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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN— Pakistan's recently established military courts have sentenced what the army calls six “hardcore terrorists” to death for committing terrorist acts.An army statement announced Thursday says the men were involved in “heinous offenses” - including manslaughter, suicide bombing and abduction for ransom. While announcing the first set of convictions, the army said
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An Asian man convicted of murdering his aunt and her husband in Abu Dhabi was saved from execution after the victims’ relatives accepted diya (blood money) and pardoned him, a newspaper reported on Thursday.The defendant was sentenced to death by a court of first instance after he was found guilty
March 31, 2015: Amnesty International recorded fewer executions globally in 2014, compared to 2013 – a year in which the organization recorded a spike in executions. In 2014, executions were recorded in 22 countries, the same number of countries as in 2013.Although this number remained constant01
Apr
2015
Andrew Chan (left) and Myuran Sukumaran (right)(Reuters) - An Indonesian court hearing the appeals of two Australian death row convicts will announce a verdict on April 6, one of the judges determining the case said on Wednesday.Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are among a group of 10 prisoners24
Mar
2015
San Quentin Death Row(Reuters) - A California inmate sentenced to death 28 years ago died in hospice care this week, the state said Monday, bringing the total of condemned inmates who passed away from natural causes to 68 in a state that has not carried out an execution in years.The death Leggi23
Mar
2015
The Supreme Court said Monday it would not hear an appeal from an inmate who has been on death row in Texas for three decades. This decision lifts a stay that has been in place since last month and opens the door for Texas to schedule and try to carry out
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2015
Lindsay Sandiford in her Kerobokan death row cellSandiford, who is originally from Redcar, is due to be killed by firing squad for smuggling 1.6m pounds worth of cocaine into Bali.The 58-year-old claims she was forced to transport it under duress because her son's life was being threatened by a19
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2015
March 18, 2015: the Rechytsa District Court sentenced Siarhei Ivanou, 21, to death on charges of murdering and raping a 19-year-old girl on 29 August 2013. Besides murder charges committed with special cruelty and conjugated with sexual assault (Part 2, Art. 139 of the Criminal Code), the death
Medieval punishments: public hanging in IranEuropean funds could help send drug mules to their deaths in Iran if a new funding deal is completed by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).The UNODC is currently negotiating a new five-year funding agreement for Iran’s Anti-Narcotics
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An estimated 800 of those facing execution in Pakistan may have been sentenced to death when they were children, a report released today has revealed.Justice Project Pakistan and Reprieve conducted a study of 30 prisoners close to execution and discovered that 10% were arrested and sentenced to18
Mar
2015
The Almagor terror victims group called on Jewish Home and Yisrael Beytenu to demand a law for the death penalty for terrorists.With the election over, coalition negotiations are set to begin in earnest, and parties are laying down their conditions for joining the government that Binyamin17
Mar
2015
Cecil Clayton is missing a large part of his frontal lobe.Cecil Clayton, diagnosed as severely mentally impaired from a logging accident 40 years ago, to be put to death for killing a police officer in 1996The scan of Cecil Clayton's brain succinctly tells the story. In the front left corner of
April 2, 2015: A Queensland man has been sentenced to death in China after being caught trying to smuggle methamphetamine to Australia. His alleged accomplice meanwhile is still awaiting trial. Ibrahim Jalloh and Bengali Sherrif were arrested at Guangzhou airport in June last year but until now
Utah is bringing back the firing squad, California's death row is overflowing with inmates, but Peter Foster argues the death penalty is on its way outWhen the state of Utah announced last week that it was bringing back the firing squad, it seemed for a moment as if the
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(CNN) Utah's governor signed a bill Monday that brings back firing squads as a potential way to execute some death row prisoners.Lethal injection remains the primary method for carrying out executions in the state, Gov. Gary R. Herbert said in a statement. A firing squad would only be used in the23
Mar
2015
Andrew Chan, Myuran SukumaranThe Australian government will keep pushing for clemency for Bali Nine pair Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan while their lawyers fight for another appeal."No we haven't had any update," Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told the Nine Network on Monday."The legal19
Mar
2015
Public hanging in Iran (file photo)2 men have been hanged in public in the Iranian city of Jiroft ahead of the regime's New Year celebrations.The executions were carried out using a crane and mechanical fork loader in one of the city's main squares, with armed men guarding from rooftops around the
