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Today, a number of states are facing severe lethal injection drug shortagesafter pharmaceutical companies stopped providing drugs for the procedure.How death by nitrogen is emerging as a lethal injection alternative
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Ely State Prison, NevadaNevada has more than 80 men on death row but no suitable place to execute them should the state need to carry out capital punishment, a panel of lawmakers was told last week.So lawmakers again are being asked to fund a new execution chamber
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Maximum security prison on Nusakambangan island.Jakarta: An Indonesian law reform organisation has called for a moratorium on executions after a study of 42 death sentences handed down between 2002 and 2013 found many of the condemned had not been given a fair trial.In 11 of the 42 cases, law
Muhammad Kamaruzzaman leaves a court escorted bypolicemen in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in May 2013.(Reuters) - Bangladesh hanged Islamist opposition leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman on Saturday for war crimes committed during the 1971 war to break away from Pakistan, a
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Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso. Photo by Suryo Wibowo, AFPMANILA - The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) has asked Indonesian President Joko Widodo to overturn the death sentence of Filipino migrant worker Mary Jane Veloso.IADL President Jeanne Mirrer urged Widodo to take
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Manuel Fernando GarzaOn Feb. 2, 2001, moments after being confronted by the San Antonio policeman who would soon learn of his warrants, 20-year-old Manuel Fernando Garza escaped Officer John Riojas' grip and sprinted down the street. Riojas gave chase and eventually caught up with Garza, who
Sorcery, which his not considered a crime in international law,is punishable by the death penalty in Saudi Arabia.At least 54 people were executed in Saudi Arabia during the 1st 3 months of the year in a dramatic increase, according to Amnesty International.The international human rights
Oklahoma lawmakers voted Thursday to reinstate the gas chamber as a backup execution method to lethal injection.The Oklahoma Senate voted 41-0 in favor of HB 1879, which legalizes execution by nitrogen hypoxia. Said by supporters to be more humane than using gases that cause suffocation, nitrogen09
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(AP) -- The Missouri Supreme Court has vacated its May 12th execution order for a former St. Louis jailer.Kimber Edwards was convicted of hiring someone to kill his ex-wife in August 2000.The man Edwards was convicted of hiring, Orthell Wilson, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was08
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After sodomite suppression comes shellfish suppression.A lawyer named Matt McLaughlin filed a ballot initiative with the California's Department of Justice in February to enact the "Sodomite Suppression Act," which calls for the killing of anyone who engages in sodomy. (Never mind that the death08
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Jurors begin the process of determining Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's fate on 30 federal charges connected to the deadly twin attacks.Jurors have begun deliberating in the federal death penalty case of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.Tsarnaev faces 30 federal charges in connection with the
Indonesian President Joko WidodoThe majority of Indonesians say they support President Joko Widodo's decision to enforce the death penalty for drug traffickers, according to a survey released amid appeals for clemency from several death row drug convicts.Jakarta-based survey agency Indo Barometer
Chinese prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for an Australian jockey who allegedly tried to smuggle more than 3kg of crystal methamphetamine into Australia.Anthony Roger Bannister, 43, from Adelaide, was stopped at Guangzhou airport from boarding a flight to Sydney on March 11 last year, the
Islamic State has reportedly stoned a man to death in frontof dozens of civilians east of Homs 'for being gay'Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has released a number
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Glenn Ford. Credit Henrietta Wildsmith/The Shreveport TimesA few weeks ago, a former prosecutor in Caddo Parish, La., named A. M. Stroud III wrote a letter to the editor of The Shreveport Times that quickly caught fire on the
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Medieval and barbaric: Public execution in IranIn an interview with ISNA (the Iranian Student News Agency), the prominent Iranian lawyer Nemat Ahmadi lambasted Iran's anti-drug law, calling it "lacking in preventive powers" despite its stipulation of the death penalty as punishment for drug09
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Kent SprouseA man convicted of killing 2 during a robbery was executed tonight in Huntsville, Texas.Kent Sprouse, 42, was declared dead at 6:33 p.m.Sprouse becomes the fifth person executed this year in Texas, which puts to death more inmates than any other state.The U.S. Supreme Court in
