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With the conclusion of all of the trials, judicial authorities will likely shift their focus to the possible execution of Aum founder Shoko Asahara
The trials related to Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult that executed the deadly sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, are close to ending after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by a
Leggi Tutto
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The Justice Ministry has put an end to its longtime policy of avoiding executions of death-row inmates while they are calling for a retrial, but who is chosen to be hanged is still shrouded in secrecy.The hanging of a prisoner seeking a retrial requires cautious judgment, yet the Justice Ministry
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Federal prosecutors announced Friday they will seek the death penalty for a former University of Illinois graduate student accused of kidnapping, torturing and killing a visiting scholar from China in June.In making the announcement, prosecutors alleged for the first time that Brendt Christensen
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Alva Campbell was supposed to die on Nov. 15. That was the date chosen by Ohio, which had convicted and condemned Campbell for murdering a teenager, Charles Dials, during a 1997 carjacking in Columbus, Ohio.Inside the death chamber that morning, prison officials spent more than an hour searching
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Morocco has not abolished the death penalty but has not carried out any executions since 1993.A Moroccan court sentenced to death a man over the murder of a member of parliament and jailed his widow, in a case involving sex and money, the government said Tuesday.Abdellatif Merdas, who was a
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Iran Human Rights (Jan 17, 2018): The execution of Abolfazl Chezahi Sharahi, a juvenile-offender who was in a death-row to be executed this morning at Qom Central Prison, was delayed for unknown reasons. A day before, the IHR and other international organizations called for immediate action of
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(CNN) - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg marks her 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court this year, and the cultural icon known as the "Notorious RBG" recently signaled that she intends to stay at least through 2020 by hiring law clerks for at least two more terms.Ginsburg, who turns 85 in March
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Simultaneous with the nationwide uprising of the Iranian people and in order to intimidate the people, the mullahs' regime's executioners executed 8 young prisoners in various cities in the period of January 1 to January 11.On Thursday, January 11, 2 prisoners were executed publicly in Salmas and
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Malaysian court on Monday upheld death sentences handed down to 9 men from the Philippines in connection with an 2013 incursion into the Malaysian part of Borneo island by Philippine fighters seeking to stake an ancient claim.The incursion by the fighters from the southern Philippines into
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PESHAWAR: A death row prisoner on Saturday filed a petition in the Peshawar High Court seeking permission to pursue higher education after completing masters in English from Hazara University as a private candidate during incarceration in Haripur jail.Sajjad Ahmad in his writ petition said that
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On trial for his life, Robert McCoy claimed he was the innocent victim of a police conspiracy - despite a mountain of evidence that he had killed 3 members of his estranged wife's family in northwestern Louisiana.But his lawyer, Larry English, saw the case as unwinnable, and decided to focus on
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According to Iranian media, the head of the country's Judiciary system has ordered a Supreme Court's Uniform Procedure Decision come into effect. The decision halts the execution of drug defendants, to review their cases. However, the Supreme Court's verdict was issued in November 2017.Iran Human
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LINCOLN — Nebraska prison officials have notified another death row inmate they intend to carry out his execution using an untried combination of lethal drugs.The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services said Friday it provided the execution notice to Carey Dean Moore, who shot and killed
Iran Human Rights (Jan 18, 2018): Iranian authorities have amputated one hand of a prisoner who was charged with stealing sheep. The amputation was carried out at Mashhad Central Prison. According to a report published by Khorasan Newspaper, the sentence was carried out on Wednesday, January
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It is time to abolish the death penalty in Washington state.A proposal in the Legislature sponsored by state Sen. Maureen Walsh, R-College Place, is worthy of support.Walsh offers strong arguments for ending capital punishment, starting with concern that families must endure the long and
The crime shook the kingdom as it was videotaped, and the man's cousin is seen begging for him not to kill him, repeatedly screaming "enough Saad".Saudi Arabia's Specialized Criminal Court is commencing the trial of the man accused of murdering his cousin. The crime shook the kingdom as it was
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He didn't scream or laugh. He didn't plead or apologize.Anthony Shore was calm, almost stoic, when he confessed to the murders - just like he was 20 years ago.But this time, apparently, it was a lie.Days before his aborted execution in October, the notorious Houston serial killer admitted to 2
