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Two Bahrainis who were tortured into ‘confessing’ to an attack on police officers in the wake of anti-Government protests last year could be executed at any moment, unless the country’s King pardons them.Husain Moosa and Mohammed Ramadan were arrested in February and March 2014 respectively, shortly after demonstrations took place in Bahrain
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Public execution in IranThe UN has announced a new $20 million funding deal for anti-drug operations in Iran, despite drug related executions reaching a 16 year high.The UN’s new funding deal will more than double UN funding for Iranian counter-narcotics efforts, and will be administered by the
Holding cells adjacent to the death chamber, Huntsville Unit, Huntsville, TXThe high cost of capital punishment and the option of life in prison without parole has led Texas to issue 3 death sentences in 2015, the lowest since the U.S. Supreme
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The European Parliament, Strasbourg, FranceThe European Parliament has passed a resolution calling on Egypt to release Ibrahim Halawa, an Irish juvenile who faces a death sentence for attending protests.In a vote this morning, an overwhelming majority of MEPs – 566 to 11 – voted
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Bali's Kerobokan PrisonThree people are said to be dead after riots broke out in Bali's Kerobokan prison, where Australians are among the inmates.Two groups of inmates clashed around 3pm on Thursday, prison authorities say, claiming the lives of three inmates, according to Daily Telegraph.Earlier16
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Pakistan has hanged 8 convicted murderers in jails across the country. Executions come a day ahead of the 1-year anniversary of the Peshawar school attack, which prompted Islamabad to reinstate the death penalty.A moratorium on executions was lifted last year by Pakistan after Taliban gunmen15
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Colorado lawmakers will debate giving prosecutors a mulligan when seeking the death penalty.State Representative Kim Ransom, R-Douglas County, is drafting legislation that would allow district attorneys to seat a 2nd jury, if the 1st jury does not agree unanimously on life in prison or a death15
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Government says executions are needed to contain national drug emergencyThe Jesuit head of the Jakarta-based Driyarkara Education Foundation has strongly criticized the government's use of the death penalty, saying that life always must be protected."There's an ethical belief, which is very15
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Mark Allen PinnellMark Allen Pinnell, Oregon's oldest death row inmate, died in custody Monday morning, about two months after the governor denied his request to spend his final days outside of prison in hospice care.Pinnell, 67, died of natural causes about 10:55 a.m. in the Two Rivers14
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The Iranian regime's henchmen hanged a 36-year-old father of 3 in a prison in the city of Gorgan in northern Iran.The victim identified as Hossein Naybandani had been sentenced to death for "transferring and being in possession of drugs."Naybandani was hanged early morning on Sunday in the main14
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One of the biggest mistakes Maldives can make is to re-introduce the death penalty, a Maldives-born top official at the United Nations said Saturday.Dr Ahmed Shaheed on Twitter labelled the move to re-introduce the death penalty after a 60-year moratorium as a big mistake.In an earlier Tweet10
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Ali Mohammed al-NimrAli Mohammed al-Nimr's crucifixion judgment has been deemed "unfounded" by an independent legal expert on counterterrorism and human rights. Zafar Gondal, a former judge and magistrate, conducted an analysis into the case, which revealed "shocking flaws" with the19
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Daesh noir, Daesh blanc. Le premier égorge, tue, lapide, coupe les mains, détruit le patrimoine de l’humanité, et déteste l’archéologie, la femme et l’étranger non musulman. Le second est mieux habillé et plus propre, mais il fait la même chose. L’Etat islamique et l’Arabie saoudite. Dans sa luttePublic execution in IranThe Iranian authorities should approve proposed drug law amendments to end the use of the death penalty for all nonviolent drug offenses. The authorities should also investigate and bring to justice those responsible for abuses of prisoners held on drug charges.In phone18
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Pakistan this morning [Dec. 16, 2015] reportedly executed Saqi Shah, who was arrested and convicted when he was 16 years old.Shah, who was sentenced to death in June 1992, had already spent 23 years in prison – 20 of which have been on death row. According to the Asian Commission for Human Rights16
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Christopher Eugene BrooksThe Alabama Supreme Court on Monday denied a death row inmate's request to halt his Jan. 21 execution.A federal judge also said Monday that he would rule "expeditiously" on Alabama death row inmate Christopher Eugene Brooks' request for an emergency request to delay his16
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Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterA man sentenced to life over a high-profile yami saito (darkness website) murder case in 2007 has now been sentenced to death for a different slaying committed 9 years earlier.Judge Taro Kageyama of the Nagoya District Court sentenced Yoshitomo Hori, 40, to death
