The constitutionality of Gov. Tom Wolf's death-penalty moratorium is the focus of a hearing before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams challenged the moratorium only days after Wolf announced it in February.Lawyers will make oral arguments Thursday in Philadelphia.Wolf has granted reprieves for three death-row prisoners as part of an effort
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Gallows at an unidentified Pakistani prisonSeptember 9, 2015: Four death row convicts were sent to the gallows in different jails of Punjab early in the morning.Two real brothers, Muhabat Ali and Muhammad Bashir, were executed in the District Jail Vehari for killing of two real brothers
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Does the change of priorities of the Attorney General Office mean those on death row will be spared?Indonesia hasn't changed its mind on the death penalty - but it did say it's no longer a priority.Attorney General HM Prasetyo on Tuesday, September 8 said it has changed its priorities to focus
The Restoring Proper Justice Act has caused controversy regarding the application of the death penalty.After 9 years without a death penalty execution, North Carolina legislators have worked to lift an effective death penalty moratorium in the state.The Restoring Proper Justice Act - which08
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Richard Glossip with Sister Helen PrejeanURGE PAROLE BOARD TO RECONSIDER CLEMENCYRichard Glossip is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on 16 September. The case against him is circumstantial and he maintains his innocence. The parole board voted against clemency in 2014. It should reconsider08
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Iranian authorities hanged 11 prisoners charged with drug offences early Monday morning, according to the Iran Human Rights (IHR) sources in Ghezelhesar prison of Karaj (west of Tehran).One of those executed was a school teacher identified as Mahmood Barati who was sentenced to death on false08
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James E. Holmes (L), Dexter Lewis (R)In the past 12 months, two separate polls have indicated that most Coloradans support the death penalty.In September of last year, a Denver Post poll found 63 % of respondents support the death penalty, with 28 % opposed (the
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Gathering signatures against the Nebraska death penalty repealWhen the Nebraska Legislature abolished the death penalty three months ago, opponents of capital punishment hailed the vote as a sign that red-state conservative lawmakers increasingly view the punishment as expensive, inefficient and
Federal police have put more than one person at risk of the death penalty every day for the past five years by co-operating with police forces in countries, mainly in Asia, that execute offenders.The vast majority of the 1847 people whose names were provided to foreign police forces were Leggi06
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Henry McCollum (L) and Leon Brown (R): 3 decades of wrongful imprisonmentWhen 2 brothers were released after 3 decades of wrongful imprisonment, they struggled to adapt to an outside world neither had experienced since they were teenagers. The older
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An anesthesiologist testifying on behalf of Montana's 2 death row inmates said Wednesday that 1 of the drugs used to execute state prisoners by lethal injection does not meet the standard set by lawmakers.Dr. Mark Heath of Columbia University Medical Center testified in a trial over Montana's
The state now has 2 dozen condemned killers with firm execution dates, but with 4 months before the 1st one, it still doesn't have the lethal drugs it needs to carry them out.The state's inability to find drugs has death penalty opponents calling for the end of capital punishment in Ohio
Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterTOKYO —Japanese people may not be as enthusiastic about death-row inmates being sent to the gallows as previously believed.A recent study by researchers shows public support for the death penalty in Japan is not deeply entrenched despite a government survey
For years, Pakistan did not put prisoners to death. Then a Taliban attack butchered 150 people, most of them children, and the country resumed carrying out the death penalty and quickly turned into one of the world's most avid executioners.But instead of killing militants, the campaign is largely
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.Jurors recommended a death sentence Tuesday for the white supremacist who fatally shot three people at Jewish sites in Kansas last year.The jury convicted 74-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller Jr last week of capital murder for the April 2014 shootings. The judge overseeing the08
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The Aquino administration has not allotted even a single centavo for legal assistance for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in distress in 2016, a party-list lawmaker claimed on Monday.Citing budget documents, Kabataan party-list Rep. Terry Ridon noted the "conspicuous absence" of any particular08
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Barely days after Malawi Presdient Peter Mutharika said he will call for a referendum on whether to legalize same sex marriage, the government says it also wants to conduct a referendum on whether to abolish the death penalty in the penal code or not.According to the country's Attorney General08
