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Public execution in Iran (file photo)NCRI- Following the wave of executions in different cities in Iran, the anti-human clerical regime sent another 30 prisoners to the gallows from April 22 to April 26.Nine prisoners were collectively hanged on April 22 in Vakil Abad prison in Shiraz.On April 23, sixteen other prisoners
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear aconstitutional challenge to Oklahoma’s lethal-injection drug protocol, which last April left a manwrithing in agony on the killing table for 43 minutes.In the spectacularly botched execution, the condemned man, Clayton Lockett, first received an untested26
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Here are the 10 people facing execution by firing squad in Indonesia fordrug-related offenses. One of them, Serge Atlaoui of France (top right), wasgiven a last-minute, two-week reprieve pending another review of his case.Source: The New York Times, April 25, 2015Executed on the stroke of midnight
The family of Mary Jane Veloso, who is among a group of prisonersfacing execution, on its way to visit her on Saturday, April 25, 2015.As predictable as rain, and as tedious, is the usual response of Philippine newspaper columnists and editorial writers whenever Filipinos end up on death row in
President Joko Widodo of Indonesia should urgently commute the death sentences of 10 people who face imminent execution for drug trafficking, Human Rights Watch said today. Following the exhaustion of legal appeals on April 24, 2015, Indonesian authorities advised foreign diplomats and the22
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4 death row prisoners were executed in Pakistan early Wednesday morning, ARY News reported.Lahore, Sahiwal and Bahawalpur cities of Punjab province of Pakistan saw 4 hangings as four death row convicts namely Zahid Hussain, Nazeer Ahmed, Rizwan and Moazzam Khan were executed.Zahid Hussain was
Mary Jane Fiesta VelosoLawyers for a Filipina scheduled to be executed alongside two Australians are racing to file a new appeal, this time arguing she was a victim of human trafficking.Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, 30, says she was tricked into travelling to Indonesia with 2.6kg
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Public hanging in Iran (file photo)April 21, 2015: Twenty prisoners were hanged for drug related charges between 16 and 20 April in three different Iranian cities. Twelve of them were hanged in Mashhad on 16 April and four others in Birjand on 17 April, reported the Human Rights Activists News22
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Pakistan on Tuesday hanged 17 prisoners, the highest number of executions on a single day since reversing of the country’s self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December after the Taliban school massacre.The prisoners were executed in different jails of Punjab and Balochistan
French death row inmate Serge AtlaouiIndonesia's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by a Frenchman on death row for drug offences, taking him and a group of other foreigners closer to execution by firing squad.Serge Atlaoui, 51, was arrested near Jakarta in 2005 in a secret laboratory21
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Tommy Schaefer and Heather Mack in court(Reuters) - An Indonesian court found a young U.S. couple guilty on Tuesday of murdering the woman's mother and stuffing her battered body into a suitcase on the resort island of Bali.Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer, both from
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Screenshot from "Rectify" (2013), a TV Series by Ray McKinnonwith Aden Young, Abigail Spencer, and J. Smith-Cameron.Thirty-four inmates are volleyed between life and death as the state grapples with lawsuits on the constitutionality of legal injection and
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Mary Jane Fiesta VelosoIndonesian President Joko Widodo is "sympathetic" about the plight of a Filipina facing death for drug trafficking and has promised to look into her case, a spokesman for Philippine President Benigno Aquino said Monday after he made a personal appeal.While the comments26
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Australian lawyer Julian McMahon with three self-portraits by Sukumaran:"The 72 hours just started", "Strange Day" and "Our new prints: A bad sleeplast night". Photo: Amilia RosaJakarta: The end has come for the Bali nine organisers and others on death row in Indonesia who have been told they will
Indonesian president Joko WidodoJoko Widodo argues that Indonesia needs to execute drug offenders like Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran to deter others, but he can produce no evidence to support this claim.Australia has executed no-one for half a century. Following the abolition of the death
Muscat, OmanEfforts to combat drug abuse intensify due to increasing number of abusers in the countryMuscat: For the first time, Oman may introduce the death penalty against drug traffickers in an effort to curb the drug menace that affects many youths.The decision highlights the increased threat
A man has been sentenced to death at Rangpur for throwing acid at a school girl.Rangpur District and Sessions Judge Manjurul Basid handed maximum penalty to Ariful Islam on Wednesday while his 2 associates Alal Miah and Dulal Hossain got life sentences.Masuda Akhter was left blinded after the22
