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2017
A legal issue looms over Nebraska's death penalty that's unrelated to the new and untried lethal drug combination state officials unveiled this week.
Defense attorneys say pending challenges of a system that allows judges rather than juries to impose death sentences could impact whether the state ends its streak of 20 years without an execution.
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Tanzania's Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) said on Thursday at least 34 people have been sentenced to death by hanging for killing people with albinism in the country.Beatrice Mpembo, a state attorney from the DPP, told a two-day consultative meeting to strategize on
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Nov
2017
Mauritanian prosecutors on Friday said they had appealed against a 2-year prison term served on a blogger who had earlier received a death sentence for blasphemy.Cheikh Ould Mohamed Ould Mkheitir was given the 2-year term on Thursday by an appeals court in the northwest town of Nouadhibou."The
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Nov
2017
Hidalgo's team is asking the court to strike down Arizona's death penalty and rule on the constitutionality of capital punishment nationwide.45 years ago, a case came before the United States Supreme Court that led to the temporary strike down of the death penalty. Now, the court has the
SAN ANTONIO — Protecting the state's executioner is so important, state legislators passed a law in 2015, prohibiting the disclosure of their identity.There has been a lot of media coverage about Texas leading the nation in executions, but there has been little published about the
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Nov
2017
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - A Mauritanian blogger condemned to death in 2014 for apostasy in a Facebook post about Islam will be freed because an appeals court on Thursday overturned his sentence, his lawyer said.Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir has spent nearly four years in jail after a
Analysis: Per curiam ruling earns comment from execution-skeptical justicesA unanimous decision issued Monday by the Supreme Court carried with it several concurring opinions from the Court's liberal justices, suggesting an ongoing interest from that wing in revisiting the constitutionality of
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Nov
2017
Sharon Keller, the longtime presiding judge of Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals, has tried to move on from several past ethical controversies — including blocking the last-minute appeal of a 2007 execution. A primary challenger hopes voters will reconsider them.It’s been more than a decade since
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Nov
2017
Raiford, Florida - Patrick Hannon, 53, was executed by lethal injection at 8:50 p.m. Wednesday for the 1991 slayings of Brandon Snider and Robert Carter in Tampa. His lawyers filed two requests to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of execution, including one just before the execution was supposed
Court documents show that one of the three drugs Arkansas planned to use in a lethal injection this week was made by a New York company that says it won't sell its products if it fears they'll be used in executions.LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — One of the three drugs Arkansas planned to use in a
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Nov
2017
Defense attorney David Anthony faced a dilemma Monday as he argued that his client shouldn’t be put to death with a new, untested lethal injection cocktail: As long as his client professes an unequivocal desire to die, saving him might prove difficult, if not impossible.And time is running short
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Nov
2017
In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.Late one spring night in 1984, the doorbell rang at the home of Norman and Mary Jane Stout. The Stouts, married thirty years, with three grown kids, lived in Guernsey County, Ohio, about a
The Supreme Court today granted 6 weeks to the Centre to file its response to a plea which seeks to set aside the legal provision that a death row convict would only be hanged to death.A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud allowed more time
An Indonesian museum that allowed visitors to take selfies with a life-size wax sculpture of Hitler against a backdrop of Auschwitz concentration camp has removed the exhibit following international outrage, the manager said Saturday.De ARCA Statue Art Museum in the Javanese city of Jogjakarta
Nevada's 1st inmate execution in 11 years was postponed Thursday after a state court judge ordered a paralytic drug removed from a never-before-used lethal injection plan that also includes the first use by a state of the powerful opioid fentanyl.Prisons chief James Dzurenda called off the
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Nov
2017
Nebraska's attorney general has chosen Norfolk killer Jose Sandoval as the next condemned prisoner to die, after a 20-year hiatus in executions in this state.No request to the Nebraska Supreme Court for an execution warrant has been made, but Corrections Director Scott Frakes served notice to
A judge on Thursday postponed the execution of twice convicted murderer Scott Dozier, who was set to die early next week.At Thursday’s hearing, lawyers for the Nevada Department of Corrections presented a copy of the state’s execution protocol signed by the warden of Ely State Prison.But District
