Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); September 18, 2023: Ramezan Yavari and Mozafar Sanjarani who were sentenced to death for drug-related charges and an unidentified man sentenced to death for murder, were executed in Shiraz Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Shiraz Central Prison (Adel Abad) on 17 September. Their identities have been
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Former Virginia State Penitentiary chaplain Russ Ford, co-author of the book “Crossing the River Styx: The Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain,” can rightly be considered a victim of Virginia’s death penalty.Ford, however, did not die from having 2,200 volts of electricity sent through his body
The process of deciding whether or not the state will pursue the death penalty is not in any way a quick decision. You’re dealing with someone’s life on the line.Most state attorney’s offices have a committee that meets multiple times to go over the facts of the case before any decision is made
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — With just weeks left before his scheduled execution, Oklahoma death row inmate Anthony Sanchez took the unusual step of firing his attorneys and skipping a clemency hearing that many viewed as the last chance to spare his life.Sanchez's decision, and his relationship with an
Oklahoma has been responsible for nearly a quarter of all executions in the country since resuming the death penalty in 2021. Only Texas, which put 10 people to death in that same period, has executed more.Oklahoma plans to put Anthony Sanchez to death next week after a federal judge denied a
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); September 14, 2023: Ali Mansour Khakzad, a man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was executed in Boroujerd Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Boroujerd Prison in Lorestan province on 13 September. His
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MEDICAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS are refusing to sell their products for use in lethal injection, The Intercept has learned. The stance could further hinder states’ ability to carry out death sentences at a time when similar restrictions have limited access to drugs.The four companies that have
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); September 11, 2023: Mohsen and Saeed Sanjarani, two Baluch men sentenced to death in a joint drug case, have been executed in Birjand Central Prison.According to Hal Vash, two Baluch men were executed in Birjand Central Prison in South Khorsasan on 10 September. Their
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Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko is as complicit in crimes of aggression against Ukraine as Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is, the European Parliament asserted in a resolution adopted on Sept. 13.The resolution, based on a report by MEP Petras Austrevičius from Lithuania, was adopted
Anthony “Jack” Sully, 79, died of natural causes at a medical facility outside of the San Quentin Rehabilitation CenterSAN QUENTIN, Calif. — A former Peninsula police officer convicted of murdering six people in his Burlingame warehouse in the early 1980s died of natural causes last week
A New York man who was convicted 47 years ago of a rape he didn’t commit was freed this week after new DNA testing proved his innocence and pointed to another suspect who has now confessed to the crime, authorities said.Leonard Mack was found guilty of rape and two counts of criminal possession
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Snap checkpoints. Internet disruptions. University purges.Iran's theocracy is trying hard to both ignore the upcoming anniversary of nationwide protests over the country's mandatory headscarf law and tamp down on any possibility of more unrest.Yet the Sept. 16 death of
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Antoinette Frank, who was convicted of a triple-murder in 1995, hopes details about her traumatic history of abuse could ultimately spare her lifeThe last woman on Louisiana’s death row is hoping that details about her traumatic history of abuse could ultimately spare her life.Next month
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The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects us from “cruel and unusual punishment” by the government.This seemingly simple language raises a host of complicated questions. “Cruel” by what standard? “Unusual” in what sense? Does this provision have a fixed meaning? Or does its meaning change
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AMMAN — The Court of Cassation has upheld a December 2022 Criminal Court ruling sentencing a man to death and a second man to 20 years in prison after convicting them of murdering their neighbour in the Jordan Valley in March 2020.The court declared the defendant guilty of shooting the victim
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Sept 14 (Reuters) - Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Thursday his country rejects the participation of its citizens as mercenaries in war, contradicting a statement by Cuba's ambassador in Moscow hours earlier saying his government did not oppose the legal participation of its
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The Death of Ricky Ray RectorRicky Ray Rector grew up in Conway, Arkansas, just an hour’s drive from Bill Clinton’s own hometown of Hot Springs. From the very earliest days of his life, Ricky was considered different and strange. He had few friends, and while other children were out running
