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Advocates for abolishing Utah’s death penalty system say they plan to push lawmakers to end capital punishment in the 2018 legislative session.
Legislators came close to stopping the punishment in 2016 — but the bill never reached the House floor before the midnight deadline on the last night of session.
"Still, it was exciting to see
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Plea in Supreme Court wants execution by hanging to be judged against global opinion and evolving standards of human decencyThe last execution carried out by the state was that of Yakub Memon, in 2015. Convicted for his role in the 1993 Bombay blasts case, the charted accountant was hanged at the
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An Iranian 21-year-old has been sentenced to death after 'insulting the prophet' of Islam on an instant messaging app.Sina Dehghan was 19 when he was arrested by the Iranian revolutionary guard at a military barracks in Tehran in October 2015 for insulting the national religion on the messaging
A federal court granted a stay of execution for Alabama death row inmate Torrey Twane McNabb, who was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday.The order was issued on Monday by Chief U.S. District Judge W. Keith Watkins of the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division.The state has
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Human rights groups have re-launched their bid to have the death penalty abolished in Zimbabwe.The country is 1 of 3 southern African nations still upholding the harsh penalty.As Zimbabwe commemorated the World Day Against the Death Penalty last week, Veritas, Amnesty International and the
The Islamic State group once drew recruits from near and far with promises of paradise but now bodies of jihadists lie in mass graves or at the mercy of wild dogs as its "caliphate" collapses.Flies buzz around human remains poking through the dusty earth in the Iraqi town of Dhuluiyah, 90 Leggi15
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Altogether, more than 180 alleged homosexuals have been arrested in the three largely Muslim countries.The U.N. has issued a stern rebuke against the recent harassment and arrests of LGBT people in three largely Muslim countries.“We are deeply concerned by a wave of arrests in Azerbaijan, Egypt
A coalition of death row survivors and murder victim family members is kicking off a two-week tour in Texas opposing capital punishment.Dubbed the Texas Journey of Hope from Violence to Healing, the effort opens Saturday in Houston with a 7 p.m. screening
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The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to consider an appeal by a suburban Houston man on Texas death row for arranging the killings of his mother and brother in 2003.HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to consider an appeal from a suburban Houston man on Texas
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An Iranian, who is facing the death penalty, filed an application for a stay of execution in the Federal Court pending an amendment to Section 39B of Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, to include provisions on sentences other than the death sentence.Hamidreza Farahmand Hassan, who was
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Jakarta. The government is pressing ahead with plans to build more prisons on Indonesia's outermost islands and to house drug and terrorism convicts separately from other categories of prisoners.The plan comes amid concerns over prison overcrowding and the fact that they have become breeding12
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Iran Human Rights (Oct 10, 2017): Currently more than 80 Iranians are facing horrific conditions in the solitary confinement of Malaysian prisons, while awaiting their death sentences for charges of “involvement in drug trafficking”.Most of the prisoners were not given fair legal due process. They17
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An Iranian 21-year-old has been sentenced to death after 'insulting the prophet' of Islam on an instant messaging app.Sina Dehghan was 19 when he was arrested by the Iranian revolutionary guard at a military barracks in Tehran in October 2015 for insulting the national religion on the messaging
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(CN) – Three liberal justices dissented Monday from the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of a challenge to Florida’s death-sentencing procedures, saying the high court should have decided whether jurors being told their verdict was merely advisory diminished their sense of responsibility.In March
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On 21 September 1792, the fall of the monarchy was officially declared and the National Convention became the governing body of the French Republic. The royal family name was downgraded to the non-royal "Capets". Preparations began for the trial of the king in a court of law.Charged with
ALGIERS, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- An Algerian court on Sunday sentenced in absentia running away senior terrorist, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, alias Belaouar, to death penalty, APS news agency reported.The sentence has been pronounced by the prosecutor of the Criminal Court of Oran, western Algeria, as
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Iran Human Rights (Oct 15 2017): A prisoner was executed on murder charges at Rasht Central Prison (Lakan).According to a close source, on the morning of Saturday October 14, a prisoner was executed at Rasht Central Prison.The prisoner, Hamidreza Khoshbakht, was sentenced to death on murder
