Walfrida SoikAn Indonesian migrant working in Malaysia, Walfrida Soik from East Nusa Tenggara, has narrowly avoided the death sentence.The Kota Bharu High Court in Malaysia ruled on Tuesday to acquit Walfrida of murder charges, sparing her from the death penalty, because she suffers from a mental illness.The court ordered Walfrida
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia remains one of the most prolific executioners in the world. Between January 1985 (the earliest year from when information on executions is available) and June 2015, it executed at least 2,200 people, almost half of whom were foreign nationals.Over24
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Campaign for an urgent review of the Criminal Courts Charge launched.A teenager who stole sweets and ice cream worth £5, a woman found begging in a car park and a man who kicked a flower pot after he had been stabbed are among thousands of people who have been ordered to pay a controversial new
The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) has said that there are currently 129 Indonesian nationals facing the death penalty for their role in drug smuggling."The majority of them are migrant workers who were tricked into becoming couriers by international drug syndicates and most of them are women,"24
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Bernardo Aban TerceroTercero's execution would be 12th in Texas this yearOn March 31, 1997, Robert Berger and his 3-year-old daughter walked into the Park Avenue Cleaners in Houston at the same exact time Bernardo Aban Tercero and an accomplice were trying to pull off a robbery. His interruption23
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaRiyadh: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday executed a Yemeni convicted of shooting dead a security officer who was trying to arrest him in the southern Jazan region, the interior ministry said.The Yemeni, who was wanted by the kingdom’s authorities, opened fire at the Saudi21
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Gay people who used the dating site could face the death penalty in some countries after their details were exposed by hackers.People living under oppressive regimes who used the Ashley Madison adultery dating site to arrange secret liaisons could be at risk of prison or the death penalty.The20
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Pakistan: Erecting gallows amidst an execution frenzyAn executioner has revealed that his mind is a perfect blank when he takes the life of another human being.Hangman Sabir Massih said he never feels anything when he ties the noose around the neck of a prisoner and
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A letter from the FDA warned the state that importing the drug would break the law.The state of Ohio planned to illegally import sodium thiopental, a drug used for executions, according to a Food and Drug Administration letter obtained by BuzzFeed through a Freedom of Information Act request.The19
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Richard GlossipFaith leaders from Oklahoma and Louisiana are trying every legal and religious move they can muster to prevent the state-mandated execution of Richard Glossip.Glossip, now 51, has contended for the past 17 years he did not kill or hire anyone else to murder Barry Van Treece, owner18
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Black prospective jurors in Caddo Parish are 3 times more likely to be struck from a jury than whites, a new study released today says.The study, conducted by anti-death penalty group Reprieve Australia, looked at 332 felony jury trials prosecuted by the Caddo Parish District Attorney Office from18
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Click to enlargeA Redcar gran on death row in Bali for smuggling drugs has raised half of the funds she needs for a retrial.Lindsay Sandiford said her death penalty sentence was "unjustly harsh" and she is now desperately trying to mount a final appeal against the execution.The 58-year-old said
Masoud BarzaniA Kurdish man and his 2 wives, convicted of abducting and murdering 2 schoolgirls, were hanged last week, the 1st judicial executions in the Kurdistan Region since a death penalty moratorium in 2008.The hangings were announced by District Judge Abdulrahman Zebari, who had issued the24
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Public hanging in Iran (file photo)2 prisoners charged with murder were hanged to death in Rasht's Lakan Prison, one prisoner was hanged in Ardebil Central Prison on a drug related charge.2 prisoners charged with murder (identified as M.M., 37 years old, and A.M., 33 years old) were
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Abdul BasitThe Pakistani authorities will this week petition courts in the country for permission to hang one man who is paralysed from the waist down, and another who is so mentally ill that he is held in a hospital cell.At a hearing tomorrow (25th) in the Lahore High Court, the
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The Walls Unit, Huntsville, TexasShould a person's skin color help determine whether or not they get the death penalty? A doctor at Duane Buck's sentencing hearing told the Harris County jury that Buck's race was a factor that made him more likely to commit violent crimes in
Leggi TuttoIndonesian authorities have shut down an investigation into allegations that judges asked for bribes in exchange for more lenient sentences for executed Bali nine pair Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan without interviewing the judges and a key lawyer involved in the case.Muhammad Rifan, one of the21
