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This is no time to risk erosion of our rights.
Disabled people should be concerned that the process of leaving the European Union (EU) could see their rights “lost or watered down”, according to a disabled peer.
Baroness [Jane] Campbell told fellow peers recently that she had “deep concerns” at the “sweeping powers” that the government’s European Union (withdrawal) bill would give to ministers to weaken equality and human rights laws.
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For the first time since 2007, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted to recommend a lesser sentence for a death row inmate. In an exceedingly rare move, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted Tuesday to recommend a lesser sentence for a death row inmate facing execution.The board
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the government was wrong to shelve an attempt to criminalize adultery and extra-marital sex (zina) in 2004, an issue that caused a major row between Turkey and the EU during accession talks at the time.“This society holds a different status in terms of its
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Kent Whitaker, struggling to halt the looming execution of the son who upended his life 14 years ago, should know shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday whether his efforts have passed the first critical hurdle.Whitaker long ago forgave his son, Thomas Whitaker, for setting up the ambush that killed his
The European Union (EU) has added its voice to growing chorus by human rights activists condemning capital punishment following the execution of double murder convict, Joseph Tselayarona, last weekend.Following the brutal murder of his girlfriend, Ngwanyanaotsile Keikanne and her 3-year-old son
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Lawyers, government officials, lawmakers and parents of the victim by and large demand public execution for the convict Imran Ali in rape and murder case of 7-year-old Zainab. But isn't it enough to hand over 4 separate death sentences for conviction in kidnapping, rape, murder and terrorism
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An unplanned pregnancy can so easily become part of women’s lives.Although one in three British women will have an abortion during their lifetime, terminating a pregnancy remains controversial and stigmatised.Many women who have an abortion will internalise that stigma, and experience19
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SAITAMA – Prosecutors on Monday demanded the death penalty for a 32-year-old Peruvian man accused of killing six people, including two girls, after breaking into their suburban homes north of Tokyo in 2015.Lawyers defending Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena at the Saitama District Court argue he is
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How "active shooter" drills became normal for a generation of American schoolchildren."Are you kids good at running and screaming?" a police officer asks a class of elementary school kids in Akron, Ohio.His friendly tone then turns serious.“What I don’t want you to do is hide in the corner if a
Imprisoned Iranian researcher Ahmadreza Djalali has been granted Swedish citizenship, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Sveriges Radio on Saturday.Djalali, a resident in Sweden, was arrested during a trip to Iran in April 2016. He was found guilty in October 2017 of passing information about
Karachi, Pakistan (CNN) - A Pakistani man was sentenced to death Saturday for the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl whose killing last month led to widespread protests.Imran Ali, 24, was found guilty by a court in Lahore on four counts of murder, abduction, rape and sodomy of a minor.Zainab
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‘The government knows that when there aren’t enough nurses, patients can pay the very highest price.’The number of students starting nursing degree courses is likely to fall again this year unless the government takes urgent action, a report from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has20
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the government was wrong to shelve an attempt to criminalize adultery and extra-marital sex (zina) in 2004, an issue that caused a major row between Turkey and the EU during accession talks at the time.“This society holds a different status in terms of its
Shackled and wearing a red jump suit, school shooter Nikolas Cruz made his first live appearance in a Broward County circuit court five days after he walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High and fatally shot 17 people in the worst school shooting in Florida history.Cruz, a slightly built teen
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Planned US execution of seriously ill Doyle Hamm may amount to torture, UN experts warnPress Release: United Nations Human Rights CommissionerGENEVA (16 February 2018) – Two UN human rights experts have called on the US Government to halt the execution of a seriously ill man amid concerns that
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Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], Feb 20 (ANI): The Rajasthan government will soon table a bill in the state assembly seeking death penalty for those convicted of raping minors.Rajasthan minister Gulab Chand Kataria told ANI that his government similar to that of Madhya Pradesh is mulling to bring a
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After its 1996 high, when 315 people were executed in the United States, the death penalty has been steadily on the decline. Just 23 people were executed last year in 8 states—the second fewest executions in the last 25 years. And while 31 states have the death penalty on the books, only a
