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2016
Ohio's death penalty is on hold, but the delay won't prevent more than 100 local anti-capital punishment activists from boarding buses Tuesday morning for a lobby day in Columbus.Converging on the Statehouse from across Ohio, protesters will meet with lawmakers and present a letter signed by 200 faith leaders calling for an
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Virginia's electric chairRICHMOND — Horror stories about the electric chair led Gov. Terry McAuliffe to offer a choice to the General Assembly: go along with a proposal he says will make it easier to obtain lethal injection drugs or see an end to capital punishment in Virginia.
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2016
The UK government has issued new guidance on female genital mutilation.It is a multi-agency guidance on female genital mutilation (FGM) and should be read and followed by all persons and bodies in England and Wales who are under statutory duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children11
Apr
2016
'The Walls' Unit, Huntsville, TexasWhat do Texas, Missouri, Georgia and Florida have in common with China, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia? All are outliers in their continued use of the death penalty, which is being abandoned in most of the rest of the United States and
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Apr
2016
Firing squad execution in Mogadishu, Somalia, on January 4, 2014.The Somali military court on Saturday executed 2 Al-Shabaab militants behind last year's murder of a female journalist who worked for state media.The court found that Abdirisak Mohamed Barow, 28, and Hassan-Nur Ali Farah,
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The Bangladesh Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court today deferred till May 3 the hearing on the review petition filed by condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami.The four-member bench of Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the deferment order following a time09
Apr
2016
Khartoum, SudanAn anti-terrorism court in Khartoum has sentenced 22 South Sudanese nationals to death and 3 others to life in prison on Wednesday for belonging to a militant group in Darfur."The judge sentenced them to death by hanging on charges of terrorism, fighting the state, bearing arms09
Apr
2016
The execution comes just days after Amnesty International called out Pakistan for being the world's 3rd most prolific executionerPakistan on Saturday, April 9, hanged two brothers convicted of murdering 6 people from the same family, just days after Amnesty International criticized the country for09
Apr
2016
Three local faith leaders are among more than 300 who are calling on Governor Terry McAuliffe to veto the "electric chair" bill.House Bill 815 says that if lethal injection cannot be used to execute an inmate because of a lack of the necessary drugs, then the inmate shall be executed by
Execution chamber (gallows) at Tokyo Detention CenterLONDON — Japan is swimming against the tide of international opinion on the death penalty and needs to follow the lead of the United States and start properly debating the issue, Amnesty International said Wednesday at the launch of
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Apr
2016
Facebook is making you gay—at least, according to Saudi Arabia. In recent weeks, government officials and local prosecutors have been attempting to curb what they reportedly believe is an outbreak of homosexuality caused by the widespread adoption of social media in the country. PinkNews, an
Glenn FordState Rep. Cedric Glover has filed a bill that would provide compensation to the family of the late Glenn Ford, who was released from prison after serving 30 years on death row after being wrongly convicted of a Shreveport murder.Ford was released in March 2014, but died last summer
Kenneth FultsThe State Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday declined to grant clemency for a Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die this week.Kenneth Fults, 47, is set to be put to death at 7 p.m. Tuesday by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson.
