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Arizona's death chamberARIZONA - Arizona death row inmates are asking the state to not use a paralyzing drug in their executions -- so witnesses can see them suffer.The state said they're trying to create a "spectacle" and have no First Amendment right to "go viral."The death row inmates, along
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Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterThe nation's top court has upheld the death sentence of a man convicted of arson in which 5 people died.The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Sunao Takami's appeal against a lower court ruling in the 2009 case, in which he poured gasoline on
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Julian McMahonAs Australian drug trafficker Van Tuong Nguyen was in a Singapore cell facing the end of his life, one of his lawyers, Julian McMahon, offered him some solace in words written by Sir Thomas More as he awaited his own execution almost 500 years earlier.Mr McMahon, a Melbourne
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska death penalty opponents are launching a statewide campaign with a new name.The group Retain a Just Nebraska will announce the next phase of its campaign Wednesday at the Capitol.The organization previously operated under the name Nebraskans for Public Safety.Retain22
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Medan. The National Narcotics Agency, or BNN, seized 25 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine and arrested four men in the year's biggest drug bust in Medan, North Sumatra on Monday (22/02).Brig. Gen. Arman Depari, BNN deputy head for narcotics eradication, said the four suspects were captured at a21
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California's Death RowCalifornians face a watershed year as they prepare to decide whether to resume executions that stopped a decade ago or end them entirely.While advocates jockey to put both choices before voters this fall, officials overseeing the 746 condemned inmates on the nation's largest20
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Is the death penalty fair? Is it humane? Does it deter crime? The answers to these questions vary depending on who answers them. Those who are against the death penalty usually argue that such punishment fails to rehabilitate and discourage crime. They also believe that prison keeps dangerous19
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Drug bust by Indonesian policeMedan, North Sumatra. Two people, including a police officer, have been sentenced to death while the son of one of the convicts will spend his life in prison after the trio was found guilty of smuggling crystal methamphetamine and ecstasy pills from Malaysia Leggi19
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South Carolina death chamberSouth Carolina lawmakers are looking for a compromise in a bill that would render information about lethal injection drugs a secret, a change that may enable the state to resume executions.The state uses a 3 drug protocol: pentobarbital, pancuronium bromide, and19
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In the future a Mississippi death row inmate's execution and all those involved in the process could be kept from the public.Senate Bill 2237, introduced by Republican Senator Joey Fillingane, passed Tuesday.Entitled the "Execution Secrecy Bill", the measure would protect the identities of the
Ko Zaw Linn and Ko Wai PhyoThe defence team for 2 Myanmar men facing the death penalty for the murder of 2 British tourists on Koh Tao will today file a 2nd application to push back an appeal against the sentence.Lawyers for the 2 Rakhine
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Manny PacquiaoA day after Nike ended its relationship with Manny Pacquiao for his recent anti-gay rant, the boxer posted on Instagram quoting a Bible verse that mandated gay people be put to death, according to various sources. The Instagram post quoted Leviticus 20:13, which says:"If a man has
Salman RushdieTEHRAN — A group of hard-line Iranian news media organizations says it has raised $600,000 to add to a bounty for the killing of the British novelist Salman Rushdie.Iran’s former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, in 1989 calling for Mr23
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Screenshot from "Rectify" (2013), a TV series created by R. McKinnon,with Aden Young, Abigail Spencer, J. Smith-Cameron. (Read more)By his 70th birthday in 2013, Russell Maroon Shoatz had spent nearly 30 years in extreme solitary confinement. A prisoner in Pennsylvania’s Restricted Housing Unit
Vice President Emmerson MnangagwaZimbabwe is making significant strides towards the elimination of the death penalty from its statutes as demonstrated by the removal of all women and persons aged below 21 from facing the death sentence, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Addressing22
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Wyoming's disused gas chamberA shortage of lethal injection drugs drives some states to think the unthinkableAs Arizona death row inmate Joseph Wood gasped and gulped for air, prison officials kept pumping more drugs into his system.It took 15 injections and almost 2 hours for him to die. The
Pope Francis on Sunday called for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty, saying the commandment "You shall not kill" was absolute and equally valid for the guilty as for the innocent.Using some of his strongest words ever against capital punishment, he also called on Catholic politicians
