Following comments from a political party spokesperson that gay people are “worse than dogs” and should be killed, the UN has warned that Malawi needs to protect LGBT people.A spokesman for the People’s Party, one of the main politicial parties in Malawi, made the comments on social media, and then later in
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Concerns have been raised that new cooperation agreements between Europe and Iran could contribute to a surge in drug-related executions - including of juvenile offenders.Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is in Italy for talks today, before travelling to France tomorrow, in the first European state
Texas owed Virginia a favor when it gave the state the 1st of 3 drugs it needed to execute serial killer Alfredo Prieto by injection in October.With a March 16 execution date set for Richmond's Ricky Javon Gray, the Virginia Department of Corrections says it currently lacks enough of that drug26
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Reginald ClemonsCircuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce announced Monday she will re-try Reginald Clemons, whose 1st-degree murder conviction and death sentence were thrown out by the Missouri Supreme Court in November.Joyce said she will seek the death penalty again.Clemons had been fighting his death
President Barack Obama and Attorney General Loretta E. LynchThere are as many as 100,000 people held in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons — including juveniles and people with mental illnesses. As many as 25,000 inmates are serving months, even years of their
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Public executions in Saudi Arabia (file photo)A protester who was under 18 at the time of the alleged offenses for which he was convicted was among the 47 people executed in a single day in Saudi Arabia earlier this year, research by international human rights
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Ali Mohammad al-NimrThe UK has an option either to stay with this regime or go to a better place and condemn these barbaric acts'The son of a senior Shia cleric executed by Saudi Arabia has challenged David Cameron to speak out about what he called the murder of his
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Florida's death chamberA U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Florida's death-penalty sentencing structure is a "tectonic shift" that should be applied retroactively to all inmates on death row, lawyers for a convicted murderer scheduled to be executed in February wrote in court documents22
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Justice Stephen G. BreyerJustice Stephen G. Breyer has used an Alabama capital case to renew his call to examine the constitutionality of the death penalty.The U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant a stay of execution for the inmate, Chistopher Eugene Brooks, drawing a dissent from Breyer, report22
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Barrister Julian McMahonBarrister Julian McMahon fought tirelessly to try and save the lives of Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran and is Victoria's nomination for Australian of the Year.A fierce opponent of the death penalty and a defender of human rights, he has worked to21
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Derrick Todd LeeA Louisiana serial killer linked to the gruesome murders of 7 women died Thursday as he awaited execution, officials said.Derrick Todd Lee's cause of death was not immediately released.The 47-year-old was moved from the Louisiana State Penitentiary's death row to a hospital21
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Sister Helen Prejean comments on meeting Pope Francis in Rome and giving him a thank you letter from Oklahoma death-row inmate Richard Glossip.Click here for more information on the Richard Glossip caseSource: YouTube, January 21, 2016- Report an error, an omission:Questo indirizzo email
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Osaka Prison cell where inmates are held in solitary confinementNAGOYA — Prosecutors on Monday demanded the death penalty for a man indicted over the 1998 murder and robbery of a couple in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.The death penalty was sought for Hiroshi
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Activists working to put a stop to Colorado's death penalty have decided not to push a legislative agenda this year. Capital punishment advocates are moving forward to make it easier for prosecutors to secure a death sentence.One day in early December, a group of about two dozen activists
Gennadii Yakovitskii was sentenced to death in Belarus on 5 January. His was the first death sentence to be passed in 2016.1) Please write immediately in Belarusian, Russian, English or your own language:Urging President Lukashenka to halt any planned executions and immediately commute the death25
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When it comes down to it, this referendum is going to be about working people.by Glenis Wilmott MEP.All the talk this week is of David Cameron telling business leaders to step up, speak out and make the case for Britain remaining in the EU.On this he’s right, and more companies need to be25
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‘Urge the government not to create a step backwards for disabled people in our society’.Ahead of a key vote on the Welfare Reform and Work Bill in the House of Lords, over 30 national charities, members of the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC), signed an open letter to Iain Duncan Smith, the23
