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Philippe Marcel Guy GraffartThe Belgian man accused of killing his 5-year-old son in their D'Leedon condominium home will be remanded for another week at the Central Police Division to assist in investigations.Philippe Marcel Guy Graffart, who appeared in court looking calm and relaxed on Wednesday (Nov 25), is
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)The cycle of suppression, in particular group hangings, continues in Iran after the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted of a resolution condemning rights violation on 19 November.At least 11 prisoners have been executed in Iran since25
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Reginald ClemonsThe Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the 1st-degree murder convictions for Reginald Clemons, who had been sentenced to death for a 1991 double-murder on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge.Clemons had been fighting his conviction and death sentence in the 1991 rape and killing
A killing spree: Erecting gallows in PakistanA disabled Pakistani murder convict was given a fourth stay of execution late Tuesday just hours before he was due to be hanged, as rights activists slammed Islamabad for a executions spree on track to see 300 deaths in
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There are 2 Australian families facing what's meant to be a happy time of year with heavy hearts.There are 2 Australian families that lost their sons to the firing squad in Indonesia after 10 years in prison. And there are 2 Australia families who will be sickened by the latest news from Leggi23
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Kho JabingThe Court of Appeal in Singapore today reserved judgment on whether it should review the death sentence meted out on Sarawakian Kho Jabing for murder 8 years ago.Lawyer Chandra Mohan K. Nair, in his 2-hour submission this evening, told the court that Jabing should be given a lighter23
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Abdul BasitA prison source in Pakistan has admitted that they have received no instructions from the government on how they are meant to hang a paralysed prisoner, according to the Telegraph.Pakistan has scheduled the hanging of Abdul Basit, who has been unable to stand since suffering medical
Ashraf FayadhA Palestinian poet and leading member of Saudi Arabia’s nascent contemporary art scene has been sentenced to death for renouncing Islam.A Saudi court on Tuesday ordered the execution of Ashraf Fayadh, who has curated art shows in Jeddah and at the Venice Biennale. The poet, who said20
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Marcus Ray JohnsonMarcus Ray Johnson has been put to death, the 1st of 7 expected to come over the next weeks and months as issues of the state's lethal injection drug has been resolved and death penalty cases complete the usual round of appeals.The appointed time of his death
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Firing squad execution of suspected militants in Somalia, August 2014.The United Nations is "deeply concerned" about summary executions against suspected militants in Somalia, a UN official said, echoing previous concerns by a New-York based rights group which accused Somalia's military court of19
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Anthony GravesAnthony Graves was convicted in 1994 in Texas of murdering a woman, her daughter and her 4 grandchildren. Later proven to be innocent, Graves spent many years in prison, including 12 years on death row waiting to be executed for a crime he did not commit."You took 18 years
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Bangladesh's Supreme Court Wednesday rejected appeals of 2 senior opposition leaders convicted of war crimes during the country's 1971 war of independence against Pakistan. The court also upheld the death sentences given to the 2 leaders.Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury of the Bangladesh Nationalist25
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International human rights NGO Reprieve has raised concerns over Saudi media reports, which suggest that juveniles Ali al Nimr and Dawoud al Marhoon could be executed in days.Saudi news outlet Okaz has today reported that 55 people convicted of ‘anti-Government offences’, are to be executed in the25
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BEIJING — A top Chinese health official has denied that the country’s new organ transplant system allows organs to be harvested from executed prisoners, saying that earlier comments he made suggesting that a loophole allowed the practice to continue had been misconstrued.The official, Dr. Huang24
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Fallujah, Iraq: ISIS militants execute 2 gay men accused of being gay.Islamic State (ISIS) militants have executed another two gay men accused of being gay in Iraq.Photos posted on social media Monday (23 November) show two blindfolded men being thrown
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Paris, November 2015The founder of France's far-right National Front (FN) Jean-Marie Le Pen has urged France to reinstate the death penalty and commit convicted terrorists to the guillotine, French weekly news magazine Marianne reports.Speaking at a press conference held at his palatial home in23
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A number of news outlets reported last week that Indonesia had placed a moratorium on the death penalty. Indonesian's co-ordinating security minister, Luhut Panjaitan, was said to announce this by saying:We haven't thought about executing a death penalty with the economic conditions like
