A prisoner who was charged with murdering 7 members of his wife's family was hanged in public in front of a crowd in Salmas.
According to a report by ISNA, on the morning of Thursday January 11, a prisoner was executed in public in Salmas, Salmas, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran.
The prisoner was sentenced to public
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Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo on Thursday said Congress had the authority to re-impose the death penalty if there were compelling reasons involving heinous crimes.Panelo made this comment as the Senate announced its resumption of hearings on the revival of the death penalty
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The convicted murderer of Perak Veterinary Department deputy director Dr Rohani Kassim lost his final bid to escape the gallows after the Federal Court dismissed his appeal against his conviction and death sentence.In handing down the verdict on Syahmie Hassan, a 5-man bench led by Tun Md Raus
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2018
A Fort Bend death row prisoner scheduled for execution in February for his role in a plot to kill his own family is begging for a reprieve in a request bolstered by 58 letters of support - including seven fellow death row prisoners.Thomas "Bart" Whitaker is slated to die on Feb. 22 for the 2003
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2018
Against the advice of the defense lawyers he fired and the judge who repeatedly gave him the opportunity to change his mind, convicted killer Peter Avsenew sat in front of a Broward jury Wednesday to defend himself against a prosecution team seeking to have him executed.Avsenew, 33, was found
The Cairo criminal court referred to the grand mufti on Tuesday 4 detainees charged with forming a "terrorist cell."The mufti will examine their case and issue his non-binding opinion on whether a death sentence against them should be upheld.Sentences against 30 other members of the "terrorist
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2018
Judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani on Tuesday ordered judges to halt death sentences for concerned convicts and review their cases. Thousands on death row for drug crimes in Iran will escape hanging as a new softened anti-narcotics law is enforced, local media reported on
Attorney General Jeff Sessions authorizes federal prosecutors to seek capital punishment in two murder cases and is said to be weighing it in others, including Manhattan terror attackThe Justice Department has agreed to seek the federal death penalty in at least two murder cases, in what
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2018
An Upper Merion man sentenced to death for killing a baby and her grandmother during a bungled kidnapping in 2012 has an execution date in February, but will likely get a reprieve because a death penalty moratorium previously was put in place by Gov. Tom Wolf.On Monday, Pennsylvania Department of
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2018
WASHINGTON — Saying that a capital trial in Georgia may have been marred by a juror’s racism, the Supreme Court on Monday gave a death row inmate there a fresh chance to argue that he should receive a new trial.The court’s opinion was brief and unsigned. Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by
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2018
Egypt’s parliament approved, Monday, a legislative amendment to toughen penalties against child abduction to death by hanging.The House of Representatives of Egypt said in a statement it had agreed to “amend a penal code that would impose the death penalty or life imprisonment of 25 years for
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2018
A top Iranian judiciary official has said antigovernment protest leaders should be handed the harshest possible sentences, while President Hassan Rohani suggested demonstrations were driven by opposition to his ultraconservative rivals in the ruling elite.Rohani and Hamid Shahriari, deputy head
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2018
The Indonesian government is getting tougher on drug cases, with 16 Taiwanese sentenced to death or killed in raids in recent yearsIndonesian prosecutors have requested the death penalty for 8 Taiwanese allegedly involved in a drug smuggling operation last year.Tipped off by Taiwanese police
A court has turned down attempts by 2 death row prisoners who wanted the way death sentences are carried out to be changed.A 2-judge bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) comprising Justice Roohul Amin and Justice Qalandar Ali Khan on Thursday dismissed petitions filed by 2 death row prisoners
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Today's Birthday, January 12: Australian drug smuggler Andrew Chan (1984-2015).The man known as the Bali Nine drug smuggling group's "godfather", Andrew Chan, wanted nothing more than to walk out of Kerobokan prison a free man, fellow convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby recently
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2018
South Carolina lawmakers are set to discuss a proposal Wednesday afternoon that would allow the state to execute death row inmates using the electric chair if lethal injection drugs are not available. Under current law, criminals sentenced to the death penalty in South Carolina can choose whether
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2018
According to recent Datafolha research, support for the use of the death penalty has grown significantly in the last nine years. The recent poll found 57% of those interviewed in favor of the adoption of capital punishment. In 2008, the last time that the institute polled on this subject, 47%
