The KnessetA bill proposing an amendment to the Penal Law and the Anti-Terrorism Law, allowing the court to sentence to death terrorists who murdered innocent civilians will be added to the Knesset agenda soon by MK Nava Boker (Likud), Israel Hayom reported Wednesday.The bill proposes adding two new articles to
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THERE has been a lot of celebration in the media of late to mark the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of male homosexuality with the passing of the Sexual Offences Act on July 27, 1967. However that act only had effect in England and Wales. The original 1967 act
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Aramazd Andressian Sr.ALHAMBRA, Calif. (AP) — A father acknowledged he killed his 5-year-old son after a bitter custody battle with his estranged wife, who gripped an urn with the boy's ashes and sobbed uncontrollably Tuesday in the front row of a California courtroom.Aramazd Andressian Sr., 3501
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The US is witnessing a significant decline in the use of the death penalty. Oliver Pickup investigates the change in public mood, the reasons why and asks: will it be abolished any time soon?"America is in the midst of a climate change on capital punishment," according to Robert Dunham, executive01
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Halamish, where 3 people were killed by terrorist during a birthday celebration.The call to impose a death sentence on the terrorist who murdered three members of the Salomon family in Halamish once again raises the issue of the morality of
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The Nebraska Supreme Court last week accepted the appeal of death row inmate Marco Torres, who was denied a hearing in Hall County District Court where his attorneys had sought to argue the state's death penalty is unconstitutional.Torres' case is the 1st of the 11 men on death row to reach01
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Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, Si Yi Chen and Matthew Norman in Denpasar Court. Si Yi Chen was 20 when he was caught trafficking drugs as part of the Bali Nine. Now he's serving a life sentence in
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Rodrigo DuterteA Philippine mayor accused by President Rodrigo Duterte of having links with the illegal drugs trade has been shot dead in a police raid.Reynaldo Parojinog, mayor of the city of Ozamiz on Mindanao island, was killed with his wife and 10 others at his home as police served a Leggi30
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Nevada's brand new $850,000 death chamberNevada has a problem on its hands after a Clark County judge ordered an inmate executed: the state has no apparent way to carry it out.District Court Judge Jennifer Togliatti signed an order Thursday ordering Scott Raymond Dozier's execution for the Leggi30
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Miller Costello, left, and Brenda Emile, right.OGDEN — In 2nd District Court Thursday, Weber County attorney Christopher Shaw told a judge that Miller Costello and Brenda Emile will require attorneys certified to handle death penalty cases. Ogden couple accused of killing 3-year-old may ask for
Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuVisiting bereaved Salomon family, PM says government’s position supports execution for ‘such a base murderer’Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said he supports the death penalty for the terrorist who killed three members of the Salomon family on Friday28
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Anti-Ahok rally, Jakarta, 2012Doctor accused of blasphemy sentenced to 2 years over FB post criticizing 212 anti-Ahok rallyAnother person in Indonesia has been sentenced to 2 years in prison over an incident directly related to the blasphemy case of former Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja02
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Tehran's Evin prisonActivists given long jail sentences after trials lasting only 45 minutes‘Offences’ include communicating with EU, UN and human rights organisations ‘The international community, and in particular the EU, must not stay silent over the outrageous treatment of human rights02
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President Erdogan supporters: "We want the death penalty"Turkey has put nearly 500 people — including generals and pilots — on trial on charges of leading last year's failed coup, parading dozens of the men into a courthouse publicly as protesters threw stones and shouted
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Watching a public hanging in IranJuly saw many violations of human rights in Iran, the most important being:-- The number of executions reaching to a peak of 102 and the pending execution of 120 inmates to be carried out soon,-- Foreign diplomats tour of Evin prison
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Jakarta. Indonesia is probably only stopping a fraction of what could be hundreds of tons of methamphetamine flooding in from countries such as China, even after a record seizure this month, its anti-narcotics czar said.President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo last week told law enforcement officers to01
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A woman could not hold back her tears at the High Court here today when her son Hari Singh Kanda was sentenced to the gallows for trafficking 32.3 grams of heroin and 18.1 grams of monoacetylmorphine last year.The mother, who sat at the court's public gallery was calm when Judicial Commissioner31
