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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - An Orange County jury decided to spare a man from the death sentence for beating his five-year-old son to death.
Darrell Avant Sr. was convicted last week of killing Darell Avant, Jr. after the boy got in trouble at school.
Avant Sr. will spend the rest of his life in prison without
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. - An Ohio man pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges Thursday in a deadly car attack on a crowd of protesters opposing a white nationalist rally in Virginia.James Alex Fields Jr. entered the plea during his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in
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Claude Lanzmann, the journalist and film director whose obsession with the Nazi genocide brought forth “Shoah,” a groundbreaking film that relived the annihilation of Jews through the memories of witnesses, died on Thursday in Paris. He was 92.His publisher, Gallimard, confirmed his death, at the
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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TOKYO - Aum Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara, who was convicted of numerous murders including the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, was executed Friday along with six former senior members of the cult, the Justice Ministry said.Asahara, 63, whose real name was Chizuo
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As an execution date looms, a lawsuit over drugs used in previous ‘botched’ executions heads to trialUnless the governor or a court order says otherwise, the state of Tennessee will execute Billy Ray Irick next month. Shortly after 7 p.m. on Aug. 9, an execution team at Riverbend Maximum Security
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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