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Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsThe mullahs' regime's henchmen sent 10 inmates to the gallows in Qum and Zabol on February 13.One of them was executed while his appeal had been sent to the regime's judiciary.Also, 3 other prisoners, 29 and 30 years old, were executed in Jiroft
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Indonesian helper in Singapore faces death for alleged murder of elderly employerAn Indonesian domestic helper in Singapore has been charged today with the murder of her 78-year-old employer, media reports said.Wheelchair-bound Tay Quee Lang was found dead in her flat at Block 276 Tampines Street14
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Should Grunwick strikers and their supporters be involved in the Pitchford Inquiry?‘Strikers and Spycops’ is part of a series of Grunwick 40 memorial events, organised in co-operation with the Special Branch Files Project, the Undercover Research Group and the Campaign Opposing Police14
Feb
2017
Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsNine prisoners were recently hanged in Iran.Iran Human Rights (FEB 14 2017): Two unidentified prisoners were reportedly hanged at Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison on Sunday February 12 on murder charges, and seven unidentified prisoners were reportedly hanged at13
Feb
2017
Malacañang PalaceIn a resolution filed on Monday, 14 senators virtually blocked a Palace move to withdraw from an international agreement to clear the way for the passage of a bill reviving death penalty in the country.The resolution expressed the sense of the Senate that any move to withdraw from13
Feb
2017
Extreme poverty in Manila, PhilippinesA Capital Defense Unit with a budget of P260 million that would provide legal assistance to convicts who will be meted death penalty has been proposed in the House of Representatives.Rep. Luis Campos Jr. of Makati City (Metro Manila) made the proposal in12
Feb
2017
Marlon Duane KiserMy name is Marlon Duane Kiser.I am a Tennessee death row resident who has spent the last thirteen years in prison for a crime I didn't commit.My roommate at the time, an individual named James Michael Chattin had discovered that a Hamilton County Sheriff's Deputy named Donald11
Feb
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Since 2013, 429 death row prisoners have been executed by lethal injection.Five more venues to facilitate lethal injections will be built in Vietnam in the coming time according to the Ministry of Public Security.A report from the ministry showed that
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Manila, PhilippinesSenator Leila de Lima has called on lawmakers to cross party lines as they deliberate on the measure calling for the immediate reinstatement of the death penalty as capital punishment for heinous crimes.De Lima made her appeal as the House leadership called members of the10
Feb
2017
Antonio BagnatoHow far does your compassion go? Do your moral principles apply to everyone, or only those you think are "good" or "on your side"?Australia's morality is likely to be sorely tested with the news that another citizen has been sentenced to death overseas.Antonio Bagnato is 28, and10
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Saying it's about the soul of Kentucky, Rep. Jason Nemes is filing legislation to abolish the death penalty.2 chambers. 2 lawmakers from different parties. Similar bills. Republican Representative Jason Nemes and Democrat Senator Gerald Neal are both filing legislation Tuesday in the Kentucky09
Feb
2017
Don’t delay an end to coal use.The UK has laid out a plan to phase out coal by the end of 2025.A coal phase-out is great news, but the plan proposed as a way to achieve it is not.On 8 February, the final day of the coal phase-out consultation, Ditch Coal turned up at BEIS (the Deptartment
Basuki Tjahaja PurnamaResidents of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, are voting for a new governor, in an election overshadowed by the incumbent's blasphemy trial.Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as "Ahok", is the first Christian and ethnic Chinese leader of the majority Muslim city in more than 5014
Feb
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'Rectify' a US TV series by Ray McKinnon (2013-)A group of exonerated death row survivors called the 'Resurrection Club' fights to abolish the death penalty in the US.After spending years on death row in American jails, Ron Keine, Shujaa Graham, Greg Wilhoit and Albert Burrell were reborn the day13
Feb
2017
Local government matters. Join in.Local government plays an important role in all our lives: it provides vital care and social services, influences economic development in our neighbourhoods and is a vital part of the UK’s democratic system.Local councils spend around £95billion a year, and
The Arizona Department of Corrections has had trouble killing people.It hasn't been able to get the drugs it wants, and the drugs that it has gotten have transformed the already gruesome act of executing a person into a ghoulish, unacceptable freak show.But the department persists.The latest
Rural Connecticut | Photo: Stefen TurnerHARTFORD >> As many states move toward eliminating the death penalty, three Connecticut lawmakers are trying to bring it back in the Constitution State.Republican Reps. Robert Sampson, Kurt Vail and Kevin Skulczyck have proposed separate bills that12
