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The Apothecary Shoppe, Tulsa, Missouri.Agreement between Virginia Department of Corrections and secret vendor for purchase of lethal injection drugsIt's unlikely there are many state contracts as peculiar as the one between the Virginia Department of Corrections and a secret vendor.The contract - a memorandum of agreement obtained
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Drug kingpin Freddy Budiman (center, white hat) was executed on July 29, 2016Jakarta. An investigation by an independent police-initiated team has revealed that a drug lord distributed around Rp 2 billion (1 million Indonesian Rupiahs = USD75) in cash to
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Three prisoners were reportedly hanged at Shiraz's Adel Abad Prison on the morning of Tuesday September 13.Iran Human Rights (SEPT 13 2016): Two prisoners sentenced to death for armed robbery and one prisoner sentenced to death for rape were reportedly executed at Shiraz's Adel Abad Prison (Fars14
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Nebraska: Gathering signatures against the death penalty repealFor more than a year, politicians and organizations have lobbied voters for and against the death penalty in Nebraska. Capital punishment split Nebraska's Republican governor and its conservative state senate over cost and whether it is
Jermaine Wright (right) with his mother, Delores Wright, in Wilmingtonafter his release from prison.Jermaine Wright, who spent more than 20 years on death row before a Delaware court overturned his 1991 conviction, walked out of prison a
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The State has failed to show that the appellant is a continuing threat to the society or he is beyond reform or rehabilitation, the Bench observed. The Allahabad High Court has commuted the death sentence awarded by a trial court for a man accused of raping and murdering a 4-year-old
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Dylann RoofIn another attack on the legality of the death penalty, Dylann Roof’s attorneys said this week capital punishment is so fraught with potential problems it shouldn’t be used in his case.Roof, 22, has offered to plead guilty and accept a lifetime prison sentence in the June 2015 shooting13
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The parking lot behind the AME Emanuel Church, Charleston.Attorneys for the accused Charleston church shooter argue that forcing potential jurors to say they would impose the death penalty violates their religious freedoms.Attorneys for the man accused of killing nine black members of a
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President Duterte, left, and President Widodo, right.President Rodrigo Duterte did not give the go signal for the execution of Filipina drug convict Mary Jane Veloso, as reported by the Indonesian mediaPresidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said Duterte only told Indonesian President Joko Widodo12
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Creighton University economist Ernie Goss recently estimated the deathpenalty costs in Nebraska at $14.6 million per year.Life or death.When it comes to crime and punishment in Nebraska, what costs more?As they go to the
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The death penalty victimizes the innocent children and family members of condemned men and women. These are citizens of this country who have committed no crime, and yet, because of capital punishment’s ignominious existence, they are punished too. Their state-sanctioned suffering, one that09
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Turkish pianist Fazıl SayWorld-renowned Turkish pianist Fazıl Say was acquitted of blasphemy charges on Sept. 7, four years after being sentenced to a suspended jail term after sharing a post on his Twitter account.An Istanbul court ordered Say’s acquittal on charges of “insulting religious
"Remember the Flor Contemplacion case?"VICE President Leni Robredo on Wednesday appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to exhaust all available remedies and steps to save Filipina drug convict Mary Jane Veloso from Indonesian death row."Mary Jane's case is emblematic of the hardships faced by14
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"Drug trafficking is a very serious crime in China."Indian diplomats in China will be able to meet the accused on Sept. 21.5 Indians arrested in China for alleged involvement in two cases of drug trafficking could face life imprisonment or even death
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On death row at the Donaldson Correctional Facility, in Bessemer, Alabama, Doyle Lee Hamm is known as Pops. He is fifty-nine years old and has been at Donaldson since 1987, when a jury found him guilty of fatally shooting a motel clerk during a robbery. The fact that Hamm
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Philippines: Lowering the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 9 years old.Various organizations in Davao City are against the lowering the age of criminal responsibility from 15 years old to 9 years old, as proposed in
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Execution chamber at Tokyo Detention CenterThe Hiroshima High Court on Tuesday upheld the death penalty for a 66-year-old man convicted of killing 5 neighbors and setting fire to 2 of their homes in a remote community in Yamaguchi Prefecture in 2013.In July last year, the Yamaguchi
