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Indonesia's attorney general insists that death penalties must be maintained in the country's judicial system as a shock therapy against serious crime."I'm confident that the death penalty is a kind of therapy. It is an unpleasant action, but we must do it," said Attorney General HM Prasetyo in a working meeting with
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Public executions in Saudi Arabia (file photo)A protester who was under 18 at the time of the alleged offenses for which he was convicted was among the 47 people executed in a single day in Saudi Arabia earlier this year, research by international human rights
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The Senate chambers in the Kansas Statehouse.Today, a group of 17 legislators, led by former judge, Representative Steven Becker, introduced a bill in the Kansas House of Representatives that would end the death penalty in Kansas.This group of 11 Republicans and 6 Democrats cosponsored Bill23
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Abolitionists are now pinning hopes on the case of Pennsylvania woman Shonda Walter"His head was in his hands," the defence lawyer recalled of the hearing, "and he just had a troubled look on his face." Anthony Kennedy, the swing vote on the 9-member US Supreme Court, would rule in the case last22
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Barrister Julian McMahonBarrister Julian McMahon fought tirelessly to try and save the lives of Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran and is Victoria's nomination for Australian of the Year.A fierce opponent of the death penalty and a defender of human rights, he has worked to21
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Derrick Todd LeeA Louisiana serial killer linked to the gruesome murders of 7 women died Thursday as he awaited execution, officials said.Derrick Todd Lee's cause of death was not immediately released.The 47-year-old was moved from the Louisiana State Penitentiary's death row to a hospital21
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Sister Helen Prejean comments on meeting Pope Francis in Rome and giving him a thank you letter from Oklahoma death-row inmate Richard Glossip.Click here for more information on the Richard Glossip caseSource: YouTube, January 21, 2016- Report an error, an omission:Questo indirizzo email
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India's Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court today agreed to re-hear the plea of Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Arif, alias Ashfaq, seeking review of the death sentence awarded to him for his role in the attack on an Army battalion at Red Fort here in 2000.A 5-member Constitution Bench headed by Chief21
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Shonda WalterCan a convicted killer from Pennsylvania help topple the country's death-penalty laws?Activists who've long sought to abolish capital punishment are betting on it.The U.S. Supreme Court is assessing whether to hear a challenge to a Pennsylvania woman's death sentence that some hope21
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Richard MastersonIn Texas' first execution of 2016, a man convicted in a fatal strangling and robbery was executed in Huntsville Wednesday night.Richard Masterson, 43, was declared dead at 6:53 p.m. from a lethal injection of pentobarbital, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. He
LAHORE (Dunya News) - Three death row prisoners were hanged on early Tuesday morning in the jails of Attock, Mianwali and Jhang, Dunya News reported.The dead bodies of the prisoners were handed over to their families.According to details, death row convict Sultan was executed in the District Jail18
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British court martial on the front. Screenshot from "For King and Country",a film by Joseph Losey (1965) with Dick Bogarde and Tom Courtenay.In the mist of an anaemic French dawn, the weak sunlight burning through leaden skies, they placed the blindfold over Jack Braithwaite's eyes.He stiffened24
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Additional Sessions Judge Amjad Nazeer Chaudhary on Saturday sentenced two brothers he convicted of murder to death.Prosecution said Azam and his brother Arif had shot dead Ajmal Amir over a property dispute in Khurarianwala.After examining the evidence and hearing the witnesses, judge sentenced23
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Uganda is banning housemaids from traveling to work in Saudi Arabia after complaints of poor working conditions and mistreatment. A deal between the two nations had been signed in the summer of 2015 to send university graduates to the kingdom to work.The Ugandan government said it had received
Triple execution in Kuwait on April 1, 2013Kuwait has been urged to drop plans to execute 2 men convicted of spying for Iran and Hezbollah, with an international rights group claiming their trial was "flawed".Kuwait's first instance criminal court sentenced Hassan Hajiya, a
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Christopher BrooksA man who raped and bludgeoned a 23-year-old woman to death with a dumbbell in Alabama was executed on Thursday evening. Christopher Eugene Brooks died at 6.38pm after the Supreme Court denied a stay of execution.In the hours leading up to his death, no one had attended a vigil21
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Alabama Gov. Robert BentleyFor decades Alabama death row inmates died in the state's electric chair and it was rare for a governor to commute a sentence then or nowAs he prepared himself for death in his final years, Alabama Gov. George Wallace worried that he might be kept from
