Texas’ preferred method for executing criminals is lethal injection with pentobarbital. The whole process has the look and feel of a medical procedure. There are protocols, medical equipment, pharmaceuticals and people in white coats. But don’t be fooled: This is not the practice of medicine.
This facade of professionalism is no accident. It becomes easier to execute people when
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Lack of accountability in security programme fuels allegations that UK taxpayers are unknowingly complicit in rights abusesMPs have expressed concern over the government’s flagship £1.28bn global security programme, saying a lack of transparency and accountability lends weight to allegations from
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The Sri Lankan president yesterday reiterated his pledge to push ahead with implementation of the death penalty for those convicted of drug trafficking, despite widespread criticism over the decision. Meeting with law enforcement officials at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday, amid the
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Iran’s currency has lost 65 percent of its value in 2018 amid US sanctions, with strong demand for dollars and gold coins on unofficial marketFast-track courts set up in Iran to fight economic crime have jailed 30 men for as long as 20 years each, the judiciary said on Sunday, as the country
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NASHVILLE – David Earl Miller didn't care that I came to see him die.He didn't care if anyone heard his last words. He didn't mention Lee Standifer, the woman he beat and stabbed to death a generation ago, didn't bother to apologize — even when he got a second chance to speak as all of us in the
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Iran Human Rights (IHR); December 8, 2018: A prisoner was hanged at Bandar Abbas Central Prison on murder charges last Tuesday.According to the IHR sources, Jamshid Agha-Rahimi was hanged on the morning of December 4, 2018, at Bandar Abbas Central Prison.“Jamshid was from Hajiabad city and was
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent who confessed to shooting four women in the head and leaving their bodies on rural Texas roadsides has been indicted on a capital murder charge, a prosecutor said Wednesday.A grand jury decided to upgrade the charge against Juan David Ortiz, Webb County District
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The Nebraska Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday that condemned killer Nikko Jenkins' convictions should be overturned because of his severe mental illness.Douglas County Public Defender Tom Riley said the lower court erred when ruling that Jenkins was competent to stand trial, competent to
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HISAR: A (court) on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing his sister to protect the “honour” of the family. The court had convicted him six days ago and declared the case as ‘rarest of rare’.This is not the first honour killing case in where has been awarded. In the Manoj-Babli case, a
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Children are among those being executed in South Sudan, in an “extremely disturbing” escalation of the state’s use of the death penalty, according to Amnesty International.This year, seven people, including one child, were hanged, the highest number since the country gained independence in 2011
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“These figures are alarming.”The results of YouGov survey just published, asking around 4,000 British people about their attitudes to rape and sexual violence, has shown that far too many people are still unsure what is actually rape.A third (33 per cent) of those surveyed said they thoughtThis totally ignores human rights, and the fact that executing dealers does not stop drug cartels.Citing the number of people dying from fentanyl overdoses, President Donald Trump on Wednesday gleefully tweeted his support for China to start executing drug dealers.“One of the very exciting things
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Victims described their physical pain and psychological trauma while defense attorneys detailed their client's history of mental illness Monday to a jury deliberating a sentence for the man who drove his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally.James
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Offering accommodation in return for sex is a criminal offence.A campaign launched recently by Housing Women Cymru aims to raise awareness and end the offering of accommodation or reduced rent in return for sex or sexual acts.Shelter Cymru’s survey of private tenants carried out by YouGov in10
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A high school has issued an apology after students were given a test asking them if the Parkland shooting suspect should die.Coral Glades High School in Coral Springs, Florida, issued an apology on Friday after it had received backlash over a quiz that asked students if Nikolas Cruz deserved the
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NASHVILLE – David Earl Miller didn't care that I came to see him die.He didn't care if anyone heard his last words. He didn't mention Lee Standifer, the woman he beat and stabbed to death a generation ago, didn't bother to apologize — even when he got a second chance to speak as all of us in the
Iran Human Rights (December 7, 2018): Milad Azimi, a juvenile offender who allegedly committed a murder at the age of 17, was forgiven by the plaintiffs on Thursday, December 6, 2018.Milad's death sentence was upheld by the Iranian Supreme Court a few months ago. The plaintiff had set a diyeh
