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It was supposed to be a humane alternative to the noose. On March 22, 1890, The Times reported on a New York Court of Appeals ruling that a new invention, the electric chair, did not constitute cruel punishment.It would be used to execute a convicted wife killer, William Kemmler.When the execution
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Nusakambangan Island, where Indonesia carried out the execuctionsOn the night of 28 April, much of the world’s media was trained on a prison island off central Java where eight prisoners, including two Australians, were executed at midnight.The lead up to the executions and the
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California's death chamberThe California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has finally settled on 4 barbiturates - amobarbital, pentobarbital, secobarbital and thiopental - as the poisons of choice for its proposed new method of executing people. A single dose from any of the 4 would
Rokhsahana was stoned to death by Taliban for eloping in Afghanistanin Oct. 2015. The man with whom she was eloping has not been stoned.KABUL, Afghanistan — After men believed to be Taliban fighters forced a 19-year-old named Rukhshana into a freshly dug pit and methodically stoned her to death
California's brand new execution chamberCalifornia unveiled a new method for executing condemned prisoners Friday, proposing a single-drug lethal injection protocol that could restart capital punishment after a 10-year hiatus.The proposal came as a result of a lawsuit filed against the state by
In 2014 the number of people sentenced with the death penalty increased by 28 %. According to the UN the penalties were imposed for terrorism and drug charges.In 2014, there had unfortunately been a 28 % increase in the number of people condemned to death, according to data presented by the UN05
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Sarawakian Kho JabingSarawakian Kho Jabing has received a stay of execution on a death sentence less than 24 hours before he was scheduled to be hanged in Singapore, rights advocacy group We Believe in Second Chances co-founder Kirsten Han said today.Jabing's lawyer had filed a criminal motion on
Dozens of rabbis call on gov't to implement death penalty; initiators say it would also stop citizens taking law into their own hands.Dozens of Israeli rabbis have signed a halakhic (Jewish legal) ruling calling on the government to institute the death penalty for terrorists.The letter, initiated04
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Ohio hasn't executed anybody since January 2014, when Dennis McGuire took about 25 minutes to die from a previously untested two-drug concoction of midazolam and hydromorphone.Legal challenges to Ohio's lethal-injection method of execution have contributed to the delay, but even though a recent
Clarence JonesTALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A man convicted of killing a Tallahassee Police officer has died on death row.The Department of Corrections confirms that Clarence Jones died of what appears to be natural causes last week. He'd been on death row for 26 years.Jones was sentenced to death for
Rokhsahana was stoned to death by Taliban for eloping in Afghanistan,in Nov. 2015. The man with whom she was eloping has not been stoned.A young Afghan woman who was married against her will has been stoned to death after
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A new law resulted from last year's botched execution of death row inmate Clayton Lockett and the problem Oklahoma has had acquiring the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections.Written by state Rep. Mike Christian, a former Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper and staunch advocate of the death
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Andrew Chan (left) and Myuran Sukumaran (right)Given the very different views about the death penalty in Australia and Indonesia, it was perhaps inevitable that the bilateral relationship would come under strain as the executions of convicted drug smugglers, Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran08
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Kho JabingThe Singapore Court of Appeal has set November 23 to hear an appeal by Sarawakian death row inmate Kho Jabing to have his sentence commuted, according to an anti-death penalty activist.Ms Kirsten Han, the co-founder of Singapore-based We Believe in Second Chances, told Malay Mail Online07
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Democratic presidential candidates, from left, Bernie Sanders,Martin O’Malley, Hillary Clinton, November 2016.Less than 3 decades ago, calling for an end to the death penalty on the campaign trail could sink a candidate. Now, with public support for executions waning, Democrats are making it
The state of Arizona says it has a 3-drug combination available to use in executions once they resume.In a federal court notice filed Tuesday, the state says it has midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride on-hand and that it plans on using that combination when executions resume. It's05
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On the morning of Wednesday October 4 [sic], 2 prisoners were reportedly hanged to death at Rajai Shahr Prison on murder charges.On the same day another prisoner charged with murder was reportedly hanged at Tabriz Central Prison.On Sunday the 2 prisoners from Rajai Shahr Prison had been
