D. TsarnaevBOSTON — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sat stone-faced in a federal court here on Friday as a jury sentenced him , to death for setting off bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured hundreds more in the worst terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001.The jury
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Jurors in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are deliberating for a second full day Friday on whether he should be sentenced to life in prison or the death penalty.The jury deliberated about 8½ hours Wednesday and Thursday without reaching a verdict.Seventeen of the 30 charges15
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"Between the 9th and the 26th of April 2015 as many as 98 prisonersare reported to have been executed at an average of six per
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Wijayapura Port, the gateway to Nusakambangan prison islandCilacap, Central Java. Indonesian police have arrested a corrections officer for drug trafficking on the prison island of Nusakambangan, the same place where less than a month earlier the government executed eight men for the same14
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A diagram from an autopsy performed on Lockett. Pathologistsfound nothing to explain why the
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Yesterday, the Islamabad High Court dismissed a petition lodged by the Justice Project Pakistan challenging the validity of a government inquiry into the case of Shafqat Hussain.The inquiry – carried out by the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) – was launched after new evidence emerged13
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Serge AtlaouiJAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian judge said on Wednesday a court will decide in two weeks whether to proceed with a last-ditch appeal by a French death row inmate who is challenging the president's refusal to grant him clemency.Convicted drug trafficker Serge Atlaoui was due to face12
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Saudi Arabia on Tuesday [May 12, 2015] carried out its 80th beheading of the year, edging closer to the 87 executions it carried out during all of 2014, according to AFP tallies.The interior ministry said a Saudi citizen, Rabie al-Sai'ari, had been convicted of trying to smuggle hashish into the12
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Public execution in IranThe jailing of a well-known campaigner against the death penalty and a sharp rise in executions has once again put Iran's poor human rights record in the spotlight.Narges Mohammadi, a well-known human rights lawyer and campaigner, (...) has been in and out of jail on11
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaMay 6, 2015: Saudi Arabia carried out its 79th execution in 2015 in the northwestern region of Tabuk, reported AFP News. Hussein al-Omairi, a Saudi national, was executed for trafficking amphetamines, according to a statement from the interior ministry. French09
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)Iran Human Rights, May 8, 2015: Three prisoners were executed in the prison of Sari (Northern Iran) on Tuesday morning May 6, reported the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Mazandaran Province.The prisoners were sentenced to death for drug Leggi
Ben Quilty during his eulogy. Photo: Adam TaylorFamily and friends – and those simply moved by his story of redemption – came together on Saturday to celebrate the “short but beautiful life” of Myuran Sukumaran, the drug smuggler who transformed his life and touched
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LINCOLN, Neb. —Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts says state officials have bought all three drugs required to carry out executions.Ricketts and Department of Correctional Services Director Scott Frakes announced Thursday that the state now possesses one of the three drugs and will receive the other two15
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May 14, 2015: A female Nigerian student was sent to the gallows by the Malaysian High Court after she was found guilty of trafficking 765.9gm of metamphetamine at the KL International Airport (KLIA) four years ago. Judge Datuk Ghazali Cha made the decision after finding that the prosecution had15
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Tennessee death chamberNASHVILLE -- A Sullivan County man sentenced to death in 1978, making him the longest tenured Tennessee inmate on death row, died in the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on Wednesday of natural causes, according to his former defense attorney Larry
Aid supplies on board an RAAF aircraftIndonesia will suffer the deepest cut from Australia's plans to slash foreign aid by almost 20 percent in the next fiscal year.Two weeks after recalling the ambassador from Jakarta in protest at the executions of two Australian drug traffickers,
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Saulat MirzaMay 12, 2015: Death-row prisoner Saulat Mirza was executed at Machh jail today at 4:30 AM for the murder of former KESC managing director Shahid Hamid, his driver and guard in 1997, raising the total number of executions to 101 since Pakistan reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the13
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Kim Jong UnNorth Korea has executed its defence chief on treason charges by putting him in front of an anti-aircraft gun at a firing range, Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) told lawmakers.Hyon Yong Chol, 66, who headed the isolated country’s military, was purged late last month forA Russian woman who smuggled drugs into Indonesia was sentenced to 16 years and six months jail on Monday, escaping the death penalty just weeks after seven foreign nationals including two Australians were executed for trafficking narcotics.Aleksandra Magnaeva, 26, was arrested in December after
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European Parliament, Strasbourg, FranceIt has been almost 1 1/2 years since Pakistani products were given duty-free access to European markets under the Generalised System of Preference, known as "GSP Plus' status. In return for the concession, Pakistan promised to implement 27 international11
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Watching a public execution in Iran (file photo)Iran Human Rights, May 10, 2015: Five prisoners were hanged in two different prisons in Iran Saturday morning May 9.According to the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Gilan Province (Northern Iran) a 27 year old man identified as “A. F.”