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday said that the state's lethal-injection law is constitutional, upholding a state law that was passed after the justices struck down an earlier law on the subject.This ruling, which comes a decade after Arkansas last executed an inmate, could potentially allow19
Mar
2015
RAWALPINDI/MIANWALI: Three death row prisoners, including two brothers, were executed in Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail on Thursday while another was hanged to death in Mianwali jail. All convicts had been awarded the death sentence in non-terror related cases.Prisoners sent to the gallows in19
Mar
2015
Todd Willingham in cell on death rowIn a major turn in one of the country’s most-noted death penalty cases, the State Bar of Texas has filed a formal accusation of misconduct against the county prosecutor who convicted Cameron Todd Willingham, a Texas man executed in 2004 for the arson
Leggi TuttoAt least 9 murder convicts were hanged early Wednesday at different jails across Pakistan - the latest executions since the country resumed the death penalty for all capital crimes.The executions come a day after 12 death row prisoners were hanged Thursday, marking the largest number of executions18
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Two Australian drug smugglers on death row in Indonesia may not be executed for some months, Indonesia's vice-president Jusuf Kalla says.Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were listed for execution last month, but that has been delayed to allow the legal challenges of up to 11 death row inmates to17
Mar
2015
Gerald Hurst, arson expertGerald Hurst, the arson expert who blew the whistle in the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, has died. From the Innocence Project:Earlier this week, renowned arson expert Dr. Gerald Hurst died of complications with a prior liver transplant. Dr. Hurst was an instrumental01
Apr
2015
Serge Atlaoui quitte le tribunal de TangerangClick here to Google translate this page into your own language.Un tribunal indonésien a décidé ce mercredi 1er avril de renvoyer devant la Cour suprême le dossier de Serge Atlaoui. Son avocat, interrogé par Paris Match, s'étonne du traitement de son
Onlookers watching a public execution in Iran"It is all finished," the guard said.On the other side of the thick brick wall of Raja'i Shahr prison near the Iranian city of Karaj Wednesday, the bodies of six Sunni men from Iran's Kurdish minority each hung from a noose.Hamed Ahmadi, Jahangir
March 24, 2015: three people were executed for a mass stabbing that killed 31 people at a train station in Kunming in March 2014, China’s Supreme People’s Court announced in a microblog post, with authorities blaming the attack on separatists from mainly Muslim Xinjiang. Iskandar Ehet, Turgun23
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Debra MilkeAn Arizona woman who spent more than 2 decades on death row in her 4-year-old son's killing was exonerated Monday, bringing an end to a controversial case that relied almost entirely on the work of a detective with a long history of misconduct.Debra Milke hugged her supporters and
Nie ShubinThe mother of Nie Shubin, who was executed in 1995 after being convicted of raping and killing a woman in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, left a court on Wednesday with copies of all the files related to her son's case.Zhang Huanzhi, 70, had been granted full access to the files for19
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2015
Darkness at noon : Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaMarch 17, 2015: Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani and two Saudis, bringing to 48 the number of death sentences carried out this year.That is more than half of the 87 people executed during all of 2014. Pakistani national Mumtaz Hussein Deen Ahmed
The port at Cilacap, where boats leave for Nusakambangan prison island.JAKARTA — An Indonesian court on Thursday postponed a hearing for two Australians facing execution for smuggling heroin, as government officials said it could take months to resolve legal appeals by the men and several other18
Mar
2015
Shafqat HussainA last-minute stay has been issued for a Pakistani sentenced to death aged 14 after nine days of police torture, who was due to be executed tomorrow (Thursday 19th).Following an outcry over the case of Shafqat Hussain, a Pakistani government minister announced this evening that a18
Mar
2015
The hudud bill to be tabled by Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) before the Kelantan State Assembly prescribes the death penalty for the offence of apostasy, the Malay Mail Online reports today.The Syariah Criminal Code II 1993 classifies "intidah" and "riddah" as voluntary or deliberate18
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2015
Cecil ClaytonMissouri death row inmate Cecil Clayton has been executed.Dept. of Public Safety spokesman Mike O'Connell says that Clayton's lethal injection began at 9:13 p.m., and that he was pronounced dead at 9:21 p.m. The U.S. Supreme Court denied Cecil Clayton's request for a stay of
Three Al-Shabaab militants were executed by firing squadin Somaliain August 2014 (file photo)Authorities in Somalia's semi-autonomous region on Monday executed 3 convicted al-Shabaab suspects for alleged membership in the armed extremist group al-Shabaab and plotting attacks in the stable region