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Gathering signatures to stop the repeal of the death penalty in Nebraska.Nebraska voters can expect to hear a lot about the death penalty this summer from influential people in their communities, from their local church pastor to the county sheriff.
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Dylann Storm briefly appeared before a judge on June 20, 20152 days after the shooting deaths of 9 people during a Bible study at a Charleston church, Republican Gov. Nikki Haley made a bold public statement: The gunman "absolutely" should be
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Five British citizens are facing execution for drug offences in Pakistan amid a surge of hangings in the country.The existence of the 5, including 1 woman, was disclosed in the Pakistani parliament by interior minister Chaudhry Nisar.But he did not release further details - even their names20
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Dylann Roof appeared in court in a video feed from a nearby jail.The prosecutor who will pursue the case against the gunman accused of killing nine people inside a historic church in Charleston, S.C., said Friday she has not
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Watching a public hanging in Iran (file photo)The Iranian regime's henchmen hanged at least 32 prisoners on the verge of the holy month of Ramadan.On Tuesday, June 16, 25 prisoners were collectively hanged in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison in Karaj. Prior to that, on
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Gathering signatures to stop the repeal of the death penalty in NebraskaLINCOLN, Nebraska — Death penalty opponents are joining forces to oppose a ballot campaign that could reinstate capital punishment in Nebraska, the new coalition announced Thursday.Nebraskans for Public Safety
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HARRISBURG, Pa. —A divided Pennsylvania House of Representatives weighed in Wednesday against Gov. Tom Wolf's practice of issuing reprieves to death-row inmates scheduled for execution, passing a resolution that urged him to reverse the policy.The Republican-controlled House voted 119-71 in favor11
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Pakistan: an execution frenzyJune 11, 2015: At least two murder convicts were executed in Faisalabad and Haripur, raising the total number of executions to at least 161 since Pakistan reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014 after the Taliban school massacre10
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Meth bust by BNN agents in Indonesia (File photo)Jakarta. Police in East Java say they will fire an officer accused of involvement in trafficking 13 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine – but only if he is convicted of the offense.Insp. Gen. Anas Yusuf, the provincial police chief, said there10
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Two men were hanged in public in Shahr Babak, Iran, on June 9, 2015Iran Human Rights, June 10, 2015: According to the Iranian state media 13 people have been executed in different Iranian cities.Two men were publicly hanged
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Michael T. SlagerA former police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was indicted Monday [June 8, 2015] by a grand jury on a murder charge in connection with the April shooting death of Walter L. Scott, which was recorded by a passer-by and became a resonating symbol in the national
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Shafqat HussainThe execution of a Pakistani man convicted of manslaughter has been postponed hours before he was due to be hanged, prison officials say.It is the fourth time Shafqat Hussain, who was found guilty of kidnapping and killing a child in 2004, has been given a stay of execution.His21
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Pennsylvania's high court says a man convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer can't be executed because he has an IQ of 74.The state Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that Edward Bracey's below-average intellectual functioning made him ineligible for the death
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Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu is not far from matching a new record: since he became CJI on 28 September 2014, he has confirmed the death sentences of 10 persons in 5 cases.This year alone, Dattu presided over apex court benches that confirmed 8 death sentences in 4 cases confirmed Leggi20
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Lindsay Sandiford in her Kerobokan death row cellJakarta. A recent meeting between the UK ambassador to Indonesia and the Indonesian government did not touch on the fate of a British grandmother who is on death row in the country for smuggling drugs, the minister
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On the same day Nebraska expected to get lethal injection drugs from India, a state prison official said Thursday that the shipment had not yet been sent.A new delivery date for the disputed lethal drugs has yet to be determined, said James Foster, spokesman for the Nebraska Department of
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Kuomintang (KMT) Legislator Alex Tsai (蔡正元) yesterday proposed holding a referendum on "allowing the death penalty," to be held on the same day as next year's presidential election, following recent political discussion over the use of the death penalty.Tsai said that the capital11
