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Justice says the U.S. is "accepting barbarism" as the execution of Billy Ray Irick is allowed to go forward.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a blistering dissent that we are "accepting barbarism" after the Supreme Court refused to halt Tennessee's execution Thursday night of Billy Ray Irick, 59, using a controversial drug combination.
Irick was put to
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In the parking lot of Riverbend Maximum Security Institute, an empty podium and tent stood under a gray sky.It was muggy and quiet.A small group of reporters — those who weren’t selected as the seven media witnesses to the state execution of Billy Ray Irick — shuffled around the parking lot
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By social-media standards these days, a tweet sent last Thursday by Canada’s Foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland, was hardly surprising—or a deviation from what other Western governments have said for years about Saudi Arabia’s egregious human-rights record. Her tweet addressed the case of
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LAS VEGAS— A Nevada death-row inmate whose execution has been postponed twice said a legal fight over his fate is taking a tortuous toll on him and his family and he just wants his sentence carried out.The state should “just get it done, just do it effectively and stop fighting about it,” Scott
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OGDEN — Weber County commissioners have agreed to continue covering the cost of public defenders for two Ogden parents charged with murdering their toddler in a potential death penalty case.The county's three-member commission unanimously approved new contracts for the attorneys at its Tuesday
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Three prisoners were executed at Minab Prison (Hormozgan province) on the charge of rape.According to a report by Azad News Agency (ANA), on the morning of Wednesday, August 8, three prisoners were executed at Minab Prison. The prisoners, whose identities have not been mentioned in the report
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SUNRISE, Fla. -- Prosecutors on Wednesday released hours of video interrogation of Florida's school shooting suspect, footage showing the young man slouching in a chair, being repeatedly urged by a detective to speak louder and punching himself in the face when he is alone. Wednesday's release
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia executed a man by crucifixion in the holy city of Mecca on Wednesday, while it was trying to attack Canada on its human rights record.Saudi Arabia frequently uses capital punishment, which can be issued for crimes like homosexuality or anti-government activities
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Authorities have decided to permanently preserve trial records of criminal cases involving the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult as part of efforts to prevent a repeat of the serious crimes committed by its members, Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa said Friday.“Their crimes were unprecedented, and
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Submitting that the accused has shown “exceptional brutality and depravity”, the prosecution on Tuesday sought the death penalty for Ayyaz Mohammed Ali Ansari, who was last month convicted by the sessions court for raping a minor girl in the city.In April 2017, Ansari (38) was convicted for
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The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that the scheduled execution of Billy Ray Irick should proceed as planned on Thursday, denying his request for a stay.Shortly after the Monday evening ruling, Gov. Bill Haslam announced he would not intervene and would allow the execution to go forward."I took an
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New Castle said he will advance legislation to permanently remove the death penalty "and its ugly stain in our history -- from state law once and for all."Cuomo, who is running for re-election to a third term, said he action is in solidarity with Pope Francis and in honor of
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Death row inmate Billy Ray Irick died at 7:48 p.m. Thursday after Tennessee prison officials administered a lethal dose of toxic chemicals. He was 59. His execution, the first in Tennessee since 2009, comes after his 1986 conviction in Knox County for the rape and murder of 7-year-old Paula
On July 6, former Aum Shinrikyō cult leader Asahara Shōkō (Matsumoto Chizuo) was put to death, along with six of his senior followers. Executions of the remaining six death row prisoners in the case followed on July 26. Asahara never spoke during his trial, and now that he is dead the possibility
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Three paedophiles were publicly shot and hanged from cranes after the group brutally raped and killed a 10-year-old boy.Shocking photos show the men, dressed in blue overalls, handcuffed and surrounded by Yemeni soldiers as crowds watched their public execution take place in city's
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He was also sentenced to life imprisonment under Section 5/6 of POCSO Act. The convict had moved an appeal against that conviction and sentence.A LITTLE more than five months after a trial court sentenced a 22-year-old man to death for raping and murdering a four-year-old girl, the Madhya Pradesh
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When Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s position on the death penalty from permitting it in very rare circumstances to now deeming it completely “inadmissible” and violative of the “dignity of the person,” it reflected and reinforced a stunning decline of capital punishment worldwide in
