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Zulfiqar AliThe National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) is calling for President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to pardon Pakistani death row inmate Zulfiqar Ali, saying he is innocent and should be released after already having been imprisoned on a drug conviction for a decade without any concrete evidence."We ask the
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"Tens of thousands of dollars evaporated into thin air."Senator asks State Auditor for investigation of missing $54k spent on illegal drugsLINCOLN, NE – A law professor who is recognized as an expert in lethal injection drugs said today that even if Nebraskans vote
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Barney Fuller Jr.Six months after the Texas death chamber held its latest execution, Barney Ronald Fuller Jr. was executed Wednesday for the 2003 shooting deaths of his neighbors in rural East Texas.Fuller was pronounced dead at 7:01 p.m.Fuller's execution breaks the longest gap between
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed the attack on the minister'sfamily home, which left four police officers dead.A Tunisian court has handed 31 people death sentences over a 2014 attack on the home
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Death verdict is handed down to Siarhei Vostrykau (right) on May 19, 2016On Tuesday, October 4, the Supreme Court has upheld the death verdict handed down to 33-year-old Siarhei Vostrykau in May. This is the third death penalty in
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Republican lawmakers took another step Monday night towards reinstating the death penalty in New Mexico.Members of the House Finance and Appropriations Committee voted 8-6 along party lines to send the capital punishment legislation to a vote of the full 70-member House of Representatives.House
The Ohio attorney general's office said the state will use midazolam.Ohio plans to resume executions next year after a 3-year hiatus with a new 3-drug combination, a state prosecutor said in a Columbus courtroom.Assistant State Atty. Gen. Thomas Madden
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Cheng Chieh was executed inside a jail near Taipei on May 10, 2016With 80% of the population of Taiwan supporting executions, Labour MP and former director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer faces an uphill battle to sway public opinion
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2 to be hanged for Hoshiarpur boy's murderPunjab's Department of Prisons will execute the death penalty awarded to Vikram Singh Walia and Jasvir Singh for the kidnap and murder of Hoshiarpur boy Abhi Verma.Their plea for a lighter sentence was turned down by the President's office on September
A Tennessee lawyer has studied more than 2,000 1st-degree murder cases in the state looking for clues into how the death penalty is administered. He's still working on the project, which he hopes will prove the death penalty is unconstitutional.It took investigators 2 days to find all the bodies01
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A bill to reinstate the death penalty that is sought by Gov. Susana Martinez squeaked through the House Judiciary Committee on a 7-6 vote late Friday, with Republicans voting in favor and Democrats opposed.The same committee also approved 2 other crime bills, voting 12-1 to expand an existing01
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Sadeq LarijaniFearing a popular uprising, the regime leaders step up social clampdown, executionsMullah Sadeq Larijani, the criminal Chief Justice of the Iranian regime, emphasized that it is not the Judiciary's policy to eliminate executions for drug smugglers.He said, "When did we have such an
Gregory Paul LawlerATLANTA — A Georgia death row inmate convicted of killing an Atlanta police officer in 1997 is scheduled to be executed later this month.Gregory Paul Lawler, 63, is scheduled to be put to death at 7 p.m. on Oct. 19 at the state prison in Jackson, Attorney
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Public flogging in Iran (file photo)On Monday October 3, Iranian clerical regime savagely punished a man in public by 93 lashes of flogging.This inhumane action which took place in Ganaveh city (Southern Iran), caused the hatred among the people.The Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner
Barney Fuller Jr.Summoned to court to answer charges that he made a threatening phone call to his neighbor's home in a rural East Texas county more than 2 years earlier, Barney Fuller Jr.'s anger smoldered as he began drinking.2 nights later, Fuller left his home with a 12-gauge shotgun, Leggi04
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The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it won't review the appeal of Alabama death row inmate Doyle Hamm, who was convicted in the 1987 slaying of a motel clerk during a robbery.Hamm was sentenced to death for his conviction in the shooting death of Patrick Cunningham during the robbery on
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The following press release was issued by the European Commission on October 4, 2016.On the proposal of the European Commission, the European Parliament has today approved newrestrictions on certain services and revised rules on goods that could be used to apply the death penalty.“Today’s vote04