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Serge AtlaouiFrance's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius summoned the Indonesian ambassador on Wednesday to discuss the case of a Frenchman facing the death penalty for drug offences, a government spokesman told AFP. The summons came a day after Serge Atlaoui, 51, had an appeal rejected by22
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Martin Anderson, from Ghana, one of several convictsslated for execution in Indonesia.Jakarta. Indonesia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a Ghanaian on death row, an official said on Wednesday, one of several foreign drug convicts expected to face the firing squad soon.Martin Anderson’s22
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Public beheading in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi authorities executed a citizen on Tuesday after convicting him of sexually harassing and brutally murdering his Indonesian maid.Shayea al-Qahtani was found guilty of killing the maid by beating her with a cane and pouring boiling water over her21
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Screenshot from "Monster's Ball" (2001) by Marc Forsterwith Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry and Heath Ledger.Like murder, execution inflicts emotional and psychological damage on those linked to it. How are prison guards affected by overseeing prisoners on death row or even participating in20
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In what may be a glimmer of hope for the Bali Nine ringleaders, two Iranians convicted of drug offences in Indonesia have had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment on appeal.Mustofa Moradalivand and Sayed Hashem were sentenced to death by Bandung district court in West Java in
Indonesia vs Saudi Arabia: The Maid Issue. Read more.As many as 279 Indonesia migrant workers overseas face the possibility of execution, 36 of whom are in Saudi Arabia, an official has said.“The government, through the Indonesian embassies in those countries, is striving to free them [death row26
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Kerobokan 2010. Reverend Thompson Manafe, Martin Stephens (light blueshirt), Scott Rush, Andrew Chan, Myuran Sukumaran and Matthew Norman.Neither [Chan or Sukumaran] appeared in those first videos from Denpasar airport, of the young men stripped to their underwear, eyes wide with horror, as25
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The European Union (EU) has called on the authorities in Singapore to reinstate its halt on capital punishment, following the execution of a convicted murderer here last week.Reiterating its opposition to the use of capital punishment, the EU said in a statement yesterday it has consistently
Indonesian president Joko WidodoIndonesia has sharply increased executions, bucking a global trend of fewer death sentences being carried out, Amnesty International experts said, as Jakarta prepares to execute nine foreign drug convicts.Amnesty said that the number of executions carried out
Boston Marathon Bombings: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convictedon all 30 counts tied to the 2013 deadly blasts.WASHINGTON, April 21 (Xinhua) -- The life-or-death phase in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar "Jahar" Tsarnaev
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A Nigerian court on Tuesday rejected a motion to have murder charges against a child bride accused of killing her husband dismissed, saying there was enough evidence for the case to proceed.Wasila Tasi'u was 14 when she married Umar Sani, 35, in Nigeria's deeply conservative, mainly Muslim north22
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Changi prison, where executions are carried out in Singapore.April 20, 2015: Two convicted drug traffickers were spared the gallows today, four years after being sentenced to death. Cheong Chun Yin, 31, and Pang Siew Fum, 60, both Malaysians, were sentenced to life
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A delegation from the Manpower Ministry and the Association of Labor Export Companies (Apjati) will make a visit to the family of Karni binti Medi Tarsim, an Indonesian migrant worker who was executed last Thursday in Saudi Arabia for murdering her employer.The director general for overseas labor
Two more foreigners on death row in Indonesia have had their cases thrown out of court in a sign that the executions are imminent.President Joko Widodo has warned that the execution of 10 drug felons, including Bali nine organisers Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, is "only a matter of time"21
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Indonesian police in Cilacap, in Java, blocking access toNusakambangan prison island, where Indonesia carries out its executions.Indonesia's president has warned it "is only a matter of time" until Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran
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April 20, 2015: Ten prisoners were hanged in Iran on April 13 and 20.Four prisoners with drug-related charges were executed on April 13 in Esfahan prison, according to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA).One of them has been identified as Siamak Ranjbari.Also19
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Birmingham lawyer Lisa Borden opposes the death penalty. One of her worst fears is the prospect that one day she will have to watch a client executed.Borden, who oversees the pro bono programs at the firm of Baker Donelson, has been involved in the appeals of five death row inmates. She
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