JEDDAH — A criminal court of Al-Minya in southern Egypt has sent the papers of an Egyptian citizen who was sentenced to death for murdering a Saudi woman and her daughter two years ago to the country’s grand mufti for approval to carry out the sentence.
Under the Egyptian criminal law, prior approval from the grand mufti is required
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A bill to be introduced this session would eliminate the death penalty in Washington state and require people convicted of first-degree murder to serve life sentences without the possibility of parole.State Attorney General Bob Ferguson requested Senate Bill 6052 after other legislation failed to
WILKES-BARRE — Susan Major entered the courtroom Friday morning sobbing uncontrollably as the man accused of murdering her three sons sat shackled, waiting to learn if he would face the death penalty.When Preston Daquen Bonnett, 27, found out prosecutors would not pursue capital punishment, he
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In our Explainer series, Fair Punishment Project lawyers help unpackage some of the most complicated issues in the criminal justice system. We break down the problems behind the headlines - like bail, civil asset forfeiture, or the Brady doctrine - so that everyone can understand them. Wherever
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Iran Human Rights (Jan 4 2018): On the morning of Thursday, two prisoners from Varamin were executed at Rajai Shahr Prison. The official media had earlier reported the execution of a juvenile offender at the same prison.According to a close source, on the morning of Thursday January 4, a prisoner
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Two US states plan to use untried drugs to execute prisonersThe New Year may bring a new era in state executions in the US – and fresh controversy to the debate over the death penalty. As stocks of drugs for lethal injection have been exhausted in several states, authorities are looking for
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The Maldives is ready to carry out executions, local media has reported a government minister as saying, ending a six-decade moratorium on capital punishment.Home Minister Azleen Ahmed told Raajje TV that work has been completed on building a place to carry out the death penalty and that
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Iran Human Rights (Jan 2 2018): A 30-year-old prisoner was hanged at Mashhad Central Prison on murder charges.According to Rokna News Agency, on the morning of Sunday December 31, a prisoner was hanged at Mashhad Central Prison. The prisoner was identified as Ali H., 30.He was sentenced to death
Former Illinois death-row prisoner Gabriel Solache, a Mexican national whose death sentence was one of 157 commuted by Governor George Ryan in January 2003, was exonerated on December 21, 2017 after twenty years of wrongful imprisonment, but immediately seized by agents of the U.S. Immigration
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Sky News reporter Ian Woods was present three times for Richard Glossip's scheduled, but aborted, executions. He has written a book on why he believes he's innocentThe phone call that Belfast-born Sky News reporter Ian Woods took as he waited for the arrival of Martin McGuinness' funeral cortege
From assassinations to space missions, 1968 was a year of radical firsts in American history. But amid all the commemorative ruckus over the 50th anniversary of that seminal year, one of the most striking precedents it set has been largely forgotten: 1968 was the 1st year in the history of the
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Two years since the Saudi authorities carried out a mass execution of 47 people, human rights organization Reprieve has warned of fresh repression in the Kingdom under the new Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman.On 2nd January 2016, Saudi Arabia executed 47 people in one day. Among them were
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GENERAL NATIVIDAD, Nueva Ecija — The family of convicted drug trafficker Mary Jane Veloso said protests may be staged next week following a Court of Appeals (CA) ruling that prevented Mary Jane’s testimony from being used in the human trafficking trial of her recruiters.Veloso, who would be
The Sefardi Chief Rabbi said instituting the death penalty offered "no gain" for the Israeli public, only offering potential danger for world Jewry.Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the Sefardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, spoke out against the proposed death-penalty legislation during a weekly lecture Saturday
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The United Nations human rights wing on Friday expressed deep shock that 20 people were reported to have been executed in Egypt since last week, amid concerns that due process and fair trial guarantees did not appear to have been followed.According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for
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LINCOLN — Attorneys for Gov. Pete Ricketts argued Friday in court that he simply exercised his rights as a citizen when he participated in a referendum petition that restored Nebraska’s death penalty in 2016.Lawyers for the ACLU of Nebraska countered that as the state’s top executive, the
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By a bare majority, the Knesset has given preliminary approval to a bill sanctioning the death penalty for terrorists. This bill should be pulled and further legislative stages waived, seeing as how it has now fulfilled its political mission and done its duty by those chanting “death to
