This report is designed for non-experts who want to understand more about Sharia law and Islamic jurisprudence as it relates to the death penalty.Sharia law is used in some countries as a reason to retain capital punishment. However, there are schools of thought among Islamic scholars stating that Sharia law creates stringent
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Governor WolfGov. Wolf Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to ignore Attorney General Kathleen Kane's challenge to his death-penalty moratorium, arguing that the justices already have decided to consider a similar petition brought by the Philadelphia District Attorney.In a court filing that21
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Although bearing a Brahmin name, Dhananjoy Chatterjee was far from being a member of the Kolkata bhadralok, or intellectual elite. He was an impoverished guard in a building where an 18-year-old named Hetal Parekh was found dead in March 1990. He was convicted of having raped and killed her and was20
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James E. HolmesYou can't execute a minor. You can't execute someone with a sufficiently low IQ. How does mental illness fit into that equation?Now that James Holmes has been found guilty of the terror that he brought to the Aurora theater that night 3 years ago, the real trial
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President Yahya JammehGambia's President Yahya Jammeh has warned that death row inmates should expect to have their sentences implemented, apparently signalling an end to a 3-year unofficial moratorium on executions.The military strongman said in a meeting with religious leaders broadcast on state
President Obama visiting the El Reno Federal Correctional InstitutionThe sounds give you a sense of the different parts of the institution. Dorm-style general population units are a constant murmur of activity, with TV programs blending into the sound of people talking, playing cards,
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BelizeIt's been a full 30 years since the state of Belize executed anyone for murder, and this week, the last man on death row, Glenford Baptist, 44, had that sentence overturned by the Supreme Court, which will either grant him life in prison or a definitive sentence.Baptist was convicted LeggiJames E. HolmesCENTENNIAL, Colo. — James E. Holmes, whose shooting rampage three years ago killed 12 and wounded 70 inside a suburban Denver movie theater, was found guilty on Thursday in a state court.A jury deliberated for 13 hours over two days before rejecting pleas from defense lawyers that16
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Yakub MemonThe country remains divided on whether to retain capital punishmentTerrorist convict Yakub Memon, sentenced to death eight years ago for his role orchestrating the 1993 Mumbai bombings, will be hanged at the end of the month provided India’s Supreme Court rejects his final curative15
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Newly published research suggests who lives and who dies is determined, to a significant degree, by gut-level instinct. It finds the decision to impose a death sentence is based in part on a completely irrational construct: Whether the convict has what is perceived as a trustworthy face.This14
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Mary Jane VelosoThe Philippines is also asking for access to convicted OFW Mary Jane Veloso, after a string of cases were filed against her alleged recruitersWhen asked whether there's a possibility that Filipina death row inmate convicted of drug trafficking Mary Jane Veloso will be released from14
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Armed Forces Minister Hyon Yong CholJuly 12, 2015: South Korea says North Korea has officially confirmed the purging of its defense chief two months after Seoul's spy service said he had been executed for disloyalty to leader Kim Jong Un.South Korea's National Intelligence Service
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Yakub MemonIndia’s top court on Tuesday rejected a final appeal by Yakub Memon, a key plotter of bomb attacks that killed hundreds in Mumbai in 1993, paving the way for his execution.Media reports said Yakub Memon would hang on July 30 - more than two decades after the deadliest attacks
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Iran: Public hanging in the Razavi Khorasan province, Jul. 2015Iran Human Rights, July 15 2015: Official sources in Iran have reported on the public execution of a prisoner in Mahvelat County.The prisoner was charged with the rape of an 11-year-old girl who
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Nawaz SharifPakistan's state executioners have taken a rare breather this past month after a death penalty spree that has killed 176 death row prisoners since the end of December 2014.But Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has made clear that the pause in that horrific body count is strictly temporary
Gustavo GarciaHOUSTON (July 18, 2015) Gustavo Garcia, 42, who’s spent more than half his life on death row for the slaying of a suburban Dallas liquor store clerk, has lost a federal court appeal, moving a step closer to execution.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Friday rejected an
After 19 years in a Malawi prison under threat of a death sentence, Abraham Galeta has been set free, thanks to the work of students in the International Human Rights Clinic at Cornell Law School. In the process, the students acquired valuable skills they might use in future criminal cases.The
