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Myuran SukumaranThe mother of executed Bali Nine drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran wants her son's artwork to travel the world as a powerful anti-death penalty message.Speaking to 7.30 for the first time since Sukumaran's death in Indonesia in 2015, Raji Sukumaran said her once staunch-faith in God had been shaken by
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Dylann RoofCHARLESTON — Dylann Roof, the gunman who massacred nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, complained in court filings Thursday that too many witnesses are testifying about the anguish and horror the victims and their families during and after the shooting.The motion
Ohio's death chamberOhio's newest execution method is either a legal approach to putting condemned killers to death or a process akin to burning inmates at the stake, according to arguments in the latest challenge to capital punishment in the state.A 4-day trial that began Tuesday in federal court
Mohamed Amine YahyaouiAn Army Corporal accused of murdering a four-year-old child has been sentenced to death by firearm, the lawyer of the victim's family confirmed."The Permanent Military Court of Tunis, on Tuesday, pronounced the death penalty by firearm against the killer of child Yassine04
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President Joko Widodo (center) checks a package of confiscated drugs.National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso threatened to take severe actions against individuals involved in drug trafficking. "Don't hesitate to shoot drug traffickers, drug dealers and drug users. Anyone03
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Rev. Hassan Abduraheem and Rev. Kuwa ShamalA court in Khartoum, Sudan, on Monday released a pastor from prison after acquitting him of charges punishable by the death penalty, sources said.Rev Kwa (also transliterated Kuwa) Shamaal, head of missions of the Sudanese Church of Christ
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Iwao Hakama with his sister shortly after his release in March 2014TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The annual Death Penalty Movie Week will be held at a Tokyo theater in February, with eight films from home and abroad providing viewers with an opportunity to think
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"Cyberspace Is More Dangerous Than Drugs"NCRI - The Iranian regime’s head of the Assembly of Experts, mullah Ahmad Jannati, while claiming cyberspace and social media can lead young people astray and their danger is more than (the danger of) drugs, theft and other social problems, demanded Leggi03
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A recent decision by a Cleveland judge to overrule a jury's death sentence recommendation for a triple killer highlights how rare such judicial decisions are.Research by The Associated Press found just eight additional examples of judicial overrides since Ohio's current death penalty law took02
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Dylann RoofCHARLESTON, S.C. — The same jury that last month unanimously found Dylann Roof guilty in the slayings of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church is returning to court to begin contemplating his punishment.With the 22-year-old representing himself, the process is sure to be02
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Opponents of the death penalty predicted Friday that a new lethal injection protocol being sought by Gov. Pete Ricketts will mire the state in more lawsuits rather than revive capital punishment."This is only going to trigger more litigation that the state will not win," said Spike Eickholt of01
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Disused gallows in Smyrna prison, Delaware, 1991In employing the death penalty, the U.S. insists it abides by international law. But it declines to make the most important international commitment - to reject the penalty as a violation of human rights.Last week, the General Assembly of
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San Quentin's death chamberCalifornia rejects proposed new death penalty rulesEfforts to revive the death penalty in California were dealt another blow late last month when a state agency tasked with reviewing regulatory changes rejected a proposed new lethal injection protocol.The decision by05
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A federal judge on Tuesday said he will decide within a week whether to delay Ricky Javon Gray's scheduled Jan. 18 execution over concerns about drugs the state intends to use if Gray dies by injection.Midazolam, a sedative, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart, are the 1st and 3rd04
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'I would like to make it crystal clear I do not regret what I did': Dylann RoofSometime in the six weeks after he killed nine Bible study worshippers at this city’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday his office has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for delaying the state’s importation of a drug used in capital punishment.The lawsuit argues the FDA’s claimed legal grounds for refusing the drugs’03
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"The real problem is clearly corruption," says Rep. Lito AtienzaThe wish of President Rodrigo Duterte to execute 5 to 6 convicts daily would plunge the country into the dark ages of "savagery" and make the country a top executioner, a pro-life solon said.In a statement, Buhay Rep. Lito
