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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - The mother of an Orange County 5-year-old whose father was convicted of beating him to death told a jury Monday that she wishes she could go back in time and delete the day he died.
The jury will ultimately decide whether Darell Avant Sr. gets the death penalty.
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The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a central Arkansas circuit judge's lawsuit over being removed from hearing death-penalty cases must be dismissed.Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen, who is also a Baptist minister, alleged in a lawsuit that the Arkansas Supreme
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Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters says he'll personally contact the Governor of California if MP Nikki Kaye's step-brother is sentenced to death.Clinton Thinn has been convicted of first-degree murder for killing a fellow inmate in a Californian jail, and he's facing the death penalty.Read
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Wounds heal. Harsh words are forgiven. Even the searing pain of a great loss eases with time. But when I sentenced a man to death over two decades ago it changed me in fundamental ways that continue to haunt me today.I served as a juror in Bobby Wilcher’s resentencing trial in Mississippi in
An Egyptian court on Saturday delayed a final ruling in a case against 739 people involved in a 2013 sit-in protest that was broken up by security forces, saying defendants could not be transferred to the court due to “security concerns”.The case, which involves top leaders of the banned Muslim
In my more than four decades as a law professor, I have studied issues of fairness in our criminal justice system, particularly in the area of the death penalty. Thus I was struck by a question that a juror who served Ray Tibbetts’ capital trial, Ross Allen Geiger, posed in a letter to Gov. John
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Besides facing a high-profile treason case, Gen. Musharraf has been declared absconder due to his persistent failure to appear before the special trial court.A three-judge special court formed by Pakistan’s Supreme Court for conducting high treason trial of former military ruler and dictator
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(WASHINGTON) — Justice Anthony Kennedy’s successor will have a chance over a likely decades-long career to tackle a host of big issues in the law and have a role in shaping the answers to them.Most court-watchers and interest groups are focused on abortion and whether a more conservative justice
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Iran Human Rights; June 28, 2018: According to Amnesty International sources, Abolfazl Chazani Sharahi, a juvenile offender charged with murder at the age of 15, was executed on Wednesday, June 27 at Qom Central Prison. This is the fourth juvenile offender executed in Iran since the beginning of
JACKSON, MISS. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected appeals from two Mississippi death row inmates.However, a spokeswoman for the state attorney general's office, Margaret Ann Morgan, said Richard Gerald Jordan and Timothy Nelson Evans have additional appeals remaining. Neither has an
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An Ohio man accused of driving his car into a crowd of protesters in Virginia last year and killing a woman has been charged with federal hate crimes.James Alex Fields Jr is already facing charges of murder and other crimes at the state level in Virginia. He has been held in jail without
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(CNN) Anthony Kennedy's announcement of his retirement from the Supreme Court on Wednesday creates an opening for President Donald Trump to reshape the ideological makeup of the nation's highest court for decades to come, a best-case scenario for a Republican Party that only reluctantly accepted
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NEW DELHI: In recent months, the calls the death penalty for crimes have escalated. Chief ministers Amarinder Singh and Shivraj Singh Chauhan yesterday joined the list of those in favour of the death penalty in certain cases they deem fit.Here is a list of ministers, Union ministers and chief
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We need to talk, as a nation, about some pretty big questions.Dear Tony Hall,We are writing to ask you, as Director-General of the BBC, for reassurance that the BBC will uphold its responsibilities to provide balanced, fair coverage with regard to political and public debate about women’sIran Human Rights (July 1, 2018): A prisoner was executed at Northern Iranian city of Rasht's Central Prison on murder charges. Hossein Esmailpour, charged with murdering a prominent clergyman in Rasht, was scheduled for execution on the same day. However, just some seconds before the execution
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HUNDREDS of protesters have taken to the streets for the third day of rallies over the rape of an eight-year-old girl now battling for her life in hospital.Hundreds of people on Saturday blocked streets and shut down businesses in parts of Central India to protest the rape of a 8-year-old
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The ruling that Theerasak Longji be executed was made at 4pm. At 5pm he was allowed to phone his wife, and during their hour on the line he protested his innocence. He didn’t speak to their eight-year-old son.At 6pm he was given a lethal injection, and he spent his final moments praying in
