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Arkansas' death chamber
A federal judge has granted an injunction in the execution of Jason F. McGehee, one of the eight Arkansas inmates scheduled to be executed later this month.
Marshall denied requests for injunctions for five other condemned men whom the parole board did not recommend clemency.
Eastern District Judge D.P. "Price" Marshall,
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Apr
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Florida's death chamberHerman Lindsey can tell you what it's like to wait for a turn with death.After being sentenced to die in 2006, he was put on Florida's death row in 2007, and sat caged inside a plain, box-like cell at the old, dusty state prison in Raiford, where winter and summer
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2017
Rachel Whiteread’s celebrated artwork now on permanent display at the Museum of Childhood.Place (Village) is a sculptural work featuring a ‘community’ of around 150 dolls’ houses which were collected by Whiteread over 20 years.The artwork will join the 100+ dolls’ houses in the Museum of06
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Screenshot from the video of ISIS militants throwing gay men off a rooftop in LibyaWith the poisonous gas attack in Syria, the world is seeing once again the lack of respect for life of the innocent.But just days before the gas attack another horrific incident occurred overseas.A video of Muslim
Richard GlossipOKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — Oklahoma's death chamber has been shut down for more than two years. but the case that exposed flaws in the process and led to the ongoing pause in executions is once again making headlines.It was September 30, 2015 when Don Knight waited outside the Oklahoma
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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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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eight executions beyond April 30 would have the same effect as canceling them altogether.Arkansas recently replaced an outdated potassium chloride supply, but in court papers Monday
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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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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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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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The Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria, Harry Purwanto, has said his country reserves the right under international conventions to punish certain categories of crimes with death penalty.Purwanto told The Guardian in Abuja yesterday that there were 16 legal regulations bordering on severe crimes
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Wartime nursing brought into the digital age as personal stories of First World War nurses uncovered.The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is creating a new online resource showcasing the long-lost stories of nine nurses from the First World War.By digitising personal scrapbooks and diaries, theExecutions 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.All eyes are on Arkansas as executions for 8 people draw nearOnly a few hundred people live in
Jason McGeheeThe Arkansas Parole Board has recommended that one of the eight men set to be executed during a 10-day span this month receive clemency and be spared capital punishment.The board’s nonbinding recommendation, approved by a vote of 6 to 1, is the latest twist in Arkansas’s effort to
Death 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
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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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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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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
Hamas-ordered execution in Gaza City on October 2, 2013Three men accused of collaborating with Israel have been executed in Gaza, the Hamas-run interior ministry says.The Palestinians - aged 32, 42 and 55 - were hanged after being convicted by a court of treason and conspiring with foreign
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Watching a public hanging in present-day Iran(CNN) Arkansas's controversial plan to execute eight men in 10 days later this month has hit an unexpected stumbling block. State law requires that at least six people, "respectable citizens," witness executions to ensure that its laws and procedures
An abysmal record on Human Rights: Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaTheresa May has come under fire for her choice of location for her first foreign visit after triggering Brexit.The Prime Minsiter avoided traditional allies like America or France, or even our nearest neighbours Ireland, whose
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2017
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
The 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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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
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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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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