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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); October 31, 2023: Jalil Nutizehi, a Baluch man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was executed in an Isfahan prison.According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in an unspecified Isfahan prison on 30 October. His identity has been established as 30-year-old Jalil Nutizehi (Zaruzehi) from Zahedan who was sentenced to death for drug-related charges by the
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Knox County judge has rejected a bid to vacate the death sentence of Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee and the youngest American woman to be sentenced to death since 1972.Pike and two others were convicted in the brutal murder of 19-year-old
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In the annals of Japan's criminal justice system, few cases have captured the nation's attention and stirred global outrage as much as that of Iwao Hakamada. His story is a tragic tale of wrongful conviction, decades spent on death row, and an ongoing fight for justice. Circumstantial
Casey McWhorter is scheduled to be the 1st man from Marshall County to die by execution.McWhorter, now 49 years old, was sentenced to the death penalty in 1994, following the 1993 murder of Edward Lee Williams.Earlier this month, Governor Kay Ivey set a 30-hour time frame for McWhorter’s
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A local court has convicted a man of kidnapping and killing a 14-year-old boy and handed down death sentence.Additional district and sessions judge Mohammad Ayaz Khan also ordered the convict, Sher Afzal of Rano Garhi area here, to pay Rs2 million compensation to the legal heirs of the
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A Ho Chi Minh City court sentenced six people to death on Friday for trafficking 5.6 kg of heroin.The committee of judges said the convicted were involved with larger trafficking rings that distributed massive amounts of methamphetamine and ketamine, and thus deserved the harshest punishment.The
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The 87-year-old defendant was deemed unfit to appear in court due to communication difficulties engendered by his long detention. His trial must not be prolonged.The Shizuoka District Court has begun the retrial of Iwao Hakamata, whose death sentence was previously finalized over the 1966 murder
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SALT LAKE CITY — A judge will decide whether a group of inmates can proceed with a lawsuit challenging Utah's death penalty.Five death row inmates — Ralph Menzies, Troy Kell, Michael Archuleta, Douglas Carter and Taberon Honie — are suing the state, challenging the methods and protocols
NEW DELHI, Oct 26, (Agencies): A Qatar court has delivered the death penalty to eight Indian nationals who were detained in the country last year, as confirmed by the Indian government in a statement issued on Thursday. The announcement of this verdict has left the Indian authorities deeply
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The Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood said his work as a spiritual advisor for death row inmates is more than getting them saved “wrap it up in a bow and send them to heaven.”“My work has never been like that,” Hood said. “I’ve always felt like there is a deep connection between the soul and the body and that
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KUWAIT CITY, Oct 25, (Agencies): The Criminal Court decided to adjourn the case of an Islamic education teacher accused of assaulting six children in the areas of Khitan and Farwaniya. The accused has previously faced the death penalty in another case, during which he uttered the phrase, “I am a
Texas offers religious education to the condemned but rarely values spiritual growth when considering clemency requests.Every day at 6 a.m., Will Speer’s testimony is broadcast across the airwaves on the Polunsky Unit’s radio station. He talks to his fellow prisoners about redemption, salvation
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On October 30, 2023, the United States Supreme Court denied Texas death-sentenced prisoner Brent Brewer’s petition for certiorari and clearing the way for his scheduled execution on November 9th. Mr. Brewer’s attorneys argue that unreliable “future dangerousness” junk science testimony from a
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A new fact has come to light involving the retrial of Hakamada Iwao, who has been sentenced to death but has been pleading innocent for a murder case that occurred more than half a century ago.NHK has learned that Murayama Hiroaki, who was a presiding judge at the Shizuoka District Court in 2014
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David Renteria is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. local time on Thursday, November 16, 2023, inside the Walls Unit execution chamber at the Huntsville State Penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. 53-year-old David is convicted of kidnapping and murdering 5-year-old Alexandra Flores on November 18
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The 3 men were previously sentenced to death on Oct 15, 2021 for causing the death of a 58-year-old man.The Court of Appeal today commuted the death sentence of 3 friends convicted of murder to imprisonment.A panel of 3 judges unanimously allowed the appeal by B Davendran, 30, K Neelamegan, 29
As part of an innovative prison reform program, the Oregon State Penitentiary created a healing garden on its grounds to provide some respite from the concrete and resemble the outside world. One incarcerated man who had spent most of the past two decades in solitary confinement described going
