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Chinese police officers rehearse execution procedures.An acrimonious debate over China's use of prisoners' organs for transplant - a practice Chinese officials say has ended - has flared anew as an international transplant conference gets underway in Hong Kong, with some doctors and ethicists saying the
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Jeff WoodThe Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has halted the execution of Jeff Wood — a man who never killed anyone — six days before he was set to die by lethal injection. The order was issued on his 43rd birthday.The court issued a brief, two-page order Friday afternoon sending
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Responding to today's YouGov poll, which suggested that 52% of Americans want the remaining prisoners at Guantánamo Bay to be either given a trial or released, Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, Reprieve U.S. attorney for detainees, said:“Most Americans recognize that denying those in Guantánamo the same19
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Iranian authorities hanged two prisoners in public on Wednesday August 17.Iran Human Rights (AUG 18 2016): Two prisoners were reportedly hanged in public at Saheli Boulevard, located in the city of Bandar Abbas (Hormozgan province, southern Iran), on rape charges.The executions were reportedly
William Ernest KuenzelAttorneys for Alabama death row inmate William Ernest Kuenzel filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court this week seeking a ruling that would allow him to present new evidence that they say will prove his innocence.Kuenzel was convicted in the 1987 shooting death of a18
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“People living in the sixth largest economy in the world are going hungry”.By Sue Jones.The Office of National Statistics (ONS) have released figures that show 391 people died from malnutrition in 2015. There were 746 hospital admissions for malnutrition in just 12 months.The statistics
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-UnAugust 12, 2016: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is said to be strengthening his reign of terror. According to a source with inside knowledge of North Korea, Pyongyang authorities were known to have publicly executed 60 North Koreans so far this year.The source18
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Jeff WoodWhen it comes to capital punishment, there is not much official mercy to be found in the state of Texas.As 537 death row inmates were executed there over the last 40 years, only two inmates were granted clemency. The last commutation to life in prison occurred nine years
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Kyrgyzstan's capital BishkekThe draft law on introduction of death penalty for pedophiles has been submitted for public discussion. The initiator is Onuguu-Progress parliamentary faction.It is proposed to supplement Article 21 of the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic with the words "The death17
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The Global Goals – big, bold and challenging. Now how do we achieve them?In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) replaced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).The Sustainable Development Goals are more comprehensive, ambitious, and unlike the Millennium Development
Iran Human Rights has identified seven death row prisoners in the western regions of Iran who were under the age of 18 when they were charged with murder.Iran Human Rights (AUG 16 2016): Iran has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the
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TEL AVIV — For decades, Israel has prided itself on its anti death-penalty stance. But in the past year, calls for the use of capital punishment have started to rise again, heightened by the trial of Elor Azaria, a sergeant in the Israel Defense Forces. Sergeant Azaria has been charged with Leggi19
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Protesters are ‘appalled at the way drones made in the UK have been used against Palestinian civilians’.Hundreds of cyclists and their supporters blockaded a Midlands factory in protest at its sale of drones used by the Israeli military.The Big Ride for Palestine staged four feeder rides from19
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MANILA — Even amid the slaughter of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, the killings of Renato and Jaypee Bertes stand out.The Bertes men, father and son, shared a tiny, concrete room with six other people in a metropolitan Manila slum, working odd jobs when they could find them.
