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Jakarta. Police arrested three Lion Air passengers who were caught smuggling crystal methamphetamine, locally known as shabu, on Monday (09/10) by hiding them under their genitals at the Juwata Tarakan International Airport in Tarakan, North Kalimantan, a statement released by the airport said.Hemi Pamuharjo, head of Juwata Tarakan International Airport, said
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Islamabad, Pakistan - Three members of Pakistan's persecuted Ahmadi sect have been sentenced to death for blasphemy by a court in the central town of Sheikhupura, a community spokesperson said.Mubasher Ahmad, Ghulam Ahmed and Ehsan Ahmed were convicted by the court on Wednesday for insulting12
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We celebrate today the 15th World Day against the Death Penalty. As of today, 105 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes. In the past 25 years, 60 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes and the number of states that
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Indonesia’s government yesterday marked World Day Against the Death Penalty by issuing a self-serving and contradictory statement on its death penalty policy.Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly reaffirmed the government won’t seek to abolish the death penalty, but would pursue a “win-win11
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October 10 marks World Day Against the Death Penalty, a time where human rights activist come together to advocate against capital punishment.In the United States, executions occur so frequently that I bet a lot of Americans don't even realize how atypical this form of punishment is, particularly11
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OCTOBER 10 — The World Day against the Death Penalty is commemorated on 10 October each year.In Malaysia, the death penalty is mandatory for persons convicted of murder, trafficking in narcotics of various amounts, and discharging a firearm in the commission of various crimes (even
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Three years have passed since a statewide task force made 56 recommendations to improve the conduct of the death penalty. Lawmakers have enacted fewer than 10. The courts, too, have been slow to act, though the Ohio Supreme
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Iran Human Rights (Oct 9 2017): Since January 2017, at least 435 people, including 5 juvenile offenders, have been executed according to Iran by Iran Human Rights (IHR) Death Penalty Research Section. At least 219 people have been executed for drug offences so
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The death penalty MUST be abolished - what Obama secretlytold billionaire Richard Branson - despite publicly saying he understood ultimate punishmentPresident Obama believed the death penalty should be abolished in order for America to move forward, according to a new autobiography by Virgin09
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October 10 marks the World Day against the Death PenaltyDeath penalty violates the most fundamental human rights, the right to life and the right to freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.The death penalty is also considered discriminatory as it is often used against the09
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Executions are down but death penalty prosecutions are up over the last year of President Joko Widodo's administration.Tomorrow, October 10, is World Day Against the Death Penalty, and human rights activists in Indonesia used the opportunity to highlight an alarming increase in death penalty09
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Rodney Reed, the Bastrop man who's spent nearly 20 years on death row for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites - a crime he has steadfastly maintained he did not commit - could move 1 step closer to a new trial next week.On Tuesday, Oct. 10, he'll
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A man accused of murdering his wife aboard a cruise ship in Southeast Alaska waters could face the death penalty. But it’s a long process and it may be unlikely to end in the defendant’s death.In July, Kristy Manzanares was found dead in
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Tomas Gallo smiled and laughed as Harris County jurors decided his fate for the rape and murder of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter.Gallo had covered the girl's body with bruises and bite marks before sexually assaulting and bludgeoning her while her mother was
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas death row inmate who sued unsuccessfully to try to halt his execution, arguing that more DNA testing needed to be done, is now trying to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the punishment scheduled for Thursday.Robert Pruett was already serving 99 years for aFrance on Wednesday voiced its concern on a plan by the Philippine government to restore death penalty, which it called an "unjust, inhumane and ineffective" punishment.The French government made the statement on the occasion of the 15th World Day Against the Death Penalty and the
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KYOTO – Prosecutors on Tuesday sought the death penalty for a 70-year-old woman, dubbed the “black widow,” charged with the murders of her husband and two common-law partners and the attempted murder of an acquaintance between 2007 and 2013.Describing Chisako Kakehi’s alleged crimes as “heinous10