NCRI - Iranian attorney general in the Khorasan Razavi province , Gholam Ali Sadeghi, announced the hand-amputation of a person charged with theft, Sadeghi stated: this man had stolen jewelry six years ago, when he was 25 years old in
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RALEIGH - When President Donald Trump told media in August that he did not immediately condemn hate groups after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville because he did not “know all the facts,” Yusef Salaam bristled at the words.Salaam, a former New Yorker who is speaking at an awards14
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Hector Medina was sentenced to death in 2008 after killing his two young children. Now, he's getting a new sentencing trial because his lawyer refused to present evidence to persuade jurors to opt for the lesser sentence of life without parole.The lawyer of a man sentenced to death for killing his
China has launched a pilot program to ensure every criminal defendant has access to a defense lawyer for their trial.The Supreme People's Court and the Ministry of Justice jointly released a document Wednesday which stipulates that if a defendant has not retained
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Surrounded by news cameras and supporters, Lamonte McIntyre hugged his mother Friday for the first time as a free man in 23 years. The 41-year-old Kansas native was wrongly convicted of a double murder and finally set free after spending more than half of his life behind bars. He
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BANGKOK — Those campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty may take solace in the fact that no one has been executed for eight years.There have been no actual executions, but a senior government official said it’s simply impossible to predict when capital punishment
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It is not easy to abolish the death penalty in Thailand, the director-general of the Rights and Liberties Protection Department says.Department chief Pitikarn Pitikarn Sithidej told a meeting held on Tuesday to consider the possibility of abolishing the capital punishment. Also present was Colin
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Fairfax County prosecutors will pursue the death penalty against the man accused in the high-profile killing of a 17-year-old Muslim girl, who was abducted as she walked to her mosque over the summer, authorities said.Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Raymond F. Morrogh (D) made the
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PETALING JAYA, Oct 11 — Malaysia should abolish the mandatory death penalty for drug cases at the next Parliament sitting as a pledge to improve human rights here, Amnesty International (AI) said today after the government announced its plans to allow judges a choice in sentencing.AI Malaysia
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has initiated the process to review punishment in 27 crimes carrying death sentence to narrow down the scope of death penalty, The Nation has learnt.The decision has been taken in the wake of the ‘scathing criticism on the excessive use of this penalty’ by UN Human Rights
Executing death row inmates is currently not a top priority as Indonesia faces the urgency of solving economic, political and social gap issues.Jakarta, GIVnews.com – A total of 153 convicted death row inmates are yet to be executed in Indonesia, facing undetermined execution timeline. Even
The Iranian authorities must urgently stop the execution of a 17-year-old boy who was convicted of murder and rape, and commute his death sentence to imprisonment, said Amnesty International.Amirhossein Pourjafar is scheduled to be executed in a prison in Tehran on 19 October 2017. He was detained15
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Kala Shah Kaku, Pakistan - Malak al-Maut (the angel of death) was once, it is said by Islamic theologists, one of God's favoured angels; a loyal servant who was entrusted with separating people's souls from their bodies, when their time came.To the righteous, it is said, the angel of
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Update: Robert Pruett was executed by lethal injection on Thursday.Robert Pruett is scheduled to be executed by the State of Texas Thursday. He has never had a chance to live outside a prison as an adult. Taking his life is a senseless wrong that shows how
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In a major speech on Wednesday Oct. 11 Pope Francis said in blunt terms that the death penalty is contrary to Gospel teaching.Given the setting and context of the talk - a celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church - Vatican observers speculated
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Texas executed a man on Thursday convicted of murdering a prison guard in 1999, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal to spare his life despite arguments by his lawyers that he was innocent.Robert Pruett, 38, was put to death by lethal injection at the state’s death
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THE Melbourne pastor who stood with Bali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran in the harrowing moments before his execution has warned Aussie travellers are failing to learn from his mistakes.Speaking ahead of the release of a documentary that recounts the last 72
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