Notorious homophobe Antonin Scalia was reportedly intrigued by the candidacy of Donald Trump and spoke favorably of him for president, reports the Wall Street Journal in a not-so-suprising revelation. The Supreme Court justice known for his unvarnished dissent considered Trump “refreshing,”
Bringing the death penalty back to Iowa likely will get debated but probably not approved during the 2018 legislative session, key lawmakers say.Sen. Brad Zaun, R-Urbandale, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he plans to assign a subcommittee to take up Senate File 335 with an eye
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Case will have repercussions for countries that still carry out executions and those that recognise jurisdiction of privy council5 British judges will this week consider whether a prisoner who may be mentally ill should remain on death row after a Caribbean court convicted him of murdering
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The death penalty draws deeply on time, financial resources, surviving families’ emotionsThirteen years later, Bill Belanger is waiting for the ultimate punishment against two of the men who burst into a house and stabbed and bludgeoned his daughter, Erin, and five other young people to death in
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The father of Sherin Mathews has been charged with capital murder in the 3-year-old's October death, court records show.Sherin was killed with "homicidal violence" before her adoptive father, Wesley Mathews hid her body in a Richardson culvert where it went undiscovered for weeks.A Dallas County
John C. Woods took to the killings with morbid fascination. The Wichita resident had developed a career of killing bad people, badly. He was thrust into the world's spotlight at the end of World War II as the hangman for 10 Nazi war criminals. Several of them died not from broken necks as would
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'I know Tricia and Kevin would not want him to be executed', says Kent WhitakerThe father of a man who murdered his mother and younger brother is pleading Texas officials for a stay of execution. Kent Whitaker – who survived the 2003 ambush that killed his wife, Tricia, and his 19-year-old son
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A man who became known as Houston's "Tourniquet Killer" because of his signature murder technique has become the nation's first prisoner executed in 2018. Anthony Allen Shore received lethal injection Thursday evening in Texas for the 1992 strangling of a 21-year-old woman
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Lawyers for the Uzbek man charged in the truck attack on a crowded Manhattan bike path that killed eight people on Halloween said on Wednesday that their client would plead guilty and accept life imprisonment without parole if prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.The proposal came in
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Although the law commission report discussed whether the discretion of mode of execution should lie with the judge or the convict, the question of who would provide the injections to convicts remains unanswered.A lawyer had filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional
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GENEVA (16 January 2018) – UN human rights experts* have appealed to Iran to halt the execution of Abolfazl Chezani Sharahi, who was 15 when he was sentenced to death. He is due to be executed on Wednesday [Jan. 17], less than two weeks after the execution of another juvenile offender.“The
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The Government has claimed that hanging is the most workable mode and lethal injection method is found to have failed on many occasions in different parts of the world, hence it is not as workable as hanging.In a response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking abolition of executing death
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For the past 3 Tuesdays, Egypt has hanged civilians sentenced to death by military tribunals:Jan. 9: 3 men were hanged. They had been convicted of rape and sentenced to die by a military tribunal in 2011.Jan. 2: 4 men accused of being Islamic militants were hanged. They had been tried and
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Once known as the "capital of capital punishment," Harris County is now doling out more life without parole sentences than any other county in the state.In the 12 years since then-Gov. Rick Perry signed the life without parole or "LWOP" bill into law, Harris County has handed down 266 of those
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Within days of my arrival, Indonesia's president, Joko Widodo, rejected the clemency pleas of Bali Nine heroin smugglers Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, despite their remarkable rehabilitation.From this moment their death by firing squad seemed inevitable.Reporting on the lead-up to the
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Thomas Whitaker is scheduled for execution on Feb. 22 for setting up the ambush that killed his mom, brother.His father survived the shooting and, after learning to forgive his son, is asking state officials for mercy.Thomas Whitaker is on Texas death row because he lured his family out to dinner
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A senior Iranian cleric under investigation in Germany for alleged crimes against humanity left the country on a homeward-bound flight on Thursday, cutting short his stay at a Hanover clinic, a German official said.Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, a former chief justice, was in Germany for