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A step too far. In a self-parodic move The Sun last week advertised a date with ‘Rosie’ or ‘Kelly’ as a reward for the lucky winner of its Fantasy Football Dream Team competition: ‘Travel not included. Date will be at a location agreed with the Promoter. Choice of Page 3 Girl is subject to availability […]
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Corrections department has been busy with other issues, including questions over the early release of some inmatesNebraska's attorney general says the state's corrections department has been too busy dealing with other problems to focus on resolving drug shortages that have halted executions in26
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Consultation on reconciling criminal law with the Home Office definition of domestic violence opens. The Domestic Violence Law Reform Campaign celebrated a victory when the Government announced that it was opening a consultation on strengthening the law on domestic abuse. There is currently a gap
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Mothers being on marriage certificates is a small victory in the long journey to equality. The Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that he has asked the Home Office to look into adding the names of mothers to marriage certificates in England and Wales. Currently, mothers’ names are added
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'The Walls' Unit, Huntsville, TexasFor more than a decade, it was Michelle Lyons's job to observe the final moment of death row inmates -- but watching 278 executions didin't come without a cost.Early one morning in April, Michelle Lyons pulled up outside her daughter’s elementary school in23
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaA Saudi man who was convicted of murdering his mother was beheaded in the Gulf kingdom on Thursday, newspapers reported on Friday, quoting the interior ministry.Yehya bin Saad Al Shahrani was found guilty of shooting his mother Aisha many times with a machine gun at23
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The decision of America’s leading expert on lethal injection drugs to stop offering court testimony has left at least one state without a single witness to defend its execution procedures from legal challenges.The New Republic reported this week that Dr Mark Dershwitz, citing potential impacts to22
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Hamas militants prepared to execute a person suspected ofcollaborating with Israel on Friday in Gaza City. Ph: ReutersGAZA CITY — As many as 18 Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel were fatally shot in public on Friday, according to local news agencies and two witnesses, the largest22
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The sisters had lodged an appeal against the execution in the Mumbai High CourtA court in India has put on hold the execution of 2 sisters convicted of murdering children they kidnapped and forced to beg and steal, a lawyer said.Renuka Shinde, 45, and her step-sister Seema Gavit, 39, were20
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Germany says a German man has been sentenced to death in China after being convicted on 2 counts of premeditated killing.German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer said the sentence against the unnamed man was delivered Tuesday by a court in Xiamen.Schaefer said Wednesday the verdict can20
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The system in Ireland failed more than the 3,679 who gave Irish addresses inUK clinics. A staggering 70 women a week gaveIrish addresses when having anabortion in the UK last year. But the numbers don’t tell the whole story. On June 12, the UK’s Department of Health (DoH) released information
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Public execution in Mianeh, Aug. 18, 2014Iran Human Rights, August 18, 2014: One man was hanged publicly in the town of Mianeh, in the Iranian East-Azerbaijan province, reported the Iranian state media.According to the Mehr news agency the man was identified as Asghar Azizi, convicted of26
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Oklahoma Death ChamberOn April 29, 2014, Clayton Lockett was scheduled to die by lethal injection at the hands of the State of Oklahoma. Under a state law that requires public witnesses to all executions, 12 journalists gathered to observe his death.They never saw it.Before the scheduled26
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How – and why – hundreds of brave performers ventured beyond the footlights and into the war arena. ‘War, Women and Song’ celebrates the Lena Ashwell YMCA Concert Parties of the First World War when more than 600 performers signed up for a tour of duty with Ashwell between 1914 and 1919. They
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A man identified only as Soheil R., who reportedly killed his brother and cousin last winter and later his wife during a conjugal visit, was hanged in public in Sari, provincial capital of Mazandaran in northern Iran, on Sunday morning, 24 August 2014. The authorities did not provide details of his
China has executed eight militants from the restive Xinjiang province for "terrorist attacks," including three who masterminded a suicide attack in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 2013, killing three people and wounding 39 others.The executions took place after Supreme People's Court upheld their23
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(file photo)Iran Human Rights, August 21, 2014: One man was hanged in public in the city of Qazvin today. The prisoner who was identified as “A.N.” was convicted of murdering his 9 year old stepchild, reported the state run Iranian news agency Mehr.Another prisoner was hanged in the Motaheri22
