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Juan CruzThe hero who saved his gay friends: Juan Cruz was out celebrating a new job with friends, whose lives he would save.The family of Juan Cruz, a South Florida man police say was murdered while protecting his gay cousin and other friends from a killer hurling homophobic taunts, dealt
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Bali is in the grip of a drug crisis verging on a ‘state of emergency’ with drug abuse cases reaching 62,457 last year, Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika said Monday, Aug. 7.Pastika expects the number of cases to be far higher.“That number is what’s recorded, just the tip of the iceberg.
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Public hanging in Farrokhshahr, Iran, on August 6, 2017Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Shahrekord announced the public execution of a young man on August 6, 2017, according to the state-run IRIB news agency.The 30-year-old man, convicted of rape had been sentenced to death since 2014.Since08
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Sammantha AllenIn the end, the jurors felt they had no choice but to sentence Sammantha Allen to death for the brutal 2011 murder of her 10-year-old cousin, Ame Deal.The Phoenix woman had been on trial in Maricopa County Superior Court since May, one of four family members charged with07
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Amid concerns that Indonesia may start emulating the Philippines’ bloody approach to its own drug war after President Joko Widodo recently ordered the nation’s police to shoot drug traffickers who resist arrest, Indonesia’s National Narcotics Agency (BNN) announced that its officers shot dead two07
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Yancy DouglasOKLAHOMA CITY - A former Oklahoma death row inmate freed after a court found prosecutorial misconduct has settled his lawsuit against a former prosecutor and the state of Oklahoma for an undisclosed amount.The Oklahoman reported Saturday Yancy Douglas accepted the settlement in the
Three young prisoners were hanged in Adel Abad Prison, but the Iranian authorities are silent about it. Iran Human Rights (AUG 5 2017): On the morning of Tuesday August 1, three prisoners in their early twenties were reportedly hanged at Shiraz's Adel Abad Prison on murder
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Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years on death row and 12 years in solitary confinement, a powerful memoir about fighting for--and winning--exoneration.Infinite Hope is an argument against the death penalty through one man's personal story. It is about a man enduring a life on05
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaOther charges include carrying guns, taking part in illegal ralliesManama: A court in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Thursday sentenced a defendant to death after it found him guilty of firing at on-duty policemen with the intent to kill them.Charges levelled against
Florida's death chamberFlorida continues to show the nation how not to implement the death penalty.It didn’t get much attention outside the Tampa Bay area, but Ralph Wright Jr., recently became the 27th Death Row inmate to be exonerated. Florida has the dubious distinction of leading the nation in
Hassan RouhaniIran’s judicial and security bodies have waged a vicious crackdown against human rights defenders since Hassan Rouhani became president in 2013, demonizing and imprisoning activists who dare to stand up for people’s rights, Amnesty International said in a new report published02
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The 1874 execution of Jacob Mechella in New Jersey.How prisoners dressed for their executions says a lot about the condemned and the pageantry of American capital punishment, according to a new UC sociology study.What would you wear to your own execution?It's a moot
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Krishna ‘Kris’ Maharaj and his wife MaritaThe US Government is refusing to disclose evidence that could help free an elderly British man who was sentenced to death in Florida three decades ago.British citizen Kris Maharaj, 78, was wrongly sentenced to death in 1987 over the murders of two Leggi08
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As Shawn Rogers sat in court at the defense counsel table last week to face the accusation he murdered his Santa Rosa Correctional Institution cellmate, he occasionally leaned over to attorney Kenneth Brooks to ask a question.Brooks isn't technically Rogers' attorney — Rogers is representing07
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Lowered into an eternal tomb just a few hundred feet from their mortal cage, for some Alabama prisoners, a life sentence does not end upon death.For those who perish behind bars in Alabama without a penny to their name or family to handle their affairs, one of the state's three aging prison07
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No matter how you look at it, the death penalty is barbaric and stupid and has been abolished in all civilized countries except for certain states in the United States (which are difficult to call civilized)...The whole world tensely followed developments as the days went by, then the hours and06
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Bali's Kerobokan prisonOne of the latest drug convicts is a man from West Kalimantan who grew cannabis to ease the pains of his wife, who suffered from a rare spinal disease. Yenni Riawati eventually died, and her husband Fidelis Arie Sudewarto was sentenced Wednesday to eight months in
