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Clive Stafford SmithI got Brandon Jones off death row 20 years ago. On Tuesday, the state of Georgia ended his life.I knew I wouldn't sleep on Tuesday, when the state of Georgia geared up to execute Brandon Jones. At 72, Jones was the oldest prisoner to ever be
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The 6th October Bridge in central Cairo, EgyptThe grounds for the appeals court ruling are still unclear, but the new trial will be held in a criminal court.Egypt's Court of Cassation, the country's highest appeals court, on Wednesday ordered a retrial for 149 activists
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Watching a public execution in Iran (file photo)According to close sources, 2 Baluchi prisoners were hanged to death at Yazd Central Prison on drug related charges.The executions were reportedly carried out on Monday February 1.According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, the names of the Leggi
The top court directed the federal government on Tuesday to submit a report on the status of thousands of death row prisoners languishing in jails for years.A 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, took up a petition filed by Barrister Zafarullah, who requested the03
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Ashraf FayadhPanel of judges downgrades punishment for apostasy conviction to 8 years in prison and 800 lashesA Saudi court has overturned the death sentence of a Palestinian poet accused of renouncing Islam, imposing an 8-year prison term and 800 lashes instead. He must also repent through an02
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Ohio's 53 executions shown "vast inequities" in racial, gender and geography, a new study concludes.Research by Frank Baumgartner, a University of North Carolina political science professor, are not a revelation to those familiar with Ohio's death penalty, which resumed in 1999 after a 36-year
Iraqi President Fouad Massoum on Sunday execution orders for offenders convicted of terrorist offenses, his spokesman announced.Khalid Shwani, the official spokesman of Iraqi president, explained that this was the 3rd batch of executions that Massoum had signed for terrorist offenses, but did not01
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Even as some countries liberalize their drug laws, others like Indonesia are brutally cracking downThe use of society's ultimate sanction, the death penalty, has been declining around the world for decades. In 1977, only 16 countries had abolished the death penalty; by 2015, 140 had either01
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Brandon Astor JonesThe 5 members of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles are now weighing the arguments from family and advocates for condemned killer Brandon Astor Jones against the statements from prosecutors and the victim’s family in deciding if the 72-year-old man should live or die tomorrow01
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Jessica Kumala WongsoPolice in Jakarta have charged Jessica Kumala Wongso, a suspect in the high-profile murder of her friend, Wayan Mirna Salihin, with premeditated murder, which means she could face the death penalty, an official said on Saturday.The 27-year-old was named a suspect at 11 p.m. onBrandon JonesAn appellate court on Friday rejected another attempt by Brandon Astor Jones to stop his execution scheduled for Tuesday for the 1979 murder of a Cobb County convenience store manager.Late in the afternoon, a judge in Butts County, which is where Georgia's execution chamber is30
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed one of its citizens for murder, bringing to 55 the number of convicts put to death this year.Authorities in the southwestern region of Aseer carried out the death sentence against Owaidhah al-Saadi, the interior Leggi
The European Parliament has condemned the use of torture and the death penalty in Bahrain, demanding the release of a man sentenced to death after allegedly confessing under torture.In a resolution passed on Thursday, the body called on Bahraini ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa to pardon
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A proposal that would force inmates to die by electric chair if lethal injection drugs can't be found is gaining steam in Virginia, in part because of a looming execution scheduled for next month.State officials are frantically searching for the drugs for the March 1603
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A secretive circle of drug suppliers, doctors and nurses could be subverting U.S. tax law while carrying out state executions, but that's no problem as far as Missouri Department of Corrections director George Lombardi is concerned. In fact, during a tense budget hearing yesterday in Jefferson03
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Cary Michael LambrixThe Florida Supreme Court issued a stay Tuesday hours after lawyers for Cary Michael Lambrix argued more time was needed to review his case in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring the state's death penalty law unconstitutional.A unanimous 6-0 court issued the stay
Kagyu Samye Ling monastery in ScotlandChina has sentenced two men to death for killing a British monk who founded Europe’s first Tibetan monastery, state media said.Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche, co-founder of Scotland’s Kagyu Samye Ling monastery near Langholm, in Dumfries and Galloway, was found
Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)The parents of Joselito Zapanta, the overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who was executed in Saudi Arabia in December, are looking for the P23-million bloody money the government raised to save him from death penalty."Where did the blood money go?
