The coffins of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran arebrought back to Sydney on a Quantas flight.Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has initiated a parliamentary inquiry into Australia's efforts in campaigning against the death penalty. The Joint
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A drug-trafficking couple are facing the death penalty after they were caught with RM15,000 worth of cannabis shortly after checking into a hotel with their 2 children.District police chief ACP Roslan Bek Ahmad said police conducted a raid at a hotel in Jalan Simpang Tiga around 2pm on Monday06
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Juan Martin GarciaTexas death row inmate Juan Martin Garcia, 35, was put to death tonight in Huntsville, Texas for the 1998 killing of a man in an $8 robbery in Houston.Garcia was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m.Garcia was convicted of capital murder for the September 1998 killing and robbery
Public execution in Saudi ArabiaA second juvenile is facing beheading in Saudi Arabia after a court upheld his conviction for a role in protests, days after the case of juvenile Ali al-Nimr sparked a global outcry.Dawoud al-Marhoon was 17 when he was arrested without a warrant by
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Protesting Kelly Gissendaner's execution, Sept. 30, 2015Pope Francis had some mojo going. Adoring crowds thronged the streets during his recent visit. It was in the wake of that communal enthusiasm that the pontiff forwarded a plea to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles: don't
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The Afghan Government - recently celebrating its 1st year in office - has announced an ambitious reform program in the judicial sector. This was confirmed at the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) on September 5 in Kabul. The government has committed to develop and implement a Justice Sector Reform
Gathering signatures against the Nebraska death penalty repealIncorrectly redirected death penalty petitions are delaying the signature verification process, the Nebraska Secretary of State's Office said Friday night.An "unusually high number of petitions" were returned to the Secretary of State's
Opposed to capital punishment (file photo)TOKYO — Ahead of the Oct 10 World Day against the Death Penalty, around 200 people gathered in Tokyo on Saturday to seek the abolition of capital punishment, with two former justice ministers joining them to share their experience of
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Kansas is one of 31 states that have the death penalty, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Since 1976 – the year the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment nationwide after striking it down four years earlier – 1,416 people have been executed nationwide.In Kansas, death is a03
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Soheil Arabi's new sentence is "medieval"Reporters Without Borders said on Friday that is appalled to learn that Soheil Arabi, an Iranian Facebook user whose death sentence was quashed by the Iranian regime’s supreme court, has been given a new sentence of seven and a half years in prison starting03
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Kimber EdwardsOn Friday, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat who has helped set a record pace of executions in the state, commuted the death sentence of a man facing execution next week.Kimber Edwards was sentenced to death for hiring a hit man to kill his ex-wife in 2000.The case relied Leggi
Public caning in Banda Aceh, IndonesiaA woman kneels and grimaces as she is lashed with a cane for having unmarried sex in an Indonesian province which is ruled under Sharia law in newly released photographs.The images show women dressed in white and sitting with their heads
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HELENA District Court Judge Jeffrey Sherlock ruled Tuesday that Montana’s use of the drug pentobarbital in executions doesn’t comply with laws that govern lethal injection in Montana, a move that the American Civil Liberties Union claimed stayed all Montana executions indefinitely.The decision06
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has threatened to execute those who 'spread rumours' about the government on social media, a state-run website has reported.It is the first time the Gulf nation, which has come under fire for issuing death penalties to protesters, has created a rule
NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime has hanged a prisoner in southern Iran and transferred at least nine other death-row prisoners to solitary confinement in preparation for their impending execution.Mr. Aziz Maktabi was hanged on Sunday in the prison courtyard of Adel-Abad Prison in Shiraz.In
Juan GarciaJuan Garcia is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday for fatally shooting a man during a 1998 robbery in which he stole $8.Texas is set to execute Juan Martin Garcia on October 6 for the 1998 murder of Hugo Solano during a robbery.Garcia, 35, is sentenced to
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LUCASVILLE — Death-penalty opponents have begun a walk from the Ohio prison where inmates are executed to the Statehouse as part of a capital-punishment protest.The seven-day, 83-mile walk started on Sunday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville and will end in Columbus.The05