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It's largely due to the anxiety among people to know more about an incident full of bizarre developments - like the Sheena Bora murder case - which gets the eye balls. It is natural for a human being to yearn for being the first to know. Though the emphasis given by media
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On this date in 1292, Johann de Wettre, "a maker of small knives," was condemned to die at Ghent for sodomy.De Wettre was consequently (whether on September 8 or subsequently) "burned at the pillory next to St. Peter's" in what appears to be the earliest documented
Leggi TuttoA Pakistani court will tomorrow (8th Sep) decide whether the government should be allowed to execute a severely mentally ill man.At a hearing in Lahore, lawyers for Khizar Hayat – who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, and is detained in a hospital cell – will argue that his hanging would be5 'hardcore terrorists' were on Wednesday sentenced to death by Pakistan's recently legalised secret military courts for their involvement in sectarian killings and attack on a girls' school.Army chief General Raheel Sharif confirmed the death sentences of the 5 accused persons. 1 other terrorist06
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Nebraska Senator Ernie Chambers sponsored the death penalty repeal billIs Nebraska's death penalty repealed, or not? Events of the past week raise fundamental questions about the state's ultimate punishment.You can go online and look up the law that sets the penalty for
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Arkansas has nearly 3 dozen inmates sitting on its death row, but like most states, it has not carried out an execution in years. This week, state officials said again that they intend to end that hiatus.It has been a decade since Arkansas executed an inmate. But several moves made in the Leggi
Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) set the execution dates for eight death row inmates after more than a decade-long dearth of lethal injections.Hutchinson was urged to set the dates by Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, who informed the governor two weeks ago that the state of Arkansas had procured the09
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As national execution numbers drop to historic lows and a growing number of states halt executions or repeal the death penalty altogether, Missouri has recently increased the number of executions it is carrying out and overtaken Texas for the highest per-capita execution rate.Missouri and Texas09
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Richard Glossip and Sister Helen PrejeanIn just over a week’s time, the State of Oklahoma plans to execute Richard Glossip, a man who was convicted 17 years ago for allegedly hiring another man to kill his employer. Following incriminating testimony from the man who actually
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A 34-year-old Kenyan woman escaped the gallows when the Court of Appeal overturned her conviction and death sentence for trafficking 3,747.63 grammes of syabu and sentenced her to 20 years' jail instead on a lesser charge of possession.Justice Dato' Hj Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Vernon Ong Lam Kiat and08
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Jakarta. The Indonesian government is reportedly "still evaluating and observing the situation" before it decides on a date for the third round of executions of death-row inmates this year, Attorney General H.M. Prasetyo said on Tuesday.In April, Tony Spontana, a spokesman for the Attorney08
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Richard GlossipA convicted killer will be put to death next week in McAlester, unless his attorney finds new evidence in the 18-year-old murder case that could convince a judge to stop it.Richard Glossip is on death row for the 1997 murder of an Oklahoma City motel manager."Once I got going07
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D. TsarnaevJudy Clarke excelled at saving the lives of notorious killers. Then she took the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.Clarke may be the best death-penalty lawyer in America. Her efforts helped spare the lives of Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Zacarias Moussaoui (the so-called “twentieth hijacker”07
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Lindsay Sandiford in her Kerobokan death row cellA British grandmother on death row in a Bali jail for drug smuggling was yesterday told that Indonesia’s new anti-narcotics chief plans to show no mercy to everyone involved with drugs.Lindsay Sandiford, 59, from Cheltenham, was sentenced
Leggi TuttoSetting the stage for another Florida Supreme Court death-penalty debate, a Central Florida judge has rejected death row inmate Jerry Correll's arguments that 1 of the drugs in the state's execution protocol could subject the convicted killer to cruel and unusual punishment.Correll "has not06
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Richard GlossipDeath penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean delivered over 250,000 online petition signatures to Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin on Thursday morning, requesting a 60-day stay of execution for Richard Glossip.Glossip is scheduled to be executed on September 16.Glossip was found guilty in06
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San Quentin Death RowA California prison inmate who spent 26 years on death row for murder has died of natural causes, the fourth so far this year in a state that has not carried out an execution since 2006.Ronald Harold Seaton, 69, died last week at Marin general
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