Repulsive: S Prabagaran pre-execution photoThey say the practice is inhumane and morbid, while being insensitive to the grief and anguish one has to endure when on death row.PETALING JAYA: N Surendran has slammed the practice in Singapore which has death-row inmates take part in a photoshoot “a day or two”
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Director of Administration at the Prison Service, Stephen Coffie, has revealed that Ghana currently has no hangman to execute death sentences.According to him, the last professionally trained hangman Ghana had has long left the system and is yet to be replaced.The last time the death sentence was17
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Iran: A corrupt theocracy meting out barbaric and medieval punishmentsSeven prisoners were reportedly executed in prisons located in the Sistan & Baluchestan province. Most of the prisoners were executed on drug related charges. Iran Human Rights (JULY 16 2017): In the past
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Florida's electric chairConsidered among the most dangerous inmates, Action News met with Wayne Doty in a small room at Florida's death row. Despite his wrists being shackled, security still watched his every move."An individual has the right to choose their own destiny," Doty professed.Then, the
Iran Human Rights (JULY 13 2017): Following a pause in executions during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, executions in Iran have dramatically increased since Saturday July 1. In the past twelve days, Iran Human Rights has reported on 56 executions carried out in Iran. 31 of the 56 prisoners14
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Rather than outlaw canings altogether the government will make them private to not put off foreign investorsAfter an international outcry over the public caning of two gay men in Aceh, the province will make future canings private.In May, two men in the early 20s were caned 83 times after being12
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Prabagaran SrivijayanThe UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia calls on the Singaporean Government to halt the imminent execution of Malaysian national Prabagaran Srivijayan for a drugs related offence, and urges the Government to immediately instate a moratorium on the use of the death
Justice Project Pakistan held a screening on Tuesday to show Pakistan's 1st ever review under the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) before the UN's Human Rights Committee in Geneva.During the review, screened by the JPP at SAFMA centre, the severity and use of the12
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4 defendants are charged in triple slaying in North Topeka2 defense attorneys sought - and got - a judge's ruling on Monday allowing them to withdraw as attorneys representing 1 of 4 men charged in the killings of 3 people at a North Topeka bungalow.The 2 were allowed to withdraw because Leggi11
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Dr. Mohamed Moncef MarzoukiDr. Mohamed Moncef Marzouki served as the interim President of Tunisia between 2011 and 2014, following the Tunisian Revolution. He is best known for his role in establishing the national Truth and Dignity Commission to investigate violations of human rights and provide10
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Prabagaran SrivijayanThe family of Prabagaran Srivijayan, a Malaysian national, have been informed that his execution has been scheduled in Singapore for 14 July 2017. Against international law and standards, he was convicted of and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty in 2012 for drug-related09
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B. Rames Batumalai (left) and Suthar BatumalaiThe family of brothers Rames Batumalai, 45, and Suthar Batumalai, 40, alleged that Suthar's body was found to have strangulation marks around his neck area, the neck was not broken (the neck is broken clean in a proper hanging), and
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Lindsay Sandiford, Kerobokan prison, BaliA British grandmother on Death Row for drug-smuggling faces losing her last chance to escape the firing squad after thousands of pounds to fund a final appeal went missing.Well-wishers and church groups raised £40,000 to help Lindsay Sandiford, 61, appeal
President Tayyip ErdoganANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday defiantly stepped up his attacks on the European Union, saying Turkey had to go its own way and vowing to bring back the death penalty if parliament passed it.At the opening ceremony of a memorial dedicated to15
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Scharlette HoldmanScharlette Holdman, pioneering foe of the death penalty, dies at 70.Scharlette Holdman, whose pioneering work with defense lawyers contributed to the decline of the death penalty nationwide, and whose clients included Ted Kaczynski, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
The Government’s 2017 drug strategy could risk contributing to the death penalty for drug offences overseas, human rights organization Reprieve has said.The UK’s new drug strategy, released today, commits the Government to “taking new action” on counter-narcotics in countries including Pakistan13
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Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterTOKYO (TR) – Japan’s Ministry of Justice on Thursday announced the execution of two male convicts on death row, reports the Sankei Shimbun (July 13).According to the ministry, Masakatsu Nishikawa, 61, who murdered four female managers of hostess clubs in 1991, and12
