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It will also review its strategy for new challenges and make it targeted, he stated in a speech that lasted over an hour. "We will differentiate between those who supply and cause harm versus those who are abusers and, where possible, we will employ data based, science-based approach."
In responding to a Private Member's Motion filed by MP for
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2017
Medieval and barbaric: Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has one of the highest execution rates in the world. However, in some cases, inmates facing the death penalty are spared if the victim's family agrees to pardon their crimes ... in exchange for a large sum of money. This
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Apr
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Arkansas' Death ChamberLITTLE ROCK — Lawyers for the state of Arkansas are telling a federal court that delaying eight executions beyond April 30 would have the same effect as canceling them altogether.Arkansas recently replaced an outdated potassium chloride supply, but in court papers Monday
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Apr
2017
May ‘might be prepared to ignore NHS staff and the public but she can’t just ignore the law and the NHS constitution’.Labour have questioned the basis for the downgrade of NHS treatment targets announced recently, saying the changes could contravene patients’ legal rights under the NHSAli al-NimrPrime Minister Theresa May has been urged to use a visit to Saudi Arabia today to press for the release of three juveniles who face beheading for allegedly attending protests.Mrs May is in Saudi Arabia today for talks that the Government says are focused on increasing trade and
In India, the ominous shadow of death penalty refuses to leave criminal jurisprudence. There are crimes which are indeed heinous, and the moment news of such crimes hit the headlines, there is a massive demand for imposing capital punishment. More often than not, the proponents of the death
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Apr
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Arkansas' Death ChamberLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (TALK BUSINESS & POLITICS) -- On July 25, 1902, Arkansas sent six men to the gallows — Lathe Hembree, Dee Noland, Tom Simms, Dave McWhirter, Jim Johnson, and Cy Tanner, or, as the July 26 edition of the Arkansas Gazette put it, “four negroes and two
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Apr
2017
Over the course of 10 days in April, Arkansas plans to put to death 8 inmates.The state code requires that no fewer than 6 "respectable citizens" be present at each execution.There's one problem: It's having a hard time finding enough volunteers to witness them.The volunteer pool is apparently
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Apr
2017
Medieval and barbaric: Public caning in Indonesia's Aceh provinceThe Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) has lambasted the Aceh administration’s Islamic criminal code bylaw, or Qanun Jinayat, saying it could potentially provoke discrimination and over-criminalization of LGBT communities
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Executions have been set for (top row, from left) Kenneth Williams,Jack Jones Jr., Marcell Williams, Bruce Earl Ward, and (bottom row, fromleft) Don Davis, Stacey Johnson, Jason McGehee and Ledelle Lee.Since the Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty in 1976, Arkansas has executed just 27
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Imtiaz Shams (right) has set about combatting the intimidating atmospherefor nonbelieving Muslims on campuses by holding several Faith toFaithless meetings in universities around the UK.The penalty sharia law stipulates for apostasy is capital punishment.Sulaiman Vali is a softly spoken
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‘It’s going to take all of our care and creative plotting to stop fracking’.The national social and climate justice group Reclaim the Power have announced plans to put pressure companies in the fracking ‘supply chain’ during a fortnight of direct action called ‘Break the Chain’ and will beDeath Row at the Louisiana State PenitentiaryWhen is the deterrent effect of the death penalty finally going to kick in? That is the question that Louisiana lawmakers who defend the state's death penalty law should be made to answer this session. Three lawmakers -- Sen. Dan Claitor, R- Baton
Arkansas' Death ChamberAn appeal by state prisons to keep the lid on the source of one of Arkansas' execution drugs was dismissed Monday by the state Supreme Court.Soon after the decision was handed down late in the afternoon, a spokesman with the attorney general's office said the state will try
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Apr
2017
Make sure the money goes charities that work to improve the lives of vulnerable women and girls.Just after MPs voted for progressive change to our abortion law, the government has handed quarter of a million pounds to an organisation lobbying to erode our reproductive rights. This weekend, it04
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2017
Krishna ‘Kris’ MaharajA British man who was wrongly sentenced to death in 1987 will be allowed a fresh hearing, based on evidence of his innocence, a US appeals court has ruled.Kris Maharaj, 78, has always maintained his innocence after he was sentenced to death over the 1986 murders of Derrick
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the Texas death penalty case of a Honduran national who was convicted for his role in a 1995 murder of 67-year-old Santiaga Paneque during a Houston home invasion. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the Texas death penalty case of a Honduran