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"Ol' Sparky, the Lone Star State's official instrument of death for 40 years,resides these days in the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville."Capital punishment is a morally and fiscally unsupportable program.Ol' Sparky, the Lone Star State's official instrument of death for 40 years, resides these03
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December 30, 2016: A man convicted of setting a bus on fire two years ago was sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The defendant Song Yanli set the bus on fire using gasoline to vent his anger over a personal dispute
Triple execution in Kuwait on April 1, 2013Kuwait's interior ministry says the parents were drug addictsA court in Kuwait on Monday, January 2, sentenced a couple to death after finding them guilty of torturing their 3-year-old daughter until she died, it said in a
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An excerpt from a journal written by Dylann S. RoofTwenty-two pages into the hand-scribbled journal found in Dylann S. Roof’s car — after the assertions of black inferiority, the lamentations over white powerlessness, the longing for a race war — comes an
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Georgia's death chamberGeorgia led the nation in the number of executions carried out in 2016 by putting 9 men to death.But as the number of executions has been high in Georgia in the past 2 years, the number of people on death row has shrunk and no new death
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After waiting 11 years to die, 35 death row inmates in Arkansas are likely to be around for even longer. The state's lethal injection supply of potassium chloride is set to run out by January 1, 2017.Arkansas has not had an execution since 2005, due to legal problems centered around their lethal05
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Seven prisoners were executed on drug related charges in northern Iran.Iran Human Rights (JAN 4 2017): Four prisoners were reportedly executed at Karaj Central Prison (northern Iran) and three prisoners were reportedly executed at Karaj's Ghezel Hesar Prison (northern Iran).All seven prisoners
Just hours after declaring prosecutors could not seek death sentences under existing state law, the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday rescinded the order, an uncommon move that casts fresh uncertainty on the state's death penalty.The reason: A typo.In a 5-2 ruling Wednesday morning, the court04
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Chinese death-row inmates are marched to a nearby execution groundwhere they will be put to death by firing squads.(Beijing) — Lai Changxing, the kingpin of a multibillion-dollar smuggling ring in the coastal city of Xiamen and once dubbed “China’s most-wanted fugitive” by state media, was given03
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Blasphemy law supporters, PakistanShaan Taseer was condemned after recording Christmas message that was critical of the country's lawShaan Taseer, the son of a prominent Pakistani politician assassinated over blasphemy allegations, is himself now the target of a police case and a fatwa calling for
The highest court of Qatar on Monday upheld death penalties awarded to 2 labourers from Tamil Nadu and commuted the life sentence of a third to 15 years' imprisonment.The Court of Cassation's decision means that Alagappa Subramanian and Chinnadurai Perumal - on death row - and Sivakumar Arasan03
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The AME Emanuel Church in Charleston where 9 were killed in June 2015CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — After a judge ruled Monday that Dylann Roof is competent to represent himself, the same jury that last month unanimously found him guilty
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December 30, 2016: The Iraqi authorities executed 88 terrorists convicts in 2016, despite the international calls to stop this punishment in this country.At the beginning of 2016, Iraqi Justice ministry announced the execution of the first convict on 3 February, after three years of his conviction03
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Dwayne A. WoodsDwayne A. Woods was convicted in 1997 of killing two women in Spokane Valley.One of the nine people on Washington state’s death row has died of cardiac arrest, while in a medical facility for a chronic illness, according to the state Department of Corrections.Dwayne A. Woods, 4602
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Ohio's death chamberA federal appeals court on Friday ruled that Ohio can keep information about its execution drug supplier a secret in litigation challenging the state's execution procedures.In the 2-1 ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Judge Eugene Siler wrote that a02
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Public execution of a Burmese woman in Saudi Arabia in 2016Saudi Arabia executed more than 150 prisoners in 2016 for breaking kingdom's strict Islamic lawsSaudi Arabia executed more than 150 prisoners under their strict Islamic laws, new figures have shown.The ultra-conservative
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In the ongoing discussion on the death penalty, which President Duterte wants to return so as to strengthen the rule of law, it is useful to note that the world - and the Philippines with it - has long debated this issue in the United Nations.In 1966, the UN General Assembly, of
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