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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge has extended a months-long moratorium on executions in Ohio into next year as questions mount about the effectiveness of a new, two-drug combination being used to carry out the death penalty.The ruling by federal judge Gregory Frost will delay executions scheduled for September, October
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Beirut: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) has crushed a pocket of resistance to its control in eastern Syria, crucifying two people and executing 23 others in the past five days, a monitoring group said on Monday.The insurgents, who are also making rapid advances in Iraq, are11
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A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put her in a small hole in the ground. When residents gathered, the fighters told them to carry out
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NCRI - An Iranian juvenile offender along with his mother and three other prisoners were hanged on Saturday (August 9, 2014) in a prison in the south-eastern city of Zahedan. 20-year-old Osman Dahmardeh was 17 at the time of his arrest.The reports received identified the other three men executed09
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NEW DELHI: The Gauhati high court has stayed the execution of condemned prisoner Holiram Bordoloi on his petition seeking commutation of death penalty to life imprisonment on the ground that there had been inordinate and inexplicable delay on the President's part to decide on his mercy plea
The Missouri Supreme Court has canceled an execution for 1 death row inmate and scheduled a different man to be put to death next month.The court on Thursday canceled the Sept. 10 execution for Leon Taylor, who was convicted in the 1994 killing of suburban Kansas City gas station attendant Robert08
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China: A convicted drug trafficker is being led to anearby lethal-injection van, where he will be executed.XIANNING, Hubei, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- A court in central China's Hubei Province on Thursday rejected the appeal by former mining tycoon Liu Han, sentenced to death in May.Liu Han, his brother
Original Execution Chamber, Electric Chair and Lethal Injection.Now UnusedConference Room in the New Jersey State Prison. New Jersey, 2011.For the last three years, photographer Emily Kinni has been chronicling these post-death-penalty spaces. What were
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Employment tribunal fees ‘have been a huge victory for Britain’s worst bosses’. Alison Johnstone, Green MSP for Lothian and a member of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood’s economy committee, has secured a pledge from Scottish ministers that they will put pressure on the UK government and protest
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Circulate a revised note calling for more gender sensitive language in all UN documents. We the undersigned – victims and survivors of prostitution, women’s groups representing marginalized communities of caste, class and ethnicity, and anti-trafficking organizations representing those trapped in
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Former Labour MP Meg Hillier has called for separate lanes for slower cyclists to "pootle" in.
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An exhibition showing how objects themselves can be revolutionary. This summer the V&A is presenting its first exhibition exploring objects of art and design from around the world that have been created by grassroots social movements as tools of social change. Disobedient Objects is about
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaRiyadh: Saudi authorities beheaded a national on Monday after he was convicted of killing his wife with an axe in front of their daughter, the interior ministry announced.Mahdi Al Ghabari hit his wife, Shaqraa Al Bahri, several times on her neck with
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About 20 South Korean nationals are death row inmates in China, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Declining to give the exact number, the ministry said the prisoners had been convicted of felonies, including drug offenses and murder. "We can't give the exact figure because of11
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Ordinary people can make things change; don’t believe that politics is something that other people take part in. It’s really hard to passively watch the rapid dismantling, privatisation and destruction of the NHS. First we had the Health and Social Care Act, then Section 75 and more recently Clause
Indiana Death ChamberINDIANAPOLIS – With the possibility of an execution occurring yet this year, Indiana officials are standing by their death penalty process, despite controversies over prolonged lethal injections in other states.Doug Garrison, chief communications officer for the Indiana
South Korean authorities reportedly made some efforts to prevent execution on humanitarian groundsChina has executed a South Korean man for trafficking drugs, only 1 day after 2 South Koreans were executed for the same charge on Aug. 6.The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on08
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CAIRO — In a rare official rebuke, Egypt’s highest Muslim religious authority refused to approve death sentences imposed by a court on senior leaders of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, saying that the case lacked evidence, court officials said on Thursday.The opinion issued by the grand mufti of08
