A bill to repeal the death penalty in Pennsylvania has passed a committee in the commonwealth’s House of Representatives. The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee voted 15-10 in favor of HB 999 on October 31, 2023. That vote is the first step toward abolishing the death penalty in Pennsylvania, which has had a formal moratorium on executions since 2015 and has not executed
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Louisiana law allows a person in prison to file a petition to challenge their conviction or sentence on the basis of claims like innocence, police or prosecutorial misconduct, and ineffective assistance of counsel. State law also requires that a panel of three state appellate judges must review
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 6, 2023: Ghasem Abasteh, a Kurdish-Sunni political prisoner sentenced to death without due process or a fair trial for charges of moharebeh (enmity against god) and efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth) through “armed resistance and membership in a Salafi jihadi
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 3, 2023: Seven prisoners, most of whom were on death row for murder, were executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison on 1st November. IHRNGO previously reported the execution of two other men including an Afghan national at the prison that day. With two months still
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Pennsylvania nurse is accused of killing 4 patients, injuring others with high doses of insulinA registered nurse in Pennsylvania faces charges she administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients — including a 104-year-old — at health care facilities over the past
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When I served on Brent Brewer’s jury in 2009, I believed in doing my civic duty to decide the case impartially. After I heard all the evidence, I was convinced that Brent did not act with premeditation and did not intend to kill the victim. It seemed to me that he was trying to steal a truck and
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Last month, a state judge in Baton Rouge ordered the Louisiana Board of Pardons to hire a fresh slate of lawyers to handle a massive stack of clemency bids from death row.The judge, Richard “Chip” Moore, found that Attorney General Jeff Landry, now governor-elect, was conflicted when he canned
Wisezah Datawn Buckman was sentenced to death on Thursday after a Dare County Superior Court jury recommended the convicted murderer receive that punishment for his role in the slaying of 4 prison employees during a failed escape attempt at Pasquotank Correctional Institution in October 2017.The
A divided Alabama Supreme Court said the state can execute an inmate with nitrogen gas, a method that has not previously been used carry out a death sentence.The all-Republican court in a 6-2 decision Wednesday granted the state attorney general's request for an execution warrant for Kenneth
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In August 2023, Alabama released the first-ever execution protocol for nitrogen hypoxia, an untested execution method in which prisoners will be put to death by suffocation as they are forced to breathe pure nitrogen gas. Alabama’s heavily redacted protocol provides that prisoners will be fitted
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On October 30, 2023, the United States Supreme Court denied Texas death-sentenced prisoner Brent Brewer’s petition for certiorari and clearing the way for his scheduled execution on November 9th. Mr. Brewer’s attorneys argue that unreliable “future dangerousness” junk science testimony from a
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A new fact has come to light involving the retrial of Hakamada Iwao, who has been sentenced to death but has been pleading innocent for a murder case that occurred more than half a century ago.NHK has learned that Murayama Hiroaki, who was a presiding judge at the Shizuoka District Court in 2014
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Amnesty International has urged Iranian authorities to immediately quash the conviction and death sentence against Reza Razaei, a man accused of involvement in the killing of a security agent during nationwide protests last year.“If charged with a recognizable criminal offence, proceedings must
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A ruling Thursday by the Alabama Supreme Court moved the state closer to executing an inmate in a way no state has ever done.Alabama’s nitrogen hypoxia method, five years in the making, would use a gas mask to cause death. It is an alternative to the state’s standard method, lethal
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- For the first time since Gallup started asking about the fairness of the death penalty's application in the U.S. -- a trend that dates back to 2000 -- more Americans say it is applied unfairly (50%) than fairly (47%). This represents a five-point increase in the percentage who
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 2, 2023: Branch 5 of the Tehran Criminal Court has sentenced Leila Kholghi Sakachayi and Abolfazl Barat Vakili to hanging for adultery charges. Branch 12 of the Tehran Criminal Court has also sentenced another woman, Mitra to death for the same charges and the
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A Madison County jury on Friday sentenced to death a man who admitted to shooting and killing an on-duty Huntsville police officer. Billy Clardy III was 48 years old when LaJeromeny Brown shot him three times on Dec. 6, 2019, during an undercover drug operation in north Huntsville.“I know, in so
