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The US Ambassador to the United Nations has made false claims about Barack Obama as she struggles to justify a controversial vote.The US recently sparked anger when it sided with the Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq in voting against a measure at the United Nations Human Rights Council that condemned
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"They started making me out to be a total idiot and retard from day one."The oldest Arkansas death row inmate and his victim's family agreed on one thing Wednesday: Jack Greene is "totally competent" for his upcoming execution.However, Greene's attorneys have argued he is too mentally ill to06
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A former chairman of state fuel giant PetroVietnam has appealed against the death penalty he received last week from a court in Hanoi for his role in the infamous multi-million-dollar graft case at OceanBank.On September 29, the court sentenced Nguyen Xuan Son, chairman of the board at the oil and
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the convictions and death sentences for Donte Johnson in connection with a 1988 quadruple homicide in Las Vegas.Johnson raised multiple issues in his post-conviction appeal, but the court unanimously upheld the lower court decision, which
The Alabama Department of Corrections has announced that tonight's execution is called off after the Alabama Attorney General's Office decided not to appeal a stay that had been issued in the case. That means the state will have to reset the execution for a later time.U.S. District Court Judge05
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The question of whether convicted murderer Randall Mays is competent to be executed has been answered.On Monday, senior state visiting District Judge Joe D. Clayton found Mays competent to be executed by the state of Texas.Mays, 58, of Payne Springs, was convicted and sentenced to death for the05
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In a brief order entered yesterday afternoon, the Supreme Court allowed the execution of an Alabama inmate to go forward.The state had asked the court to intervene after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit put the execution on hold; the ruling means that the execution of
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An Irving father sentenced to death for the revenge killing of his children after their mother left him has been granted a new punishment trial.Hector Rolando Medina, 38, shot 3-year-old Javier and 8-month-old Diana in the head and the neck after his girlfriend left him in March 2007. He then shot05
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NCRI - Iran Human Rights Monitor has compiled a report detailing the human rights situation in the country for the month of September.It highlighted that there has been a continuation of systematic violations of human rights and mentioned in particular executions, amputations, torture
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"When I was convicted of something I knew did not happen, I stopped and said a quiet prayer," former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman told The Star last week for an article on the death penalty. "I prayed that I had not made the same mistake when I was governor."Siegelman, who was
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Prosecutors said Wednesday they will be seeking the death penalty against the woman accused of being the killer clown in a 27-year-old murder case.The announcement came during a court appearance for Sheila Keen Warren, who arrived in Palm Beach County from Virginia on Tuesday night.Authorities04
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STARKE -- Two days before his scheduled execution, Michael Lambrix decided he won’t go quietly.For an hour at Florida State Prison Tuesday, the convicted murderer talked about life and death, his last meal and upcoming funeral, and criticized a court system that he has long insisted would not
A death row inmate is challenging the state's current method of execution on the grounds that the public should have had a chance to comment on the process put in place 3 years ago.The Indiana Supreme Court considered the fate of the
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Press Secretary Anthony Newbold said Tuesday he does not know if the Minnis administration has made progress in its plans to allow capital punishment to be resumed in the Bahamas.After demanding in opposition that the law on capital punishment be enforced, the Minnis administration has, since its06
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Florida executes man convicted of 2 killings decades agoFlorida executed an inmate Thursday who was convicted of killing two people after a night of drinking decades ago.Michael Lambrix, 57, died by lethal injection at 10:10 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Bradford County.For his final words05
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It is time to make it clear that buying human beings for sex is unacceptable.October 5 is International Day of No Prostitution.As well as raising awareness of the needs of prostituted people – in terms of helping them to exit and erasing their criminal record – it is a day to call on men to
Justice Kudirat Jose of an Ikeja High Court wednesday sentenced to death Izunna Ajaere, a 25-year-old male hairdresser for stealing a laptop and a mobile phone at gunpoint.Ajaere was found guilty based on the two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery and was sentenced to death by05
