified information and
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); December 10, 2023: Mehdi Nasiri and Abbas Ketabi were executed for drug-related charges in Qom Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, at least two men were executed in Qom Central Prison on 9 December. Their identities have been
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Saudi Arabia is currently promoting the Saudi Green Initiative under which it plans to plant some 10 billion trees in order to “rehabilitate 40 million hectares of land and restore Saudi Arabia’s natural greenery.“With the world’s current focus on climate change, such an initiative will
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Alabama has settled a lawsuit filed by a Death Row spiritual advisor who claimed the state’s procedures to execute an inmate violate the inmate’s religious liberty, the minister said.Under the settlement, the Rev. Jeff Hood will be able to anoint Kenneth Smith’s with oil and share the Holy
Nitrogen. I keep hearing the word repeatedly. In fact, the word presently consumes a good part of my life. Will it happen? Will it kill me? What are the dangers? Is it all hyperbole? I don’t know. I just know that I’ve been asked by Kenny Smith in Alabama to accompany him to the 1st execution by
A judge in Alabama will decide if a new method of execution using pure nitrogen gas can be used for the first time.Two other states are considering the method as an alternative to lethal injections, after a spate of botched executions in the US.But lawyers for Kenneth Eugene Smith, convicted of a
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); December 20, 2023: Samira Sabzian, a woman sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Ghezelhesar Prison.Condemning Samira’s execution, IHRNGO urges the international community for a serious reaction to the high rise in executions. Director
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Hassan Khalkhal Zard, a 32-year-old Iranian man who has languished behind bars for 11 weeks, is facing the death penalty for his online activities, IranWire has learned.Khalkhal Zard was arrested on October 1 by intelligence agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and is now being
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A famous serial killer of China, Lao Rongzhi, was reportedly executed on Monday after a death penalty for murdering 7 people, including a child. China’s notorious female serial killer, Lao Rongzhi, was executed on Monday in East China’s Jiangxi Province. Between 1996 and 1999, she was
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); December 15, 2023: Kheirollah Nahtani, a Baluch man, was secretly executed for drug-related charges in Zahedan Central Prison.According to Haal Vsh, a Baluch man was executed in Zahedan Central Prison on 14 December. His identity has been reported as 38-year-old
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A North Texas man has earned his Master's degree, a feat made extra special when you consider he was once on death row for a murder he did not commit.His exoneration offered him a 2nd chance.Ryan Matthews, the new owner of a master's degree in business analytics from Texas Woman's University, had
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Texas once again led the nation in executions in 2023. A large proportion of the prisoners put to death suffered from some form of mental illness or cognitive disability.Texas put eight people to death over the course of the past year, accounting for fully one-third of the nation's executions. It
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A Florida man accused of shooting 2 of his co-workers and then holding them hostage before beating and stabbing them to death using an assortment of office supplies pled guilty to 1st-degree murder just days into his trial.Jose Rojas, 55, also said in a 3-page letter to the judge that he would
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A sessions court in Lahore has sentenced a Christian man to death in a three-year-old blasphemy case.The verdict was announced by Additional District and Sessions Judge Ishrat Abbas on December 20, 2023.The police lodged an FIR (237/20) dated June 2, 2020, on the complaint of a police officer
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The North Carolina Supreme Court published a ruling Friday that a Black man on death row should not be given a new trial despite that he’d been sentenced to death by an all-white jury after prosecutors used a handout to strike Black people from the jury pool.Russell William Tucker was sentenced
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Iran Human Rights (IHNRGO); December 22, 2023: Taher Davabi was executed for murder charges in Khorramabad Central Prison. Two drug death row inmates have also been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); December 20, 2023: Najibollah Dahmardeh, Baluch man on death row for drug-related charges, was secretly executed in Ghaemshahr Prison.According to Haal Vsh, a Baluch man was executed in Ghaemshahr Prison in Mazandaran province on 20 December. His identity has been
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Texas, long considered the death penalty capital of the United States, has undergone a remarkable transformation in its approach to executions. And what is happening in the Lone Star State is a harbinger of the fate of capital punishment across the country.A year-end report issued on Dec. 14 by
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On January 25, Alabama intends to put Kenneth Smith to death using nitrogen hypoxia as its method of execution. If it does so it will be the first time that this method has been used in an American execution.Alabama’s plan is just the latest chapter in a long-running American saga of efforts to
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Chad Doerman, 32, has been indicted on 21 charges in connection with the shooting deaths of his young boys and is awaiting trial at Ohio's Clermont County JailChad Doerman, the Ohio dad accused of killing his three young sons in an execution-style shooting in June, is behind bars at the Clermont
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Idaho paid $50,000 for 15 grams of pentobarbitalAttorneys for 2 men on Idaho death row have challenged the state prison system’s effort to withhold the date that officials bought drugs intended for use in a future execution, asking a federal judge to step in and force disclosure of the
Khalil Majedi, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Ahvaz Sepidar Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Ahvaz Sepidar Prison on 13 December. His identity has been established as 36-year-old Khalil Majedi from
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On Wednesday, December 13, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Thornell v. Jones, its first death penalty case to be heard at oral argument in the 2023 term. Unlike most death penalty cases that seek Supreme Court review, the petitioner here is the state of Arizona, which asks the Court
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A report highlights the continuous failures of the state's capital punishment system, which executed 8 people this year despite a declining death row population.Despite declining death penalty usage, Texas still led the nation in executions this year, according to a new report that highlights the