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Florida’s approach to the death penalty is deepening its outlier status on this human rights issue and has now added an extra layer of arbitrariness to its already discriminatory and error-prone capital justice system, Amnesty International said in a new report released today.
“While several US states have embraced abolition in recent years, Florida remains a diehard proponent of
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In a new legal challenge to Tennessee's execution process, death row offenders say using a firing squad would be more humane than the state's current lethal injection method. The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday, says the state tortured Billy Ray Irick to death when he was injected with toxic
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The blasphemy conviction of Meiliana, a 44-year-old ethnic Chinese Buddhist resident of Tanjung Balai, North Sumatra, for complaining about the volume of the adzan (call to prayer) has garnered worldwide attention and condemnation.But how exactly did the case unfold from a simple noise complaint
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The use of fentanyl in a Nebraska execution and the Catholic Church's recent stand on capital punishment has stirred the debate over the way states execute the condemned.Nebraska authorities used fentanyl to help execute a convicted murderer on August 14.Carey Dean Moore, a 60-year-old inmate who
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One prisoner was hanged at Gachsaran Prison on murder charges. According to a report by HRANA, on the morning of Monday, August 20, a prisoner was executed at Gachsaran Prison. The prisoner, sentenced to death on murder charges, was identified as Keramat Hassani. Keramat Hassani was from a
Observers' view was blocked for 14 minutes(NEWSER) – The Aug. 14 execution of Carey Dean Moore in Nebraska garnered national attention because authorities used a heretofore untested cocktail of four drugs to end the life of the convicted killer. But now, another aspect of the execution is
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The execution of Nebraska's longest serving death row inmate last week left many wondering what's next for capital punishment in a state where it hadn't been used in more than 20 years.Will officials quickly try to carry out what would be Nebraska's 2nd lethal injection? Or will decades pass
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Arkansas Times) -- The Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission Monday denied Judge Wendell Griffen's request to dismiss ethics charges against him. It also granted him only limited access to documents he'd sought related to the investigation. The case will now proceed to
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Eyal Bokel and Dolev Zuarez convicted of killing the Israeli criminal Maor Malul in the island of Ko Samui in January in a sentence considered mild in Thailand, which has capital punishment for premeditated murder.A court in Thailand sentenced two Israelis, Eyal Bokel—brother of Baruch Bokel, who
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The 2013 law was credited with stopping Robert Roberson's execution 2 years ago, and his conviction is now under review in county court.Robert Roberson shuffled into a courtroom this week wearing a striped gray jumpsuit and handcuffs, his life once again hanging in the balance.After 15 years on
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The system is likely to encourage them to facilitate speedy trials and quick convictions in rape cases.The Madhya Pradesh government has come up with a "reward system" to encourage state prosecutors to facilitate speedy trials and quick convictions in rape cases, The Indian Express reported on
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A decade after looking at options to replace death by hanging with a 'more humane' way, ministry says no such proposal being examined.About a decade after the Centre started looking at various options, including lethal injection, to find a 'more humane' way to replace death by hanging for
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President Donald Trump told Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday that illegal dealers of the opioid fentanyl should be sentenced to death when convicted, according to two people familiar with the matter.Sessions met Trump at the White House to discuss overhauling prison sentences, hours
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A 41-year-old Brownsville man scheduled to be executed by the State of Texas on Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. is asking a federal judge to stay his execution.Ruben Gutierrez, who was sentenced to death in 1999 for the brutal slaying of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison at the Harrison Mobile Home Park on
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In 2014, Chris McDaniel was investigating whether Missouri was injecting inmates with a particular sedative, midazolam, before executing them. While under oath, the state had previously said it would not use the drug in its executions.McDaniel, a death-penalty reporter, needed to find out crucial
AFP - Sri Lanka will soon resume executions after a 42-year moratorium but will send home 5 Pakistanis sentenced to death for drug smuggling for execution in their home country, President Maithripala Sirisena said Wednesday.The 5 are among 18 people, including a woman, on death row for drug
Pope Francis has taken a consistently principled position that human life is sacred.I was among the Sri Lankans who were shocked to see media reports in July indicating that President Maithripala Sirisena and his cabinet have given the green light to execute drug offenders on death row.Pope
