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
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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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Prostituted women, children and men will no longer be criminalised.In a historic day for women’s rights, prostitution is recognised by France as one of the ‘worst forms of violence against women’.After years of citizenship initiatives and civil actions, French law-makers took a critical step06
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Dylann RoofThe decision on whether the federal government will seek the death penalty against a white man charged in the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a Charleston church is now before U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, a prosecutor told a federal judge on Tuesday.Assistant U.S06
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Tell your MLA that women who have abortions are not criminals.Alliance for Choice, an organisation that campaigns for the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland, expressed its dismayed at the recent decision to hand a suspended prison sentence to a young woman in Northern
Meth bust at a Malaysian airportIt is an international embarrassment that Malaysia is 1 out of only 24 United Nations member states that still practises the death penalty, said Amnesty International Malaysia executive director Shamini Darshni."The recent triple executions cheapen suggestions by06
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With 28 killings in 2015, the US is the only country in the Americas and among OSCE members to be on the list of top executioners published by Amnesty International, coming right after Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan.At least 1,634 people were put to death in 25 countries in 2015, Amnesty
The number of executions carried out globally last year rose to a 25-year high, a review of the global state of the death penalty has found.According to new figures, 2015 saw a sharp rise in executions in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, China and Iran, and a total of at least 1,634 people executed Leggi05
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A sad reality: in 2016 women still have to actively campaign for equality in the workplace.Equal Representation for Actresses (ERA) is the latest gender equality campaign to be launched, similar to the well-known 50:50 Parliament campaign, in a bid to eradicate gender discrimination against05
Apr
2016
Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)April 4, 2016: Saudi Arabia executed two citizens for murder, raising to 84 the number of death sentences the kingdom has carried out so far this year.Baddah al-Dusari was found guilty of killing Saudi national Abdullah al-Qahtani by repeatedly Leggi
Kho JabingSINGAPORE: In a unanimous decision, Singapore’s apex court on Tuesday (Apr 5) sent Malaysian Kho Jabing back to death row for the second time.Kho, 31, had been sentenced to hang in 2010 for killing a man by striking his head with a tree branch in a botched robbery
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President Alexander LukashenkaThe regime hopes to sell the death penalty moratorium for the highest possible price Though the EU lifted its sanctions against Belarus in early 2016, the authorities seem to remain reluctant to address a moratorium on capital punishment, Lizaveta Kasmach writes.On 1007
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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 executions07
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Bali's Kerobokan prisonThe prospect of Indonesia reverting back to death row prisoner executions in a matter of weeks has been clarified as only "a joke".A spokesman for Indonesian Attorney-General HM Prasetyo said the minister was "joking" when he recently said the nation may resume executions
Public execution in IranIran's regime executed close to a thousand people, including juvenile offenders, in 2015 and largely fueled the "dramatic global rise" in the number of executions recorded last year which saw more people put to death than at any point in the last quarter-century, Amnesty06
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Committed to making gender equality a reality and keeping it at the top of the agenda.The Women’s Equality Party Scotland published their manifesto for the Scottish elections on 5 May recently.It covers seven key policy goals, saying:The Women’s Equality (WE) Party will fight to establish06
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Singapore's Changi prisonAmnesty International (AI) Malaysia is pleading to the Singapore President to commute Sarawak labourer Jabing Kho's death sentence to life imprisonment.Its executive director Shamini Darshni said Jabing had exhausted all his legal processes."We are appealing to PresidentRecorded executions worldwide surged by more than 50 % last year to the highest level in a quarter-century, a human rights group said Wednesday.Amnesty International cited the 3 executions that Japan carried out in 2015 as contributing to a total of 1,634 worldwide. The tally does not include05
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It’s not Brussels to blame for the steel crisis, it’s the Tories.By Glenis Willmott MEP.Some myths about the European Union (EU), like banning holiday snaps or forcing cows to wear nappies, are easier to dispel because of the sheer absurdity; others, like the claims the EU is to blame for the
Pablo Lucio VasquezPablo Lucio Vasquez remembered getting drunk and high on an April evening in 1998 before leaving a party with his 15-year-old cousin and his cousin's 12-year-old friend.Vasquez later would tell detectives that as they reached a wooden shed, he started hearing voices telling him05
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Tennessee death row inmate William Stevens died Monday at the age of 60, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction.He was pronounced dead at 1:57 a.m. Monday at a Nashville hospital of natural causes, according to a press release.Stevens was convicted of especially aggravated robbery
Kenny FultsKenny Fults is a Georgia death row inmate facing execution on April 12, 2016. Because Kenny's death sentenced is contaminated by racial bias, his case is an embarrassment to our justice system. His execution must be stopped.Kenny is an African-American man who reads only on a 4th grade04
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaThis year has seen Saudi Arabia execute 82 people so far, according to new research by international human rights organization Reprieve – which suggests the Kingdom is on course to behead twice as many prisoners as last year.This week saw three executions take07
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We must stop using the term ‘trolling’ to dismiss and excuse online abuse. A couple of weeks ago, I had my first experience of what some would call ‘trolling’.After footballer Adam Johnson was sentenced to six years in prison for sexual activity with a child, I posted a tweet saying that the06
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Pablo Lucio VasquezPablo Vasquez, 38, was put to death by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, Wednesday night, for the 1998 murder of 12-year-old David Cardenas.Vasquez killed the boy by hitting his head with a pipe and cutting his throat. He then mutilated and dismembered Cardenas and he06
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Marcus Druery Lawyers agreed Monday that Brazos County death row inmate Marcus Druery is unfit to be executed for the 2002 slaying of a 20-year-old man in rural Brazos County.Druery's attorneys filed more than 150 pages of reports from 2 mental health professionals saying Druery suffered from a
Mississippi death chamberFormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders have made criminal justice reform a key campaign issue in their party’s race for the presidential nomination. After an early February Democratic debate dove into aspects of the topic, Newsweek pointedAt least 1,634 people were executed in 25 countries in 2015. This represents a stark increase on the number of executions recorded I 2014 of more than 50%; in 2014 Amnesty International recorded 1,061 executions in 22 countries worldwide.This is the highest number of executions recorded in more06
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More people were executed worldwide in 2015 than at any point in the last 25 years, according to a new report by global human rights group Amnesty International released on Wednesday.At least 1,634 people were put to death across 25 different countries, a 54% increase from the number of executions05
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Irish law says women and girls have to carry a pregnancy to term regardless.Since 29 March, 12 activists have been standing outside the Republic of Ireland’s government buildings in Dublin to represent the 12 women and girls who will travel to the UK on that day to get an abortion.And each
April 1, 2016: A man who attacked a nursing home, killing nine people and injuring nine others in 2015, was sentenced to death by a court in central China's Hunan Province.Luo Renchu, a nursing worker, randomly attacked elderly people and staff at the nursing home after a dispute with the owner
LAHORE (Dunya News) - A death row prisoner was hanged in the Kot Lakhpat Jail Lahore on early Tuesday morning.The execution of another convict was postponed after the rival parties reached an agreement.According to details, death row prisoner Aslam was hanged for killing a man in 2003 over an old
Ohio has 22 convicted murderers scheduled for execution during the next 3 years - but no lethal-injection drugs with which to kill them.The 2015 Capital Crimes Report, required annually by state law, was issued Friday by Attorney General Mike DeWine. The report lists the status of all capital04
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The social and environmental impacts of a British exit were not being given a voice.The Green Party of England and Wales has formally affiliated itself to the ‘Another Europe is Possible’ campaign, ‘to strengthen progressive voices in the EU referendum campaign’.While leading Green Party