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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaAn amount of SR10 million in donations has been raised to try and convince the family of a murder victim to pardon the death sentence handed down to the murderer in 2011, Makkah daily reported.The money was raised by Islah Charitable Committee, which
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The Makassar District Court sentenced on Monday a drug dealer, Amiruddin alias Aco, 37, to death for possessing 921 grams of crystal methamphetamine and 4,208 ecstasy pills.Presiding judge Ibrahim Palino said the court found no mitigating factors in the case of the defendant, who had earlier been12
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Daniel Lee LopezTexas executed Wednesday Daniel Lopez, a 27-year-old man convicted of killing veteran police officer Stuart Alexander in 2009.He was pronounced dead at 6:31 pm, fifteen minutes after he was injected in both arms.His final words were an apology to the victim's family and the12
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James E. HolmesAs the judge sentenced James Holmes to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his act of homicidal madness in a Colorado theater, relatives of the twelve people he killed wept, or sucked in their breaths in disbelief and disappointment. According to the A.P.’s account
Kelly GissendanerKelly Gissendaner, convicted in the murder of her husband in Gwinnett, was to die March 2, but 'cloudy' lethal drug forced postponement.A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Georgia death row inmate Kelly Gissendaner, who claimed she was subjected to cruel11
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A military court in Gaza sentenced a Palestinian to death by hanging Thursday, for alledgedly collaborating with the Israeli enemy, said a source close to the court.The accused, identified only by his initials AS, "was sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of collaborating with the
A federal judge ordered heat indexes on death row at the Angola prisonnot top 88 degrees (31° C) from April through October.State corrections officials complained last fall to a
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Riyadh: Saudi Arabia beheaded one of its citizens on Monday after he was convicted of murdering a relative, the interior ministry said, adding to a sharp increase in executions this year.Saleh Al Zahrani was convicted of shooting dead Attiyah Al Zahrani during a dispute between them, said the10
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The mullahs' regime in Iran has hanged another 7 prisoners on the same day this week.4 prisoners were hanged on Tuesday in the central province of Yazd. Their names were not given.3 other prisoners were hanged on the same day in a prison in Rafsanjan, central Iran. 1 of the prisoners was Leggi09
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The Iranian authorities must immediately halt the implementation of a death sentence for juvenile offender Salar Shadizadi, Amnesty International said on Friday.The execution of Salar Shadizadi, 24, who was jailed and sentenced to death for a crime committed when he was just 15 years old, was09
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Cellhouse 1, Pod A, from ground level inside the Sterling Correctional FacilityKUSA - Currently in Colorado, there are three inmates awaiting execution in the Department of Corrections.Colorado does not have a physical 'death row.' Instead, inmates sentenced to death are
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Kim Jong-unNorth Korea's vice premier was executed by firing squad this year after showing discontent with the policies of the country's leader Kim Jong Un, a South Korean media report said on Wednesday.Yonhap News Agency cited an unnamed source as saying that the 63-year-old Choe Yong Gon, a12
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Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court is again reviewing the case of jailed blogger Raif Badawi, raising the possibility that his draconian sentence may be reduced, his family has told The Independent.Mr Badawi’s wife Ensaf Haidar said she had been informed of the development by a senior source in the12
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79 countries where homosexuality is illegalTen nations with large Muslim populations have laws providing for the death penalty for same-sex activity. How many actually impose the death sentence is a difficult question.According to the 2015 State-Sponsored Homophobia reportfrom ILGA, the
Both death row inmates claim murder was not intentional.Although Clifton Williams narrowly avoided execution July 16, 2 Texans are scheduled for the gurney next week. Both inmates maintain that they didn't mean for the individuals they killed to die, though their opinions about their pending fates
Supermax prison in Florence, ColoradoOpened in 1994, the Colorado supermax prison is the toughest and most controversial correctional facility in the U.S. federal system.It is dubbed the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," and has housed some of the nation's most notorious prisoners, including Timothy10
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The Iranian regime's henchmen on Sunday hanged a Kurdish political prisoner in the central prison of the city of Tabriz, northwest Iran, without informing his family.Sirvan Nezhavi, was arrested on July 5, 2011 in the city of Karaj and was charged with 'Moharebeh' (waging war on God) for10
