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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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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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The self-proclaimed 'exorcist' who beat 3 children to death has been handed the death sentence, a court ruled earlier today.After pleading guilty to the murder charges last November, the perpetrator, Tun Naing, was tried under Sections 302 and 325 for committing grievous harm and murder.Today20
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The European Parliament has criticised Pakistan's human rights record, and squarely reminded Islamabad that it has grossly erred in handing down capital punishment for those allegedly violating the nation's blasphemy law, in the excessive of military courts and in denying India consular access to20
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The Saudi Arabian authorities have tried to distract from their illegal use of the death penalty by publicising the brief visit of Ali al-Nimr, a young man sentenced to death for attending a protest when he was just 17, to see his father in hospital.Ali's father Mohammad was shot in the leg
Nashik, Jun 19 (PTI) A Nashik court today sentenced a 47 -year-old man to death for killing his daughter four years ago for marrying a man outside their caste.District and Sessions Judge Suchitra Ghodake awarded death penalty to Eknath Kisan Kumbharkar for committing the penal offence of murder16
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East Jakarta's Cipinang Prison, IndonesiaYesterday’s announcement by the National Narcotic Agency (BNN) that they had uncovered a “luxury cell” at East Jakarta’s Cipinang Prison, complete with AC, wifi and even an aquarium, received a wide range of reactions, with many — including some of our15
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According to Iran Human Rights' (IHR) annual report on the death penalty in Iran at least 530 people were executed in 2016. With 296 executions Drug offences accounted for the majority of executions in 2016. In 2016, the Iranian Judiciary’s High Council of Human Rights stated in a report that13
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Capital punishment is unfair, ineffective and hurts the states that continue the practice.I've always viewed it a sign of wisdom to demonstrate the ability to change your mind - that goes double if you're an elected official. As New Mexico's governor in 2009, I changed my mind regarding the death
Inmates Donnie Russell Row and Ricky DuboseTwo prison officers were shot and killed during an escape on Tuesday morning in the US state of Georgia.Inmates Donnie Russell Row and Ricky Dubose are suspected of overpowering the guards while being transported by bus to a work
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Arizona's death chamberPHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers for a group of condemned prisoners who sued over how Arizona conducts executions told a federal judge Monday that they have reached a tentative settlement with the state.The agreement between the state and the prisoners contains a series of provisions12
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The legal reasoning behind the continued use of the death penaltyAMERICA is one of only a few countries in the Western world that still puts criminals to death. Even there, executions are on the wane: just 20 were carried out in 2016, down from a peak of 98 in 1999. Popular support
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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 account21
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Filipina maid has been acquitted from the murder charge, sentenced to 5 yearsThe Filipina domestic worker sentenced to death in Al Ain for killing her employer has been saved from death row, a Philippine envoy said.Jennifer Dalquez, 30, a domestic worker, was given the death penalty by the Al Ain20
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The European Parliament has criticised Pakistan's human rights record, and squarely reminded Islamabad that it has grossly erred in handing down capital punishment for those allegedly violating the nation's blasphemy law, in the excessive of military courts and in denying India consular access to
Ivan CantuThe U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an appeal from a Dallas man who shot and killed his cousin in a botched 2000 robbery and is now on death row.Ivan Cantu, 44, had argued that his legal help during his 2001 trial was ineffective and didn't present evidence that
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Andrew Chan (left) with Myuran SukumaranAN Australian producer is planning to use Queensland as a location to shoot a movie about the Bali Nine, focusing on the hidden faith journey of one of the drug traffickers who was executed.“Our story is based around the remarkable transformation
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Johann Reichhart (center) was born into a family of executioners.The young girl moved impassively into the shadow of the guillotine which would end her life. It was 5pm on February 22, 1943, and darkness was already falling outside.In the death chamber at Munich’s
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Bali's Kerobokan PrisonBali’s Kerobokan Prison has earned infamy over the years, housing criminals who’ve made the international headlines like the Bali Suitcase Murder pair, the Bali bombers, Schapelle Corby who just got released after parole, and of course, members of the Bali Nine.Located13
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Security was not fooled by a woman stopped at Bali's airport last Thursday with nearly 10,000 pills in her hand luggage.East Java woman, Stefani Anindia Hadi, tried to say she was carrying medicine for headaches when officers in the airport's domestic terminal pulled out the suspicious quantity of
Kuwait court overturns death sentence for father and mother who tortured their child to deathManama | Kuwait’s Court of Appeals has overturned the death sentence for father and a mother who tortured their four-year-old daughter to death and kept her body in a freezer.The court in its new ruling12
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Clinton Lee Young‘I never professed to be an angel, but I didn’t kill anybody…’ - Clinton Young, 2013Clinton Lee Young (born July 19, 1983) was convicted of murder and is currently awaiting execution in the state of Texas.On June 6, 2017, his execution was assigned to take place on October 2612
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Currently there are 37 convicted death row female prisoners. The only known execution of a woman in this region took place in 1937 in SylhetSince independence, Bangladesh has not carried out the death sentence of any woman convict, prisons officials say.Even if a woman is sentenced to death, her21
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Inmates Ricky Dubose (left) and Donnie Russell RowA Putnam County Superior Court judge denied bond for two men accused of escaping from a prison bus last week after killing two corrections officers.Rick Dubose and Donnie Rowe entered the courtroom in orange prison jump
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Bali's Kerobokan PrisonJAKARTA: Bali police continued a search for four foreign inmates who escaped from a high-security prison on the Indonesian resort island of Bali after digging a 15m-long tunnel under the prison’s walls.Prison guards and local police officers found the tunnel on Monday. It20
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One June day in 1983, a California professor drove over to a neighbor's house to pick up his 11-year-old son from a sleepover. Nobody answered the door, so the professor peered through a window - and saw a ghastly panorama of blood.The professor found his son stabbed to death, along with the20
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Washington D.C., Jun 19, 2017 / 03:26 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a defendant has a right to a mental health evaluation independent of the prosecution, which could have wide-ranging implications for the justice system.“This is a very important decision,” Robert16
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A Nevada man was released from death row last week after nearly 29 years in prison for a murder evidence now shows he did not commit.Ha’im Al Matin Sharif (AKA Charles Robins) was convicted in 1988 and sentenced to death for the murder of his
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Health Minister Ahmed Emad al-Din said on Tuesday that the Parliament has approved the draft law introduced from his ministry that aims to stricken punitive measures against human organ traffickers.The new law will enforce strict punitive measures against human organ traffickers, including14
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Indiana's death chamberThe death penalty in Indiana cannot be carried out as of June 1. That’s the day a Court of Appeals panel declared the lethal injection cocktail adopted by the Department of Correction “void and without effect” because the agency enacted its execution protocol without hearings13
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Responding to an Anti-Terrorism court's decision to convict and sentence to death a man for allegedly posting content on Facebook deemed to be 'blasphemous', Amnesty International's Pakistan campaigner, Nadia Rahman, said:"Convicting and sentencing someone to death for allegedly posting13
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Bali's Kerobokan PrisonMATTHEW Norman was just 18 years old when he agreed to act as a drug mule in exchange for $15,000.The Sydney teen hoped to buy a new car with the money he would earn, but instead his life changed forever after he and eight other Australians were
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Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsOne of the most serious crimes in the Islamic Republic of Iran is the crime of “waging war against God,” or moharebeh. In 2016 at least 44 people were executed on this charge, most of them accused of being “rebels” or of “spreading
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The case of 8 men who could face imminent execution following a military trial shows why Egyptian authorities should place a moratorium on the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today.The 8 civilians, 6 of whom are in custody, were sentenced to death on May 29, 2016, after a
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