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Andrew Chan and Myuran SukumaranIt is a year since Bali nine members Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan were executed in Indonesia, but they are not forgotten.One of the life-affirming legacies of executed Bali nine members Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan can be found on a crowded footpath
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Duane BuckWas he sentenced to death "because he is black"?The U.S. Supreme Court will soon consider whether to hear the Texas case of Duane Buck, who was sentenced to die in 1997 for shooting his ex-girlfriend Debra Gardner and her friend Kenneth Butler while Gardner's daughter pleaded, "Don't22
Apr
2016
Capital punishment was repealed in the state of Nebraska nearly a year ago, however, the repeal won't become law until, and unless, Nebraskans vote to retain the repeal. The death penalty has been a source of discussion over the last few years and will continue to be so into November.Western22
Apr
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The Apothecary Shoppe in Tulsa, OklahomaAfter admitting to more than a thousand pharmaceutical violations, a pharmacy that sold execution drugs to Missouri auctioned off its assets last week after it defaulted on its loans. The sale is expected to be finalized in the coming weeks.The Apothecary21
Apr
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Iranian authorities have hanged four prisoners in northwestern Iran on drug charges. This brings the total of prisoners who have been executed in Iran in the last ten days to 30. Iran Human Rights (APR 19 2016): On the morning of Tuesday April 19, four prisoners were reportedly hanged on drug
This man was thrown off a high-rise buildingby ISIS just for being gayNew shocking pictures have emerged of a man being thrown to his death from a high-rise building by ISIS for the ‘crime’ of being gay.The blindfolded
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Mauritania must quash the death sentence handed down to a blogger for apostasy and release him unconditionally, Amnesty International said today, ahead of his appeal court hearing in the south-western city of Nouadhibou tomorrow.Mohamed Mkhaitir, 33, was sentenced to death in December 2014, after
Typical 3-room cell in Skien prison, Norway, where Breivik is incarcerated.Norway violated mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's human rights by keeping him in isolation in prison after being sentenced for killing 77 people in twin attacks in 2011, a Norwegian court ruled on Wednesday.Breivik
The first U.N. special session to address global drug policy in nearly 20 years bristled with tension Tuesday over the use of the death penalty for drug-related offenses, as countries wrestled over whether to emphasize criminalization and punishment or health and human rights.The outcome document20
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Indonesian police personnel getting ready ahead of the executionof eight death row inmates on Nusakambangan island in April 2015.Cilacap Police are preparing security measures for the execution of several death row inmates
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Indonesia's Joko Widodo and Germany's Angela MerkelShe was the only woman on the stage. On either side stood uniformed men, their stern gaze bearing down on her. The 60-year-old woman from Indonesia's Aceh province had been dragged out in front of a crowd to be
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Joko Widodo and Angela MerkelIndonesia's president is defending his country's use of the death penalty for drug offenses, arguing that drug abuse constitutes an emergency.Indonesia has extremely strict drug laws and more than 130 people on death row, mostly for drug crimes. Authorities recently
Dylann RoofProsecutors say they want an independent psychological evaluation of accused church shooter Dylann Roof to rebut or confirm the findings from a pair of evaluations performed by the defense team's experts.The request comes about a week after a judge delayed the murder trial until 2017 to22
Apr
2016
Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi Arabia has decapitated a Pakistani national after sentencing him to death for smuggling drugs, bringing to 86 the number of such executions in the kingdom since the start of this year.The convicted Pakistani man, identified as Shah Zaman Leggi
Fourteen people were executed in Indonesia last year for drug offences.Indonesia will not allow a repeat of the “soap opera” which surrounded the executions last year of convicted drug traffickers, including Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukamaran, the country’s security minister
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Duane BuckBias too often plays an unfair role in our criminal justice systemNo prosecutor, defense attorney, or judge should inject - or allow for the injection of - racial fears and stereotypes about the dangerousness of black men into a jury determination about whether a specific black man20
Apr
2016
James E. Holmes and attorneyFinal cost of James Holmes' trial in the Aurora theater shooting likely won't ever be knownJailing, evaluating and prosecuting the man who committed the Aurora movie theater shooting cost taxpayers at least $3 million, but the final expense of one of the mostly Leggi20
