Anna Arceneaux, Montez SpradleyLast week, an Oklahoma appeals court granted death row inmate Richard Glossip a stay of execution about an hour before he was scheduled to die. There's plenty of evidence casting doubt on Glossip's guilt, including new evidence his legal team unveiled just last week. (Much
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Islamic State militants executed nine men and a boy accused of being gay in Syria on Monday (21 September), a monitoring group has said.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the jihadists shot dead seven men in Rastan, a town in central Syria, ‘after accusing them of being
Governor WolfThis past week, Delaware County's District Attorney vowed to seek the death penalty against a former police officer charged with the murder of his ex-girlfriend. This, despite the moratorium on capital punishment in Pennsylvania, ordered by Governor Wolf.It's the subject of a battle21
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Pakistan has conducted most executions in world in 2015Government Reportedly Conducts Most Executions in World in 2015The Pakistan government should halt the scheduled September 22, 2015, execution of Abdul Basit, who is paralyzed from the waist down, Human Rights Watch said today. The case
Jakarta. The Indonesian government plans to execute another batch of death row convicts next year, the Attorney General's Office said on Friday.Amir Yanto, who heads the AGO's information center, said his office on Thursday submitted to the House of Representatives its budget for 2016, including20
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NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime on Saturday hanged two men in the northern city of Rasht.The two men were hanged at dawn in Rasht's central prison.Their full names were not given. They were identified only as 45-year-old H.M. and 46-year-old S.P.They were accused of drug smuggling.On19
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Kelly Gissendaner on Georgia death rowGeorgia is preparing to resume executions as a Gwinnett County judge signed a warrant Friday that said Kelly Gissendaner is to be put to death in less than two weeks.The state put executions on hold in March because the
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Collective hanging in Iran (file photo)On Wednesday, September 16, at least 9 prisoners were hanged by the Iranian regime in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) prison, Karaj and in Sanandaj. 8 of them, including a 22 and a 24-year-old, were collectively hanged in Gohardasht Prison. And Raouf Hosseini was
Mike FarrellA new ballot initiative is being proposed in California to end the state's death penalty.Longtime anti-death penalty advocate actor Mike Farrell is promoting "The Justice That Works Act of 2016," which would amend the California penal code to replace the death penalty with life in18
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Nebraskans for Public Safety is challenging the death penalty referendum petition in Lancaster County District Court. The pro-repeal group filed a lawsuit Thursday saying Gov. Pete Ricketts and his supporters appeared to have cut corners and undermined the integrity of the referendum17
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)Iran's fundamentalist regime on Wednesday hanged a prisoner in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj, western Iran.The prisoner, identified as Raouf Hosseini, was hanged at dawn in Sanadaj's central prison.He had been on death row for the past 13 years.The mullahs'Two prisoners charged with drug possession were hanged to death in northern Iran.Iran Human Rights, September 12 2015: Two prisoners with drug related charges were hanged to death at Rasht Central Prison on the morning of Saturday September 12, according to the Iranian official media source Seda o22
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Carlos Cruz, Rosemary VelascoProsecutors have filed papers to seek the death penalty against two Surprise parents accused of killing their 3-year-old daughter, officials said Monday.Maricopa County Attorney's Office spokesman Jerry Cobb said his office has filed the intent to seek the death21
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Former death-row inmates in Connecticut may soon be living under less restrictive prison conditions than other inmates convicted of similar crimes, legal experts say.Connecticut's Supreme Court last month declared capital punishment unconstitutional in the state, striking down part of a 2012 law20
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Richard Glossip, Sister Helen PrejeanOklahoma City Police released its report detailing the evidence from the murder of Barry Van Treese at the request of Fox 25. The report was never provided to attorneys who represented Richard Glossip in his second trial or his appeals according to his Leggi
Abdul BasitThe family of a paraplegic death row prisoner in Pakistan have begged the authorities to cancel plans to execute him this Tuesday (22nd).Abdul Basit, 43, is paralyzed from the waist down as a result of an illness he contracted in prison that was left untreated. A recent jail medical19
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Richard GlossipOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorneys for an Oklahoma death row inmate who won a two-week reprieve from his scheduled execution are working on two legal fronts in an effort to save their client's life.While one team of lawyers for Richard Glossip is trying to convince a state appeals court18
