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Scott Panetti was just hours from death on Nov. 29, 2014. Not because of some rare disease with an unpronounceable name but, sadly, because of a not-so-rare disease with a name that can strike terror in the heart of the patient’s loved ones: Paranoid schizophrenia.Inmate No. 999164, the other label by which
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' governor says he intends to spare the life of a death row inmate the state had planned to execute in April.Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Friday said he planned to grant clemency to Jason McGehee, commuting his sentence from death to life
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Supporters of capital punishment in California claimed victory after the state Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved measure to speed up death sentences, but they still have to clear a major obstacle before executions can resume: Getting approval for a new lethal injection method.The next step in25
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One more prisoner was hanged on drug related charges, and a prisoner was hanged on security charges, including "Corruption on Earth" and "Enmity against God". Iran Human Rights (AUG 25 2017): A prisoner was reportedly hanged at Maragheh Prison on drug related charges, and a prisoner was Leggi25
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A convicted serial killer whose resentencing is expected to begin in November will undergo brain scans before then.Earlier this month, Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Patrick Dinkelacker granted a request by Anthony Kirkland’s attorneys for images of his brain, including MRI and PET scans.The24
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A white supremacist convicted of two racially motivated murders three decades ago in Florida has been executed by lethal injection.Mark Asay is the first white man in state history to be executed for killing a black victim, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.The 53-year-old had
Sacco and Vanzetti90 years ago Wednesday, Italian immigrants and avowed anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston after one of the most notorious criminal cases of the 20th century.Today, their legacy lingers. Far from resolving the case, the deaths of Sacco and
Iranian Resistance calls on international community to condemn the execution of political prisoners in Iran, and urges all governments to make their relations with the religious dictatorship in Iran contingent on an end to executions and torture.The Iranian regime hanged Seyed Jamal Mousavi, a24
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At least eight people were killed in separate incidents in Las Piñas and Cavite yesterday, some of them on the “drug watch list.”The killings in Cavite took place in the cities of Bacoor, General Alvarez, and Rosario.Rosendo Bulaon, 50
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2 prisoners were reportedly hanged at Isfahan Central Prison and Kashmar Prison on drug related charges.Close sources say one of the prisoners was hanged on the morning of Monday August 21 at Isfahan Central Prison.The prisoner's name is reportedly Abdolkarim Shahbakhsh and he was sentenced to24
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The State of Oklahoma will not execute any inmates in 2017.As KOKH reports, this year marks the third straight year that the death chamber has remained quiet in the state.The death penalty was halted in Oklahoma in 2015 after the botched execution of inmate Clayton Lockett.Due to mistakes made23
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A prisoner in his mid twenties was hanged in public in Isfahan on murder and rape charges.The Head of Justice Department on August 21, 2017, announced the public execution of a young man in Nasirabad, in Isfahan
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TOLEDO, OHIO - Ohio will not be relocating its death row for the third time in little more than a decade, state officials said Friday.A shift in population strategies makes the move from Chillicothe in southern Ohio to a newer prison in Toledo unnecessary, according to the prisons25
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The first of more than 20 planned executions has taken place in Ohio, but questions concerning how and when the death penalty is imposed and whether it is employed equitably continue.The July 26 execution of Akron child killer Ronald Phillips was the first to take place in the state
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“The American pharmaceutical industry is united in its view that it doesn’t want its medicines misused for non-medical purposes — and killing prisoners has never been an approved medical purpose,” said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.A division of Johnson25
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This past Tuesday, well over one hundred and fifty years since the end of the Civil War, a powerful, well-connected, well-to-do Southern white man, Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, exercised his law-given authority to stay the execution of Marcellus Williams, a poor black man. The reprieve was24
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The California Supreme Court decided Thursday that a key provision in last year’s ballot measure to speed executions failed to impose strict deadlines for resolving death penalty appeals.Proposition 66, sponsored by prosecutors and passed by 51% of voters, was intended to remove various hurdles
