Kelly Gissendaner in her Georgia death row cell. (AP)The execution of the only woman on Georgia's death row was postponed late Monday because of a problem with the drugs in the lethal injection.Kelly Gissendaner was waiting to hear if the U.S. Supreme Court would halt her execution when the Georgia Department
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Ronald Smith should not be executed by the state of Montana, says the Herald editorial board.One slow step forward, and one hastily scurrying step back. That's the best way to describe the state of Montana's dances with abolishing the death penalty - a move that would affect Ronald Smith, an02
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The Delhi High Court today stayed the execution of a man convicted for the murder of 5 persons, including 2 children, in Chhattisgarh in 2004 and whose review plea had been rejected by the apex court.A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Ashutosh Kumar restrained the prison authorities from28
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Man being thrown off a roof and stoned todeath for being gay in Syria.Islamic State (ISIS) has released images appearing to show another man being thrown off a roof and stoned to death for being gay in Syria.Last month ISIS released extremely graphic images of the execution of two men for Leggi27
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Photographic stories from the Middle East by all-female photographic collective Rawiya.The exhibition ‘Realism in Rawiya’ currently showing at the Impressions Gallery in Bradford, presents the work of Rawiya, the first all-female photographic collective to emerge from the Middle East.With its26
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Andrew Chan, Myuran SukumaranBali's head ombudsman says Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran should accept the reality that authorities are determined to execute them.Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are keeping their spirits up even as authorities around them say they should26
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Indonesian President Joko WidodoWhat will be the exit strategy for Indonesia to extract itself from the diplomatic mess our leaders and countrymen’s insistence on executing foreign citizens for drug trafficking has caused? There’s no way out in sight, unless the executions stop.With a total of 5825
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More than 140 of Australia's leading law professors, deans and academics have signed a petition pleading with Indonesian President Joko Widodo to use his constitutional powers to spare the lives of the Bali 9 pair, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.In ultimately deciding on clemency we believe the24
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Man posted an online video ripping up the Quran and hitting it with a shoeRiyadh: An Islamic court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to death for renouncing his Muslim faith, local media reported on Tuesday.The man, in his 20s, posted an online video ripping up a copy of the Quran and
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Or just a trick of the light?By Marion Sharples and Serap Altinisik.On 24 February, the European Women’s Lobby, the largest network of women’s rights associations in Europe, launches its most recent progress report on women on boards in Europe.This report, ‘Cracks in the glass ceiling or23
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The Kurdistan Human Rights Network has confirmed that 2 brothers, Ali and Habib Afshari, who were in the group of 6 political prisoners imprisoned in Urmia prison have been hanged.Activists Habib and Ali Afshari were declared guilty of "corruption on earth" and "acting against God's will" by the23
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Or face more inequality, less innovation and solutions that leave women out.A global technology revolution is taking place, and if women and girls are not part of it, the future for women’s human rights will be bleak.Join us in asking world’s leaders to ensure an end the gender gap in science02
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A district court in Yogyakarta will begin on Tuesday its crucial review on the case of a convicted Filipina drug smuggler who is facing execution in Indonesia, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Monday.The review will determine whether the Filipino convict's death sentence will be02
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Government doing less at home than abroad on violence against women and girls.The Joint Committee on Human Rights has warned that the government could harm its international reputation by failing to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and28
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Myuran Sukumaran in front of self-portrait.Bali 9 ringleader Myuran Sukumaran has been awarded an Associate Degree in Fine Art from Curtin University in Perth just days before he is expected to die.He deserves this in so many ways and for so many reasonsSukumaran was due to finish his Bachelor of27
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2015
‘This for me was Lucy: she couldn’t bear injustice and fought it however tired she was that day.’By Sue Marsh.I’d thought most campaigners knew Lucy, even though she’d been too unwell these past few years to write much, but perhaps that is just because, for me, Lucy was such a huge part of26
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Calling for a public inquiry into the state’s response to domestic violence.The national domestic violence charity Refuge, together with families of women killed by current and former partners, are calling on the government to open a public inquiry to investigate why victims of domestic26
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Help with crime-related issues whether or not you go to the police.In response to widespread concern that children and young people in England and Wales are confused and intimidated by the criminal justice system, Victim Support has launched a website designed specifically to tackle these24
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The Government has been urged to end UK support for Pakistani drug operations that lead to death sentences, after an admission by the Foreign Office (FCO) that it does not know the identity of two British citizens facing execution after UK-funded drug raids.The FCO confirmed Pakistan’s refusal to24
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Rodney ReedAUSTIN -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has put a stay on the execution of death row inmate Rodney Reed in response to a motion filed by his lawyer on Feb. 13.In May 1998, Reed was convicted of the rape and murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites and was sentenced to death.
