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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaRiyadh: An Ethiopian woman who stabbed a small Saudi girl 30 times in her sleep was beheaded by the sword on Tuesday in the conservative Muslim kingdom, the interior ministry said.Khadija bint Mohammed Isa was executed in Hafar al-Batin, northeast Saudi Arabia, it said in a statement
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De Malmanche was allegedly travelling with1.7 kg ofmethamphetamine in his backpack when he was arrested.A Kiwi facing drugs charges in Bali has been taken to a police hospital for treatment.Antony Glen de Malmanche, 52, from Wanganui, was arrested at the international airport in Denpasar last09
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President Joko WidodoIndonesian President Joko Widodo has definitively ruled out issuing pardons for any drug convicts on death row.His comments will send shockwaves through Kerobokan Prison, where two Bali Nine inmates, Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, applied more than two years ago
Robert Wayne HolseyA parole panel in Georgia refused on Monday to grant clemency to a man who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday evening, apparently unpersuaded by evidence that he was ineptly represented at trial by a drunken lawyer, had an exceptionally harsh childhood and has a08
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The system is – still – failing the most vulnerable, and trapping half of women into reoffending. By Dawn Foster. Most women in prison in Britain have experienced sexual or domestic violence, yet the system fails to address their needs and further victimises them. For some, it is the end of the
The Senate Judiciary Committee will introduce a new bill to the Wyoming Legislature this January that would offer death by firing squad as an execution alternative.5 legal execution methods exist in the United States: lethal injection, electric chair, hanging, gas chamber, and firing squad08
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How do you challenge existing inequalities by speaking up? From Take Back the Tech! When you voice your thoughts, do you face threats and abuse? How is violence used to disrupt solidarity and collective action where you are? How do you fight back? From women critiquing culture to girls posting
Firing squad execution in Somalia(file photo)December 4, 2014: Somali military court executed three men convicted of killing innocent civilians in the country.One among them was a member of Al-shabab while the remaining two were government forces who earlier killed civilians in the capital. The
On Dec. 1, the deputy head of Iran's judiciary, Gholam Ali Mohseni Ejei, responded to a reporter's question about Soheil Arabi, who was sentenced to death for Facebook posts deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. Ejei said, "Currently, there is no pardon, and he's been convicted of 'corruption04
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Kerobokan Prison, BaliThe executions of 5 drug convicts in Indonesia this month will reportedly not include 2 Australians being held in Bali.More than 60 people are sitting on death row in Indonesian prisons, but only 5 people have exhausted their legal appeals."They will be executed after a
The Supreme Court - the last stop for condemned prisoners such as Scott Panetti, a Texan who is mentally ill - appears increasingly wary of the death penalty.In May, the justices blocked the execution of a Missouri murderer because his medical condition made it likely that he would suffer from a04
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By February 2015 all the mothers will be faced with the possibility of having to move again. TheFocus E15 campaign was established tochallengeNewhamCouncil’s policies of expelling the poorandvulnerable of London to towns and cities hundreds of miles away. The Labour-run [Newham] council claimthat
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Kalynda Davis and Peter GardinerSydney woman Kalynda Davis, who had been facing a possible death sentence in China over drug trafficking, was released. Chinese authorities did not charge Davis who returned to Australia.The 22-year-old waited for a couple of weeks in China where she could have09
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Women don’t wear clothes? No More Page 3 campaigners spent 6 months collecting images of men and women from the pages of UK’s daily tabloid The Sun, and stuck them side-by-side on a wall to illustrate how The Sun portrays them. The startling results can be seen here. Unsurprisingly, women wear
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Cleaning up the trade in conflict gold is essential to finding a lasting solution to the ongoing war there. For more than a century, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been plagued by regional conflict and a deadly scramble for its vast natural resources. In fact, greed for Congo’s natural
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Oklahoma brand new death chamberFederal judge Joe Heaton considers challenge brought by newspapers including the Guardian who say Oklahoma acted unconstitutionally by limiting reporters' accessAllowing the state to filter what the press can see during an execution is akin to a "puppet theater" and08
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Kalynda Davis, Peter GardnerUp to 9 Australians now face the prospect of being executed by firing squads in China prisons for drug offences, following the arrests of Sydneysiders Kalynda Davis, 22, and Peter Gardner, 25 in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou.The pair were the latest to be Leggi05
