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KYOTO – Prosecutors on Tuesday sought the death penalty for a 70-year-old woman, dubbed the “black widow,” charged with the murders of her husband and two common-law partners and the attempted murder of an acquaintance between 2007 and 2013.Describing Chisako Kakehi’s alleged crimes as “heinous and serious incidents that
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The US is seventh in the world in terms of executionsUnited Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said he wants the US to end its “barbaric practice” of the death penalty.This was the leader of the world body’s first statement on the death
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Three years have passed since a statewide task force made 56 recommendations to improve the conduct of the death penalty. Lawmakers have enacted fewer than 10. The courts, too, have been slow to act, though the Ohio Supreme
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Iran Human Rights (Oct 9 2017): Since January 2017, at least 435 people, including 5 juvenile offenders, have been executed according to Iran by Iran Human Rights (IHR) Death Penalty Research Section. At least 219 people have been executed for drug offences so
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The death penalty MUST be abolished - what Obama secretlytold billionaire Richard Branson - despite publicly saying he understood ultimate punishmentPresident Obama believed the death penalty should be abolished in order for America to move forward, according to a new autobiography by Virgin09
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The government has been ‘too slow in its response to rapes and sexual assault reports in schools’.As the BBC broadcasts two powerful programmes this week documenting the scale of rape and sexual bullying in schools, and the hopeless response of many schools to these incidents, the End Violence09
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The apex court has asked the central government to respond to the PIL within 3 weeks.Acting on a writ petition challenging the mode of execution in a death sentence, the Supreme Court on Friday has observed that the legislature could consider another mode rather than the present one in practice09
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On Wednesday, pathologist Mohd Shah Mahmood testified before Malaysia's high court in the trial of Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong, who stand accused of killing Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.Mohd Shah, an employee of the Malaysian government, testified09
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Fate of militants' families remains uncertainAt least 100 European Isis fighters will be prosecuted in Iraq, with most to face the death penalty, the country's ambassador to Belgium has reportedly said.Jawad al-Chlaihawi said Belgians were among those detained, along with jihadists from Russia07
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Lawyer Rishi Malhotra, who filed the PIL seeking relief under Article 21 (Right to Life) of the Constitution and said the Article must provide for the right of a condemned prisoner to have a dignified mode of execution.The plea before the Supreme Court said "dying with dignity is part of right07
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ALLAHABAD: Considering it a rarest of rare case, the Allahabad high court on Friday confirmed the death sentence awarded to a 35-year-old man who had raped and murdered a seven-year-old girl after kidnapping her.Dismissing the appeal filed by the convict Pappu of Kushinagar, a bench observed, "The06
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‘Until this is done, we will continue to be being blamed for the horrendous experiences we endured as children’.Police chiefs, police and crime commissioners (PCCs) and England’s children’s commissioner have backed calls for new legislation to pardon sexual abuse victims who broke the law while10
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We, as families, demand the immediate release of our relatives who have been unlawfully detained.Who are we? Families for Freedom is a movement of Syrian families. We are women-led. We are peaceful. We are determined.Join us.We are Syrian families demanding freedom for all of the country’s10
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Today, on 10th October the European Union (EU) joins many partners across the world to commemorate the 15th World Day against the Death Penalty.Despite a positive trend towards abolition and restriction of the use of capital punishment in most countries, we have seen worrying evidence of serious10
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Many years ago as I took the first steps of an unexpectedly long spanning decade after decade on Florida´s death row, by coincidence I came to know the infamous Ted Bundy, who many see as the very personification of “evil.”In the countless hours I spent conversing with him over several
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Proposed rules for single-drug executions in California were rejected Monday by a state legal agency whose decision may soon be nullified by an initiative approved by state voters last November.State prison officials have been trying to rewrite their regulations since a federal judge halted09
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The cuts are ‘not driven by necessity and are completely at odds with the needs of service users’.In August the Department of Health (DoH) asked the five Health and Social Care (HSC) Trusts in Northern Ireland to develop draft savings plans totalling £70 million to ‘deliver an annual balanced09
