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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 tool, even sometimes
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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 Corps09
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Ronald PhillipsCondemned child killer Ronald Phillips has a date slated with the death chamberRonald Phillips, age 43, has his third date with death. He is, now, scheduled for execution by lethal injection on July 26.On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit gave the09
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A senior Facebook official met with Pakistan's interior minister on Friday to discuss a demand that the company prevent blasphemous content or be blocked.The meeting comes after a Pakistani counter-terrorism court sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for making blasphemous comments on Facebook08
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LAHORE: A data analysis by Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), a non-government organisation working for prisoners’ rights, shows a total of 465 prisoners have been executed since the country lifted moratorium on the executions in December 2014. The organisation regretted that such a high number of the06
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William MorvaWilliam C. Morva is scheduled to be executed Thursday night in Virginia, after supporters failed to convince Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) that Morva’s mental illness merited clemency and a life sentence in the 2006 murders of a sheriff’s deputy and an unarmed hospital security
Two United Nations human rights experts are appealing to Gov. Terry McAuliffe to halt Thursday's scheduled execution by injection of William C. Morva.Lawyers for Morva, 35, are seeking clemency from the governor arguing he suffers from delusional disorder and at the time of the slayings believed05
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An Austin-based writer's quest to learn his grandfather's story leads to death row — and a little-known series of experiments that involved giving hallucinogens to inmates in the early 1960s.Editor's note: In this special contribution to The Texas Tribune, Austin writer Ben Hartman tells the story04
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The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the death sentence for Huang Lin-kai (黃麟凱), who was convicted of the double murder of his former girlfriend and her mother, saying the “enormity of his crimes” preclude any chances of rehabilitation.Yesterday’s ruling was the first time this year that the Supreme04
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Anti-Death Penalty Network (ADPAN) welcomes the new Criminal Code, which abolishes the death penalty for all crimes, entry into force on 1 July 2017 in Mongolia after it was adopted by the State Ikh Khural of Mongolia on 3 December 2015.Now Mongolia becomes 18th abolitionist for all crimes country
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Court also orders life imprisonment for 80, 15-year term for 34, 10 years for minor and acquits 21The Cairo Criminal court sentenced on Sunday 20 defendants to death during their retrial in the case known as "Kerdasa massacre", according to local media.The death penalty had already been issued in02
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In recent decades, Virginia governors have granted clemency to two mentally ill inmates facing execution. One of them smeared feces over his cell, and the other was dubbed “Crazy Horse.”Gov. Terry McAuliffe is considering a request to commute the sentence of William C. Morva, a double-murderer set09
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Drug used to perform lethal injections draws controversyIt's been 5 years since Mississippi executed a death row inmate. In an exclusive interview with 16 WAPT News, Attorney General Jim Hood said he's expecting 2 executions in 2017.The state executed 6 death row inmates in 2012 by way of lethal
Authorities Should Release all in Arbitrary Detention, Drop ChargesSudanese authorities have been unjustly holding Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, Hafiz Idris, and Mobarak Adam Abdalla, 3 human rights defenders, and have charged them with crimes against the state which carry the death penalty, 25 human09
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The Iranian Parliament's Legal and Judicial Affairs Committee is calling on the judiciary to halt executions of prisoners convicted of petty drug offenses until a pending amendment to the law that could save thousands of prisoners on death row is passed."We expect the amendment to the Law Against08
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In the new law, the definition has been expanded to include the death of "security personnel on board" or "ground support staff" as well. NEW DELHI -- The country's new anti-hijacking law, which prescribes capital punishment in the event of death of "any person", has come into force following06
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Thomas RandolphFor more than nine years, she waited for punishment for the man who ordered her mother dead and executed the hitman.“It’s been way too long,” Colleen Beyer said. “And it’s hurt every day.”On Wednesday, a jury decided that Thomas Randolph, 62, should be put to death for having a05