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Iran Human Rights (Jan 3 2018): Official sources reported that the number of executions at Mashhad Central Prison on Sunday has risen to two.According to Mashregh News, a young man who was arrested and sentenced to death for murder at the age of 19 was hanged at Mashhad Central Prison on the
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Experts say it is possible this man is responsible for overseeing 'countless' deaths of gay men in IraqAn ISIS executioner captured by Iraqi security forces tortured and executed gay men, according to reports.Abu Omer (pictured, left), known under his alias White Beard, was caught on camera
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The Ohio General Assembly should pass a bipartisan bill forbidding Ohio to give a death sentence to someone convicted of aggravated murder - but also found to have a serious mental illness. He or she would instead be sentenced to life imprisonment, which is far more reasonable and
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The longtime defense attorney vowed to "exercise power with restraint."Larry Krasner, a longtime defense attorney with no prior prosecutorial experience, was sworn in Tuesday as Philadelphia District Attorney and immediately vowed to make reducing the city's high incarceration rate a
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Iran's Supreme Leader has accused his country's enemies of meddling in recent protest rallies, as the reported death toll reached 20.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's website quoted him as saying enemies of Iran have used various means including money, weapons, politics and intelligence apparatuses "to
Hilda Vasquez was a newcomer to the party, a first-timer.She didn't know what to expect, but she took in the decorations, the snacks, the table full of ornaments.A pair of skates, wind chimes. A wooden snowman. A teddy bear. A picture of a little girl.She nestled hers - a picture Leggi
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Republicans will push to reinstate the death penalty when state lawmakers convene next week, setting up another clash over capital punishment nearly a decade after it was abolished in New Mexico.State Rep. Monica Youngblood, a Republican from Albuquerque, said Sunday she will file legislation
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The Australian federal police is working with Cambodian authorities who have arrested an Australian woman at Phnom Penh international airport for allegedly trying to smuggle almost 2kg of heroin in her luggage.Cambodia’s immigration department said on its official Facebook page that 1,814 grams
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Justice, Mercy and Caprice review: An engaging look at Ireland’s journey towards the abolition of death penaltyTo many, the death penalty may seem like an anachronistic punishment, a relic of a past age that in the process of civilisation has been confined to the history books. Some may therefore
MANILA, Philippines — A lawyer of convicted drug mule Mary Jane Veloso on Friday said that a Philippine court baring its citizen's story on illegal recruitment to be heard in court is "disappointing and ironic.""Her testimony is being prevented by our own courts, the Court of Appeals in
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As the death penalty reaches its lowest support in decades, pharmaceutical companies have become reluctant open participants in executions. Unfortunately, an increasing number of shield laws may stand in the way.Bobby Wayne Stone shot and killed a sheriff’s deputy, then was sentenced to death in
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Here are the most important places to keep an eye on.Only a little more than a year ago, many opponents of the death penalty were cautiously optimistic that the U.S. Supreme Court - perhaps with a Clinton appointee or 2 - might strike down the punishment for good. Then came President Donald
Blaine is 1st county to pull out of state defense fundThe Blaine County commissioners took a local stance against the death penalty Tuesday, resolving to withdraw from Idaho's Capital Crimes Defense Fund in the hope of stymying county prosecutors from pursuing execution in capital cases.Created
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Despite refusal of haredi MKs to join coalition for vote, bill making it easier for courts to condemn terrorists to death passes first vote.A bill which would make it easier for both civilian and military courts to sentence terrorists found guilty of murder to death passed its first reading in
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By at least 1 important measure, the Trump administration's simplistic get-tough-on-crime rhetoric did not move the country backward in the president's 1st year: The death penalty, which Americans once favored at near-consensus rates, was a historically rare punishment. For those of us who would
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Egypt has hanged 4 men convicted by a military court of killing 3 military students in a bombing in 2014, security sources said on Tuesday.It was the 2nd reported multiple execution of convicted Islamist militants in a week. A week ago Egypt hanged 15 men accused of deadly attacks in the Sinai
This article was originally published by the New York Times in March 2017.“The trick is to place the knot just behind the left ear and above the jaw.” Those instructions on how to carry out a “humane” hanging are given early in the Singaporean film “Apprentice” by Rahim (Wan Hanafi Su), the chief