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Nov
2023
David Renteria's claim that he kidnapped 5-year-old Alexandra Flores under duress never made it to trial, according to court recordsThe state of Texas is set to execute a man later this week who in 2001 kidnapped a five-year-old girl from an El Paso Walmart before brutally murdering her, leaving behind her partially naked and burned body- to this day, he says a
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Nov
2023
The communist country has some of the toughest drug laws in the world, and is notoriously secretive about its executions.South Korean ex-police officer Kim Soon-sik, 63, and compatriot Kang Seon-hok, 30, were sentenced to death following a four-day trial in Ho Chin Minh City, state media said
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Nov
2023
Texas man executed after more than 30 years on death rowA Texas man who spent more than 30 years on death row for a murder he committed during a robbery when he was 19 has been executed.Brent Brewer, 53, was put to death yesterday evening by lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in the
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Nov
2023
The 31-year-old convict killed a 46-year-old woman and her three-year-old neighbour on April 14, 2017.A sessions court in Mumbai Tuesday sentenced a 31-year-old man to death for setting ablaze two people — a woman and a child — in Bandra in 2017.Deepak Jath was found guilty of charges under
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Nov
2023
Amnesty International has urged Iranian authorities to immediately quash the conviction and death sentence against Reza Razaei, a man accused of involvement in the killing of a security agent during nationwide protests last year.“If charged with a recognizable criminal offence, proceedings must
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Nov
2023
A ruling Thursday by the Alabama Supreme Court moved the state closer to executing an inmate in a way no state has ever done.Alabama’s nitrogen hypoxia method, five years in the making, would use a gas mask to cause death. It is an alternative to the state’s standard method, lethal
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- For the first time since Gallup started asking about the fairness of the death penalty's application in the U.S. -- a trend that dates back to 2000 -- more Americans say it is applied unfairly (50%) than fairly (47%). This represents a five-point increase in the percentage who
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Nov
2023
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 2, 2023: Branch 5 of the Tehran Criminal Court has sentenced Leila Kholghi Sakachayi and Abolfazl Barat Vakili to hanging for adultery charges. Branch 12 of the Tehran Criminal Court has also sentenced another woman, Mitra to death for the same charges and the
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Nov
2023
A Madison County jury on Friday sentenced to death a man who admitted to shooting and killing an on-duty Huntsville police officer. Billy Clardy III was 48 years old when LaJeromeny Brown shot him three times on Dec. 6, 2019, during an undercover drug operation in north Huntsville.“I know, in so
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Nov
2023
The Alabama Supreme Court has granted the state’s request to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia, according to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.Smith was twice convicted by juries for the murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett in her home in Colbert County in 1988
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Nov
2023
The man sentenced to death for the mass shooting at a Squirrel Hill synagogue that killed 11 people is seeking a new trial.Robert Bowers, 51, who was convicted over the summer of 63 counts for the Oct. 27, 2018, attack at the Tree of Life synagogue at Wilkins and Shady avenues, filed the motion
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Nov
2023
Execution of Emmanuel Littlejohn Stayed in Oklahoma Before November 2, 2023Emmanuel Littlejohn was scheduled to be executed at 10 a.m. local time on Thursday, November 2, 2023. The execution, which would have taken place inside the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 9, 2023: State media have reported the execution of a man only identified as Akbar for murder in Tabriz Central Prison.According to Rokna, a man was executed in Tabriz Central Prison in the last week. The man only named as Akbar was sentenced to qisas
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Nov
2023
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board narrowly voted Wednesday to recommend sparing the life of a man set to be executed later this month for what he claims were the self-defense killings of two men in Oklahoma City in 2001.The board voted 3-2 to recommend clemency for Phillip
A bill to repeal the death penalty in Pennsylvania has passed a committee in the commonwealth’s House of Representatives. The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee voted 15-10 in favor of HB 999 on October 31, 2023. That vote is the first step toward abolishing the death penalty in Pennsylvania
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Nov
2023
MORGAN COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — The State of Alabama says it will be seeking the death penalty against a man facing multiple capital murder charges for a 2020 shooting in Danville.Carson Peters was indicted in August 2021 on four counts of capital murder and one count of first-degree assault in
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Nov
2023
