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Showing repentance will no longer prevent the death penalty from being applied for blasphemy and apostasy, Mauritania said on Friday, as the conservative Muslim nation hardens up its religious laws.
The decision follows the release on November 9 of a blogger previously condemned to death for criticising religious justification for discrimination in Mauritanian society.
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Nevada prisons official said Friday the state is refusing pharmaceutical company Pfizer's demand to return a drug it manufactured and not use it in a planned lethal injection execution.Nevada received a letter Oct. 4 similar to one received by officials in Nebraska and reported by the Omaha
For Nevada's 1st execution in more than a decade, state officials are turning to a never-before-tried combination of drugs, including a powerful painkiller that is fueling much of the opioid epidemic and a paralyzing drug that could mask any signs of trouble.If the state's highest court approves
Ohio tried and failed to execute Alva Campbell. The state shouldn't get a second chance.The pathos and problems of America's death penalty were vividly on display yesterday when Ohio tried and failed to execute Alva Campbell. Immediately after its failure Gov. John Kasich set June 5, 2019, as a
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Nevada Department of Corrections officials have released a detailed manual laying out how they plan to conduct the state’s first execution in 11 years.The 57-page document, dated Nov. 7 and unsealed by a judge last week, has been sought by groups anxious to ensure the state’s rare use of the
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Alfred Dewayne Brown was condemned to death in 2005 after his conviction for killing a Houston police officer and a store clerk in a botched robbery in Texas. He spent a decade trying to prove his innocence, but it was only when an attorney named Brian Stolarz took his case and helped uncover the
The state of Ohio, ladies and gentlemen.If all goes to plan, and we’ll get to the insanely detailed plan in a moment, the state of Ohio—John Kasich, moderate Republican, governor—will execute a 69-year-old man named Alva Campbell for a 1997 murder that was admittedly heinous, and also was the
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The Ricketts administration is keeping the faith with Nebraska voters who in 2016 strongly supported reviving the death penalty.The Department of Correctional Services announced Thursday that it plans to use a new combination of four drugs to carry out the next execution. The previous, three-drug
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An idle threat, but the teenage suspect confessed. The Exoneration Registry, which tracks false confession cases, says they have counted at least 27 false confession cases across the country where suspects were threatened with the imposition of the death penalty.Recent research tells us that
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) was brought in as late as 2012. As the name suggests, the statute lays down laws exclusively for protection of children. It defines penetrative sexual assault and sexual assault against children, and also provides for definition and
One month ahead of the trial of a Chinese murderer in Japan, thousands of signatures have been collected to demand the death penalty for the man who stabbed a Chinese girl to death at her doorstep in Tokyo.The suspect, Chen Shifeng, is scheduled to stand trial on December 11 in Tokyo for the
JUST OVER SIX MONTHS have passed since the disturbing execution of Kenneth Williams, but as far as the state of Arkansas is concerned, it might as well be ancient history. No sooner did media witnesses return to the press room on the night of April 27 to describe how Williams coughed and
Ohio's failure to execute a condemned killer with poor veins despite multiple claims by the state that the veins were accessible will lead to new challenges of the state lethal injection process, death penalty experts predict.Each new problem with executions adds to the question of whether Ohio
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A major pharmaceutical company demanded in a letter a month ago that the State of Nebraska return any lethal injection drugs it might have that were manufactured by the company or its affiliate.Pfizer adopted a policy in 2016 banning the use of its products in an execution as a "misuse" of drugs
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PHOENIX - A Phoenix man was sentenced to death Thursday in the 2011 death of a 10-year-old girl who was locked in a storage box in sweltering summer heat.Jurors in Maricopa County Superior Court deliberated for only a few hours before deciding that John Allen should get the death penalty.The jury
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Hilton Butler experienced the history of US executions like few others, assisting with Louisiana’s portable electric chair and then overseeing executions as the Warden of Angola, the state’s largest penitentiary. In 2002 I interviewed him at the Angola Prison museum for my documentary series The
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Nevada has temporarily called off its 1st inmate execution in 11 years. Scott Dozier, sentenced for the 2002 murder of his 22-year-old drug associate, Jeremiah Miller, was to be put to death on Nov. 14. Dozier instructed his lawyer in August not to file any more appeals.On Thursday, Nov. 9
