Five death penalty bills were heard in a seven-hour-long meeting at the Capitol Monday night.The death penalty was a hot topic at the Texas Capitol Monday night.Testimony on five capital punishment bills was heard by the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee in a seven-hour-long meeting that lasted until close to midnight. The bills
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VARNER, Ark. — After a pair of court defeats, the state of Arkansas was forced late Monday to abandon its plan to carry out its first execution in more than a decade. The canceled execution of a condemned prisoner here was a significant setback for the state, which had sought to put
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Little Rock, Arkansas, April 14, 2017State officials challenged one order Saturday and vowed to fight the other.The rally was attended by actor Johnny Depp and by Damien Echols, who spent almost 18 years on Arkansas' death row. Arkansas has said this scheduled is needed because one
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President Recep Tayyip ErdoganISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey on Sunday claimed victory by a narrow margin in a referendum that grants sweeping powers to his office, in a watershed moment that the country’s opposition fears may cement his one-man rule.With just under 99 percent15
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ATLANTA — A federal judge on Saturday blocked the State of Arkansas from carrying out six executions over 10 days, a new blow to an unprecedented schedule in capital punishment’s modern history in the United States.Arkansas planned to begin a series of executions on Monday night, less than two
Death-penalty opponents on the front steps of Arkansas' Capitol to protestthe state's plan to execute seven inmates before the end of April.LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ push to resume
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Five things you can do to help get the UK government to scrap the ‘family cap’ and ‘rape clause’.Engender has released a special edition of #FridayFeministFive focusing on their campaign calling on the UK Government to scrap the abhorrent ‘family cap’ and the ‘rape clause’.Here are 5 simple14
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Of the more than 2 million low-income families at risk of being affected, 70 per cent are in work.New two child limit to tax credits rule means that from this month, April 2017, a third child born to low income families will miss out on up to £2,780 of tax credit support a year, and this will14
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Duane BuckThe 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted Texas death-row inmate Duane Buck the right to pursue his claims of ineffective counsel and relief under a rule that covers mistakes and neglect - a move that could spare him from execution.In February, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that race14
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Public hanging, Arak, Iran, April 13, 2017Iran Human Rights (APR 13 2017): A prisoner who was sentenced to death on six counts of murder charges was hanged in public in the city of Arak (Markazi province).According to a report by the Iranian state-run media, ISNA,
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Ivan TeleguzPressure is building on Governor Terry McAuliffe to grant clemency in the case of a former Harrisonburg man who could be executed later this month. New evidence suggests prosecutors and police used questionable tactics to convict him, and witnesses who pointed a finger at him are now13
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President Recep Tayyip ErdoganPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he believes the government should submit a draft on reinstating the death penalty in the event that the constitutional amendments are approved in the upcoming referendum on April 16."After April 16, with God's permission, the17
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After Amnesty International released its report last week that 1032 prisoners were executed last year - with China as the world's top executioner - how many Australians are on death row in foreign countries?At least 5 Australians have been under threat of death by firing squad in China, all for
A hotel manager was sent to the gallows by the Magistrate's Court here today after he found guilty of trafficking 82.38 gm of heroin last year.Judicial Commissioner Muhammad Jamil Hussin passed the death sentence to Muhammad Firdaus Abdullah, 29, after the defence failed to raise a reasonable16
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Southern Azerbaijan: AHRAZ Publishes Report on Death Penalty in Azerbaijani Turkish-populated Cities in Iran (2015-2016)The Association for the human rights of the Azerbaijani people in Iran (AHRAZ) published a report on the use of the death penalty in Azerbaijani Turkish-populated cities in Iran
Mississippi's death chamberMississippi does not have to publicly disclose details of how it carries out executions, the state's highest court ruled Thursday.In a 7-2 decision, the Mississippi Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit by the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center that argued the15
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Death-penalty opponents on the front steps of Arkansas' Capitol to protestthe state's plan to execute seven inmates before the end of April.LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Latest on
