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According to reports from inside Iran, the mullahs' regime on Thursday hanged 5 men and 2 women in a prison in Birjand, north-east Iran.2 of the victims were identified as Mohammad Niazi and Moheb Rahmati. The names of the other prisoners were not given. They were accused of drugs-related offences.The hangings bring
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Apr
2016
Cameron Todd Willingham awaiting his execution on Texas death rowWhat Cameron Todd Willingham lost - his life, taken by the state - can never be restored. But, thankfully, there is some effort to make sure his case is accorded some measure of
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Apr
2016
NCRI – A group of resilient political prisoners in Iran’s notorious Evin and Gohardasht prisons have written to the Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi pointing out that at least eight prisoners were executed in Iran while he was visiting Tehran earlier in the week to reestablish trade ties with16
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Joshua BishopJoshua Bishop, who died by lethal injection March 31, was remembered by his faith community, friends and supporters at a funeral Mass celebrated April 12 at St. Pius X Church in Conyers by Father Tom Zahuta.Bishop, who became a Catholic in prison, regularly attended Mass and other15
Apr
2016
Murderers executed in Multan, Jhang, Sialkot and Larkana.Pakistan on Wednesday hanged 4 more prisoners convicted of murder despite international criticism over its surging use of the death penalty.Amnesty International last week described Pakistan as the world's 3rd most prolific executioner
When Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, was elected as President of Indonesia in late 2014, the world was enthralled. He was expected to be different - the 1st President in the nation's history not connected to the old power order. In fact, he came from a surprisingly humble background; he was14
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Matteo Renzi and Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on April 12, 2016The mother of Reyhaneh Jabbari, a young Iranian woman whose execution in October 2014 triggered international condemnation of the mullahs' regime, has written an open letter to the Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi criticizing his trip13
Apr
2016
Alfred Dewayne BrownAlfred Dewayne Brown's conviction in the slaying of a Houston police officer was overturned.The state of Texas has rejected a request from former death row inmate Alfred Dewayne Brown for almost $2 million in compensation, saying he does not qualify for funds given to former
Ivan TeleguzAn innocent man, Ivan Teleguz, is sitting on Virginia’s death row for a crime he did not commit. The man who confessed to the murder of Stephanie Sipe is serving a life sentence, but the Commonwealth still plans to execute Ivan unless Governor McAuliffe intervenes to stop it.False13
Apr
2016
A murder convict was hanged at the Faisalabad Central Jail on Tuesday.A spokesperson for the Prisons Department said Adeel Shahzad, a resident of Raza Abad, had killed his aunt Zahida Naseem and her 3 children on February 18, 2001, in a Pir Mehal police precinct.ATC Judge Raja Akhtar had
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Gay staffers are now also rebelling against the route, as Iran continues to enforce the death penalty for homosexualityAir France is facing a rebellion from gay air stewards – who are refusing to fly on a new route to Iran.The company is launching a new route from Paris to Tehran, the capital
Kenneth FultsThe State Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday declined to grant clemency for a Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die this week.Kenneth Fults, 47, is set to be put to death at 7 p.m. Tuesday by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson.
