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Singapore's Changi prisonAmnesty International (AI) Malaysia is pleading to the Singapore President to commute Sarawak labourer Jabing Kho's death sentence to life imprisonment.Its executive director Shamini Darshni said Jabing had exhausted all his legal processes."We are appealing to President of Singapore, Tony Tan to please not execute Jabing.
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At least 1,634 people were executed in 25 countries in 2015. This represents a stark increase on the number of executions recorded I 2014 of more than 50%; in 2014 Amnesty International recorded 1,061 executions in 22 countries worldwide.This is the highest number of executions recorded in more06
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More people were executed worldwide in 2015 than at any point in the last 25 years, according to a new report by global human rights group Amnesty International released on Wednesday.At least 1,634 people were put to death across 25 different countries, a 54% increase from the number of executions
April 1, 2016: A man who attacked a nursing home, killing nine people and injuring nine others in 2015, was sentenced to death by a court in central China's Hunan Province.Luo Renchu, a nursing worker, randomly attacked elderly people and staff at the nursing home after a dispute with the owner
LAHORE (Dunya News) - A death row prisoner was hanged in the Kot Lakhpat Jail Lahore on early Tuesday morning.The execution of another convict was postponed after the rival parties reached an agreement.According to details, death row prisoner Aslam was hanged for killing a man in 2003 over an old
Ohio has 22 convicted murderers scheduled for execution during the next 3 years - but no lethal-injection drugs with which to kill them.The 2015 Capital Crimes Report, required annually by state law, was issued Friday by Attorney General Mike DeWine. The report lists the status of all capital
The Supreme Court of BangladeshThe hearing of a petition filed by war crimes convict Motiur Rahman Nizami to review the verdict upholding his death sentence has been deferred.The matter was included in the Supreme Court's cause list for Sunday.But after Nizami's counsels pleaded for more time on02
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Texas death chamberThis month, the Supreme Court will consider whether to hear the appeal of Duane Buck, a black man from Texas who was sentenced to die for the 1995 murder of his ex-girlfriend and a man who was with her. There is no dispute about his guilt; the
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A judge who spared a 22-year-old man the death penalty yesterday in connection with a 2012 murder case expressed concern at an increasing trend of young men under the age of 30 being tried and convicted of violent crimes.Justice Indra Charles had been asked by prosecutor Uel Johnson to impose the
Boko Haram militantsA series of death sentences Boko Haram insurgents for their roles in the deadly attacks that have claimed thousands of civilians have been hailed in Cameroon as a breakthrough.However, experts warn this could rebound badly in the wake of suggestions the Nigerian Islamic01
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Muslim radicals ended a four-day sit-in in a high-security "red zone" near Pakistan's federal parliament, claiming victory after the government late Wednesday gave assurances it will not seek to amend the country's notorious blasphemy laws or show leniency to anyone convicted under them.The
PESHAWAR: Two 'terrorists' convicted by military courts for involvement in attacks on security officials and civilians were executed at a jail in Kohat Wednesday, a military sourced confirmed.The Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif had signed the death warrants of Mehmood and Rab Nawaz last06
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With 28 killings in 2015, the US is the only country in the Americas and among OSCE members to be on the list of top executioners published by Amnesty International, coming right after Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan.At least 1,634 people were put to death in 25 countries in 2015, Amnesty
The number of executions carried out globally last year rose to a 25-year high, a review of the global state of the death penalty has found.According to new figures, 2015 saw a sharp rise in executions in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, China and Iran, and a total of at least 1,634 people executed Leggi05
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)April 4, 2016: Saudi Arabia executed two citizens for murder, raising to 84 the number of death sentences the kingdom has carried out so far this year.Baddah al-Dusari was found guilty of killing Saudi national Abdullah al-Qahtani by repeatedly Leggi
Kho JabingSINGAPORE: In a unanimous decision, Singapore’s apex court on Tuesday (Apr 5) sent Malaysian Kho Jabing back to death row for the second time.Kho, 31, had been sentenced to hang in 2010 for killing a man by striking his head with a tree branch in a botched robbery
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President Alexander LukashenkaThe regime hopes to sell the death penalty moratorium for the highest possible price Though the EU lifted its sanctions against Belarus in early 2016, the authorities seem to remain reluctant to address a moratorium on capital punishment, Lizaveta Kasmach writes.On 1003