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A collage of photographs on the wall of Ben Nelson's home office shows him somber and stressed.They were taken on the night of Sept. 2, 1994, as Nelson was waiting, as Nebraska's governor, to receive word that condemned killer Harold Lamont "Walkin' Wili" Otey had been executed."It was weighing
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The final two execution drugs can cause extreme pain if the prisoner is not properly anesthetized.EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- As the date for Nebraska's first execution in two decades nears, medical professionals are voicing concern over whether the drugs the state intends to use will
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SAGA – The Saga District Court on Monday sentenced a 69-year-old man to life in prison for murdering a man and a woman by burying them alive in the city of Saga in 2014.In the trial, prosecutors demanded that Teruyoshi Oho be given the death penalty for killing South Korean national Ra Si-chan
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Fifteen states are siding with Nevada in a state Supreme Court fight against drug companies suing to prevent the use of their products to execute a condemned inmate.In what a national death penalty expert on Tuesday called a setup for a showdown, documents filed with the Nevada
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(RNS) — With America’s next executions scheduled for Thursday (Aug. 9) in Tennessee and next week (Aug. 14) in Nebraska, there couldn’t have been a better time for Pope Francis to wholeheartedly denounce the death penalty — and for Christians worldwide to double down on their commitment to end
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Supreme Court has refused to stay Thursday’s scheduled execution of a convicted child killer while the state’s new lethal injection protocol continues to be challenged on appeal.The order brings Tennessee within days of killing Billy Ray Irick with a three-drug
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Real Bodies show at NEC leads to call for an investigation into exhibits’ identitiesThe bodies of 20 Chinese people featured in a UK museum exhibition could be those of prisoners once detained in labour camps, and victims of the death penalty in China, according to a leading doctor.The Real
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Convicted prison guard killer Rodney Berget is set to be executed in the fall, South Dakota's attorney general said Wednesday.Attorney General Marty Jackley said in a statement that Berget, 56, is scheduled to be executed between Oct. 28 and Nov. 3. Jackley's office said
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Scott Peterson is guilty of adultery but not murder, his sister-in-law said in the family's 1st comprehensive video interview with The Modesto Bee since his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, went missing nearly 16 years ago."We don't have justice yet; we're not there," Janey Peterson said. "We can't
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Death penalty expert Robert Dunham says the mishandling of lethal injections for death-row inmates is more common than may be believed."The estimates are about 7 percent of all the executions by lethal injections are botched,” Dunham told Hill.TV co-hosts Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on
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Many Tennesseans followed the recent trial regarding the new lethal injection protocol including the sedative midazolam, but few people realize the immense risk of harm to corrections officials if an execution does not go as planned. Midazolam has been used in disturbing executions in seven
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The Central Criminal Court of Iraq on Tuesday sentenced to death by hanging 5 persons for membership to the Islamic State (IS).The court "reviewed the cases of 5 individuals convicted of membership [to IS] who worked in several divisions of the organization," the Iraqi Higher Judicial Council's
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Shura members argue no “male requirement” for appointmentManama: Saudi Arabia could soon appoint women as judges if a recommendation by Shura Council members successfully goes through the process.The 150-member council is currently in summer recess, but will in four weeks look into the
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Iran Human Rights (Aug 5, 2018): Iranian political prisoner, Mohammad Mozaffari, received 74 lashes at Evin prison. Iran Human Rights (IHR) condemns the use of physical punishments, such as flogging and considers it as a violation of human rights and dignity. IHR calls on the international
Nebraska state officials are preparing for their first execution in two decades and first-ever lethal injection with an untried combination of drugs that includes a powerful painkiller responsible for much of the nation's opioid epidemic and a paralyzing drug that could conceal whether something
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(NBC News)-- Nikolas Cruz, the teen who confessed to having killed 17 people at a Florida high school, told investigators that he heard voices in his head telling him to "burn, kill, destroy" and that he tried but failed to kill himself two months before the massacre, according to a just-released
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A jury has recommended the death penalty for serial killer Anthony Kirkland.The jury -- 6 white men, 4 white women and 2 black women -- recommended that Kirkland be executed for his crimes.It was the 2nd death sentence for the convicted serial killer. He was previously sentenced to die by a jury