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Rodrigo Gularte[Click here to Google translate the following article into your own language] O ativista de direitos humanos Haris Azhar é diretor da Kontras (Comissão para os Desaparecidos e Vítimas da Violência), ONG indonésia que se dedica aos casos de violação de direitos humanos e inclusão social.Ele esteve
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Serge AtlaouiAn expert called by Serge Atlaoui's lawyers tried on Monday to convince the Jakarta Administrative Court to examine the appeal of the Frenchman sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug trafficking,The court has set a new hearing for June 15. The defense and the prosecution will make07
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June 5, 2015: Six executions were conducted in the evening, one week after the brutal murder of a schoolgirl, media reports said. Media reported that three death row prisoners in Taipei and one each in Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung faced the firing squad, though the Ministry of Justice failed to
Shafqat HussainShafqat was a 14-year-old boy when he was sentenced to death.He was brutally tortured for 9 days, and eventually made a false confession to make the abuse stop.His death sentence violates Pakistani and international law.The Pakistani authorities tried to execute him in January05
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Although the Mandela government was abolitionist, the attorney general of Witwatersrand pressed for the death penalty for two people. This, it turned out, did the world a favour. Eight months after a post-Apartheid, multi-racial government elected through universal suffrage, led by Nelson Mandela03
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Lester BowerHUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The execution of a 67-year-old man who was convicted of killing four men more than three decades ago was carried out on Wednesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-day appeal to halt the lethal injection.Lester Bower Jr. becomes the oldest03
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Lester BowerOn Wednesday, the state of Texas plans to do something it has been trying to do for decades: Execute Lester Bower.Bower, 67, has spent nearly half of his life on death row. He was convicted of shooting and killing a man while attempting to steal an ultralight
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San Quentin's brand new death chamberCalifornia's death penalty system, dormant for nine years, might soon move slowly toward resuming executions.As part of a court settlement reached on Tuesday, the state's corrections department agreed to unveil a new execution method by the fall that will be
Jiroft public execution, Iran, June 1, 2015Iran Human Rights, June 1, 2015: Iranian state media reported about the public execution of a man in the city of Jiroft (southeastern Iran) on Monday June 1.The man who was not identified by name was charged with kidnapping and sexual intercourse with a
Anti-death-penalty group protests executions in the U.S., in Paris, France (Ph: DPN)In the days since the Nebraska legislature moved to abolish the death penalty, it has been described as an astounding political act in a deeply red state, a rare moment of bipartisan collaboration and a significant01
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Myuran Sukumaran, Kerobokan prison, Bali, IndonesiaPastor Christie Buckingham, originally from Portstewart, talks to Adrian Rutherford about the final moments of the Bali Nine drugs gang who were executed by firing squads in Indonesia.Q. You provided pastoral support to two members of the Bali
A push to execute 10 condemned men despite the repeal of Nebraska's death penalty was confronted with yet another hurdle Friday when a federal agency said the state cannot import a critical lethal injection drug.Gov. Pete Ricketts said he agrees with the attorney general that Nebraska should be08
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Jakarta. Indonesia’s Justice Ministry has fired a second prison guard in the space of a week for alleged drug dealing, and this time stripped him of all his benefits.Imron, 53, was symbolically stripped of his uniform at a ceremony on Monday by Justice Minister Yasonna Laoly, following his arrest
Raif BadawiSaudi Arabia's Supreme Court has upheld the sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years of imprisonment on blogger Raif Badawi, despite a foreign outcry.Speaking from Canada, his wife Ensaf Haidar told news agency AFP, "this is a final decision that is irrevocable."In March, the kingdom
Tariq Aziz (left) and Saddam Hussein (center)Baghdad, Iraq (CNN)Tariq Aziz, the imprisoned former Saddam Hussein lieutenant who served as a public face of the Iraqi dictator's government until the regime was toppled in 2003, died Friday of a heart attack at a hospital, two officials in the Mideast
Erecting gallows - Pakistan has ended its moratoriumon the death penalty after school attack.The Pakistani government appears to have carried out 150 executions since resuming hangings in December – taking the country far beyond the US and
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Shafqat HussainA torture expert has called for an independent medical assessment of a Pakistani sentenced to death as a child and set for execution next week, who was tortured by police into ‘confessing’.In a statement given to his lawyer, Shafqat Hussain, whose execution date has been set for03
