BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq on Sunday executed 42 Sunni Muslim militants convicted on terrorism charges ranging from killing members of security forces to detonating car bombs.The biggest mass execution this year in Iraq came after Sunni suicide attacks killed at least 60 people near the southern city of Nassiriya, a Shi‘ite
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Jakarta. Indonesia on Thursday (21/09) accepted 167 of the 225 recommendations it received from international delegations during the 27th session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review, or UPR, earlier in May, but crucially rejected the recommendation to abolish the death26
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While drug trafficking is not usually part of their beat, the Jakarta Traffic Police yesterday inadvertently carried out a huge drug bust on one of the city’s main roads.Last night, Traffic Police officers stopped a pickup truck that was driving on Jalan Gatot Subroto.From the outside, the25
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Abortion ‘should be treated as a medical, rather than a criminal issue’.In a major important step for women’s rights, the Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has voted strongly in favour of supporting the removal of criminal sanctions associated with abortion25
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September 24, 2017 (KHARTOUM) - A Sudanese court sentenced a university student to death by hanging on Sunday for the alleged killing a policeman during protests last year, triggering protests after the verdict.Last August, Khartoum North Criminal Court found Asim Omer, 21 years, guilty of25
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A Tennessee man avoided a possible death penalty by agreeing Saturday to a sentence of life in prison plus 50 years for the kidnapping, rape and killing of nursing student Holly Bobo.Judge C. Creed McGinley told a jury that Zachary Adams made a deal with prosecutors just minutes ahead of his24
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Gambia signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty on 20 September 2017 (https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/CN/2017/CN.570.2017-Eng.pdf [treaties.un.org]).Madagascar ratified Second Optional
Iran Human Rights has confirmed the execution of seventeen people in various Iranian prisons. Iran Human Rights (SEPT 21 2017): A total of eight prisoners were reported hanged in various Iranian prisoners. Iranian official sources, including the Judiciary and the state-run media, have not
NCRI - The Iranian regime's deputy prosecutor in the city of Qom, announced that the hands of three person accused of theft were amputated and at the same time four others accused of drug related crimes were executed in Qom central prison.
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A fire at the Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah school resulted in the deaths of 21 students and two teachersPETALING JAYA: The seven youths held over the tahfiz fire last Thursday cannot face the death penalty
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“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” This single, sinister question, asked over a sepulchral-sounding musical score, was rhetorical; for after a dramatic pause and a malevolent cackle, the narrator smugly informed the audience: “The Shadow knows.”And so it was with this somber21
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A petition in the Supreme Court has asked the court to do away with the practice of hanging death row convicts. The petition suggests that methods such as shooting or lethal injection be used instead.The dormant debate on doing away with the practice of hanging death row convicts has revived26
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A third convict, found to be a courier, receives life sentence and 15 strokes of the caneA drug trafficker convicted of a capital offence was sentenced to death in the High Court, although he had been certified by the Public Prosecutor to have cooperated with
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In a case chillingly similar to the Koh Tao murders, that received international and publicity, four more Burmese men stand accused of murder in Rangong in a case that has garnered little public and international interest.In this case, four Burmese migrant workers were arrested over the murder of25
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KUCHING: Sarawak police have seized 11kg of syabu and 993 ecstasy pills packed and labelled as Chinese tea brands - the largest haul of the illicit drugs in the state so far this year.Authorities valued the seizure to be worth more
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The judge had removed the death penalty as an option because of law enforcement’s misuse of a jailhouse informant.Scott Dekraai, the shooter in the worst mass killing in Orange County, California, history, was sentenced on Friday to eight consecutive life terms in prison without the possibility of
Arizona does not have to reveal who provides its execution drugs, a judge ruled Thursday in a lawsuit arguing that the information would help the public determine whether the death penalty is carried out humanely and promote confidence in the criminal justice system.The decision marked a defeat24
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Pakistan''s Army Chief Qamar Jawed Bajwa has ratified death penalty against 4 men convicted in military courts for committing several terrorist acts, today reported the body.A statement from the Army's Inter-Services Public Relations said that the accused participated in attacks, kidnappings and
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed John Battaglia's claims of incompetence late Wednesday, clearing the way for the state of Texas to put the Dallas child killer to death more than 16 years after his crimes.Over the past year, Battaglia's defense team and lawyers for the state have
A man was hanged in public as a large crowd of people, including children, watched.Iran Human Rights (SEPT 21 2017): A man by the name of Ismael Rangerz was hanged in public in the city of Parsabad (Ardabil province) on murder and rape charges.