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Today’s mainstream internet porn is free, hardcore, and harming our youth.Teens today are bombarded with difficult and ever-changing sexual messages. As a result, it has never been more challenging to parent or mentor kids into healthy adulthood.As their access to technology widens young29
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The Caribbean Court of Justice has ruled out the mandatory death sentences on persons convicted of murder in Barbados because such a practice is unconstitutional.The Trinidad and Tobago based CCJ made this ruling while delivering decisions Wednesday in the consolidated cases of two convicted
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President Donald Trump has voiced his support for the death penalty, and a recent Pew Research Center survey found an uptick in the share of Americans who favor capital punishment for those convicted of murder. Over the long term, however, public support for the death penalty has declined
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President Donald Trump’s likely choice of a deeply conservative justice to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court could have a significant impact on death penalty cases, experts say.“Death row inmates will find it substantially more difficult to prevail,” said John Blume, a law professor at
A Chinese court yesterday sentenced two drug dealers to death in front of hundreds of people.The two criminals received the verdict on a sports ground in Haikou, southern China's Hainan Province, before being put to execution immediately, the Daily Mail reported.Many of the spectators were young
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Texas executes 'ice pick killer' for 1979 rape and murderTexas on Wednesday executed a man dubbed the "ice pick killer" for the weapon he used to murder a woman in 1979, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal from his lawyers, who argued his veins were too compromised for a
(ABC 6 News) -- Prosecutors in Florida filed a notice of their intent to seek the death penalty for Lois Riess on Monday.In early June, Riess was indicted by a grand jury on charges of first-degree murder with a firearm, grand theft of a motor vehicle, grand theft and criminal use of personal
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The current chaos is unfair to everyone: send your MP a campaign postcard now.The world has been shocked by Trump’s separation of families at his detention centres on America’s border with Mexico.But it’s not just the United States Government that tears families apart…Every year the UK’sConvicted of murdering a young woman aged just 20, Nick Yarris, now 56, spent more than two decades in a tiny cell, until new evidence freed him...I was 20 when I was sentenced to death. My life had been on a one-way path to self-destruction for years. I don’t remember too much about my early
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President Trump is driving to execute the same playbook in selecting a new Supreme Court nominee that last year delivered swift confirmation of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, following a methodical course in hopes of avoiding the lurching disorder that so often engulfs his White House.As Trump looks to
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Chief Justice John Roberts is the Supreme Court's new man in the middle. It's just that the middle may have moved well to the right.The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy means Roberts probably will be the conservative justice closest to the court's four liberals, allowing him to control where
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Iraq’s prime minister has ordered the immediate execution of all death row terror convicts after militant group Islamic State (ISIS) killed eight hostages.Haider al-Abadi said the executions would avenge the deaths of the captives, whose bodies were found next to a highway north of Baghdad on
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The mass trial of 739 people, many facing the death penalty on charges related to participation in the al-Rabaa sit-in on 14 August 2013, is a grotesque parody of justice, Amnesty International said ahead of the verdicts expected to be handed down by a Cairo Criminal Court tomorrow.Among the
The pardons board of various states reduced the sentence of 165 people who were sentenced to death from 2007 to 2017, said the Prisons Department.During the same time, 35 executions took place, said its deputy director (policy) Supri Hashim.Supri said that those who had their death sentence
Besides death penalty for rape of a girl under 12 years of age, the criminal law ordinance amended the Indian Penal Code to enhance minimum punishment for rape from the existing 7 to 10 yearsThe Punjab cabinet on Wednesday decided to extend to the state 2 ordinances relating to cases involving
Iran Human Rights; June 28, 2018: According to Amnesty International sources, Abolfazl Chazani Sharahi, a juvenile offender charged with murder at the age of 15, was executed on Wednesday, June 27 at Qom Central Prison. This is the fourth juvenile offender executed in Iran since the beginning of
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The stigma surrounding reproductive health is a key concern.In the first report of its kind, Public Health England (PHE) has revealed the impact of women’s reproductive health issues on the nation’s physical, mental and social wellbeing.The report combines women’s experiences, as reported in