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Kelly GissendanerAn execution warrant was signed Friday, setting the execution of Kelly Gissendaner for the week that begins Sept. 29.According to the warrant signed by Chief Judge Melodie Snell Conner, Gissendaner is to be put to death between noon Sept. 29 and noon Oct. 6 for the 1997 death of
Ethopian domestic helper confessed to stabbing 19-year-old to death while she was asleepKuwait's Cassation Court on Thursday upheld a death sentence for an Ethiopian domestic helper for killing a Kuwaiti teenager.The capital punishment verdict was issued late last year after the helper admitted18
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Sr. Helen Prejean tells Susan Sarandon the good news thatRichard Glossip will live to see another day. Sept. 16, 2015After an appeals court halted Richard Glossip's execution hours before he was scheduled to die
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Dylann RoofCHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - An attorney for suspected church shooter Dylann Roof said his client is ready to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence without parole.That announcement came in a hearing Wednesday morning over a gag order in the shooting case. The order issued by Judge17
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The British Government has announced that it plans to continue a bid to provide support to the Saudi Arabian prisons system, despite the Kingdom’s plan to carry out the ‘crucifixion’ of a prisoner convicted as a child.UK Ministers had to correct the Parliamentary record today after wrongly16
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Lindsay June Sandiford, accompanied by her translator listensto the prosecutors during her second trial in Bali in October 4, 2012.Lindsay Sandiford, a 59-year-old Brit sentenced to death by the Indonesian
Leggi TuttoAbdul BasitThe hanging of a paralyzed Pakistani man, which had been expected to take place before dawn today (local time) has not gone ahead, after a magistrate issued a last-minute stay of execution.Abdul Basit, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since contracting meningitis in jail and21
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Governor Kate Brown8 days after taking office, Gov. Kate Brown said she would convene a small group of advisers to help her puzzle through one of Oregon's most contentious issues: the death penalty.Gov. John Kitzhaber stopped executions in Oregon 4 years ago, citing concerns about injustice as a20
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has rejected a report from the United Nations secretary-general urging countries to scrap the death penalty, stating that this was punishment approved under Islamic law to protect the rights of victims.The UN report was issued recently at a Human Rights20
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Australian lawyer and death penalty expert Julian McMahon, who represented executed members of the Bali nine, is urging the New Zealand Government to do more to abolish the death penalty.Two leading Australian death penalty experts have arrived in New Zealand in a bid to persuade the Government to19
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Murder of a gay man by ISIS in front of a baying crowdThe man was thrown feet first into the middle of a baying crowd and left to dieHorrific photos have been revealed of a murder of a gay
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Alfredo PrietoFor the first time in nearly a decade, a California murderer who was sentenced to death is facing execution - but in Virginia..Alfredo Prieto, a serial rapist and killer, was convicted of 3 murders in Southern California and northern Virginia and has been identified as the prime18
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Chief Justice Ivor Archie has called for a serious and meaningful national debate on the mandatory death penalty for murder. He made the plea yesterday in his annual address at the opening of the 2015/2016 law term at the Hall of Justice, Knox Street, Port-of-Spain.Pointing to statistics showing18
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Abdul BasitThe Pakistani authorities have set Tuesday 22 September as the date on which they will hang a paraplegic prisoner.Abdul Basit (43) contracted tubercular meningitis while in prison, which has left him “bed-bound,” according to a medical board report.Basit’s lawyers at Justice Project17
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President under pressure to have killers of children hangedAmidst calls for the re-implementation of the death penalty in the wake of a 5-year-old girl being sexually abused and strangled to death at Kotadeniyawa, the government of Sri Lanka has assured the international community of its intention16
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Richard Glossip, Sister Helen PrejeanMCALESTER, Okla. – Just hours before an Oklahoma man was set to be executed, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals granted Richard Glossip a two-week stay of execution.Glossip was convicted of murder for the 1997 death of motel owner Barry Van Treese, though16
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Richard GlossipAt 3 p.m. on Wednesday, the State of Oklahoma plans to execute Richard Glossip in the face ofmounting evidence that he is innocent, as he has argued all along.Mr. Glossip was convicted of masterminding the 1997 murder of a man named Barry Van Treese, who owned the
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