Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)BAGHDAD — Saudi Arabia executed 47 people convicted of terrorism-related offenses on Saturday, including suspected members of Al Qaeda and a prominent cleric and government critic from the country’s Shiite minority.The executions, which were reported by the Saudi state
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana corrections officials want a federal judge to reduce the nearly $890,000 that a team of lawyers is requesting in a lawsuit over hot conditions on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.The Advocate reports the attorneys for Elzie Ball, Nathaniel Code
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Tunis (AFP) - Three Tunisians have been sentenced to death for murdering an unarmed young policeman as he returned home after his shift, a prosecutor said Wednesday.A fourth man, who is on the run, was sentenced to 22 years in jail for "inciting and helping to commit terrorist crimes", in
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia's death row inmates say they fear the expanded privileges they recently received are only temporary and are asking a judge to forbid the state from reinstating what they consider to be "dehumanizing conditions."Prison officials overhauled Virginia's death row29
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Iran Human Rights (DEC 29 2015): On Saturday December 26, three prisoners on death row for alleged drug offenses were reportedly hanged at Parsilon Prison in Khorramabad (in the province of Lorestan, western Iran).According to the human rights group, HRANA, the names of the prisoners are: Behrouz
British backpackers Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24.From the moment their bodies were discovered on a Thai beach on 15 September last year, the investigation into the deaths of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller has been a muddled affair.Information from the police28
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Myanmar migrants Win Zaw Htun, (R), and Zaw Lin, (L), both 22, in Dec. 2015.Army chief calls on Thailand to review evidence against two Burmese migrant workers whose sentencing for murder of British backpackers has sparked anger
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WETHERSFIELD -- Conditions on Connecticut’s death row remain unchanged more than four months after the Connecticut Supreme Court found the state’s death penalty unconstitutional.But Correction Commissioner Scott Semple said he is working to change a policy that requires those inmates to be in27
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Iran Human Rights, December 25, 2015: Two prisoners were hanged in the Ghezelhesar prison of Karaj (west of Tehran) on December 23, according to Iran Human Rights (IHR) sources in Iran.The prisoners were identified as "Mehdi Khorram" and "Ebrahim Khorram" and were in their 30's. Both the prisoners24
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Attorney General M PrasetyoAttorney General M Prasetyo has stressed that a third round of drug convict executions will be carried out next year.He has yet to add further details with regard to schedule or the number of convicts that the government expects to execute.“The executions will be24
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Iran Human Rights (DEC 22 2015): According to unofficial reports confirmed by Iran Human Rights, on the morning of Saturday December 19, two prisoners were hanged at Zahedan Central Prison.One of the prisoners has been identified as Abdolghani G. Rigi, a 29-year-old man who was jailed on political
Bangladeshi court gives death sentence to two students foundguilty of killing secular writer Thaba Baba.Two students have been sentenced to death for the 2013 murder of an atheist blogger in Bangladesh, the first convictions in a
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On the surface, 2015 was a terrible year for death penalty opponents. Despite a series of botched executions, during which inmates were essentially tortured inmates due to unreliable drugs used in the execution process, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt to place safeguards on these01
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The People's Court of the southern province of Binh Phuoc yesterday sentenced Nguyen Hai Duong and Vu Van Tien, both 24, to death on charges of murdering 6 family members in their home and robbing VND50 million (US$2,200) worth of their family assets on July 7.The court also announced a sentence
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana's parliament has approved anti-terrorism legislation that includes the death penalty for certain offenses and would allow rendition of suspects to other countries.Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan told skeptical opposition lawmakers during a debate that29
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaA Filipino murder convict was publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday after failing to meet the demand of the Sudanese victim's family for payment of $1 million to save him from the death penalty, officials said.Joselito Lidasan Zapanta's execution was carried28
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Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterThe executions of two death row inmates on Friday was a blow to the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, which only last week reiterated a call for a moratorium on hangings and for a national debate on the matter.In a position paper
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Manama: Saudi Arabia’s prosecution has requested the death penalty for five suspects, four Saudis and one Yemeni, who raided a commercial complex in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.Investigations revealed that the five suspects plotted an armed attack on the commercial facility after they learned that
The Adjustment Center at San Quentin Prison, California.Death penalty supporters got the state’s go-ahead Thursday to collect signatures for a November 2016 ballot measure aimed at speeding up executions, raising the prospect that voters will be asked to choose between toughening California’s death
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Myanmar migrants Win Zaw Htun, right, and Zaw Lin, left, both 22, in December 25.A Thai court on Thursday sentenced two Myanmar migrants to death for the murder of two British backpackers on a resort island last
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Iran Human Rights (DEC 24 2015): Eight men with alleged drug charges were reportedly hanged at Qazvin Central Prison on the morning of Tuesday December 23.According to the press department of the Judiciary in the province of Qazvin, quoting the Public Prosecutor of Qazvin city, the prisoners are01
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Lindsay Sandiford has been trying to raise money for a last-ditchappeal through Indonesia's complex legal system.British drug-running grandmother Lindsay Sandiford faces the prospect she will be shot in the New Year after Indonesia revealed today
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Singapore's Changi PrisonSingapore might be a small city-state, but its pro-death penalty stance is well-known. Just last year, Law and then-Foreign Affairs Minister K Shanmugam gave a speech in defence of capital punishment to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.All this makesVOA News -- Pakistan's military courts have handed down the death penalty to nine men the courts described as "hardcore terrorists."The military said Friday the condemned men include an al-Qaida militant and a member of the Pakistani Taliban.It was not immediately clear when or where the men
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A guard stands watch over the condemned prisoners housed in East Blockduring a media tour of death row at San Quentin prison. (L.A. Times)With the debate over capital punishment
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Zeng Aiyun, who spent 11 years on death row before being cleared,visits his mother in July 2015. (Shanghai Daily)A Chinese man condemned to death three times for murder and who spent 11 years on
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Use of and support for the death penalty continued itssteady decline in the United States in 2015By all measures, use of and support for the death penalty continued its steady decline in the United
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaMillionaires pay blood money in exchange for Pinoy driver’s freedomSAUDI authorities have reportedly released a Filipino driver who was incarcerated for his alleged involvement in a car accident that killed an Indian man after his bosses paid the P2.8 million27
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NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime on Saturday hanged three men in a prison in Khorramabad, western Iran.The three men were identified as Behrouz Amiri, Rahman Kazemzadeh and Ali Hassanvand.They were hanged at dawn in Parsiloun Prison. All three had been accused of drugs-related charges. They
Colombo: A Saudi Arabian court has commuted the death-by-stoning sentence passed on a Sri Lankan maid convicted of adultery, the government in Colombo said on Wednesday.“We have succeeded in getting the death sentence overturned. Our concern was to make sure that the original sentence was notMyanmar migrants Win Zaw Htun, right, and Zaw Lin, left, both 22, in December 25.A Thai court on Thursday sentenced two Myanmar migrants to death for the murder of two British backpackers on a resort island last
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Renae LawrenceIndonesian prison officials have recommended Bali Nine drug mule Renae Lawrence has a further two months cut from her sentence.Lawrence, 37, is serving her 20-year sentence in Bali's Bangli Prison, where staff confirmed she had been put forward as one of the inmates to have their