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Jakarta. Opposition is growing to the government's decision to impose tougher punishment, including chemical castration, on child sex offenders, a move observers have warned would fail to suppress such crimes and instead undermine human rights.A government regulation in lieu of law, signed by President Joko Widodo on Wednesday (25/05), allows an additional
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Iran: A medieval theocracy, barbaric and nightmarish punishmentsNCRI - At least five prisoners in Iran’s notorious Gohardasht (Rajai-Shahr) Prison in Karaj are awaiting sentences which would see them be blinded or made deaf with acid under the Iranian regime’s fundamentalist law of retribution
Cairo, Egypt12 others sentenced to life in prison, 6 others to 15 years and 2 were acquittedThe West Cairo Military Court upheld on Sunday death sentences for 8 civilians and sentenced 12 others to life in prison in the case publicly known as the "specialised intelligence committee" case.627
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia will have put to death more than 100 people in the first 6 months of this year if it continues to carry out executions at its current pace, said Amnesty International today. At least 94 people have been executed so far
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The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday again said that it would be unconstitutional to execute inmates on the state's death row, upholding a decision from the same court last year effectively banning the death penalty in the state.In a decision in August, the state's justices ruled that26
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Expressing concern about possible imminent executions in Gaza, the United Nations human rights office today urged the authorities in Gaza to uphold their obligations to respect the rights to life and to a fair trial and not carry out death penalty."We also urge the Palestinian President to25
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Hillary ClintonIn 1977, 2 years after he was convicted of robbing a shoe store and stabbing a clerk to death, 22-year-old Henry Giles sat on death row at Arkansas' Cummins Prison Farm, awaiting his execution by electric chair.Psychologists had termed Giles "grossly retarded." With an IQ of just
Amnesty International has said that recent trials resulting in death sentences have been 'grossly unfair'Iraq has executed 22 people over the past month who were convicted of terrorism and other crimes, the justice minister announced on Monday.The ministry "carried out death sentences against 22
Abdullah, the Sudanese fatherManama: A Saudi father has turned down SR225,000 (Dh220,353) given to him in blood money following the death of his son.The son died in a car accident caused by a stray camel on a highway in Sakakah, in northwestern Saudi Arabia.The blood money was
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Nebraska: Gathering signatures against the death penalty repealSeveral arguments were advanced on Monday morning by state Sen. Colby Coash of Lincoln and state Sen. Mike Gloor of Grand Island in urging Nebraska voters to uphold the action of the Legislature in doing away with
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Dylann RoofFederal prosecutors will seek a death sentence for Dylann Roof, the man accused of killing nine parishioners in a Charleston, S.C., church last year.“Following the department’s rigorous review process to thoroughly consider all relevant factual and legal issues, I have determined that24
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Tangerang, Banten. Police confiscated more than 70 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in a drug bust at the Arcadia Housing Complex in Batuceper, a subdistrict of Tangerang, Banten, on Monday (23/05), shortly after they arrested two members of an international drug syndicate at the Soekarno-Hatta29
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Isaiah SweetIOWA CITY — Juveniles who commit even the most heinous murders must someday have the chance to earn their release from prison, a divided Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday.The court banned judges from imposing sentences of life without parole on offenders who are under 18 when they commit28
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President Maithripala Sirisena has commuted 187 death sentences to life imprisonment on recommendations by an expert committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge Nimal E. Dissanayake.The decision has been announced in the wake of protests demanding the implementation of the death penalty on the27
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A medieval theocracy, barbaric punishments: Shiraz, Iran, May 26, 2016Iran's fundamentalist regime on Thursday publicly hanged a man in the southern city of Shiraz.The regime's judiciary in Fars Province, southern Iran, in a May 26 statement identified the victim only as Hamid
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Police boats patrol the strait between Cilacap and Nusakambangan IslandAmid the government's preparations for the next round of executions, convicted drug kingpin Freddy Budiman has filed a case review to overturn his death sentence.On Wednesday, he and his team of lawyers attended
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Dylann RoofWhite-on-black murders rarely result in a death sentence. Roof might be an exception.Federal prosecutors have announced that they will seek a death sentence for Dylann Roof, meaning he will face two death penalty trials.Though Dylann Roof’s case is in its earliest stages, he is likely
