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Iran handed prison sentences to 11 activists defending women’s rights and has executed 98 people this year.An Iranian court this week sentenced 11 women's rights advocates to prison terms totaling 60 years, as authorities in the Islamic Republic continue their crackdown against any type of dissent.An Islamic Revolutionary Court in Rasht, the capital of northwestern Gilan province, handed down the
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2024
Willie James Pye was put to death by lethal injection in the state’s first execution in over four years last week. Pye was pronounced dead at 11:03 p.m. March 20 at the state prison in Jackson after being convicted for a 1993 kidnapping, rape and murder of his former girlfriend.But despite the
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2024
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Nashville man who has spent the past 25 years in prison for a crime he maintains he didn’t commit could soon be released after the Davidson County District Attorney’s Conviction Review Unit (CRU) said new medical evidence proves he is innocent.During a hearing Tuesday
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Pakistan is No. 7 on list of places most difficult to be a ChristianLAHORE, Pakistan — Two Christian brothers have been acquitted of blasphemy, and the three Christians who framed the brothers have been charged.On March 1, Umar Saleem and Umair Saleem were acquitted following a police
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2024
The Islamic Republic recently executed three individuals, including a woman, on drug-related charges amidst a surge in capital punishment in the country.On the morning of March 25, a 36-year-old man named Abbas Aghaei, from Tabriz, faced the death penalty at Tabriz Central Prison.His conviction
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2024
NASHVILLE, Tenn.--A bill to be discussed in the Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee would authorize the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child.SB1834/HB1663 is sponsored by Senator Jack Johnson (R-Franklin-D27) and Representative William Lamberth (R-Portland-D44) in their respective
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2024
2 Filipinas, who had been on death row since 2013, were granted a reprieve when the Federal Court on Tuesday granted them a revision of their sentence, bringing it down to 30 years’ jail.A 3-member bench, led by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, substituted the death penalty punishments
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2024
Death row inmate Michael DeWayne Smith on Monday lost his request for a stay of his execution.Smith, 41, asked for the stay because of a proposed moratorium on the death penalty that is before the state Legislature.He is set to be executed by lethal injection April 4 at the Oklahoma State
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KMT legislators call on government, Judicial Yuan to respect public opinion and keep death penaltyTAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Kuomintang (KMT) lawmakers held a press conference on Friday (March 22) at the Legislative Yuan urging the outgoing Tsai administration and the Constitutional Court not to
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2024
Amnesty International and the ACLU of Alabama held a rally at the Alabama statehouse on Thursday in support of HB27, later marching to Gov. Kay Ivey's office to submit petitions calling for clemency for an inmate currently on death row.Robin "Rocky" Meyers was sentenced to life without the
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Georgia carries out first execution in more than 4 yearsA Georgia man convicted of killing his former girlfriend 3 decades ago has been put to death in the state's first execution in more than 4 years.Authorities say 59-year-old Willie James Pye was pronounced dead at 11:03 p.m. Wednesday evening
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Pye was convicted of murder and other crimes in the November 1993 killing of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough.ATLANTA — A Georgia man should not be executed because he is intellectually disabled and feels remorse for killing his former girlfriend three decades ago, his lawyers wrote in seeking clemency for
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2024
The American Bar Association filed an amicus brief today with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court for the 2nd time to take up a Texas death penalty case in which defendant Areli Escobar was convicted on DNA evidence and testimony from a police laboratory that was later deemed unreliable by
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2024
Singapore Supreme Court dismissed appeal by 36 death row inmates challenging new measures to prevent execution delays. Chief Justice deems the challenge lacking current basis and an abuse of court process.SINGAPORE: The Court of Appeal of Singapore on Wednesday (27 March) dismissed an appeal
A couple were hanged in the Central Prison of Tabriz at dawn on March 18, 2024, on the eve of the Persian New Year.The news of the executions was released today by Iranian human rights organizations. However, the official news outlets in Iran have not announced them.Yassin Zolfaqari and his wife
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2024
T Paramasparan was enraged after his wife confessed that she was pregnant with another man’s child. A three-member Federal Court bench also ordered T Paramasparan to be given 12 strokes of the cane.PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has commuted the death sentence of a former petty trader to a
A court in Tunisia has sentenced four people to death and two people to life in prison on charges of participating in the murder of the prominent political leader Chokri Belaid in 2013.He was found shot dead in his car in the capital, Tunis, prompting outrage.The leftist politician had been a
