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'People can change': Portrait of Indonesian President Joko Widodo bydeath row inmate Myuran Sukumaran, Kerobokan prison, Jan. 2015Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi’s short time in office has already seen a lot of controversy surrounding capital punishment: at home involving foreigners on death row and their Indonesian counterparts overseas. The ministry’s latest
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Serge Atlaoui and his Indonesian attorneyJakarta. The French ambassador in Jakarta on Friday warned Indonesia that executing a Frenchman on death row on drugs charges would have “consequences” for the bilateral relationship.“If the execution is carried out, it will not be without consequence for
Attorney-General H.M. PrasetyoJakarta: The beheading of two Indonesian maids in Saudi Arabia this week will not prevent the execution of 10 drug felons in Indonesia, according to the Attorney-General.However Attorney-General H.M. Prasetyo said Indonesia respected the rule of law."The difference17
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Singapore's Changi PrisonApril 17, 2015: A 39-year-old male Singaporean was executed at Changi Prison Complex, after being convicted of murder and sentenced to death on Apr 7, 2009, police said in a media release.Muhammad bin Kadar stabbed a 69-year-old woman to death in her flat while robbing17
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The state-sanctioned beheading of two Indonesian maids in two days in Saudi Arabia has prompted fierce protests in Indonesia and renewed criticism of the country's double standard on the death penalty as it prepares to execute two members of the Bali nine drug ring. The executions were condemned
Mentally ill Siti Zainab: Four serving Indonesian presidentshad appealed for clemency since her conviction in 1999.Saudi Arabia has been criticised worldwide for suddenly executing an Indonesian maid believed to have been suffering from a mental illness.Indonesia has summoned Saudi Arabia's15
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In a few weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Glossip vs. Gross, which examines the use of the drug midazolam in lethal injection executions. The case comes on the heels of an infamously gruesome 2014, a year that saw botched executions in Ohio, Oklahoma and Arizona.The states' problems Leggi15
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo (right) greetsNorwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg (left).Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has reportedly asked Indonesia's President Joko Widodo to halt the executions of Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.Ms Solberg visited Jakarta for bilateral15
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Siti Zainab was beheaded in the Muslim holy city of Medina after beingconvicted of stabbing and beating a Saudi woman to death in 1999.Jakarta has summoned
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Pakistani government investigators have confiscated and tampered with evidence relating to the case of Shafqat Hussain, whose recent stay of execution is due to expire this week.Last month, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudry Nisar announced the stay for Mr Hussain, who was arrested as a juvenile14
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Tennessee Death ChamberThe Tennessee Supreme Court has halted four executions originally scheduled to take place over the next year, effectively suspending capital punishment in the state for the time being.In an order filed Friday, the court said it was nullifying the execution dates for four13
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Firing-squad execution in the Land of SmilesThere are as many ways to kill as there are to die. When it comes to state-mandated executions, there are preferred methods that take place either as messy public spectacles on scaffolds and squares or in private settings
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The state is the first to approve nitrogen-induced hypoxia for use on death-row inmates, which supporters says is ‘painless’ despite lack of human testingOklahoma became the first US state to approve nitrogen gas for executions under a measure Governor Mary Fallin signed into law Friday that17
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April 14, 2015: Gujarat high court has commuted the death sentence of a convict to life imprisonment in a case of kidnapping and murder of a 9-year-old in Navsari.Parvez Rana (38) was awarded death penalty in 2012 by a trial court in Navsari district for murdering the boy for a ransom of Rs17
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2015
Shafqat HussainThe Islamabad High Court has today said it will hear the first significant legal challenge to the execution of a Pakistani who was convicted as a juvenile.In an order handed down this morning, the Court told the Pakistani government to appear in court in two weeks to respond to17
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Serge Atlaoui et son avocate indonésienne[Click here to Google translate the following article into your own language] La Cour suprême indonésienne doit bientôt se prononcer sur l'ultime recours en révision de Serge Atlaoui, condamné à mort pour trafic de drogue. En cas de
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Onlookers watching a public execution in Iran (file photo)At least 43 prisoners have been executed during the last three days in Iran. A juvenile offender with serious mental illness was among the five who were executed in Karaj on Wednesday. Reports indicate that more mass-executions might take15