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Ben QuiltyBen Quilty will leave Australia if politicians do not campaign for the abolition of the death penalty in countries like China and the United States.The Archibald Prize-winning artist and Art Gallery of NSW trustee said, with a dose of black humour, he would rather live on Indonesia's02
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Wayne DotyBRADFORD COUNTY, Fla.--A two-time convicted murderer is asking for mercy from the courts, but not for a lesser sentence. Wayne Doty, who is on death row, wants to waive his right to counsel and be executed without post conviction proceedings.The Bradford County Courthouse held a hearing01
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Inmates on death row at Luzira Maximum Prison have petitioned Parliament over what they claim is the current flawed system in the Judiciary, which sees many poor Ugandans with no financial ability to hire quality lawyers sent to the gallows.In their petition channeled through Serere Woman MP
Matthew NormanThe six remaining Bali Nine drug-smugglers jailed for life in Indonesia may soon be looking at the prospect of reduced prison sentences. On the eve of their 11th anniversary behind bars, the convicted drug couriers have a ray of hope in the form of a revised penal code, which Leggi
Around the world, a number of countries continue to criminalize atheists and humanists, with 13 having laws which enable them to impose the death penalty.It's often said that the world is becoming an increasingly secular place.Just last week David Cameron sparked backlash when he used his Easter
A grand jury looking into drug mix-ups during the last 2 scheduled lethal injections in Oklahoma resumed its closed-door investigation Tuesday and could issue a final report as early as this week.The multicounty grand jury directed by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt's office is scheduled toRecorded executions worldwide surged by more than 50 % last year to the highest level in a quarter-century, a human rights group said Wednesday.Amnesty International cited the 3 executions that Japan carried out in 2015 as contributing to a total of 1,634 worldwide. The tally does not include
Pablo Lucio VasquezPablo Lucio Vasquez remembered getting drunk and high on an April evening in 1998 before leaving a party with his 15-year-old cousin and his cousin's 12-year-old friend.Vasquez later would tell detectives that as they reached a wooden shed, he started hearing voices telling him05
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Tennessee death row inmate William Stevens died Monday at the age of 60, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction.He was pronounced dead at 1:57 a.m. Monday at a Nashville hospital of natural causes, according to a press release.Stevens was convicted of especially aggravated robbery
Kenny FultsKenny Fults is a Georgia death row inmate facing execution on April 12, 2016. Because Kenny's death sentenced is contaminated by racial bias, his case is an embarrassment to our justice system. His execution must be stopped.Kenny is an African-American man who reads only on a 4th grade04
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaThis year has seen Saudi Arabia execute 82 people so far, according to new research by international human rights organization Reprieve – which suggests the Kingdom is on course to behead twice as many prisoners as last year.This week saw three executions take02
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Holding cells in San Quentin's new death chamberSan Quentin inmate Kevin Cooper on watching the minutes tick away on his life.This article was published in collaboration with Vice.I was supposed to be executed one minute after midnight on February 10, 2004.In the lead
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Oklahoma's death chamberThe U.S. Supreme Court has said as recently as last year, when it ruled on a sedative that's used in Oklahoma executions, that the manner in which Oklahoma carries out the death penalty is constitutional. But is the same true of the overall process?This will be the Leggi01
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A Florida appeals panel reversed a lower court and ruled that the state's pending prosecution of death-penalty cases can continue after a new sentencing law went into effect this month.The state of Florida brought consolidated case to its Fifth District Court of Appeals after a lower court sided01
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Kho JabingA Malaysian man who faces the gallows in Singapore will find out next Tuesday whether his sentence is commuted by the country's Court of Appeal.Kho Jabing, 31, who is from Ulu Baram, Sarawak faces the gallows for killing a Chinese construction worker with a tree branch back in 200801
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Joshua Bishop"Almost all my [Death Penalty] clients should have been taken out of their homes when they were children. They weren't. Nobody had any interest in them until, as a result of nobody's interest in them, they became menaces, at which point society did become interested, if only to kill31
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Joshua BishopATLANTA (AP) - Georgia is preparing to execute a death row inmate convicted of beating another man to death in 1994.Joshua Bishop is scheduled to die at 7 p.m. Thursday at the state prison in Jackson by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital. The 41-year-old inmate was convicted