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Public hanging in Iran (file photo)Five prisoners hanged in northern Iran in the span of two days: one in public on murder charges and four at Ghezel Hesar Prison on drug charges.Iran Human Rights (May 5 2016): A prisoner with murder charges was reportedly hanged in
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An Alabama circuit court judge has denied a request to suspend the May 12 execution date of Vernon Madison, who has been on the state's death row for 31 years.Madison was convicted in September 1985 and sentenced to death in Mobile County in the April 18, 1985, slaying of police Officer Julius04
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A murder convict was hanged at the district jail on Tuesday morning. The execution of another convict was put off on Tuesday after his family reached a settlement with the petitioners.Jail authorities said Asghar Ali, a resident of Khushab, had murdered his brother, his brother's wife, and their 404
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Matthew Sleeth hosted an exhibition by Myuran Sukumaran in 2014An artist who ran prison workshops with Myuran Sukumaran plans a film about the last weeks of the Bali Nine member leading up to his execution.Matthew Sleeth has been funded to shoot Guilty,
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Lindsay Sandiford (center) in Bali's Kerobokan prisonIndonesian police have set up "several" firing squads ready for deployment to a notorious prison island as the country finalises preparations for a fresh wave of executions of drug smugglers.2 British death row inmates, including grandmother
Unlike in past elections, national interest in the presidential candidates' position on the death penalty has waned, partly due to a decline in the number of states that no longer allow capital punishment.Also, in U.S. the rate of violent crimes decreased steadily for 20 years, until 2015 when03
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen BreyerU.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer resumed his critique of the death penalty in America on Monday, but without the help of any other justice.Breyer alone dissented from the court's denial of review in Boyer v. Davis, a California case in
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Iran welcomes foreign investors while accelerating mass and public executions. - Report an error, an omission:Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo. document.getElementById('cloak21e9f99788c4ec9bb286675b74545c47').innerHTML =
3 death convicts who had sought commutation of their sentence into life imprisonment for being 'young offenders' lost their appeals before the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Saturday.An anti-terrorism appellate bench, comprising justices Naimatullah Phulpoto and Aftab Ahmed Gorar, dismissed their30
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Bali's Kerobokan prisonWhen Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan faced their certain death last year, pastor Christie Buckingham remembers how they sang Bless the Lord until the end."(I remember) their kindness, their courage ... the way that they smiled at those about to take their lives."She also
A court in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday sentenced a Singaporean man to death for trafficking 2.5 kilograms of heroin.Lee Loke Dah, 40, was arrested at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in December 2014 with a plastic bag containing thousands of capsules.Further tests confirmed that the drug29
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Indonesian Attorney General Muhammad PrasetyoIndonesia’s attorney general announced Friday that all technical preparations for executing drug convicts have been completed, but would not disclose when the next round of inmates would be brought before the firing squad."Coordination and preparation04
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On 10th June 2015, Aftab Bahadur was executed after spending 22 years on death row in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail. Bahadur, a Christian man, entered the formidable walls of his death row cell at the age of 15 and left only when he walked to the gallows at the age of 39.He was
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5,231 Days in Jail: Cheng was happy to be reunited with his mother in time for Mother's Day after 14 years in prison. He is to be retried after new evidence surfacedThe Taichung Branch of the Taiwan High Court yesterday ruled that death-row inmate Cheng Hsing-tse should be released on bail pending
A special tribunal in Bangladesh today handed down death penalty to 4 men for committing war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War by siding with Pakistani troops as the court directed authorities to seek help from Interpol in nabbing 3 of them who are on the run.Bangladesh's International Crimes
Taliban fightersThe 11 belonged to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan which is waging a bloody insurgency against the military and the government.Pakistan military courts have sentenced 11 Taliban militants to death for terrorism-related offences, the army said on Tuesday.The nation has hanged03
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Public hanging in Iran (file photo)NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime on Tuesday, May 3, hanged two prisoners in the north-western city of Ardebil.The regime’s judiciary in Ardebil Province said the two unnamed prisoners were hanged in Ardebil Central Prison earlier in the day.Separately, the03