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Raif BadawiThe wife of Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger sentenced to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, has launched a campaign to free an African writer who is on death row in Mauritania for criticising the prophet Mohamed.In an article for The Independent, Ensaf Haider said20
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaVictim was shot as he was driving home from supermarketSaudi Arabia on Thursday executed 2 Chadians for killing a French man last year.The interior ministry said Eisa Saleh Hassan and Ishaq Eisa Ahmad were found guilty of joining a terrorist organisation and20
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Khalid al-Asaad, retired chief archaeologistof the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.BEIRUT, Lebanon — For decades, he was the bespectacled caretaker of some of Syria’s greatest archaeological treasures. He explored the sprawling ruins in his hometown, named a daughter Zenobia
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A court in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City reduced a death sentence previously handed to a Nigerian man for bringing methamphetamine into Vietnam to life imprisonment, local online newspaper Thanh Nien (Young People) News reported Tuesday.The indictment on Monday said Ejiogu Benjamin Ikechukwu had18
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has decapitated 4 more foreign nationals amid global concerns over the rising number of the executions in the kingdom.According to the Saudi Interior Ministry on Monday, 3 Sri Lankan nationals were executed in the western Saudi port city of Jeddah for
Richard GlossipAs the controversy involving convicted killer Richard Eugene Glossip plays out in Oklahoma, it is receiving a fair amount of attention in Glossip's native state, Illinois.Ironically, Glossip wouldn't face the same fate if he had been convicted of murder in Illinois, and as doubt25
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Mass trials on terrorism charges are rare in the UAE which has largely been spared the Islamic militancy that has hit other Arab statesA rare mass trial of 41 radical Islamists accused of seeking to overthrow the government and links with "terrorists" opened on Monday in the United Arab Emirates
Chinese state media say China is planning harsher penalties for men who have sex with girls under 14, following public outrage over high-profile offenders including teachers.Under the new law, all such cases would be considered rape because another criminal charge that served as a loophole for24
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Cameron Todd Willingham lying in his cell in 1994It's been more than a decade since Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for the arson deaths of his 3 young daughters in Corsicana.Willingham went to his execution declaring his innocence, and in the years since
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India's Supreme CourtIn the wake of the debate over the death penalty following the execution of Mumbai attack convict Yakub Memon, the Supreme Court has said capital punishment is not inhuman or barbaric and will not violate the right to life and liberty in heinous crimes.The observation came on22
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AS he tried to concentrate on his final college exams, he couldn’t erase the terrifying images in his head, an endless replay of a video he’d seen. It showed two men being killed — their necks noosed, their bodies dragged through the streets and set on fire.They had burned, he
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With just minutes to spare, Filipina Mary Jane Veloso escaped death by an Indonesian firing squad that executed eight other foreigners found guilty of drug trafficking.Her lawyers argue Mary Jane is not a criminal but a victim of human trafficking. Like so many other Filipino workers forced to
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Two Public Executions in Zanjan over rape charges.On Tuesday August 18th 2 prisoners charged with rape were hanged to death in public in the province of Zanjan, according to the Justice Department in Zanjan.On Sunday August 16th a prisoner, identified as Omar Parastandeh Khial, with drug related19
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Forensiccommissionright to scrutinize bite analysisThe Texas Forensic Science Commission deserves credit for opening another front in the battle to keep junk science out of the courtroom. The initiative came in last week's commission vote to investigate the widely discredited discipline of19
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Former Navarro County prosecutor John JacksonNearly six years before before Navarro County prosecutor John Jackson used a jailhouse snitch to help send Cameron Todd Willingham to his death, Jackson made similar use of an inmate informant in a different death penalty trial.In both cases, the
The New Civil Rights Movement reports that pastor Ben Bailey of the Central Church of Christ recorded a video in which he suggests "the mindset of God" is strongly in favor of stoning gay people to death.According to Bailey, God has "a definite standard and it is not the liberal mindset that
D. TsarnaevAttorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appealed his conviction and death sentence on Monday, arguing that publicity made it impossible for him to get a fair trial in the city and that capital punishment is unconstitutional.In court papers, defense lawyer William Fick