A Chinese man sentenced to death for the Valentine's Day murder of his girlfriend 18 years ago has been acquitted, a court said, the latest wrongful conviction overturned in the country.Liu Jiqiang, 52, was found guilty of strangling and stabbing his lover on February 14, 1998, earning him the notorious nickname "Valentine's Day
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Indonesian Attorney General Muhammad PrasetyoIndonesia’s attorney general announced Friday that all technical preparations for executing drug convicts have been completed, but would not disclose when the next round of inmates would be brought before the firing squad."Coordination and preparation28
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Mary Jane VelosoFilipina who was temporarily spared at 11th hour, as the Bali Nine pair and six others were killed, remains on death row amid uncertain futureA woman who was temporarily spared death by firing squad last year remains on death row in Indonesia with her life precariously
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Over 2o,000 pregnant women leave their jobs because of safety risks.Pregnant women and new mothers are more likely to face negative treatment at work now than they were a decade ago, according to research published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the Department for28
Apr
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Louisiana death rowLouisiana, which has led the nation in homicide rates every year since 1989, sentences plenty of murderers to death but rarely executes them, in part because a huge proportion of death verdicts are reversed on appeal, according to a new study slated to come out Thursday.The28
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Figures show Australian federal police provided information for ‘potential death penalty situations’ 74 times in past yearIn the year since Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran faced an Indonesian firing squad, their wishes appear to have been posthumously granted, at least in part – no more
Arizona's supply of a crucial lethal injection drug is set to expire as a federal judge decides the fate of a lawsuit that has stopped all executions in the state.State officials currently can't seek death warrants until a lawsuit against the way it carries out executions is resolved, meaning the27
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Hanoi, VietnamA court in Hanoi sentenced 3 Vietnamese and a Thai woman to death on Monday for drug trafficking.Investigation found Nguyen Thi Thuy Trang, 53, from Ho Chi Minh City, learned about the illegal trade in late 2011 and started hiring several people to help her transport drugs across27
Apr
2016
MPs sent formal warnings about fracking and their duty of care. That means not doing any harm.Environmental campaigners have hand-delivered warnings to every UK MP pointing out that they could be in breach of their code of conduct by supporting fracking.The MPs’ Code of Conduct says: ‘Members
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to commute the death sentences of 83 prisoners who are either on death row or serving life imprisonments. [sic]President Sirisena has taken the decision to spare the lives of the prisoners based on the recommendations made by a26
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Painting a prettier picture.By Natasha Turner.A slim woman in a fitted orange skirt suit stands in the centre of a spacious room.She has one heeled foot forward, and one hand on her hip while the other clutches a black purse. Her hair, which matches the colour of her suit, is arranged under26
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Many of Reprieve Australia’s Executive Committee, including President Julian McMahon, worked on the Bali Duo cases. Below are Julian McMahon’s reflections on the anniversary of the executions.At about 12:35 am on 29 April 2015 on the island of Nusakambangan, off the south coast of Java, in a29
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Immense public support surrounded the Mercy Campaign's effort to save 2 Australians from death row. We can't let the lessons learnt from that go to wasteA year on, people still approach me to talk about what they were doing and how they were feeling the night of the Indonesian executions.The28
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Remembering Andrew and Myuranand all the others29 April 2015 - 29 April 2016- Report an error, an omission:Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo. document.getElementById('cloak16050a7e17014965e1db522120bda3f4').innerHTML = ''; var28
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Peter CharlapA supermax prison isn’t the best place to sit for a portrait, but Peter Charlap’s subjects have no other choice.CHRIS YOUNG, A DEATH ROW INMATE at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, is an avid chess player who can manage multiple games at once without using a board, just by
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The port at Cilacap, where boats leave for Nusakambangan island.It has been one year since Filipina Mary Jane's reprieve and the execution of 8 others. What's the situation now?The anguished cry of a sister about to lose her brother, dust clouds kicked
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Daniel Anthony LucasA man sent to death row for killing two children and their father in 1998 was executed in Georgia on Wednesday.Daniel Anthony Lucas, 37, confessed to fatally shooting Bryan Moss, 11, near Macon on April 23, 1998, after the boy arrived home from school and found Lucas
