When Elsa Alcala started her legal career, it was in the "killingest" office in Texas: that of Harris County District Attorney Johnny Holmes. In his more than two decades as an elected official, Holmes transformed the office into a place that netted more executions than any other county and more than any other state except for the rest of Leggi Tutto
The Trump administration is already searching for someone to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – and his supporters are jubilant about the possibilities.Ginsburg announced in December that she had surgery to remove two cancerous growths from her lungs. Earlier this week, she
When compared with many other countries, Switzerland tends to hand down shorter sentences, particularly for violent crime. And usually only repeat offenders or serious criminals have to do prison time. Why?Closer inspection of the penal codes of European countries shows that German-speaking
36-year-old Alyaksandr Asipovich has been sentenced to death on January, 9.Last summer the brutal murder of 2 girls in Babruysk shocked the whole country. On July 20, a girl contacted the police shouting that they were being killed:“He is killing us! We have locked ourselves in the bathroom! He
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man sentenced to death in the fatal shooting of a volunteer addiction counselor is proclaiming his innocence and asking that his life be spared, according to arguments by his attorneys a month before his scheduled execution.Warren Keith Henness, who goes by his
A bill that would end capital punishment is among the first items of business for Kentucky lawmakers who began their new session on Tuesday. House Bill 115 was introduced by Rep. Chad McCoy, R-Nelson.Aaron Bentley, who chairs the Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, contended that
A 16-year-old American boy fighting on behalf of the Islamic State was captured on the battlefield in Syria, an American-backed force fighting the militants said Wednesday.If the teenager is proved to be a United States citizen, he would be the first American minor to be caught fighting on behalf
Unlike most death row inmates, Scott Raymond Dozier wanted to die.Convicted of the 2002 killing and dismemberment of a Las Vegas man, Mr. Dozier waited for years while his lawyers appealed his death sentence. But he found the wait more agonizing than the prospect of execution. 2 years ago he
ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla.-- Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against the man charged with killing a woman, and their unborn child on the Treasure Coast last year.In the court filing Monday, the state says the murder of Tania Wise encompasses a number of aggravating factors that merit the
RAWALPINDI: Since the establishment of military courts, cases of 717 accused terrorists were sent to them by the federal government and 646 of them have been finalized.The swift trial courts were set up through a constitutional amendment for a period of two years in January 2015 to stem the
Females who commit so-called crimes against morality can sometimes meet the death penaltyA young Saudi woman who fled to Thailand is pleading not to be forced back to Saudi Arabia."I just want to survive," 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun said in a social media video where she can be seen
Magistrate Judge Mohamed Moosa passed the sentence in absentia solely based on her confessionNaifaru magistrate court has sentenced a 25-year-old woman from Naifaru island to death by stoning, after she confessed to having extramarital sex.Magistrate Judge Mohamed Moosa passed the sentence in
The execution warrant of Khizar Hayat, a severely mentally ill prisoner, was issued by the District and Sessions Judge, Lahore on Thursday, scheduling his execution for January 15. This will make Khizar the first Pakistani to be executed in 2019.“The warrant stands in blatant violation of the
After putting 3 men to death in 2018, Tennessee has scheduled 4 executions for 2019Although death sentences and executions in the United States continued their long-term decline in 2018 — it was the 4th year in a row that saw fewer than 30 executions nationwide — the death penalty is experiencing
The accused was found guilty of hitting the victim on the head with an iron pipe and killing himA Pakistani national has been executed in Saudi Arabia’s Dammam for beating to death a Saudi national.Mohammed Bilal allegedly killed Abdullah bin Ali bin Eid al-Harbi by hitting him on his head with
Iran Human Rights (IHR); January 10, 2019: A prisoner was hanged in Public at a square in the southern Iranian city of Kazerun.According to the Mizan News Agency, the prisoner was sentenced to death on kidnapping and rape charges. He had reportedly kidnapped and raped two 15-year old boys three
It happened again. The third time since August.In the four decades since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled capital punishment was constitutional in 1976, Tennessee only executed six men. Now, in a matter of four months, three people have been executed, two by electrocution. Three more executions are
