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Jeff Hood, a Denton Texas based pastor, faces arrest after crossingsecurity-tape lineTuesday evening, March 22, 2016, Huntsville Texas.At 6 p.m. Tuesday, the Rev. Jeff Hood made his stand against the death penalty.
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Himan UraminejadA young Iranian man, Himan Uraminejad, on death row in Iran for an offence carried out when he was a child, has been told that he will be executed soon after 1 April, Amnesty International has warned."Himan Uraminejad was sentenced to death in August 2012 after he was convicted25
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Authorities on Thursday hanged 2 terrorists here at a high security jail.According to reports, Abdullah Baloch, a resident of Darya Khan, Bhakkar, and Sohail Ahmed, a resident of Ahmedpur Sharqia, Bhawalpur, were arrested and an inquiry was undertaken under Section 59(6) and 4 of the Army Act25
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Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterTOKYO — Japan on Friday executed two death row prisoners, local media reported, as the government—backed by public opinion—continued to ignore calls by international rights groups to end capital punishment.Media identified the two inmates as Junko Yoshida, 56, a
Bhagat SinghThe 85th death anniversary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, the revolutionary icon of the freedom struggle, who attained martyrdom at the young age of 23, falls on March 23, 2016.Alongwith Sukhdev and Rajguru, Bhagat Singh was hanged to death less than a week before the commencement of the23
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Philippe GraffartA Belgian man accused of murdering his 5-year-old son in Singapore could be spared from hanging if he pleads guilty to an amended charge, state prosecutors said Wednesday.Philippe Graffart, 42, was charged with the murder of his son Keryan at an upmarket condominium in October
Clinton Lee YoungThe U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review an appeal from an East Texas man on death row for killing 2 men days apart during a crime trek across the state more than 14 years ago.The high court made no comment Monday in its decision on the appeal
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The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to review the case of an Alabama death row inmate who challenged the constitutionality of the state's death sentencing scheme in the wake of the court's ruling in January on a Florida case.Without issuing an opinion the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by06
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaYADH: Saudi Arabia executed a citizen convicted of murder on Sunday, bringing the number of people it has put to death this year to 70.Alaa al-Zahrani was found guilty of killing fellow Saudi Abdullah al-Sumairi with a rock to the head, the interior
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One of the masterminds behind terror attacks on Jakarta in January was a convict on death row, Indonesian police revealed on Friday.JAKARTA: One of the masterminds behind a series of terror attacks that hit Jakarta on Jan 14 is a convict on death row, Iwan Kurniawan or Rois, Indonesian police told04
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Florida's Death ChamberMIAMI — With Florida’s capital punishment system at a standstill, the state Senate passed a compromise bill on Thursday that would overhaul Florida’s death sentencing law, allowing the state to resume death penalty prosecutions by making it harder for juries to send someone
Joseph Edward Duncan IIIThe U.S. Supreme Court has denied hearing an appeal of a man who was sentenced to death for kidnapping, torturing and killing a young northern Idaho boy after killing several of members of his family.U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson announced Wednesday that the high court had
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaHindraf Makkal Sakthi, an ad hoc apolitical human rights movement, has urged the government to put in place a moratorium for all pending executions until it introduces a Bill in Parliament to abolish capital punishment in totality. "This has been assured by the de facto Law
Joseph Ignace GuillotinThe 18th-century doctor Joseph Ignace Guillotin hoped a more humane method of execution would eventually lead to the end of capital punishment.One day in May 1738, legend has it, a woman approaching the end of her pregnancy was walking down a street in Saintes, France, when24
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With supplies of lethal injection drugs running low and new sources increasingly difficult to come by, states are grappling with alternatives. Virginia is the latest.Its solution: Bring back the electric chair.The bill has passed the state House and Senate, and now awaits the governor'sThe Malaysian government must halt the execution of a 34-year-old man due to be hanged this Friday for murder, said Amnesty International.Gunasegar Pitchaymuthu’s mother was today advised by officials at Taiping Prison, northern Malaysia, to visit her son for the “last time” and make arrangements23
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Judge rules in two-year lawsuit led by the Guardian that pharmacies are not part of execution team and thus not afforded protection from identificationThe Missouri department of corrections has been ordered to release the names of the two pharmacies from which it bought lethal drugs used in
