LAS VEGAS – One sedative will be substituted for another, and prison officials said Tuesday they plan to use two other drugs never before used in executions in any state for Nevada’s first lethal injection in 12 years. The drugs include a powerful synthetic opioid that has been blamed for overdoses nationwide. A revised and redacted death penalty protocol Leggi Tutto
In his statement vetoing SB 593 to repeal the death penalty, Gov. Chris Sununu argued that the death penalty delivers justice for crime victims, protects the law enforcement community and is needed to send a message to those who commit "the most heinous offenses" within our borders.I would like
The introduction of the death penalty in Turkey is not such an easy issue, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, when commenting on the issue of the possibility of instituting death penalty on pedophiles, Turkish media reported July 4.Erdogan noted that, first it is necessary to have a
Woman plotted and executed the murder along with her lover, who was also sentenced to deathAn Omani woman and her lover have been sentenced to death for murdering her husband, according to the Public Prosecution.The court recently sentenced the woman, in her 40s and her lover, another Omani, 50s
White House staff scramble to vet president’s ‘incredible’ conservative candidates ahead of Monday announcementDonald Trump has interviewed seven candidates to replace Anthony Kennedy, the retiring supreme court justice, leaving White House staff members scrambling to complete a vetting process
Iran Human Rights (Jul 2, 2018): One prisoner was hanged at Saravan Prison on Saturday morning and another one was hanged at Zahedan Central Prison on Sunday morning. Both prisoners were charged with murder.According to a close source, on the morning of Saturday, June 30, a prisoner was hanged at
British prisoners who travelled to fight for Isis are among those facing the death penalty in Iraq, a judge has said. His comments come after Iraq hanged 13 prisoners convicted on terror charges following a recommendation by the prime minister to speed up executions. Prime Minister Haider
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a central Arkansas circuit judge's lawsuit over being removed from hearing death-penalty cases must be dismissed.Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen, who is also a Baptist minister, alleged in a lawsuit that the Arkansas Supreme
Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters says he'll personally contact the Governor of California if MP Nikki Kaye's step-brother is sentenced to death.Clinton Thinn has been convicted of first-degree murder for killing a fellow inmate in a Californian jail, and he's facing the death penalty.Read
Convicted of murdering a young woman aged just 20, Nick Yarris, now 56, spent more than two decades in a tiny cell, until new evidence freed him...I was 20 when I was sentenced to death. My life had been on a one-way path to self-destruction for years. I don’t remember too much about my early
President Trump is driving to execute the same playbook in selecting a new Supreme Court nominee that last year delivered swift confirmation of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, following a methodical course in hopes of avoiding the lurching disorder that so often engulfs his White House.As Trump looks to
Chief Justice John Roberts is the Supreme Court's new man in the middle. It's just that the middle may have moved well to the right.The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy means Roberts probably will be the conservative justice closest to the court's four liberals, allowing him to control where
The death of 9-year-old Vietnamese girl Le Thi Nhat Linh in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo and the trial of the former head of a parents' association at her school charged with her murder has gained attention in her homeland.Vu Duc Cuong, 35, the Tokyo representative office of national
Indonesian migrant worker Nurkoyah Marsan Dasan has returned home after being freed from the death penalty in Saudi Arabia.The 47-year-old from Karawang, West Java, arrived in Jakarta on Wednesday evening.She had been sentenced to death in 2011 after being found guilty of murdering her employer’s
The portrait of Indonesian President Joko Widodo faces the wall; its outline, lit from behind, frames the artist's signature and a simple inscription: "People can change."Myuran Sukumaran was executed on April 29, 2015, for attempting to smuggle drugs out of Indonesia. But his message remains
The association's president said the report builds upon the work of prior studies.The American Bar Association on Tuesday put the full weight and prestige of the organization, as the national voice of the legal profession, behind a recently published report on Pennsylvania’s death penalty.In a
BHOPAL: After a sudden spate in crimes against minor girls and women, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday said that the Madhya Pradesh government would launch a campaign against heinous crimes and ensure that criminals involved in the rape of innocent children get capital
