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Twenty-two years ago [today], the unthinkable happened. Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked and crashed four passenger jets on U.S. soil in a coordinated suicide attack that killed 2,976 men, women and children in New York City, at the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field.The 19 hijackers are long dead. But for 20 years or more, five men accused of conspiring in the planning
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SINGAPORE — Two days after he was arrested for allegedly killing his wife, Eshan Tharaka Koottage was formally charged for murder on Monday (Sept 11), an offence that carries the death penalty.The 30-year-old Sri Lanka national was arrested on Sept 9 after he turned himself in to officers at the
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Authorities forced 25,000 residents to gather at the airport to watch them being shot by firing squad.A crowd of 25,000 people were forced to gather at the airport in Hyesan, North Korea, and made to watch the day’s spectacle: 9 people executed by firing squad.Their crime? Beef smuggling. The 9
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Ohio Republican Attorney General Dave Yost isn’t ready to get behind the most recent bipartisan push to end the death penalty in the state.The bipartisan group of lawmakers, along with religious groups and other policy groups from the state, recently announced a plan to introduce legislation in
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Balwinder Singh (38), who reached his native Mallan village today after paying Rs 2 crore blood money in Saudi Arabia, said three more Indians hailing from Uttar Pradesh and Kerala had been handed out death penalties.Balwinder said the trio had asked him to speak to the senior officials in
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This election cycle is shaping up differently, as capital punishment rises to the forefront of GOP politics.The death penalty has long been the “dirty secret” of America. Politicians have steered away from addressing the topic publicly while using it behind the scenes to advance agendas
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); September 8, 2023: An unidentified woman sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Qom Central Prison.According information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a woman was executed in Qom Central Prison on 5 September. Her identity has not been
The blind eye turned by the Commission to Uganda contrasts with Brussels’ dogged pursuit of Hungary and Poland for alleged homophobia.The European Commission confirmed this week that it will not suspend humanitarian aid to Uganda despite the East African nation’s criminalisation of homosexuality
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); September 7, 2023: Mahboubeh Roshandel, a 27-year-old woman sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Mashhad Central Prison. She is the 200th woman execution recorded since 2010 and the 12th woman executed in 2023.Of the 200 women executions
A draft bill has been introduced in Iraq that would see the death penalty introduced for homosexuality. Critics argue that it's another attempt to distract locals from the country's far bigger political problems.The Iraqi politician who introduced the bill into parliament is absolutely certain
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Attorneys for Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, filed a motion on August 30 to re-open her appeals based on a recent decision from the Tennessee Supreme Court. In 2022, the Court ruled in State v. Booker that mandatory life sentences in homicide cases are unconstitutional
Alabama is in line to become the first state to execute an inmate by making him breathe pure nitrogen, but death penalty experts have told Newsweek that the state's protocol is "sloppy" and labeled it "short on details, and long on hope."Nitrogen hypoxia has been authorized as an execution method
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2023
For the first time, the Vatican has given an entire family one of Catholicism's highest honors. Jozef Ulma, his wife Wiktoria and their seven children were killed by Nazis in 1944 along with eight Jews they were hiding.The Vatican on Sunday beatified an entire family for the first time to honor
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"The problem here is that for the last few years we’ve been hyper-focused on how we’re going to execute people in Oklahoma, instead of asking the question whether we should be executing them at all."Will Oklahoma start using a new process in its executions?That could depend on what happens in
Despite being situated in the country’s death penalty belt, it might surprise Georgians to learn that the Peach State’s capital punishment system is increasingly falling into disuse. Georgia hasn’t executed a person since 2020, and the state’s death row sits at around 40 people — making up less
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The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the convictions and death sentence for a former Indiana doctor who killed four people in Omaha, including an 11-year-old boy, in a plot to seek revenge on Creighton University's pathology department.Anthony Garcia's case involves two sets of murders
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HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM — Vietnam’s death penalty and alleged use of torture to force confessions is in the spotlight after the People’s Court in northern Haiphong last month notified the family of death-row prisoner Nguyen Van Chuong that his execution was imminent.Chuong’s case exemplifies
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2023