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2016
Kenneth FultsA Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die this week was neglected and mistreated as a child and has substantial intellectual impairments that have affected his ability to act appropriately, his lawyers wrote in a clemency petition.Kenneth Fults, 47, is set to be put to death Tuesday10
Apr
2016
The results of a poll have claimed that half of Muslims in Britain want gay sex to be made illegal.The survey was taken for Channel 4’s ‘What British Muslims Really Think’ programme.It found that 52 percent of Muslims in the UK think homosexuality should be illegal in the UK.The survey suggested10
Apr
2016
On the morning of Saturday April 9, 5 prisoners were reportedly hanged at Rasht's Lakan Prison (in the provine of Gilan, northern Iran) on drug charges.The prisoners had reportedly been transferred out of their wards on Thursday April 7 and taken to solitary confinement cells in preparation for09
Apr
2016
Arizona's death chamberAttorneys representing the state of Arizona called on a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the way the state carries out the death penalty.If U.S. District Judge Neil Wake rules in its favor, the Arizona Department of Corrections would be free to resume lethal09
Apr
2016
Bangladesh Supreme CourtThe UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged Bangladesh government to halt the death penalty to condemned war criminals Motiur Rahman Nizami and Mir Quasem Ali.The OHCHR made the call in a statement issued on Friday.Expressing concern about the death sentences to
At his retrial in December Juvenile offender Amanj Veisee was resentenced to death for the murder of his cousin - despite an official forensic report concluding that he had not attained 'mental growth and maturity' at the time of the crime.Amanj had originally been sentenced in 2008, following the
Jack Harry SmithThe oldest condemned man in Texas has died at age 78 of natural causes, a Texas prisons spokesman said Friday.Jack Harry Smith had been on death row since October 1978 for a fatal shooting during a $90 robbery of a Houston store. Only three among about 250 prisoners
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2016
Jakarta. Attorney General H.M. Prasetyo hinted on Friday (08/04) that executions of drug traffickers would resume, following the completion of his office's inventory of death-row inmates."Surely, we have never said the executions would seize. We will continue when the time is right," Prasetyo said07
Apr
2016
Saudi policemen in Riyadh, KSAThe UK's national College of Policing has earned 6.2 million pounds in the last 3 years through overseas training contracts, a freedom of information request has shown.Britain's College of Policing, the professional body for police training, has made millions of
A Chinese police officer lights an inmate'scigarette shortly before his execution.The Chinese government said Amnesty International has "biased opinions" on China and refused to comment on its death penalty report released on Wednesday, which estimates that "thousands" were executed in
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Apr
2016
It isn’t, for example, true that ‘most of our laws come from Brussels’.By Molly Scott Cato, Green Party MEP.Those campaigning for us to leave [the European Union (EU)] are presenting a lot of information that is either biased or just plain wrong.So a lot of what we need to do is to subject11
Apr
2016
Virginia's electric chairThe electric chair has already been declared cruel and unusual punishment by two death penalty states.Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) has killed a bill that would have given the state power to put people to death by electric chair. Instead, he added an amendment10
Apr
2016
As state faces drug shortage, Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe has until midnight to decide whether chair should again be compulsory method of execution - while first inmate who could face it, Ivan Teleguz, has strong claim to innocenceThe governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, has until midnight on
Rashid KouhiIran's fundamentalist regime on Saturday executed student Rashid Kouhi despite an appeal by Amnesty International for the sentence to be halted.Mr. Kouhi, 36, was executed earlier in the day on Saturday in Rasht's Lakan Prison in Gilan Province, northern Iran, sources said.On Friday09
Apr
2016
Keith Harward released from Nottaway Correctional Center in Burkeville,VA after 33 years in wrongful conviction case.As he walked into the Virginia sun after spending 33 years in prison for crimes authorities now say he didn't
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Kolkata streetAlmost 14 years after he was arrested, a Barasat court has ordered Karaya resident Anwar Rehman - who was found guilty of supplying heroin in Kolkata and was arrested with over 53.5 kg of it- to be hanged till death.For the 1st time a court in Bengal has awarded
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Apr
2016
Daniel LucasAuthorities say an April 27 execution date has been scheduled for a man convicted in the 1998 triple murders of a trucking company owner and his 2 children in GeorgiaA late April execution date has been set for man convicted in the 1998 triple murders of a central Georgia
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A gay man was thrown off a building top by ISIS militants in Mosoul, Iraqin May 2015 (file photo)LONDON: A gruesome propaganda video showing ISIS terrorists throwing a man accused of being
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Apr
2016
The Missouri department of corrections (DOC) has been ordered to release two pharmacy names from where it purchases the lethal drugs used in execution.Final judgements laid down by the circuit court of Cole County criticize Missouri prisons for not rightfully informing the public about their way07
Apr
2016
With executions skyrocketing among US allies, some authority might come in handy right about nowState-sponsored executions are at their highest level in 25 years, according to a report released this week by Amnesty International. In 2015, the report tallied 1,634 people executed worldwide — a more07
Apr
2016
It has been nearly a year since April 29, 2015, the last time Indonesia carried out the death penalty. On that day, a firing squad executed eight people convicted of drug-related crimes, despite the pleas and outcry of the international community.However, all of the uproar over the executions