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Nov
2017
A Sugar Land man convicted in a murder-for-hire scheme to off his own family in hopes of snagging a plump $1 million inheritance is now slated for execution early next year, according to court papers filed this month.
A Fort Bend County judge on Wednesday signed the papers that could send Thomas Whitaker, who used the cover of a
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Senior Mexican diplomats on Monday condemned the upcoming execution of a Mexican inmate on death row in Texas, calling his sentence “illegal” and vowing to exhaust all possible efforts to prevent him from being killed later this week.In a news conference in Mexico City
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Nov
2017
Paris - Burkina Faso's president said on Sunday that the existence of the death penalty in his country should not stop France from extraditing the brother of its ousted leader over the 1998 killing of a journalist.French police detained François Compaore, 63, at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport
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Nov
2017
As Arkansas prepares to restart its death chamber several months after the state carried out its first executions in nearly 12 years, an order from the state's highest court to release more information about lethal injection drugs could throw an obstacle in its path. At the minimum, it may raise
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Nov
2017
Four men suspected of plotting with two women to murder the North Korean leader's half-brother were Monday named by police as North Koreans who fled Malaysia after the assassination.They were identified at the trial of Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, the women accused of
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Nov
2017
Sharjah - A Gulf national has been given death penalty on charges of beating his 25-year-old Arab wife to death.The verdict was issued by the Sharjah Sharia court on Sunday morning.The court handed down its verdict after the victim’s family refused to pardon the killer and accept blood money.The
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Nov
2017
Iran Human Rights (Nov 1 2017): One prisoner was executed at Mashhad Central Prison; one at Urmia Central Prison, both on murder charges, and one at Maragheh Prison.Execution in Urmia (Northwestern Iran)According to a report by Kurdistan Human Rights Network which was also confirmed by Iran Human
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Nov
2017
When asked if I would be willing to represent a Utah death-sentenced inmate, Floyd Maestas, I said absolutely not. I was well aware of the emotional, physical and financial toll the representation would place on me and on my practice. Yet I eventually agreed because I believe those on death row
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon consider taking a case that challenges Arizona’s death-penalty law on the grounds that it fails to narrow the punishment to the worst offenders.Regardless of whether the court accepts it, the case raises serious questions about the death penalty that the Arizona
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Nov
2017
Imagine you’re lying down, and you tell yourself to take a deep breath. But you realize you can’t.You want to jump up, wave your arms or call for help. But even your face is frozen. You’re completely paralyzed. You’re slowly suffocating to death, and no one seems to notice.That’s how two Leggi
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Nov
2017
Jakarta. Nearly 20 percent of Indonesian high school and university students support the establishment of an Islamic caliphate in the archipelago, while many said they were, to varying degrees, ready to wage jihad to achieve this, indicating a rising tide of radicalism among the country's youth
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Nov
2017
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A condemned inmate scheduled to die this month for the slaying of a teenage boy said officials should execute him by firing squad because his breathing problems and poor veins make him too ill to be killed by lethal injection.Ohio lawmakers could quickly approve legislation
TOKYO - A Japanese court on Tuesday sentenced to death a one-time millionairess dubbed the "Black Widow", who tricked elderly lovers into drinking cyanide and pocketed millions in insurance payouts and inheritance.Kyoto District Court condemned Chisako Kakehi, 70, to the gallows for the murder of
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Nov
2017
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that an Alabama prisoner on death row for more than 30 years can be executed despite having no memory of his crime.The justices, without any noted dissents, reversed a federal appeals court ruling that had struck down Vernon Madison's death sentence for
With another execution looming next week in Ohio, a Democratic lawmaker is pushing a bill that would eliminate the death penalty in the Buckeye State.Although similar tries in 3 previous legislative sessions have gone nowhere, this time some Republicans are on board.House Bill 389, sponsored by
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Nov
2017
Budi Waseso, the head of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), is known for his somewhat… unconventional ideas about dealing with Indonesia’s supposed drug crisis. He seems to have pretty much given up on his idea of building a special island prison for drug dealers guarded by crocodiles, but he
When he issued a moratorium on the death penalty shortly after taking office, Gov. Tom Wolf said he was moving to address “a flawed system that has been proven to be an endless cycle of court proceedings, as well as ineffective, unjust and expensive.”Nothing in that system has since improved, and