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Inequality in pay between the rich and the rest is a major driver of overall economic inequality in the UK.On average, the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of the UK’s largest one hundred companies (the FTSE 100) take home around 190 times what the average employee takes home.This results in14
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‘Thank you for taking your time to hear my voice, because our voices are rarely heard.’Given unusual access to California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, one of the most notorious super-maximum security prisons in the United States, the filmmaker Cali Bondad and the reporter Gabrielle Canon
A German pharmaceutical manufacturer whose drugs ended up in Nebraska's lethal injection supply never intended for state officials to obtain them and tried unsuccessfully to get the corrections department to return them, a company spokesman said Thursday.Nebraska's corrections department was only14
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Two major pharmaceutical companies are making a last-minute legal intervention to stop the state of Arkansas from executing eight prisoners between 17th and 27th April.The companies, Fresenius Kabi and West-Ward, are throwing their weight behind a suit challenging the state’s lethal injection13
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Arkansas' death chamberCrush of journalists from elsewhere expected at prison3 Arkansas journalists will be allowed to witness each execution at the Cummins Unit this month, and prison system officials are preparing for a media contingent from around the globe.The state Department of Correction13
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Mufti Abdul HannanBangladesh on Wednesday executed banned Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and his 2 associates for a 2004 attack on a shrine that killed 3 people and wounded the British High Commissioner at the time.Hannan was hanged at Kashimpur Jail in Gazipur along with his
Pfizer Inc. said drugs that can be used to execute inmates by lethal injection were sold to the Arkansas Department of Corrections without its knowledge by the distributor McKesson Corp., in violation of the drugmaker’s policy.The statement followed a report in the New Yorker that the state of16
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Pulaski County circuit judge Wendell Griffen taking part in an anti-deathpenalty demonstration outside the state governor’s mansion, Arkansas.Republican lawmakers questioned Judge Wendell Griffen’s impartiality after he lay bound on a cot following his ruling to halt executionsThe judge who onArkansas' death chamberGhoulishness envelops Arkansas’ decision to pump deadly drugs into eight men over the next fortnight. Although two of the eight scheduled executions have definitively been stayed and a temporary restraining order has been issued as to the remaining six, the state plans an15
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Kanae KijimaThe Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence given to a 42-year-old woman for killing 3 men she met through an online dating service in the Tokyo area in 2009.Although Kanae Kijima had pleaded not guilty to the murders, the top court ruled she killed all 3 --
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Arkansas' death chamberAmerica’s largest drug wholesaler is suing the state of Arkansas to stop the use of dishonestly-obtained medicines in eight lethal injection executions between April 17th and 27th.It is the first time in US legal history that a private company has brought direct legal action14
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Ninety-three per cent of employers report benefits from being an accredited Living Wage business.The Living Wage Foundation, working with Cardiff Business School, has released new data demonstrating the business benefits of implementing the real Living Wage.The real Living Wage is an hourly14
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2017
LITTLE ROCK (TALK BUSINESS AND POLITICS) -- Two drug companies have thrown a new wrinkle in Arkansas’ planned executions of seven death row inmates with a late Thursday (April 13) filing indicating that state officials may have obtained two of the three lethal injection drugs from “an unauthorized
Richard GlossipDirector Joe Berlinger believes personal liberty is a fundamental American value.When the government and prosecutors have the power to take that liberty away, he says it should be done fairly and justly. In his opinion, this power was abused in the case of Richard Glossip, who has13
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Teresa Clark has watched three strangers die. She held her husband's hand the first time, but after that the experience began to feel normal.The couple, who run a chimney sweeping business in Waynesboro, Virginia, volunteer to watch executions. Teresa's husband, Larry, 63, went to the first one13
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A surgeon told a federal court in Arkansas on Wednesday that a sedative the state plans to use in its lethal injection mix is not suitable for surgery and should be prohibited when Arkansas holds an unprecedented series of executions later this month.Arkansas plans to kill 8 prisoners in dual13
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Prisoner with Mental Illness Executed on Murder ChargesA prisoner who reportedly suffered from a mental illness was hanged at Tabriz Central Prison on murder charges.According to the human rights news agency HRANA, the execution was carried out on the morning of Wednesday April 12. The prisoner