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Myuran Sukumaran in his Kerobokan painting workshopRAJI Sukumaran, the mother of Bali Nine ringleader Myuran Sukumaran has penned a powerful open letter to Indonesian President Joko Widodo about the execution of her son.As she plans to bury her son, who was shot by firing squad
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Serge AtlaouiJakarta (AFP) - An Indonesian court on Thursday postponed the start of an appeal by a Frenchman on death row to next week, indicating the country's slow-moving justice system could delay his execution for some time yet.Serge Atlaoui, 51, had been due to face the firing squad with06
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The capsized Sewol ferryRevised sentence follows November verdict of 36 years for captain of Sewol, which sank last year with the deaths of more than 300 peopleA South Korean appeals court has handed down a toughened sentence of life in prison to the captain of the Sewol ferry which sank last05
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Andrew Chan, Myuran SukumaranFuneral services for Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be held in Sydney this week.The two men were executed along with six others by firing squad on the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan last Wednesday.Chan's funeral service will be05
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Shafqat HussainA Pakistan court today stayed the execution of Shafqat Hussain, who was sentenced to death as a juvenile and due to be executed tomorrow (Wednesday), after declaring the government’s inquiry into his age ‘prima facie illegal’.In order to suggest that Shafqat was not a juvenile at04
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Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran: "victims of the exercise ofnaked power by the Indonesian executive" [DPN concurs]The Australian Catholic University has defended creating two scholarships commemorating executed drug runners Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.Vice-chancellor Greg Craven has been04
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The Tennessee Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next week regarding whether a death row inmate can properly challenge the constitutionality of electrocution as a possible method of execution.The Court will consider only one issue of many that are part of a lawsuit by 34 death row inmates
Australian police have defended their role in the arrests of the Bali nine drug smuggling group which led to the execution of its two leaders.The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have faced criticism since the Bali Nine's arrests in 2005, after they aided Indonesian police in their investigation03
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European Parliament, Strasbourg, FranceMembers of all European Parliament political groups condemned the recent execution of 8 people in Indonesia on Thursday, and called for an immediate moratorium on the death penalty there.In a debate on Thursday with international cooperation Commissioner03
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Angelita Muxfedlt, right, a cousin of Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte,by his coffin in Jarkarta on 29 April 2015The Brazilian man executed in Indonesia last week is due to be buried in his
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The ADX from above. Credit Jamey Stillingsfor The New York TimesThe legal team for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday delivered its opening statement in the sentencing phase of the trial and also targeted the character of his older brother and co-bomber, Tamerlan.The01
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Indonesia's flag. One of Myuran Sukumaran's final paintingsThe bloc has rarely discussed the death penalty. It is time it did.The blowback over Indonesia's latest decision to execute foreigners - including a 4 Nigerians, 2 Australians, and a Brazilian - will taint the presidency of Joko Widodo and06
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Lindsay Sandiford in her Kerobokan death row cellA British grandmother on death row in Indonesia has begged comedian Russell Brand to help her avoid the firing squad.Lindsay Sandiford, 58, was sentenced to death on the island of Bali after she was convicted of drug trafficking in 2013.She has06
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One of Myuran Sukumaran's final paintingsIndonesia's Attorney General HM Prasetyo has high praise for the April 29 executions of 8 people on the country's death penalty island of Nusa Kambangan, even saying the executions were "better, more orderly and more perfect" than those of 6 people in05
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A campaign to abolish the death penalty around the world is gathering pace in Australia following the execution of two convicted drug traffickers in Bali.The ringleaders of the 'Bali Nine', Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, were executed by firing squad on April 29 after 10 years in05
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Semoga mimpi buruk Bapak Presiden!Only six months after his election, the fresh face of Indonesian democracy has had 14 people executed, and has been called a murdererJoko Widodo: like Obama, you sailed into office on a tidal wave of expectations. In a country of 250 million people,
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Attorney General M PrasetyoIndonesia will not scrap the death penalty any time soon despite a proposal by some of its lawmakers to abolish it during a review of the country's criminal code, Indonesia's attorney general said.According to a Jakarta Post report, Attorney General M Prasetyo said it04
