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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 Lives Matter, nearly
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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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July 30 was a somber day for India — a day that called into question the application of the death penalty in a country whose criminal justice system is stacked against minorities, the poor and those who do not have the backing of powerful political interests.On that day, Yakub Memon was
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After the British executed Bhagat Singh and his comrades, the nation resolved to do away with capital punishment. The mood changed on January 30, 1948 - the day Gandhi was killed.On March 23, 1931, when the British government sent Bhagat Singh and his comrades Sukhdev and Rajguru to gallows06
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Hamed, 27, sentenced by an Iranian Sharia court to have his eyes gouged outNCRI - The mullahs' inhuman regime in Iran has sentenced a young man to be blinded.The cruel and medieval sentence was handed down on Saturday (August 1)
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We need a progressive and inclusive education system.A new campaign for LGBTI education as a statutory right in the curriculum of Scottish schools has been launched to tackle homophobic attitudes among young people and to increase the confidence of the LGBTI community.Time for Inclusive05
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Indonesia said it has secured the release of 12 citizens from death row in Saudi Arabia this year.The number of Indonesians freed from death row in Saudi Arabia since 2011 is 68, the Foreign Ministry's directorate of legal aid and protection said yesterday.Ministry records show there are 24An Indonesian national previously sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for allegedly practising witchcraft is due to fly home.Migrant worker Rika Mustikawati of Sukaresmi, Bogor, West Java, was sentenced to death on May 15, 2012, by the district court of Bisha, Saudi Arabia, for practicing05
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The effect of gender equality programming on humanitarian outcomes.Major humanitarian emergencies over the past decade, such as the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Kashmir Earthquake, continue to highlight the importance of gender equality in emergency interventions.Response
Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaA man has been beheaded in Saudi Arabia, bringing the total number of executions in the Kingdom to 110 for the year so far. This is already a 26-% increase on the number of people put to death in 2014.Mugrib al-Thanyan was executed
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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 was
The Saudi Arabian authorities this week [Wednesday 5 August] beheaded a Pakistani citizen for alleged drugs offences – having failed to investigate credible claims that he was kidnapped and forced into smuggling drugs by traffickers.Asmat Hayat – a father of six – was convicted in Jeddah in 200906
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Nebraska Governor Pete RickettsThe Nebraska legislature recently abolished the death penalty, overriding a veto by the state's governor, Pete Ricketts. Nebraska has only executed 3 people since the Supreme Court upheld new death penalty laws in 1976 - the last execution was nearly 2 decades ago in06
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Crowd watching a public execution in Iran (file photo)The regime in Iran has hanged 1 men in public in the city of Eghlid, in Fars Province, southern Iran. The man whose identity has not been revealed was hanged on Sunday.Reports received reveals that
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The Pakistani government has executed 206 people since resuming executions in December, according to figures collated by Reprieve.Yesterday’s hanging of Shafqat Hussain marked Pakistan’s 202nd execution since a moratorium on the death penalty was lifted late last year. Shafqat was executed despite05
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Debra MilkeIn September 2013, 2 1/2 weeks after being released from custody, Debra Milke had a hearing in Maricopa County Superior Court.She had spent 24 years behind bars and her eyes were wild, like those of an animal, as she backed into the corner of a crowded elevator, hugging the
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4 prisoners were hanged in the prison of Isfahan and there are 6 others waiting for execution in Bandar Abbas and Zahedan prison.According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), four of those convicted of drug-related crimes were hanged in Dastgerd prison, in Isfahan04
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Vitus HuonderVitus Huonder, the controversial Catholic bishop of Chur in eastern Switzerland, has once again attracted criticism for quoting homophobic Bible passages and denouncing non-traditional family models.At the “Joy in Faith” forum in the German city of Fulda, he quoted a passage from the
Pakistan must immediately impose a moratorium on the death penalty after the execution of a man who was below 18 years old at the time of the crime, according to his lawyers, and who was tortured into a "confession" by police, Amnesty International said.Shafqat Hussain, who was sentenced to death
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, in
James 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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Even before the civil war, Yemen was the poorest country in the Middle East.Since March 2015, open conflict amongst rival factions has spread across Yemen, culminating in the on-going Saudi-led coalition’s bombing of targets in Houthi-controlled sections of the country.The Office for the06
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Rev Yat Michael (left) and Rev Peter Reith (right)2 South Sudanese pastors facing trial for espionage in Sudan have been freed.Rev Yat Michael and Rev Peter Reith (also named as David Yein Reith in some reports) were being held on six charges including
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The document strongly emphasises the centrality of gender equality and women’s empowerment.The 193 Member States of the United Nations reached agreement on 2 August on the outcome document that will constitute the new sustainable development agenda that will be adopted this September by world05
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Public beheading in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi Arabian authorities have executed two Ethiopians, a Pakistani and a Saudi. Human rights activists have condemned what they called "a campaign of death" in the conservative kingdom.Saudi Arabia executed on Wednesday four men convicted in different
In a press release last week, the United Nations Special Rapporteurs on summary executions, Christof Heyns, and on torture, Juan E. Mendez, welcomed Zambian President Edgar Lungui's decision to commute death sentences of 332 prisoners to life imprisonment.The use of the President's discretionary05
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But employers can improve the experiences of pregnant women and new mothers.The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) commissioned a programme of research to investigate the prevalence and nature of pregnancy discrimination and
James E. HolmesThe jury in the Colorado theater shooting trial will hear even more heart-wrenching testimony Tuesday from those who lost loved ones in the attack, as prosecutors begin their final push to have James Holmes sentenced to death..It comes after jurors rejected arguments Monday that theA 55-year-old Malaysian, Ng Huk Kwan or Jimmy, will likely face the death penalty for his alleged involvement in the trafficking of 46.5 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine.Prosecutor Zainal Abidin from the Riau Prosecutor's Office told a panel of judges at Pekanbaru District Court in Riau on