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Mary Jane Fiesta VelosoLike in the past years, thousands of inmates across Indonesia will receive sentence reductions in conjunction with the 70th Independence Day commemoration this year, which falls on the August 17th.However, under Indonesian laws, jail term reductions are not given to09
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Vitus HuonderA criminal complaint has been filed against a Catholic bishop who said homosexuality should be punished with death.Vitus Huonder, the Catholic bishop of Chur, eastern Switzerland, made the controversial comments at the ‘Joy in Faith’ forum in the German city of Fulda.At the forum09
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Justice Stephen BreyerWherever their summer travels have taken them, Supreme Court justices probably will weigh in over the next few days on Texas' plans to execute 2 death row inmates in the week ahead.If past practice is any guide, the court is much more likely to allow the lethal-injection
Medieval and barbaric: a public hanging in IranInhumane and degrading punishments have for years been common practice by the clerical regime in Iran. Yet, since the nuclear deal last month between the mullahs' regime and the major world powers these grave human rights violations have sharply08
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LINCOLN — If Nebraska succeeds in importing the $54,400 in lethal injection drugs it ordered from India, Gov. Pete Ricketts said Thursday he’s confident he won’t need to seek a refund.During an interview Thursday on “The Bottom Line,” The World-Herald’s Internet radio broadcast, the governor was13
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Just months after national youth broadcaster triple j was scrutinised for conducting a poll which asked whether Australians convicted of drug smuggling in countries that carry capital punishment should face their penalties, it has been revealed that the poll in question did influence the execution12
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Tracy Beatty(TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH) - A Smith County man who killed his 62-year-old mother, buried her in the backyard and used her credit cards and drained her bank accounts was set to be executed Thursday, but received a stay of execution Tuesday afternoon.Tracy Beatty, 54, was convicted of
Richard GlossipOklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said Tuesday she has no plans to delay next month's scheduled execution of a man condemned for his role in a 1997 killing, despite concerns by death penalty opponents that he is innocent.Fallin said in a statement that she is convinced Richard Eugene11
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San Quentin's brand new death chamberOn Aug. 31, the death penalty will go on trial at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The oral argument stems from a judgment in 2014, in which Federal District Judge Cormac Carney ruled that California's death penalty system was
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Sir Richard BransonHigh profile public figures including Sir Richard Branson and Lord Macdonald QC, the former director of public prosecutions, have called for an urgent inquiry into the UK’s role in anti-narcotics operations that could help fund executions in countries such as Pakistan.In a10
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A FORMER Indonesian judge and leading legal figure has revealed his behind-the-scenes battle to stop the executions of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan and others and how he twice managed to have the firing squads postponed.Professor Jimly Asshiddiqie, who is in Melbourne to deliver a lecture on
Ethel and Julius RosenbergOUR parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed on June 19, 1953, after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. That was the formal legal charge, but in the public’s mind they were executed for providing our archenemy, the Soviet Union, with
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Criminal justice reform is the 1 issue that just about everyone seems to agree on right now. There are certainly disagreements over the details, but from the Koch Brothers to ThinkProgress, from Rand Paul to Bernie Sanders, from Newt Gingrich to Al Sharpton, from the Heritage Foundation to Black
Richard GlossipOklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin does not have the power to commute the death sentence of Richard Glossip, her office said in response to criticism by activist actress Susan Sarandon.Glossip is scheduled to die on Sept. 16 for hiring a man to murder his employer, Bary Allan Van Treese, inJames E. HolmesOne juror refused to give James Holmes the death penalty because of his mental illness, according to a juror who spoke when the trial ended.Two others were uncertain but were willing to continue talking about it, said Juror 17, who declined to give her name."The issue of
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James E. HolmesCENTENNIAL, Colo., — A jury sentenced James E. Holmes to life in prison with no chance of parole on Friday, rejecting the death penalty for the man who carried out a 2012 shooting rampage that killed 12 people in a Colorado movie theater.As the courtroom waited for
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