Myuran SukumaranBali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran could face an Indonesian firing squad within months.Sukumaran is listed among 20 death row inmates slated for priority execution this year, the Indonesian Attorney General's office told AAP on Friday.The existence of the list was reported in December, but it was unclear whether the 33-year-old's Leggi Tutto
Jakarta. The Indonesian government has stepped in amid a fundamental difference of opinion between the two highest courts in the land over how many case reviews a convict can request after exhausting all other avenues of appeal.The Justice Ministry will issue a government regulation that will
MULTAN (Dunya News) – Two terrorists of a banned organization, Ahmed Ali alias Sheesh Nag and Ghulam Bashir alias Doctor were hanged till death at the Multan Jail on early Wednesday morning after their mercy appeals were rejected by President on January 3, 2015.Ahmed Ali alias Sheesh Nag had
Public execution in Iran (file photo)Four prisoners were hanged in two different prisons today. 21 prisoners have been executed in the first 6 days of 2015 in Iran. Iran Human Rights, January 6, 2015: Three prisoners were hanged in the prison of Urmia (Northwestern Iran) according to unofficial
Parliament approves establishment of military courts to hear terrorism-related cases after school massacre by Taliban.Pakistan has voted in favour of military trials for terrorism suspects, following December's attack by the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) on a military-run school that killed 148 people
Meth bust in Indonesia (file photo)Jakarta. Indonesian anti-narcotics officials have seized 800 kilograms of methamphetamine and arrested nine people, including five foreigners, in one of the biggest drug busts in recent years.Agents from the National Narcotics Agency, or BNN, discovered the drugs
D. TsarnaevThe trial of a man suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon in 2013 has begun with jury selection as it emerged that prosecutors rejected a deal that would have spared him from the death penalty.Chechen-American Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (21) is accused of killing 3 people and injuring 264
The Pakistani government has suspended its plans to execute a man who was convicted at the age of 14 after being tortured into a ‘confession’ and wrongly tried in an anti-terrorism court.In a speech earlier today, Pakistan’s interior minister Chaudry Nisar told the country’s Parliament that the
Kurt Sonnenfeld in 2002Argentina’s supreme court has ruled that an American who took refuge and started a new life in the South American country can be extradited to face charges that he killed his wife more than a decade ago, a court spokeswoman confirmed on Saturday.Kurt Sonnenfeld moved to
"Yellow Mama" is currently being storedin the attic of Holman CorrectionalFacility in Atmore, Alabama.For 3/4 of a century (1927-2002), executions in Alabama were carried out using an electric chair dubbed "Yellow Mama," a nickname it was given after being covered in the same paint used to stripe
Pakistan on Saturday issued orders to hang 6 more militants, official said, the latest in a wave of executions in the wake of the Peshawar school massacre, which claimed 149 lives in the country's deadliest terror attack.Among the 6 is Shafqat Hussain, who was 15 when he was sentenced to death for
December 29, 2014: Saudi Arabia beheaded a man in the southern Najran region for stabbing a relative to death, the interior ministry said. Misfir bin Nasser bin Misfir Lesloom al-Yami was found guilty of killing Hamad bin Ali bin Hamad Lesloom al-Yami following a fight, the ministry said in a
Myuran SukumaranDEATH row inmate Myuran Sukumaran has vowed that his spirit will not be broken by the decision to send him to the firing squad.In an impassioned plea through a friend, the 33-year-old Bali Nine drug runner called for a second chance, asking simply “Please show us mercy”.He told a
Myuran Sukumaran with selfportraitMyuran Sukumaran is one step closer to the firing squad after appearing to have lost his bid for clemency from the Indonesian president.The news prompted an emotional outpouring from the Australian Bali Nine member saying of himself and fellow Australian Andrew
GRAYSON COUNTY -- A man convicted of killing four people in Sherman in 1983 is scheduled to be executed next month, but a nationwide drug shortage could force the state to change its plans. The State of Texas executed ten people last year using the drug Pentobarbital, but the state's supply
Jodi AriasAfter a two-week holiday hiatus, the Jodi Ariassentencing retrial got underway this morning……for about three minutes.While the jury was waiting in the wings and families were waiting in the courtroom, Maricopa County Superior Court Sherry Stephens held yet another one of her private
Saudi authorities on Tuesday beheaded a Syrian convicted of drugs trafficking, the interior ministry said, in the third execution this year in the ultra-conservative kingdom.Mohammed al-Mahameed was caught smuggling a significant amount of amphetamines, the ministry said in a statement carried by
