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In 2018, 162 death penalty verdicts were pronounced by Sessions Courts, the highest since the turn of the millennium, according to a report.
The trend dipped slightly in 2014 and began climbing, reaching a record high in 2018.
The report, titled 'Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics Report 2018', also notes that the Supreme Court moved
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Several MEPs say Brussels should link the abolition of the death penalty in African and other states with a landmark cooperation agreement currently being thrashed out between the EU and Africa.The Cotonou Partnership Agreement between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries is due to
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Cervical cancer currently claims two lives every day in the UK.Almost half of women (44.2 per cent) questioned in a recent survey were unaware what a cervix is, and were unable to correctly identify it as the neck of the womb (uterus).And one in six could not name a single function of the04
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‘UK fashion retailers are failing to commit to reduce their environmental impact’.In autumn 2018 the Environmental Audit Committee wrote to sixteen leading UK fashion retailers, among them M&S, ASOS and Boohoo, asking what they were doing to reduce the environmental and social impact of theThe judge ordered the state to keep the prison chaplain out of the death chamber during Ray’s execution MONTGOMERY, Alabama: A federal judge on Friday ruled that a Muslim inmate’s scheduled lethal injection can proceed next week without an imam present but said Alabama must keep a Christian
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Feb
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A teacher will be hanged next month after raping a girl in India so violently that she had to have her intestines realigned. Mahendra Singh Gond is set to become the first person executed since a change in the law last year which introduced the death penalty for child rapists. The attacker
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Feb
2019
It has been nearly 10 years since the National Academy of Sciences sounded the alarm about the shortcomings of forensics. Since then, there have been countless follow-up studies, state and national commissions, reports, panels and — to underscore the conclusions those entities reached — a
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2019
The West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Police on Friday recaptured a 35-year-old French national and drug smuggling suspect identified as Dorfin Felix, who had recently escaped from NTB Police custody.NTB Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Komang Suartana said the officers had recaptured Felix on the border
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Girls worry about sexual harassment ‘every day’.A new study has highlighted the prevalence of misogyny in young people’s everyday lives.It found that three quarters of young people have been exposed to negative or offensive attitudes towards women in the last six months and 65 per cent of31
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Officials said her case could not be settled with “blood money”A Filipina domestic worker has been executed in Saudi Arabia after she was found guilty of murder, the Asian nation’s Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has said.The 39-year-old woman was sentenced to death after the Saudi Supreme
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Texas inmate executed for Houston officer's death during adult bookstore robberyA 61-year-old Texas inmate was executed Wednesday evening for killing a Houston police officer more than 3 decades ago.Robert Jennings received lethal injection for the July 1988 fatal shooting of Officer Elston
(Reuters) - After nearly 30 years on death row, Robert Mitchell Jennings is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday for killing a police officer during a botched robbery.His latest appeal was rejected this week by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where he argued that
Turkey will investigate the deportation of an Egyptian facing execution in Cairo over a car bomb and has suspended eight policemen involved, the Istanbul governor’s office said on Wednesday.Mohamed Abdelhafiz Ahmed Hussein, whom the Muslim Brotherhood movement identifies as a member, was among 28
Washington (AFP) - The United States urged other countries Monday to bring home hundreds of Islamic State fighters captured in Syria, a delicate issue for allies such as France and Britain as President Donald Trump withdraws troops.Washington drew a line on the jihadists two days before foreign
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Feb
2019
The Feminist UN Campaign has released its second-year report card on Secretary-General António Guterres.In 2017, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), on behalf of the Feminist UN Campaign, released a report, Toward a More Feminist United Nations, articulating a broad vision04
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As Ohio struggles to come up with an execution protocol that doesn’t raise cruelty concerns, many are asking an obvious question: Why not use fentanyl, the narcotic that tragically has pushed thousands of Ohioans through the euphoria they were seeking and into the death they likely weren’t?As
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Feb
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Iran Human Rights (IHR); February 1, 2019: Two prisoners were executed secretly last Wednesday at Rajai Shahr Prison, Karaj city.According to IHR sources, two prisoners were executed on the morning of Wednesday, January 30, at Rajai Shahr prison. IHR could not yet identify them by name.“Probably