Ali Mohammed al-NimrPrime Minister Theresa May has been urged to use a trip to Saudi Arabia to press for the release of three juveniles who face beheading for allegedly attending protests.Mrs May is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks. Her visit takes place amid fears for three
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Apr
2017
Expressing concern over the House of Representatives passage of a bill restoring capital punishment, a United Nations panel has reminded the Philippines there is no mechanism for it to withdraw its commitment to abolish the death penalty, under 2 international treaties to which it is a State
ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday acquitted a man, who was awarded death sentence by a trial and a high court in a murder case, after eight years in prison.Abdul Baqi was convicted in the killing case of Muhammad Ali in Balochistan in 2009. The trial court on the basis of a medical
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2017
Does the cap address high underlying rates of housing benefit and child maintenance in a fair way?The deadline for the UK Parliament’s Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into the benefit cap and how it affects British households is approaching rapidly: 7 April 2017.Please take part, and31
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Florida's death chamberORLANDO,Fla. - The Florida Supreme Court ordered for two Central Florida convicted murders Thursday to receive new sentencing after throwing out their original death sentences.Brandon Lee Bradley was convicted of the 2012 killing Brevard County Deputy Barbara Pill. When
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2017
It needs to be done: these are seriously hard times for ordinary people.Activists from Britain’s biggest trade union Unite have been protesting outside the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in London and jobcentres throughout the UK, and calling on the UK government to stop its “cruel andThe chamber voted 78 to 19 for a bill sponsored by Sen. Dick Brewbaker, R-Montgomery, that ends the practice. The legislation goes to Gov. Robert Bentley, who said in a statement Tuesday evening he "looks forward" to signing the bill.Alabama is the last state to allow judges to override verdicts
Louisiana State PenitentiaryThree legislators have introduced bills to abolish the death penalty in Louisiana. All 3 have have experience with the criminal justice system: Sen. Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge worked as a prosecutor in New Orleans, Rep. Terry Landry, D-New Iberia, as State Police
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Apr
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Nevada's newly completed $858,000 death chamberLawmakers are taking up a bill that would do away with executions and ensure life in prison is the harshest penalty a person can get in Nevada. Opponents argue that it's too expensive for a penalty that is rarely carried out, and isn't practical
Mary Jane VelosoMary Jane Veloso of Nueva Ecija has remained in death row in Indonesia after she was saved at the last moment by appeals from international groups as well as Philippine officials. She was due to be executed for drug trafficking along with two Australians, a Brazilian, four
Shankle-Grant and Storey on a visit in 2014For the families of men facing the death penalty, money can be a barrier to seeing a loved one before the end.Marilyn Shankle-Grant's son, Paul Storey, has been fighting his death sentence for almost 10 years. All his legal efforts so far have fallen
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Apr
2017
San Quentin Prison, CaliforniaIf a November ballot measure to speed up executions goes into effect, the California Supreme Court will have to decide hundreds of death penalty appeals in rapid succession.That mandate would turn the state's highest court into what analysts say would be "a death
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Apr
2017
Iranian authorities have sentenced a 21 year old man to death for "insulting Islam" through messages he sent on an instant messenger app, when he was only 19.Human rights lawyers claim that Sina Dehghan, was tricked into confessing to the breach of Islamic law by a promise of release. The Centre
Dylann RoofEleven weeks after a federal jury condemned Dylann S. Roof to death for killing nine worshipers at a black church in Charleston, S.C., state prosecutors announced on Friday that they would end a separate case by allowing him to plead guilty to murder in exchange for a life
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A new wave of horror and cruelty is heading its way to the sick.Dear MP,I have sent you a couple of emails but received no response. Both related to pensions.But I write to you today about something far more sinister.You may recall when we first met we discussed the ESA and the Work30
Mar
2017
Nie ShubinThe mother of a 20-year-old man who was wrongly executed for rape and murder more than two decades ago will receive about 2.7 million yuan (US$391,000 or HK$3.04 million) in compensation, including a record 1.3 million yuan for emotional damages, local media reported.The amount is far
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2017
Indonesian President Joko Widodo and French President François HollandeDuring a meeting on Wednesday President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and French President Francois Hollande apparently failed to discuss Indonesia’s controversial policy on the death penalty that France has repeatedly