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James E. HolmesHarrowing accounts from survivors have dominated the 1st week of Colorado's cinema massacre trial, and, amid the tears, a much more detailed picture of gunman James Holmes has emerged.A judge sealed much of the key evidence in the mass-shooting case but both the defence and03
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Self-portrait by Myuran Sukumaran, NusaKambangan Island, April 2015On April 11, Sukumaran wrote in a letter to reporter Cindy Wockner of the isolation and frustration of not knowing what was going on, and of how different the new jail was in comparison to
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Eight men were executed in Nusakambangan Island in Indonesia in the early hours of 29 April.A man and a woman who received a temporary stay of execution remain at risk of execution inthe coming weeks.In the early hours of 29 April Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran (both Australian), Raheem Agbaje01
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The coffins were carried on Qantas flight 42, whichlanded in Sydney just before dawn, at 6:13amThe bodies of executed Bali duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have arrived at Sydney airport after the
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Dr Jay Chapman sought to develop a more humane method of execution but miscarriages of justice leave him ambivalent about capital punishmentDr Jay Chapman, the pathologist who invented the lethal injection that has been the dominant execution protocol in the US for 40 years, says he has growing30
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Four African men were among 8 drug offenders executed by firing squad in Indonesia on Wednesday in a case that attracted huge international attention.Nigerians Raheem Agbaje Salami (also known as Jamiu Owolabi Abashin), Silvester Obiekwe Nwolise, Martin Anderson and Okwuduli Oyatanze were killed06
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Pakistan has today reached the mark of 100th execution since a moratorium on executions was lifted in December 2014, human rights group Amnesty International said in a statement on Tuesday.Pakistan lifted the moratorium on 17 December 2014 in the wake of the Taliban attack on Army Public School in
On this date 169 years ago, Michigan lawmakers voted to put down the death penalty, becoming the first state to ban capital punishment -- indeed, it was the first English-speaking government in the world to outlaw executions.On May 18, 1846, the Legislature passed an act banning capital05
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There's not a lot of sympathy for the 11 men on death row in Nebraska, but spurred by frustration about the growing difficulty and cost of carrying out executions, lawmakers are considering eliminating the death penalty.If the Legislature outlaws capital punishment, Nebraska would become the first04
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ISIS stone 'gay' man to death after he survived being thrown off a roofISIS militants have released harrowing photographs of a gay man being stoned to death after he survived their first attempt at killing him.Eleven men, one of them holding an Islamic State flag, held the blindfolded man at the04
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Viktor OrbanHungary has no plans to introduce the death penalty, "it is only a matter up for debate," Prime Minister Viktor Orban told European Parliament president Martin Schulz.Orban and Schulz discussed the issue over the phone, cabinet chief Janos Lazar said.Viktor Orban also told European04
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Oral arguments before the Supreme Court earlier this week over Oklahoma's lethal-injection protocol took an unusually harsh tone. What was more jarring, though, was the theme of statements - er, questions - by some of the judges about the backdrop to the execution challenge.The case involves 1 of
Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani convicted of drug smuggling on Friday, the 73rd execution in the kingdom so far this year.Shirin Khan was put to death in Riyadh province after being found guilty of smuggling heroin into the kingdom in
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One of Myuran Sukumaran's last paintings on Nusa Kambangan Island, Apr. 2015Indonesia makes no secret that drug-dealing convictions there carry the death penalty, but until this year the law rarely enforced.Indonesians sometimes
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Jakarta. The bodies of the eight men killed by the firing squad on Wednesday have not all been buried yet, but already the Attorney General’s Office is preparing for another round of executions.Tony Spontana, a spokesman for the AGO, said in Jakarta on Wednesday night that his office was “waiting01
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The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) of the Philippines said it will continue to appeal to Indonesia to commute the death penalty it imposed on Filipina drug convict Mary Jane Veloso.The DFA said it will not leave the case of Veloso behind just because the Indonesian government has postponed30
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Interior Ministry says 70 executions carried out this year in the kingdomRiyadh: A Saudi national convicted of murdering his father was beheaded on Thursday, bringing to 70 the number of executions carried out this year in the kingdom, the interior