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The Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, has today announced that he has traveled to Saudi Arabia, at the start of a tour of several Gulf countries.His visit comes amid concerns for the fate of juveniles Ali al-Nimr and Dawoud al-Marhoon, who are reported to be awaiting execution in solitary confinement; as well as
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California's Death RowPrison officials draw up single-drug protocol but death penalty has not been carried out since 2006 and public support is in declineCalifornia prison officials have filed proposed new guidelines for lethal injection, a step towards resuming executions in a state that has not
UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) is supporting a trade fair hosted by the Dubai police this week, despite widespread use of police torture in the UAE.The event, the Emirates Security Exhibition and Conference (Emsec), is said by its organizers to be ‘designed to support and encourage UK exports’. It
California's brand new death chamberA proposed ballot measure to abolish the death penalty in California has attracted some big-dollar help from Silicon Valley.Anti-capital punishment activist Mike Farrell, a former star of the TV show "MASH," filed "The Justice that Works Act" last27
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Andargachew 'Andy' TsegeA British father of 3 who has been held for 16 months in incommunicado detention in Ethiopia has suggested he may die in prison.Andargachew 'Andy' Tsege, whose British partner and children live in London, was abducted at an airport in Yemen in June 2014 and rendered
Public flogging in Saudi ArabiaAn "alarming change" in Britain's attitude towards Saudi Arabia could lead to "serious repercussions", the Saudi ambassador has warned.Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz highlighted the UK's cancellation of a deal to train Saudi26
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Shahrul Izani Bin SuparamanShahrul Izani was sentenced to death in Malaysia in 2003 for possessing 622 grams of cannabis. He was 19 years old. It was his first criminal offense.After spending more than six years in detention awaiting trial, Shahrul Izani was convicted of drug trafficking andSaudi Arabia's Supreme Court has approved the death penalty for prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, his brother says.Mohammad al-Nimr, the prominent cleric's brother, said in a message on social media on Sunday that the Saudi Supreme Court and an appellate court had approved the execution25
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The story of Abdul Basit echoes the abysmalstate of Pakistan's criminal justice system.The headlines of newspapers scream that we have reached a 'shameful milestone'. We have made people march to the gallows-more than we want to count and believe that we have. Pakistan has executed more than 250
Indonesia Attorney General M. PrasetyoIndonesia Attorney General M. Prasetyo said on Thursday that the Attorney General's Office (AGO) would not carry out a 3rd round of executions of inmates until the country gets out of the current economic slowdown.Prasetyo said that another round of executions22
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One Year in Power: Bali Nine and Death Row Inmate ExecutionsWithin a few months of taking office, President Joko Widodo drew huge international condemnation for executing foreign drug convicts.Source: The Jakarta Globe, October 22, 2015Julie Bishop arrives in Indonesia for first visit
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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts: a death penalty obsessionBecause Nebraska lacks lethal injection drugs, the state remains unable to carry out an execution even though a voter petition drive has successfully postponed the recent repeal of the death penalty.Gov. Pete Ricketts said Wednesday his
The federal government has agreed to hear arguments from Texas and Arizona prison officials after agents seized drugs that both states were trying to import for use in executions.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Monday that it would evaluate the states' responses and notify the prison28
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A UN investigator has warned that executions in Iran could hit 1000 this year, driven in large part by an increase in people being hanged for alleged drug offences – with officials justifying hangings by pointing to the support of a UN anti-drugs agency.The report by Ahmed Shaheed, the Special27
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"I don't think that's where we're headed," he told reporters Oct. 26, after being asked whether the state should consider firing squads, hangings and other options being discussed elsewhere in the country.Kasich offered the comments a week after he postponed all Ohio executions scheduled in 2016
In response to reports that President Obama today called Saudi King Salman to discuss ‘bilateral relations’ and the ‘situation in the region,’ international human rights NGO Reprieve has questioned whether the discussion included human rights and specifically the cases of two juveniles facing
Supreme Court Justice Antonin ScaliaSupreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's comments last week on the death penalty's future in the United States grabbed more than a few headlines, and it could signal a future where America joins a majority of nations that outlaw capital punishment.Scalia is one of
