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 ruling sentenced the father
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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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Do you know where and how your shoes were made?You’ve probably heard about low wages and poor safety standards in the clothing industry – but did you know that people make your shoes in some of the most toxic workplaces in the world?And that the women who hand-stitch your leather shoes have12
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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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Julian McMahon and Paris Aristotle with self-portraits by Myuran SukumaranBarrister who works pro bono for people on death row and refugee advocate among those recognised in Queen’s birthday listThe abolitionist lawyer Julian McMahon and the refugee advocate Paris Aristotle have been recognised11
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California's death chamberCalifornia voters faced a binary choice in November’s election over the state’s death penalty system. Proposition 62 aimed to end capital punishment and convert all existing death sentences to life in prison without parole. Proposition 66, on the other hand, sought to11
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The Arkansas State Medical Board on Thursday ended its investigation into how lethal-injection drugs were acquired by the state prison system, after determining no licensed doctors in Arkansas were involved.The monthlong look into the procurement of execution drugs began after one supplier, the
A Kenyan woman was sentenced to death by a Malaysian court after she was found guilty of trafficking in methamphetamine 4 years ago.According to Malaysian Daily Express, Rose Achieng Ojala had stuffed 3 capsules of the drug into her private parts and swallowed another 68 capsules, all weighing09
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TOKYO - A newly compiled DVD of a drama reenacts how police interrogated a 24-year-old man who was arrested in 1963 over the murder of a 16-year-old female high school student in Sayama, near Tokyo, while claiming his innocence.The drama was created in line with recorded tapes of the questioning08
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Domestic violence a form of “arbitrary execution”, says UN rights expert.Governments must do more to tackle the hugely disproportionate rates of violence suffered by women, including recognising attacks on them as human rights violations and domestic murders as a form of arbitrary execution, a
ISIS killed hundreds of civilians in the Iraqi city of Mosul in the past two weeks.GENEVA — Islamic State fighters shot and killed hundreds of residents in the Iraqi city of Mosul in the past two
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For the 2nd year in a row, the Ohio Prosecuting Attorney's Association voiced strong opposition to a bill that would keep severely mentally ill people from being executed on death row.If passed, House Bill 81 would bar the possibility of the death penalty for people who can prove they had a
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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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, her12
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NCRI - Iran’s public prosecutor in the city of Ghazvin, northwest Iran, said 20 individuals are sentenced to lashing and financial fines for “eating during fasting hours.”These individuals are amongst the 90 persons who were arrested on such charges in this city, said Ismaeel Sadeghi Nia on June11
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A recent letter to the editor from Shaun Moser published June 7 questions why Ashley Hunter isn't facing a death sentence. I would like to try and explain a few things about North Dakota's history with the death penalty.First of all, no one has been executed in North Dakota
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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was sentenced to death by a court in Tripoli in 2015Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, second son of the late deposed Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, is said to have been freed under an amnesty, in a move which could fuel further instability.His father's preferred successor, he had
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Zabol Central Prison, Iran30 prisoners in Zabol Central Prison are reportedly in imminent danger of execution after their death sentences were confirmed by Iran's Supreme Court.Zabol, located in the province of Sistan & Baluchestan, is one of the poorest cities in Iran. Zabol Central Prison is
Nine Filipinos who were part of an armed group that invaded and occupied part of Malaysian Borneo in 2013, in an episode that left scores dead, have been sentenced to hang.The bloody incursion by some 200 Islamic militants from the southern Philippines was
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Add your voice to the growing list of global human rights supporters.Humane values are under attack, and many of us feel overwhelmed – unsure what to do or where to turn.Many of us are fearful about the way the world is heading.Extremist movements are subjecting people to horrific violence
Four suspects in the Khon Kaen bar girl dismemberment case are looking at the death penalty after being officially charged with premeditated murder yesterday.Apparently, authorities don’t believe murder suspect Preeyanuch Nonwangchai’s story that the killing was accidental and that she just meant08
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California's death rowCalifornia Supreme Court justices considering whether a ballot measure to speed up executions is unconstitutional expressed skepticism Tuesday about a provision that would require death sentence appeals to be completed within five years.Several justices peppered a lawyer from12
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‘Violence against women and girls is not accidental, it is structural.’Violence against women and girls remains invisible or is normalised.How much more evidence do decision-makers need to take action?How many more women should be beaten, raped, killed, prostituted, harassed
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
Leggi TuttoLITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Arkansas' chief medical examiner says nothing in autopsy reports suggest that four inmates put to death in April suffered while they died. But that won't end the debate over whether the state's three-drug execution is cruel.The state's chief medical examiner, Dr. Charles11
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Pulaski County circuit judge Wendell Griffen taking part in an anti-deathpenalty demonstration outside the state governor’s mansion, Arkansas.Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen stood on the steps of the state Capitol on Friday and took aim at lawmakers and the Arkansas Supreme Court10
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Travis BredholdFayette Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone will soon decide whether to exclude the death penalty for a murder defendant who was 18 when he was charged with murder and robbery.In a 2005 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the execution of people who were younger 18 at the time10
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BAHWALPUR – An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday sentenced a man to death for sharing offensive content about Islam on social media, in a first ever penalty over online blasphemy.Bahawalpur’s ATC Judge Shabir Ahmed announced the sentence for the 30-year-old accused, who belongs to the Shia09
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Robert MelsonRobert Bryant Melson executed for 1994 triple slayingTonight Alabama death row inmate Robert Bryant Melson was executed by lethal injection for the 1994 slayings of 3 fast food restaurant workers in Gadsden. It was the 2nd execution for Alabama in 2 weeks.The execution of Melson --08
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Robert Melson(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Alabama is preparing to execute an inmate for the shooting deaths of three fast food restaurant workers during a 1994 robbery.Robert Bryant Melson, 46, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday evening at a south Alabama prison.State prosecutors said08
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On Friday, May 25, 2017, the Office of the South Carolina Attorney General elected not to appeal a decision vacating the death sentence of Justice 360 client William Bell.In November 2016, Circuit Judge R. Lawton McIntosh found Mr. Bell intellectually disabled and, therefore, ineligible for the08
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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday halted the execution of a man convicted in the murder of a McKinney real estate agent in 2007.Another Texas execution has been stopped by the state’s highest criminal appellate court, giving relief to the man convicted in 2007 in the robbery and