Bernie SandersThe senator sticks with his principles.The Justice Department announced on Tuesday it would seek the death penalty in the case of accused South Carolina mass murderer Dylann Roof.Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) opposes the Justice Department's decision to seek the death penalty in the
President WidodoPresident Joko Widodo on Wednesday (May 25) signed a government regulation in lieu of the law approving the death penalty as a maximum sentence for sexual crimes against children.According to the regulation, offenders could face chemical castration and be monitored with an25
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CRIME MAY. 25, 2016 - 06:49AM JST ( 25 ) TOKYO — The Japanese Diet on Tuesday enacted a law to make a series of changes to criminal proceedings, including obligating police and prosecutors to record interrogations of suspects and expanding the scope of wiretapping by investigators.But questions24
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More than 9 years after the murder of their daughter, the parents of Jodi Sanderholm are speaking out to KSN News, as the execution of the man convicted in her murder, remains very much in doubt.Jodi Sanderholm was 19 years old when she was murdered in Ark City, Kansas."I'm sure she, Jodi24
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Iranian human rights activist Narges MohammadiThe international community has reacted with outrage after Narges Mohammadi, the ailing Iranian human rights activist already serving a six-year jail term, was given a further 16-year sentence by a revolutionary court in Tehran.Mohammadi, 44, was found
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a black Georgia death row inmate convicted in 1987 of murdering an elderly white woman, finding that prosecutors unlawfully excluded black potential jurors in selecting an all-white jury.In a 7-1 ruling, the court handed a victory to inmate
Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Fahd Houssawi was put to death for murder of police officer as human rights groups raise concern over surge in executionsSaudi authorities have executed a Nigerian man after convicting him of murdering a police officer.It was the 95th execution Leggi
Charles FloresCharles Flores, a Texas death row inmate who was scheduled to be executed next week June 2, was granted a stay of execution late Friday afternoon.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed Flores’ execution date and sent his case back to the trial court for a hearing based on Leggi27
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Jessica WongsoDespite assuring the Australian Federal Police the death penalty would not be sought, Jakarta prosecutors are publicly refusing to rule it out.Jakarta prosecutors have refused to publicly rule out the death penalty in the case of a woman accused of murdering her friend with a26
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Tuesday's 7-1 Supreme Court decision in Foster v. Chatman was a huge victory for Timothy Foster, a 49-year-old Black man who has been on Georgia's death row for 29 years. The ruling also reflects a systemic problem with the death penalty: prosecutors' repeated, deliberate use of race to choose
Execution of alleged "collaborators" with Israel by Hamas militants in Aug. 2014GAZA CITY — Hamas, the militant Islamist group that rules Gaza, called on Wednesday for the resumption of the death penalty for certain crimes. Several Palestinians
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Training to recognize the symptoms of nitrogen hypoxiaTucked inside last week's scathing Multicounty Grand Jury report was a recommendation the state begin moving away from lethal injection. Instead jurors suggested the state hire experts to take a look at moving to nitrogen hypoxia; a suggestion25
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ISIS: Stoned to death for being gayThe Islamic State (ISIS) extremists have stoned to death a teenage boy accused of homosexuality in the Mayadin city of Deir ez-Zor province.Jamal Nassir al-Oujan, 15, was arrested on charges of being gay on Saturday.The Sharia Court accused him of
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)NCRI – Iran’s fundamentalist regime mass executed on Wednesday 11 prisoners in their twenties, including at least one who is believed to have been a minor at the time of his alleged offence. Another three prisoners were executed on Tuesday.The 11
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Hamas members prepare to execute Palestinians for allegedly spying for Israelin August 2014.The Palestinian militant group Hamas is to carry out a string of public executions in the Gaza strip, the patch of territory it controls.The executions were
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Riyadh, May 24: Saudi Arabia put to death a citizen convicted of murder today, bringing to 94 the number of executions in the kingdom this year.Imad al-Assimi was found guilty of shooting dead a compatriot in a dispute, the
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ERBIL – Authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran executed five Kurdish rights activists in the northwestern Urmia city, officials and local activists confirmed on Friday. The Kurdish rights activists Naji Kiwan, Ali Kurdian, Haidar Ramini, Nadir Muhamadi and Ruhman Rashidi were arrested on