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Typical death row cell, Polunsky Unit, Livingston, TexasMost death row inmates may be racing against time when it comes down to their final days, waiting for a court to halt their execution often just hours before it's scheduled.But it was a different kind of
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NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime has hanged at least 10 people in prisons since the weekend, in what has been described as a new wave of executions.Earlier on Wednesday at least six other death-row prisoners in Ghezelhesar Prison in Karaj, north-west of Tehran, were transferred to solitary27
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Why does the government refuse to make sex and relationships education compulsory?There’s a lot more to domestic abuse than just physical violence.Seven years ago, for example, a 15 year-old fell victim to coercive control and emotional abuse.When she was in Year 9, she developed a close26
Apr
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Pyongyang streetNorth Korea is executing people who distribute illegal drugs and South Korean videos, says the Korea Institute for National Unification.The institute published "North Korean Human Rights Report 2016" on Monday after conducting in-depth interviews with 186 North Korean defectors who
Public execution inn Saudi ArabiaSaudi security forces have admitted on camera to arresting juveniles, including at least one who went on to be executed.In interviews with Al Arabiya, unearthed and translated by Vice News, several Saudi security officials speak of arresting people they knew to be25
Apr
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Leadership and strategy “critical to tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse”.The government is yet to deliver on three major elements of its child sexual exploitation (CSE) strategy more than a year after it was unveiled, it has emerged.Reporting on this failure, the website Children29
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Self-portrait and portrait of Andrew Chan by Myuran Sukumaran,Nusakambangan Island, April 2015On the one-year anniversary of the of execution of Bali Nine Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, some chilling last words have been revealed.Before the firing squad
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New ‘Love Equality’ campaign launched in Northern Ireland.Marriage equality is a Northern Ireland Assembly election issue, campaigners said as they launched a new campaign, Love Equality, which aims to get equal marriage rights for same-sex couples in the region.Northern Ireland is now the28
Apr
2016
The Guardian's virtual reality video sends you to solitary. Could you handle it for a day? A decade?What’s it like to spend 23 hours a day in a cell measuring 6x9 feet for days, weeks, months or even years?6x9 is the Guardian's first virtual reality experience, which places you inside a US
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HARIPUR (Dunya News) - Two death row convicts were hanged in the Central Jail Haripur on early Thursday morning, Dunya News reported. The dead bodies of the prisoners were handed over to their families after the execution.According to details, death row convict Ali Raza was hanged for killing a27
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2016
Deaths of eight prisoners, including two Australians, prompted a huge outcry – and a pause in executions. But now foreigners on death row fear their own sentences could be just weeks awayThere’s chatter that it’s on.Talk that the death squad is at the ready; that a new, bigger execution
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Singaporean authorities arrested a young Malaysian rider who was carrying heroin and meth worth $86,000 at the Woodlands checkpoint.The 20-year-old motorcyclist had in his possession almost one kilogram of drugs, which far exceeds the minimum amount of contraband that attracts death penalty in27
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Bali Nine member Michael CzugajMichael Czugaj found with meth in his Kerobokan prison cell but insists 'he's an addict not a dealer'One of the Bali Nine members Michael Czugaj has been moved from the notorious Kerobokan prison to a jail in East Java after he was allegedly
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Daniel LucasThe state parole board has denied clemency for a Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die this week.Daniel Anthony Lucas is set to be put to death Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital.The State Board of Pardons and Paroles is the only26
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Abdul BasitHow is it possible to hang a man who is paralysed from the waist down? This is the grim question now in front of the Pakistani authorities – Abdul Basit is a paraplegic man who once again faces the prospect of being hanged in his wheelchair.The stay of execution
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Gay rights activist Xulhaz MannanNEW DELHI (AP) — Bangladesh’s prime minister vowed to hunt down and prosecute assailants who fatally stabbed two men, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina blamed the main25
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The Foreign Office funds human rights projects around the world, but documents seen by BuzzFeed News suggest the Conservatives are less keen to pay for campaigns against capital punishment in countries such as China.The British government has downgraded the global abolition of the death penalty on