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's army chief has confirmed the death sentences handed down to 12 militants convicted of multiple attacks that killed 34 people in recent years, mostly civilians but also members of the security forces.Monday's statement says that along with the sentences for the "hardcore
NEW DELHI: In recent months, the calls the death penalty for crimes have escalated. Chief ministers Amarinder Singh and Shivraj Singh Chauhan yesterday joined the list of those in favour of the death penalty in certain cases they deem fit.Here is a list of ministers, Union ministers and chief
Wounds heal. Harsh words are forgiven. Even the searing pain of a great loss eases with time. But when I sentenced a man to death over two decades ago it changed me in fundamental ways that continue to haunt me today.I served as a juror in Bobby Wilcher’s resentencing trial in Mississippi in
An Egyptian court on Saturday delayed a final ruling in a case against 739 people involved in a 2013 sit-in protest that was broken up by security forces, saying defendants could not be transferred to the court due to “security concerns”.The case, which involves top leaders of the banned Muslim
In my more than four decades as a law professor, I have studied issues of fairness in our criminal justice system, particularly in the area of the death penalty. Thus I was struck by a question that a juror who served Ray Tibbetts’ capital trial, Ross Allen Geiger, posed in a letter to Gov. John
Besides facing a high-profile treason case, Gen. Musharraf has been declared absconder due to his persistent failure to appear before the special trial court.A three-judge special court formed by Pakistan’s Supreme Court for conducting high treason trial of former military ruler and dictator
Iran Human Rights (Jul 4, 2018): Two prisoners were executed at Urmia Central Prison.According to close sources, on the morning of Wednesday, July 4, two prisoners, sentenced to Qisas, were executed at Urmia central Prison. It should be noted that three prisoners were scheduled to be executed
You see them on TV, usually around the time they are arrested. Men who have declared war on America, combatants in a conflict that never ends. They are captured on the street and at airports, in mid-stride and sometimes in mid-attack.Some of them have long, Arabic names. The journalists prefer
Nurkoyah, an Indonesian female worker from Rengasdengklok, Karawang, West Java Province, awarded death penalty by the Saudi Court for the death of the child of her employer, was released and finally returned to Indonesia.Nurkoyah Marsan Dasan departed from the King Fahd Dammam International
As in many other areas of the law, Justice Anthony Kennedy often provided the key fifth vote in death penalty cases during his three decades on the Supreme Court. Swinging to the right, Kennedy was a frequent supporter of restrictions on the availability of federal habeas review of capital cases
Former Ankara Mayor Melih Gokcek threw his full-throated support after the uncle of a four-year-old girl found dead in eastern Turkey demanded the reinstatement of the death penalty as the public devolved into a heated debate over the severity of penalties to stem the rise of child abuses and
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - The mother of an Orange County 5-year-old whose father was convicted of beating him to death told a jury Monday that she wishes she could go back in time and delete the day he died.The jury will ultimately decide whether Darell Avant Sr. gets the death penalty.Read: Orange
(ABC 6 News) -- Prosecutors in Florida filed a notice of their intent to seek the death penalty for Lois Riess on Monday.In early June, Riess was indicted by a grand jury on charges of first-degree murder with a firearm, grand theft of a motor vehicle, grand theft and criminal use of personal
Iran Human Rights (July 1, 2018): A prisoner was executed at Northern Iranian city of Rasht's Central Prison on murder charges. Hossein Esmailpour, charged with murdering a prominent clergyman in Rasht, was scheduled for execution on the same day. However, just some seconds before the execution
HUNDREDS of protesters have taken to the streets for the third day of rallies over the rape of an eight-year-old girl now battling for her life in hospital.Hundreds of people on Saturday blocked streets and shut down businesses in parts of Central India to protest the rape of a 8-year-old
The ruling that Theerasak Longji be executed was made at 4pm. At 5pm he was allowed to phone his wife, and during their hour on the line he protested his innocence. He didn’t speak to their eight-year-old son.At 6pm he was given a lethal injection, and he spent his final moments praying in
Iraq’s prime minister has ordered the immediate execution of all death row terror convicts after militant group Islamic State (ISIS) killed eight hostages.Haider al-Abadi said the executions would avenge the deaths of the captives, whose bodies were found next to a highway north of Baghdad on