The Arizona Department of Corrections again faces a likely shortage of drugs for executions by lethal injection.All executions have been on hold in Arizona since July 2014, when murderer Joseph Wood was put to death in Florence. Despite warnings by defense attorneys, the Corrections Department used an experimental process using a Valium-like
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Louisiana State PenitentiaryLast June, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer suggested that the death penalty might be close to its ultimate demise. "Rather than try to patch up the death penalty's legal wounds one at a time," he wrote in a dissent to Glossip v. Gross, to which Justice
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Take the 2016 #ChoreChallenge.Soraya Chemaly, Ishita Srivastava, producer and deputy director of programmess at Breakthrough and Laura Bates, the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, have launched a global #ChoreChallenge.Chances are, if you are like most people in the world, you live in a
Double execution by hanging in Kuwait in June 2013A Kuwaiti court sentenced two men accused of spying for Iran and Hezbollah to death on Tuesday.An Iranian national and a Kuwaiti citizen were found guilty of intelligence links with the Iranian regime and its
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LAHORE (Dunya News) – Two death row convicts were hanged in the jails of Toba Tek Singh and Bahawalpur on early Tuesday morning, Dunya News reported. The dead bodies of the prisoners were handed over to their families after the execution.According to details, death row prisoner Muhammad Sardar11
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Aside from the barbarism and injustice of Saudi Arabia’s execution of 47 men on Jan. 2, the state-sponsored killings — some by beheading — bucked a strong trend against capital punishment in most of the world. According to the annual report of Amnesty International, executions were carried out in11
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)Iran Human Rights (JAN 8 2016): On the morning of Thursday January 7, a prisoner was reportedly hanged in public on murder charges.The execution was reportedly carried out in public in the city of Khoy (in the Iranian province of West
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‘Progress in reducing the employment gap between disabled and non-disabled people has ground to a halt.’Nearly half of disabled people are not in work.In response to this, on 7 January the TUC published a manifesto to promote equality for disabled people and challenge discrimination against
Bystanders, including young children, watch a public hanging on Jan. 8, 2016Northwestern Iran: as a crowd including young children watch, a young man is hanged in public by Iranian authorities.Iran Human Rights (JAN 8 2016): Late morning on Thursday January 7, a prisoner was hanged in public on07
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince has used his first major interview since taking office to defend the country’s recent mass execution, claiming that human rights are ‘important’ to his government.Speaking to the Economist, Mohammed bin Salman – the son of King
Bystanders watching a public execution in Iran (file photo)Three prisoners were reportedly hanged in the city of Nazarabad on drug charges.Four men and one woman were reportedly hanged at Tabriz Central Prison on murder and drug charges.Iran Human Rights (JAN 7 2016): On
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Robert Greene ElliottOn this date in 1927, Robert Greene Elliott — the “state electrician” who wired the majesty of the law to condemned men and women from Rockview, Pa. to Windsor, Vt. — had the busiest day of his illustrious career.Once just a regular prison electrician, Elliott
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In Iran, girls are held criminally accountable by law from the age of nine, and can be sentenced to death by hanging for crimes such as murder, drug trafficking and armed robbery. Sadegh Souri, documentary winner at the 2015 Lens Culture visual storytelling awards, has photographed girls in the
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Florida's death chamberThe Supreme Court struck down Florida's unique capital sentencing system on Tuesday in a ruling that found the state gives too much power to judges — and not enough to juries — to impose the death penalty.In an 8-1 opinion, written for the majority by Justice
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Iran Human Rights (JAN 11 2017): Seven prisoners were reportedly hanged in southern, western, and northern Iran.According to Iran state run media, Javan, three prisoners were hanged at Larestan Prison (in the southern provine of Fars) on armed drug trafficking charges.The executions were11
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Why we can’t let the banks off the hook.By Christine Berry.We’ve heard a lot from George Osborne [recently] on the dangers of ‘complacency’ about the UK’s resilience to global economic shocks.But the real complacency we should be worrying about is the return to business as usual in our11
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Public beheading by the sword in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Sunday executed an Ethiopian for killing a Saudi woman while she was praying.“Jinat Damti Farid, an Ethiopian woman, was executed in Taif Governorate in the Makkah region today for
