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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 14, 2023: Hamed Jamshidi and an unidentified man were executed for drug-related charges in Bam Prison.According to HRANA news agency, two men were executed in Bam Prison on 13 August. One of the men’s identity has been reported as Hamed Jamshidi. The second man’s identity has not been reported. They were sentenced to death for drug-related charges
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing two women he met at beach bars in the Florida Panhandle in 1996 is set to be executed under a death warrant signed Thursday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.Michael Duane Zack III’s lethal injection is scheduled for Oct. 3 at 6 p.m. It’s the
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden raised its terror alert to the second-highest level on Thursday after a string of public desecrations of the Quran sparked angry demonstrations across Muslim countries and threats from militant groups.The Swedish Security Service, known as SÄPO, lifted the “terror threat
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Saudi Arabia on Wednesday executed a United States national who was convicted of torturing and claiming the life of his father, as per state media reports. The latest sentence has brought the toll of foreign nationals sentenced to death this year in the country to 19.As per the official Saudi
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The family of death-row prisoner Nguyen Van Chuong met with him at a temporary detention facility on Monday, days after more than a dozen international rights organizations publicly urged Vietnam’s president to halt his impending execution. Additionally, a lawyer who has worked on the case told
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 12, 2023: A woman named Roghieh Abedini who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) and a man named Afshin Rahim Hedayat who was sentenced to death for drug-related charges, were executed in Hamedan Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran
The Constitutional Court yesterday ruled that imposing a life sentence or the death penalty for people convicted of selling narcotics is partly unconstitutional.The authorities have to implement legal amendments within two years to reflect the ruling.The court reviewed Constitutional
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The latest shakeup at the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board came this week when its chairman and another member left.Both are former district attorneys.Any change to the five-member board is significant because it votes on all death row inmate requests for mercy. The governor has the final say but
The Iranian authorities executed six more people this week, bringing the total number of executions since the beginning of the year to at least 455, human rights activists say.Four prisoners sentenced to death on drug-related charges were hanged on August 6 in Karaj Central Prison, near Tehran
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Judge: Death row inmate's constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment may have been violated after officials repeatedly scheduled his executionBOISE, Idaho — A federal judge in Idaho ruled a longtime death row inmate may have a legal claim that the state violated his constitutional
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A life or death punishment is now in the hands of a jury in the trial of a man convicted of fatally shooting El Paso Sheriff Deputy Peter Herrera during a 2019 traffic stop.The jury of nine women and three men began deliberations Tuesday afternoon to decide if 32-year-old Facundo Chavez will
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A senior police official sentenced to death for murdering his bodyguard has had his punishment commuted to life in prison by Indonesia's Supreme Court, an official said Tuesday.Ferdy Sambo, a two-star general and former head of internal affairs for the national police, was named as a suspect
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At least nine young Saudis who were juveniles at the times of their alleged crimes currently face imminent execution in Saudi Arabia—despite the fact that Saudi authorities supposedly eliminated or otherwise severely limited the scope of the death penalty for juvenile offenders in recent years
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The prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others held at Guantanamo Bay has been troubled by repeated delays and legal disputes.WASHINGTON — The suspected architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and his fellow defendants may never face the death penalty under plea agreements now under
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Tallahassee -- Cuando el gobernador Ron DeSantis suspendió a la fiscal estatal del centro de la Florida Monique Worrell la semana pasada, la describió como blanda con el crimen. Su oficina, dijo, eludió los mínimos obligatorios, dudó en acusar a menores y abandonó demasiados casos. La acción del
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Human rights advocates are criticizing the Singapore government’s plan to execute more death-sentenced prisoners convicted of non-violent drug offenses. Singapore has so far hanged 16 people since resuming state executions in March last year, and all of those executed were low- to mid-level drug
"They raise money for funerals. We are focused on stopping executions.”OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty has cut ties with a national organization and its partner, saying they are driving a wedge between death-row inmates and their attorneys.In July, death-row