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Belarus President Alexander LukashenkoMINSK, 5 July (BelTA) – The Belarusian state cannot go against people's will in the matter of death penalty, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said at the plenary session dedicated to the formal opening of the 26th OSCE PA annual session in Minsk on 504
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Atheism remains one of the most extreme taboos in Saudi Arabia. It is a red line that no one may cross. Regarded on a par with terrorists, atheists in Saudi Arabia suffer imprisonment, marginalisation, slander, ostracisation and even execution. Efforts at normalisation between those who believe and04
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William MorvaRICHMOND — Several Democratic members of the Virginia General Assembly have joined thousands of petitioners in asking Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) to block the execution of convicted murderer William C. Morva, scheduled for Thursday.Morva, 35, faces the death penalty for shooting to death
Mark James AsayTALLAHASSEE -- Florida is planning to execute its next Death Row inmate in August — which will be the first execution in more than a year and a half amid months of legal limbo over the state’s death penalty law.Gov. Rick Scott on Monday issued a death
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Two men and a woman were hanged on drug related charges at Rasht's central prison. Iran Human Rights (JULY 2 2017): On Saturday July 1, two men and one woman were reportedly hanged at Rasht's central prison on drug related charges.According to close sources, these three prisoners were transferred01
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Raiford's Florida State PrisonAs Florida’s death penalty laws continue to face challenges and changes, all of Manatee County’s death row inmates have each been granted a stay or hearing in their cases.Of the 362 inmates currently on death row in Florida, three are from Manatee County: Delmer09
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Gathering signatures against the Nebraska death penalty repealCapital punishment is currently illegal in 19 states plus the District of Columbia.During Election 2016, voters in 3 states showed support for the death penalty:California. Voters rejected Proposition 62, which would have repealed the09
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Last execution in Lebanon, coastal town of Tabarja, 1998The murder of 24-year-old university student Roy Hamoush on his birthday on June 7 sparked a new wave of calls from politicians and Lebanese to reinstate the death penalty. 3 days later, 17 families of
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TOKYO: Police have charged a former gang boss on death row with the murder of a man in 1996, his second indictment for murder since the finalization of his conviction over a fatal shooting rampage in 2003, police sources said.Osamu Yano, the 68-year-old former head of a group
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William C. Morva was executed by injection Thursday night for the capital murders of an unarmed security guard and a deputy sheriff during an escape in Montgomery County in 2006.Morva, 35, a former Chesterfield County resident whose lawyers said suffered from a chronic psychotic disorder, was06
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Iran Human Rights (JULY 6 2017): On the morning of Wednesday July 5, eight prisoners were reportedly hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison.According to close sources, the prisoners were likely executed on murder charges.Iran Human Rights has obtained the names of four of these prisoners: Ghahreman05
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SEPANG: A drug mule from India was not lucky on his sixth visit to Malaysia as he was caught for attempting to smuggle 5.15kg of methamphetamine drugs hidden in his luggage bag today.Kuala Lumpur International Airport's (KLIA) Customs director Datuk Hamzah Sundang said the 55-year-old from Chennai04
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Four prisoners were reportedly executed on the morning of Monday July 3. Iran Human Rights (JULY 3 2017): On Monday July 3, three prisoners were reportedly hanged at Isfahan Central Prison on drug related charges, and a prisoner was reportedly hanged at Zahedan Central Prison on murder charges
Malawian prisoner Ishmail Gome has been released from death row, nearly 12 years after he was convicted and sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit.Cornell law students working with my International Human Rights Clinic were instrumental in securing his release. Maame Esi Austin (JD ’17)William MorvaOn July 6, Virginia is scheduled to carry out its 3rd execution under Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D, and 113th since 1976. The inmate, William C. Morva, was convicted of fatally shooting 2 men - a deputy sheriff and a hospital security guard - in 2006. His guilt is not
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Most death penalty prosecutions are not DNA cases. Convictions rest on circumstantial evidence, on confessions, on eyewitness identifications, and on forensic testimony (such as ballistics evidence).In a rape case, if DNA testing establishes that the man convicted of perpetrating a rape could not01
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Eurasia Review -- The Belarusian Supreme Court has ruled to uphold the death sentence against Aliaksei Mikhalenia.The decision has brought condemnation from the EU.“The continued application of the death penalty runs counter to Belarus’ stated willingness to engage with the international