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Five death row prisoners in Indonesia have been moved to separate cells and are believed to be at risk of imminent execution. Indonesia’s new government has said publicly that it plans to carry out the five executions this year and 20 more in 2015.On 28 November 2014, the Junior Attorney General
"Attempting to smuggle crystal methamphetamineinto the Indonesian island resort of Bali."A New Zealand man faces the death penalty after he was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle crystal methamphetamine into the Indonesian island resort of Bali, a customs official said Friday.Anthony04
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During the past 9 days at least 43 prisoners, including 2 women and a juvenile offender, have been hanged in Iran.The surge in executions follows 2 developments with high potential for prompting public expressions of anger against the regime: firstly, the failure of Iran nuclear talks in reaching04
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Execution in ChinaBut new supply may be hard to findChina says that on Jan. 1, in response to human rights concerns, it will cease transplanting organs taken from executed prisoners, although uncertainties linger over where a replacement supply will come from, state media reported today.China had04
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The Pakistan court that a month ago said Aasiya Noreen, a Christian, must die for the crime of insulting Islam, based its ruling on a legal technicality that it now wants to eliminate.The Lahore High Court, an appeals court for Pakistan's largest province, had decided Oct. 16 that it would let04
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He failed to give substantive assistance, 1 of 2 requirements to escape gallowsA 49-year-old drug courier has been given the death penalty after he failed to receive a certificate of substantive assistance from the public prosecutor that would have given the High Court the option to sentence him
Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has beheaded a man convicted of drug trafficking, amid rising concerns about the growing number of executions in the country.The man, identified as Nasser bin Amiq Ali al-Inzi, had been found guilty of attempting to smuggle "a large amount" of09
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Is Paul Goodwin mentally retarded or of borderline intelligence?The question is of utmost importance as the clock ticks toward Goodwin’s scheduled execution on Wednesday. He was sentenced to death in 1999 for the sexual assault and murder of his neighbor, 63-year-old Joan Crotts, in north St
Six people have been sentenced to death for an attack on a market in China's western Xinjiang province that killed 39 people in May.Attackers drove two cars into shoppers and threw bombs in the Urumqi attack.At the same hearing, two people were given the death penalty for an attack at a railway08
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China's top transplant official seems to have announced - once again - that the country will stop using the organs harvested from executed prisoners, and will from Jan. 1, 2015, onward, only use organs freely donated from regular citizens. At least, that's what the headlines state.If the promise08
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California brand new death chamberSome victims' families say it is time to restart executions in California after an 8-year moratorium - but others disagree.Campaigners in California are calling on the state's government to resume executions on America's biggest death row.More than 740 inmates
Mohammad Javad Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council, said that Iran is looking to end the death penalty for drug related cases, which he said account for 80% of the country’s executions. His comments followed statements by the head of Iran’s judiciary, who earlier said that the05
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UKIP: this rhetoric has repercussions. By Emma Burnell. Yesterday, I witnessed a horrible act of racism. At a bus stop, a well dressed and well spoken man started literally screaming in the faces of a family of tourists how much he hated foreigners, how they were freeloaders and how they should go
Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Wednesday executed a Syrian convicted of drug smuggling, bringing to 75 the number of locals and foreigners beheaded in the kingdom this year despite international concerns.The sentence against Ridwan Awad Mohammed Awad was carried out in the city of
Nevada murder cases in which prosecutors seek the death penalty can cost nearly twice as much as those with a lesser punishment, according to a state audit released Tuesday.A death penalty cases cost the public, on average, between $1.032 million and $1.307 million, according to the audit. In a04
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Lawmakers in Cameroon, which is battling to stop the advance of Nigerian Boko Haram militants on its territory, will vote in the coming days on whether to impose the death penalty on those found guilty of involvement in acts of terrorism.Opposition figures accused the government of seeking to use04
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Bussed in workers earn much less in Poland than they can here, but they are nonetheless being poorly paid. The union representing retail workers, the GMB, has presented an ASBO to Next for failing to make work pay for workers and for being an employer that does not face up to its social