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Armita Geravand’s death comes after her being in a coma for weeks and threatens to reignite popular anger, protests over Iran’s mandatory headscarf law for womenDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro while not
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Speer has been on death row for decades after strangling another inmate at a Texas prison. The victim’s sister and faith leaders have both called on the parole board to halt the execution.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the execution of William Speer on Thursday, just hours before he
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A Columbus man who has been on death row since his 2020 conviction on two murder charges will now serve life in prison under a 2021 Ohio law forbidding the execution of people who were severely mentally ill at the time of their offense.Michael R. Turner, 64, was sentenced to death for the June
Le Van Manh was executed last month despite protesting his innocence.The family of a man executed in Vietnam in spite of his claims of innocence told Radio Free Asia this week they would continue to fight to clear his name, honoring a request in his final letter to them.Le Van Manh, 41, was
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On Monday, October 23, the Algiers Court of Appeal sentenced thirty-eight people to the death penalty for the lynching to death of a man wrongly mistaken for an arsonist after helping to put out deadly fires during the summer 2021, according to the official Algérie Presse Service (APS)
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The apex court observed that the trial was conducted in a "hurried manner"The Supreme Court has set aside the conviction of a man who was awarded the death sentence for the alleged rape and murder of a three-month-old infant girl and has ordered a retrial in the case, noting that the accused was
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By April 1990, 19-year-old Brent Brewer was in the midst of a full-blown crisis. A few weeks earlier, he’d been released from a hospital in Texas, where he’d been involuntarily committed for several months after his grandmother, with whom he was living, found a suicide note he’d written. In the
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This week, federal prosecutors said they won’t seek the death penalty against the man charged in the kidnapping and killing of 2-year-old, Wynter Smith.Defense Attorney, Sarissa Montague, shared how rare it is for someone in Michigan to face the execution chamber.Montague said the death penalty
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Casey McWhorter is scheduled to be executed anytime between 12:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 16, 2023, and 6:00 a.m. on Friday, November 17, 2023, at the Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore, Alabama. 49-year-old Casey is convicted of murdering Edward Lee Williams, Sr., on February 18, 1993
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); October 27, 2023: Four more men are reported to have been executed for drug-related charges in Birjand Central Prison on Thursday, increasing the number of executions that day at the prison to five people.According to Hal Vash, four men including a Baluch minority were
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An Indonesian court on Friday handed death sentences to eight Iranian drug traffickers found guilty of smuggling more than 300 kilograms of crystal meth into the Southeast Asian country.Indonesia has some of the world’s toughest anti-drug laws but has held off conducting executions for several
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Robert Card is the person of interest police are looking for following Wednesday night's mass shootings in a bowling alley and nearby barPolice continue to hunt Thursday morning for the man who allegedly killed at least 18 people last night in multiple shootings in Maine.Robert Card, the person
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Eight former Indian Navy personnel were on Thursday handed down death sentence by a court in Qatar, a verdict that was described as “deeply” shocking by India as it vowed to explore all legal options in the case.The Indian nationals, who worked with private security company Al Dahra, were
Koh Samui, Thailand, Oct 26 (EFE).- A court on the Thai island of Koh Samui on Thursday postponed the hearing of murder-accused Spaniard Daniel Sancho until next month.Sancho, 29, has been charged in the case of the murder and dismemberment of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta on the neighboring
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The case of prison convert Will Speer shows the significance of ‘peers’ leading ministry behind bars.The first death row prisoner to help lead a death row ministry in Texas’s Allan B. Polunsky Unit, a state prison with maximum security units, is scheduled to be executed on Thursday, October 26
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); October 20, 2023: Mohammad Ali Vahidi, a Baluch man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Gonbad Kavous Prison.According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Gonbad Kavous Prison, in Golestan province on 19 October. His identity has
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The Death Penalty Information Center has updated its Death Penalty Census, a database of every death sentence imposed since 1972. The database now contains information accurate as of January 1, 2022, inclusive of the 50th year of the modern death penalty. The Census contains information on 9,820