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Raphael HolidayA Texas inmate was executed Wednesday for setting a fire that killed his 18-month-old daughter and her 2 young half-sisters at an East Texas home 15 years ago.Raphael Holiday, 36, became the 13th convicted killer put to death this year in Texas, which carries out capital punishment more
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Sentenced to death by beheading for the crime of "insulting Allah"The Sunni terror group, Islamic State (Isis), has released a new execution video shot using a camera mounted drone showing the brutal beheading of an Iraqi man in Anbar province.The man
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Marcus Ray JohnsonA lawyer for a Georgia death row inmate says his client shouldn't be executed this week because doubts remain about his guilt.Marcus Ray Johnson is set for execution Thursday.He was convicted in April 1998 in the March 1994 rape and murder of Angela Sizemore.The Georgia Board17
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The government of Pakistan has executed at least 300 people in the past 11 months, it’s emerged.In a rare admission, an anonymous Interior Ministry official said yesterday that Pakistan’s total for hangings “now stands at 311” since the country resumed executions 11 months ago today. Setting
Public hanging in Iran (file photo)Iran Human Rights (NOV 16 2015): From Thursday November 12 until today, Iranian authorities have executed at least six prisoners in two different prisons.Most of the hangings were carried out for alleged drug offenses.On Saturday November 14, a Pakistani15
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Governor Jay InsleeState prosecutors say they'll ask lawmakers to send a death penalty referendum to voters next year.The Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys issued a statement Thursday saying prosecutors "overwhelmingly believe that the people of the state should vote on the question
Hillary Rodham ClintonLess than a month before the New Hampshire primary in 1992, Bill Clinton left the campaign trail and tended to a pressing matter.Rickey Ray Rector, a convicted killer, was scheduled to be executed in Arkansas. Mr. Clinton, then the governor, returned to Little Rock and was
Indonesia sentenced 2 men to death Friday for running an worldwide drug syndicate that smuggled 840 kg (1,850 pounds) of methamphetamine into the country.The sentences, however, were lighter than those demanded by public prosecutors Teguh Ananto and Leila Qadria, who last week demanded the death13
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The time is now, and this opportunity might not present itself again soon.The death penalty in the United States will end.In the scholarly community, the debate is over. The proof that capital punishment doesn't work is as conclusive as the evidence that human activities have caused global
Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi authorities executed a citizen convicted of killing a policeman trying to arrest him for drug trafficking, the interior ministry has said.Ayed al-Jahdali was executed in the Makkah region, the interior ministry said.Saudi executions are usually carried out by
Veterans sentenced to death in Texas murder cases - and nationwide - might have escaped the punishment if juries had been told about their military service and any ensuing mental health problems, according to a Death Penalty Information Center report released Tuesday.About 300 veterans are on12
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The tomb-like isolation cell next to Oklahoma's death chamber. Everythingin Cell L is cement, including the bed. The door is always kept closed.It's underground, so there is no natural light. Instead, bright lights are kepton all the time.For 50-days straight, florescent lights bore into the small18
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Raphael HolidayHUNTSVILLE — A Texas inmate was set to be executed Wednesday evening for setting a fire that killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two young half-sisters at an East Texas home 15 years ago.Raphael Holiday, 36, would be the 13th convicted killer put to death this year in Texas18
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The Soekarno Hatta Airport Police seized drugs worth Rp 39 billion after capturing 2 drug traffickers, identified by their initials N and S, on November 10 and 11."N was the courier, whereas S was the supplier. The evidence includes 1,012 grams of meth, 2,944 grams of ketamine, 61,251 ecstasy17
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November 11, 2015: In an op-ed for USA Today, three retired generals call for systemic review of the status of veterans on death row nationwide and urge decision-makers in capital cases to seriously consider the mental health effects of service-related PTSD in determining whether to pursue or to16
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The man who helped topple it (briefly) in 1972 gauges the likelihood of success.How vulnerable is the death penalty? It's a question that has been asked with increasing frequency and intensity this year. Over the summer, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer invited defense lawyers to bring a case15
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A Chinese court on Friday sentenced 2 convicts to death for a jailbreak and for killing a guard.Gao Yulun, 50, was sentenced to death for intentional homicide and breaking out of jail using violence, while Wang Damin, 35, was sentenced to death for breaking out of jail using violence, larceny15