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Toto Riyanto,Indonesia's new ambassadorBRASILIA - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff accepted the Indonesian ambassador's credentials Wednesday after a nearly nine-month standoff over the Asian country's execution of two Brazilian nationals convicted of drug04
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Kho JabingThe Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (Adpan) urgently calls on the government of Singapore to halt the impending execution of 31-year-old Sarawakian Kho Jabing, whose application for clemency was rejected by the president of Singapore on Oct 19.Kho Jabing was arrested in February 2008 for
The U.S. Supreme CourtA majority of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared ready to say race was a primary reason prosecutors struck all the prospective African-American jurors in a Georgia case where an all-white jury sentenced a young black man to death.At least 6 of
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Ernest Lee JohnsonThe Supreme Court on Tuesday night halted a scheduled execution in Missouri, saying that the lethal injection should be delayed until after a lower court rules.Ernest Lee Johnson was sentenced to death for killing 3 people with a claw hammer in 1994.His attorneys wrote in03
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsReports have emerged that the family of political prisoners facing execution in Saudi Arabia have been unable to make regular, scheduled calls with the prisoners, raising concerns over their well-being.Ali Adubisi, the director of03
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Australia is reportedly considering cooperating with Indian authorities on a terror case that could end with the suspect getting the death sentence.Attorney General George Brandis last week had talks with India's Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh on security cooperation.Indian media reports09
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Pakistan has hanged 299 people since resuming executions in December last year, and could pass the 300 mark any day, according to research by international human rights organization Reprieve and Justice Project Pakistan (JPP).Pakistan lifted a moratorium on executions in December 2014, arguing08
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Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal all spoke this weekend at the National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa, an event hosted by Kevin Swanson, a Colorado-based pastor and activist who frequently informs his followers that the biblical penalty for07
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Nebraska's corrections director faced blistering criticism Thursday for spending more than $54,000 on foreign-made lethal injection drugs the state hasn't received because the federal government says their import is illegal.Members of a legislative oversight committee grilled Nebraska Department05
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Unjust. Unfair. Costly. Dehumanizing.These concerns reflect the reality of the administration of the death penalty. As such, they lead to the same inevitable conclusion: It is time to abolish capital punishment in Kentucky.It has been 4 years since an American Bar Association-sponsored assessment05
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Capital punishment, once a key issue in U.S. presidential races, has hardly been mentioned in this one. That is testament to the fact that America, like the rest of the world, is moving away from the death penalty. Most of the work for abolition in the U.S. is happening in the states,
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Gathering signatures against the Nebraska death penalty repealNebraska prison officials unsuccessfully tried to buy a key lethal injection drug from a Mississippi-based pharmaceutical company after spending months trying to import tens of thousands of dollars in execution drugs from India04
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Erecting gallows in Pakistan4 death row prisoners in 2 jails of Punjab executed in the wee hours of Tuesday, ARY News reported.3 condemned prisoners were executed in Gujrat district jail on Tuesday morning.3 convicts, 2 brothers and their maternal uncle, were hanged to death over double-murder in04
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Australia's Catholic bishops have offered the Church's assistance in Canberra's concerted but stalled efforts to abolish the death penalty across the worldArchbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne, the President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, has written to a Federal Parliamentary
WASHINGTON — In the long legal struggle against the death penalty, the future has in some ways never looked brighter.In a passionate dissent in June, Justice Stephen G. Breyer invited a major challenge to the constitutionality of capital punishment. This fall, Justice Antonin Scalia all but03
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Presidential hopeful Hillary ClintonHow can we reserve the death penalty for the "worst of the worst" when we can't rely on the judicial system to not sentence the innocent to death?The death penalty made a rare appearance on the presidential campaign trail last week with Hillary Rodham
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President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected the mercy petition of a serial rapist, convicted for raping 4 minor girls and brutally killing 2 - aged 5 and 10 years.Kolhapur resident Mohan Anna Chavan had first raped a minor girl in 1989, for which he received a 2-year jail term and was soon out on