A group of lawyers have petitioned President Truong Tan Sang for the reprieve of a death row inmate, who was acquitted twice on appeal, but [was] scheduled to die on Sunday.The lawyers said that Le Van Manh appeared to have been a scapegoat in a case in which the proper legal
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Virginia's Death ChamberHis crimes were horrific and there was no hint of innocence or remorse. Alfredo Prieto had been denied clemency and his appeals turned down before his last words Oct. 1 at at 9:08 p.m.: "Get this over with."The commonwealth of Virginia complied and Prieto was pronounced24
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States are locked in legal battle with the federal government after regulators intercepted illegally imported anesthetics to be used in lethal injectionsDeath penalty states are locked in a legal battle with the federal government after regulators intercepted shipments of illegally imported23
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Public caning for committing immoral acts in Aceh, Indonesia'The law is to safeguard human dignity'LGBTI people caught having sex in Indonesia’s Aceh province will be punished by 100 lashes of the cane from today.Anal sex between men and ‘the rubbing of body
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The original guillotine that was used to decapitate Hans Vollenweider.in 1940. It is now on display in the Lucerne History Museum.Exactly 75 years after the last peacetime execution in Switzerland,
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The vast majority of people facing execution in Saudi Arabia were convicted for non-violent crimes including political protest and drugs offences, according to new research from the human rights organization Reprieve.The report includes data gathered by Reprieve on 171 of the prisoners currently28
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The average age for Supreme Court retirements is just shy of 79.Wedged between the Republican and Democratic national conventions next July will fall an event of greater long-term significance for the future of the republic: Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's 80th birthday.Barring unforeseen28
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40 boxes full of more than 4,000 pounds of amphetamine pillsand cocaine were found on the prince’s private plane.Saudi prince Abdel Mohsen bin Walid bin Abdulaziz was caught in an airport in
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The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider a case involving discrimination against potential Black jurors, according to The Washington Post. The case involves Timothy Tyrone Foster, a Black teenager who was sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly white woman in Georgia. Court records show
Shahram AhmadiShahram Ahmadi, 30, a Sunni prisoner of conscience, who was arrested on November 29, 2009, has been finally sentenced to death by the Appeal Court.The verdict has been submitted to his lawyer on October 25, 2015, and referred to Iran’s Supreme Court, BCR Group has learned.Ahmadi26
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Syria: Two gay men stoned to death by ISIS militants and supportersIslamic State (ISIS) militants and their supporters stoned to death two men accused of being gay in
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The Iranian regime as the foremost executioner of children in the world sentenced to death four young prisoners in Sanandaj Prison who were juveniles at the time of their crimes.The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights agencies, especially the UN Secretary-General, the High25
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George T. Wilkerson, Resisting Stereotypes(humanity isn’t black and white) 2014, graphite andcolor pencil on paper, 10 7/8“ x 8 1/2“ Ndume Olatushani jokes that he "couldn't even draw a crooked line straight" when he arrived on death row almost 30 years ago.He had plenty of time to learn23
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Arizona paid $27,000 for a shipment of sodium thiopental, but the FDA seized the drug from a British Airways flight.A shipment of an illegally imported lethal injection drug bought by the state of Arizona has been stopped at Phoenix airport, according to documents.Arizona paid nearly $27,000 for23
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Florida's electric chairTALLAHASSEE — For the first time in nearly two decades, a Florida prison inmate is demanding that he be put to death in the antiquated electric chair and not by a lethal injection method that has been repeatedly challenged in court.Wayne Doty, 42, of Plant City has Leggi
A legislative committee has launched a discussion about whether the death penalty should be eliminated in Utah, less than a year since lawmakers passed a bill bringing back the firing squad.At a hearing Wednesday, the Utah State Legislature's Interim Judiciary Committee broached the subject of21
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Ohio's decision to delay executions another full year while it hunts for lethal injection drugs highlights an ongoing dilemma faced by the remaining death penalty states.Although support for capital punishment continues, states are struggling to find a legal means to carry it out, and that has