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The court’s new term, which starts Monday, will jump right back into high-profile constitutional battles like voting rights, affirmative action and the death penalty, as well as a new attack on public-sector labor unions.And the justices may well agree to take up issues of abortion and04
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Tayebeh Abbasali Najafi and Parvin Yousef IlanlouSeptember 30, 2015: An Iranian woman and her mother were sentenced to death by the High Court in Malaysia for trafficking in 2.5kg of methamphetamine, three years ago. Tayebeh Abbasali Najafi, 36, and Parvin Yousef Ilanlou, 57,
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Friends and supporters protesting Richard Glossip's execution.Oklahoma's protocols called for potassium chloride to be used in the scheduled execution of death row inmate Richard Glossip, but the state received potassium acetate instead. The state's attorney general has asked a court to delay
Governor John KasichBut most shooters kill themselves.Ohio Governor John Kasich told reporters in New Hampshire on Friday that he considers the death penalty and long prison sentences a better approach than gun control when it comes to reducing the number of mass shootings.Kasich, who voted for02
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Alfredo PrietoAlfredo Prieto, convicted of 2 1988 Fairfax County murders after a DNA hit found him on California's death row, was executed by injection Thursday night at Greensville Correctional Center.Prieto was pronounced dead at 9:17 p.m. His execution came after a rush of last-minute appeals01
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Alfredo PrietoPope Francis's representatives in Washington wrote to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe Wednesday, asking him to call off the looming execution of serial killer Alfred Prieto.Prieto, 49, could be put to death as early as Thursday night, pending the outcome of a court hearing."The U.S07
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Martin Garnett after his arrest in Thailand in 1993AFTER spending more than 20 years in some of the world’s most notorious prisons, the drug smuggler who holds the Australian record for the longest overseas incarceration is a free
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"Criticism of blasphemy law does not amount to blasphemy"Justice Khosa says press clippings presented in court do not provide sufficient evidence to maintain that former governor had committed blasphemyJustice Asif Saeed Khosa of the Supreme Court of Pakistan said on Monday that criticism Leggi06
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October 3, 2015: A triple murder convict named Muhammad Akram was executed in the Sahiwal Central Jail.He had killed his wife, brother-in-law and sister-in-law over a domestic feud in 2002. Two death row convicts were hanged in the Central Jail of Faisalabad on October 1, 2015.Shoukat and Ikhlaq05
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'Gay' man is blindfolded and thrown off a building in NinevahExecutions were carried out in two Iraqi cities over the weekendIslamic State (ISIS) militants executed four more gay men in Iraq over the weekend.Two young men were thrown off the roof
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Oklahoma death chamberA little after 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oklahoma Department of Corrections staff told Richard Glossip he was about to enter the Oklahoma State Penitentiary's death chamber area to await his death by lethal injection.Glossip, who had already given the state his possessions and the
Okunishi MasaruThe death in prison of a Japanese man who spent more than 46 years facing execution, after a conviction based on a forced “confession”, underlines the urgent need for a review of all similar cases, Amnesty International said today.Okunishi Masaru passed away at Hachioji Medical
Egypt has objected to a UN Human Rights Council resolution on prohibiting the death penalty, Egypt's permanent delegate to the UN said on Saturday.The UN Human Rights Council adopted the resolution which was submitted by Belgium on Thursday, with 26 votes in favour, 13 against and 803
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Texas may end 2015 without imposing a sentence of capital punishment, a milestone that parallels declining public support for capital punishment in a state that had been sending the most prisoners to the death chamber.So far this year, the state's courts have sentenced no defendant to execution
HOUSTON — An Oklahoma appellate court agreed with state officials on Friday to postpone the executions of three inmates in October and November after the scheduled execution of one of the inmates was stopped on Wednesday because of a problem with one of the lethal-injection drugs.The order by theOklahoma death chamberOKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt issued a request to indefinitely suspend all scheduled execution dates in the state in light of the events that unfolded in the Glossip case on Wednesday.Gov. Mary Fallin issued a 37-day stay for Richard Glossip after it01
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Juan Martin GarciaClaims of mental retardation did nothing to stop the state's next executionJuan Martin Garcia goes to the gurney on Tuesday, Oct. 6, after 5 weeks in which the state of Texas didn't execute any inmates.Garcia, 35, was arrested in Houston in Nov. 1998 after police pulled him