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New report shows that music videos feed sexism and racism and supports call for age ratings. As songs with highly sexualised and racialised music videos including Calvin Harris’ ‘Summer’ and Basement Jaxx’ ‘Never Say Never’ fill the summer charts, a new briefing on the sexist and racist content of
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Lancashire grandmas and mums occupy proposed fracking field. At 5am this morning a team of around 25 grandmothers, mothers and others from the Blackpool area set up a protection camp in a field earmarked for development by shale gas industry operators Cuadrilla. They said that they had, over the
Rick Perry’s Cameron Todd Willingham problem won’t go away. In fact, it got worse this week.Until recently, much of the outrage over the killing of Willingham — the convicted murderer-arsonist who was very likely innocent but executed by Texas anyway in 2004 — has been over the state’s and Gov06
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Defense attorneys for the likely 1st ex-CIA captive to get a death-penalty trial at Guantanamo want to know how the U.S. military would execute him, if convicted.Defense attorneys for the likely 1st ex-CIA captive to get a death-penalty trial at Guantanamo asked a war court judge Tuesday to order06
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Currently only two official nominees are women. The creation of the new EU Commission is likely to be delayed after member states continue to fail to nominate enough women. The member states are not heeding to Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s request for at least 9 of the 28 Commissioners
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Execution dates have been set for 3 Oklahoma death-row inmates even as state officials continue to investigate what went wrong during a botched execution in April.Death row inmates Charles Frederick Warner, Richard Eugene Glossip and John Marion Grant are scheduled to die by lethal injection11
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Kenya’s Republican Liberty Party wants to impose the death penalty for homosexuality and has put forward a bill that would see foreign gays and lesbians in the country stoned to death.The party’s draft Anti-Homosexuality Bill would also see gay and lesbian Kenyans jailed for life and stoned to11
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‘Young women experience psychological distress when being sexually objectified.’ A new study published in the academic journal Sex Roles has advocated psychological support for women facing sexual objectification. But it has its priorities all wrong. The study, led by University of Tennessee
D. TsarnaevBOSTON — Citing “an overwhelmingly massive and prejudicial storm of media coverage” here, lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused in last year’sbombings at the Boston Marathon, pressed their case this week for moving his trial to Washington.In papers filed here in federal court, Judy08
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Against the madness of mutually assured destruction. By Rebecca Johnson and Jaine Rose. Rolling out a seven-mile knitted pink peace scarf between the Atomic Weapons Establishment complexes at Aldermaston and Burghfield on Nagasaki Day may sound crazy. It isn’t as insane as letting the UK government
SHIJIAZHUANG, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- A court in north China on Thursday handed down death penalties to five people who faked fatal coal mine accidents to claim compensation.The case is eerily similar to the plot of the movie "Blind Shaft," which won the Silver Bear award at 2003 Berlin Film08
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Speakers include Joan Bakewell, Taslina Nasrim, Jo Glanville, Gululai Ismail and Maryam Namazie. Activists and defenders of freedom of thought and expression are in Oxford this weekend for the World Humanist Congress, hosted by the British Humanist Association (BHA). This congress is held every
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In January, as the date of Christopher Sepulvado’s execution approached, the Louisiana Department of Corrections did not have the drugs it needed to carry out his death sentence.So the state turned to a supplier that uses hydromorphone to relieve patients’ suffering, not to kill them: Lake Charles
August 5, 2014: An Emirati sentenced to death in Ras Al Khaimah escaped execution after blood money for the victim’s family was paid by a government charity organisation in response to an article in the Arabic language daily 'Al Bayan', the paper said.The man and his accomplice had been convicted06
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2 South Koreans were executed in China on Wednesday for smuggling and trading drugs in the country despite Seoul's repeated pleas for clemency, a government source said Wednesday.A district court in China's Jilin province, which borders North Korea, ordered the execution of the 2 South Korean05
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaRiyadh: A Saudi man was beheaded on Tuesday for torturing and beating his two-year-old boy to death, the interior ministry said.Maqbul Bin Madi Al Sharari hit his son Mohammad “repeatedly with a cane on the back of his head and the rest
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