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Dawood Hussein al-MarhoonTwo Saudi Arabian Shi’a activists, arrested when they were under 18 years old, risk being executed as soon as the King ratifies their death sentences. They were moved to solitary confinement on 5 October and have been held incommunicado since then. Shi’a activists Abdullah Hasan al-Zaher
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Ernest Lee JohnsonErnest Lee Johnson, a 55 year-old intellectually disabled man, is scheduled to be executed by the State of Missouri on November 3, 2015. Even though the U.S. Supreme Court held that the execution of the intellectually disabled was prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the15
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'The Indonesian Flag', Myuran Sukumaran's final painting onNusakambangan Island, shortly before he was executed by firing squad.Death row prisoners in Indonesia are routinely denied access to lawyers and are coerced into “confessions” through severe
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Jesse SappOfficials say a death row inmate who was awaiting a new sentence after challenging his execution order has been found dead at a Ridgeville prison.The Post and Courier reports 36-year-old Jesse Sapp died at the Lieber Correctional Institution. State prisons spokeswoman Stephanie Givens14
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Oklahoma's attorney general is asking for permission to disclose information in a lethal injection lawsuit to the judge but not to attorneys for death row inmates.Why the state is asking for the secrecy is a mystery.Attorney General Scott Pruitt is representing the Oklahoma Corrections Department14
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Reports have emerged of a second execution of a juvenile offender in Iran in just a few days Amnesty International said today, which reveal the full horror of the country’s deeply flawed juvenile justice system. Fatemeh Salbehi, a 23-year-old woman, was hanged yesterday for a crime she allegedly14
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)The fundamentalist regime ruling Iran on Monday collectively hanged 8 prisoners in the western city of Orumieh in addition to 3 other prisoners executed in public in southern Iran.The 8 prisoners were hanged at dawn in Orumieh's central prison. They were14
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The State Duma of the Russian Federation proposes to abolish the moratorium on death penalty for terrorists.This initiative was voiced by deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction, Vadim Solovyov.The MP suggested reinstating death penalty for14
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Licho EscamillaThe 19-year-old was already wanted in Dallas in the fatal shooting of a neighbor when he got involved in a brawl outside a club, pulled out a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun and opened fire on police as they tried to break up the fight.Licho Escamilla's bullets twice struck Christopher
On Tuesday the Supreme Court heard cases involving the two most extreme punishments in the American criminal justice system: life without the possibility of parole and the death penalty.The capital case comes to the justices, as it often does, from Florida. Only last year the court struck Leggi13
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The Government has dropped a bid to provide services to the Saudi prison system. The announcement, made today, comes after it emerged Justice Secretary Michael Gove had demanded that the deal should be cancelled, but was overruled by David Cameron and Philip Hammond. The issue was set to be
LAHORE (Dunya News) - At least eight death row convicts were sent to the gallows on early Tuesday morning in different jails of Punjab, Dunya News reported.According to details, double murder convict Muhammad Ashraf was hanged in Attock District Jail. Ashraf had killed a father and his son in 200315
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Erecting gallows in Pakistan after moratorium was liftedAt least 6 death row prisoners including a man convicted of killing former Punjab chief minister Ghulam Haider Wyne were hanged in different jails of Punjab in the wee hours of Thursday.Death-row inmate Zamani was executed in
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Two Saudi activists have been sentenced to prison on charges related to their human rights work and calls for political reform, a Saudi human rights lawyer said Wednesday.One activist, Abdelrahman al-Hamid, was sentenced to nine years in jail, barred from traveling abroad after his release for14
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NAGPUR: The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court on Monday confirmed a rare double-death and double-life sentence given to a 21-year-old man for the rape and murder of a two-year-old girl. The sentence was the first of its kind, given under Section 376A of the Indian Penal Code, under an amendment
Paul BealesThe property developer was arrested alongside grandmother Lindsay Sandiford, who remains on death row and could be executed as soon as JanuaryA British man jailed as part of a drug smuggling syndicate in Bali was last night on his way home to the UK after being freed.Property developer14
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Ali Mohammed al-NimrUS president urged to rescue Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, sentenced to be beheaded and crucified for allegedly attending anti-government protestsThe mother of a teenage Saudi protester sentenced to crucifixion has begged Barack Obama to intervene to save her son’s life.In her first14