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Today, on 10th October the European Union (EU) joins many partners across the world to commemorate the 15th World Day against the Death Penalty.Despite a positive trend towards abolition and restriction of the use of capital punishment in most countries, we have seen worrying evidence of serious10
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Many years ago as I took the first steps of an unexpectedly long spanning decade after decade on Florida´s death row, by coincidence I came to know the infamous Ted Bundy, who many see as the very personification of “evil.”In the countless hours I spent conversing with him over several
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Proposed rules for single-drug executions in California were rejected Monday by a state legal agency whose decision may soon be nullified by an initiative approved by state voters last November.State prison officials have been trying to rewrite their regulations since a federal judge halted09
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The apex court has asked the central government to respond to the PIL within 3 weeks.Acting on a writ petition challenging the mode of execution in a death sentence, the Supreme Court on Friday has observed that the legislature could consider another mode rather than the present one in practice09
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On Wednesday, pathologist Mohd Shah Mahmood testified before Malaysia's high court in the trial of Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong, who stand accused of killing Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.Mohd Shah, an employee of the Malaysian government, testified09
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Fate of militants' families remains uncertainAt least 100 European Isis fighters will be prosecuted in Iraq, with most to face the death penalty, the country's ambassador to Belgium has reportedly said.Jawad al-Chlaihawi said Belgians were among those detained, along with jihadists from RussiaThe Moroccan Coalition against the Death Penalty organised a sit-in this week outside the parliament building in Rabat and renewed calls to abolish the death penalty.In a statement the Moroccan Coalition reminded people on World Day against the Death Penalty yesterday to reiterate the
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Pope Francis marked the 25th anniversary of a landmark compilation of Catholic teaching by saying Wednesday it should be changed to address an issue close to his heart: the death penalty.During an anniversary ceremony at the Vatican, Francis repeated his insistence that capital punishment is11
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Singapore's continued reliance on mandatory death sentences, which violate international law, has meant that dozens of low level drug offenders have been sent to death row in recent years, Amnesty International said in a new
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The government is to retain the death penalty, but intends to seek a "middle way" to accommodate those critics who opposed capital punishment as a violation of human rights, Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly said on Tuesday."There are two opposing views on the death penalty, agreeing
The US is seventh in the world in terms of executionsUnited Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said he wants the US to end its “barbaric practice” of the death penalty.This was the leader of the world body’s first statement on the death
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Every year on October 10th, FIDH founding member of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, reaches out to citizens, associations, and institutions who strive to universally abolish the death penalty.This year, with the World Coalition, we wished to bring your attention to the link Leggi10
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In a kitchen in suburban Melbourne sit two English lawyers who have saved hundreds of convicted criminals from execution.Parvais Jabbar and Saul Lehrfreund's strike rate of keeping death row clients alive in the Caribbean and Africa is nothing short of extraordinary – more than
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WASHINGTON — Two weeks before Robert McCoy was to be tried for a triple murder, his lawyer paid him a visit. It was the summer of 2011, and the two men met in a holding cell in a Louisiana courthouse. Mr. McCoy, who was facing the death penalty, told his lawyer
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The Gujarat High Court today pronounced the verdict in 2002 Godhra train carnage.The High Court commuted the death penalty of 11 convicts to life imprisonment. The court sustained the acquittal of 31 accused and also sustained the life term of 20 convicts.While awarding compensation of Rs 10 lakh09
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The number of death row inmates who have exhausted all their appeals has grown to 16, with still no plan in place to begin executions again.The latest inmate to become eligible for an execution date is murderer Richard Norman Rojem Jr., who kidnapped, raped and fatally stabbed a 7-year-old Leggi
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — After almost 20 years of maintaining his innocence, a death row inmate’s request to re-examine DNA evidence from a murder scene went before a Marion County judge.Shackled, dressed in a green prison jumpsuit and accompanied by three Oregon Department of Corrections officers