Lin SinhaoA Chinese medical student who murdered his roommate at a prestigious Shanghai university by poisoning a drinking water dispenser was executed Friday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.Lin Sinhao was convicted by a Shanghai court of murdering fellow student Huang Yang "out of15
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Karen B. Rosenbaum, MD; William Connor Darby, MD; Robert Weinstock, MDPsychiatric AnnalsDecember 2015 - Volume 45 · Issue 12: 615-621The United States is in the company of only 22 other countries with the death penalty.The American Medical Association is among many medical professionalCorrupt legal system, poor investigations 'work against the innocent'Many prisoners in Indonesia on death row are there as a result of unfair trials, according to an Indonesian church official."Lots of people are still waiting for their execution. Many of them are the fruit of unfair trials,"14
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Lindsay Sandiford in her Kerobokan prison death-row cellLindsay Sandiford's last legal bid to avoid the firing squad has sufferedA British grandmother's hopes of escaping the death penalty for smuggling drugs into Bali have suffered a huge setback after the lawyer handling her final appeal Leggi12
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Presidential hopeful Donald TrumpPortsmouth, New Hampshire (CNN) - Donald Trump announced Thursday that if elected president, he would sign an executive order to mandate the death penalty for convicted cop killers.Trump announced his latest legally questionable policy proposal after accepting the10
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Mar Roxas (L) and Rodrigo Duterte (R)Presidential candidate Mar Roxas rejected on Thursday the proposal to revive death penalty in the country, stressing that it is not a proven deterrent to crime.Instead, Roxas said the focus is on the ensuring that criminals are not only
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Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterTOKYO — Japan on Friday carried out the first execution of an inmate sentenced to death in a lay judge trial following the country’s introduction of the judicial system in 2009, Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki said.Along with Sumitoshi Tsuda, 63, another death row18
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2 convicts were hanged at Faisalabad Central Jail and 1 was hanged at the Dera Ghazi Khan Central Jail on Wednesday. The execution of a convict scheduled to be hanged in Dera Ghazi Khan on Wednesday was put off on orders of Lahore High Court.A Prisons Department spokesperson said Muhammad Ishaq
Public execution in Saudi ArabiaThe family of a Saudi juvenile who was 15 when he was arrested at a protest have appealed for help to stop his imminent beheading.Abdullah al-Zaher was arrested in March 2012 by Saudi security forces breaking up protests in the country’s
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Vince Rabil25 years ago, as an assistant district attorney in Forsyth County, Vince Rabil helped put Blanche Taylor Moore on death row.Today, Rabil says it is time to end the death penalty and calls Moore - a frail 82-year-old still sitting on death row - "a living monument to
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Public beheading in Saudi Arabia (file photo)A Saudi convicted of murder was executed on Tuesday, in the 151st death sentence carried out this year in the conservative Muslim kingdom.Sultan al-Dosari was executed in the eastern province of Ihsa after his conviction for stabbing to death
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70 Iranian MPs have signed a proposal that would see the death penalty eliminated for people convicted of non-violent drug offences.The lawmakers, a minority in Iran's 290 parliamentarians, signed the bill on Tuesday, the first time such a proposal has come directly from Iranian politicians.At
Missouri's death chamberNew rule would expedite execution process for those without further chance of appealState lawmakers will soon discuss House Bill 1647, which would reform Missouri's execution process.State Rep. Mike Kelley, R-Lamar, said the bill would require the state Supreme Court to14
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Gov. Pete Ricketts' office has directed the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services to review the purchase agreement with HarrisPharma to determine if the state can get back any of the $54,400 it paid in advance for lethal injection drugs."It is unclear what recourse the state has, if any, to
Execution of two convicts in Kuwait in June 2013A total of 29 defendants, seven of them women, are on trial over the terrorist attackKuwait's appeals court Sunday upheld the death penalty for the main organiser of the bombing of a Shiite mosque claimed
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Richard Glossip and Sister Helen PrejeanThis is an account of the campaign to save the life of Richard Glossip. It provides both a timeline of the events over the past year when Richard came close to being executed not once but three times, and also an
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Foreign Office minister makes case for Britain's re-election to UN human rights council, but no mention of government's objection to death penaltyThe UK government has been accused of dropping its commitment to opposing the death penalty as Britain seeks re-election to a United Nations human