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)Iran Human Rights, February 23, 2015: Iranian state media has reported about execution of 12 prisoners on Sunday 22 February.According to the Iranian State Broadcasting eight prisoners were hanged in the prison of Bandar Abbas (Southern Iran) on Sunday. One of23
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Britain needs a pay rise.The TUC’s Fair Pay Fortnight, a series of events across the country aiming to raise awareness about Britain’s cost of living crisis, runs until 1 March this year.Working people in the UK, the TUC says, are seeing their living standards squeezed harder and harder every22
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2015
The Nagoya District Court on Friday sentenced a Chinese man to death for fatally stabbing a Japanese woman and her son, injuring another of her sons and taking 200,000 yen in cash at their home in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, in 2009.A panel of 3 professional and 6 citizen judges handed02
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Martin Stephens'It is more humane to just take me out the back and shoot me like Andrew and Myuran,' says courier who was convicted to life in prisonOne of the Bali 9 drug smugglers sentenced to life in jail says he has lost hope under Indonesia's drugs policy and believes it would be
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Indonesian President Joko WidodoKerobokan, Bali: Jakarta's governor has told an Indonesian media outlet that the country's President Joko Widodo is "considering different views" on the death penalty, including advice that it should be removed from Indonesia's laws.Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better28
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Singapore Changi PrisonWhen it comes to a murderer, how brutal must he be to warrant the death penalty?In a landmark decision last month, judges were divided on this point - deciding in the end by 3 to 2 that convicted killer Kho Jabing, 31, will hang.The decision sparked keen discussion among26
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Serge Atlaoui: "Not a drug user, not a trafficker"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - French Ambassador Corinne Breuze said the death sentence and a threat of execution of a Frenchman in Indonesia has been received as a disturbing news in France."The report is greatly disturbing for the French people as since26
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A court of appeals in Abu Dhabi upheld a previous court ruling and sentenced an Asian cleaner to death after he was convicted of raping a 7-year-old school girl.Police had arrested the cleaner at the school following a report by the girl’s parents that he forced her into the kitchen where he works26
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Although ‘some of the judges were women’.The 2014 Press Awards have failed to recognise quality journalism in women writers: the nominees are overwhelmingly male.Organised by the Society of Editors, and with a plethora of well-known sponsors including Camelot, EY, L’Oreal, Unison, Reuters and24
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Main gate to Nusakambangan Prison IslandThe last hope of Bali Nine pair Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran has been trampled in administrative court. An Indonesian judge has rejected the appeal from the Australian duo’s lawyers on Tuesday.Chan and Sukumaran’s legal team filed an appeal in the24
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But marching nonetheless.Million Women Rise is a global call to action that echoes on London streets as women march along them on the Saturday closest to International Women’s Day.But this year the march has been faced with an unexpected threat.From the police.Or rather, an absence of23
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While the global trend is towards abolition of the death penalty altogether, where it is still applied international law, jurisprudence and practice require that certain minimum standards are applied.How can we strengthen these international minimum standards on the application of the death23
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Pasir Putih maximum security prison on NusakambanganIsland, Central Java, where Indonesia has already carriedout several executions by firing squad.Indonesian authorities say it is very likely the two Australian drug smugglers on death row in Bali could be transferred this week in preparation for20
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Even though we acknowledge the threat to women of pre-natal sex selection.Fiona Bruce MP has tabled a parliamentary amendment to the Serious Crime Bill which would make it clear that conducting or procuring an abortion on the grounds that the unborn child is a girl – or a boy (although this