Anders BreivikNorwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has won a place to study political science at Oslo's university.The 36 year old admitted killing 77 people when he bombed central Oslo and then went on a shooting spree at a youth camp on a nearby island in 2011.Breivik has been studying16
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George Stinney Jr., wrongfully executed at age 14 by South CarolinaA memorial service was held last week by family and friends of George Stinney Jr., wrongfully executed at age 14 by South Carolina more than 70 yrs. ago. They added George's
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Only Yisrael Beytenu MKs voted in favor of a bill in favor of a bill that would make it easier to sentence terrorists to death on Wednesday.The bill by MK Sharon Gal (Yisrael Beytenu) would change the current law allowing death penalty only in a case of judicial consensus, which was only Leggi15
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David ZinkDavid Zink has been executed by lethal injection, becoming the 5th convicted killer put to death in Missouri this year and the 17th since the state resumed lethal injections in November 2013.His death sentence was carried out at 7:33 p.m. at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and14
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The Philippine government has repeatedly appealed to Malaysian authorities to release on humanitarian grounds a Pinoy couple sentenced to death in Sabah for drug smuggling, the embassy said Tuesday.Timhar and Nurie Ong were arrested in August 2005 after authorities found 333.66 grams of13
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Ely State PrisonNevada has no executions on the immediate horizon but is pushing ahead to build a new death chamber at Ely State Prison and would use a drug at the heart of a recent U.S. Supreme Court case to carry out lethal injections.Brian Connett, deputy director at the
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South Carolina's death chamberSCDOC director 'unsuccessful in acquiring lethal injection drugs'COLUMBIA, S.C. —As South Carolina's top prison boss, Bryan Stirling must be able to carry out an execution when given the order.But Stirling told WYFF News 4 Investigates if an order to execute a death21
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Yakub Abdul Razak MemonYakub Abdul Razak Memon, the death row convict in the 1993 Bombay serial blastscase, will plead for relief in the Supreme Court on Tuesday.The hearing is crucial for Memon as a Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) court in Mumbai has already
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Death penalty on hold until 2016Ohio has swapped out the drugs it uses to execute death-row inmates 5 times in 6 years and it still isn't sure it's got the right combination - or a steady supply of killing drugs - to start and continue with executions.State officials have dangled the promise
Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni: Darkness at NoonA vigil took place in London today to mark the 10th anniversary of the hanging of two Iranian gay teenagers.Ten years ago, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni were hanged publicly in the city of Mashhad.Today in London, the Peter Tatchell
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Missouri must disclose the names of the pharmacy from which it buys lethal injection drugs, a circuit court judge has ruled in yet another case challenging the Department of Corrections’ refusal to provide such information.The case was filed last year in Cole County Circuit Court by five news17
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Zambia's president Edgar LunguJuly 16, 2015: Zambia's President Edgar Lungu reduced the sentence of 332 prisoners awaiting death by hanging to life imprisonment to ease maximum security prison congestion. During a visit to Mukobeko Maximum Security prison, about 180 km north of Lusaka, Lungu said
Clifton Lamar WilliamsHUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A Texas death row inmate won an indefinite reprieve Thursday, hours before he was set to die for the slaying of a 93-year-old woman at her home during a robbery a decade ago.The Texas Court of Criminal of Appeals halted the scheduled lethal
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James E. HolmesJurors will begin deliberating his fate Wednesday on the 165 charges Holmes faces in connection to the suburban Denver carnage.Their decision will come about six months after jury selection began and more than 11 weeks after the trial's start.Prosecutors alone called more than 20014
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Richard GlossipOKLAHOMA CITY — Sister Helen Prejean and others were raising funds Monday to mount an innocence campaign for death row inmate Richard Glossip.Prejean joined Don Knight, who is one of Glossip’s lawyers, and the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty for a news conference at14
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A CCTV image released by Abu Dhabi police on December 3, 2014 shows a fullyveiled woman walking in a shopping mall in the Emirati capital. The woman wasa suspect in the killing of an American teacher stabbed in the
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Richard GlossipRichard Glossip, 52, will be the next Oklahoma inmate to be executed under the state lethal injection protocol approved by the U.S. Supreme Court.The Court of Criminal Appeals set Glossip's execution date for September 15, 2016.Glossip will be put to death for his role in the