Indonesian president Joko WidodoThe drug-convict executions was a “comedy of errors” of sorts, a really pathetic and tragic one. They also opened up a Pandora’s Box. Hopefully, they also provide insights about Jokowi, Indonesia and the countries whose citizens were executed. First of all, is it a
The Andrew Chan funeral service at the Hillsong convention centre.Photo: Dave A Oliver. Source: Sydney Morning HeraldHundreds of mourners bade farewell to Andrew Chan with the same song he was singing when he died - 10,000 Reasons, a hymn proclaiming that “whatever may pass” the devout should be15
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Five Yemeni were beheaded in Jizan, Saudi Arabia, in May2013, for killing a national and committing robberies. Theheadless bodies of the 5 men
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Amnesty International has issued an urgent appeal to save the life of Iranian prisoner of conscience Mohammed Ali Taheri, who is facing execution by the regime for insulting Islam by forming his own religious group.Mr Taheri was arrested in May 2011 and jailed for five years by the Revolutionary14
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Execution of 3 Al-Shabaab militants near Mogadishu, Aug. 2014May 13, 2015: two suspected members of Al-Shabaab were executed by firing squad in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Shuaib Ibrahim Mahdi, 37, and Farah Ali Abdi, 30, were found guilty by a military court in April of killing five people
May 11, 2015: the Juvenile Court sentenced two 16-year-old murder convicts to death. One of the minors was accused of murdering Hussein Waheed while the other was accused of aiding the crime. One of them had attacked Waheed while the other had helped him escape on his motorcycle. Both defendantsPublic beheading in Saudi Arabia (file photo)RIYADH: Saudi Arabia beheaded three Yemenis for drug trafficking Wednesday, bringing to 83 the number of executions in little more than four months, compared with 87 all of last year.The condemned men, Eisa Ali Ahmed Hajri, Mohammed Ali Saifi and Majid12
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Derrick CharlesDerrick Dewayne Charles was put to death in Huntsville, Texas, on Tuesday evening.His last words were: "I'm ready to go home."The 32-year-old becomes the seventh prisoner executed this year in Texas, the nation’s most active capital punishment state.His attorneys argued that he
Saudi Arabia has been urged to spare the lives of two juveniles and an ageing political activist, after plans emerged to execute at least one of them this Thursday (14th).Sheikh Nimr Baqir Al Nimr, a 53-year old critic of the Saudi regime, and two juveniles, Ali Mohammed al-Nimr and Dawoud Hussain11
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Sister Helen PrejeanBOSTON — In a dramatic flourish at the end of the defense case, Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun and prominent opponent of the death penalty, testified Monday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had expressed remorse for killing and maiming people at the 2013 Boston Marathon.She09
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Mary Jane VelosoA Philippine couple who recruited a Filipino domestic helper, who was granted a temporary reprieve from a death sentence in Indonesia last month for drug smuggling, were charged on Thursday for the same offence.Mary Jane Veloso, 30, was spared from the firing squad last month after
Jakarta. Aid to Indonesia is set to see a massive cut in the Australian budget to be announced on Tuesday, according to the chief of the top development NGO association Down Under.Marc Purcell, director at the Australian Council for International Development, told Fairfax Media this week that the07
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Shafqat HussainA group of prominent rights organisations have written to Pakistani interior minister Chaudhry Nisar expressing their ‘deep concern’ over the case of Pakistani Shafqat Hussain who was sentenced to death as a juvenile after days of police torture.The letter, signed by organisations