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Abdul BasitA court hearing in Pakistan tomorrow (31st) could decide whether the government should be allowed to execute a severely disabled man.Abdul Basit, 43, was convicted and sentenced to death for murder in 2009. In 2010, he contracted tubercular meningitis in prison, which left him paralyzed from the waist down.
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Virginia prison officials have relaxed the restrictive conditions under which death row inmates live and are in talks to settle a lawsuit over those prisoners’ near constant placement in solitary confinement — a signal that state authorities are willing to at least modify the incarceration practice
The scheduled execution date for Joe Franco Garza has been withdrawn.Garza was scheduled for execution on September 2. He was found guilty of the 1998 murder of Silbiano Rangel and sentenced to death.There is an agreed order that said his execution would be stayed while more DNA testing is28
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Richard GlossipThe Supreme Court refused Friday to reconsider the death-row appeals of 3 Oklahoma prisoners whose pending executions by lethal injection were upheld by the justices in June.Without comment, the court denied a petition filed by the prisoners' lawyers that would have turned the case28
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India's Supreme CourtThe Law Commission is set to recommend abolition of death penalty in India except for terror convicts, media reports said on Friday, a move rights activists say is long overdue in the country.India is one of 59 countries in the world where capital punishment is still awarded28
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Gallows in Pakistani prisonPakistan today hanged a death row prisoner convicted for multiple murders, taking the total number of convicts executed to 212 since the country lifted its moratorium on the death penalty in March this year.Maqbool Hussain was hanged early this morning in Multan central28
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Judge rejects claim from 33 death row inmates and says they did not prove the one-drug method led to a painful and lingering deathA judge in Tennessee has upheld the state’s lethal injection process for executing inmates, hours after a federal judge in Mississippi said that state’s process may26
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Behrouz Alkhani, a 30 year old political prisoner in Iran, was executed on Tuesday despite international calls for a stay in execution and retrial, following an allegedly unfair trail. The execution came even as Alkhani awaited a Supreme Court appeal.Alkhani, who is of Kurdish descent, was first
Public execution in Saudi ArabiaFour people have been executed in Saudi Arabia, just one day after an international report condemned the country's frequent use of the death penalty.This brings the number of judicial killings so far this year to 130, compared to a total of 83
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San Quentin Death RowThe lawyer for a death row inmate failed to demonstrate that systematic delays in the resolution of capital cases result in an arbitrary process that violates the Eighth Amendment, the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled yesterday.The court, which has rejected such25
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Gathering pro-DP signatures in Nebraska, USACome November 2016, Nebraskans may be able to vote for the death penalty if the group Nebraskans for the Death Penalty gather enough signatures before the Thursday deadline. The petition is in hopes to get the issue back in the hands
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia remains one of the most prolific executioners in the world. Between January 1985 (the earliest year from when information on executions is available) and June 2015, it executed at least 2,200 people, almost half of whom were foreign nationals.Over30
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San Quentin's brand new death chamber was constructed in2010 with inmate labor and at the staggering cost of $853,000.Whether California’s application of the death penalty is so drawn out and arbitrary that it amounts
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An Egyptian court sentenced to death 12 members of the Islamic State group Thursday for planning attacks against police and soldiers in the country, a judicial official said.6 of those who were on trial are behind bars, while the rest are still at large, the official said.They were convicted of28
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Firing squad execution of alleged spy by Hamas militants in Gaza CityEuropean Union missions based in Jerusalem and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank condemned Friday a death sentence issued in the Gaza Strip earlier this week.The sentence was the
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James Holmes (L) and Dexter Lewis (R) sentenced to life in prisonDENVER - Two Colorado juries have rejected the death penalty for mass murderers in a single month. Add to that the governor's controversial decision to grant clemency to the
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NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime on Thursday hanged a man in the central prison of Sanandaj, western Iran.The man, identified as Jamal Jaafari, had been imprisoned for four years. He was accused of murder.Six prisoners, including political prisoner Behrouz Alkhani, were hanged in Orumieh