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June 3, 2015: A double murder convict was executed at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore.Javed alias Jeeda had killed two persons, Qasim and Siddiqui, in Cantt Kechhri area of Lahore on 19 September 1987. Meanwhile, death warrants of three condemned prisoners of Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi were03
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Serge Atlaoui and his Indonesian lawyer during a hearing on April 1, 2015.An Indonesian court Wednesday once again postponed the hearing of an appeal by a Frenchman on death row, indicating the country's slow-moving justice system could delay his execution for some time yet.Serge Atlaoui, 51, had02
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Dedy Romadi stripped of his prison guard jacket during dismissal ceremony.Jakarta. An Indonesian prison guard caught allegedly trafficking 16 kilograms of crystal methwill be entitled to his full lifetime benefits as a civil servant following an “honorable” discharge.Dedy Romadi, from
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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor OrbanEuropean Commission president's remarks follow controversial greeting of Hungary PM as "dictator" at Riga summit last monthJean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission president, has warned that Hungary could be thrown out of the EU if it goes ahead with
Peter GardnerThe parents of a New Zealander who could face the death penalty in China for trying to smuggle drugs out of the country have spoken publicly about their son's plight.Peter Gardner, 26, was detained on November 8 when Customs allegedly found more than 30 kilograms of methamphetamine in31
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A death sentence handed to a Filipino in Qatar for spying was reduced on appeal by a Doha court on Sunday to life imprisonment.Two other sentences of life imprisonment against another pair of defendants, also from the Philippines, were reduced at the same time by Qatar's Court of Appeal to 15
Leading rights groups Amnesty International, Child Rights International Network, Defence for Children International, Human Rights Watch, Redress and Reprieve have called on the President of Pakistan to grant clemency to Shafqat Hussain, who is due to be hanged on Tuesday - despite being convicted05
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James Holmes during his July 2012 court appearance (CNN)It's first time the public has heard Holmes talk about the now-infamous mass shooting, one of the worst in recent history. After his arrest, he ended police questioning after eight minutes by asking for a lawyer.
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Nebraska Governor Pete RickettsAfter his state abolishes the death penalty, Governor Pete Ricketts vows to apply it to the ten inmates still on death row.“A punitive impulse has controlled criminal justice in America for almost half a century,” Columbia law professor Robert Ferguson writes in his04
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Deputy governor of South Kalimantan, Rudy Resnawan, welcomes thesix migrant workers rescued from Saudi Arabia's death row.June 3, 2015: Six Indonesian migrant workers sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia were
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Sick crowd gathered to watch ISIS murder three gay men in Mosul, Iraq.The group known as Islamic State (ISIS) has executed three more men for homosexuality in its Iraqi stronghold.The terrorist group released shocking images this week showing a number of men
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James E. HolmesColorado cinema gunman James Holmes told a psychiatrist that he views life in prison and execution as equal punishments but wants his life spared out of concern for his family, jurors in his capital murder trial heard on Tuesday.The disclosure from the former neuroscience graduate02
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Public beheading in Saudi Arabia (file photo)RIYADH: Saudi Arabia Tuesday beheaded a man convicted of murdering his wife, along with a Syrian drug smuggler, adding to a toll that activists called a "stain" on the kingdom's rights record.Authorities executed Saudi national Awad al-Rasheedi01
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Shafqat HussainAn execution date has been set for a Pakistani convicted as a juvenile, following nine days of police torture, despite a new investigation by human rights charity Reprieve revealing that the Government has covered up a wide range of key evidence relating to his age.The execution01
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Watching a public execution in Iran (file photo)Iran Human Rights, May 31, 2015: Three prisoners were hanged in two different Iranian cities today, reported the Iranian state media.Two prisoners charged with drug offences were hanged in the prison of Sari, reported the official website
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Kerobokan prison, Bali, IndonesiaThe Archbishop of Canterbury is the latest high profile figure to be approached for help by a Redcar gran on death row in Bali.Lindsay Sandiford, who lived in Redcar, is in a Bali prison waiting death by firing squad for drug smuggling.Supporters on
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Texas state law will mandate keeping the identity of Texas' lethal drug suppliers confidential from the public - and even death row inmates and their attorneys.Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill Thursday that cleared both chambers of the Republican-controlled Legislature.There was little floor