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Andrew Chan, Myuran SukumaranBritish celebrity says Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, who are facing the death penalty in Indonesia, are reformed and executing them would be 'brutal' and 'immoral'Russell Brand is the latest high-profile figure to plead for clemency in the case of Bali 9 pair15
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2015
Since 1976, when it reinstated capital punishment, the [United States Supreme] Court has tried to improve the odds that states will carry it out fairly and justly by establishing a series of rules, or constitutional regulations, intended to limit the use of the death sentence to instances where the15
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2015
Andre Cole(Reuters) - Missouri on Tuesday executed a man convicted of attacking his former wife over child support payments and killing her friend, a prison spokesman said.Andre Cole, 52, was killed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 10:24 p.m. at the state's death chamber in Bonne Terre14
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2015
It was almost inevitable that the jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial would reach the verdict it did. There was little doubt that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was guilty of the heinous, despicable crimes for which he was charged; even his lawyer acknowledged his role.2 years ago, Tsarnaev and his14
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NCRI – The Iranian regime’s henchmen in Central Prison in the city of Karaj hanged eight prisoners on Monday. The victims had been sentenced to death for drug related offence.The state-run media in Iran reporting the executions gave no other information on the victims.The prisoners in Gohardasht
The murder trial more than half a century ago of Matsuo Fujimoto, a man afflicted with leprosy, was a bizarre affair.Due to fears of infection, court proceedings were virtually closed to the public. The trial was not held in a courtroom but at an isolated, government-run rehabilitation facility17
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The Boston Marathon finish line minutes before the blast.BOSTON — For the last few months, Bill and Denise Richard have let the government use the death of their son Martin to drive home the heinous and depraved nature of the bombings at
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April 16, 2015: Five murder convicts were hanged in Rawalpindi, Gujranwala and Faisalabad, raising the total number of executions to 75 since Pakistan reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014 after the Taliban school massacre. Two death row inmates – Majid and17
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The state is considering repealing the death penalty amid a shortage of lethal injection drugs, with legislation to eliminate capital punishment clearing a major hurdle on Thursday.Lawmakers voted 30 to 13 to advance the bill, which would replace capital punishment with life imprisonment for17
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2015
A Burmese woman protesting her innocence till the bitterend was beheaded in public in Saudi Arabia in Jan. 2015.CNN - Saudi Arabia has executed a second Indonesian maid despite protests from Jakarta, which is itself facing fierce criticism for its failure to heed calls for clemency for a number15
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Manuel Garza Jr.Texas executed Manuel Garza Jr. on Wednesday for seizing a gun from a San Antonio police officer and fatally shooting him in a struggle in 2001.Garza, 34, was put to death by lethal injection at 6:40 p.m. at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville.Manuel Garza Jr.
Leggi TuttoA condemned prisoner was executed at the New Central Jail in Bahawalpur on Tuesday morning.Death row prisoner, Luna Khan, son of Allah Rakha, of village Talhar, Tehsil Hasilpur, was convicted over the murder of his brother-in-law.The convict's execution had earlier been suspended on March 25 on15
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CENTENNIAL, Colorado -- A jury was seated Tuesday in the death penalty trial of admitted Colorado theater shooter James Holmes after a selection process that experts say was among the largest and most complicated in U.S. history.The 12 jurors and 12 alternates were chosen after remaining14
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A Burmese woman is beheaded in public in Saudi Arabia in January 2015.Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded an Indonesian domestic worker who knifed to death a Saudi woman described in press reports as her employer.The interior
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Mohammad KamaruzzamanThe European Union has condemned the recent execution of a senior Bangladeshi politician.When asked about the execution of Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, Jamaat-e-Islami party's senior leader, European Commission spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic told reporters in Brussels Monday: "(EU)13
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California death rowHowever much Americans may disagree about the morality of capital punishment, no one wants to see an innocent person executed.And yet, far too often, people end up on death row after being convicted of horrific crimes they did not commit. The lucky ones are exonerated while13
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The death penalty has been a consistent part of American life for decades.In 2013, only 4 countries reported executing more convicts than the United States - China, which kills thousands every year, led the way, with Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia in its wake. The U.S. and Japan were the only Leggi