Hesham Barakat was assassinated in a Cairo car bombing in June 2015Cairo: An Egyptian court Saturday sentenced 28 people to death by hanging after convicting them of involvement in the murder of the country’s chief prosecutor Hesham Barakat in a bombing more than two years ago.Fifteen co- defendants were given life
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In 1997, my brother, James Nero, was brutally gunned down in a road-rage incident in Canton. After a minor accident, James insisted that the other driver provide his insurance information. Instead, the driver returned from his car with a gun and shot my brother in the face. Then he shot James22
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President Rodrigo Duterte (left) and President Joko Widodo, Jakarta, 2016JAKARTA: President Joko Widodo has issued a shoot-to-kill order against foreign dealers and traffickers, as he called for tougher action in Indonesia's war on drugs."The police and TNI (military) have been firm, especially21
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National Police chief Gen. Tito KarnavianNational Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian said on Thursday that the example of the Philippines illustrated that capital punishment was an effective way to combat drug dealers.He said capital punishment delivered a deterrent effect, despite controversies21
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Ronald PhillipsColumbus -- Gov. John Kasich will skip the opening of the Ohio State Fair on Wednesday so that he can monitor activities at the Death House as the state carries out the first execution in more than three years, his spokesman said.Convicted child killer Ronald Phillips is scheduled20
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Mosul, IraqInvestigate, Punish Those Responsible for Any War CrimesInternational observers have discovered an execution site in west Mosul, Human Rights Watch said today. That report, combined with new statements about executions in and around Mosul's Old City and persistent documentation about20
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Barbaric and medieval punishments:Public execution in Shiraz, Iran.Spate of Executions Despite Imminent Reforms(Beirut) – The Iranian government should immediately halt all executions for drug-related offenses while parliament debates amendments to reform the country’s drug law, Human Rights Watch20
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The chair used in Utah for firing squad executions.Nineteen states have abolished the death penalty. Utah isn't one of them. In fact, Utah is the only state in the modern era to use the firing squad. That's not something to shout from mountaintops.
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The Maldivian government could resume executions within hours after a moratorium that has lasted 60 years, Reprieve understands.Reports suggest that President Abdullah Yameen is preparing to go through with his repeated threat of starting to carry out death sentences before the end of July.There
RIYADH – Two Saudi men were executed on Tuesday for killing two people in the southwestern city of Abha, the interior ministry said in a statement published by the official news agency SPA.The first convict was identified as Ahmed bin Musa, who was sentenced to death after stabbing another person19
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NORTH KOREA carries out public executions on river banks and at school grounds and marketplaces for charges such as stealing copper from factory machines, distributing media from South Korea and prostitution, a report issued on Wednesday said.The report, by a Seoul-based non-government group, said18
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No payment ruling suggests children can consent to their abuse.Sexually exploited children are being refused compensation by a government-funded agency on the grounds they ‘consented’ to their abuse, a charity coalition has found.The coalition’s findings show that child sexual abuse victims23
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Medieval punishments: Watching a public hanging in IranIran Human Rights (JULY 22 2017): A prisoner was reportedly hanged at Zabol Central Prison, and three prisoners were reportedly hanged at Zahedan Central Prison. Two of the prisoners were reportedly Afghan citizens. According to a report21
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Steps have been taken to address the cases of sexual exploitation and abuse inflicted by UN personnel.The former deputy head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) has urged continued vigilance to ensure that UN personnel do no harm to local populations21
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Adilur Rahman KhanKUALA LUMPUR: Bangladeshi human rights activist Adilur Rahman Khan was deported on Thursday night.In a statement, the Immigration Department confirmed that Adilur had been sent back to Bangladesh via flight MH112 at 8.05pm.Adilur, the secretary of human rights group Odhikar, was
Ralph Wright Jr. (left)Ralph Wright Jr. was exonerated and released from Florida’s death row on Tuesday after a circuit court acquitted him of a 2007 double murder.In May, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that there was not enough evidence to prove Wright was guilty of the murders and remanded20
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The argument that the lifting of the moratorium on capital punishment is crucial to combatting terrorism simply does not hold groundNational Commission for Human Right (NCHR) recently held a conference titled ‘Moving away from Death Penalty in Pakistan’. The issue is least discussed in Pakistan