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The Wallace Pack Unit, TexasA group of inmates in Texas is suing the state prison system, the nation's largest, arguing that extreme heat is killing older and infirm convicts. The inmates allege it constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment" and they're asking the courts for relief.The six
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (left) and President Joko Widodo.The fate of Philippine death row drug convict Mary Jane Veloso hung in the balance as Indonesia and the Philippines gave conflicting statements regarding her possible execution.Although the first visit of the gaffe-prone
"Many Filipinos who appear to favor the revival of capital punishment are merelyventing exasperation over the miserable performance of our criminal justice system."People's support for restoration of death penalty is weak and shallow, a pro-life lawmaker said on Monday."Offhand, many Filipinos
Rehearsing execution procedure in ChinaBEIJING, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- China strictly controls the death penalty and employs it with prudence, said a white paper on judical protection of human rights issued on Monday.The white paper, titled "New Progress in the Judicial Protection of Human Rights in
As Ohio attorney general, I oversaw 18 executions in accordance with Ohio law. As a state legislator before that, I helped write Ohio’s current death-penalty law. We thought maybe it would be a deterrent. Maybe the death penalty would provide cost savings to Ohio. What I know now is that we were09
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Rodrigo Duterte, left, and Joko Widodo, right.President Rodrigo Duterte took up convicted drug mule Mary Jane Veloso’s case during his tête-à-tête with Indonesia President Joko Widodo at the Istana Merdeka in Jakarta on Friday.But he refused to give details of their conversation on the fate
Tommy Arthur (left) and Ronald Bert Smith Jr.The Alabama Supreme Court today set execution dates this fall for death row inmates Tommy Arthur and Ronald Bert Smith Jr.The court set Arthur's execution for Nov. 3 at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore and Smith's for
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Saying "the law is the law," President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said he would respect whatever the decision of Indonesian President Joko Widodo would be on the case of Filipina drug convict Mary Jane Veloso who is on death row in Indonesia."I just said, 'We will respect the judgment of your
Oklahoma death chamberOKLAHOMA CITY--Oklahoma, a state with one of the busiest death chambers in the country over the last three decades, will have at least a two-year delay in lethal injections after the governing board of its prison system declined to consider new execution procedures on14
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President Rodrigo Duterte, left, and President Joko Widodo.It's disgusting yet something not surprising from the President.Neophyte Senator Leila De Lima on Monday, September 12, slammed President Rodrigo Duterte for allegedly giving a go signal to the execution of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina on14
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"Prisoners do not have an equal protection right under the U.S. Constitution'sFourteenth Amendment to have the compounded drug retested before its use intheir executions."Denying five death row inmates' bid for a stay of execution, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth
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Power of Mercy Advisory Committee vice chairperson Regina Boisabi,Prisons boss Muriithi Githaiga and POMAC chief executive Michael Kagika.The Power of Mercy Advisory Committee will on Wednesday continue collecting views on whether the death
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Pope FrancisLINCOLN, NE – Dan Parsons, former special assistant to the Nebraska Attorney General, and communications director for Retain a Just Nebraska, the ballot committee advocating against bringing back the death penalty, said today the pro-death penalty campaign is distorting the Catholic
The bodies of some of the men executed inBandar Abbas Central Prison on Sept.10 2016Eight new executions reported in Iran by official and unofficial sources. All eight prisoners were reportedly executed on drug related charges.
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Rodrigo Duterte, left, and Joko Widodo, rightMetro Manila (CNN Philippines) — The case of imprisoned overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Mary Jane Veloso gains ground as she is set to testify against her illegal recruiters "very soon," according to her lawyer Atty, Edre Olalia. In an
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Human hair under the microscopeA strand of hair at a crime scene, or clinging to human remains unearthed by archaeologists, could hold new promise as a means to identify its unique owner and unravel mysteries sealed by the passage of time.In research published this week, scientists from
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Rodrigo Duterte, left, and Joko Widodo, right.Jakarta. Vice President Jusuf Kalla is convinced that Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte's state visit to Indonesia on Friday (09/09) was not related to drug convict Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso.Veloso, who is a Philippine citizen, was sentenced to