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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 through the building was dubbed one of Japan's worst-ever murder cases. The accused, identified as
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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
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It’s around a year now since Newcastle Amnesty Local Group started a Sub-Group on Saudi Arabia. As well as drawing attention to the human rights abuses, the group had the aim of establishing as much accurate information as possible about the country. This is my personal overview of what I have
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The corridors of power within the Islamic Republic are ablaze with a series of sex scandals – seemingly more with each passing day. Fresh revelations spotlighting the moral and sexual transgressions of high-ranking officials within the system continue to threaten or even topple yet another leader
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BATON ROUGE, La. — For the first time, Louisiana is on the precipice of emptying death row.Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards is using his clemency power to help advance a mass request for commutations after he publicly called on state lawmakers to stop the death penalty months ago.But time is
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 30, 2023: Hamed Sargazi and Esmail Hajizadeh, two men sentenced to death for drug-related charges, have been executed in Hamedan Central Prison.According to HRANA news agency, two men were executed in Hamedan Central Prison on 29 August. Their identities have
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s proposed procedures to carry out executions with nitrogen gas include fitting a mask over the inmate’s face and replacing their breathing air with nitrogen until their heart stops.The state described the procedures for the proposed new execution method in a
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On July 10, 2023, the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh sentenced Muhammad bin Nasser Al-Ghamdi to death by Taazir, on charges related to his expression of opinion and his use of social media.The verdict against Al-Ghamdi (September 24, 1968) perpetuates the bloody vengeful trend of Saudi
There have been 94 executions so far this year.Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death a government critic who denounced alleged corruption and human rights abuses on social media, his brother and others familiar with the case told AFP on Monday.The judgment was handed down against Mohammed al-Ghamdi
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Amidst the debris of smashed pieces of furniture, a shattered TV and broken doors, lies a twisted, mangled child’s bicycle. The sight leaves Qasir Pervez Masih teary-eyed. “My nine-year-old son loved this bicycle. He cried so much when he saw the damage,” says Masih, a resident of Jaranwala’s
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SINGAPORE: Presidential candidate Tan Kin Lian said "it is okay" to be merciful to drug mules facing the death penalty in Singapore, and that he does not believe granting clemency will lead to a flood of drug traffickers.He said the President has to take the Cabinet’s advice on such issues, but
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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Oklahoma prison officials are watching closely as Alabama attempts to become the first state to use nitrogen hypoxia to carry out an execution.Steven Harpe, Oklahoma Department of Corrections director, said in an interview that he’s open to the alternate method, but he’d like to see nitrogen
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"Nitrogen hypoxia" is the latest brilliant idea in the ugly history of supposedly painless execution methodsThe state of Alabama now says it is ready to try again to put Kenneth Smith to death. Smith has twice been convicted of murdering a woman named Elizabeth Sennett in 1988, in an apparent
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The corridors of power within the Islamic Republic are ablaze with a series of sex scandals – seemingly more with each passing day. Fresh revelations spotlighting the moral and sexual transgressions of high-ranking officials within the system continue to threaten or even topple yet another leader
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On August 30, 2023, the Tennessee Criminal Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s ruling that formerly death-sentenced prisoner Pervis Payne can serve his two life sentences concurrently, making him eligible to apply for parole in less than four years. Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Paula
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DNA evidence not available at the time of Mr. Williams’ trial proves his innocence, but has not been considered in court.On June 29, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson lifted the stay of 53-year-old Marcellus Williams’ execution. Mr. Williams has spent 24 years of his life on death row for a murder DNA
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More than 100 people were arrested for attending a gay wedding in Nigeria under the country’s draconian homosexuality laws.Police stormed a hotel in Ekpan town, Delta state, southern Nigeria, at around 2am on Monday and arrested more than 100 “gay suspects”.At least sixty-seven people have been
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Ugandan prosecutors have charged a man with "aggravated homosexuality", potentially a capital offence under controversial anti-gay legislation introduced by the country this year, an official said Monday.The law -- considered one of the harshest of its kind in the world -- contains provisions
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Former Vice President Mike Pence wants to speed up federal executions for people convicted of carrying out mass shootings.Pence also wants other steps including providing law enforcement with “what they need” and more federal funding for school guards.“But at the end of the day, I also believe
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A former death row inmate in Mississippi will be resentenced again because of a determination that he has intellectual disabilities — and the new sentence will make him eligible for the possibility of parole.The state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday in the case of Howard M. Neal, 69, who
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Blaze began overnight and destroyed the roof of one wingA Texas prison with America's most active death row was forced to evacuate inmates because of an overnight fire.Huntsville Prison, which sits around 70 miles north of Houston, had to remove close to 700 inmates because of the blaze KHOU
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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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Kenneth Smith is one of two living Americans who can describe what it is like to survive an execution, having endured an aborted lethal injection last November during which he was subjected to excruciating pain tantamount, his lawyers claim, to torture.Nine months later Smith has been singled out
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CNN — A new draft law that would enshrine harsh punishments for women and girls who fail to wear a hijab in Iran could amount to “gender apartheid,” UN experts said in a statement on Friday.“The draft law could be described as a form of gender apartheid, as authorities appear to be governing
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The man who killed 11 people at a Squirrel Hill synagogue has been moved to federal death row at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind.Robert Bowers, 50, was sentenced to the death penalty on Aug. 3 after a jury heard from 51 witnesses over nine days of testimony in the penalty phase of the
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Former Denver Chief Deputy District Attorney Craig Silverman recently wrote about why he changed his mind about supporting the death penalty and expressed new fears regarding its future use. His op-ed was published on August 29, 2023 in the Colorado Sun. Mr. Silverman writes that capital
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The New Year's Day edition of The Korea Herald in 1998 depicted the somber image of a nation grappling with a financial crisis, teetering on the edge of uncertainty and reliant on a bailout package from the International Monetary Fund.While delivering the dim outlook for the year ahead, the paper
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When leniency goes too far...BERLIN (AP) — A Munich court on Tuesday sentenced a German woman who was a member of the Islamic State group to 14 years in prison for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave in Iraq to die of thirst in the sun. [Are we living on the same
AFP — Iraq has hanged three people convicted for a 2016 bombing that killed more than 320 people in a Baghdad shopping district and was claimed by the Islamic State group, the prime minister's office said on late Monday.The bombing was one of the world's deadliest after the September 11, 2001
Ugandan prosecutors have charged a man with "aggravated homosexuality", potentially a capital offence under controversial anti-gay legislation introduced by the country this year, an official said Monday.The law -- considered one of the harshest of its kind in the world -- contains provisions
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In dismissing a confession in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, Col. Lanny J. Acosta Jr. has shaken a foundation of U.S. government cases at the post-9/11 court.In late 2006, in an effort to turn the page on a legacy of state-sponsored torture, prosecutors for the George W. Bush administration
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Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen.The Alabama Attorney-General’s office on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58. The court filing indicated Alabama plans to