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Michael Travaglia, a longtime death row inmate and one of Pennsylvania’s most notorious killers, has died of natural causes.He was 59.The state Department of Corrections reported his death Monday morning at Washington Hospital in Washington, Pa. No one could be reached at the Washington County coroner’s office about Travaglia.It was
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Scott Dozier wants to die, and he doesn’t care how.The 46-year-old convicted killer of two men in their 20s mangled and disposed of the bodies of his victims in 2007, and said as much in letters to Clark County Chief District Judge Jennifer Togliatti and his attorneys in October. Dozier renounced05
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Ohio plans to execute Gary Otte next week. He will be the 2nd man put to death since the state resumed lethal injections after a hiatus of more than 3 years. In 1992, Otte killed 2 people during armed robberies on consecutive days in Parma. The parole board denied his bid
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October is a pleasant time of year to be in Alabama - especially if you love killing. Sure, happening times can be had in pumpkin patches and at the Kentuck, Cotton and Boll Weevil festivals - and Oktoberfest is always well-celebrated with bawdy bamas, barrels-worth of beer, and brats - but Leggi
Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Friday denied clemency to a Cuyahoga County man scheduled to be executed later this month.Gary Otte is slated to die in the Ohio death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville on Sept. 13.He was convicted of the 1992 robbery and murder of Leggi03
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It has been 11 years since the state has executed an inmate in California.That’s a good sign for those who hope to see the death penalty abolished some day.To those who support capital punishment, some of them prosecutors or crime victims, it’s a sign of what’s broken in
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It’s just after midnight and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “One Time Big Time” show is getting into full swing as police shoot dead another young “drug personality”.The corpse is hauled out of one of Manila’s sprawling shantytowns, where so many
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A North Korean court sentenced two South Korean journalists and their publishers to death for "seriously insulting the dignity" of the country by reviewing and interviewing the British authors of a book about life in the North, its state media
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Prison authorities in Rajai Shahr break routine and execute a prisoner on a Monday rather than the usual Wednesday.A 29-year-old man who was sentenced to death for the charge of rape was reportedly hanged at Karaj's Rajai Shahr Prison.According to a report by the state-run news outlet, Iran
In a speech yesterday, President Rodrigo Duterte compared prisoners to “monsters,” in an effort to reiterate his position against restorative justice.“Those western countries believe in the positivism. You can make useful human beings out of him when he gets out. It has been debunked as negative,”31
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It took 15 years to overturn Calvin Burdine's death sentence, but at last, in 2001, the federal appeals court in New Orleans accepted a defendant's right to an attorney who remains awake at trial.It now seems odd that there should ever have been any doubt that a sleeping attorney cannot provide31
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A 30-year-old Russian woman accused of being a cocaine mule faces the death penalty in Vietnam.But Maria Dapirka, who has already written a 'farewell letter' to her mother, claims she was set up by her lover who posed as
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READING, PA | More than a dozen inmates in Pennsylvania have been removed from death row this year, leaving the commonwealth with the fewest under a death sentence in nearly a quarter-century.In December, Pennsylvania had 175 men and women in solitary on death row.Today that number is 160, not
August was marked with numerous cases of human rights abuses. In this report, we will draw your attention to a brief summary of these issues.One of the main cases of human rights violations was the brutal and humiliating transfer of political prisoners of Gohardasht Prison to
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Malaysian national Prabagaran Srivijayan was executed by the state in the early morning of Jul 14, years after multiple attempts failed to overturn his death sentence in 2014 for importing heroin into Singapore.Hangings in Singapore are always carried out on Fridays at dawn
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The scapegoats for the “Death Island” Koh Tao murders had a very small but very welcome win against the National Crime Agency in the High Court in London – but what is the significance?On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 the High Court in London
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A death row inmate at San Quentin State Prison was pronounced dead Wednesday after he collapsed in the recreation yard, the California Department of Corrections reported.Christopher Adam Geier, 49, was sentenced to death by a San Bernardino County jury on July 21, 1995, for two counts of first02