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Angola's Death RowSensors have been installed on the death-row tiers at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola to monitor summertime heat indexes that several ailing condemned killers successfully claimed violate their constitutional rights and increase their risk of heatstroke or even death16
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2016
European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Tehran.NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime on Saturday hanged three prisoners in a jail in Rasht, northern Iran, as the European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini is in Tehran to build greater trade ties
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2016
The gallows where Rudolf Höss was executed on April 16, 1947On 16 April 1947, few minutes after 10 a.m. Rudolf Höss, the founder and the first commandant of the German Nazi Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp was executed. The gallows was
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2016
According to reports from Iran, 5 death-row prisoners from different wards in Isfahan Prison, central Iran, have been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their execution.Iran's fundamentalist regime executed 8 prisoners on April 13 in Gohardasht Prison, northwest of Tehran. The14
Apr
2016
Here's a look at the death penalty in the United States.Facts:As of April 2016, Capital punishment is legal in 31 U.S. states.New Mexico and Nebraska abolished the death penalty in 2009 and 2015, respectively. The repeal was not retroactive, however. Inmates on death row in those states may
A 28-year-old nurse was sentenced to death yesterday for murdering her fiance by injecting him with insulin when he was unconscious, the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court said.According to the court, the condemned woman, surnamed Tao, a nurse at Shanghai No.6 Hospital's branch in the13
Apr
2016
A murder convict was hanged at the Faisalabad Central Jail on Tuesday.A spokesperson for the Prisons Department said Adeel Shahzad, a resident of Raza Abad, had killed his aunt Zahida Naseem and her 3 children on February 18, 2001, in a Pir Mehal police precinct.ATC Judge Raja Akhtar had issued
The Dutch branch of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reprimanded pharmaceutical company Mylan for doing to little to prevent their drugs being used in executions in the United States, the Volkskrant reports.The OECD reprimanded Mylan at the insistence of death13
Apr
2016
Gay staffers are now also rebelling against the route, as Iran continues to enforce the death penalty for homosexualityAir France is facing a rebellion from gay air stewards – who are refusing to fly on a new route to Iran.The company is launching a new route from Paris to Tehran, the capital12
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2016
Ohio's death penalty is on hold, but the delay won't prevent more than 100 local anti-capital punishment activists from boarding buses Tuesday morning for a lobby day in Columbus.Converging on the Statehouse from across Ohio, protesters will meet with lawmakers and present a letter signed by 20011
Apr
2016
Kenneth FultsA Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die this week was neglected and mistreated as a child and has substantial intellectual impairments that have affected his ability to act appropriately, his lawyers wrote in a clemency petition.Kenneth Fults, 47, is set to be put to death Tuesday18
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Earlier this week, Air France announced that female flight attendants can opt out of flights on the carrier’s new route to Tehran after some said they didn't want to cover their hair upon arriving in Iran.Now, Air France’s gay flight attendants are attempting to use the momentum generated Leggi16
Apr
2016
Bali's Kerobokan prisonHundreds of ecstasy pills and 15 small packages of crystal methamphetamine or shabu-shabu have been seized during a raid at Kerobokan Penitentiary in Bali. The raid, conducted by a joint security team comprising personnel from the Law and Human Rights Ministry, National
Nusakambangan Island, where the last round of executions took place.The government has not yet finalized the date for the impending execution of death-row convicts despite the attorney general's plan to conduct a third round of executions at the beginning of 2016.
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More than $177,000 worth of drugs have been seized in multiple operations by the Central Narcotics Board (CNB) this week.The drug haul comprised more than 1.5kg of heroin, 329g of 'Ice', 80g of cannabis, 153 ecstasy tablets, 26 Erimin-5 tablets and ketamine.Some 103 suspected drug offenders were
The Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlesterOvercrowding, lack of programs, botched executions create dilemma that might not be reversibleOklahoma's prisons are ugly, ancient, overcrowded and in total disrepair, according to Department of Corrections Interim Director Joe Allbaugh.But that's only13
Apr
2016
California's death row"When we were sentenced to death," wrote Carlos M. Argueta from death row in California, "we weren't sentenced to be mistreated, humiliated, discriminated against, psychologically tortured and kept in solitary dungeons until the day of our executions. Never once did the judge13
Apr
2016
Dylann RoofDefense lawyers requested postponement to complete psychiatric testing of man who is charged with killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston churchA South Carolina judge on Wednesday delayed until next year the state death penalty trial of Dylann Roof who is charged with killingOhio has no executions scheduled for nine months, and the state has no drugs to carry out lethal injections.So advocates are seizing the opportunity to lobby lawmakers on abandoning the death penalty entirely. And they came armed with some powerful weapons: people who were sentenced to die but who12
Apr
2016
Kenneth FultsATLANTA- Georgia executed a death row inmate who shot a woman to death during a burglary in 1996.Kenneth Fults, 47, was put to death at 7:37 p.m. Tuesday by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. Fults pleaded guilty in 1997 to killing 19-year-old
Virginia's electric chairRICHMOND — Horror stories about the electric chair led Gov. Terry McAuliffe to offer a choice to the General Assembly: go along with a proposal he says will make it easier to obtain lethal injection drugs or see an end to capital punishment in Virginia.
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Virginia's electric chairThe electric chair has already been declared cruel and unusual punishment by two death penalty states.Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) has killed a bill that would have given the state power to put people to death by electric chair. Instead, he added an amendment