NCRI - Iranian attorney general in the Khorasan Razavi province , Gholam Ali Sadeghi, announced the hand-amputation of a person charged with theft, Sadeghi stated: this man had stolen jewelry six years ago, when he was 25 years old in
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The Iranian authorities must urgently stop the execution of a 17-year-old boy who was convicted of murder and rape, and commute his death sentence to imprisonment, said Amnesty International.Amirhossein Pourjafar is scheduled to be executed in a prison in Tehran on 19 October 2017. He was detained15
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Kala Shah Kaku, Pakistan - Malak al-Maut (the angel of death) was once, it is said by Islamic theologists, one of God's favoured angels; a loyal servant who was entrusted with separating people's souls from their bodies, when their time came.To the righteous, it is said, the angel of
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Update: Robert Pruett was executed by lethal injection on Thursday.Robert Pruett is scheduled to be executed by the State of Texas Thursday. He has never had a chance to live outside a prison as an adult. Taking his life is a senseless wrong that shows how
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In a major speech on Wednesday Oct. 11 Pope Francis said in blunt terms that the death penalty is contrary to Gospel teaching.Given the setting and context of the talk - a celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church - Vatican observers speculated
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How can our democratic representatives make decisions when the government is withholding vital information?MEP Molly Scott Cato, who has been pressing for the release of ‘50 secret studies’ on the impacts of Brexit on the economy, is now demanding the government disclose the documents or face12
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Iran Human Rights (Oct 10, 2017): Currently more than 80 Iranians are facing horrific conditions in the solitary confinement of Malaysian prisons, while awaiting their death sentences for charges of “involvement in drug trafficking”.Most of the prisoners were not given fair legal due process. They12
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Jakarta. Police arrested three Lion Air passengers who were caught smuggling crystal methamphetamine, locally known as shabu, on Monday (09/10) by hiding them under their genitals at the Juwata Tarakan International Airport in Tarakan, North Kalimantan, a statement released by the airport
The Moroccan Coalition against the Death Penalty organised a sit-in this week outside the parliament building in Rabat and renewed calls to abolish the death penalty.In a statement the Moroccan Coalition reminded people on World Day against the Death Penalty yesterday to reiterate the
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Whiteread’s work ranges in scale from the modest to the monumental in a variety of materials.Tate Britain is currently hosting the most substantial survey to date of work by Rachel Whiteread, one of the leading artists of her generation.She primarily produces sculptures, which typically take
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas death row inmate who sued unsuccessfully to try to halt his execution, arguing that more DNA testing needed to be done, is now trying to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the punishment scheduled for Thursday.Robert Pruett was already serving 99 years for aFrance on Wednesday voiced its concern on a plan by the Philippine government to restore death penalty, which it called an "unjust, inhumane and ineffective" punishment.The French government made the statement on the occasion of the 15th World Day Against the Death Penalty and the
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A coalition of death row survivors and murder victim family members is kicking off a two-week tour in Texas opposing capital punishment.Dubbed the Texas Journey of Hope from Violence to Healing, the effort opens Saturday in Houston with a 7 p.m. screening
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The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to consider an appeal by a suburban Houston man on Texas death row for arranging the killings of his mother and brother in 2003.HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to consider an appeal from a suburban Houston man on Texas
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An Iranian, who is facing the death penalty, filed an application for a stay of execution in the Federal Court pending an amendment to Section 39B of Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, to include provisions on sentences other than the death sentence.Hamidreza Farahmand Hassan, who was
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Jakarta. The government is pressing ahead with plans to build more prisons on Indonesia's outermost islands and to house drug and terrorism convicts separately from other categories of prisoners.The plan comes amid concerns over prison overcrowding and the fact that they have become breeding13
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Texas executed a man on Thursday convicted of murdering a prison guard in 1999, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal to spare his life despite arguments by his lawyers that he was innocent.Robert Pruett, 38, was put to death by lethal injection at the state’s death
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BANGKOK — Those campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty may take solace in the fact that no one has been executed for eight years.There have been no actual executions, but a senior government official said it’s simply impossible to predict when capital punishment
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Islamabad, Pakistan - Three members of Pakistan's persecuted Ahmadi sect have been sentenced to death for blasphemy by a court in the central town of Sheikhupura, a community spokesperson said.Mubasher Ahmad, Ghulam Ahmed and Ehsan Ahmed were convicted by the court on Wednesday for insulting12
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We celebrate today the 15th World Day against the Death Penalty. As of today, 105 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes. In the past 25 years, 60 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes and the number of states that
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Pope Francis marked the 25th anniversary of a landmark compilation of Catholic teaching by saying Wednesday it should be changed to address an issue close to his heart: the death penalty.During an anniversary ceremony at the Vatican, Francis repeated his insistence that capital punishment is11
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Singapore's continued reliance on mandatory death sentences, which violate international law, has meant that dozens of low level drug offenders have been sent to death row in recent years, Amnesty International said in a new
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The government is to retain the death penalty, but intends to seek a "middle way" to accommodate those critics who opposed capital punishment as a violation of human rights, Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly said on Tuesday."There are two opposing views on the death penalty, agreeing15
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RALEIGH - When President Donald Trump told media in August that he did not immediately condemn hate groups after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville because he did not “know all the facts,” Yusef Salaam bristled at the words.Salaam, a former New Yorker who is speaking at an awards14
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Hector Medina was sentenced to death in 2008 after killing his two young children. Now, he's getting a new sentencing trial because his lawyer refused to present evidence to persuade jurors to opt for the lesser sentence of life without parole.The lawyer of a man sentenced to death for killing his
China has launched a pilot program to ensure every criminal defendant has access to a defense lawyer for their trial.The Supreme People's Court and the Ministry of Justice jointly released a document Wednesday which stipulates that if a defendant has not retained
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Surrounded by news cameras and supporters, Lamonte McIntyre hugged his mother Friday for the first time as a free man in 23 years. The 41-year-old Kansas native was wrongly convicted of a double murder and finally set free after spending more than half of his life behind bars. He
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Call to action.The UK government’s Equalities Office is consulting on changes to the existing Gender Recognition Act.There is some concern about this, for if the government were to go ahead with a simplification of the gender recognition process, and move towards a self-declaration system, it12
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THE Melbourne pastor who stood with Bali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran in the harrowing moments before his execution has warned Aussie travellers are failing to learn from his mistakes.Speaking ahead of the release of a documentary that recounts the last 72
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A man accused of murdering his wife aboard a cruise ship in Southeast Alaska waters could face the death penalty. But it’s a long process and it may be unlikely to end in the defendant’s death.In July, Kristy Manzanares was found dead in
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Tomas Gallo smiled and laughed as Harris County jurors decided his fate for the rape and murder of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter.Gallo had covered the girl's body with bruises and bite marks before sexually assaulting and bludgeoning her while her mother was
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Indonesia’s government yesterday marked World Day Against the Death Penalty by issuing a self-serving and contradictory statement on its death penalty policy.Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly reaffirmed the government won’t seek to abolish the death penalty, but would pursue a “win-win11
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October 10 marks World Day Against the Death Penalty, a time where human rights activist come together to advocate against capital punishment.In the United States, executions occur so frequently that I bet a lot of Americans don't even realize how atypical this form of punishment is, particularly11
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OCTOBER 10 — The World Day against the Death Penalty is commemorated on 10 October each year.In Malaysia, the death penalty is mandatory for persons convicted of murder, trafficking in narcotics of various amounts, and discharging a firearm in the commission of various crimes (even
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