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A Florida inmate convicted of killing 2 people decades ago has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt Thursday's scheduled execution.Attorneys for Michael Lambrix filed the appeal Tuesday.Lambrix was convicted of killing Clarence Moore and Aleisha Bryant. Prosecutors said he killed the pair in 198305
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On Friday, September 29, the Human Rights Council voted in favor of a resolution which condemned the "imposition of the death penalty as a sanction for specific forms of conduct, such as apostasy, blasphemy, adultery and consensual same-sex relations."The Independent reported that the resolution05
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Traces of a nerve agent used to murder the half-brother of North Korea's leader were found on the clothes of two women on trial for assassinating him, a chemist testified Thursday.His testimony is the first evidence directly linking the women to the poison VX which was used to kill Kim
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused appeals from 2 convicted killers facing execution in Texas this month, including 1 inmate set to die next week.The high court, without comment, declined to review appeals from death row inmates Robert Pruett and Anthony Shore.Pruett, 38, is set to Leggi05
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Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for an Orlando mother and daughter accused in the beating death of a toddler on July 7.A grand jury in late August indicted Callene M. Barton, 58, and Lakesha Lewis, 29, on charges of first-degree murder, witness intimidation and child neglect.The two04
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On September 29th, China joined 12 other countries in voting against a United Nations resolution aimed at condemning countries for executing people for having gay sex.The Human Rights Council resolution asked countries in which the death penalty is legal to ensure that
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A petition said that Article 21 of the Indian Constitution includes the right of a convict to have a dignified mode of executionThe Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Centre on a plea seeking alternatives to death by hanging for prisoners sentenced to die.The top court asked the
In the end, John Thompson got to live 14 years as a free man — the same number he spent on Louisiana’s death row, condemned for a 1984 murder he didn’t commit.Seven times the state set a date for his execution. Weeks before the seventh,
Leggi TuttoBy Michael LambrixWhat if someone approached you today and told you that you only had two days to live - and that you had to spend your remaining days in solitary, away from all those that mattered to you. Alone, you slowly count down each moment of every day, each
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TOPEKA - Kansas is considering moving its execution chamber from Lansing to El Dorado.The state has not executed anyone since the 1960s, but the death penalty was reinstated in 1994 and a future execution remains at least theoretically possible.Currently, Kansas would conduct any executions by
The knife collection of a man accused of raping and killing a female bartender should not have been introduced into evidence at trial because the weapons weren't used in the slaying, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday as it overturned the conviction and death sentence of the05
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With 17 executions to date, plus 13 scheduled for the remainder of 2017, the U.S. may see a historically low number of executions this year, according to a mid-year review by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). Death sentences, executions, and death penalty support has been waning Leggi
In the United States, it's believed those with intellectual abilities far below average aren't executed. In 2002, the Atkins v. Virginia decision, ruled it unconstitutional to carry out death sentences against the intellectually disabled. However, the practice continues, revealing a pattern
On May 20, 1999, the day before his younger son’s high school graduation, John Thompson was scheduled to be electrocuted in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He had survived six other execution dates, but he was running out of miracles.Early in 1985, when he was 22, Mr. Thompson had been arrested
A new book explores the slow demise of the ultimate punishment.There are 4 men left on death row in Virginia, and only 31 people were sentenced to death in the entire U.S. last year, compared with more than 300 per year in the mid-1990s. The numbers are stark, but
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Duane E. Buck barged into his girlfriend’s Texas home after she broke up with him and killed her and a friend. Later that morning in July 1995, he fired a rifle at his stepsister, who survived because the bullet just missed her heart.His guilt was never in doubt, and
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A South Korean student, once in line for an automatic death sentence for drug trafficking, has seen a reversal in fortunes after he was acquitted today.The ruling occurred after the suspect's defense team was able to prove that the police officer had lied several times while under oath.Kim Yun