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2024
A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won’t get the death penalty, giving the WikiLeaks founder a partial victory in his long legal battle over the site’s publication of classified
The Indonesian criminal justice system allows appeals by defendants and prosecutors when the convicted party considers the sentence handed down in a trial too harsh or when prosecutors feel the punishment handed down by the Court is too lenient. After the appeal process, sentences initially meted
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2024
A former executive at Yoozoo Games was sentenced to death on Friday in the 2020 poisoning of the founder of the high-profile Chinese gaming company, which has links to Game of Thrones and the new Netflix series, "The Three-Body Problem."Xu Yao poisoned the food of company founder Lin Qi in
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2024
BOSTON, March 21 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday directed the judge who presided over Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's 2015 trial to investigate whether two jurors were biased and should not have been seated, creating potential grounds to overturn his death sentence.The
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Two Pakistani women sentenced to death for killing their madrassa teacher over blasphemy allegations, highlighting the sensitivity of blasphemy in PakistanTwo Pakistani women have been sentenced to death for murdering their madrassa teacher who they accused of committing blasphemy, police said
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2024
KOTA KINABALU: A 52-year-old paperless Filipino failed in his appeal against his death sentence for murdering his acquaintance in Lahad Datu six years ago.A three-member bench comprising Justices Datuk Supang Lian, Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah and Datuk Wong Kian Kheong, unanimously dismissed
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2024
Since Randall Mays was sentenced to death in 2008 for the murder of two sheriff’s deputies, his lawyers have argued his intellectual disability exempts him from execution.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals re-sentenced a 64-year-old man on death row to life in prison without parole on Wednesday
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2024
The Taliban’s Supreme Leader has vowed to start stoning women to death in public as he declared the fight against Western democracy will continue.“You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them to death,” said Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada in a voice message, aired on state
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2024
While Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) maintains a firm stance on the effectiveness of the death penalty in managing drug trafficking in Singapore, the article presents evidence suggesting that the methodologies and interpretations of these studies might not be as substantial as
Non-governmental organisations in Morocco have called on their government to intervene and prevent the execution of six Moroccans in Somalia.In a joint statement, the six bodies explained that they learned about the verdict issued by a military court in northern Somalia on 2 March, which
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2024
Supreme Court seeks Islamic body’s opinion on evidence.In a significant move, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed the country’s top Islamic body to advise on whether content that has left a Catholic on death row for 22 years was in fact blasphemous, sources said.Attorney Rana Abdul Hameed
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2024
There’s an utterly new feeling at San Quentin’s death row these days, and it’s not just for the people running the place. You can feel it like electricity all up and down the grim, time-worn cell blocks housing the worst criminals in the state.It’s hope.For the 1st time since they were sentenced
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2024
Chad Doerman was charged with murdering his sons, ages 3, 4 and 7Even after a judge tossed the alleged confession of an Ohio dad accused of executing his three sons and shooting their mother's hand, he could still face the death penalty, experts say.Ohio law makes capital punishment a possibility
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2024
The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt the execution of Brian Dorsey, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection next month for killing his cousin and her husband 18 years ago.Judge W. Brent Powell wrote in the unanimous decision that Dorsey "has not demonstrated he is actually
Japan on Wednesday marked the 29th anniversary of a fatal nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway system by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult.About 20 Tokyo Metro staff and relatives of victims held a moment of silence at 8 a.m. at Kasumigaseki subway station on the Hibiya line to remember two former
RIYADH (Reuters) – Amnesty International criticised a leaked draft of Saudi Arabia’s first penal code on Tuesday, saying it would codify practices ranging from flogging to gender discrimination and urging changes to align it with international standards.In a report, Amnesty said the draft penal
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2024
A bill introduced in the Idaho Legislature this session proposed adding death penalty eligibility for defendants suspected of lewd and lascivious conduct with children under 12 years old. It was held in a Senate committee Friday.An effort to expand capital punishment in Idaho died when a bill