California's death chamberCalifornia could take a giant step closer to resuming executions when the state Supreme Court issues a highly anticipated ruling on a ballot measure to speed up the state's dysfunctional death penalty system.The California Supreme Court will rule Thursday on a lawsuit24
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The Supreme Court has corrected the death sentence imposed on Yusman Telaumbanua when he was still underage. A grave mistake.Death row convict Yusman Telaumbanua, who was aged 16 when he was tried, was released last week. The sentence handed down to the youth from Hilionozega village, Idanogawo24
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Indonesia’s drug war is still far from Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s in terms of the extrajudicial killings of drug traffickers, but some people in Indonesia, such as National Narcotics Agency (BNN) Chief Budi Waseso, seem to want to push the country towards that direction (Waseso having24
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Crowds have flocked to watch the execution of murderers and rapists - but there are fears such punishment will become commonplaceSANAA, Yemen - The people had gathered in their thousands by the time Muhammad al-Maghribi, a man in his 40s, was led from a prison
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CCTV footage shows the killer luring the boy to the rooftopThe 11-year-old boy was found dead on the rooftop of the building where he stayed.The parents of the child who was strangled to death on the rooftop
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Kendrick Silver fatally shot a Coral Gables jogger and a Miami security guard in two senseless robberies. A jury agreed unanimously: Prosecutors proved his violent crimes far outweighed his troubled childhood and other reasons that might spare him execution.But when it came to actually voting for26
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On Thursday, the state of Florida executed Mark Asay, who was convicted of killing Robert Lee Booker and Robert McDowell in Jacksonville in 1988.There are two ways in which the Asay execution was unusual. First, the state used a previously unused drug to put Asay to death. And second, it’s Leggi25
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Jeffrey “Jeff” Havard currently sits wrongfully convicted on death row in Mississippi for the sexual assault and murder of his girlfriend’s six-month-old daughter, Chloe Britt. Havard has stated from the beginning that the infant slipped from his arms while lifting her from the tub, causing her25
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One more prisoner was hanged on drug related charges, and a prisoner was hanged on security charges, including "Corruption on Earth" and "Enmity against God". Iran Human Rights (AUG 25 2017): A prisoner was reportedly hanged at Maragheh Prison on drug related charges, and a prisoner was Leggi25
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The California Supreme Court on Thursday made a key ruling in the long-running question over the state’s use of the death penalty.The high court decided that a key provision in Proposition 66, last year’s ballot measure to speed executions, failed to impose strict deadlines for
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The fate of a Missouri inmate - who narrowly avoided execution Tuesday night - could be decided by an uncommon state panel.Gov. Eric Greitens plans to convene the rare 5-member board in an executive order to stay the execution of Marcellus Williams, citing new DNA evidence in the case.Greitens, a24
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During the summer of 1988, more than 30,000 political prisoners were executed in Ayatollah Khomeini's jails. A "movement for justice" is campaigning for the leaders of the religious dictatorship to face justice.They are definitely the stars
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Vietnam has eased its drug laws but smugglers still face capital punishment.A court in Hanoi sentenced four men to death on Monday for smuggling more than 20 kilograms of heroin in less than a year, Vietnam News Agency reported.The men, aged between 20 and 32 years, were arrested in April last24
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Mark AsayA man who is set to become the first white Florida convict to be executed for killing a black man has said he is ready to die.Mark Asay, 53, was convicted in 1987 of killing black man Robert Lee Booker and Hispanic cross-dresser Robert McDowell and has spent the
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A list of Landmark Cases that changed the judicial landscape in India since Independence that everyone must know of.India has always proved to be rather dramatic and somewhat profane in its legal approach and has framed laws on every aspect that a layman can possibly imagine.We have the bulkiest23
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A 15-year-old Saudi boy was arrested in Riyadh after sharing on social media a video of himself "spitting" on the holy Quran, sparking outrage.A Saudi teenager who filmed himself "spitting" on the holy Quran was arrested on Sunday after the video he recorded of himself went viral on social media22
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Marcellus WilliamsMissouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) on Tuesday stayed the scheduled execution of Marcellus Williams, just hours before the death-row inmate was set to be put to death for the 1998 killing of a former newspaper reporter.Williams’s execution prompted scrutiny and a last-ditch appeal to