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TALLAHASSEE -- Florida is scheduled to execute its next Death Row inmate next month.Gov. Rick Scott signed a new death warrant on Friday setting the execution of Michael Lambrix for 6 p.m. Oct. 5.Lambrix was previously set to die in February 2016 but his execution was halted amid questions01
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Last month, Indonesian President Joko Widodo issued a stern missive to the law enforcement agencies responsible for tackling drug crime: 'Be firm, especially to foreign drug dealers who enter the country and resist arrest. Gun them down. Give no mercy because we indeed are in a narcotics emergency01
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Thirty years ago Kiwi Lorraine Cohen became the first white woman to be sentenced to hang in Malaysia. Today we look at what was described as a "sensational" sentencing after she was caught trying to
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Of all the men and women on death row in North Carolina, Henry McCollum’s guilty verdict looked airtight. He had signed a confession full of grisly details.Written in crude and unapologetic language, it told the story of four boys,
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A New Zealand court on Thursday rejected an appeal from a man challenging the government's decision to extradite him to China in the 1st case of its kind for the Pacific nation.New Zealand Justice Minister Amy Adams had twice ordered that South Korean-born New Zealand resident Kyung Yup Kim could
Iran Human Rights (AUG 29 2017): At least two prisoners were reportedly hanged at Ardabil Central Prison on drug related charges. According to close sources, the executions of "Fardin Hosseini" and "Massoud Vaizadeh" were carried out on the morning of Wednesday August 30.Fardin and Massoud were05
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SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AFP) - An Australian grandmother who faces a possible death sentence in Malaysia for drug trafficking testified on Tuesday (Sept 5) that she was a victim of an online love scam.Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto, 54, was arrested on Dec 7, 2014 at Kuala
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A recent California Supreme Court ruling could lead to executions resuming in months, and the county's top prosecutor and a high-ranking public defender spoke this week about whether the decision will in fact speed up the death penalty process and what benefits, if any, that
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Two prisoners were hanged on Sunday, September 3, 2017, in central prison of Tabriz, northwestern Iran.The victims identified as Darush Rashidi and Kazem Shiri had been sentenced to death and 100 lashes for rape.They were flogged in prison yard before
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When you see one at the courthouse, the other usually is nearby.Allan Williams and Steve Brittain, friends for decades, are among a handful of Travis County defense attorneys who are approved to represent indigent defendants in death penalty cases.Both are 68 and not long from turning in their
The Philippines’ National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has filed murder charges against policemen involved in the killing of 12th-grader Kian delos Santos in an anti-drug operation in Caloocan
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Half of Virginia's death row inmates will have their cases argued before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this month, but that should not tax the Richmond-based court - there are only two of them.Virginia's death row population
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida prosecutor who fought and lost a battle with the governor over her decision not to seek the death penalty said Friday that she will comply with a state Supreme Court decision and seek it in future
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34 people were hanged in public in Iran in 2016; and an audience of hundreds of people, including children, were present for most of these hangings.Iran Human Rights (SEPT 1 2017): An unidentified prisoner who was sentenced to death on the charge of
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Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala announced she has organized a death penalty review panel to look at first-degree murder cases after the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Gov. Rick Scott has the authority to take death penalty cases away from her.“With implementation of Leggi31
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Wilbert Coffin (October 1915 - 10 February 1956) was a Canadian prospector who was convicted of murder and executed in Canada.On 15 July 1953, the remains of Eugene Lindsey were found in the Gaspé region of Quebec a month after his disappearance. On 23 July 1953, the bodies of Lindsey's
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A 36-year-old condemned Texas inmate scheduled for execution next week has won a temporary reprieve because of Hurricane Harvey.Hurricane Harvey brought record rainfall to Houston and flash floods all over East Texas.Since landfall, rainfall amounts have totaled between