Feb
2017
Nebraska's death chamberGov. Pete Ricketts says his administration is moving to carry out executions in wake of voter approval of the death penalty.Ricketts has signed off on a lethal injection protocol drafted by the Department of Correctional Services.The governor says the department is working
Ohio asked 7 other states for a lethal injection drug in an unsuccessful attempt to continue putting inmates to death, according to a court filing.The prisons agency also tried in vain to obtain the active ingredient in the drug, pentobarbital, in hopes of having a compounded version made, the
Days after hearing testimony from clergy, young conservative lawmakers, and an exonerated death-row inmate from Arizona asking for the end of capital punishment, state lawmakers voted against their request.The bill, HB-366, introduced by Adam Hertz, a freshman Republican from Missoula, was voted10
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There are approximately 80,000 men, women and children living isolated in “supermax” prisons or solitary confinement units in the United States.Solitary Watch is a nonprofit organization committed to reporting on the use of solitary confinement in the United States, bringing this human rights10
Feb
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The Walls Unit, Huntsville, TexasOn Monday, a Republican state representative from Plano, an avowed conservative, will make a prison visit to see a death row inmate whose life he wants spared.If it seems a departure from political orthodoxy, it isn't: It's a case of reason in the
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It can have a negative impact on their development, wellbeing and risk-taking behaviours.SafeLives is running the third of its Spotlights series from now to the middle of March.This one will focus on the experiences of young people (aged 13 to 17 years) affected by domestic violence and the14
Feb
2017
New framework of respect for the rights of missing and dead refugees and migrants and bereaved family members needed.The UN’s refugee agency, the UNHCR, has estimated that 1,015,078 people made irregular journeys to Europe by sea in 2015, of whom 856,723 went to Greece, 153,842 to Italy, and
Krishna ‘Kris’ MaharajAn elderly British citizen has filed a final appeal against his wrongful conviction in Florida 30 years ago, which saw him sentenced to death.Krishna ‘Kris’ Maharaj, a 78-year old British businessman, was arrested in the US in 1986 and sentenced to death. He has spent three13
Feb
2017
Dylann RoofProsecutor Scarlett Wilson of Charleston said she is weighing various choices as she decides whether to pursue a state death penalty trial against convicted Charleston church killer Dylann Roof.More than a year ago, she announced she was pursuing the death penalty against Roof, 22, a
After briefly repealing its death penalty only to have it reinstated by voters, Nebraska has resumed an effort to acquire drugs needed to carry out executions for the 1st time in 20 years, just as judges consider whether to increase death row by 2 men who between them killed 8 people.Nebraska is12
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Public execution of an 18-year-old boy in Ghaemshahr, Iran, in September 2013NCRI - According to state-run IRNA news agency, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, Iranian regime’s Tehran Prosecutor General, announced Wednesday February 8 that based on regime’s Islamic Penal Code, the Prosecutor
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Gov. John Kasich on Friday delayed 8 executions as a court fight continues over the constitutionality of the state's lethal injection process.Kasich's announcement postponed the execution of a condemned child killer scheduled for next week until May and moved 7 other procedures months into the11
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Anthony Ray Hinton spent nearly 30 years on Alabama death rowRacism, poverty, freedom and confinement will be the focus of speeches delivered by 2 former Alabama death row inmates, sharing their stories at the University of North Alabama later this month.
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Dylann RoofAttorneys for convicted Emanuel AME Church shooter Dylann Roof took aim at his death penalty in a motion for a new federal trial.With a looming deadline, attorneys David Bruck, Kimberly Stevens and Emily Paavola filed the motion Friday in U.S. District Court in Charleston. It seeks to
Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsUN says Iran executing people who had committed crimes as children at ‘an unprecedented rate’Tehran: Iran has commuted death sentences against six juvenile offenders following UN criticism it was executing people who had committed crimes as children at “an10
Feb
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Tilon CarterFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A Texas death row inmate whose execution date scheduled for this week was halted because of a legal technicality has received a new execution date.Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark says the prison agency has received court documents09
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Cuban artist Juan Abreu (second from far left) with European Parliamentmembers Teresa
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