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The couple could face the death penalty for the alleged torture, slaying of the 10-year-old boyA judge unsealed grand jury transcripts earlier this week in a case about the death of a 10-year-old boy whose parents allegedly tortured and killed him after he came out.Earlier this year, Anthony
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An Australian kickboxer convicted of the murder of a Hells Angels drug trafficker is expected to be released from jail today, despite an ongoing appeal.Antonio Bagnato was convicted of the 2015 murder of Hells Angels boss Wayne Schneider and sentenced in February last year to the death
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The man accused of killing a transgender teen in Texas County in 2017 will be tried in Greene County.Andrew Vrba, 19, is charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and abandonment of a corpse, that of 17-year-old Ally Steinfeld, who identified as a male-to-female transgender
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Death row inmate David Earl Miller was pronounced dead at 7:25 p.m. CDT on Thursday after Tennessee prison officials electrocuted him with the electric chair. He was 61.He is the third person executed this year and was the longest-serving inmate on Tennessee's death row. Miller was sentenced to
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Nashville, Tenn., Dec 6, 2018 / 01:43 pm (CNA).- Hours before David Miller is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee’s electric chair, the state’s governor has rejected Miller’s request that his sentence be commuted to life in prison.Gov. Bill Haslam released a one-sentence statement Dec. 6
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2 men convicted of drug trafficking have escaped the gallows, after the Court of Appeal found them not guilty and acquitted them in a split 2-1 decision.Mohamed Affandi Rosli and Mohamad Fadzli Ahmad had appealed against their convictions in the High Court — Affandi for trafficking 132.82g of
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For much of the hour, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh had been quietly shifting his weight in his seat, resting cheek against palm and looking down at the lawyers as they argued. Finally, he spoke, asking D. John Sauer, the state solicitor of Missouri, “Are you saying that even if the method creates
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A man linked to a 1993 murder through DNA evidence is scheduled to be the last inmate executed by the state of Texas in 2018.Alvin Braziel Jr., 43, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday at the Huntsville “Walls” Unit. He would be the 13th inmate put to death by the state this
When it comes to the death penalty, guilt or innocence shouldn’t really matter to Christians. NASHVILLE — Until August, Tennessee had not put a prisoner to death in nearly a decade. Last Thursday, it performed its third execution in four months.This was not a surprising turn of events. In each
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NASHVILLE – David Earl Miller didn't care that I came to see him die.He didn't care if anyone heard his last words. He didn't mention Lee Standifer, the woman he beat and stabbed to death a generation ago, didn't bother to apologize — even when he got a second chance to speak as all of us in the
Mississippi's state Supreme Court on Thursday denied appeals from 2 death row inmates over Mississippi's plans to execute them using a sedative called midazolam.In a pair of 7-2 rulings Thursday, justices found that Thomas Edwin Loden Jr. and Richard Gerald Jordan hadn't presented enough
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State's last death row inmate resentenced to life in prisonThe last man sentenced to death in Connecticut has been resentenced to life in prison for the killings of a woman, her 9-year-old daughter and a Good Samaritan.The Connecticut Post reports 51-year-old Richard Roszkowski said during his
Iran on Thursday executed 12 prisoners in Kerman Central Prison, most of them convicted of drug charges.4 of the executed prisoners were identified as, Abdolghani Ghalandarzehi, Yaghub Ghalandarzehi, Jalil Khodabakhsh and Yousef Jalaledin, all from Iran’s ethnic Baluch minority.According to
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Activists are urging Morocco to vote in favor of joining an international agreement banning executions during the upcoming UN session.Rabat – Although Morocco has not executed an individual since 1993, some human rights groups say the de facto abolition of the death penalty is not enough.The
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The U.S. Supreme Court will not stop the execution of death row inmate David Earl Miller. The Supreme Court denied Miller's request for a stay of execution, shorty before it is scheduled to take place at 7 p.m.U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor disagreed with her colleagues'
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Miller's attorneys detail his childhood — a hellish upbringing rife with sexual abuse, beatings and addictionIn an interview with a clinical psychologist in 2002, David Earl Miller — the man set to be executed in Tennessee's electric chair on Dec. 6 — described a recurring nightmare he'd had
A Tennessee inmate is scheduled to become the second person to die in the state's electric chair in as many months, nearly two decades after Tennessee adopted lethal injection as its preferred method of execution.Both David Earl Miller, 61, and Edmund Zagorski before him chose the electric chair