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(JollofNews) – A few hours after delivering his maiden speech at the United Nations’ General Assembly, New York, President Adama Barrow of the Gambia has signed a treaty for the abolition of the death penalty as part of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil
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Arkansas' intent to shield much of its execution procedure from public view took another hit Tuesday when a 2nd judge ruled that the state's prison system must disclose labels that will identify the manufacturer of a lethal injection drug.Pulaski County Circuit Judge Mackie Pierce told the21
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Trying to prevent the public protests by intensifying the atmosphere of terror and intimidation in the society on the eve of the Islamic holy month of Muharram, Iranian regime has increased the public executions in various streets and prisons of the country.Just between September 12
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The state Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied clemency for convicted killer Keith Tharpe.Tharpe still has several court appeals pending that could delay his execution, scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday night.His lawyers are arguing one of the jurors who convicted him and sentenced him to die was a25
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“We cannot allow these doomsday weapons to endanger our world and our children’s future.”Amid tensions over North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests, the 50 countries needed have signed the world’s first legally binding treaty banning nuclear weapons.The treaty – adopted on 7 July by 122 UN
A man who violently stole Sh16, a toothbrush and toothpaste faces the death penalty after his appeal was dismissed.James Muchangi was sentenced to death by a magistrate’s court in 2010 and has since been fighting for his freedom. His appeals at the High Court and the Court of Appeal have Leggi25
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The Belarusian authorities have launched a discussion on the moratorium or abolition of the death penalty under the pressure of Belarusian human rights activists and international community.Apparently, the authorities are interested in monitoring public sentiments and response
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DOTHAN, Ala. — Kharon Davis spent a decade in jail awaiting trial. On Friday, a jury in this southern Alabama town deliberated less than three hours before finding him guilty in the fatal shooting of Peter Dwayne Reaves.Mr. Davis’s case had attracted national attention because of the extreme24
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Many family members of a woman fatally shot in 1990 support clemency for her condemned killer, lawyers for Keith "Bo" Tharpe argue in a petition seeking clemency on the eve of Tharpe's scheduled execution.The Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole is set to consider Tharpe's case Monday, the 27th24
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The State Attorney's Office intends to seek the death penalty for Jecorian McCray if he is found guilty of first-degree murder in the September 2016 slaying of a witness.McCray, 24, is accused of masterminding the plot to kill University of North Florida employee Joe Brenton
Thailand's Supreme Court accepted the final appeal by Thai lawyers representing Myanmar migrants Win Zaw Tun and Zaw Linn, who have been sentenced to death for the murder of British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh
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Scrap the 1 per cent pay cap, match wage increases to inflation and restore lost pay.The Royal College of Nursing has vowed to continue fighting for the cap on NHS pay to be scrapped.A heated debate in the House of Commons last week resulted in the government backing away from a vote which
Descriptions of the repeated rising and falling of an inmate's stomach weren't enough to stop his execution under current legal precedent governing lethal injection in Ohio, a federal judge said in explaining his decision not to intervene.It was also likely too late
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The Islamic Republic of Iran is to be blamed for the inhumane sentence of 80 lashes Leila received, but the Norwegian authorities have their share of responsibility in this case and must be held accountable for it.IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (20 SEPTEMBER 2017): The Iranian asylum
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