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DAs’ notes said jurors were ‘slow’ or ‘ignorant’ or ‘fat’
In handwritten notes, Columbus prosecutors described prospective African-American jurors as “slow,” “ignorant,” “con artist” and “fat.” They also jotted a “B” or an “N” next to black people’s names on jury lists and routinely ranked them as the least desirable jurors. This astonishing system of race discrimination, revealed in
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Tuesday marked the 23rd anniversary of a deadly sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system, as speculation grows that members of the cult behind it could soon be executed.At Kasumigaseki Station, one of the targets of the attack, subway staff gathered at 8 a.m., around the same time the events
TOKYO (AP) — Thirteen Japanese cult members may be sent to the gallows any day now for a deadly 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and other crimes. But when is uncertain. Such is the secrecy that surrounds Japan’s death penalty system.Tuesday marked 23 years since members of the Aum
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused again Monday to decide whether the death penalty is unconstitutional.The action came in a case from Arizona in which lawyers asked the court to strike down both the state's capital punishment system and the nation's. The court's four liberal justices said
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IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (MARCH 2018): The 10th annual report on the death penalty in Iran by Iran Human Rights (IHR) shows that in 2017 at least 517 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. With an average of more than one execution every day and more than one execution per 167.000
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 — Lawyers voted to pass a resolution calling for the death penalty to be abolished including for drug trafficking offences.The Malaysian Bar also passed a resolution during its 72nd annual general assembly calling for the immediate implementation of the Dangerous Drugs Act
Iran Human Rights (March 15, 2018): Two prisoners were hanged in public on the charge of armed robbery today. According to IRIB, on the morning of Thursday, March 15, two prisoners were hanged in public in Dogonbadan (the capital of Gachsaran County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province). The two
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Asking questions under four main themes – with the central aim prevention.The Home Secretary has unveiled proposals for a landmark Domestic Abuse Bill – and invited the public to contribute views on how such a Bill should look.In February 2017, the Prime Minister announced a new ‘programme of16
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2018
This talk of the Parkland shooter’s mental illness. It won’t last.By the time Nikolas Cruz goes on trial for 17 counts of murder, and 17 counts of attempted murder, only his defense lawyers will still be arguing about a disordered mind and diminished culpability.But at the moment, it’s
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"Death Row Doctor," an eight-minute film that touches on themes of justice and injustice, life and death, profiles Carlo Musso. He is a doctor who contemplates his moral compass as he participates in executions, even though he personally opposes capital punishment.Source: The New York Times
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‘It is unacceptable that successive governments have failed to protect the public from poisonous air’The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and the Environmental Audit, Health and Social Care and Transport Committees have published a joint report after an unprecedented four-way15
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2018
President Donald Trump backed the death penalty for drug dealers on Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally, while his administration is reportedly studying the issue.Trump said the United States got the idea of capital punishment for drug dealers from Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Washington
An Iranian court on Monday handed down death sentence for a rioter that had driven a bus into a group of police officers during a February mob attack in north Tehran.Mohammad Salas, driver of the bus that killed 3 police forces and wounded a number of others during the February 19 disturbance on
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US President Donald Trump has called for drug traffickers to face the death penalty as part of his plan to combat the US painkiller-addiction epidemic.He outlined the proposal during a speech in New Hampshire, a state badly affected by the opioid crisis.Mr Trump said his administration was
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Convicted Singaporean drug trafficker Hishamrudin Mohd was hanged last Friday in the Changi Prison Complex after failing on the preceding day - in a final court bid - to reopen his case.Hishamrudin, 56, had been convicted of trafficking in 34.94g of diamorphine and sentenced to death by the High
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On Tuesday, Missouri may administer a lethal injection to a convict with a condition called cavernous hemangioma. Lawyers for Russell Bucklew argue that the many tumors in his body could burst mid-execution and cause him to choke on his own blood. Which would be gruesome, and potentially
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman: "There is no such thing as individual terrorism, this terrorism is supported by Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority."In response to a Friday ramming attack resulting in the deaths of two IDF soldiers, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said he would seek