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Yemen: People gathered to watch the execution of Muhammad al-Maghrabi.SANAA (Reuters) - A man convicted of raping and murdering a three-year-old girl was executed in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday in front of hundreds of onlookers, the first public execution there
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The office of Indonesia's ombudsman has unearthed evidence of rights violations in the execution of a Nigerian drug convict in 2016, an official said on Friday.Humphrey Jefferson was still seeking clemency from President Joko Widodo at the time of his execution, which meant he still had a chance
A death row inmate scheduled to be executed next month failed in a bid to get a Jacksonville judge to delay his execution because of the state's new triple-drug lethal injection protocol.Duval County Circuit Court Judge Tatiana Salvador on Friday rejected a request from Mark James Asay to put a
Gopal Krishna GandhiThe process to elect the Vice-President of the country has started. There is a straight fight between the NDA candidate Venkaiah Naidu, and Opposition’s Gopal Krishna Gandhi. But this piece is not about the election. It is about the place of death penalty in a civilised country28
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Medieval and barbaric punishments: Public execution in IranThe families of prisoners facing imminent execution gathered in front of the judiciary’s headquarters in Tehran on July 26, 2017 to demand a halt to pending executions until Iran’s Parliament votes on a bill that would remove the death28
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TaiChin PreyorA San Antonio man was executed Thursday night for killing a woman in 2004 after a last-minute request for a stay to the Supreme Court was rejected.TaiChin Preyor, 46, had been on death row for 13 years after a Bexar County jury convicted him of killing Jami Tackett, 24,
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Nusakambangan penal island, IndonesiaIndonesia says convict organised major drug trafficking ringJAKARTA • A convict in a maximum security Indonesian prison masterminded an operation to import 1.2 million ecstasy tablets, which led to two arrests and the death of another suspect, the authorities01
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The fate of Mississippi's only female death row inmate, Lisa Jo Chamberlin, is in limbo two years after a federal court ruling granting her a new trial in a double homicide in Hattiesburg.The full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with the exception of Judge James Graves who recused himself
The Maldives, famed for its crystalline waters and long tongues of white sand, lies at the centre of the Indian Ocean.Holiday firms offering trips to the Maldives have been urged by human rights activists to condemn the expected execution of 3 men that will bring a brutal end to the
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Anthony Ray HintonSince Anthony Ray Hinton was exonerated and released from death row over two years ago, Alabama lawmakers have not only refused to compensate him for the three decades he spent on death row for a crime he did not commit, but also passed legislation changing the appeals
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The official Ombudsman of Indonesia has accused both the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and the Supreme Court of “maladministration” in denying a Nigerian citizen, executed for drug trafficking in July 2016, his legal rights.Ombudsman official Ninik Rahayu outlined a checklist of procedural
Death chamber at Tokyo Detention CenterEfforts to achieve the final wish of a serial killer continue even 20 years after his execution, with around 200 people gathering for a charity event on Saturday in Tokyo to raise money for underprivileged children.The main speaker of the
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Iranian lawmakers must not miss a historic opportunity to reject the use of the death penalty for drug-related offences and save the lives of thousands of people across the country, said Amnesty International and Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation today.In the coming weeks, Iran's parliament is30
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Kim Jong Un's half-brotherA chemist's report that shows the banned VX nerve agent was used to kill the half brother of North Korea's leader needs further scrutiny, a lawyer for 1 of the 2 women accused of poisoning the man said Friday as he examined evidence ahead of
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The family of a disabled man who faces execution in Saudi Arabia for allegedly attending protests have appealed for help to save his life – and given fresh details of the abuses he has suffered.Munir al-Adam was arrested in 2012 in the midst of a Saudi crackdown on political protests. Born Leggi28
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Miyuki UetaTOKYO -- The death sentence given to a woman convicted of murdering two men in the western Japan prefecture of Tottori in 2009 is set to be finalized after the Supreme Court upheld lower court rulings Thursday.The top court said in its ruling that the defendant carried out the Leggi27
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In January 2014, convicted rapist and murderer Dennis McGuire was strapped to a gurney in an Ohio prison execution chamber and injected with the sedative midazolam and the opioid hydromorphone.McGuire's priest, Lawrence Hummer, who witnessed the execution, described what happened next."Over those