Richard VasquezThe execution of a Corpus Christi man set for next week for the beating death of his 4-year-old stepdaughter nearly 17 years ago has been rescheduled for April.Richard Vasquez had been scheduled for lethal injection Jan. 15 for the March 1998 death of Miranda Nicole Lopez.A state
Death row cell, Polunsky Unit, TexasThe Quakers were among the first Americans to devise the idea of solitary confinement based on the notion that a life of quiet contemplation was the best way to help people improve their moral character. Inmates went through meals and work in complete silence
(Reuters) - A Belgian murderer and rapist serving a life sentence is to be allowed to die by lethal injection next Sunday following a ruling under laws in Belgium permitting people to request euthanasia, local media reported.Frank Van Den Bleeken, who has argued that he had no prospect of release
Georgia Death ChamberA Georgia man convicted of killing a sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop in 1998 is set to be executed later this month, state corrections officials said Friday.Department of Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens has scheduled the execution of Andrew Howard Brannan, 66, for
Gov. Martin O'MalleyOutgoing Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley said Wednesday that he will commute the capital sentences of the state's last four inmates on death row to life in prison, saying executing them "does not serve the public good of the people of Maryland."Two years ago, the General
December 31, 2014: Niaz Muhamamd, convicted of orchestrating murder attempt on former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf, was hanged in Peshawar at Central Jail. Niaz Muhammad who belonged to Swabi was an aide of Adnan Rashid, a notorious militant leader and an accused in the Musharraf attack
Myuran Sukumaran with selfportraitMyuran Sukumaran received his death warrant on Wednesday.What a strange and repugnant document, this missive that condemns a man to death. It reads:There is not enough reason to give clemency to those convicted … Reject clemency plea from convicted. The decision
President Joko WidodoFour death-row inmates in Wirogunan Penitentiary in Yogyakarta are awaiting execution in the immediate future.The four are Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, 29; Hardani; Khoirul Anwar and his son, Yonas Revalusi.Veloso was sentenced to death for her attempt as a courier of an
Andrew Chan (left) and Myuran Sukumaran (right)Myuran Sukumaran is one step closer to the firing squad after appearing to have lost his bid for clemency from the Indonesian president.A letter rejecting the clemency bid of the the Bali Nine member was hand-delivered to Kerobokan prison by an
(Reuters) - Doctors in Belgium have rejected an imprisoned murderer and rapist's request for medically assisted suicide, the Justice Ministry said on Tuesday, less than a week before he was due to receive a lethal injection.Justice Minister Koen Geens told local media last week that Frank Van Den
President Joko WidodoLegal experts have lambasted President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration for backing a Supreme Court's letter that places limits on criminal convicts filing case reviews, a move deemed a violation of citizens' rights to seek justice in a legal case.The Supreme Court
Prosecutors are pessimistic about the likelihood that a state district court judge in Montgomery County will ever agree to set an execution date for Larry Ray Swearingen.Swearingen was convicted in July 2000 of the capital murder of community college student Melissa Trotter.His appellate attorney
Qatar flagDoha - A Lower Court in Doha has awarded the death penalty to three Asian men after they were found guilty of killing an elderly Qatari woman at her home in the city's New Salata Area some three years ago.The crime took place in early 2012 when the trio allegedly broke Leggi Tutto
Neither of the 2 men scheduled to die on Alabama's death row early this year will be able to speak to the media face-to-face before they're put to death, a prison official said.The Alabama Department of Corrections this week turned down The Anniston Star's request for an in-person interview with
Public execution in Iran (file photo)The religious dictatorship ruling in Iran has hanged at least 14 prisoners on the New Year's Day in several prisons in 4 cities in Iran.A group of 4 women were hanged in Shahab prison in the city of Kerman (southern Iran). 2 prisoners were hanged in Leggi Tutto
Public execution in Iran (File photo)NCRI – The Iranian regime’s henchmen hanged a group of seven prisoners on Monday in the main prison in the city of Orumieh in northwestern Iran.Those executed were residents of Kermanshah, Sanandaj and Shiraz. No other information is available on the
Huugjilt was wrongly convicted in 1996 ofrapingand killinga woman. He wasexecutedin the same year. He was 18.Beijing: The parents of a Chinese teenager executed 18 years ago for the rape and murder of a woman he did not commit will get 2.05 million yuan (Dh1.2 million or $330,491) in