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'The only evidence linking the appellants to the murder was oralconfessions they allegedly made to police officers.'The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has granted freedom to 2 Barbadian men who were on death row for a 2006 murder.The Trinidad-base court quashed the convictions of Vincent Edwards and Richard Haynes, who had
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The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence issued by the Specialist Criminal Court and supported by the Specialist Penal Appeals Court against 14 Saudis including a security man considered a traitor and 2 wanted militants on the "list of 23" in what is known as the Al-Awamiya cell.The accused are27
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Southern and east Africa, the Middle East and south Asiapersist with the most draconian approaches.50 years after Britain's partial decriminalisation of homosexuality, in eight countries it can still result in death penalty50 years after homosexuality was
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Ten prisoners were reportedly hanged in prisons across Iran.Two of the prisoners were women. Most of the prisoners were hanged on drug related charges. Iran Human Rights (JULY 26 2017): Ten prisoners, including a woman, were reportedly hanged at Zanjan, Kermanshah, Mahabad, Noshahr, Babol26
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"39 people were discovered in and around Bradley’s tractor-trailer."The truck driver involved in the fatal human smuggling scheme that left 10 people dead may now be facing the death penalty himself. On Monday, James Matthew Bradley Jr., 60, of Clearwater, Fla., was
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Ronald PhillipsCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- A condemned child killer was scheduled to die on Wednesday in the state's first execution in more than three years after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his requests for more time to pursue legal challenges.Ronald Phillips was transported to the death house at the25
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Arizona's death chamberNews organizations will clash with Arizona prison officials over the First Amendment at a trial to determine whether the public has a right to know who supplies execution drugs and the qualifications of people who carry out the death penalty.The Associated Press, Arizona
The High Court yesterday commuted the death sentence of two activists of the banned Islamist outfit JMB to life imprisonment in a case filed for their involvement in the 2005 series bomb blasts in Shariatpur.The two convicts are Kamruzzaman alias Swapan, now 31, and Malek Bepari alias Malek24
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Today, fifteen prominent professors of pharmacology filed an amicus curiae brief at the U.S. Supreme Court stating that the “record of midazolam-protocol executions is profoundly troubling” and that the sedative midazolam, which Ohio plans to use in the scheduled execution of Ron Phillips on24
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A room smaller than a parking space: Solitary confinement cellArizona death row inmate Scott Nordstrom lives alone in a room smaller than a parking space. He’s allowed to leave his cell a few times each week to shower or exercise alone in
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Ohio's death chamberIt’s been more than three years since Ohio last executed a convicted killer. Unfortunately, the state is poised to resume the barbaric practice next week despite serious questions over respect for constitutional protections and the basic fairness of how the state administers the
In 1997, my brother, James Nero, was brutally gunned down in a road-rage incident in Canton. After a minor accident, James insisted that the other driver provide his insurance information. Instead, the driver returned from his car with a gun and shot my brother in the face. Then he shot James27
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Parliamentarians should educate their constituents on the need to abolish the death penalty, said a human rights activist.Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (Madpet) coordinator Charles Hector said they should also convince their fellow colleagues and respective parties to take a clear27
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A Peshawar High Court bench on Tuesday directed the Council of Islamic Ideology and attorney general for Pakistan to respond to a petition seeking its orders for the government to introduce a less painful mode of execution than hanging.Justice Lal Jan Khattak and Justice Abdul Shakoor extended a26
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Ronald Phillips (Ph: The Forgiveness Foundation)For the first time in more than three years, the state of Ohio executed a death row inmate, ending a lull that followed an unusually drawn-out execution relying on a controversial lethal-injection drug.State officials executed Ronald Phillips by26
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Anti-drugs czar Budi Waseso announced plans to guard a death-row prisonisland with crocodiles. He now mulls adding tigers, piranhas and... ghosts.Stories about drug kingpins operating their illicit businesses from inside Indonesia’s notoriously corrupt prisons pop up frequently, severely25
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Three prisoners, including an Afghan citizen, were reportedly hanged on the morning of Monday July 24. One of the prisoners was reportedly under the age of 18 at the time of his arrest. Iranian official sources, including the Judiciary and state-run media, have not announced these three25
