The arrest of a Banceuy penitentiary guard caught red-handed with more than 16 kilograms of methamphetamine and several hundred ecstasy pills in Bandung has highlighted once again the core problem of Indonesia’s war against drugs. It’s the corrupt officials, rotten penitentiary system and of course the judiciary system as a whole
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Michael RyanCult killer and death-row inmate Michael Ryan died of natural causes Sunday.Ryan, 66, died at 7:45 p.m. at Tecumseh State Correctional Institution, where he'd been since the prison opened in 2001 and death row inmates were moved there from the Nebraska State Penitentiary in
The state's recent purchase of lethal injection drugs that would allow it to resume executions in Nebraska will lead to costly litigation, ACLU of Nebraska Executive Director Danielle Conrad said Friday.Conrad said information the ACLU received from the state Department of Correctional Services in25
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Lilik binti Mas’oud, an Indonesian citizen on trial for adultery in Saudi Arabia, has escaped the death sentence after being found innocent.She was repatriated on Sunday.“The Indonesian citizen has been handed over to her family in Banyuwangi, East Java, after she escaped being sentenced to death25
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Public flogging in Iran (file photo)One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Ardebil (Northwestern Iran) Saturday morning (May 23, 2015), reported the Iranian state media.The prisoner, who was not identified by name, was sentenced to death by the Ardebil Revolution Court (Section 1), charged with23
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Darkness at Noon: Man flogged before his execution inKaraj, Iran, in Aug. 2014NCRI - From May 19 to 21, the antihuman clerical regime in Iran executed 37 in prisons or on the streets of various cities.Three prisoners
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A Kenyan court will this Monday and Tuesday hear the appeal of a man who was sentenced to death after a flawed trial, on charges relating to the murder of a Briton.Ali Babitu Kololo, a 35-year-old father of two from a marginalised tribe in northern Kenya, was sentenced to death in 2013 after20
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2 death-row convicts were hanged to death in Machh and Faisalabad jails on Wednesday morning.Mohammad Musa was hanged in Balochistan's Machh jail for murdering a man named Liaqat Ali in Quetta's Alamadar road area. He was convicted by a sessions court judge in 2007.The appeals of the convict had
Former Illinois Governor George RyanThe tiny community in deep Southern Illinois that waged a full-press fundraising campaign and courtship with the state to earn its 1st "supermax" prison, was to become Illinois's death row capital - the final destination for inmates sentenced to die and whose19
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For the 1st time after 7 months in office, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo met his campaign volunteers in public, asking them to support his recent policies, including the slashing of fuel subsidies and the execution of drug convicts.During a speech on Saturday at the Cibubur camping grounds in
Six men with alleged ties to a terrorist group were hanged in Egypt after being sentenced in a military tribunal. Three of the men, however, were arrested before the crimes they were charged with were committed.Egypt hanged the six men for alleged ties to the Sinai-based militant group, formerly18
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani national sentenced to death for drug smuggling on May 17.The Saudi Interior Ministry said that brings to 84 the number of executions in the kingdom this year.The ministry said in a statement that Iftikhar Ahmed Mohammed Anayat was26
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A maid in Al Ain who was given the death penalty for killing her Emirati employer will launch an appeal against her sentence with the help of the Philippine embassy, senior diplomats said yesterday.Officials at Manila's Department of Foreign Affairs and the Philippine embassy in Abu Dhabi have
With Nebraska on the brink of outlawing the death penalty, opponents of capital punishment hope this week's veto-override vote in the Legislature will build momentum for their cause in other Republican states.Whether that will happen isn't clear, but Nebraska isn't the 1st right-leaning state to25
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May 23, 2015: At least four murder convicts were sent to the gallows in the jails of Lahore, Multan and Sahiwal, raising the total number of executions to 111 since Pakistan reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014 after the Taliban school massacre. Two death row24
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Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers (center, standing)Ernie Chambers, a champion of the voiceless, has introduced a bill to ban capital punishment in each of his 36 years in the legislature. This time it might succeed"White people, they don't have a high opinion of me," says
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Nebraska is showing the most visible signs of a change in thinking by Christians and conservatives on the death penalty, and Catholics are helping to lead the way. For many, the catalyst has been a simple question: "If I value life, how can I support taking a life when the death penalty