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Jedidiah Isaac Murphy, an observant halachic Jew, is due to be put to death next month in a case described by an expert as 'legally warped'Some time during the afternoon of October 10, Jedidiah Isaac Murphy is set to begin his final journey.Bound in shackles, he will be driven 45 miles in a
Saudi Arabia's defence ministry has executed two military personnel who were accused of committing treason among other offences, the state news agency (SPA) said on Thursday. The two officers, a pilot and a sergeant major, were arrested in 2017 and sentenced to death on charges of treason and not
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); September 9, 2023: At least three men including a Baluch minority, were executed for murder charges in Zahedan Central Prison.According to Hal Vash, at least three men were executed in Zahedan Central Prison on 9 September. One of the men’s identities has been reported
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KUALA LUMPUR: The Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (Adpan) has called for the centralisation of the review of death sentences and imprisonment for natural life in order to establish uniformity and efficiency.It said there was a need for these hearings to be centralised and heard by an appropriate
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); September 8, 2023: State media have reported the execution of a man only named as Saeed for murder charges in Tabriz Central Prison.According to Rokna, a man was executed in Tabriz Central Prison. The exact date of the execution has not been specified and his identity
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A top military court delivered a unanimous decision to uphold the death penalty conviction of ex-Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people and wounded dozens of others at then-Fort Hood, Texas.On Nov. 5, 2009, Hasan walked into a readiness processing center and opened fire with a semi-automatic
Yu Huaying, a woman who abducted and trafficked 11 children in the 1990s for financial gain, was sentenced to death by a court in Guizhou province on Monday.Yu, a native of Yunan province, was found to have sought illicit benefits by abducting and trafficking the children from Chongqing and
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BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA: The state of Alabama is seeking to execute Toforest Johnson despite an outcry from prosecutors, investigators, and jury, who contend that he may not have committed the crime for which he was convicted.Johnson, 49, was sentenced to death in 1998 for the execution-style
TALLAHASSEE — A federal judge Friday refused to block the scheduled Oct. 3 execution of Florida inmate Michael Duane Zack, rejecting arguments that the convicted murderer’s due-process rights were violated because of a flawed clemency process.U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle issued a six-page
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); September 13, 2023: Abdolnaser Ghaljayi, a Baluch man executed for drug-related charges in Birjand Central Prison is the 500th recorded execution in Iran in 2023.According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Birjand Central Prison in South Khorsasan on 10
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Should Payton Gendron be executed for his racist massacre of 10 Black people last year at a Buffalo supermarket?Should he be strapped to a gurney and a fatal chemical cocktail pumped into his veins, shutting down his heart? Or should he spend the remainder of his life behind bars with no
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In most states, a death sentence may only be imposed by a jury in unanimous agreement. But in two recent cases, defendants now face death sentences despite the objections of jurors.In Missouri, a judge imposed a death sentence in Ian McCarthy’s case after the jury deadlocked in the penalty phase
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YAMAGUCHI -- A man accused of taking knives on a shinkansen bullet train bound for Osaka pleaded guilty and said he "wanted to be executed after randomly killing people " during the first hearing of his trial on Sept. 13.Shohei Takeuchi, 27, an unemployed man with no fixed address, was indicted
It has been a year since Mahsa Amini died in the custody of the morality police. Since then, at least 537 people, including 71 children and teenagers, have been killed by the repressive forces of the Islamic Republic. Tens of thousands of people have tasted prison life and torture.Senior
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Nearly a year after mass protests erupted in Iran, the country’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, defended his government’s response to the demonstrations in an interview with NBC News, and warned that those who try to sow instability in the Islamic Republic would pay a “big cost.”In his first interview
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In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, novelist John Grisham recounts the flawed science that led to the conviction of Robert Roberson and the inadequate legal process that has maintained that conviction. Mr. Roberson was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old
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Anyone found to have insulted Islam or Islamic figures in Pakistan can be handed the death penaltyA Christian couple in Pakistan has reportedly been arrested after torn pages of the Quran were found on the roof of their house.Shaukat Masih and his wife, Kiran Masih, are now facing blasphemy