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The case of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be back in federal court in Boston next month.US District Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. has scheduled a hearing for Dec. 1 on several motions filed after Tsarnaev was sentenced to death in June.One of the motions is a request by prosecutors
Anti-drugs czar Budi Waseso announced plans to guard a death-rowprison island with crocodiles. He now mulls adding tigers and piranha fish.Jakarta. When Indonesia’s anti-drugs czar announced plans to guard
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Watching a public hanging in IranAt Least 5 Prisoners Hanged in 2 Days (East Azerbaijan and Kerman)On Tuesday November 10, 3 prisoners were reportedly hanged at Baft Prison on alleged rape charges.A day earlier, 2 prisoners were reportedly hanged at Tabriz Prison on alleged murder charges.Leggi12
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"More people have said, 'What can I do to help you?' in the last 14 hours of my life than they ever did in the first 19 years."As a death row attorney whom Desmond Tutu has called "America's young Nelson Mandela," Bryan Stevenson has worked with people who most of society has
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On Tuesday, 6 June 1995, over a year after electing the late Nelson Mandela as its President, South Africa ended the use of the death penalty, with a ruling of its constitutional court.Mandela's personal involvement in this outcome has been significant: 5 years earlier, freshly out of prison, he11
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"Self Portrait after our new arrivals, A bad sleeplast night" by Myuran Sukumaran, Nusakambanganpenal island, April 25, 2015.Convicted drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran has been posthumously named GQ Artist of the Year, seven months after
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Tokyo Detention Center's Execution Chamber and Viewing GalleryTOKYO — Contact with the outside world through visits and the exchange of letters makes life worth living for death row inmates in Japan, even if just for another day, as they reflect on their crimes or
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Public execution in IranIs the Obama administration aware that it is trusting and dealing with a country that has just broken the world record in executions? Of course the President is aware of that, and it seems that he has decided to turn a blind eye to Iran's
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Manama: The Cassation Court in Bahrain on Monday upheld the death sentence for two defendants found guilty of killing an on-duty police officer and of attempted murder.Police officer Abdul Wahid Sayid Mohammad Faqeer was killed on February 14 last year in the Dair area, in the northern part of16
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Maldives top court issued new guidelines Sunday allowing death sentences and public lashing rulings issued by lower courts to be appealed automatically at the High Court.In a circular, the Supreme Court said if the defendant fails to appeal death sentences and public lashing verdicts within 1015
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Iranian President Hassan RouhaniOn the eve of the trip to France by the Iranian regime's President Hassan Rouhani, a group of forty intellectuals signed an appeal on Friday published in the French daily Le Monde to denounce the surge in executions in Iran, stressing that no political
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Government has included funds in the proposed state budget for next year to establish an execution chamber at the country's main prison to carry out the death penalty.The proposed budget for next year, which is currently being reviewed by the parliament, includes MVR4 million to build an execution13
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At least 1,000 drug offenders hanged since President Rouhani took office.In a rare public comment on the death penalty since he took office in June 2013, President Hassan Rouhani claimed Iran has hanged hundreds of drug offenders to prevent drug trafficking into Europe.In an interview yesterday13
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California's brand new death chamberIn a setback for opponents of capital punishment, a federal appeals panel in California on Thursday overturned a 2014 ruling that could have voided the death sentences of hundreds of prisoners in the state.Last year, in a decision seen by death penalty foes12
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F. Glenn Miller Jr.A judge on Tuesday issued the death penalty for the white supremacist convicted of shooting to death 3 people at 2 Jewish centers in Kansas last year.The 74-year-old Missouri man who unleashed years of pent-up anti-Semitism in a spasm of gunfire that killed three Christians12
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Ali al-NimrThe Saudi authorities are refusing to allow Ali al-Nimr, who was sentenced to death aged 17, access to a doctor, according to his family.Ali was arrested following anti-government protests in 2012, and sentenced to death in a secretive trial on the basis of a “confession” extracted10
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaAt least 151 people have been put to death in Saudi Arabia so far this year - the highest recorded figure since 1995 - in an unprecedented wave of executions marking a grim new milestone in the Saudi Arabian authorities' use of the
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