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Join us for a mile or two, or ten, or any part of the 300 miles. Over 500 people gathered at Jarrow Town Hall on 16 August as campaigners set off on the People’s March for the NHS – a 300-mile walk to London, and which is carrying a petition in support of saving a […]
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The video appears to show an execution-stylekilling organized by an armed group.A shocking video showing an execution-style killing by an armed group at a football stadium in eastern Libya highlights the authorities’ failure to prevent parts of the country from descending into violence and21
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Austin Mitchell showed us why people hate politicians. By Johanna Baxter. Whilst I was out at the weekend campaigning in Hampstead and Kilburn to get the brilliant Tulip [Siddiq] elected,Austin Mitchell [Labour MP] picked up his poised pen and with one article brought shame to our PLP
A Saudi national convicted of murder was decapitated by the sword in the southwest of the Gulf kingdom on Tuesday, the interior ministry said.Wail al-Shehri, convicted of shooting dead Meshaal Assiri during an argument, was executed on Tuesday in Abha, capital of Assir province, the ministry said19
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The unemployed in their mid-60s will be the new so-called workshy scroungers. Pensioner families across the UK will suffer social security cuts worth £6.38bn a year by the time the government’s welfare reforms have taken full affect, the TUC warned ahead of a new report on the impact of social
In a sign that separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine are struggling with discord in the ranks, Donetsk separatists announced Monday they were setting up military tribunals and bringing in the death penalty.The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, or DNR, said it would bring in military
Public execution of 'collaborators' inGaza. (File photo)Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, continued with its executions of "collaborators", killing 4 more Palestinians suspected of spying for Israel.Masked Hamas militants fatally shot the Palestinians in the courtyard of a mosque in the26
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Public hanging in Borazjan, IranAugust 24, 2014A man was hanged in public in the southern city of Borazjan (Bushehr province) on Sunday, 24 August 2014, for reportedly killing two women, kidnapping and theft.The city's Islamic Revolution Court had issued the death sentence and Branch 11 of the
Islamic court-ordered amputation in Iran (file photo)NCRI - An Iranian man's four fingers were amputated in public in city of Abarkooh in southern Iran, a commander police in the southern province of Yazd has declared, state-run Tabnak website reported on Friday.Colonel Ahmad Gholamzadeh said the24
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British intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 have identified the man suspected of the horrific beheading of American journalist James Foley, according to UK media reports.The hooded man with an English accent is believed to be 23-year-old Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, known to fellow Islamic State
Nian BinNian Bin was sentenced to death four times, convicted of fatally poisoning two children in eastern China. Each time, he appealed and a higher court ordered another hearing. Then on Friday, judges declared Mr. Nian not guilty and freed him from death row, abruptly ending an eight-year ordeal22
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‘I firmly believe that greater responsiveness by this Council would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.’ Navi Pillay, whose term as UN Human Rights Commissioner is ending this month, has criticised the United Nations Security Council for its ineffectiveness on Syria and other intractable
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Georgia Death ChamberI am dropped off at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison as a witness to an execution. I am uncomfortable, but as a physician providing expert anesthesiology testimony in lethal injection cases, I feel compelled to see this for myself.The afternoon is hot and21
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Breaking the vicious circle. By Lucy Dixon. The double stigma faced by women who use drugs and are involved in prostitution means that they are a largely hidden group in the UK. New research argues that for those who wish to rebuild their lives, policy and services must address these issues
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Geek conventions have a bad reputation for being a generally white straight male dominated field -- but Nine Worlds is something entirely different.
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Fourth time lucky. A capacity crowd witnessed a stunning end to a sparkling tournament in Paris. After losing in the last three World Cup finals, England finally claimed the world title on 17 August for the first time since 1994. A full house of 22,000 at the Stade Jean-Bouin saw England beat
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Providing access to reproductive healthcare: a simple and cheap way to save women’s lives. Every day, 800 women die from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth. Worldwide, one woman dies every 11 minutes from an unsafe abortion. Teenage pregnancy is the number one cause of mortality for girls