On January 8, a double homicide case is being presented in Babruysk court. The defendant is an ex-con who served 12 years for previous crimes.According to the theory of the prosecution, Alyaksandr Asipovich, a 36-year-old resident of Babruysk, brutally killed two girls on July 20, 2018. The man
State officials have been working to replace lethal injection with nitrogen gas now going on 4 years. As time has gone on and inmates continue to wait questions are mounting about the process and whether Oklahoma will even have another execution.Oklahoma has been working to start using nitrogen
The Sections 4, 5, 6 of the Act are proposed to be amended to provide the option of stringent punishment, including death penalty, for committing aggravated penetrative sexual assault on a child.The Government on Tuesday introduced in Lok Sabha amendments to the POCSO Act, which provides for the
The teenager, who left her abusive parents in Kuwait after denouncing Islam, fears that she might be killed. Her action has called for global attention as United Nations said she would be given access to international protections.An 18 year-old Saudi teenager, Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, who was
IT MIGHT not have been a coincidence that as the new Congress convened Thursday, Saudi Arabia announced the opening of a trial of 11 people charged in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. After all, the U.S. Senate so far has come closest to imposing meaningful consequences on Crown Prince
BEIJING: A court in southern China has put a man to death after he injured 12 children in a knife attack at a kindergarten, the state broadcaster said on Monday.Violent crime is rare in China but there has been a series of knife and axe attacks in recent years, many targeting children.China
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska state Sen. Ernie Chambers is renewing his push to abolish the death penalty after his last successful attempt was overturned by voters in 2016.The longtime Omaha senator introduced a repeal bill Thursday on the Nebraska legislative session's second day.Nebraska
Over a sharp dissent by three justices, the United States Supreme Court has let stand the death sentence imposed on a Georgia prisoner who was suffering from dementia, brain damage, and borderline intellectual functioning, but whose trial lawyer failed to present any mitigating evidence. On
A total of 1, 299 death row inmates, including inmates who had appealed against their sentence, have been detained in Sri Lankan prisons as of December 31 last year, the Ministry of Justice and Prisons Reforms said yesterday.It said 1,215 male inmates and 84 female inmates were among them. “Among
As support for the death penalty continues to wane, those who still count themselves as backers of the system tend to hedge their support within two consistent parameters — only when we are absolutely certain it’s the right person, and only for the worst of the worst crimes.At this point, it has
On January 25, 2012, after his working hours, MSRTC driver Santosh Mane hijacked a bus and went on a driving rampage, mowing down dozens of bystanders and killing nine, in Pune.UNE: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday commuted the death sentence awarded to Santosh Mane, a driver of the
Attack on mother dogged man for two decades before he exploded in angerA man from Hanzhong, Shaanxi province, was sentenced to death on Tuesday for killing three neighbors in revenge for his mother's death, a local court said.Zhang Koukou, 36, stabbed Wang Zixin and two of his sons, Wang Zhengjun
A Saudi woman who fled her family and refused to leave a Bangkok hotel has been declared a legitimate refugee by the UN, the Australian government says.Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, refused to board a flight from Bangkok to Kuwait on Monday and barricaded herself into her airport hotel room.She
Craigslist killer Richard Beasley’s appeal of his death penalty conviction was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court.Beasley’s case was included in a list of appeals Monday morning that the high court declined to hear.Beasley, a death row inmate from Akron, argued that Ohio Supreme Court Justice
The Union Cabinet has approved certain amendments to the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, to strengthen the special law in view of rising sexual crimes against children. Approved by the Union Cabinet late last month, the amendments provide for stringent punishment
Authorities in Somalia have executed two assassins associated with insurgent group, Al-Shabaab. The duo were convicted by a military court of murdering a traditional chief.Hassan Ali Hassan, 25, and Abdirahman Isse Ali, 22, were executed in the capital Mogadishu, the military confirmed on
The first case to be taken up will be the Shakti Mills gang rape of a photo journalist in 2013. The conviction of the trio, Vijay Jadhav, Salim Ansari and Kasim Shaikh, were based on the new law which stipulated the death penalty for convicts of multiple rapes.The Bombay high court (HC) this year