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2018
REDWOOD CITY — Prosecutors in San Mateo County will seek the death penalty against a 29-year-old Redwood City man accused of sexually assaulting and killing a 17-month-old girl left in his care.Daniel Contreras is charged with murder with the special circumstance that he killed the girl —
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2018
Govt opposes lethal injection and shooting as alternative methods of executionTribune News Service, New Delhi, January 9 - The NDA government on Tuesday opposed use of lethal injection to execute a death row convict, saying it “was not workable”.During hearing of a PIL filed by advocate Rishi
6,000 captured Jihadis got the death penalty in terror trials lasting under 20 minutes. Iraqi courts are sentencing Islamic State fighters - including Europeans - to execution by hanging.BRIT Jihadists captured after the fall of ISIS in Iraq are facing the death penalty in terror trials lasting
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2018
Federal prosecutors filed a rare "Notice of Intent to Seek the Death Penalty" on Monday in Detroit in the case of a gang suspect who is charged with a raft of murderous crimes.And Billy Arnold, 31, likely won't be the only member of the Seven Mile Bloods to be fighting for life in U.S. District
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2018
The persecution of witches came down to a battle for the 'market share' of post-Reformation Christians, according to a paper by 2 economistsIt was a terrifying phenomenon that continues to cast a shadow over certain parts of Europe even today. The great age of witch trials, which ran between 1550
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The persecution of witches came down to a battle for the 'market share' of post-Reformation Christians, according to a paper by 2 economistsIt was a terrifying phenomenon that continues to cast a shadow over certain parts of Europe even today. The great age of witch trials, which ran between 1550
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2018
Malacanang has said that the fate of convicted Filipino drug mule Mary Jane Veloso is in the hands of the Indonesian government following her request to President Duterte to let her testify against her recruiters on her 33rd birth anniversary last Jan. 10.Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque, in
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2018
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew White on Thursday called for the abolishment of the death penalty.“It’s not a deterrent. It’s a broken system because there are people who are innocent on death row, and we’re finding out about more and more every day,” the 45-year-old Houston
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by a convicted Mobile cop-killer, who is scheduled to be executed Jan. 25, to rehear his appeal.The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) had ruled in November that Alabama can execute Vernon Madison, a death row inmate who claims to be mentally
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2018
A Utah man who has been on death row for nearly 30 years is back in state court fighting his capital murder conviction.Attorneys for Michael Anthony Archuleta, now 55, argued before the Utah Supreme Court on Wednesday that their client is intellectually disabled, and therefore, legally cannot be
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2018
A movement may be afoot to petition for the restoration of the death penalty to deal with the soaring murder rate in the country which makes South Africa one of the countries with the highest murder rate globally.The death penalty was abolished with the introduction of the democratic dispensation
SHE is accused of transporting nearly 2kg of heroin from Brazil to Cambodia and was preparing to return to Australia via Hong Kong when she was arrested.Australian Ve Thi Tran, 37, is now in the notorious Prey Sar prison after being stopped as she was checking in at Phnom Penh airport last
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2018
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it won't review the case of Walter Leroy Moody Jr., the man on Alabama's death row for the 1989 pipe bombing death of federal appeals judge Robert S. Vance.U.S. Supreme Court justices did not issue a written opinion on why it would not review Moody's
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2018
The death penalty stands practically abolished, believe SC judges.The death penalty would stay on Indian statute books for at least another 50 years, predicted a former Chief Justice of India (CJI) in a wide-ranging study of opinions of former apex court judges conducted by NLU Delhi on the death
The Senate will resume this month its hearings on the revival of the death penalty through a subcommittee to be headed by Sen. Manny Pacquiao, Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III said on Monday.Pimentel made it clear that he made the decision not because House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez had
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Kenny Richey, who was reprieved after 21 years on death row in the USA, claims he's found redemption - by building shelters for homeless veterans. Richey, born and raised in Edinburgh until he was 18, lived through 13 execution dates for the 1987 house fire death of 2-year-old Cynthia Collins. He
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2018
In a New Year’s Eve display of liberal newspaper death penalty abolition harmony – buoyed by the release of the Death Penalty Information Center’s (DPIC) annual report evidencing another year in the long-observable trend of capital punishment’s disuse and disfavor in America – both the Washington