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6 Republican lawmakers in Colorado are pushing to pass a bill that will remove the unanimous voting requirement for death sentences. If passed, the law could make it easier to impose death penalties during court proceedings.The bill, called SB 64, is sponsored by State Representatives Kevin21
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Last November, a regional conference in Guyana focused on abolishing the death penalty, which many Caribbean territories - including The Bahamas - want to keep on the books.Sponsored by the European Union (EU), the conference went completely unnoticed here. The main conclusion was that, although
California's brand new death chamberAs California moves forward Friday with a crucial public hearing to air its new lethal injection procedures, death penalty foes are taking aim at the details in a plan that could lead to the resumption of executions after a 10-year hiatus.Calling the reforms20
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How do individuals emotionally cope with the imminent real-world salience of mortality? DeWall and Baumeister as well as Kashdan and colleagues previously provided support that an increased use of positive emotion words serves as a way to protect and defend against mortality salience of one’s own
President H. Rouhani - Iran is the world’s second most prolific executioner.Concerns been raised over European Union funding for a counter-narcotics programme in Iran that could lead to executions for drugs offences.The EU, which is the second largest donor to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime18
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Public flogging in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Manama: A court in Dammam has sentenced a man to eight months in jail and to 240 lashes for harassing girls at shopping centres.The man, aged in his 20s, was spotted and arrested by members of the Commission for
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Ali Mohammad al-NimrThe UK has an option either to stay with this regime or go to a better place and condemn these barbaric acts'The son of a senior Shia cleric executed by Saudi Arabia has challenged David Cameron to speak out about what he called the murder of his
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Florida's death chamberA U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Florida's death-penalty sentencing structure is a "tectonic shift" that should be applied retroactively to all inmates on death row, lawyers for a convicted murderer scheduled to be executed in February wrote in court documents22
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Justice Stephen G. BreyerJustice Stephen G. Breyer has used an Alabama capital case to renew his call to examine the constitutionality of the death penalty.The U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant a stay of execution for the inmate, Chistopher Eugene Brooks, drawing a dissent from Breyer, report21
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Texas Death House, 'The Walls' Unit. The holding cells, where the inmatesspend their last hours, are on the left. The death chamber is locatedat the far end of the corridor. Huntsville Unit, Huntsville, TX.New information in the case of Joseph John Cannon, being revealed
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Ko Zaw Lin (L) and Ko Wai Phyo (R): 100 points to contest2 Myanmar men sentenced to death in Thailand for murder have been given a momentary reprieve: The court yesterday allotted an extra month for their appeal.The defence team applied for
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The Indonesian government's decision to execute eight individuals for drug-related crimes last April led to condemnation of our country from governments and human rights advocates from around the world. Despite insisting at the time that the executions were essential to fighting a growing "drug21
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Christopher Brooks2 courts on Tuesday denied Alabama death row inmate Christopher Brooks' request to block his execution on Thursday.The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals denied the request late Tuesday afternoon. So did the Alabama Supreme Court.Brooks' attorneys say they will appeal both the
Jonathan and Reginald CarrWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday against three Kansas inmates whose death sentences had been vacated by the state’sSupreme Court.The vote was 8 to 1, and Justice Antonin Scalia’s majority opinion was notable for its extended account of the crimes Leggi19
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Ronald PhillipsThe mother of a death row inmate has died after attempts by the inmate to donate his kidney to save her life.Donna Phillips of Akron died Jan. 11 at age 68. Her son, Ronald Phillips, 42, is next on the list of Ohio death row inmates to die by
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Egypt's ParliamentEgypt's parliament on Sunday overwhelmingly endorsed a controversial anti-terrorism law that sets up special courts and shields its enforcers from legal ramifications.The law is one of roughly 400 that were issued by executive decree during the more than 3 years in which Egypt18
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Public hanging in Iran (file photo)Iranian authorities have executed four prisoners in northern Iran and one prisoner in southern Iran who may have been under the age of 18 when he allegedly committed the murder that Iranian courts sentenced him to death for.Iran Human Rights (JAN
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