Ohio started final preparations Tuesday for executing a sick inmate who will be provided a wedge-shaped pillow to help him breathe as he’s put to death this week.Death row prisoner Alva Campbell appeared to be out of options, with the U.S. Supreme Court refusing on Tuesday afternoon to stop the
Ohio started final preparations Tuesday for executing a sick inmate who will be provided a wedge-shaped pillow to help him breathe as he's put to death this week.Death row prisoner Alva Campbell, who has said he is too ill for lethal injection, became mildly agitated when officials tried lowering
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is relieved to learn that Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed, a Mauritanian blogger sentenced to death in 2014 for "blaspheming" the Prophet in a blog post, was finally freed yesterday. Detained for the past three years, Mohamed was released after an appeal court in the
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A new law in Iran has been written to reduce the death penalty for drug smugglers carrying smaller amounts.Iran’s new law for combating drugs will be implemented beginning Nov. 14. The law — passed by the Reformist majority parliament and approved by the conservative Guardian Council — is set to
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean troops fired on a fellow soldier who was defecting to South Korea on Monday across the heavily armed border dividing the countries, South Korean officials said, amid heightened tensions over the North’s nuclear weapons program.The soldier was shot but succeeded
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday he was "sure" Donald Trump would not raise human rights concerns when they meet in Manila, after the US President praised his deadly drug war.Trump is due to land in the Philippine capital on Sunday evening ahead of two days of summits, and rights
A day after another failed execution in Ohio, Gov. John Kasich's office says the state's capital-punishment protocol doesn't need to change.Meanwhile, civil-rights advocates say the latest failure could be used as evidence in future challenges to the constitutionality of Ohio's death-penalty
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On Monday, the Supreme Court will decide whether to hear a case with the potential to end this nation’s abominably long and freakish experimentation with the death penalty. That’s right, drum roll, please. Because, if it grants certiorari in Hidalgo v. Texas – a case Harvard law professor
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Artworks Bali Nine drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran painted in the days before he was executed will go on show in Bendigo in an exhibition dedicated to the death penalty and human rights. Mr Sukumaran faced an Indonesian firing squad alongside fellow Australian Andrew Chan in 2015 after they were
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After an hour of failed attempts, prison officials could not find a suitable vein in Alva Campbell’s arms. His lethal injection has been "called off."Alva Campbell execution has been delayed indefinitely.MORE SOON.Source: Twitter, November 15, 2017⚑ | Report an error, an omission, a typo
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CARSON CITY — Scott Raymond Dozier, who wants to be executed for a Las Vegas murder, has threatened to kill himself if the state does not carry out his death sentence, Gov. Brian Sandoval said today.Sandoval said Dozier has been placed on a suicide watch, with guards observing him around the
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Iran Human Rights (Nov 13 2017): A prisoner was executed at Bandar Abbas Central Prison on drug related charges and four were executed at Urmia Central Prison on murder charges.Execution in Bandar Abbas (Southern Iran)According to a close source, on the morning of Monday November 13, a prisoner
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United States President Donald Trump was warned not to do the signature fist pump pose of President Rodrigo Duterte by human rights advocates, before going to Manila for this year’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit.Critics warned Trump prior to the trip that the gesture has
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Ohio death row inmate Alva Campbell will get wedge-shaped pillow for execution. Campbell wanted firing squad, not lethal injection.COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio will provide a wedge-shaped pillow to help a condemned inmate breathe as he’s being executed this week, among other accommodations the state is
Did you know that 18-percent of Florida’s death row is made up of veterans of our military services?It is an important fact as we prepare to honor those who have served our country this Veterans Day. I have learned from firsthand experience that veterans sentenced to death can help us all to
Jakarta. Inmates rioted on Tuesday (07/11) at Indonesia’s super maximum security island prison Nusakambangan in Central Java.One prisoner died and three others were wounded during the riot, an official confirmed.Ade Kusmanto, a spokesman for Indonesia's penitentiary department, said the lack of
Justice is supposed to be blind, but not as blind as the U.S. Supreme Court when it ruled in 1993 that a Texas death row prisoner — who claimed to be innocent, but had run out of appeals — should look to the governor to save his life.“Executive clemency,” wrote Chief Justice William Rehnquist, is