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Nov
2017
PHOENIX Nov 8 (Reuters) - An Arizona man was found guilty on Wednesday of murder and other charges in the death of a 10-year-old girl who was locked in a small bin for taking a Popsicle without permission, a court official said.The verdict by the Maricopa County jury allows the trial of John
In Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 powerful antiwar film, “Paths of Glory,” an injured and virtually unconscious French soldier, chosen at random to be executed, is slapped awake just as he is about to be shot. The movie was based on an actual World War I incident, although I can’t vouch for the
Desde 1926, 12 mexicanos han sido ejecutados por la justicia estadounidense, principalmente en Texas; de ser ejecutado este miércoles, Rubén Ramírez se convertiría en el número 13Este miércoles se prevé que Rubén Ramírez Cárdenas reciba una inyección letal. Fue condenado por el asesinato y
Mauritanian authorities should quash the death sentence for a Mauritanian blogger, Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir, and drop all charges against him that violate freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today. The Court of Appeals in Nouadhibou is due to review the case on November 8
Government calls Texas execution an 'illegal act'Mexico had vowed to exhaust all efforts to prevent the execution tomorrow of a Mexican inmate on death row in a Texas prison but now it appears those efforts were unsuccessful.The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles today voted unanimously against a
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Nov
2017
Jack Greene is set to be the first man executed in Arkansas since April, when Arkansas executed four inmates in an eight-day span. Even though Greene suffers from a severe mental illness, his execution for the 1991 murder of Sidney Burnett is scheduled for November 9. Scott Braden, one of his
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Nov
2017
A British woman jailed on drugs charges in Egypt was dealt a shattering blow today after being told she will go on trial.
Laura Plummer could be held in jail for a further three months until a judge has heard all the evidence in her case.
He can then rule to set her free or jail
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Decades after controversial bite mark testimony by then-forensic dentist Michael West helped send many defendants to death row, courts in the state are still wrestling with what action to take in the cases of those convicted.Bite mark forensic dentistry has been discredited over the years, and
A man convicted of throwing a woman he had pursued for 8 years from a high-rise apartment building has been sentenced to receive the death penalty, Qianjiang Evening News reported.The Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court on Thursday found the 27-year-old man surnamed Xue guilty of intentional
The state of Nevada is set to execute Scott Dozier on Nov. 14 for the 2002 murder of Jeremiah Miller in Las Vegas. And for the first time since the 2006 execution of Daryl Mack, the debate on capital punishment in Nevada shifts from philosophical abstraction to stark reality.For the moment, let’s
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Nov
2017
A Mexican citizen on death row in Texas was executed Wednesday night for the slaying of his 16-year-old cousin who was abducted from her family's apartment and fatally beaten.Ruben Ramirez Cardenas, 47, was given a lethal injection after several federal court appeals failed to halt his punishment
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Nov
2017
New Delhi: One of the four death row convicts of the sensational 16 December 2012 gangrape and murder case has approached the Supreme Court seeking review of its verdict upholding the capital punishment awarded to him.The apex court had on May 5 upheld the death penalty to the four convicts in
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Nov
2017
Texas executed a Mexican national late Wednesday night despite a flurry of last-minute appeals and objections from his native country and United Nations human rights experts.Death row inmate Ruben Cárdenas had several appeals pending before the U.S. Supreme Court when the scheduled time of his
(Reuters) - The Arkansas Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked the planned execution this week of a convicted killer who his lawyers argued is severely mentally ill and should not be put to death.Justices granted an emergency stay for Thursday’s execution of Jack Greene, 62, convicted in 1991 of the
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Nov
2017
The Legal Assistance and Defence Project (LEDAP) has berated the Federal Government for not showing interest in the plight of over 600 Nigerians on death row in foreign countries.The National Coordinator of LEDAP, Mr. Chino Obiagwu, expressed this concern during a media chat in Lagos on the
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Nov
2017
NEW YORK — Three executions set for this week all demonstrate the irreparable failings of the death penalty, experts from Amnesty International USA said today.“Three states are set to put prisoners to death this week, and every single one of these cases raises disturbing questions about the
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Nov
2017
We’ve been tinkering with the death penalty for 40 years, but haven’t been able to remove mistakes and unfairness from the system.As president of Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, I joined with more than 20 former Arizona judges, former prosecutors and legal experts to urge the U.S. Supreme