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Seeking a "profound reform of the Penal Code"A number of activists gathered yesterday before the parliament building in Rabat to protest the continued existence of the death penalty in Morocco.Lawyer Abderrahim Jamai, the leader of the protest stated a profound reform of the
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Public beheading in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed one of its citizens in the southern city of Abha after he was convicted of killing a policeman, the interior ministry said.Ali Assiri shot and killed the policeman while being arrested, the ministry said
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The Government is facing renewed questions over its agreements with Saudi Arabia, after the cancellation of a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) bid for a prisons contract in in the country.Yesterday, Justice Secretary Michael Gove announced that the deal was cancelled, following urgent questions over the14
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Matthew NormanANDREW Chan's ministry in Bali's Kerobokan prison is continuing, five months after his execution.Caloundra's Barbara Pugh, who first met the convicted drug trafficker Chan in 2008, went back to the prison last month with History Maker church Pastor Sharon Tan.She said she was13
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Iran Human Rights, October 13, 2015: Iranian authorities have executed the juvenile offender Fatemeh Salbehi, according to Iran Human Rights' sources.Fatemeh was convicted of murdering her husband in 1988, when she was 17 years old. She was 23 year old when she was hanged in the Adelabad prison of12
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Arkansas must release information about execution drug supplier to attorneys for death row inmates challenging the state's lethal injection drug secrecy lawA judge has ordered Arkansas to release information about its execution drug supplier to attorneys for death row inmates who are challenging15
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Untitled (Blue Cell), ink on paper, 9" x 11 5/8” by Armando MaciasImages can trigger conversations, sometimes far better than words. Internationally known political cartoonist Patrick Chappatte and journalist Anne-Frederique
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Licho Escamilla in 2002Texas executed its 12th Texan this year when it sent Licho Escamilla to the gurney on Wed., Oct. 14.Licho Escamilla was pronounced deat at 6:31 p.m.While leaving the Huntsville prison where the execution was carried out witnesses and family members were "cheered" by the14
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A local court today sentenced a contractor from Tamil Nadu to death for killing 6 of his workers by setting them on fire in their room here 6 years ago, holding that it would fall in the category of "rarest of rare" case.Thomas Alva Edison (28) from Tuticorin district in Tamil Nadu killed Leggi14
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Sri Lanka says it has hired two new executioners to replace the previous hangman, who quit shortly after seeing the gallows for the first time.Two other hangmen hired in 2013 failed to show up for work.The country has not executed anyone since 1976 and the role is described as "light
The European Parliament8 states still have the death penalty in their legislation for homosexualityDeirdre Clune MEP (Ireland South) has said that 2,466 people in 55 countries are now known to have been sentenced to death in 2014.Clune, who is a member of the EU Employment and Social Affairs14
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Pakistan on a killing spreePakistan lifted the moratorium on the death penalty following a Taliban attack on a school that killed 150 people.A Pakistani prison official says authorities have hanged nine convicts, including 4 brothers, the latest in a series of death sentences to be carried Leggi14
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California's brand new death chamberWith public support for capital punishment declining, activists who fell just short of winning a voter repeal of California’s death penalty law in 2012 are preparing for another attempt in November 2016.Death Penalty Focus, a San Francisco organization that was14
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Governor Pete RickettsA rift among Republicans in Nebraska over whether the state should continue to allow the death penalty is expected to draw keen interest from national advocacy groups and funders over the next 14 months.The overwhelmingly Republican state made history when its legislature13
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Vitus Huonder, Catholic bishop of Chur, SwitzerlandA Swiss bishop who called for the execution of gay people will not face hate crime charges.Vitus Huonder, the Catholic bishop of Chur, eastern Switzerland, made the controversial comments earlier this year at the ‘Joy in Faith’ forum.
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Holding cells adjacent to the death chamber, Huntsville Unit, Huntsville, TexasWASHINGTON — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday indefinitely halted the upcoming scheduled execution of Julius Murphy, in the wake of new claims of prosecutorial misconduct raised by Murphy’s
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aNewDomain — Oklahoma inmate Charles Warner, 47, said his “body was on fire” after executioners used the wrong drug cocktail to execute him, according to an autopsy report released yesterday by the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.Oklahoma falls again under the searing glare of the