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The Gujarat High Court today pronounced the verdict in 2002 Godhra train carnage.The High Court commuted the death penalty of 11 convicts to life imprisonment. The court sustained the acquittal of 31 accused and also sustained the life term of 20 convicts.While awarding compensation of Rs 10 lakh09
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The number of death row inmates who have exhausted all their appeals has grown to 16, with still no plan in place to begin executions again.The latest inmate to become eligible for an execution date is murderer Richard Norman Rojem Jr., who kidnapped, raped and fatally stabbed a 7-year-old Leggi
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — After almost 20 years of maintaining his innocence, a death row inmate’s request to re-examine DNA evidence from a murder scene went before a Marion County judge.Shackled, dressed in a green prison jumpsuit and accompanied by three Oregon Department of Corrections officers
More than two years after the execution of Bali Nine ringleaders Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, artist and filmmaker Matthew Sleeth is still furious about what he considers a pointless loss of life in an act of political theatre."I'm angry for Myuran,"
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SAN QUENTIN — A condemned murderer who was one of just 16 inmates on California’s Death Row to have exhausted his appeals died of unknown causes, prison officials announced this week.San Quentin officials are investigating the death of Fernando Belmontes, 56, but say there was no obvious cause
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has submitted an official petition for clemency to the Bahraini Government on behalf of Mohamed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa, two men facing imminent execution in Bahrain. Mr Ramadhan and Mr Moosa were convicted of carrying out a 2014 bombing10
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Document’s international human rights documentary film festival is coming!Established in 2003, it provides a platform that attracts Scottish, British and international documentary filmmakers and promotes local and international discussion, cultural exchange and education.And by screening the10
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Every year on October 10th, FIDH founding member of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, reaches out to citizens, associations, and institutions who strive to universally abolish the death penalty.This year, with the World Coalition, we wished to bring your attention to the link Leggi10
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In a kitchen in suburban Melbourne sit two English lawyers who have saved hundreds of convicted criminals from execution.Parvais Jabbar and Saul Lehrfreund's strike rate of keeping death row clients alive in the Caribbean and Africa is nothing short of extraordinary – more than
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WASHINGTON — Two weeks before Robert McCoy was to be tried for a triple murder, his lawyer paid him a visit. It was the summer of 2011, and the two men met in a holding cell in a Louisiana courthouse. Mr. McCoy, who was facing the death penalty, told his lawyer
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October 10 marks the World Day against the Death PenaltyDeath penalty violates the most fundamental human rights, the right to life and the right to freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.The death penalty is also considered discriminatory as it is often used against the09
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Executions are down but death penalty prosecutions are up over the last year of President Joko Widodo's administration.Tomorrow, October 10, is World Day Against the Death Penalty, and human rights activists in Indonesia used the opportunity to highlight an alarming increase in death penalty09
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Rodney Reed, the Bastrop man who's spent nearly 20 years on death row for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites - a crime he has steadfastly maintained he did not commit - could move 1 step closer to a new trial next week.On Tuesday, Oct. 10, he'll
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Patrick Charles Hannon, convicted in the grisly 1991 killings of 2 men in a North Tampa apartment, is scheduled to die next month by lethal injection.Gov. Rick Scott signed Hannon's death warrant Friday. The execution is scheduled for 6 p.m. Nov. 8.Hannon, 52, has been on death row for
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TOKYO - Three European ambassadors to Japan on Friday called on Tokyo to abolish the practice of capital punishment prior to next week's World and European Day against the Death Penalty."As friends, we should share our experience and speak our mind," Viorel Isticioaia-Budura, the European Union's06
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Given the ever rising rates, why is there such reluctance by all concerned to act?The chances are you’ll never have thought about breast cancer prevention in relation to Brexit.Yet they are linked.For example, our – now clean – beaches and seas benefit from progressive EU legislation.Our06
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Ohio has been able to replenish part of its lethal drug supply in recent months, and could carry out nearly 20 additional executions under certain conditions, according to new records obtained by The Associated Press.The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction took in new supplies of