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The Senate chambers in the Kansas Statehouse.Today, a group of 17 legislators, led by former judge, Representative Steven Becker, introduced a bill in the Kansas House of Representatives that would end the death penalty in Kansas.This group of 11 Republicans and 6 Democrats cosponsored Bill23
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Abolitionists are now pinning hopes on the case of Pennsylvania woman Shonda Walter"His head was in his hands," the defence lawyer recalled of the hearing, "and he just had a troubled look on his face." Anthony Kennedy, the swing vote on the 9-member US Supreme Court, would rule in the case last22
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Adequate safeguards to stop laws being used arbitrarily against journalists are needed.The recent appeal court ruling that Schedule 7 incompatible with Article 10 of Human Rights Act has been claimed as a victory for press freedom, but other questions are still open.The Court of Appeal has22
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Christopher BrooksA man who raped and bludgeoned a 23-year-old woman to death with a dumbbell in Alabama was executed on Thursday evening. Christopher Eugene Brooks died at 6.38pm after the Supreme Court denied a stay of execution.In the hours leading up to his death, no one had attended a vigil21
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Alabama Gov. Robert BentleyFor decades Alabama death row inmates died in the state's electric chair and it was rare for a governor to commute a sentence then or nowAs he prepared himself for death in his final years, Alabama Gov. George Wallace worried that he might be kept from
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6 Republican lawmakers in Colorado are pushing to pass a bill that will remove the unanimous voting requirement for death sentences. If passed, the law could make it easier to impose death penalties during court proceedings.The bill, called SB 64, is sponsored by State Representatives Kevin
Iran Human Rights (JAN 26 2016): Two unidentified prisoners have been hanged by Iranian authorities.According to state run news agency Khabar Online, a prisoner was hanged at Yasuj's central prison on Sunday January 24.The prisoner, who has not been identified, was reportedly executed on murder26
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The Senate Chambers in the Kansas StatehouseLeading up to the start of the 2016 legislative session, Kansas death penalty opponents thought they had a good chance of passing a bill this year to repeal the law.In fact, a bill was formally introduced Friday in
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The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would not hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty.The appeal was filed on behalf of Shonda Walters, who was sentenced to death in May 2006 for murdering her next door neighbor with a hatchet and stealing his car.The U.S25
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Indonesia's attorney general insists that death penalties must be maintained in the country's judicial system as a shock therapy against serious crime."I'm confident that the death penalty is a kind of therapy. It is an unpleasant action, but we must do it," said Attorney General HM Prasetyo in a24
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Additional Sessions Judge Amjad Nazeer Chaudhary on Saturday sentenced two brothers he convicted of murder to death.Prosecution said Azam and his brother Arif had shot dead Ajmal Amir over a property dispute in Khurarianwala.After examining the evidence and hearing the witnesses, judge sentenced23
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Uganda is banning housemaids from traveling to work in Saudi Arabia after complaints of poor working conditions and mistreatment. A deal between the two nations had been signed in the summer of 2015 to send university graduates to the kingdom to work.The Ugandan government said it had received
Triple execution in Kuwait on April 1, 2013Kuwait has been urged to drop plans to execute 2 men convicted of spying for Iran and Hezbollah, with an international rights group claiming their trial was "flawed".Kuwait's first instance criminal court sentenced Hassan Hajiya, a
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Every work-related cancer is avoidable. All exposures are preventable.Occupational cancer is the biggest work-related cause of death in the European Union (EU). And occupational carcinogens pose a threat to 1 in 5 workers.To put this in perspective, for every one worker who dies from a work21
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Texas Death House, 'The Walls' Unit. The holding cells, where the inmatesspend their last hours, are on the left. The death chamber is locatedat the far end of the corridor. Huntsville Unit, Huntsville, TX.New information in the case of Joseph John Cannon, being revealed
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Ko Zaw Lin (L) and Ko Wai Phyo (R): 100 points to contest2 Myanmar men sentenced to death in Thailand for murder have been given a momentary reprieve: The court yesterday allotted an extra month for their appeal.The defence team applied for
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The Indonesian government's decision to execute eight individuals for drug-related crimes last April led to condemnation of our country from governments and human rights advocates from around the world. Despite insisting at the time that the executions were essential to fighting a growing "drug