Apr
2016
World governments at a UN meeting on the global drug problem were urged Tuesday to move away from repression, abolish the death penalty for drug offenses and step up treatment.In the 1st such meeting in nearly 20 years, the UN General Assembly adopted a document that marks a shift away from
Prisoner advocates say they're concerned a new Texas Department of Criminal Justice social media policy could prevent them from relaying information about their clients on the inside.Prison reform activists are concerned that a new state social media policy could be used to infringe on the free20
Apr
2016
BEIJING — In a sign of China’s increasingly aggressive efforts to combat espionage and other security threats, the government said it had sentenced a former computer technician to death for selling 150,000 classified documents to foreign spies, according to state media reports on Tuesday.The man20
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Indonesia's BNN: 'a huge increase in drug users over the last year'Despite heavy criticism from the human rights activists and the international community, Indonesia executed 14 people in 2015. All had been convicted of drug-related crimes. Nearly a year after the last round of executions,Indonesia
President Barack ObamaPresident Obama must use a trip to Saudi Arabia this week to help three Saudi juveniles who face execution after they were arrested for attending protests, international human rights organization Reprieve has said.Mr Obama is due to travel to Saudi Arabia today (19th) on what18
Apr
2016
Chinese authorities have ruled that those found guilty of high-sum embezzlement or bribe-taking could now face execution. The move is part of China's anti-corruption campaign, but the punishment will not be mandatory.Graft cases involving an "extraordinarily huge value" of three million yuan22
Apr
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'The Walls' Unit, Huntsville, TexasAlready slowing for several years, the number of US executions dropped to 28 in 2015, partly due to flagging public support for capital punishmentAmerica stands alone among Western nations for its use of the death penalty, but the number of prisoners it executes22
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An appeal court in the west African state of Mauritania has upheld the death sentence of a blogger accused of blasphemy, a judicial source told AFP on Thursday.Cheikh Ould Mohamed Ould Mkheitir, who has also been named as Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed, was initially handed the death sentence in 201421
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Since lifting its moratorium on the death penalty in 2014, Pakistan has become one of the world’s leading executioners.In its “Death Sentences and Executions Report 2015,” Amnesty International ranked Pakistan as the third most prolific executioner in the world, right after China and Iran. Taken21
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Last week, the federal Food and Drug Administration tentatively banned Texas prison officials from importing a particular type of drug used to execute death row convicts. The April 15 letter, first reported by the Austin American-Statesman, comes after the feds blocked Texas from illegally20
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Hamas execution of Hani Abu Alyian in Gaza on October 2, 2013The European Union released a statement earlier today in which it condemned the military courts in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip for sentencing to death 5 convicts accused
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Virginia lawmakers have today voted to pass a controversial bill designed to shroud the state's execution procedure in secrecy and shield the state and its drug suppliers from the Freedom of Information Act.The bill, tabled by Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, proposes using secret batches of
Air France crewGay Air France attendants want to be excused from working flights to Iran, because Iran applies the death penalty to gay people. It’s yet another exposure of multiculturalism’s contradictions.Air France is about to resume flights to Iran after an eight-year hiatus, and in an20
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David Cameron and Joko WidodoBritish business received a near £1 billion boost on the first day of a visit by Indonesia’s president, as Prime Minister David Cameron came under pressure to raise the country’s human rights record.President Joko Widodo held talks with the Prime Minister in Downing
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Iwao taking a walk with his sister Hideko What would you be like if you'd spent the last half-century isolated in a tiny room, not knowing if you were going to make it to the end of the day alive? That is the
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Virginia's electric chairVirginia lawmakers are set to return to the Capitol this week to debate how the state should put inmates to death, how it should structure a new economic development initiative, and whether the Old Dominion should tweak its new ethics laws.Wednesday is the so-called veto