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Dylann RoofA man accused in a deadly shooting rampage at a historic South Carolina church was indicted Tuesday on nine murder charges, three attempted murder charges and a weapon offense.Dylann Roof, 21, is accused in the June 17 massacre that left nine people dead at Charleston's predominantly black Emanuel AME
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Schemers were able to claim $300,000 in compensation due to lax safety regulationA court in eastern China upheld death sentences for 5 people who conspired to kill miners in what they claimed were mine accidents and then posed as relatives to claim $300,000 in compensation.The Hebei Higher06
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We ask the Federal Government of the United States to abolish the federal death penalty.While we recognize the rights of states to determine within their borders the limits of punishment, the United States remains one of increasingly few nations who endorse this archaic practice AS a
Palmyra: 25 Syrian soldiers killed by IS teenage membersThe Islamic State group has released a video showing the killing of 25 government soldiers in the historic town of Palmyra in central Syria.The video showed the soldiers being taken in pick-up trucks from the
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Yellow Mama: Alabama's disused electric chairWhen Nebraska abolished the death penalty in May, was that change inspired by the state's unique circumstances, or is it a harbinger of the tide turning in other conservative states?The decision prompted a flurry of speculation that other states will25
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Chinese police officers rehearsing lethal injection proceduresSHENYANG, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Three people were executed Wednesday in the largest drug case to be heard in Liaoning Province, northeast China, a local court said.Ma Min, Yao Hongguo and Li Na were found guilty of smuggling 2,000 Leggi24
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Dzhokhar TsarnaevConvicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has given his first public statement since carrying out the April 2013 terrorist attack.“I would like to now apologize to the victims, to the survivors,” he told a Boston court shortly before being formally sentenced to death for
Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has confirmed death sentences for 2 suspected Saudi Al-Qaeda members convicted of murdering 4 Frenchmen in 2007, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.They had been sentenced by a special "terrorism" tribunal in January of last year, in verdicts now upheld by the highest24
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A group that opposes Nebraska's death penalty petition drive has released 2 television ads urging voters not to sign a petition that seeks to put the issue on the 2016 ballot.Nebraskans for Public Safety posted the ads on social media on Monday and said they will run on television starting24
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June 22, 2015: A Filipina who was saved from the death penalty in Kuwait is set to arrive in the Philippines in the afternoon after being detained there for 10 years, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.Marilou Ranario, who worked as a domestic helper in Kuwait was arrested and sentenced23
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French drug convict Serge Atlaoui is escorted by armedIndonesian elite police commandos in March 2015.Jakarta -- Human rights activists and legal experts have again called on President Joko Widodo to halt the execution of drug traffickers
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A United Nations investigation has found “serious violations of international humanitarian law” that “may amount to war crimes” by both Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip during their bloody battle last summer.Areport released on Monday in Geneva by a commission of the United
Florida's death chamberThe US Supreme Court has ruled that the drug midazolam is acceptable for use in lethal injections. 4 Oklahoma convicts had challenged the drugs use, and Florida courts stopped executions here pending the outcome. As Mike Vasilinda tells us, the ruling is now likely to open06
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The UN has called on the Ethiopian government to release a British father of three held in a secret location in Ethiopia.A new opinion from experts at the UN Human Rights Council orders the Ethiopian government to release and compensate Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege, from London, who was abducted at a04
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Ohio has explored overseas options in its search for lethal injection drugs no longer available in the U.S. despite a court ruling that banned such purchases, records show.The prison where Ohio carries out executions successfully applied for an import license from the U.S. Drug Enforcement04
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A grassroots effort aims to restore what the legislature just ended.At the front counter of Dinkel Implement Co., a farm equipment dealer in Norfolk, Neb., there is a sheet of paper that voters can sign to bring the death penalty up for a public vote in their state. There is a similar
Leggi TuttoSaudi Arabia's Supreme Court has confirmed death sentences for 2 suspected Saudi Al-Qaeda members convicted of murdering 4 Frenchmen in 2007, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.They had been sentenced by a special "terrorism" tribunal in January of last year, in verdicts now upheld by the highest24
