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Florida's death chamberA former chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court says the state’s death penalty process will be left in “chaos” as a result of recent court decisions involving how the process is administered.In the past, a jury would recommend whether someone convicted of murder should be given
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Deputy governor-elect Sandiaga Salahuddin UnoDeputy governor-elect Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno said on Tuesday that he planned to establish a sharia tourism zone in Kwitang, Senen, Central Jakarta.Sandiaga explained that he had been inspired to build such a zone after he visited Ali bin Abdurrahmad Al
The U.S. Supreme Court's latest term, which ended this week as the justices began their summer recess, saw death-penalty opponents achieve some notable victories even as the Court moved further away from abolishing capital punishment.In one of those wins Monday, the justices vacated an Alabama
The Alabama Senate gave final passage on May 18th to the "Fair Justice Act" (Senate bill 187), a measure designed to speed up state appeals in death penalty cases, and on May 26th, Gov. Kay Ivey signed it into law.That was also the day that Alabama carried out its long-delayed execution of Leggi26
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A team of power company workers was trudging through a seldom-visited thicket in Southwest Washington when they spotted something odd in a ditch.Protruding from the grass was a rectangular slab of granite.They looked closer, and an inscription on the surface came into focus. What they saw Leggi
Morva is Hungarian-AmericanThe Hungarian Government and European Union are trying to stop the execution of a Virginia inmate.William Morva is set to be executed on July 6.Morva was convicted of killing Montgomery County Sheriff's Deputy, Corporal Eric Sutphin, and security guard Derrick25
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Someone was trying to kill him. William C. Morva was certain of it.He couldn’t breathe and he was withering away, he told his mother in a jailhouse call.“Somebody wants me to die and I don’t know who it is,” he said. “They know my health is dwindling, okay?”He sounded paranoid. His voice Leggi24
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Click hereto Google translate the following text into English (or into your own language).« La guillotine rend tout dérisoire.» - Robert BadinterLes locaux de la Folie-Regnault, moins fréquentés que les abords de la Roquette un jour d'exécution, n'en furent pas moins visités à de nombreuses
Attorneys for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate have asked a judge to declare Nebraska's death penalty unconstitutional.Concerns over the recently reinstated capital punishment that was repealed in 2015 are among the 11 arguments in a motion filed Monday by Todd Lancaster and Sarah23
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An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth — a life for a lab book?In the past few months, China has announced two new crackdowns on research misconduct — one of which could lead to executions for scientists who doctor their data.Scientists have been sounding alarms for years about the
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The court sentenced a second suspect to life in prison for his role in the explosion that shocked the nationManama: A court in Bahrain on Monday sentenced to death a defendant accused of planting a bomb that killed a Bahraini woman and injured three children in June last year.The court sentenced22
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Support for the death penalty is at a 4-decade low among the American public, but that may be of little consequence in the struggle over the future of capital punishment. That's because the death penalty is the practice not of the nation, but rather of a handful of states.