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Nov
2017
Alva Campbell is next in line to be executed by the State of Ohio.*For the last month of his life, Campbell will have been intensely monitored: two corrections officers watch him round the clock to ensure there is no suicide. The state is determined to do the killing itself.In Campbell’s case the
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Nov
2017
Amnesty International Malaysia welcomes the statement by the Malaysian government outlining its efforts to amend Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and to provide courts with the discretion to spare lives when imposing the death penalty. The organisation encourages the Government of
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Nov
2017
Thousands of Iranians currently on death row for low-level drug crimes will receive sentence reviews under a newly amended law, announced Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi on October 31, 2017."The judges presiding over these cases have to be ready to implement the newly amended Law
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Nov
2017
A man who spent 40 years in prison for a murder he maintains he did not commit met last week with the prosecutor who helped put him away, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.Kevin Brinkley was only 15 years old in 1977 when he was charged with the murder of an egg delivery man. He was
NCRI - A distinguished expert in disaster medicine was sentenced to death by the Iranian Regime last month, after he refused to spy for them.Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, a resident of Sweden, was sentenced by the Iranian Revolutionary Court on October 21 after being found ‘guilty’ of providing evidence
An Arkansas death row inmate scheduled to be executed next week wants his head to be removed after his death and his brain to be examined by a doctor, his attorneys said.Jack Greene's last will and testament includes a request that his head be "surgically removed from my body and transported out
SEPANG: The Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Customs Department has thwarted three separate attempts to smuggle Methamphetamine (Meth) totaling 27kg, worth RM1.9 million, into the country.Customs deputy director-general (Enforcement/Compliance) Datuk Zulkifli Yahya said the drugs were
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Nov
2017
An appellate attorney is out of a job after speaking publicly about a lack of funding in a death penalty case - comments that Weber County officials deemed "harmful to the county's reputation."Defense attorney Samuel Newton had been representing Douglas Lovell, who was sentenced in 2015 to be
The newly announced laws against terrorism and its funding include the death penalty.The new laws state that individuals defaming and publicly insulting the King and the Crown Prince will be sentenced to 5 to 10 years of imprisonment.Terrorists conducting terror attacks while carrying arms and
The same jury last month found Jonathan Renfro guilty of first-degree murder for the May 2015 killing of Coeur d'Alene Police Sgt. Greg MooreCOEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — A jury has unanimously decided that a 29-year-old man who shot and killed a northern Idaho police officer should be sentenced to
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Nov
2017
President Donald Trump called twice for the suspect of a terror attack in New York City to face the death penalty, within two days of when the attack took place.Sayfullo Saipov was charged Wednesday with providing material support to the self-described Islamic State militant group, and with
The day after Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was charged with desertion in 2015 after being held captive in Afghanistan for nearly 5 years, Donald Trump tweeted that the former Taliban prisoner should "face the death penalty" for abandoning his post and endangering his unit.On Friday, a military judge gave
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Nov
2017
The death penalty for terrorists is part of the army’s legal code in the West Bank but requires discussion of the evidence even if the suspect confesses and a unanimous ruling by the judges in the lower and appellate courtPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned down a July request by the
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Nov
2017
The top prosecutor in Harris County is proposing a new way for Texas to determine if a death-sentenced inmate is intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution: use the current clinical books.When determining whether someone with a death sentence has a mental disability, Texas has
Boy’s father tells court that he wants death penalty for the accusedABU DHABI: The Abu Dhabi Criminal Court will pronounce its final judgement in the rape and murder case of an 11-year-old boy on November 27.Hearing in the case against the Pakistani man accused of raping and killing his nephew
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Nov
2017
A psychologist argued a former Santa Rosa inmate facing the death penalty for the murder of his prison cellmate was raised in a "perfect storm" of factors to make him unstable and impulsive.In August, Shawn Rogers, 47, was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of 24-year-old Ricky D
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) — A death row inmate was found unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead on Nov. 3. Roger Coulter, 57, was convicted of capital murder in Oct. 1989 for the murder of a five-year-old girl in Ashley County.Court documents said, "it was alleged that he killed a