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OSAKA - Prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for a 25-year-old man who allegedly stabbed a man to death with a dagger and injured his three children at their home in Osaka Prefecture in 2016.During the trial at the Osaka District Court, the prosecutors said Yuma Kobayashi aimed to kill the
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The reality of not being able to afford sanitary products can have serious consequences.Two fifths of girls in the UK have had to rely on using toilet roll at some point to manage their period because they have struggled to afford sanitary products, a survey by Plan International UK has16
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TOKYO - The Japanese government on Friday decided to introduce the right to plea bargain on June 1 by putting into force a revised law on criminal proceedings.In addition to crimes related to drug, gun and bribery cases as stipulated in the law, the cabinet approved a decree to expand the scope
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The state of Alabama executed Michael Wayne Eggers-- an inmate who asked to die-- on Thursday night at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. His time of death was 7:29 p.m.This is the first execution the state has carried out this year.Just before 6 p.m., the set execution time, the U.S
ATLANTA -- An inmate known as the Georgia "stocking strangler" was denied clemency Wednesday evening, despite evidence his lawyers say casts doubt on his guilt. Carlton Gary, the 67-year-old inmate, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7pm on Thursday.The Georgia Parole board, in a
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Oklahoma plans to use nitrogen gas as its preferred method of execution when it resumes using the death penalty, the first US state to do so.The announcement was made by State Attorney General Mike Hunter and Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh.Capital punishment has been on hold in Oklahoma for
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Four justices made clear their view that the death penalty — at least as it exists in Arizona — merits further review.The Supreme Court on Monday morning turned down a request to consider whether Arizona's death penalty law, or the death penalty more broadly, is unconstitutional — with four
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If men did not buy sex, there would be no prostitution, child sexual exploitation or sex trafficking.by Nordic Model Now!The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, unveiled his new violence against women and girls (VAWG) strategy recently.While we welcome some of its provisions, we are dismayed by19
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Saudi Arabia has beheaded an Indonesian migrant worker for murder despite President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s repeated pleas that the man be granted clemency.M. Zaini Misrin from Bangkalan, East Java, was executed on Sunday, according to Migrant Care, an Indonesian organization focusing on the
TOKYO - More than two decades after Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult plunged Tokyo into terror by releasing a nerve agent on rush-hour subway trains, its spinoffs continue to attract new followers.Cult head Shoko Asahara is on death row, along with 12 of his disciples, for crimes including the subway
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IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (MARCH 2018): The 10th annual report on the death penalty in Iran by Iran Human Rights (IHR) shows that in 2017 at least 517 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. With an average of more than one execution every day and more than one execution per 167.000
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IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (MARCH 2018): The 10th annual report on the death penalty in Iran by Iran Human Rights (IHR) shows that in 2017 at least 517 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. With an average of more than one execution every day and more than one execution per 167.000
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2018
‘…we were disappointed that so many women have experienced sexism’.Churches are being urged to take steps to make their congregations safe spaces in which women can flourish, after new research released on International Women’s Day revealed that 62 per cent of women have experienced sexism inCOLUMBUS — A divided Ohio Parole Board on Friday recommended that Gov. John Kasich show mercy toward William T. Montgomery, convicted in the slaying of a 20-year-old South Toledo woman 32 years ago.Montgomery, 52, is set to die on Ohio’s lethal injection gurney on April 11 for the March 8, 1986
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JACKSON, Ga. -- Georgia has put to death a man known as the "stocking strangler," who was convicted of raping and killing older women in attacks that terrorized a small city decades ago. The office of Georgia Attorney General Chris Car said 67-year-old Carlton Gary was executed minutes after
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TOKYO -The Justice Ministry began transferring seven of 13 former Aum Shinrikyo cult members on death row from the Tokyo detention center to other facilities across the country, government sources said Wednesday, likely moving them one step closer to execution.With the Aum-related trials wrapping
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The execution of Hishamrudin Bin Mohd has been scheduled for 16 March, a week after Singapore’s first known execution of 2018 took place. The Singaporean man was convicted of, and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty for, drug-related offences in 2016. He maintains his innocence of the