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Andrew Chan, Myuran Sukumaran in Kerobokan's painting workshopINDONESIA’S Constitutional Court has dismissed a legal challenge bought by executed Bali Nine duo Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan because the pair is no longer alive.Lawyers for Sukumaran and Chan had lodged a case for judicial review20
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Public hanging in Iran (file photo)5 prisoners were hanged in 2 Iranian cities Tuesday morning May 19, reported Iranian state media.According to the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Fars province (Southern Iran), one man was hanged publicly in the city of Shiraz this morning.The man19
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In a new twist to sentencing policy, the Supreme Court on Friday held that no leniency can be shown by courts in awarding death sentence only on the ground that the accused in a brutal killing is a woman.The sentencing policy must be proportionate to the crime committed and the sentence must be
D. TsarnaevAustralia must vocally oppose the “barbaric and inhumane” execution of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, says a lawyer who represented Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.A US jury on Friday sentenced Tsarnaev to death for the deadly attack, sweeping aside pleas that he was just a18
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The death chamber at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, IndianaThe United States government sought and won a death sentence in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for his role in the Boston Marathon bombing.However, it is worth remembering something:
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Lindsay Sandiford faces imminent execution by firing squad in Indonesia.After her arrest in 2012, she cooperated with police to secure the arrest of more senior syndicate members.Despite this, she was sentenced to death while the people whose arrests she made possible were given jail terms of one25
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Lester BowerA federal appeals court has denied an application to halt the June execution of Lester Bower, one of the longest-serving inmates on death row in Texas, for killing 4 men at an airport hangar in 1983.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday denied a petition Leggi25
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Anthony Hinton, just after his release from jail on Friday, March 3, 2015In his 1st day free, after nearly 30 years on Alabama's death row, Ray Hinton said he kept asking a question to his childhood friend.'You just got
Leggi TuttoMay 22, 2015: The Pinrang District Court of South Sulawesi has sentenced a couple, Amir alias Dawang, 45, and his wife Maemunah, 43, to death for selling drugs.“The defendants were proven guilty of selling drugs. Both were sentenced to death,” presiding judge Fitria Ade Maya said.The sentences23
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President Joko Widodo claims Indonesia is in the grip of a “drug emergency,”and that the death sentence serves as a deterrent against would-be drug offenders.Jakarta. The Indonesian prison guard arrested with more than 16 kilograms of methamphetamine and several hundred ecstasy pills on Friday22
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Nebraska Gov. Pete RickettsNebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts has said it before and he will say it again: He plans to veto a bill passed this week that would abolish the state's death penalty."The Legislature is out of touch with Nebraskans on their vote to repeal the death
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Time is running out for Wanipah, a 28-year-old migrant worker from Indramayu, West Java, on death row at Hangzhou Penitentiary in China.According to her family's lawyer, Iskandar Zulkarnaen, Wanipah was convicted in April 2011 of smuggling 992.72 grams of heroin into China through Xiaoshan Airport
Waco , Texas. Deadly biker gang violence at Twin Peaks restaurantThe unprecedented, deadly biker gang violence on display Sunday at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, has led to mass arrests, massive bail figures, the specter of numerous death penalty
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The Papua New Guinea government says it will seriously reconsider the death penalty following church, NGO and public criticism of the law.Parliament voted in favour of the death penalty for crimes such as murder and rape 2 years ago, but it has not yet been implemented due to lack of18
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia is advertising for eight new executioners, recruiting extra staff to carry out an increasing number of death sentences, usually done by public beheading.No special qualifications are needed for the jobs whose main role is “executing a judgment of death”
D. TsarnaevUnder the rules of “guided discretion”—the name given to the version of capital punishment that the Supreme Court’s 1976 decision in Gregg v. Georgia ruled constitutional—juries in capital murder cases are given the task of balancing and weighing aggravating and mitigating factors16
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Mohamed MorsiVerdict against former president sent to Grand Mufti for confirmation after he is convicted for 2011 mass prison break.An Egypt court has sentenced former President Mohamed Morsi to death for a mass prison break in 2011.The court ruled on Saturday that the sentencing of Morsi and 105