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A CCTV image released by Abu Dhabi police on December 3, 2014 shows a fullyveiled woman walking in a shopping mall in the Emirati capital. The woman wasa suspect in the killing of an American teacher stabbed in the
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Armed Forces Minister Hyon Yong CholJuly 12, 2015: South Korea says North Korea has officially confirmed the purging of its defense chief two months after Seoul's spy service said he had been executed for disloyalty to leader Kim Jong Un.South Korea's National Intelligence Service
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Richard GlossipRichard Glossip, 52, will be the next Oklahoma inmate to be executed under the state lethal injection protocol approved by the U.S. Supreme Court.The Court of Criminal Appeals set Glossip's execution date for September 15, 2016.Glossip will be put to death for his role in the
The large number of Filipinos facing the death penalty overseas provides a powerful argument against the revival of capital punishment here at home, Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo said in a news release Sunday."There's no question our abolition of the death penalty has given us greater leverage to12
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Superstar boxer Manny PacquiaoAs we told you yesterday, superstar boxer Manny Pacquiao is currently in Indonesia. Part of the reason for his visit (his first to Indonesia) is to shoot a commercial for Tolak Angin which he is currently filming in Semarang:But another reason is to visit Mary Leggi12
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Lithuanian national Verikas MindaugasJakarta. The Medan District Court on Thursday sentenced a 28-year-old Lithuanian man to life in prison for smuggling more than three kilograms of crystal methamphetamine into Indonesia.Presiding Judge Indra Cahya ruled that Verikas Mindaugas was guilty of
New Delhi: A discussion on a law commission consultation paper on whether capital punishment should be retained or abolished evoked a mixed response on Saturday.While former President APJ Abdul Kalam, DMK leader Kanimozhi and former West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi supported the abolition11
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Bill is due to be put before the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on SundayA bill introducing the death penalty for terrorists who murder Israelis, which has been put forth by the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party, has led to divisions within Israel's ruling Likud party, Israeli daily
Kim Jong-un inspects the Taedonggang terrapin farm in Pyongyang in May 2015Kim Jong Un had ordered the execution to make an example of the manager - and to reinforce North Korea's politics of fear.Kim Jong Un may have executed the manager of a terrapin farm the North Korean leader visited in May
South Korea is already among countries with no death penalty in practice, with last execution in 1997On July 6, a former death row inmate brought a bill before parliament that would abolish the death penalty and replace it with life in prison. The bill was submitted to the National Assembly by Yu09
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Executions are set to resume in Ohio next year, but state officials are still having trouble finding someone willing to sell them lethal-injection drugs, according to the state's prisons director."We have had difficulty finding and acquiring drugs, period," said Gary Mohr, director of the Ohio09
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Mary Jane VelosoA government prosecutor has found basis to file cases in a Nueva Ecija court against the alleged recruiters of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina death row inmate in Indonesia.Set to face cases of qualified trafficking, illegal recruitment, and estafa* are Maria Cristina Sergio and14
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‘Perspectives on contemporary challenges’ and ‘insights into policy innovations’.Despite some progress, the gap in evidence-based knowledge around gender equality and women’s empowerment hinders efforts to find answers to such questions as:What does it take to achieve gender equality and makeCutting across the party lines, the members of Parliament (MPs) and political leaders on Saturday favoured the abolition of death penalty from the country's statute and sought the Law Commission to submit a report suggesting for repeal of the capital punishment.As per last 15 years' data, prepared13
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We should be leading the world in delivering justice to victims of mesothelioma.By Kate Green MP.I joined campaigners, families and fellow MPs in Manchester last week to commemorate the victims of the terrible asbestos related cancer, mesothelioma.The memorial ceremony, which takes place12
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The Foreign Ministry has continued its diplomatic and legal work to try and free four migrant workers who have been sentenced to death for murders in Saudi Arabia.The ministry said that the 4 migrant workers, all originating from West Java, were Tuti Tursilawati and Etty Toyib from Majalengka, Ato