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Lynching in AmericaPeople of color in the United States, particularly young black men, are often assumed to be guilty and dangerous. In too many situations, black men are considered offenders incapable of being victims themselves. As a consequence of this country’s failure to address effectively
The use of the death penalty in the Americas dates to the 15th century when European settlers brought with them the practice of capital punishment. Because nowhere in the US Constitution is capital punishment explicitly addressed, the death penalty was imbued with intrinsic constitutionality by the27
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TOKYO - A 90-year-old triple murderer, reportedly Japan's oldest death row prisoner, has died from suffocation at a prison in Fukuoka Prefecture, the government said Monday.Takeshige Hamada was convicted of killing three people in the prefecture for insurance money over a two-year period from26
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Tyrone NolingCLEVELAND, Ohio - Sentenced to death for murders he says he did not commit when he was 23, Tyrone Noling, now 45, and his attorneys believe one way to find "the actual perpetrator" is through state-of-the-art DNA testing.For nearly 9 years, lower courts have blocked Noling's access to26
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"The TV series corrupt officials can never escape the long reach of the law"The execution of a former senior Chinese Communist Party official last month could have been lifted straight from the plot of "In the Name of the People", the hugely successful anti-corruption drama that is currently
Speculation is swirling that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy could announce his retirement as early as this term, The Associated Pressand CNN reported Saturday.Kennedy is considered the most pivotal justice on the Supreme Court, often known for casting the tie-breaking vote in key
In 2014, Dennis McGuire of Montgomery County was executed. The process did not go as planned.Witnesses reported McGuire struggled against his restraints and made choking noises before finally dying after 26 minutes, an unusually long time for that process.No executions have happened in Ohio24
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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — An Indian man on death row in Pakistan after a military court sentenced him on charges of espionage, sabotage and terrorism has appealed to the country's army chief for clemency.India had earlier appealed to the International Court of Justice, the highest legal body under the22
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California's death chamberThe biggest lie about Proposition (“Prop”) 66, California’s poorly drafted new death penalty law – only missing another “6” in numbering to be properly identified as the devil’s spawn – is speed.Pro-death penalty zealots, special interest groups, and prosecutors hell-bent22
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Patrick SchroederTECUMSEH, Neb. — A recent change in lethal injection procedure intended to enable Nebraska to carry out executions has been challenged by an inmate facing a potential death sentence.Concerns over the new drug protocol are among the 11 arguments in a motion filed this week by
Mohammed bin Salman is the new crown prince and heir to the Saudi throne.King Salman of Saudi Arabia has appointed his son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince and heir to the throne in an attempt to deflect criticism of his increasingly brutal regime.The new crown prince has repeatedly
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"13 people were sentenced to death for producing and selling drugs."Eight executed immediately after open hearing in a stadium in notorious drug producing area of Guangdong provinceTwo courts in southern China’s Guangdong province sentenced 13 people to death for producing and selling drugs at a27
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Burmese migrant workers Wai Phyo (left) and Zaw LinOn the morning of 15 September 2014 the battered bodies of two British backpackers, David Miller (24) and Hannah Witheridge (23) were found on Sairee Beach, Koh Tao, Thailand. Earlier that night they had
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António GuterresJakarta. United Nations secretary general António Guterres urged the international community on Monday (26/06) to adopt an approach based on prevention and treatment to address drug abuse and drug trafficking.In a statement coinciding with the International Day Against Drug Abuse26
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SOUTH DAKOTA - The Pennington County Public Defender's Office is asking the county for about $350,000 to help defend a man facing the death penalty for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend.The Rapid City Journal reports that the extra costs in Jonathon Klinetobe's case involve expert25
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In the past year, two states have seen their lethal injection drugs expire — forcing state officials to search for new drugs or scrap executions altogether.It’s possible Alabama could soon face a similar hurdle.A number of factors — the pace of executions, new information about the state’s last24
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(CNN) - TV kliegs lit up live shots in one corner of the parking lot, where protesters prayed, preached and crowded onto the scene. Midnight, January 5, 1994, was coming fast.I rushed to clear the first gate and head down the empty, well-lit walkway past B Block, a close supervision wing at24
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Arizona's death chamberA U.S. judge accepted on Thursday major revisions to Arizona's death penalty procedures, such as eliminating paralytic drugs in lethal injections and giving witnesses more access to watch prisoners inside the death chamber, a lawyer for the death row inmates said.The changes
Around the end of May, 2 prisoners were reportedly hanged on drug related charges - 1 at Maragheh Prison (East Azerbaijan province) and the other at Minab Prison (Hormozgan province).According to close sources, the execution in Maragheh Prison was carried out on Friday May 26. The prisoner has22
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Abu SalemSalem cannot get a death term or any jail-term over 25 years as per the terms of his extradition agreed upon by India and Portugal.Mumbai: A special TADA court convicted extradited gangster Abu Salem for his alleged role in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts on Friday, on charges including22
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A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that an Alabama death-row inmate was denied his constitutional right to an independent mental health expert to help the defense team in his murder trial.James Edmund McWilliams Jr. challenges his death sentence for robbing, raping and killing convenience store
William Charles Morva's attorneys are asking that the convicted murderer's execution - scheduled for July 6 - be halted by Gov. Terry McAuliffe.In a petition filed Tuesday, the Virginia Capital Representation Center says that Morva has mental illness that was never adequately taken into account