Add captionPresident Joko Widodo should seize the opportunity to show that his government has the resolve to stand up for human rights by halting the imminent executions of up to 15 people, Amnesty International said today.The death row prisoners believed to at risk have been convicted of alleged drug
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California's death chamberSunday ends the public comment period for California's proposed regulations for a new safe and sane lethal injection procedure.The regs are in a 29-page document, to which are attached 18 forms that cover things like the condemned's written acknowledgment that "it was13
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Pfizer World HeadquartersThe pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced on Friday that it has imposed sweeping controls on the distribution of its products to ensure that none are used in lethal injections, a step that closes off the last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions.More13
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Kho JabingFamily of Sarawakian convicted of murder in Singapore told to make arrangements for his body to be flown back to Miri after execution.Sarawakian Kho Jabing is set to be executed by Singapore's prison authorities next Friday.According to Malay Mail Online today, the convicted killer's13
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Dylann RoofDefense attorneys for Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old white man accused of killing 9 black parishioners during a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church, say they will allow state prosecutors to conduct their own mental evaluation of Roof.In a hearing last month, the solicitor's office asked to12
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Vernon MadisonA federal court of appeals this morning stayed tonight's scheduled execution of Mobile cop killer Vernon Madison.The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals granted the stay of the execution that was set to take place at Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore.The Alabama Attorney12
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Vernon MadisonThis morning, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a stay of execution for Alabama death row inmate Vernon Madison.In March, the State of Alabama had scheduled Mr. Madison's execution for today.Since that time, EJI lawyers have been asking both state and federal courts to12
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An Irish student who was arrested in the wake of protests in Egypt marks 1000 days of detention facing a potential death sentence.Ibrahim Halawa faces the death penalty despite having been a juvenile - aged just 17 - at the time of his arrest in August 2013. He is being
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May 4, 2016: Two Moroccans have been sentenced to death by a court in El Jadida (200km south of Rabat) for having kidnapped, raped and killed a 7-year-old girl, reported today the local web eljadidanews.com. The incident took place late last year, when the girl, who went by the name Zineb, Leggi
Earl ForrestA man convicted of killing 2 people in a drug dispute and a sheriff's deputy in a subsequent shootout is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday in what could be Missouri's last execution for some time.Earl Forrest, 66, is set to die for the December 2002 deaths of
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Two murder convicts were sent to gallows yesterday.Later, the dead bodies were handed over to the heirs for burial.The convicts identified as Captain (Retd) Zafar Iqbal and Mirza Shafique Ahmed were supposed to be hanged in April but their executions were delayed after they filed applications in11
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California's death chamberOn Nov. 6, 2015, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) published proposed regulations for its new single-drug lethal injection protocol. This triggered an important opportunity for the public to comment in accordance with California's13
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Arkansas is running out of time to put 8 prisoners to death before one of its lethal drugs expires next month, even if the state Supreme Court gives a quick green light after hearing an inmate challenge next week.The state finds itself against a deadline because its supply of the paralytic13
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The execution of death row inmates looks to be near as officials from the Law and Human Rights Ministry visited the Nusakambangan prison Island in Central Java’s Cilacap regency on Tuesday.The visit was aimed at checking the location to ensure everything was set for the executions to go ahead13
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Indiana's death chamberPursuing a death penalty sentence isn't cheap, but some argue you can't put a price on justice.The Owen County Prosecutor is considering the death penalty for the man accused of raping and killing Shaylyn Ammerman.When a prosecutor in Indiana decides to pursue the death13
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"There will not be a ‘soap opera’ about it this time,” Chief Security Minister saysFifteen inmates will face the firing squad in Indonesia’s next round of executions. Five are Indonesians. The rest, according to local media, are foreign — four Chinese, one Pakistani, two Nigerians, two Senegalese12
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Public execution of an 18-year-old youth in Ghaemshahr, Iran, on Sep. 14, 2013The Iranian authorities must urgently halt the scheduled execution this Sunday of a teenager who was just 15 years old at the time of his arrest, said Amnesty
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The number of drug convicts keeps rising despite the implementation of the death penalty, showing that capital punishment is not that effective in fighting drug-related crime, activists have said.At least 16 NGOs grouped in the Anti-Death Penalty Civil Society Coalition told a press conference12
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Reza HosseiniIran Human Rights (May 12 2016): Iran Human Rights has obtained a phone interview conducted by the human rights news site, HRANA, with Azadeh Geravand, the wife of Reza Hosseini, a man who was recently executed by Iranian authorities on drug charges.Reza Hosseini, 34, who resided in11
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Kim Jong-un (R) with Ri Yong-gil at a military parade in October 2015May 10, 2016: the North Korean state news media published list of officials newly selected for senior posts, which also includes Ri Yong-gil, a prominent general
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Three death row prisoners were moved on 8 May to Indonesia’s Nusakambangan prison island, where 13 executions were carried out in 2015. On 10 May, the Attorney General confirmed to the media that another round of executions will be carried out soon. Please write immediately in English, Bahasa
LP Prison on Nusakambangan Island, Central Java.Fifteen drug convicts on death row, including 10 foreigners, will face firing squads at an unspecified date in mid May, a spokesman for Central Java police told BenarNews on Tuesday.The executions would be the first since eight mostly foreign Leggi
More than a year after a judge ordered Texas to divulge the source of its execution drugs, the information has not been released, legislators passed a state law protecting the prison agency from doing so, and the lengthy appeal that has allowed the provider to remain secret will finally be
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia has left the Supreme Court divided down the middle on the death penalty at a time when its constitutionality is coming under increased scrutiny.The justices deadlocked 4-4 late Thursday night over the scheduled execution of an Alabama prisoner who killed a13
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Cheng ChiehThe judiciary followed proper procedure and defense lawyers filing an extraordinary appeal cannot be the basis for suspending procedures to carry out a death sentence, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office said yesterday in response to controversy surrounding the execution of convicted Taipei13
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More than 2 hours after Vernon Madison was scheduled to be put to death Thursday by the state of Alabama, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling upholding a lower court's stay of execution.Madison's attorneys from the Montgomery-based nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative had been seeking a stay from13
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Vernon MadisonBREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court in 4-4 vote rejects Alabama's request to vacate Vernon Madison's stay of execution, meaning that Mr. Madison will not be executed as scheduled tonight.The United States Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's order staying the execution of Alabama death
AUSTIN - A state appellate court hinted Wednesday that it had little interest in expanding government secrecy in a case involving the public's right to know who supplies the lethal drugs Texas uses to execute convicted criminals.A decision in favor of openness by the state's 3rd Court of Appeals12
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Philippine police officersRodrigo Duterte is known by many names. The Punisher. Duterte Harry. And more recently, the Donald Trump of Asia.The citizens of Davao, a bustling industrial hub in the southern Philippines, have long known him as their tough-talking mayor. Soon, the entire nation will11
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Earl ForrestA man convicted of killing 2 people in a drug dispute and a sheriff's deputy in a subsequent shootout was put to death Wednesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre, in what was Missouri's last execution for some time.Earl Forrest, 66, was sentenced to die for the
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Vernon MadisonA Mobile County Circuit Judge denied a stay of execution for Vernon Madison. He's one of Alabama's longest serving death row inmates.Madison was convicted of the 1985 killing of Mobile Police Officer Julius Schulte. He's set to be executed Thursday at Holman Prison, near
Antigua & BarbudaSeveral countries at the United Nations (UN) have recommended that the government of Antigua & Barbuda establish a formal moratorium on capital punishment.The recommendations, which came from among approximately 44 country representatives at the 25th session of the UN
NCRI - The mullahs' regime has hanged four prisoners in a notorious jail in Isfahan, central Iran, according to local reports.The four prisoners, who were not named, were hanged on Sunday in Dastgerd Prison.Also on Sunday a man was hanged in public in Kermanshah, western Iran, and another man was11
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Nusakambangan island, Central Java, IndonesiaJakarta. Amnesty International on Wednesday (11/05) slammed Indonesia's plans to execute death-row inmates, following recent reports of inmates being moved to Nusakambangan prison, where prisoners typically await their execution.The executions are