James E. HolmesDefense lawyers trying to avoid the death penalty for Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes wrapped up their case on Friday, hoping they have convinced jurors he was legally insane when he carried out one of the worst U.S. mass shootings.They concede that he killed 12 peopleMUMBAI: Uttar Pradesh awarded 506 death sentences between 1998 and 2013, the highest in the country during that period, shows a study by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI). Bihar stood second at 178, followed by MP at 162 and Maharashtra at 160. That Maharashtra was among the top
China. Iran. Saudi Arabia. Iraq. The United States of America.What you just read is, according to Amnesty International, a list of the countries that executed the largest numbers of prisoners in 2014.While the U.S. Supreme Court was making huge news last month with its decisions on Obamacare and10
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The Supreme Court reflects shifting social mores at least as much as it influences them. Rulings such as Brown v. Board of Education and Obergefell were inconceivable until enormous changes in the surrounding social and political context had first occurred. Before Brown, President Franklin D10
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Keeping a woman dependent on hormonal contraception is an effective business model.Hormonal contraception can have dangerous side-effects, so why is it still sold to us as the only option?When it was first made available – to married women only – in 1961, the Pill revolutionised sex, and
Clifton WilliamsAfter a 2005 murder, Clifton Williams is set to be executedEast Texan Clifton Williams heads to the gurney next Thursday, July 16, after 9 years spent on death row for the murder of Cecelia Schneider. Williams, 31, was 21 years old at the time of Schneider's murder, July 9, Leggi
Hillary ClintonOn the last day of this year's Supreme Court term, the court handed down Glossip v. Gloss, ruling 5-4 that Oklahoma's death penalty protocols were constitutional, despite the significant risk that the state's experimental lethal injection procedures would result in death by13
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Ely State PrisonNevada has no executions on the immediate horizon but is pushing ahead to build a new death chamber at Ely State Prison and would use a drug at the heart of a recent U.S. Supreme Court case to carry out lethal injections.Brian Connett, deputy director at the
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The Iranian regime has admitted that it had executed 2 Kurdish political prisoners nearly 5 months ago in a prison in the western city of Orumieh.Authorities in the city's Central Prison told the dissidents' relatives that they had been hanged on February 19, 2015 and ordered them to pay for the13
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‘Advances towards gender equality have been slow and inconsistent, failures often attributable to financing gaps’.On the eve of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, UN Women has called for transformative financing to end gender inequality by 2030.For high ambition
Tripeni Irianto Putro, center, the chief judge of the Medan State AdministrativeCourt, was one of five people arrested by the KPK on
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Yat Michael (left), Peter Yein Reith (right)A judge in Sudan has ruled there is enough evidence to charge 2 pastors with crimes punishable by death.The charges, including espionage and promoting hatred among or against sects, were filed July 2, months after authorities arrested Yat Michael last12
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Slated to go before Ministerial Committee Sunday, death penalty for terrorists bill indefinitely frozen by PM's technical maneuver.Prime Minister Binyamin has significantly slowed the advancement of a controversial bill on Sunday. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation was set to discuss the11
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Portrait of Indonesian president Joko Widodo by executed Bali Ninemember Myuran Sukumaran in January 2015This time last year, Joko Widodo's supporters took to the streets to celebrate his victory in Indonesia's presidential election. He was hailed
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There are some great games see over the next month featuring England’s top stars.The Women’s Super League (WSL) resumes this weekend, and hopes to benefit from the enthusiasm engendered by England’s tournament successes in Canada.Mind you, sometimes you have to wonder if anyone at football’s10
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Former Brown University president on discrimination, intersectionality, and the possibility of change.Speaking at a public event in London last week, former Brown University president, Texas-born Ruth Simmons shared her “fantasy” of being able to live “just as herself”.She outlined a dream of09
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James E. HolmesA star witness for the defense in James E. Holmes's murder trial testified this week that Mr. Holmes was schizophrenic and legally insane in July 2012, when he opened fire in a crowded movie theater in the neighboring suburb of Aurora, killing 12 people and injuring 70.
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Gathering signatures against the Nebraska repeal of the death penaltyThere's a new storefront in Norfolk, Nebraska, but they aren't selling anything, they're just asking for signatures. Volunteers in Norfolk have joined forces with a group called Nebraskans for the Death Penalty to
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