Georgia's death chamberA group of Georgia conservatives on Thursday will call for the state to re-examine the death penalty but thus far will stop short of calling for a end to state-sanctioned executions. The group, calling itself Georgia Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, will hold a news conference
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Inmates meet their religious counselors in this room adjacent to the executionchamber shortly before their execution is carried out. Tokyo Detention Center.Japan is one of the few developed countries to still have the death penalty. Documentary filmmaker Mori Tatsuya looks at the issue of capital
Philippine President Rodrigo DuterteNot everyone in President Rodrigo Duterte's camp is backing his proposal to revive the death penalty.House opposition leader and Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman today revealed some administration stalwarts are among those opposed to the death penalty bill, with as many17
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Washington Governor (D) Jay InsleeFamily argues against reprieve for death penalty cases.20 years ago, Dwayne Anthony Woods was convicted of murdering 2 women, sentenced to die and sent to Washington's death row at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla.Claiming he was innocent, he launched a
Gary GilmoreOn 17th January 1977, Gary Gilmore became the first person to be executed in the United States in almost ten years. His death by firing squad marked the end of a ban on the death penalty which had been in place since 1972.Capital punishment has long been controversial.
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Mary Jane Veloso’s family. Photo by Migrante InternationalWith high hopes that their loved one would be freed soon and spared from execution, the family of Filipino drug convict Mary Jane Veloso paid a visit to her last week at the Wirongunan Lembaga prison in
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Ohio's prisons agency is trying to obtain a drug that could reverse the lethal injection process if needed by stopping the effects of another drug previously used in problematic executions.The request to use the drug would come if executioners weren't confident the 1st of 3 lethal drugs would16
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Nie ShubinChina will formulate and issue a judicial interpretation on the throwing out of illegally-obtained evidence.At a meeting attended by the heads of higher people's courts nationwide on Saturday, courts were asked to implement policies regarding the death penalty.They were told to learn15
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Three men were executed by firing squad in Bahrain this morning (15th) according to the Attorney General.The three men executed were Ali Al-Singace (21), Abbas Al-Samea (27) and Sami Mushaima (42).Commenting, Maya Foa, a director of international human rights group Reprieve, said:"It is nothing14
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Lawyer Julian McMahon with three self-portraits by Myuran SukumaranThe brother of executed Bali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran joined community leaders to speak out against the death penalty at the emotional world premiere of an art exhibition featuring his paintings in Campbelltown last14
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Esteban SantiagoFederal death penalty cases are exceedingly rare, but prosecutors are already exploring the possibility of seeking execution for a military veteran who flew from Alaska to Fort Lauderdale to gun down nearly a dozen airport travelers.For federal prosecutors, the contemplated capital14
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San Quentin's death row, CaliforniaSAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say a California death row inmate who killed a 9-year-old Oceanside boy has hanged himself in his cell.State corrections officials tell the San Diego Union-Tribune (http://bit.ly/2jggvtH) that Brandon Wilson was found dead18
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The death penalty is plagued with racial disparities.In states across the country, African Americans are disproportionately represented on death row and among those who have been executed. Black people make up 13 percent of the population, but they make up 42 percent of death row and 35 percent17
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)RIYADH -- Saudi Arabia carried out its first death sentence of the year on Tuesday, following more than 150 executions in 2016.Mamdouh Al Anzi was sentenced to death following his conviction for shooting dead another Saudi in a dispute,
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Senator Emmanuel. M. Pacquiao: 'it is now time to restore the death penalty."House Justice Committee Chairman Rey Umali hopes the bill that seeks the revival of death penalty will pass the 3rd and final reading before the 1st regular session of the 17th Congress ends in May.Umali says,
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Prisoners on death row in Benin are languishing in a cruel limbo after a court decision last year effectively abolished the death penalty, but failed to commute existing death sentences, said Amnesty International in a new report today.The 14 remaining death row inmates have been informed by16
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John Lotter has joined a fellow death row inmate in lodging a challenge to Nebraska's 3-judge method for determining whether a killer should receive a death sentence.And a veteran death penalty attorney expects the other eight members of Nebraska's death row to follow suit.A 3-judge panel made16