Bangladesh Supreme CourtThousands of extra police and border guards have been deployed in Dhaka and other major cities and towns of Bangladesh in advance of a general strike called to protest against the executions of two opposition politicians for war crimes.The security measures that have been20
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Idaho's Death ChamberIdaho's death row is down to 9 offenders, 1 woman and 8 men, now that Gene Francis Stuart has had his sentence reduced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.Stuart pleaded guilty to murder by torture in the 1981 beating death of 3-year-old Robert Miller, Leggi19
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One of Indonesia's most senior ministers has denied there will be a formal moratorium on executions in Indonesia.Co-ordinating Minister for political, legal and security affairs Luhut Panjaitan had earlier on Thursday said there would not be any executions for the time being because Indonesia was19
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Site of the A321 Russian airliner that crashed on Oct 31, 2015.The State Duma of the Russian Federation (the Parliament) is collecting signatures for a petition to the president about the need to reinstate death penalty in Russia.Many Russian MPs
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The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) has lauded the proposal to abolish the mandatory death sentence for drug-related offences.Its chairman Tan Sri Hasmy Agam said Suhakam believed the positive development would place Malaysia on par with many other nations that have lately begun to19
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Bill proposed lifetime imprisonment or death by stoning for both gay Kenyan and foreign peopleKenya's parliament has officially thrown out a proposal that would have punished homosexuality with death by stoning.The reason is that lawmakers believe current laws, which imprisons gay people for up25
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NCRI - The Iranian regime’s henchmen in city of Karaj hanged at least five prisoners in Gohardasht Prison on Tuesday. The victims included Alireza Shahi whose death sentence was condemned by Amnesty International on Monday.Five men were part of a group of at least ten prisoners that their
Ivan KuleshA 28-year-old man, Ivan Kulesh, was sentenced to death in Belarus on 20 November. He is at least the second person to receive the death sentence in 2015.On 20 November the Hrodna Regional Court, in western Belarus, sentenced Ivan Kulesh to death for “committing murder with particular23
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A gay man is about to be thrown off a building rooftop by ISIS fightersin Iraq in August 2015.A Dutch-born Islamic State fighter has hosted an online Q&A – in which he
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Belarusian court has sentenced a man to death for 2 fatal robberies, the 2nd death sentence this year to be handed down in the only country in Europe that still uses it.Judges in the court in the western city of Hrodno found Ivan Kulish guilty on November 20 of killing 3 saleswomen
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According to confirmed sources, Iranian authorities have executed at least 5 prisoners in the span of 4 days.Close sources and the human rights group HRANA report that 3 prisoners were hanged by Iranian authorities on Wednesday November 18 at Zahedan Central Prison (Sistan & Baluchestan) for
Abdul BasitThe Pakistani authorities have once again set a date for the hanging of a prisoner who is paralysed from the waist down as a result of medical neglect while in prison.Abdul Basit contracted meningitis while in prison in Faisalabad in 2010, and has needed to use a wheelchair ever LeggiThe lawyer who represented Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran before the Australians were executed is optimistic there will eventually be a change in Indonesia’s death penalty laws.While reports yesterday that Indonesia had declared a formal moratorium to end the death penalty
Mary Jane VelosoMary Jane Veloso's family rejoiced over news that ranking Indonesia official issued a pronouncement that they are not considering carrying out anymore executions."We are very happy because this would give the government and our lawyers |time] to look into her (Mary Jane's) case19
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Georgia Death ChamberA look at the state's history of bad lawyering and faulty evidence.Since December 2014, Georgia has executed a man whose drunk lawyer bungled the case, a man with intellectual disabilities, a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, and a woman who planned but did not19
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The Central Narcotics Bureau seized about 1.56kg of heroin and 1.12kg of cannabis, among other drugs, during an operation on Tuesday (Nov 17).According to a press release on Wednesday, CNB said its officers were deployed in the vicinity of Kembangan, where a local drug trafficker was believed to19
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Indonesia has announced a moratorium on executions as the government looks at fixing the economy.A government official said the ban on executions would allow the nation to concentrate its stalling economy.Indonesia has been cautious about proceeding with further executions since Australians