Gathering signatures against the death penalty repeal in NebraskaIt appears voters in Nebraska will have the final say on the future of the death penalty.Supporters of the death penalty in Nebraska said they turned over 166,692 petition signatures Wednesday, which if verified, would
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Richard GlossipAnti death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean, award winning actress Susan Sarandon, legal team member Don Knight and Illinois exoneree Nathan "Nate" Fields will appear on The Dr. Phil Show to advocate for the life of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip.Recently receiving a26
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D. TsarnaevKevan Fagan, 'Juror 83' in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, says he probably would not have voted for the death penalty had he been aware that the families of some victims wanted a life sentence.On Monday, the same day a federal judge ruled to keep the
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Bernardo TerceroHUNTSVILLE (August 25, 2015) The Texas Count of Criminal Appeals Tuesday stopped the scheduled execution of a Nicaraguan man convicted of killing a Houston high school teacher during a robbery more than 18 years ago.Bernardo Tercero, 39, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection25
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The latest Alabama inmate seeking freedom from death row maintains the state is wrongly ignoring his claims of innocence while his health fails behind bars, one of his attorneys said Monday.Legal arguments filed by Donnis Musgrove contend the state is arguing about technicalities rather than
Masoud BarzaniA Kurdish man and his 2 wives, convicted of abducting and murdering 2 schoolgirls, were hanged last week, the 1st judicial executions in the Kurdistan Region since a death penalty moratorium in 2008.The hangings were announced by District Judge Abdulrahman Zebari, who had issued the28
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Radical London preacher Anjem ChoudaryRadical London preacher Anjem Choudary, who previously called for gay people to be stoned to death, is set to face trial on terror charges after allegedly encouraging support for ISIS.The 47-year-old is the former UK head of the Islamist group al-Muhajiroun or
An organization campaigning to reinstate Nebraska's death penalty after lawmakers repealed it in May said Wednesday it has collected more than enough signatures to suspend the law before it goes into effect and place it before voters in 2016.Nebraskans for the Death Penalty, which was heavily28
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Chad has sentenced 10 members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to death on terror charges, after a 3-day trial in the capital N'Djamena.The 10 were convicted over their roles in twin attacks on the capital in June, which killed at least 38.The attacks were the 1st by the Nigerian-based28
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Burkina Faso must seize the opportunity to abolish the death penalty, Amnesty International said on the eve of parliamentary sessions which will culminate in an historic vote.Tomorrow the national transitional parliament will start a series of discussions with organisations and interested parties28
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Of the 195 states recognised by the UN, only 37 still use capital punishment – in the misguided belief that it is an effective deterrentHistory may be susceptible to few inexorable predictions. But we are on safe ground if we say that sacrificing a human being to the false god of deterrence26
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James Holmes sentenced to life in prisonwithout parole plus 3,318 yearsThe gunman who shot and killed 12 people inside a packed Aurora, Colo., movie theater in 2012 was formally sentenced Wednesday morning to life in prison without parole.In July,
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Gay man thrown off building top by ISIS in Iraq in June 2015US ambassador tells security council meeting it is "about time" the issue of violence and discrimination towards LGBT people is highlightedIslamic State has claimed responsibility for
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Dylann StormThe federal government's decision about whether authorities should seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing 9 African-Americans in Charleston is still likely months away, South Carolina U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles said in a recent interview with Free Times.The federal25
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Junto al nicaragüense Bernardo Tercero, cuya ejecución está programada para el miércoles de esta semana, hay otros 21 extranjeros en el corredor de la muerte en Texas, en su mayoría mexicanos y centroamericanos, aunque también los hay de Sudamérica, Asia y el Caribe.Si nada lo impide, al
Walfrida SoikAn Indonesian migrant working in Malaysia, Walfrida Soik from East Nusa Tenggara, has narrowly avoided the death sentence.The Kota Bharu High Court in Malaysia ruled on Tuesday to acquit Walfrida of murder charges, sparing her from the death penalty, because she suffers from a mental25
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Mass trials on terrorism charges are rare in the UAE which has largely been spared the Islamic militancy that has hit other Arab statesA rare mass trial of 41 radical Islamists accused of seeking to overthrow the government and links with "terrorists" opened on Monday in the United Arab Emirates