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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 media, sparking
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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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Marcellus WilliamsUnless the last-minute requests for a reprieve are granted, a Missouri death-row inmate will be put to death Tuesday evening.Marcellus Williams, 48, was convicted in the 1998 fatal stabbing of former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Felicia Gayle at her University City home. In22
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Extrajudicial killing in the PhilippinesThe Commission on Human Rights on Monday called for a review of all cases where drug suspects ended up dead for supposedly resisting arrest.“We now call for a solid investigation, no whitewashing of this as much as we are also calling for a
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Siti Aisyah, the owner of an Islamic learning center, has been sentenced to two years and six months in prison for spreading "misguided" Islamic teachings.Siti was found guilty of violating Article 156 of the Criminal Code (KUHP) on blasphemy.The sentence handed down by the Mataram District Court21
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Zaw Lin, left, and Win Zaw HtunKoh Samui Court is scheduled to decide Tuesday whether to accept the appeal request against the death sentence handed down to the two Myanmar nationals convicted of murdering two British backpackers in Koh Tao in September 2014. Amporn Sungthong,
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Scott DekraaiLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California man convicted of the worst mass killing in Orange County history was spared the death penalty on Friday after a judge found that serious misconduct by prosecutors had violated his rights to a fair trial.The ruling means that, barring a successful
Thousands of people line the funeral procession route for Ashlynne Mike.FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ. -- In a heinous case on the Navajo Nation, an 11-year-old girl was lured into a van, sexually assaulted and killed. The tribe did not seek to have the man who recently admitted to
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The scheduled execution of a Filipino convicted of murder in Malaysia was postponed after the governor of Sabah heeded appeals from the Philippine government, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Saturday.Ejah Bin Jaafar was supposed to be hanged on Friday."We would like to thank the governor19
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As Pakistan celebrates its 70th anniversary as an independent state, 24 British politicians, led by Labour MP Siobhan McDonagh, have written to the Pakistani government urging it to repeal its blasphemy laws, which have been used to persecute humanists and religious minorities. Humanists UK, which19
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Former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal is hoping that the time is finally right for the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the death penalty unconstitutional again.Katyal, now a Hogan Lovells partner in Washington, filed a certiorari petition with the court on Monday in an Arizona death-row18
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The state of Missouri is scheduled to execute Marcellus Williams on August 22 despite a lack of solid evidence used to secure his conviction and a new report from a DNA expert that his lawyers argue supports his claim to innocence.“The death penalty is abhorrent in any circumstance, and as we23
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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 for22
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Polunsky Unit, Texas Death RowA man convicted in the sexual assault and murder of an 11-year-old girl was set to die next Wednesday. But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stopped his execution amid claims of intellectual disability.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday halted the Leggi
Ahmadreza DjalaliThe trial of a Stockholm academic who is detained in Iran on what Amnesty International calls 'extremely vague grounds' and could face the death penalty is set to get under way.Researcher Ahmadreza Djalali has been detained since last April. He was arrested in Tehran for espionage22
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Marcellus WilliamsA nonprofit that seeks to overturn wrongful convictions has asked Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens to put Tuesday's scheduled execution on hold.The Midwest Innocence Project says new DNA evidence presented last week shows Marcellus Williams didn't kill former St. Louis Post-Dispatch21
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Florida's death chamberKISSIMMEE, Fla. — A suspect in the fatal shooting of two police officers in Florida will be staying in jail after a judge denied him bond Sunday, saying there was probable cause for his first-degree murder chargeEverett Miller wore handcuffs and shackles during a
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) commissioner Muhammad Nurkhoiron said that Indonesia is likely to reject 20 out of 75 recommendation from the United Nations Human Rights Council. “One of which being the scrapping of death penalty,” Nurkhoiron told Tempo20
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They were sentenced to death about 21 years ago based on the Judge's opinion rather than actual documented evidence.3 prisoners were reportedly hanged at Qom Central Prison on murder charges. The case files for these prisoners were reportedly opened about 21 years ago.According to a report by the20
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Damien EcholsSix years ago Saturday (Aug. 19), Damien Echols woke for the last time on the wrong side of a set of jail bars. He spent 18 years in prison, convicted of the murders of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis in 1993. He, along with Jason Baldwin and Jessie
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Anngela Fader Sampler turned 40 this year, but the milestone was bittersweet — it’s now been 30 years since her mother was strangled to death near Lake Worth.But the sad anniversary comes with a fresh hope for justice for Dana Fader’s loved ones because her alleged killer, Rodney Clark, finally is
Missouri will use 2 of its 34 vials of the sedative pentobarbital on Tuesday when it executes Marcellus Williams, who was convicted in the 1998 killing of Felicia Gayle, former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter.The state has enough pentobarbital for 17 executions, Williams' included, according to a18
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Sammantha AllenThe convicted murderer inadvertently became one of Arizona's capital punishment pioneers when she was hung 87 years ago for killing a Tucson rancher.On February 21, 1930, she approached the gallows and remained silent and stoic before her hanging. But then something went awry. The22
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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
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Despite international pressure the Maldives will reintroduce the death penalty after a 60-year moratorium to try and reduce the rising number of murders and stop drug trafficking, a senior advisor to President Abdulla Yameen said on Tuesday.The United Nations and Amnesty
Dylann Roof“What are you?” a member of the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston asked at the trial of the white man who killed eight of her fellow black parishioners and their pastor. “What kind of subhuman miscreant could commit such evil?... What happened to you, Dylann?”Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
Group says it does not condone use of its drugs in lethal injection as Florida eyes moveJohnson & Johnson, the world’s largest healthcare company, has hit out at plans by the US state of Florida to execute a prisoner on death row using an experimental lethal injection containing a drug it
Florida's death chamberAhead of a planned resumption of executions in Florida on 24 August, 18 months after the last one, Amnesty International is issuing a paper on recent developments relating to the death penalty in the US state.“Death in Florida” outlines the state’s response to the January21
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"Thousands of extrajudicial killing."The head of the Philippines’ powerful Catholic Church called Sunday for an end to the “waste of human lives” following a brutal week in President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war in which a 17-year-old boy was among dozens killed.Police raids dubbed “One Time Big20
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King Mohammed VIOn the King and the People day celebration, King Mohammed VI granted a royal pardon to 415 persons convicted by the various courts of the kingdom, said the Department of Justice in a statement.Out of the 343 detained beneficiaries of the pardon, 337 inmates benefited from Leggi19
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Giang Kim Dat,Tran Van Liem andTran Van KhuongBut without a major overhaul of the country's public sector, stern sentencing may be only cosmetic, analysts say.A court of appeals in Hanoi on Friday upheld the death sentences against two executives from the corruption-hit
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President Rodrigo Duterte (left) and President Joko WidodoJakarta. The number of suspected drug dealers killed by Indonesian police has more than tripled so far this year from the whole of 2016, activists said on Wednesday (16/08), raising concerns the country may be headed towards
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Renae LawrenceRenae Lawrence, a member of the infamous Australian smuggling group the Bali Nine, has gotten six months knocked off her prison sentence, but that doesn’t mean she’ll get out next year, says the woman’s father.Lawrence, who’s currently serving out her sentence in Bali’s remote Bangli18
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday acquitted two death row convicts languishing in prison for around twelve years for murdering a man in the name of honour, ARY News reported. Aijaz Ahmed and Shahid Iqbal were condemned to death by a trial court for killing a man for honour in Hafizabad