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The Alabama Supreme Court has granted the state’s request to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia, according to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.Smith was twice convicted by juries for the murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett in her home in Colbert County in 1988
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The man sentenced to death for the mass shooting at a Squirrel Hill synagogue that killed 11 people is seeking a new trial.Robert Bowers, 51, who was convicted over the summer of 63 counts for the Oct. 27, 2018, attack at the Tree of Life synagogue at Wilkins and Shady avenues, filed the motion
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Execution of Emmanuel Littlejohn Stayed in Oklahoma Before November 2, 2023Emmanuel Littlejohn was scheduled to be executed at 10 a.m. local time on Thursday, November 2, 2023. The execution, which would have taken place inside the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); October 31, 2023: Jalil Nutizehi, a Baluch man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was executed in an Isfahan prison.According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in an unspecified Isfahan prison on 30 October. His identity has been established as
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By April 1990, 19-year-old Brent Brewer was in the midst of a full-blown crisis. A few weeks earlier, he’d been released from a hospital in Texas, where he’d been involuntarily committed for several months after his grandmother, with whom he was living, found a suicide note he’d written. In the
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This week, federal prosecutors said they won’t seek the death penalty against the man charged in the kidnapping and killing of 2-year-old, Wynter Smith.Defense Attorney, Sarissa Montague, shared how rare it is for someone in Michigan to face the execution chamber.Montague said the death penalty
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MORGAN COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — The State of Alabama says it will be seeking the death penalty against a man facing multiple capital murder charges for a 2020 shooting in Danville.Carson Peters was indicted in August 2021 on four counts of capital murder and one count of first-degree assault in
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KUALA LUMPUR: The first case to review a sentence after abolishing the mandatory death penalty and life imprisonment will be heard in the Apex court on Nov 14.Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reforms) Ramkarpal Singh said the case under the Revision of
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New information is coming to light in the case of a Dothan woman accused of putting her baby in a trash compactor in the heat of August.Jakayla Williams, 18, is charged with one count of Capital Murder. Police arrested Williams in late August after investigators said she threw her newborn baby in
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); November 3, 2023: Shamsollah Banani, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Ahar Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Ahar Prison on 29 October. His identity has been established as
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The death penalty in South Carolina is on hold for the next few months.According to a court order, a lawsuit from four condemned prisoners argues that electrocution and the firing squad are unconstitutional methods of execution and the denial of the right to choose between
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South Carolina’s highest court apparently is not ready to allow the state to restart executions after more than 12 years until they hear more arguments about newly obtained lethal injection drugs as well as a recently added firing squad and the old electric chair.The state Supreme Court set a
TEHRAN, Iran -- An Iranian court has sentenced a woman to death for adultery, state media said.A report by the IRAN newspaper on Wednesday said the woman worked as a trainer in a gym for females.It said her husband contacted police in 2022 when he found her with another man at their home. The
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“Mr. Murdaugh’s right to have his appeal heard by an impartial judge will be violated if Judge Newman proceeds to hear his motion for a new trial,” a new motion says.As Alex Murdaugh’s legal team pushes for a new murder trial, they have a bold request for the South Carolina Supreme Court: ban
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Knox County judge has rejected a bid to vacate the death sentence of Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee and the youngest American woman to be sentenced to death since 1972.Pike and two others were convicted in the brutal murder of 19-year-old
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In the annals of Japan's criminal justice system, few cases have captured the nation's attention and stirred global outrage as much as that of Iwao Hakamada. His story is a tragic tale of wrongful conviction, decades spent on death row, and an ongoing fight for justice. Circumstantial
Casey McWhorter is scheduled to be the 1st man from Marshall County to die by execution.McWhorter, now 49 years old, was sentenced to the death penalty in 1994, following the 1993 murder of Edward Lee Williams.Earlier this month, Governor Kay Ivey set a 30-hour time frame for McWhorter’s