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The accused was booked for rape, murder, house trespass, assault and destroying evidence under the Indian Penal Code and other relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act.A 22-year-old man was sentenced to death on Monday for the rape-cum-murder of a 14-year-old girl
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Christopher Watts faces nine felony charges including first degree murder and unlawful termination of pregnancyGREELEY — Weld County prosecutors charged a 33-year-old Frederick man Monday with first-degree murder in the deaths of his pregnant wife and two preschool-aged daughters, whose bodies he
Saudi human rights activists are warning against the possible beheading of Israa al-Ghomgham by the government. Israa has been provisionally sentenced to death by a Ryadh court.Back on August 6th at a hearing before the Specialised Criminal Court, the public prosecutor recommended the death
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Nebraska state senators criticized prison officials this week for shielding key parts of the state's 1st-ever lethal injection from the view of news media witnesses.Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks of Lincoln said she will push for a new law requiring future Nebraska executions to be visible from start
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Libyan UN-backed Ministry of Justice on Sunday rejected foreign opposition to a court sentence of 45 former regime supporters to death."The Ministry of Justice confirms the fairness, integrity and independence of the Libyan judiciary, especially that the defendants of the case had received fair
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At least 10 rapists have been awarded the death sentence by various courts in the state since February this year so far.A local court has sentenced a man to death for raping and killing a woman while he was out on bail after being convicted earlier for a murder.While awarding the death penalty to
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Samuel Woodward, 21, is accused of killing 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein because he was gay.A 21-year-old California man accused of killing his gay former classmate struggled with his own sexuality and autism spectrum disorder, which caused him to fall in with an online group of white supremacists
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Anesthesiologist Joel Zivot, MD, says he won't give Missouri officials an opinion on which execution method might result in the lowest risk of severe pain for a prisoner on death row because he feels ethically unable to compare the consequences of alternative forms of execution allowed under
LAS VEGAS -- Another pharmaceutical company was allowed Tuesday to join two other firms in Nevada state court hearings about the use of their drugs in a twice-postponed execution of a convicted killer who says he wants to die.Sandoz Inc. is the latest addition to the case before Clark County
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Libya's judiciary convicted 99 defendants in a mass trial on August 15, 2018, sentencing 45 to death and 54 to 5 years in prison, Human Rights Watch said today. The judiciary has a record of conducting unfair trials.The Government of National Accord should uphold the de-facto moratorium on the
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GREELEY, Colo. - Frank Rzucek Sr. leaned forward in a Colorado courtroom, weeping with his face in his hands as his son-in-law, just feet away, was told Tuesday he could face the death penalty if convicted of killing Rzucek’s daughter and two granddaughters.Collecting himself, Rzucek glared as
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Iraqi judicial authorities have sentenced 14 people to death for participating in the 2014 execution of hundreds of Iraqi air force cadets claimed by the Islamic State (IS) in the northern city of Tikrit."The Iraqi judiciary sentenced 14 main defendants in the Speicher massacre," Moen al-Kazemi
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A Chinese-Indonesian woman of the Buddhist faith has been sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for complaining about the volume of the azan (Islamic call to prayer) that was blasted from a speaker of a mosque near her house.Meiliana, 44, a resident of Tanjung Balai, North Sumatra, was found guilty of
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In the darkness of an execution chamber in the Walls Unit in Huntsville one night last month a moment of clarity shone through.As inmate Chris Young died at the hands of the state on July 17, one thing, even in that dimly lit observation room bordering the actual execution chamber, was blazingly
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Prison officials have told the Nevada Supreme Court that witnesses reported no complications during Nebraska's execution of Carey Dean Moore, which used some of the same drugs that Nevada wants to use to carry out a death penalty.Nevada state attorneys, on behalf of state prison officials, said
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Iran Human Rights (Aug 18, 2018): Six prisoners were executed at Mashhad Prison on the charge of “armed robbery”.According to a report by ISNA, on the morning of Saturday, August 18, six prisoners were executed at Mashhad Prison. The prisoners, whose identities have not been mentioned, were
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A court in this district of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday sentenced a man to death for raping a minor girl.Additional District Judge Sudhanshu Saxena awarded the capital punishment to Naresh Parihar (40), said assistant prosecutor P L Rawat.The prosecution examined 24 witnesses, he said.The judge