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 shocked. The statement further mentioned that India is actively pursuing all available legal avenues in
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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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They were the youngest of the 134 suspected drug offenders arrested in an island-wide anti-drug operation.Two teenage boys, both 14 years old, were arrested for suspected drug offences in Yishun on Oct. 8, 2023, said the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in an Oct. 21, 2023, news release.The two
LIVINGSTON—If Texas Death Row inmate William Keith Speer is executed as scheduled Oct. 26, two men whose lives have been transformed by God will be present—one on the death chamber gurney and one in the adjacent viewing area.Speer is a convicted two-time killer who committed his life to Christ
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Idaho death row inmate Thomas Creech’s scheduled execution next month was delayed Wednesday after the state’s parole board granted him a clemency hearing to consider dropping his death sentence to life in prison. An Ada County judge last week signed a death warrant for Creech, a convicted
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An Iranian court has sentenced the legal representative of Mahsa Amini's family to one year in prison for "propaganda activity" against the Islamic Republic, according to an activist group.The France-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network said that Branch 28 of the Islamic Revolution Court of
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Ramandeep Kaur, 38, from Derby, was convicted of the murder of her husband, Sukhjit Singh, 34, during their vacation at his mother’s residence in India in 2016A court in India’s Uttar Pradesh’s awarded death penalty to a British Sikh woman for murdering her husband with the help of a friend seven
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, has won the Louisiana governor's race, holding off a crowded field of candidates.The win is a major victory for the GOP as they reclaim the governor's mansion for the first time in eight years
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BATON ROUGE, La. (KALB) - The Louisiana Board of Pardons has declined to move forward with the first five death row applications during administrative reviews Friday in Baton Rouge.This comes after an agreement was reached last week between the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, district
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
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A wealthy father who tortured and starved his three-year-old son to death and made his short life 'pure hell' will be executed with a bullet to the head in Belarus.Alexander Taratuta, 48, has been sentenced to death for the brutal torture and murder of his son Semyon. He will be shot in the back
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An execution date for an Alabama man convicted of a shooting three decades ago is set for next month.Casey A. McWhorter is set to die for the 1993 shooting death of Edward Lee Williams in Marshall County. He has been on Alabama Death Row since 1994, after a jury voted 10-2 for him to be
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); October 17, 2023: Sajad Moradi and Yaser Golzardian, two men sentenced to death for drug-related charges, were executed in Khorramabad Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Khorramabad Central Prison on 17
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Oct 17 (Reuters) - The South Carolina court of appeals on Tuesday ruled that Richard "Alex" Murdaugh, a lawyer found guilty of murdering his wife and son, can ask a lower court judge to toss out his conviction due to allegations of jury tampering. Lawyers for Murdaugh, who has maintained his
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On Friday, October 13, the sole surviving family member of murder victim Gary L. Dickerson joined dozens of faith leaders and others in asking the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for clemency for Will Speer. Mr. Speer is set to be executed on October 26, 2023. After a childhood of horrific
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The court sentenced two other accomplices to life imprisonment.The Court of First Instance in charge of terrorism cases at the Court of Appeals in Rabat sentenced a man to the death penalty for his involvement in the murder of a policeman.The court issued its verdict on Thursday. Two other
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As a nation that claims to uphold human rights, it is puzzling that Indonesia retains the death penalty in its criminal justice system. The problem with our capital punishment is not just the fact that it is irreversible, but also because of the country’s corrupt system that allows room for
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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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When the supply of drugs used for lethal injections began to run out, a couple of prison guards in the US had to go out and find another source.For over 20 years, Randy Workman was the man who walked people to their death.As a senior corrections officer in the state of Oklahoma, he personally
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The Permanent Representative of Armenia to the Council of Europe, Ambassador Arman Khachatryan, in the presence of Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić, has deposited the ratification instrument, thereby completing the process of ratification by Armenia of Protocol No. 13 to the European
After the swift verdict for the murderer of Delmar Police Corporal Keith Heacook, there is renewed debate on capital punishment in the first state. Some are now suggesting a reconsideration of the death penalty for specific crimes.State Representative Tim Dukes, a Republican who represents Delmar
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Idaho death row inmate Thomas Creech’s scheduled execution next month was delayed Wednesday after the state’s parole board granted him a clemency hearing to consider dropping his death sentence to life in prison. An Ada County judge last week signed a death warrant for Creech, a convicted
Experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council urged China not to forcibly repatriate people who have escaped from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), warning that some returnees could even be put to death. The experts were alarmed that hundreds of escapees – the vast majority of
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Matthew Taylor Coleman, a Santa Barbara surf school owner charged with killing his two young children with a spearfishing gun in Baja, Mexico, was deemed incompetent to stand trial by a federal judge in San Diego on Thursday.According to the San Diego Tribune, U.S. District
Scott Panetti was deemed incompetent for execution. What does this mean for other prisoners?A federal judge has declared that Scott Panetti, a longtime resident of Texas’ death row, is incompetent for execution due to the severity of his mental illness. The decision comes more than 15 years after
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge issued a death warrant on Thursday for the state’s longest-serving death row inmate, scheduling his execution for next month.Thomas Creech was convicted of killing two people in Valley County in 1974 and sentenced to death row. But after an appeal that sentence