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A Superior Court judge has halted all trials and penalty hearings in capital murder cases while Delaware's Supreme Court mulls the constitutionality of the state's death penalty law.The order was issued Monday President Judge Jan Jurden, head of the Superior Court system.Last week, the Supreme
Michael LambrixMichael Lambrix was supposed to die on Nov. 30, 1988.He was moved to a special "Death Watch" cell near the execution chamber.He met with the warden, who explained the process. He met with the chaplain. He met with the kitchen supervisor to plan his last meal."As I sat only Leggi01
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Gay man thrown off building by ISIS militants(CNN) ISIS has executed 3,895 people, more than half of them civilians, since announcing the establishment of a "caliphate state" in June 2014, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday.Of the 2,114 civilians killed,
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Executions in the United States have been on a fairly steady decline in recent years, dropping to 28 last year - the lowest since 1991. A peak of 98 came in 1999.Difficulty obtaining lethal injection drugs after many manufacturers stopped selling their products for use in executions has made it
Gallows at an unidentified Pakistani prisonA death row convict was hanged in Mianwali Central Jail on Thursday.According to details, Mumrez had been convicted in a double murder case.He had killed one Fateh Khan and his son Amir in 2005 over a marriage feud.His execution was carried
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Bernie Sanders (left) and Hillary Clinton (right)Clinton thinks it's appropriate for "particularly heinous crimes," while Sanders wants the government out of the killing business.WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders split on the issue of capital
Meth bust in IndonesiaJakarta. In 1971, US President Richard Nixon proclaimed that "America's public enemy number one" was substance abuse, and that America therefore needed to wage a "war on drugs."More than 40 years later, the Indonesian government has declared its own war against drugs, but03
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Brandon Astor JonesGeorgia has executed the oldest man on the state’s death row, Brandon Astor Jones.At 12:46 a.m. Wednesday, Jones, just 10 days shy of his 73rd birthday, took his last breath, ending a decades-long journey for the daughter and widow of the man he murdered in 1979.The execution
Custer State Park, South Dakota2 dozen state legislators have sponsored a bill to repeal South Dakota's death penalty.Sen. Arthur Rusch, R-Vermillion, a retired circuit court judge, and Rep. Timothy Johns, R-Lead, serve as the prime sponsors on Senate Bill 94 to strike the death penalty from state02
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Bali's Kerobokan prisonSerang, Banten. An officer from the Serang District Police in Banten has been arrested for allegedly smuggling drugs to two inmates serving time at a local prison.Prison officials became suspicious when the police officer, identified only as Brig. H.D., arrived at the prison02
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Brandon Astor JonesThe Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied a clemency request from the state's oldest death row inmate.The board announced its decision Monday after holding a hearing on the request from Brandon Astor Jones.The 72-year-old is scheduled for execution at 7 p.m. Tuesday01
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi authorities executed a Saudi national on Monday for the murder of a compatriot, bringing the number of executions by capital punishment to 56 in the kingdom this year.Ahmed al-Harbi was found guilty of stabbing and shooting Fahed al-Balawi Leggi01
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Somewhere under the tall grass and thistle in Chester Township lies the bodyof Alexander McClay Williams, an African American teen executed84 years ago for a murder Lemon is convinced he didn't commit.Sam Lemon of Media has spent more than 30 years researching what he believes was the unjustified01
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The family of Mohammad Asghar, who is mentally ill and becoming more frail in bad prison conditions, want him brought back to Scotland.The family of a pensioner condemned to hang in Pakistan have told how they fear he's become a forgotten prisoner 2 years after being sent to death row.Languishing30
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Chinese police busted two child-trafficking rings, rescuing178 children and arresting 608 suspects in Dec. 2011.A man has been executed in China for the abduction and trafficking of 22 children over the space of 5 years.China's top
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National law firm Alston & Bird is fighting the FDA, asking it to release execution drugs that Arizona imported from India. The state has said it will sue if the FDA doesn't do so.The Arizona Department of Corrections has enlisted the help of a national law firm in its fight against the