KUALA LUMPUR: The first case to review a sentence after abolishing the mandatory death penalty and life imprisonment will be heard in the Apex court on Nov 14.Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reforms) Ramkarpal Singh said the case under the Revision of
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Nov
2023
New information is coming to light in the case of a Dothan woman accused of putting her baby in a trash compactor in the heat of August.Jakayla Williams, 18, is charged with one count of Capital Murder. Police arrested Williams in late August after investigators said she threw her newborn baby in
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 3, 2023: Shamsollah Banani, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Ahar Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Ahar Prison on 29 October. His identity has been established as
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The death penalty in South Carolina is on hold for the next few months.According to a court order, a lawsuit from four condemned prisoners argues that electrocution and the firing squad are unconstitutional methods of execution and the denial of the right to choose between
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Nov
2023
South Carolina’s highest court apparently is not ready to allow the state to restart executions after more than 12 years until they hear more arguments about newly obtained lethal injection drugs as well as a recently added firing squad and the old electric chair.The state Supreme Court set a
TEHRAN, Iran -- An Iranian court has sentenced a woman to death for adultery, state media said.A report by the IRAN newspaper on Wednesday said the woman worked as a trainer in a gym for females.It said her husband contacted police in 2022 when he found her with another man at their home. The
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Nov
2023
“Mr. Murdaugh’s right to have his appeal heard by an impartial judge will be violated if Judge Newman proceeds to hear his motion for a new trial,” a new motion says.As Alex Murdaugh’s legal team pushes for a new murder trial, they have a bold request for the South Carolina Supreme Court: ban
The former president of China CITIC Bank Corporation Limited was given a suspended death by a court in Shandong province on Friday for accepting bribes of about 1 billion yuan ($137 million).The Intermediate People's Court in Jinan, capital of Shandong province, announced the death penalty with a
Saving souls, destroying bodiesSince late 2021, Texas has been working to rehabilitate death row inmates through a new project known as the Faith-Based Program.The Texas Department of Criminal Justice writes that the Faith-Based Program “is based on the belief that individuals, no matter their
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Nov
2023
Louisiana law allows a person in prison to file a petition to challenge their conviction or sentence on the basis of claims like innocence, police or prosecutorial misconduct, and ineffective assistance of counsel. State law also requires that a panel of three state appellate judges must review
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 6, 2023: Ghasem Abasteh, a Kurdish-Sunni political prisoner sentenced to death without due process or a fair trial for charges of moharebeh (enmity against god) and efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth) through “armed resistance and membership in a Salafi jihadi
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 3, 2023: Seven prisoners, most of whom were on death row for murder, were executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison on 1st November. IHRNGO previously reported the execution of two other men including an Afghan national at the prison that day. With two months still
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Nov
2023
Pennsylvania nurse is accused of killing 4 patients, injuring others with high doses of insulinA registered nurse in Pennsylvania faces charges she administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients — including a 104-year-old — at health care facilities over the past
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Nov
2023
When I served on Brent Brewer’s jury in 2009, I believed in doing my civic duty to decide the case impartially. After I heard all the evidence, I was convinced that Brent did not act with premeditation and did not intend to kill the victim. It seemed to me that he was trying to steal a truck and
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Nov
2023
Last month, a state judge in Baton Rouge ordered the Louisiana Board of Pardons to hire a fresh slate of lawyers to handle a massive stack of clemency bids from death row.The judge, Richard “Chip” Moore, found that Attorney General Jeff Landry, now governor-elect, was conflicted when he canned
Wisezah Datawn Buckman was sentenced to death on Thursday after a Dare County Superior Court jury recommended the convicted murderer receive that punishment for his role in the slaying of 4 prison employees during a failed escape attempt at Pasquotank Correctional Institution in October 2017.The
A divided Alabama Supreme Court said the state can execute an inmate with nitrogen gas, a method that has not previously been used carry out a death sentence.The all-Republican court in a 6-2 decision Wednesday granted the state attorney general's request for an execution warrant for Kenneth
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2023
In August 2023, Alabama released the first-ever execution protocol for nitrogen hypoxia, an untested execution method in which prisoners will be put to death by suffocation as they are forced to breathe pure nitrogen gas. Alabama’s heavily redacted protocol provides that prisoners will be fitted