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'The committee would debate whether life imprisonment is an adequatepunishment instead of the mandatory death penalty.'A Pakistani Senate committee is set to debate how to prevent the country's blasphemy laws being applied unfairly, despite opposition from religious conservatives who support15
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Free Nazanin.A vigil for the jailed British woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is being held outside the Iranian Embassy in London from 4pm-6pm on 16 January.Zaghari-Ratcliffe is serving a five-year jail sentence in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison after being convicted last year in an unfairHundreds of protesters took to the streets of the Bahraini capital Manama on Saturday over reports on social media that the authorities may be preparing to execute three Shi'ite men convicted of a deadly 2014 bomb attack.Executions are rare in Bahrain, a Western allied kingdom tucked between Saudi14
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Ahok's blasphemy trial beginsWelcome to the 21st century!Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama will receive legal assistance from 80 lawyers for his blasphemy trial, which will start on Tuesday at the North Jakarta District Court – now temporarily located at the former Central JakartaSan Quentin's death row, CaliforniaSAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say a California death row inmate who killed a 9-year-old Oceanside boy has hanged himself in his cell.State corrections officials tell the San Diego Union-Tribune (http://bit.ly/2jggvtH) that Brandon Wilson was found dead14
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"Si j'étais joueur, je ne pourrais jouer là où un homme a été décapité ou pendu."[Click here to Google translate this article into your own language. Choose the target language in the right-hand box and then click on Translate. Alternatively, you can use the Google translation tool at the top of17
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A Bangladeshi court on Monday sentenced 26 people, including 16 members of the country's elite anti-terrorism force, to death, after a former member of the ruling Awami League party hired them to kill political rivals.The ruling was the 1st time that members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) had17
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Iran: Barbaric and medieval punishmentsIran Human Rights (JAN 16, 2017): A prisoner was hanged in the village of Bektash near Miandoab (northwestern Iran), reported official Iranian news agencies.The public hanging was carried out on the morning of Monday January 16.The man, who was not17
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Prabagaran SrivijayanThe judicial review bid by a Malaysian death row inmate in Singapore to compel the Malaysian government to take his case to an international court is not an "interference" in Singapore affairs, his lawyer N. Surendran said today.S. Prabagaran, 29, who is facing death sentence16
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Religious officers lead a youth onstage before a public whipping in Banda Aceh.BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Things were hopping at Redinesh Coffee Roastery in this seaside city one recent evening. Electronic dance music blared from
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A lawyer for Steven Thomas, who faces the death penalty after being convicted of capital murder in Williamson County, says some of the DNA evidence presented at the trial was false, according to court documents. A district judge approved payments this month for the lawyer to hire a DNA analyst and16
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President Pranab MukherjeePresident Pranab Mukherjee has disposed of all mercy petitions of death penalties pending before him till date.The latest was the case of Bara massacre accused of Gaya district, where 32 Bhumihar Brahmins were killed by the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC), a banned15
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Iran: A medieval theocracy, barbaric punishmentsIran Human Rights (JAN 15 2017): In the last few days, at least 26 people, including two women, were reportedly executed in various Iranian prisons.14 PRISONERS EXECUTEDAccording to close sources, at least 14 prisoners were reportedly hanged at14
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Kiryl KazachokKiryl Kazachok was sentenced to death by the Gomel Regional Court, in southeast Belarus, on 28 December 2016. His was the 4th death sentence to be issued in Belarus in 2016.Kiryl Kazachok was sentenced to death by the Gomel Regional Court, in southeast Belarus, on 28 December. HeFamilies of three men on Bahrain's death row fear their executions are about to take place, which would make them the first in the Gulf kingdom since 2010.False confessions obtained under torture were used to convict the trio.This comes just one month after Theresa May's visit to the Gulf, and14
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On January 11, the inhumane mullahs’ regime executed a prisoner in Urmia Prison, northwest Iran. The day before another prisoner was sent to the gallows in Maraghe Prison, northwest Iran.On January 8, two other prisoners were hanged in public on charges of theft in the town of Sarpol Zahab in13
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There are now more children in state “care” than at any time in the past 30 years.New research shows that local authorities with the highest adoption rates also have the highest increase in children in care.Prioritising adoption over support for families has led to a 65 per cent increase in