Iran does execute juvenile offendersThe death sentence of Himan Ouraminejad who was charged with murder as a juvenile, has been confirmed in the Supreme Court and is waiting for the permission of head of judiciary to be executed.According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency Leggi19
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Florida's death chamberThe Florida House is moving forward with a new capital sentencing scheme after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the existing system just over a month ago. But even with last minute changes, lawmakers are hesitant to completely embrace unanimity.Under current Florida law19
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Meth bust by Indonesian policeA 44-year-old local was charged in the High Court here Thursday with trafficking 71.03gm of syabu.Ibrahim Tabarak pleaded not guilty before Judge Ravinthran N. Paramaguru to committing the offence at 5.10pm on Sept 1, 2015 at the ferry terminal in Labuan.He was
Blacks, Latinos, and poor whites suffered because of his draconian approach to criminal punishment.In the days since Antonin Scalia's death, he has been duly recognized as one of the most impactful justices in the Supreme Court's history. A critical part of his troubling legacy has long been19
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Pakistan hanged 324 people last year to rank 3rd worldwide in terms of executions, but the vast majority of those put to death had no links to militant groups or attacks, rights groups said in a report seen by Reuters.Pakistan lifted a moratorium on executions in late 2014 as a measure to Leggi18
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Public beheading in KSA (file photo)February 17, 2016: Saudi Arabia beheaded one of its citizens and two Yemeni nationals on charges of drug trafficking, bringing to 63 the number of decapitations in the kingdom since the start of year. Saudi national, Daifallah al-Omrani, was executed
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It's been six years since I retired after more than three decades at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. I held various positions including warden, regional director, assistant director and then director. Included in my responsibilities was the participation in the execution of 33
Jason Brian DaltonKALAMAZOO, Mich. — The Uber driver authorities say fatally shot six peopleduring a series of seemingly random attacks over the weekend was charged with murder Monday as questions swirled around the bloody rampage.Jason Brian Dalton made “incriminating statements” after his23
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Guantanamo Military PrisonPresident Obama on Tuesday urged lawmakers to lift obstacles to closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as he presented to Congress a long-awaited roadmap for shuttering a facility he said symbolized the excesses that following the Sept. 11, 200122
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Sister Helen Prejean (Photo: Franck Dennis)Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph, ministers to prisoners on death row. She is the author of "Dead Man Walking." The views expressed are her own.I'm praying for Justice Antonin Scalia, that his passage into eternity was peaceful. I respect his20
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A March 25, 2014 article from the Associated Press quotes Alabama Assistant Attorney General Clay Crenshaw saying that 16 death row inmates "have exhausted [all] appeals and are awaiting execution." Today, the exact number among the 185 inmates on Alabama's death row whose last remaining hope is19
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Iran, faith-based medieval and barbaric punishmentsIran's Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, his country's Iran's capital punishment law at the European parliament on Tuesday, saying Iran mostly executes drug smugglers.The remarks came in Brussels when lawmakers criticized the increasing
Harper LeeMs. Lee’s novel about racial injustice in a small Alabama town became one of the most beloved and most taught works of fiction ever written by an American.Harper Lee, whose first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 10
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Shooting rampages by bullied South Korean soldiers are not unusualSouth Korea's top court on Friday upheld a death penalty for a soldier convicted of killing five comrades in shooting and grenade attacks in a front-line army unit in 2014.The verdict by the Supreme Court is final and cannot be19
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Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaOver 1/2 of Malaysians surveyed in an online poll want the government to scrap the mandatory death sentence that leaves judges with no discretion to hand down lighter punishments.Conducted by Barisan Nasional (BN) component Gerakan, the online poll results showed 838 online18
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Public beheading of a young man by IS extremist (file photo)A teenage boy has been beheaded by ISIS for simply listening to Western music.Ayham Hussein, 15, was arrested by militants after allegedly being caught enjoying pop tunes on a portable CD
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Travis HittsonA former Navy crewman was put to death Wednesday in Georgia for killing a fellow sailor whose remains were found buried in two states.Travis Hittson, 45, was executed by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at 8:14 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted in the April