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Virgin Group founder Richard Branson has branded the U.S. as uncivilized for still using the death penalty.Speaking at the "Virgin Disruptors" event in London on Monday, the billionaire entrepreneur said he was travelling to America this week to campaign against the death penalty, ahead of a04
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Isolation cells on Nusakambangan island, West Java, IndonesiaJakarta: A condemned Pakistani man has spoken of his suffering as his life remains in limbo more than two months after he was mysteriously spared from an Indonesian firing squad.Garment trader Zulfiqar Ali was among 14 convicted Leggi03
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Sadegh Amoli LarijaniIran's head of Judiciary, Sadegh Amoli Larijani, recently said that the Judiciary has no plans to abolish the death penalty and called on Iranian judicial officials to not hesitate in carrying out the execution sentences for alleged drug offenders.Amoli Larijani's official03
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Man publicly hanged 2 weeks after his arrest, Neyshabur, Iran. Sept. 30, 2016A man was hanged in public in the Razavi Khorasan province (northeastern Iran) on Friday September 30.A crowd of people reportedly watched the execution.Iran Human Rights (October
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Tom Venzor, executive director of the Nebraska Catholic Conference, left, and Sister Jeanne O'Rourke, of Mercy High School in Omaha speak about why Nebraska should not have a death penalty.Priest, nuns and Catholic leaders joined Tom Venzor, executive director of the Nebraska Catholic Conference01
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo's tough on drugs stance and his resolve to push ahead with the execution of convicted drug smugglers is filtering down to the courts.The West Jakarta District Court is leading the charge.This week alone it sentenced 5 foreigners to death after the prosecutors06
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Lawyers for 33 death row inmates will argue Thursday before the Tennessee Supreme Court that the state's execution methods are "cruel and unusual."It's a case that could help determine whether lethal injection remains legal in the United States.The suit, Stephen West, et al. v. Derrick SchofieldThe parents of Hoshiarpur boy Abhi Verma, who was kidnapped and murdered for ransom at 16 in February 2005, have welcomed the orders to execute convicts Vikram Walia and Jasvir Singh in the wake of the President's rejecting their mercy petition.Ravi Verma and his wife, Anita, are relieved that a05
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Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsIran, which puts more people to death every year than any other country in the world but China, is debating a measure that could significantly cut the number of executions, local news outlets reported on Tuesday. But the bill seems certain to face
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Arizona's death house holding cellThe U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to hear Arizona's appeal of a lower court ruling that overturned a convicted murderer's death sentence has opened the door for about 25 death row inmates to challenge their sentences.The justices on Monday let stand the ruling that04
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Larry SwearingenSupreme Court rejects Texas death row inmate’s plea for DNA testing in murder caseWASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will not allow additional DNA testing of evidence a death row inmate in Texas says could show he didn’t kill a suburban Houston college student.The justices on Monday04
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The death sentence handed to Pakistani Christian mother Asia Bibi over a blasphemy charge has sparked a protest in Australia calling on the government to intervene in the case and help save her from being executed.In a letter to be submitted to the Parliamentarians in New South Wales, the03
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The impact of the 8-member court on the law may be minimal at first, but the '4-4 split' may change the way the justices communicate their decisionsWhen the justices of the US supreme court take their seats on Tuesday morning for the first set of oral arguments of their 2016-2017 session, many
Prison de la Santé, Paris, 25 mai 1946Gérard Fesch lutte pour réhabiliter son père Jacques, condamné à la peine capitale en 1957 pour le meurtre d'un policier.Dans la cour de la prison de la Santé encore plongée dans l'obscurité, un frêle jeune homme blond
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The total cost would be $49,500 per lethal injection.Richmond Times-Dispatch -- The Virginia Department of Corrections has agreed to pay a secret supplier of lethal injection drugs $16,500 per execution under a new state contract, more than 30 times higher than what prison
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The Supreme Court of Alabama has unanimously upheld the state's capital murder sentencing scheme, which signifies Alabama as the last state in the country that allows for this type of scheme.The ruling allows for judicial override, which means a judge can impose the death
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)September 29, 2016: three prisoners were executed in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking and murder. Amjad Hussein Ashraf Shah - Pakistani National – was executed in Jeddah governorate for smuggling a quantity of heroin. Another pakistani national, Ayub