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The U.S. Supreme Court has directed that an Alabama appeals court reconsider a death penalty case in light of its January 2016 ruling that found Florida's death penalty system is unconstitutional.That ruling in Hurst vs. Florida, faulted Florida for letting a judge, not a jury, determine the01
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Andrew Chan and Febyanti HerewilaEVERY morning when she wakes up Febyanti Herewila Chan sees the smiling face of her husband Andrew Chan.It is the same smile she says he was wearing at the moment he was shot dead one year ago by an Indonesian firing squad.He was
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Lawyers and legal advocates are appalled by families who exploit the killing of a relative to demand huge sums of blood money from the perpetrator's family.Although blood money, or diyya, is set at Dh200,000, some bereaved families have asked for millions of dirhams to overturn a death sentence30
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On the morning of April 15, Pat Hartwell drove up from her home in Houston, Texas, to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Austin, where the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which runs the state's prisons, was holding a board meeting. The board only offers a public comment period during 2 of its Leggi30
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The High Court yesterday commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence handed down to Chang Ho-ling, who was convicted of the murder of his wife and 2 daughters in a case that has wound through the courts for 10 years.The ruling has sparked controversy and protests from the victims' relatives29
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Immense public support surrounded the Mercy Campaign's effort to save 2 Australians from death row. We can't let the lessons learnt from that go to wasteA year on, people still approach me to talk about what they were doing and how they were feeling the night of the Indonesian executions.The04
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On 10th June 2015, Aftab Bahadur was executed after spending 22 years on death row in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail. Bahadur, a Christian man, entered the formidable walls of his death row cell at the age of 15 and left only when he walked to the gallows at the age of 39.
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It is now only a matter of choosing the day on which the third round of executions of drug convicts will be carried out, Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo said on Tuesday.The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has begun preparations for the executions, set to take place on the notorious prison03
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Kho JabingKUCHING (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A petition urging for clemency for Jabing Kho, who is awaiting a death sentence in Singapore for murder, could buy the Sarawakian three more months of life.An organisation called We Believe in Second Chances is making a last-gasp move to get as many03
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Mary Jane VelosoJakarta. Attorney General H.M. Prasetyo confirmed on Tuesday (03/05) that the name of convicted Philippine drug smuggler Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso was not on the list of inmates who will face the firing squad in the third round of executions."She [Mary Jane] is still awaiting03
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Sister Helen PrejeanStanding behind a podium in one of the meeting rooms in DePaul's Student Center, wearing her signature purple jacket, Sister Helen Prejean begins to tell a story.The story is about a man named Richard Glossip, who is currently sitting on death row in Oklahoma for the 1997
Convicted women sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia have been more resistant to beheading than men, prompting authorities to change the execution method to shooting, a well-known Saudi executioner has said.Abu Bandar Al Bishi, a massive man who has beheaded scores of convicted criminals in public
Mary Jane VelosoIndonesian police and troops are tightening security on Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap, Central Java ahead of the next round of drug convict executions.An exact time and date have yet to be announced, but Central Java Police chief Insp. Gen.Condro Kirono said on Saturday30
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Trustees lower the remains of Jack Harry Smith, the oldest inmate on Texas'death row, on Thursday, Apr 28, 2016, in Huntsville. Ph: Elizabeth Conle (HC)Jack Smith outlived most of his attorneys, the D.A.'s, the judge, and many family and friends. So he was buried yesterday in Huntsville at30
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2 of the 4 prisoners who were transferred to solitary confinement on Wednesday 27. April were hanged yesterday morning in the Central Prison of Karaj (west of Tehran).According to close sources these prisoners were identified as "Mehdi Bagherzadeh" and "Esmaeil Tanabi".Iran Human Rights (IHR) had
A Chinese man sentenced to death for the Valentine's Day murder of his girlfriend 18 years ago has been acquitted, a court said, the latest wrongful conviction overturned in the country.Liu Jiqiang, 52, was found guilty of strangling and stabbing his lover on February 14, 1998, earning him the29
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Self-portrait and portrait of Andrew Chan by Myuran Sukumaran,Nusakambangan Island, April 2015On the one-year anniversary of the of execution of Bali Nine Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, some chilling last words have been revealed.Before the firing squad
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