Anthony Hinton, just after his release from jail on Friday, March 3, 2015.‘They tell you justice is blind. I am telling you that justice can see.'Anthony Ray Hinton was convicted of murdering two fast food restaurant managers in
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Indonesia's Attorney-General H. M. PrasetyoLawyers for the Bali nine pair have denied a challenge filed in the Constitutional Court on Thursday is a tactic to delay the executions of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.Attorney-General H. M. Prasetyo has accused the men's legal team of "playing withBOSTON — After 11 hours of deliberations over two days, a federal jury on Wednesday found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a failing college student and the youngest child in a dispersed Russian immigrant family, guilty of the 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon, the worst act of terrorism on American soil08
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Drawing crowds: The last public hanging in Kentucky, August 14, 1936Since the nineteenth century, American elites have searched for a mode of execution that was professional in appearance and humane in practice, one that would display the state’s sober-minded restraint while taking life as quickly
The South Korean ferry capsized in April 2014killing 304 passengers.South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday (Apr 7) urged an appeals court to hand down the death penalty for the captain of the ferry that sank a year ago, accusing him of intentionally abandoning more than 300 people to their certain
April 7, 2015: Two Pakistani Christians have been sentenced to death for supposedly violating the country’s blasphemy laws. The two are accused of sending blasphemous text messages in English and have been sentenced to hang. However, Shafaqat Emmanuel and his wife Shagufta Kausar are both12
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Kerobokan prison, Bali island, Indonesia.Shock waves are reverberating through the Bali Nine, arrested for attempting to smuggle 8.3kg of heroin from Bali to Australia on April 17, 2005.Last Wednesday morning, in the packed visiting room of Malang’s all-male prison in East Java, Brisbane courier11
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Police Officer Michael Slager Charged With Murderof Walter Scott in South Carolina, USA.NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A wake was held Friday in South Carolina for Walter Scott, who was shot and killed last Saturday by North Charleston police officer Michael
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo portrayed by Myuran Sukumaran.Lawyers for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran say new legal challenge is aimed at clarifying prisoners’ rightsAndrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran’s fight to be rescued from death row has moved to Indonesia’s constitutional court, a10
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Lindsay Sandiford in her Kerobokan death row cell.Lindsay Sandiford’s barrister Craig Tuck writes:As an international human rights lawyer, I have been deeply moved by Lindsay’s case. I am committed to doing everything in my power to challenge the flagrant injustice of her death penalty.I am09
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Niranjela Karunatilake (left) and Roshine Singam show their supportfor Myuran Sukumaram at an art gallery in Amsterdam, Holland.Picture: David Dyson Source: News Corp AustraliaA COUSIN
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Kent SprouseKent Sprouse is scheduled to be executed Thursday for the 2002 murders of a police officer and a gas station customer.Sprouse, 42, was convicted and sentenced to death for killing a Dallas police officer and a customer at a gas station in 2002.In March, Texas acquired a new supply of
The National Latino Evangelical CoalitionThey are the 1st national association of evangelical congregations to take a position in favour of death penalty repeal. Many Catholic groups support them.In a unanimous vote on Friday March 27, the National Latino Evangelical Coalition (NaLEC) urged its08
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Florida International University's College of Law has received a grant to help defense lawyers handling capital cases.Over the next 2 years, the $620,000 grant will allow FIU professors to offer consultations and train lawyers on how to properly represent someone facing the death penalty including
Family members of Filipina maid Mary Jane Veloso facing execution inIndonesia appeal for clemency.The executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be unaffected by their next legal challenge because any win would not be retrospective, Indonesia's attorney-general says.The Bali
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Indonesia's Attorney-General Muhammad PrasetyoIndonesia’s Attorney-General says the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran may be delayed because it “doesn’t look good (to) shoot them” during a major international conference.There is now no legal impediment to the execution of the Bali