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2019
Alexanda Kotey, 35, and El Shafee Elsheikh, 30, were henchmen of Jihadi John. The pair, who are held in Syria, are expect to be transferred to US custody soon, but it is feared the men could be freed by ISIS supporters or let go by captors.The FBI wants to put two British terrorists who are
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2019
Authorities in Saudi Arabia have confirmed that its public prosecutor is no longer recommending the death penalty for female activist Israa al-Ghomgham, who has been held since 2015 after participating in peaceful anti-government protests.The Saudi Arabian embassy in London confirmed the shift in
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Egypt’s cabinet has approved a draft law that would see drug dealers sentenced to death, Al-Masry Al-Youm has reported.The law, which was presented to the cabinet yesterday, was part of a broader bill to combat the spread of narcotics in the country and drugs trafficking.The draft amendment
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Annihilating drug peddlers and abusers have been handed over to the armed forces, said Sri Lanka’s president.President Maithripala Sirisena made this shocking statement at a state sponsored drug abuse prevention programme in the southern town of Matara.“I will implement the death penalty, soon,”
Pregnancy and maternity discrimination has absolutely no place in a fair and decent economy.The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has launched a consultation seeking views on extending redundancy protection for women and new parents.This comes after research29
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Along with the recommendations the Council is also calling on everyone to act differently.The National Advisory Council on Women and Girls (NACWG) was established in 2017 to advise Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on what was needed to tackle gender inequality in Scotland.Over theLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The last of Arkansas’ lethal injection drugs expired on Thursday, and legislators in the coming weeks are expected to consider changes to state law that officials say they hope will allow them to resume executions nearly two years after the state put four men to death
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is ready to execute five drug convicts and end its 42-year capital punishment moratorium once President Maithripala Sirisena signs the death warrants and a hangman is appointed, officials said Tuesday.Sirisena announced last year a tougher line on spiralling narcotics-related
Over 60 years ago, Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that “[t]he basic concept underlying the Eighth Amendment is nothing less than the dignity of man. While the State has the power to punish, the Amendment stands to assure that this power be exercised within the limits of civilized
“We’re a lot closer to change than people realize.”After it reached its peak both in its use and popular support in the 1990s, the frequency of the death penalty has fallen. Drug manufacturers have stopped supplying their products to states that want to use them in executions, while public
Ronald Ryan, the last person hanged in Australia, was executed 50 years ago on February 3, 1967.His death sentence was handed down after he was found guilty of shooting and killing warder George Hodson during an escape from Melbourne's Pentridge Prison in 1965.First published in the Sydney
A teenage couple have been caned in Indonesia for behaving affectionately in public.Photos and video footage show the young girl, aged 18, being punished in the Banda Aceh, the capital of the Aceh province.She can be sees being led onto a stage and flogged by a masked man holding a long
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Join the campaign to tackle negative gender stereotypes and champion diversity.It is estimated that only 25 per cent of people in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics – STEM – sector are women.This a waste of both talent and opportunity.The jobs of the future will require31
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A woman was hanged on Wednesday, January 30, 2019, in Nowshahr Prison, in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran.The woman identified only as M.A, was convicted of “killing her husband.”She had spent 6 years on death row.The woman is the 87th woman who is executed under Hassan Rouhani, the
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Oklahoma's death row houses 18 inmates who have exhausted their legal appeals, meaning they're eligible for execution. When — or whether — any of those executions occurs, however, is an open question.The state hasn't carried out an execution since January 2015 — 4 years ago — and officials have
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Greater awareness of online child sexual abuse using live-streaming apps is needed.A new study by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has revealed shocking statistics on children being groomed, coerced and blackmailed into live-streaming their own sexual abuse over webcams, tablets and mobile29
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Pakistan‘s supreme court has upheld its decision to acquit Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who spent eight years on death row over blasphemy charges. Ms Bibi’s case became a totemic cause for fundamentalist preachers in Pakistan, after she was accused of insulting the prophet Muhammad during an