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Indian President Pranab MukherjeePresident Pranab Mukherjee rejected on August 7 mercy petitions from three death-row convicts, Shabnam, Jasvir Singh and Vikram Singh.The information about these rejections was uploaded on the website of the President’s secretariat only today.While Shabnam’s mercy
Texas' Death Chamber and holding cells, "The Walls" Unit, Huntsville.Texas is planning to execute a man next week for a murder he did not commit.If the sentence were to be carried out, it would mark the 1st time in the United States
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New Mexico Governor Susana MartinezGov. Bill Richardson signed legislation in 2009 repealing capital punishment and replacing it with a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of paroleSANTA FE – In the aftermath of the recent shooting death of a Hatch police officer, Gov18
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Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court sentenced a 35-year-old man to death fortrafficking 7.3 kg of heroin from Cambodia to Vietnam in January 2013.August 9, 2016: A Lang Son court
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It’s our right to be safe at any age. How can we make it easier for older victims to get help?By Monsura Mahmud.In many ways, the impact of living with domestic abuse is the same for all victims – regardless of age.Everyone worries about not being believed, or having to live with the stigma17
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1,700 soldiers were massacred in Camp Speicher by ISIS militants.Survivors say the militants told them they were going home, before the attack begun.The Iraqi government will reportedly execute 36 Islamic State (Isis) fighters this week, as punishment for the notorious Camp Speicher
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John BattagliaJohn Battaglia - the man who murdered his young daughters out of revenge while their mother listened over the phone - has a new execution date.State District Judge Robert Burns scheduled the execution for Dec. 7.That doesn't necessarly mean the lethal dose of drugs will be
Bali's notorious Kerobokan prisonBALI Nine member Renae Lawrence has today had another six months shaved off her 20-year sentence for drug trafficking.Lawrence was among thousands of prisoners across Indonesia awarded a sentence remission as part of the country’s Independence Day16
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Nowhere on earth do women have as many opportunities as men. Nowhere.Last year ONE, a campaigning and advocacy organisation taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, released its first “Poverty is Sexist” report, aimed at pressuring leaders to put girls and women at the19
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Consider the impact of women’s under-representation on local decision making.Local government plays an important role in all our lives: it provides vital care and social services, influences economic development in our neighbourhoods and is a vital part of the UK’s democratic system, and local19
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Radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyirTerrorist convict Abu Bakar Ba'asyir gets 3-month sentence cutConvicted terrorist leader Abu Bakar Ba'asyir was given a three-month sentence reduction on Independence Day, an official said on Wednesday."This is the second year he [Ba'asyir] has been18
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‘The impact of welfare reforms of recent years has increased pressure on the levels of homelessness’.‘A demonstrable increase in homelessness, driven by the cost and availability of housing, has pushed the problem to such a level that a renewed government-wide strategy is needed’, the18
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Nebraska: Gathering signatures against the repeal of the death penalty.A Nebraska death row inmate challenged the state's death penalty law Wednesday based on a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down capital punishment in Florida.The motion for post-conviction relief argues that Leggi18
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Federico García LorcaClick here to Google translate this article into your own language.La jueza federal María Romilda Servini de Cubría ha aceptado la denuncia presentada por la Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria HistóricaLa juez federal argentina María Romilda Servini de Cubría18
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An Iranian official source has confirmed the execution of three young Ahwazi Arab men from the province of Khuzestan (western Iran).Iran Human Rights (AUG 17 2016): The Iranian state-run news agency, YJC (Young Journalists
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Neither candidate seems keen to take on the controversial topic of capital punishment in the 2016 election, despite waning public support for itDonald J Trump phoned in to Fox & Friends in May 2015, shortly after 2 police officers were shot dead in Mississippi.Presenter Steve Doocy wanted to17
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Catholic priest Charles Patrick BurrowsThe locals in Central Java province's Cilacap Regency know Charles Patrick Burrows, a Catholic priest from Ireland, by another name: Romo Carolus.He landed in Indonesia in 1973 and has stayed on since, working to help alleviate poverty in the regency and
San Quentin death rowIn just 3 months, voters have the chance to abolish the death penalty in California or speed up the process. With interest running high on the issue, San Quentin State Prison, home to the state's only death row, opened up and let ABC7 I-Team Reporter
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Forty-five years of paying pension contributions – it now seems they were paid under false pretences.‘Trudy from Somerset’ looks at the issues behind the pension campaign women born in the 1950s are currently fighting.There are several aspects to the 1950s women’s pensions issue and I have15
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Image released by ISIS showing two of its militants throwing a man off a roofin southern Kirkuk for being gay. (ARA News)The terrorist group ISIS is crowing that they allegedly executed
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