Responding to the news that Saudi Arabia has already executed 100 people this year, Heba Morayef, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Director, said:“In clear contrast to Saudi Arabia’s repeated promises to limit its use of the death penalty, the Saudi authorities have already
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2023
Family members of some of the victims of 9/11 have asked the Biden Administration to abandon current plea negotiations with Guantánamo detainees that would remove the possibility of death sentences for the men accused of planning the 9/11 terror attacks. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his four
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The conditions included a presidential guarantee that the five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks would be spared solitary confinement.WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will not approve conditions proposed by lawyers for 9/11 criminal defendants who are seeking a plea agreement, a National
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2023
A woman has accused the acting chairman of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board of making unwanted physical contact with her last year.Edward Konieczny, a retired Episcopalian bishop, was appointed to the board by Gov. Kevin Stitt in January 2022.Konieczny could not be reached for comment
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A Japanese man has admitted to starting a fire at the popular Kyoto Animation studio in 2019 that killed 36 people. While prosecutors seek death penalty for the man, saying it was a 'revenge crime', the defence's lawyers are seeking an acquittal, citing mental incompetence. The blaze that ripped
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Alabama, for some reason, has now volunteered to be the guinea pig state responsible for developing the newest execution method.Attorney General Steve Marshall is on a crusade to stop what he considers murder. In a court filing this week, he expressed intent to prosecute people who make travel
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A teenager accused of killing his family is scheduled to appear in court Monday for a pretrial hearing.Cesar Olalde, 18, has been indicted on charges of capital murder of multiple persons and capital murder of a child under 10. He pleaded not guilty at a previous hearing before Judge John Tidwell
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With less than 2 weeks before his scheduled execution, an Oklahoma death row inmate’s spiritual advisor is making a more than 120-mile trek on foot to deliver a letter to Gov. Kevin Stitt asking for a temporary stay of execution.The letter, written by Anthony Sanchez, is asking Stitt for a 60-day
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The 30-year-old told the police in person that he had killed his 32-year-old wife at the hotel along East Coast Road.SINGAPORE: A man has been arrested for allegedly murdering his wife, whose body was found in a hotel along East Coast Road, police said on Saturday (Sep 9).CNA understands that the
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Clarck Paul murdered Lamont Smalls in cold blood, jurors agreed Thursday. He did it less than an hour after murdering another man, Carlos Senluis, on Aug. 5, 2018.But he does not deserve to die, the jury decided.The decision to spare Paul’s life came even after the state made it easier to condemn
Jesse Lee Johnson spent over 2 decades on death row for the 1998 murder of a Salem woman, despite his claims of innocence.Jesse Lee Johnson walked out of the Marion County Jail Tuesday evening. The 62-year-old had been behind bars for 25 years for a murder he denied committing. He was convicted
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Upholding a 2007 trial court judgement of life imprisonment for four convicts accused of rape and murder of a minor, the Calcutta High Court on Monday ruled that death penalty can only be imposed in "rarest of rare cases" when the opportunity of rehabilitation and reformation of a convict has
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); September 3, 2023: Houshang Moghtaderi was executed for murder charges in Ahvaz Sepidar Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Ahvaz Sepidar Prison on 3 September. His identity has been established as 42-year-old Houshang
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Missouri has executed four people in 2023 so far. Amber McLaughlin, Michael Tisius, Johnny Johnson and Leonard Taylor, who maintained that he was innocent, all died by lethal injection. The state is one of five in the country that has carried out executions this year.Attorneys for a man awaiting
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AMMAN — The Court of Cassation upheld a September 2022 State Security Court (SSC) ruling sentencing a man to death and two others to prison terms ranging from seven to 15 years for the murder of an Anti-Narcotics Department (AND) agent during a raid in Irbid in November 2018.The court declared
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Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan, where anyone deemed to have insulted Islam or Islamic figures can face the death penalty.A Pakistani court has handed down death sentences to four youths for committing blasphemy on social media, the country's top investigating agency said on
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YNW Melly is currently behind bars awaiting his second murder trial. The 24-year-old is accused of killing two YNW associates, SakChaser and Juvy, back in 2018. His defense claims that the young men were killed as a result of a drive-by shooting, however, prosecutors believe he shot them from