"Capital punishment is a macabre folly that swings between tragedy and idiocy."The following text is an excerpt from: Abolishing the Death Penalty: Why India Should Say No to Capital Punishment; Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Aleph Books; Rs 270.In its last and most defining and irreversible stage a death20
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27,503 signatures. Photo Ohioans to Stop Executions (viaFacebook)COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Death penalty opponents on Wednesday called on Gov. John Kasich not to resume executions next week after a 3 1/2-year hiatus.Ohioans to Stop Executions delivered 27,503 signatures to Kasich's office, urging the19
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Chechnya’s leader President Ramzan KadyrovChechnya’s leader PresidentRamzan Kadyrov has defended honour killings of gay men.Speaking to HBO, the Chechen president said that he would defend the rights of families to murder their gay relatives.‘Honour killings’, or the murder of relatives due to19
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Pranab MukherjeeAs president, Pranab Mukherjee rejected 30 mercy petitions, a number greater than the combined total of mercy petitions rejected by his four immediate predecessors.Next Tuesday, when Pranab Mukherjee demits the office of the President of India, he will leave behind an in-tray empty19
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Rodrigo Duterte (left) and Joko "Jokowi" WidodoPresident Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and President Joko Widodo of Indonesia employ very different political styles. While Duterte is known abroad for his brazenly outspoken, at times vulgar rhetoric, Jokowi is known for being soft-spoken and18
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Senior Supreme Court lawyer Pavani Parameswara Rao on Monday asserted that there can be no imminent execution of former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav as the matter is pending before the International Court of Justice (ICJ)."They (Pakistan) cannot execute Jadhav as of now, because they22
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Mosul, IraqBERLIN – Four German women, including a 16-year-old girl, who joined Islamic State in recent years are being held in an Iraqi prison and receiving consular assistance, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Saturday.It said diplomats had visited the four in a prison at the airport in Baghdad21
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Cuts made despite significant increases in recent years of some STIs – including syphilis.Central government cuts have forced councils to reduce planned spending on vital public health services such as sexual health clinics and reducing harm from smoking, alcohol and drugs by £85 million21
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PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Thursday suspended execution of death sentence awarded to a prisoner till July 26 and issued notice to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa advocate general in the prisoner’s writ petition seeking directives from the court to the government to introduce a less painful21
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Ronald PhillipsRecently, at the Community Church in Woodland Hills, California, a woman sang “Amazing Grace.” She sang slow with sweet, lilting sorrow, letting each dolorous, weighty note saturate the space with sound. She sang right in front of the same pulpit where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.20
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Public revulsion over a spate of gruesome murders threatens to reverse de facto moratorium on executionsAt a press conference last week on the arrest of eight suspects in the recent massacre of eight family members in Krabi, the national police chief said the perpetrators were inevitably destined
A Kenyan court on Wednesday sentenced three men to death for stripping naked and abusing a woman during a wave of attacks by mobs claiming that women were inappropriately dressed.The three men were found guilty of robbery with violence, which carries a death sentence.Kenya's death penalty, by19
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‘And conduct a two-part inquiry in order to get answers to urgent questions about what happened.’The leader of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn, has written to Prime Minister Theresa May to request that the Grenfell Fire Inquiry team is broadened to improve confidence in the process and improve19
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Three death-row inmates in Ohio asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to stay their executions as they challenge the state's use of a lethal execution method that they say raises the risk of a painful death.Ohio has not executed anyone since January 2014, when the state first used a lethal
Turkey responded to the head of the EU Commission Jean-Claude Juncker’s recent article published in a German weekly considering Turkey’s re-installation of the death penalty as a red line in Turkey’s bid to join the EU bloc.“No one can make threatening statements on Turkey’s sovereign rights,”18
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Participants committed to accelerating progress on rights-based family planning programmes.In 2012, at a summit in London, dozens of organisations and countries agreed to support voluntary family planning, with the aim of reaching 120 million more women around the world.If this goal were
Iran Human Rights (JULY 18 2017): Four prisoners were reportedly hanged at Isfahan Central Prison, and a prisoner was reportedly hanged at Chabahar Prison. According to close sources, on the morning of Monday July 17, four prisoners were hanged at Isfahan Central Prison.Iran Human Rights has