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The Nebraska Sheriffs’ Association has voted unanimously to back a petition aimed at restoring the death penalty.The group met on Wednesday morning in Grand Island at the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center.“It’s important because of the public safety issue,” said Grant County Sheriff Shawn11
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Zhou YongkangHONG KONG — Zhou Yongkang, China’s former domestic security chief, was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for accepting bribes, abuse of power and revealing state secrets, according to Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency.He is the most senior official to be convicted of corruptionShafqat HussainJust hours after innocent juvenile Aftab Bahadur was hanged in the early hours of this morning, Pakistan’s Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal for Shafqat Hussain - who was convicted as a juvenile and sentenced to death based on a ‘confession’ extracted after days of10
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Aftab BahadurThis morning at 0430 Pakistan time (0030 UK time), Aftab Bahadur was executed in Lahore, after the Pakistani authorities refused to allow his lawyers to secure key evidence that Mr Bahadur was innocent.Mr Bahadur was just 15 years old when he was sentenced to death for murder
Alfred Brown was released from the Harris County Jail, Texas,Texas on June 8, 2015 (Photo: Houston Chronicle)Alfred Dewayne Brown had spent more than a dozen years behind bars, many of them sitting on death row, so he had learned to bide his time.The latest two were spent in jail in Harris08
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Romell Broom survived a botched executionattempt in Ohio, USA, in September 2009.Ohio’s unusual pending death-penalty case, involving an inmate the state already tried but failed to execute, will be argued on Tuesday before the Ohio Supreme Court.Attorneys for Romell
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The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has learned that Hesameddin Farzizadeh, a 23-year-old former nuclear physics student, has been sentenced to death for apostasy by the Criminal Court of Meshkinshahr in Ardabil province.A source with knowledge of the case indicates that Farzizadeh20
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The death penalty could be abolished if a Bill proposed by an MP becomes law.An MP has drafted a Bill whose enactment would result in the repeal of the death sentence from Kenya's laws and stop the accumulation of death-row prisoners.This would be by removing death as a kind of punishment from19
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The Adjustment Center cells housing death row inmates inside San QuentinA group of death row inmates has sued the state for keeping them in solitary confinement for years or even decades, locked in windowless cells with no
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Raif BadawiThe Quebec government has granted imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi a selection certificate, a first step meant to speed up his immigration process."Quebec is behind Raif Badawi," said Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil, who used a special discretionary power to grant the
New Zealander Antony De MalmancheProsecutors say they will not be seeking the death penalty in the trial against Antony De Malmanche, the Kiwi accused of smuggling methamphetamine into Bali.3 News reported prosecutors would not be seeking the death penalty, and instead argued he should be jailed
A LAWSUIT challenging Virginia’s automatic use of solitary confinement for death row inmates is on track after a federal judge refused the state’s request for dismissal. It is good this issue will get the hearing it demands. Even better would be for the state to take to heart the judge’s admonition10
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Eric Casebolt, the Texas police officer who was caught on video pinning ateenage girl to the ground and pulling his gun on others at a pool party, hasresigned from the McKinney Police Department. (YouTube)IN a 1948 speech to fellow Dixiecrats, Strom Thurmond famously declared that the entire United10
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Petition circulators hit the sidewalks Saturday to begin gathering signaturesto stop a repeal of the death penalty in Nebraska. (Ph: Lincoln Journal Star)LINCOLN — Get ready to be approached soon on street corners across the state
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Richard StrongA Missouri man who killed his girlfriend and her young daughter during an argument more than 14 years ago was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday night after Governor Nixon denied a clemency request that heavily relied on Strong’s 14-year-old daughter, Alyshia, who was three09
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The Pakistani authorities are planning tomorrow (Wed) to execute a prisoner who was convicted as a juvenile on scant evidence – hours after a stay prevented the hanging of Shafqat Hussain.Aftab Bahadur Masih was arrested at the age of 15, and tortured by police into giving false evidence. His08
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Iran Human Rights, June 8, 2015: According to reports by reliable sources, 11 prisoners were hanged in the Ghezelhesar prison of Karaj (west of Tehran) early Monday morning.On Saturday IHR reported about the transfer of 25 prisoners to the quarantine of the Ghezelhesar prison for execution.The