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Acting one day after Gov. John Bel Edwards asked them to do so, the Louisiana Pardon Board on Thursday scheduled hearings for 20 of the 56 death row inmates seeking life sentences rather than a possible date with the executioner.Among those who now have clemency hearing dates in October and
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Retired priest accompanied Johnny Johnson through the final moments of his lifeIf there was one thing Father Gerry Kleba wanted to impart on Johnny Johnson in their short time together, it was this: You are a beloved child of God.Father Kleba, a retired priest of the archdiocese, served as
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 11, 2023: Asadollah Arjmand was executed for murder charges in Yasuj Central Prison.According to HRANA news agency, a man was executed in Yasuj Central Prison on 9 August 2023. His identity has been reported as Asadollah Arjmand who was sentenced to qisas
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Supporters of an Oklahoma death row inmate scheduled for execution in September continue to proclaim his innocence, disputing the attorney general’s claim that evidence in the case "overwhelmingly" points to his guilt. A private investigator claimed that DNA samples collected by investigators
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LINCOLN, Neb. — Aubrey Trail, who is convicted of murdering Sydney Loofe, has filed a motion asking the state to carry out the death penalty.In June 2021, a three-judge panel sentenced Trail to death for the 2017 murder of Loofe.In the motion, which was filed Monday, Trail also asks the Nebraska
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Oklahoma’s attorney general has rejected a request from a state lawmaker to reinvestigate DNA evidence in the case of a death row inmate set to be executed in September, saying that recent reprocessing already “conclusively pointed” to his guilt.Attorney General Gentner Drummond was asked
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GALLATIN, Tenn. — A Tennessee man who had been facing a death penalty trial in the killings of eight people in rural Westmoreland in April 2019, including his parents, uncle and a 12-year-old girl, pleaded guilty Wednesday to eight counts of first-degree murder in exchange for a sentence of life
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Idaho U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill has ruled in favor of death-row-prisoner Gerald Pizzuto, indefinitely pausing his March 2023 execution date, and granting him a hearing in his claim that the state of Idaho violates his Constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment by
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El caso de Daniel Sancho no ha llegado a su fin y aún queda por saber qué es lo que le depara al hijo del actor Rodolfo Sancho tras haber reconocido el asesinato del colombiano Edwin Arrieta Arteaga. La sucesión de hechos que comenzó el pasado 31 de julio, cuando ambos se encontraron y días
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Louisiana’s death penalty saga continues. Two steps forward, one step back, on the road toward abolition.The latest step forward came last Wednesday, when Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards exercised his executive authority and ordered the state’s clemency board to hold hearings on the petitions
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Islamabad [Pakistan], August 12 (ANI): Given that Pakistan has reneged on various international agreements that include those relating to good governance, human rights and labour rights, the European Union's (EU) 10-year preferential trade agreement, GSP Plus, may not be extended, according to
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On August 9th, with the use of his executive authority, Governor John Bel Edwards asked the Board of Pardons and Committee on Parole to return the 56 clemency applications filed by death-sentenced prisoners in Louisiana to its docket for consideration and set them for hearings. The Board of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A jury sentenced Facundo Chávez, the man convicted of killing Deputy Peter Hererra, to death on Wednesday. Chavez sat teary-eyed in court as the jury delivered its unanimous decision.Judge Diane Navarrete also decided the trial will not result in a mistrial. The defense
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A rights monitor warned on Wednesday that four prisoners in Iran could face the death penalty for their participation in the widespread anti-government protests that engulfed the country last year. Paris-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), which is run by a
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Backed by the public, the super-rich city-state is ignoring international outrage to hang more and more low level drug couriers from ethnic minorities.Singapore is pushing to execute a growing queue of drug offenders after carrying out three hangings in two weeks, experts have told VICE News.The
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 6, 2023: A man sentenced to death for charges of moharebeh (enmity against god) and efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth) through armed robbery, was executed in Dezful Prison.According to ISNA, a man was executed in Dezful Prison on 6 August. The unnamed was
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4.7kg Of Heroin Found In Car Boot At Woodlands Checkpoint, Man ArrestedOn Saturday (5 Aug), the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) found more than 4.7kg of heroin in the boot of a car arriving at Woodlands Checkpoint.The discovery led to the arrest of a 22-year-old Malaysian man who was