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Recent killings of children, attacks on law enforcement officers and a rise in crime in New Mexico’s largest city have conservative state lawmakers calling for New Mexico to reinstate the death penalty.State Rep. Monica Youngblood said Friday she will once again push for a bill that would bring
Barbaric punishments, a medieval justice system: The' crucifixion' of 5 beheaded Yemenis in Saudi Arabia.Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Justice has released a rare response to criticism over the imminent execution of 14 Saudi nationals on protest-related charges - including juveniles and a man with05
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Travis BredholdThe death penalty is unconstitutional for a defendant who was younger than 21 at the time of his offense, Fayette Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone ruled earlier this week.Scorsone issued an order declaring the death penalty unconstitutional in the case of 21-year-old Travis Bredhold04
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Nevada's brand new $850,000 death chamberLAS VEGAS (AP) - A Nevada death row inmate told a state judge again on Thursday that his decision to drop any appeals is firm, and he wants to become the first person in the state in more than 11 years
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Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgThe death penalty could be dying, according to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.The outspoken liberal icon tackled capital punishment and a host of other hot topics during a sold-out summer George Washington University forum held last week by the Washington Council of
It's not unusual for lawyers representing death row prisoners whose execution dates have been set to file last-minute appeals to try to get more time to argue about why their clients should be spared.But an attempt by death-penalty lawyer Marty McClain on behalf of Mark James Asay, scheduled to be
Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa TOKYO ━ Japan's new justice minister, Yoko Kamikawa, says she will "act carefully and strictly as required by the law" regarding capital punishment, respecting the sentences handed down by courts."The death penalty is an extremely serious punishment that ends a08
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"The cabinet agreed to amend the colonial-era Dangerous Drugs Actof 1952 to give courts a choice in sentencing."KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's cabinet has agreed unanimously to do away with the mandatory death penalty for drug traffickers, a minister said on Monday, but the decision Leggi
Deri said there is a 'real danger to her life' and he 'confirmed her entry without hesitation'An Iranian journalist facing the death penalty in her home country for her journalistic work will be granted entry to Israel, Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri confirmed Sunday.The journalist, Nada
The Maldives will be ready to carry out the first executions in more than 60 years next month, President Abdulla Yameen declared Sunday amid growing international concern over the reintroduction of the death penalty.“By God’s will, when the time comes in September, when the Supreme Court concludes
"Hanging Judge" Abolqasem SalavatiNCRI - The trial of three Telegram activists was held on Wednesday August 2, 2017 in Tehran’s appeal court while they had only five minutes of defense.These three activists were arrested on September 2016 and each one was sentenced to 12 years05
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Veteran death penalty defense attorney Jimmy Berry of Marietta closed the book on his last open capital murder case Tuesday.It wasn't a win; it wasn't a loss. The case went to dead docket, his client committed to a psychiatric prison, declared incompetent to stand trial.In Berry's line of work
(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday threw out the death sentence for a man forced to wear a "stun belt" during the penalty phase of his trial for a 1996 triple murder in Indiana.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said John Stephenson, 54, was prejudiced
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Mujtaba al-SweikatMujtaba al-Sweikat was a bright 17-year-old student on his way to visit Western Michigan University when he was arrested at King Fahd Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2012.Since then, Mr. Sweikat has been in Saudi custody, subjected to torture, including beatings so severe03
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SINGAPORE - Six suspected drug offenders were arrested by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in an operation on Tuesday (Aug 1).About 2.1kg of heroin, some Ice and Erimin-5, worth about $150,000, were seized.CNB said in a statement on Wednesday that its officers were deployed to observe a03
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Alabama AG Steve Marshall and Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich.Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Wednesday that the state is seeking to conduct more executions this year.Marshall visited Mobile on Wednesday to speak at a class educating local law
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The Court of Appeal on Wednesday (Aug 2) ordered a rare review of its decision 2 years ago to overturn the acquittal of a Nigerian man who brought nearly 2kg of methamphetamine into Singapore, enough to warrant the death penalty.In a written judgment, Judges of Appeal Chao Hick Tin, Andrew Leggi