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The British Library’s digitisation project is looking for former contributors to Spare Rib.May 2015 saw the successful completion of one of the most unusual and unique digitisation projects the British Library’s staff have ever tackled: digitising the British Library’s complete archive of the
British police have trained hundreds of Saudi officers in the last four years, a BBC investigation has found.A Freedom of Information response from the UK College of Policing has revealed that, since the body’s founding in 2012, some 270 officers have been brought from Saudi Arabia to the UK for08
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Oscar Ray BolinRAIFORD — Oscar Ray Bolin, convicted of murdering three Tampa-area women in 1986, was executed by lethal injection Thursday at Florida State Prison.Bolin, 53, was pronounced dead at 10:16 p.m., 11 minutes after the execution began. Scheduled for 6 p.m., Bolin’s execution was delayed07
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Work less, play more.The 40-hour work week is an ingrained part of our culture, but it does very little to enrich our lives. Here’s how to do away with the nine-to-five.By Lucy Purdy.Time is perhaps the most precious commodity of all. While we can buy more possessions and work new jobs, we07
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Patrick Henry in 2001The Patrick Henry affair was a French judicial affair concerning Patrick Henry, convicted for the kidnap and murder of 8-year-old Philippe Bertrand in early 1976. The emotionally charged trial began on January 17, 1977.Henry's case entered legal history after the performance05
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A UK Government minister was this evening repeatedly asked by Members of Parliament to condemn the execution of protesters last weekend in Saudi Arabia, and to publish secret agreements signed between the UK and Saudi governments, but refused to do either.Foreign Office (FCO) minister Tobias
Iranian official sources report on the execution of a prisoner in Zanjan's central prison on a Moharebeh charge (commonly translated as "enmity against God").Iran Human Rights (JAN 13 2017): The Zanjan Prosecutor, Hassan Mozaffari, has reported on the execution of a prisoner on a Moharebeh charge12
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When does the violation of women’s bodies become a “red line”?By Lauren Wolfe.If people divide their understanding of militarized violence into normal and not normal, acceptable and not acceptable, it makes a terrible kind of sense: violence against women has been “normalized”.Two years ago
Conrad Ochoa and Baron OchoaSAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Prosecutors say two San Antonio brothers charged in a 2011 triple slaying in a case linked to alleged child sex abuse will not face the death penalty.The San Antonio Express-News reports that prosecutors last week revealed they had dropped
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Will you watch a film a week by a woman for one year? Say YES, and join the#52FilmsByWomen movement!It is super easy: make the commitment, watch the film and post about it on Facebook or Twitter.You can curate a list on GoWatchIt, or pull from one of the many lists of films by female11
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"There have been over 2,000 executions in Iran inthe two years Rouhani has been in office."Who is Hassan Rouhani and what does he stand for? And more importantly what has been the conduct of the
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Why shouldn’t the State obtain a warrant when it comes to our communications?Surveillance powers can play an important role in preventing and detecting serious crime.But the current framework fails to provide sufficient safeguards to ensure it is conducted in a necessary, proportionate and08
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It seems we have had to listen to Saudi Arabia defend its barbaric slaughter of 47 human beings on the second day of this new year.They have said over and over that each and every person killed had been given a fair and impartial trial and have been convicted by their
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ISIS Publicly Executes A Man In Raqqa in January 2016(CNN) An ISIS fighter has executed his own mother before a public audience, an expat Syrian rights group said.The 20-year-old killed his mother in the Syrian city of Raqqa, ISIS' de facto
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New Year challenge for MEPs to be open and transparent about contacts with lobbyists.Green MEP, Molly Scott Cato, has launched a New Year challenge to her fellow South West MEPs, calling on them to be open and transparent about their lobbying contacts.Scott Cato is one of 50 Green MEPs who is06
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The use of the death penalty last year increased dramatically in countries closely allied to the UK, including Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, according to new figures collated by human rights organization Reprieve.The governments of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan both oversaw unprecedented numbers of05
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Britain has begun the year by abandoning its strategy on the death penalty which had been in place since 2010 – as executions in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan hit record numbers.Saudi Arabia carried out a mass execution of 47 people, including at least four protesters, on 2 January.
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