Adam WardAttorneys for a death row inmate from North Texas who shot to death a city employee who was taking photos of junk piled up at his family's property say their client is delusional and should not be executed because of his mental illness.Adam Ward insists he was defending
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All the GOP delegates declaring homosexuality a biblical sin punishable by death should tread carefully - and not gather any sticks on the Sabbath.With the race for the GOP nomination reaching an unruly sprint, politicians are looking to court the evangelical vote. This means demonstrating that06
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Public caning in Aceh, Indonesia (file photo)The Banda Aceh Prosecutor's Office held a public caning on Tuesday to punish 18 people for having violated Aceh's Islamic bylaws, locally known as Qanun.The 10 convicts who had been caught gambling received a sentence of eight strokes, previously
The government will continue to hand out the death sentence to big players in drug trafficking world despite criticism from foreign countries and human rights activists, arguing that consistency in law enforcement is the key to success in curbing the distribution of drugs. "The best way to reduce03
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John Clayton OwensThe Alabama Supreme Court has rejected a request by John Clayton Owens' lawyers to rule the state's death penalty system unconstitutional.The court denied the request without comment this afternoon.Attorneys Brian Clark and Ron Smith filed the petition last month on the eve of
A year ago, Utah lawmakers were expanding the ways the state could execute inmates condemned to death. This week, the state took a major step toward possibly abolishing the death penalty entirely.The Utah state Senate narrowly voted on Wednesday to approve a bill that scraps the death penalty
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi House wants to allow the state prison system to execute prisoners using a firing squad if officials decide lethal injection is too expensive or unavailable.The House amended Senate Bill 2237 Friday before passing it 80-39, sending it back to the Senate for
Gunasegar PitchaymuthuMalaysia has executed three men for murder, their lawyer said, in what rights groups called a “secretive” hanging in which the men’s families were given only two days notice.“The execution was done between 4:30 and 5:30 this morning,” lawyer Palaya Rengaiah told the Guardian
Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Authorities in Saudi Arabia have executed the 76th person to be put to death in the country this year.Saudi citizen Abdullah al-Harbi was executed after being convicted for murder, state media reported.The manner of the execution was not specified
Gallows, unidentified Pakistani prisonThe federal government on Tuesday informed the top court that 353 death-row prisoners have been hanged in the country after the lifting of moratorium on capital punishment in the wake of a massacre of schoolchildren by terrorists in December 2014.Deputy22
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Adam WardAdam Kelly Ward, 33, was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday in Huntsville, Texas, for the 2005 murder of a Commerce city worker.Ward was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m.Adam Ward, who had been on death row since 2007, was convicted of killing a city worker in 2005 over
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Adam WardSupreme Court weighs whether to exectute manThe U.S. Supreme Court was considering whether a Texas man who killed a city worker in 2005 should be spared from a lethal injection, as his lawyers argue that a ban on executing mentally impaired prisoners should be extended to him.Adam Ward's06
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THE family of a Scots grandfather held on death row in Pakistan for six years have called for Government action after a courtroom bid to free him collapsed last week.Mohammad Asghar, 71, who is frail, blind and mentally ill, was convicted under the country’s controversial blasphemy laws.His06
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Babak ZanjaniIranian billionaire businessman Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death for corruption, justice officials say.He was arrested in December 2013 after accusations that he withheld billions in oil revenue channelled through his companies. He denies the allegations.Zanjani was04
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Pressure from Australia led to Papua New Guinea shelving its plans to reintroduce the death penalty for serious crimes, the country's chief law reform bureaucrat has saidDr Eric Kwa, the secretary-general of the Constitutional and Law Reform Commission, told a law reform conference in Melbourne03
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Daryl Jerome ReedA Winston-Salem man accused of killing a 2-year-old boy in 2014 has rejected a plea deal that would have taken the death penalty off the table.Daryl Jerome Reed, 26, made the decision at the last minute Wednesday morning in Forsyth Superior Court.Reed is charged with 1st-degree
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire lawmakers are deciding whether to suspend the state's death penalty rather than repeal it outright.The Senate is expected to vote Thursday on a bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Kevin Avard of Nashua.The measure would suspend use of the death penalty until