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Louisiana death rowExecutions in Louisiana are on hold for at least a year because the state doesn't have the drugs needed to put inmates to death, according to a court filing and a lawyer for a convicted child-killer.Lawyers for Christopher Sepulvado and the state Department of Corrections were24
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D. TsarnaevA US federal judge will formally sentence Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death at a court hearing today when the 21-year-old former student will be offered the chance to speak.Tsarnaev kept silent throughout his trial, which ended with the jury sentencing him to death on 15
Serge AtlaouiFrench President Francois Hollande says Paris will do its utmost to save a French national who has received a death penalty over drug offences in Indonesia."France, without going into the legal debate, is doing everything to keep Serge Atlaoui alive," Hollande told reporters following24
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The Police Officers' Association of Nebraska has announced their support of the petition drive to get the death penalty issue on the ballot.POAN president Rich Hoaglund says the association feels it is an important issue for public safety, as well as for the safety of inmates and corrections
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At a Johnston, Iowa, gun range on June 20 Senator Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston shows the need for the death penalty, not gun control.He made clear that we should be punishing the individual who commit such crimes, rather than
Dylann RoofIf prosecutors convict Dylann Storm Roof and then seek the death penalty—and despite calls from Governor Nikki Haley, it’s not clear they will—the Charleston shooting suspect could be sitting on death row for a long time. The last execution in South Carolina was in 2011, despite a06
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The Republican-dominated Pennsylvania House recently voted in favor of a resolution condemning the death penalty moratorium enacted by Democratic Governor Tom Wolf in February, shortly after his historic win over Republican incumbent Tom Corbett. In a perfect example of how things sometimes go in06
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Four conspirators in President Lincoln’s assassination are hanged July 7, 1865.It was a blazing hot July afternoon, and the condemned were led in irons from the Washington penitentiary about 1 p.m.They passed the pre-dug graves and the stack of gun crates that
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Yat Michael (left), Peter Yen Reith (right)Two South Sudanese pastors in Sudan will face trial for espionage and their lawyer has been arrested.A judge ruled on July 2 that Rev Yat Michael and Rev David Yein Reith's trial will continue, meaning that
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Florida's Death ChamberThe country's patchwork, disjointed series of execution protocols does not appear likely to be changing any time soon, even with a Supreme Court ruling this week saying that Oklahoma can use the sedative midazolam in lethal injections.In the days that followed the ruling24
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Dylann Roof's arrest caught on dashcam video.WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will likely file federal hate crime charges against the man suspected of carrying out a massacre at a storied black church in South Carolina, federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday.Dylann Roof, 21, already24
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The number of inmates on Texas' death row is falling.At its peak in 1999, 460 men and women were living with a death sentence in Texas, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Today, there are 260.The reason for the decline isn't a rise in executions. In 2000, an all-time24
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As Oklahoma's death-row inmates await word on whether the state's execution procedure is constitutional, states - including Oklahoma - maintain strong laws protecting disclosure of information about the way they implement the death penalty.Last year, an Oklahoma inmate sat on a gurney for 43
June 22, 2015: The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in counter-terrorism, Ben Emmerson, says people in areas controlled by the Islamic State group live in daily fear for their lives. He cited mounting evidence the group was guilty of "systematic violations of international law23
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Aasia Bibi is the first woman on Pakistan's death rowThis is the first story in a two-part series about blasphemy in Pakistan. Read the second story, about the lynching of a Christian couple, here.June 19 marks 6 years since the arrest of Aasia Noreen, also known as Aasia
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Florida death chamberA man on death row for the murder of a Pasco County waitress will soon walk free.The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that there wasn't enough evidence to convict Derral Hodgkins for the 2006 murder of 46-year-old Teresa Lodge.Lodge was found dead in her Land O'Lakes22
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Serge Atlaoui and his Indonesian lawyerAn Indonesian court has rejected an appeal by French drug convict Serge Atlaoui, who was due to face the firing squad with Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran."We reject the challenge by the challenger," presiding judge Ujang Abdullah told the State