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A group delivered petition with nearly 100,000 signatures to the Governor'soffice, hoping to stop executions resuming in Ohio. July 24, 2017.COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly a dozen anti-death penalty groups are hoping nearly 100,000 signatures will get Ohio Governor John Kasich to put the state's first
President Joko Widodo recently made headlines around the world when he told the Indonesian police they shouldn’t hesitate to shoot foreign drug smugglers if they resist, seemingly echoing the policy espoused by Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in his bloody drug war.Jokowi, like Duterte24
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Alfred MashambaDozens of job desperate seekers have applied for the vacant post of Zimbabwe’s hangman, but the country’s vice-president has blocked the recruitment process because he narrowly escaped the hangman’s noose as a teenager during the liberation struggle in the 1960s.Virginia Mabhiza, a24
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Iranian lawmakers have proposed changes to the country’s tough antidrugs laws, a move that could abolish the death penalty for some drug-related crimes.If approved by parliament, a proposed amendment could curb the number of executions in the Islamic republic, which has one of the highest rates of
Halamish, Samaria, IsraelIn the opposition, MK Shelly Yacimovich (Zionist Union) said the ministers’ calls for death penalty are an attempt to replace decision-making.Several ministers in the Security Cabinet called for the terrorist who massacred a family Friday night to be executed ahead of23
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Medieval punishments: Watching a public hanging in IranIran Human Rights (JULY 22 2017): A prisoner was reportedly hanged at Zabol Central Prison, and three prisoners were reportedly hanged at Zahedan Central Prison. Two of the prisoners were reportedly Afghan citizens. According to a report
House of Representatives, Manila, PhilippinesThe death penalty bill is conspicuously absent from the list of 35 measures the Senate and the House of Representatives have agreed to prioritize in the second regular session of the 17th Congress.Leaders of the 2 chambers agreed on Wednesday to pass27
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Halamish, Samaria, IsraelExcept for the U.S., the entire Western world got rid of the death penalty 20 years ago, but the justice and education ministers are desperate to bring it to IsraelThe heads of Habayit Hayehudi have launched a despicable campaign. Since the attack in Halamish they have26
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The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army, or TQILALGBT supporters are fighting back against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) on the Syrian battlefield after three years of persecution in which their community suffered stonings, executions from rooftops and a deadly shooting at an LGBT
The Sixth Amendment provides that “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall … have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.” The right to counsel encompasses the right to an attorney -- a qualified attorney. Not, for instance, one who has been disbarred and prohibited from practicing25
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The Walls Unit, Huntsville, TexasWith 2 days left before TaiChin Preyor's scheduled execution, his lawyers have tried just about everything to stop it. That includes alleging that his previous counsel committed fraud.With 2 days left before TaiChin Preyor's scheduled execution, his lawyers have
Moninder Singh Pandher and Surinder KoliPandher and Koli were held guilty of kidnapping, rape and murder in the case, CBI spokesman R K Gaur said.Describing the case as “rarest of rare”, CBI special judge Pawan Tiwari on Monday sentenced to death businessman Moninder Singh Pandher
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Medieval punishments: Public execution in Saudi ArabiaThe Saudi Arabian Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death sentences of 14 men after a grossly unfair mass trial is a worrying reminder of the country’s lethal crackdown on dissent, said Amnesty International today. The men who were Leggi24
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Michael Rosenberg, right, and his brother, Robert, on June 19, 1953,the day their parents were executed.Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's sons tell Anderson Cooper how it felt to be the children of the infamous spies,
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Matthew NormanMatthew Norman has been living within the walls of the infamous Kerobokan prison in Bali, jailed as part of the Bali Nine, since he was 18 years old.When Norman was 18 he agreed to act as a drug mule, seeing it as an opportunity to get his hands on
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Hesham Barakat was assassinated in a Cairo car bombing in June 2015Cairo: An Egyptian court Saturday sentenced 28 people to death by hanging after convicting them of involvement in the murder of the country’s chief prosecutor Hesham Barakat in a bombing more than two years ago.Fifteen co-22
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Mosul, IraqBERLIN – Four German women, including a 16-year-old girl, who joined Islamic State in recent years are being held in an Iraqi prison and receiving consular assistance, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Saturday.It said diplomats had visited the four in a prison at the airport in Baghdad