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GERMAN Jihadi bride Linda Wenzel has been jailed for six years in Baghdad for her role as an Islamic enforcer with terror group ISIS. Wenzel, 17, who last year sobbed on TV “I have ruined my life,” could have faced the death penalty.German media reported that a German embassy representative in
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man who survived a deadly domestic attack hatched by his son is pushing the state to grant clemency to the condemned man, although it has never spared a death row inmate solely at the formal request of the victim’s family.Thomas “Bart” Whitaker is set to be put
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Press Release: The Botswana Prison Service wishes to inform the public that the execution of the death penalty passed on Joseph Poni Tselayarona, 28 years, of Magokotswane ward in Molepolole, was carried out today, Saturday February 17, 2018 at Gaborone Central Prison in the early morning
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The European Union wants to see the death penalty abolished in Barbados and the rest of the Eastern Caribbean. It is therefore putting its money behind the work of civil society organisations in the region that are working towards this goal, as well as supporting those seeking to protect the
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(CNN) Florida gunman Nikolas Cruz is willing to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty and spare the community from reliving the massacre in a trial, his public defender said.Cruz is charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder for the Wednesday shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
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The Washington state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would ban the death penalty, leading the state one step closer to ending the practice for good.As the Seattle Times reports, the bill passed the Democratic-led Senate with bipartisan support. The measure would strike the death penalty from
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The state of Missouri did everything it could to keep secret where it got the drugs it used to put 17 inmates to death. Now, BuzzFeed News has discovered the supplier is a pharmacy repeatedly found to engage in hazardous practices that could put patients — and convicts — at risk.The state of
Iran has formally criticised Sweden over its decision to grant nationality to an Iranian professor sentenced to death on spying charges, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.Sweden granted citizenship last week to Ahmadreza Djalali, a Stockholm-based specialist in emergency medicine.READ ALSO
An Iraqi court ordered the release and deportation of a suspected French jihadist sentenced Monday to seven months in prison for entering the country illegally, saying she had already served her time.Melina Boughedir, 27, was arrested last summer in former Islamic State group stronghold Mosul
LAHORE: A serial killer in Pakistan, who was sentenced to death for the brutal rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl, on Tuesday challenged his conviction in the Lahore High Court alleging that his trial was conducted in "haste" without fulfilling legal requirements.In the first ever trial in
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Let’s make 2018 the year that time was up on sexual harassment and abuse.Around 200 female British and Irish stars of stage and screen have signed an open letter calling for support for a new fund for campaigning to end to sexual harassment at work.The letter appeared in The Observer on 1819
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More than a thousand residents of Madaya township in Mandalay joined a protest march on February 17 demanding the death penalty for child rape.The protest followed the rape and murder of a 2-1/2-year-old child last week in Madaya in which a man has been charged.The protesters, numbering some
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Gambian President Adama Barrow announced on Sunday a suspension of the death penalty in his country, in a break from the former regime of the dictator Yahya Jammeh.Barrow, a onetime security guard in London who was elected president in December 2016, signed a UN treaty on the abolition of capital
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The 17 counts of premeditated murder against Nikolas Cruz are the type of case “the death penalty was designed for,” according to the Florida prosecutor in charge of trying the confessed school shooter.But Michael Satz, the longtime Broward state attorney, said his office has not yet decided what
There's an important new lethal-injection resource online: The Lethal Injection Resource Center's new website.The Lethal Injection Information Center is a hub for manufacturers, distributors, and stakeholders interested in preventing the misuse of medicines in lethal injections.The Lethal
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A problem that seems so routine in women’s lives, and yet has received very little attention in public policy.The Women and Equalities Committee is currently holding an inquiry into sexual harassment of women and girls in public places.Following the emergence of widespread allegations in the16
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The Tennessee attorney general wants the state Supreme Court to schedule 8 death sentences before June 1, when the availability of lethal injection drugs would become "uncertain."The proposed ramp up in Tennessee executions signals a potentially massive shift for a state that hasn't put someone