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 is
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Deptartment09
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Mississippi's death chamberJACKSON — Mississippi lawmakers are advancing a proposal to add firing squad, electrocution and gas chamber as execution methods in case a court blocks the use of lethal injection drugs.House Bill 638 is a response to lawsuits filed by “liberal, left-wing radicals,” said08
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Labour believes strongly that ensuring equality must be one of the key principles.By Sarah Champion MP, the Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities.My constituents in Rotherham voted overwhelmingly in favour of leaving the European Union, but I do not believe for one moment that08
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Washington Governor Jay InsleeWashington Gov. Jay Inslee says he thought long and hard about imposing a moratorium on the state's death penalty. Inslee told "Think Out Loud" host Dave Miller that the temporary halt in executions came only after an examination of the entire justice system in08
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Texas' death house, The Walls Unit, Huntsville, TexasAnother terrifying way the legal system screws the poor.For two months, John Ramirez had been sitting in his cell in Texas's death row prison, counting down the days to his execution date and scrawling handwritten letters to
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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
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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
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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 the09
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The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office asked a judge Tuesday to set a Sept. 21 execution date for Larry Swearingen, the Willis man sentenced to death for murdering a teenage Montgomery College student in 1998.But Swearingen's attorney thinks an ongoing civil rights suit on his case
Ronald RyanFifty years ago this week, Ronald Ryan was the last man hanged under the death penalty – it’s a reminder of why we should never entertain its returnFifty years ago, Jan, Wendy and Pip Ryan huddled in the lounge room of their Hawthorn home and waited for the state
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A Pakistani Christian has been bailed after more than 3 years in prison without being brough to trial or convicted.Adnan Prince, 29, from Lahore, was initially jailed in November 2013 after being accused of blasphemy and insulting Islam, the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad, which carries the death
Dylann RoofActing as his own lawyer, Dylann S. Roof, the young white supremacist convicted of killing nine African-American worshipers at a church in Charleston, S.C., stood before a federal jury last month and insisted that “there’s nothing wrong with me psychologically.” But documents unsealed12
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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
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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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The collapse of Northern Ireland’s Executive and Assembly has direct, serious consequences for women.By Kellie Turtle, Women’s Sector Lobbyist, Women’s Resource and Development Agency (WRDA).They say ‘a week is a long time in politics’. Well, having submitted WRDA’s response to the Programme08
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In 1997, Larry Osborne was 17 years old. At that age, most kids would be obsessed about their SAT scores or lining up a date for the senior prom. Mr. Osborne, on the other hand, was standing trial for his very life, accused of breaking into the Whitley County home of 82-year-old
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Antonio BagnatoA Thai court has sentenced an Australian man to death for the kidnapping and murder of a Hells Angels member alleged to have been a major drug trafficker.Antonio Bagnato, 28, was found guilty of murder, deprivation of liberty and disposing of a body.In December 2015, former Hells07
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What would they think if their daughters were preyed upon like this? You, yours?Sarah Hampton, an American activist targeted for an intimate relationship by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy, has been taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police and has recently been issued a