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Close to 150 death row inmates languish in grim conditions in Ghana with only a fraction able to appeal their convictions, Amnesty International said today in a new report that calls on the country's new government to abolish the death penalty once and for all.Based on interviews with 107 death12
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Alabama is among 6 states so far this year (2017) that have executed death row inmates, according to a review released Monday by the Death Penalty Information Center.Arkansas and Texas have each executed 4 inmates, followed by Alabama, with 2, and Georgia, Missouri and Virginia with 1 each
Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)The Saudi authorities have executed four men who were convicted in a secret ‘terrorism’ court – including at least one man who was convicted on charges relating to protests. It marks the first execution coming from the terrorism
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President Ramzan KadyrovThe names of 27 people slaughtered in a single night by Chechen authorities have been published.The secret mass execution is thought to have seen up to 56 people killed – all without trial.Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper based in the region, has published the list of names itA prisoner on death row has challenged the implementation of death penalty by hanging in the Peshawar High Court seeking the introduction of a less painful mode of execution in accordance with modern scientific developments.Kept at the Haripur Central Prison, Jan Bahadur filed the petition09
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At present, 25 of 27 prisons in Punjab are significantly over capacity and the highest number of executions take place in the most overcrowded prisons.Pakistan's use of the death penalty has failed to deter crime, is not being used to curb terrorism and is exceedingly used as a political tool17
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Indonesian maid in Saudi Arabia: Paid for the first time in 22 yearsThe issue of expat maids in Saudi Arabia. Again.After innumerable cases of violence and abuse, the Indonesian government banned its citizens from working as domestic workers
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Ali Al-Nimr, Darwood Al-Marhoun, Abdullah Al-Zahar, Abdulkareem Al-HawajFour young males on death row who were arrested in their teens in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia have been awaiting their fate for the past five years. Now, after a recent
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Ohio's death chamberRejecting Eighth Amendment challenges to the drug cocktail Ohio uses to give the death penalty, a federal judge moved the state one step closer Wednesday to resuming lethal injections.The executions of Alva Campbell Jr., Gary Otte, Ronald Phillips and Raymond Tibbetts have been14
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Singapore's Changi PrisonSINGAPORE: A Malaysian national, Prabagaran Srivijayan, was executed on Friday (Jul 14) at Changi Prison after being sentenced to death in 2014 for importing 22.24g of heroin, or diamorphine, into Singapore.He was arrested in April 2012 at Woodlands Checkpoint after two13
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Munir al-Adam 'held in cell for 24 hours a day' and could be beheaded at any timeA disabled man sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for attending a protest has been moved into solitary confinement in preparation for his execution, a human rights group has claimed. Mr Adam
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At least ten prisoners, including three Afghan citizens, were reportedly hanged at Taybad Prison on drug related charges. Iran Human Rights (JULY 12 2017): On Sunday July 9, at least ten prisoners, including three Afghan citizens, were reportedly hanged at Taybad Prison (Razavi Khorasan province12
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Florida's death chamberMan who killed 2 in Jacksonville in 1987 set for execution next monthA lawyer for a death row inmate scheduled to be executed next month is accusing Attorney General Pam Bondi of hoodwinking him into agreeing to a delay in a U.S. Supreme Court review.The postponement11
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The Pakistani government is set to be reviewed on July 11 and 13, 2017 by the United Nations Human Rights Committee for its compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).Pakistan ratified the multilateral treaty of ICCPR in 2010 which stated that the parties are11
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Saudi Arabia: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsSaudi Arabia executes six for drug trafficking, homicideA Pakistani citizen was executed for drug trafficking and five Saudi nationals for homicide.Six people convicted of drug trafficking and homicide were executed in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the09
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Iran Human Rights (JULY 8 2017): Four prisoners were reportedly hanged at Urmia's central prison on drug related charges. According to close sources, the prisoners were executed on the morning of Saturday July 8. Iran Human Rights has obtained the names of the prisoners: Khalil Mousavi Kousi09
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A senior Iranian judicial official has publicly defended the state's mass executions of political prisoners and extended incarcerations of dissidents in the 1980s.In an interview on July 2, 2017 with Tasnim, a news agency that maintains close relations with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps