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Motiur Rahman NizamiMotiur Rahman Nizami has paid with his life for the carnage he unleashed on Bengalis as the commander of Al-Badr militia to stop a secular Bangladesh being carved out of Islamic Pakistan in 1971.He was hung by the neck at Dhaka Central Jail in the 1st hour
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Rodrigo DuterteIf President-elect Rodrigo Duterte is serious about introducing change in the Philippines, he must turn his back on the history of human rights violations and end the prevailing culture of impunity, Amnesty International said today.Rodrigo Duterte, the former Mayor of Davao city, is10
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Jakarta. Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly has confirmed that death-row convict Freddy Budiman will not be included in the third round of executions of drug convicts that is expected to take place soon.Freddy, who was found guilty of smuggling 1.4 million ecstasy pills from China to09
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Florida's death chamberA Miami-Dade judge has ruled that Florida's death penalty is unconstitutional because jurors are not required to agree unanimously on execution - a ruling that will add to the ongoing legal debate over Florida's capital punishment system.Circuit Judge Milton Hirsch on Monday09
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Iran Human Rights (MAY 8 2016): One prisoner was hanged publicly in the "Azadi" (Liberty) Square of Kermanshah, western Iran.The public execution was carried out in front of hundreds of people Sunday morning May 8.According to the Iranian state-run news agencies Fars and YJC the prisoner who
Several death-row inmates have reportedly been moved to Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap, Central Java, signaling that their executions will be held in the near future.Three death-row convicts from Tembesi prison in Batam were quietly transferred to Nusakambangan prison on Sunday evening09
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Opposition to the death penalty is often rooted in arguments about its irreversibility, its essential cruelty, the possibility of error and the false sense of justice in doing unto convicted murderers what they had done to their victims. In the Indian context, politics surrounding the prisoners’08
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Cairo, EgyptAn Egyptian court has sought the death penalty for six men including three journalists charged with endangering national security by spying for Qatar.The verdict against former president Mohamed Mursi, who is charged in the same case, was postponed until June 18 – when the final ruling07
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An Egyptian court recommended death sentences on Saturday for 6 codefendants of Mohamed Morsi but not for the ousted Islamist president in their trial on espionage charges.The presiding judge in the trial asked the mufti -- the country's official interpreter of Islamic law -- to consider death07
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On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected Richard Boyer’s petition for review of a federal appeals court ruling that, in turn, rejected his argument that California’s long (and continuing) delay in carrying out his death sentence amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.Dissenting from that denial in
A total of 241 persons out of the 385 death row inmates in India are 1st time offenders, new findings contained in the "Death Penalty India Report" released on Friday said.For the study, 373 of all the 385 death row inmates in India were interviewed from July 2013 to January 2015
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It is strange that we are currently governed by a system that directly relies on the use of vastly differentiated standards of what makes the "rarest of rare". The definition of the "rarest" is left to judges governed by personal viewpoints on what constitutes extreme rarity.Capital punishment has10
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Cheng ChiehTaiwan on Tuesday executed a former college student who killed 4 people in a random stabbing spree on a subway 2 years ago, in an attack which horrified the generally peaceful island.Cheng Chieh, 23, was anaesthetised then shot 3 times by a firing squad at a jail outside Taipei Leggi
A prize-winning Taiwanese film exploring the use of the death penalty will screen at the Cannes Film Festival later this month, adding to recent increased debate about the island's use of capital punishment.Leon Lee's 23-minute film titled "The Day To Choose" puts its main character, a lawyer and09
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Iran's fundamentalist regime has executed 4 more prisoners, including a man in public.On Monday 2 prisoners, identified as Nasser Saidi (Jafari) and Mehdi Nabashi (Nabashian), were hanged in a prison in Orumieh (Urmia), north-west Iran.A man, identified as Mohsen Baha'odini, was hanged on Sunday09
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These prisoners have been convicted of horrible crimes. But this series is not about their crimes, it's about what happens afterward.The Last Phone CallHow to Keep Your Sanity in SolitaryMemories of Execution DayHow to Get on Death Row without Firing a BulletWhen Art and Love Save an
ISIS militants throw gay man off 7-story building in Syria (file photo).ERBIL ــ The extremist group of Islamic State (ISIS) threw a young man off the top of a building in Manbij city in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo
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Kabul, AfghanistanAfghanistan hanged six prisoners convicted of terrorism offences, as part of a tougher new policy towards the Taliban promised by President Ashraf Ghani in retaliation for last month's suicide attack which killed at least 64 people in Kabul.The death sentences, carried out at the07
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The Death Penalty Research Project, undertaken by researchers at the National Law University in Delhi, found that over 80 per cent of prisoners facing capital punishment had not completed school and nearly half had begun working before the age of 18.The first comprehensive study of the07
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia on Thursday put to death a Jordanian convicted of drug trafficking, in the kingdom's 91st execution this year.Maher al-Ghurabli had been found guilty of smuggling amphetamine pills into the kingdom, the interior ministry said in a statement.Authorities06
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Rodrigo DuterteFormer mayor of Davao has garnered broad support with tough talk and anti-crime agendaRodrigo Duterte's straight-talking - if foul-mouthed - manner and tough-on-crime policies have earned him comparisons with Donald Trump. The former mayor of Davao is leading in the polls and could06
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Amnesty International has urged President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani not to sign the execution orders of prisoners convicted of terror offences.The appeal by Amnesty International comes as the Taliban group made a plea to international organizations to intervene and stop the Afghan government to05
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San Quentin's gas chamberDan Vasquez performed 2 executions while warden at San QuentinWithout any experience or medical training, Dan Vasquez was employed by the government to kill other human beings.As warden of San Quentin, one of the most notorious prisons in the world, put inmates to death10
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Cilacap: Preparations ahead of the third round of executions are on track.Jakarta. Preparations ahead of the third round of executions are on track with 14 death row inmates on the list, Attorney General H.M. Prasetyo said on Monday (09/05).“Preparations [of
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The 1st comprehensive report on death-row prisoners by the National Law University, which identified 385 prisoners and received access to 373 of them, reveals certain infirmities that would question the basis upon which death penalties are awarded.Confirming studies in other countries that the09
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Belarus' President Alexander LukashenkoStatement by the Spokesperson on the execution of Syarhey Iwanow and of the confirmation of the death sentence against Sergei KhmelevskyDespite the many calls made by the European Union, another execution has been carried out in Belarus. The case of Syarhey
Bangkok, ThailandThe 21 Malaysians arrested in Thailand recently on suspicion of being 'drug mules' could face the death penalty under the country's Narcotics Act for possession and sale of Category 1 Substances."The suspects can face the death penalty following the large seizure of09
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Louisiana prison, 1965. Credit Leonard Freed/Magnum PhotosThe last time a white person in Louisiana was executed for a crime against a black person was in 1752, when a soldier named Pierre Antoine Dochenet was hanged after attempting to stab two enslaved
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents publicly executed two women, one of them in an apparent honor killing, in northern Afghanistan recently, according to Afghan officials, members of the victims’ families and a video posted online.The killings, which were thought to be unrelated, took place in07
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The execution of Yakub Memon, one of the accused in 1993 Bombay bombings, last year ignited the debate on 'capital punishment' with pro- and anti-death punishment brigades making ferocious arguments to prove their points. While arguments against Yakub's hanging addressed specific procedural facts07
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Australia's federal police would be forbidden from sharing information about drug crimes if it could result in the death penalty under major changes being considered by the Turnbull government.Just after the 1-year anniversary of the executions in Indonesia of Australian drug smuggling ringleaders06
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Florida's death chamberFlorida's new death penalty law went on trial Thursday in the Supreme Court as a death row inmate asked for a life sentence, the state called for his execution, and a justice who's often part of a five-member court majority questioned the law's constitutionality.Hanging in
Nusakambangan Island in Cilacap, Central Java, IndonesiaNusakambangan Island in Cilacap regency, Central Java, is again in the spotlight following the announcement of the government's plan to carry out the third round of executions of death row convicts on the infamous prison island.Attorney05
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Motiur Rahman NizamiMotiur Rahman Nizami, leader of Jamaat-e-Islami party, could face hanging at any timeBangladesh's supreme court has rejected a final appeal by the leader of the top Islamist party against a death sentence for atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence, lawyers