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Public execution in Iran (file photo)At least 5 men, including 3 citizens of Afghanistan, were hanged in 2 prisons in Iran over the past weekend.Farshid Jaafari was hanged on Sunday in Adelabad Prison in the city of Shiraz. He had been sentenced to death for drug-related offences.A group of 4 prisoners,
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Antony de Malmanche, facing drug smugglingcharges in Bali, Indonesia, March 2015.Antony de Malmanche's case has the potential to "change the legal landscape", says his lawyer.Craig Tuck returned from Bali on Sunday where he has been working on the defence case for the Wanganui
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Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is asking a Hinds County judge to keep secret the identity of Mississippi's execution drug supplier while the state appeals an order to release the name.Earlier this month, Hinds County Chancery Judge Denise Owens ruled that the state's public records law17
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March 16, 2015: Despite the pressure by the international human right organizations, the Iraqi government continues to execute and hang convicts.Statistics show that a total of 236 execution sentences have been implemented during the last two years.A report by the Higher Commission for Human12
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Kelly Gissendaner in her death row cellA "botched" execution caused the only woman on Georgia's death row to endure 13 hours of “immense mental anxiety” and "mortal fear" -- and was heinous enough to make a future execution unnecessarily cruel and therefore unconstitutional, the woman's lawyers
March 11, 2015: Three people were beheaded in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking. Hammud Hajuri from Yemen and Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Saudi national, were executed in the province of Jizan after being convicted of smuggling amphetamines and hashish into the kingdom. In a separate case, Fadi12
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Texas Death ChamberDespite the fact that Texas is running out of the drug used in executions, alternatives like the firing squad are not on the table for the Lone Star State, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.Following last night’s execution of gang thug Manuel Vasquez, there is only one dose of12
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Myuran Sukumaran, Kerobokan prisonAndrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran could remain on death row for weeks after Indonesia’s attorney general said that appeals for their fellow prisoners would have to be finalised before any executions took place.The Indonesian authorities have said the execution of11
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Dale JohnstonDale Johnston was sent to death row in 1984 for a double homicide he didn’t commit. He’s spent the years since his 1990 release trying to get back the life he lost.The Ohio supreme court heard arguments Wednesday in Johnston’s latest attempt to win a wrongful imprisonment suit against11
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Sir Richard BransonCANBERRA, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, has thrown his support behind Australia's bid to gain clemency for two Australian citizens on death row in Indonesia.The English businessman has pleaded with Indonesia to consider "different11
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Serge Atlaoui, a French national on death row with Andrew Chanand Myuran Sukumaran, at Tangerang district court on Wednesday.Jakarta: A Frenchman on death row with the Bali nine duo has had his court case adjourned until March 25, casting further doubt over the timing of the executions of the 1010
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Death House, 'The Walls' Unit, Huntsville, TexasHUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Texas prison officials are scurrying to find a supplier to replenish a dwindling inventory of execution drugs.Their search is taking place amid a pending court order that would no longer allow the state to protect the17
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For his alleged role in the April 15, 2013, bombing that killed three people and injured more than 260 and for the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, Tsarnaev was named in a 30-count indictment accusing him of: using weapons of mass destruction resulting in
Alabama's "Yellow Mama"Leave Yellow Mama where it belongs - in deep storage at the Holman Correction Facility in Atmore.That's the only sane response to an effort to reinstate use of Alabama's infamous electric chair, nicknamed for its garish color.The electric chair bill, which passed the state17
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An East Texas man set for execution this week for a shootout 8 years ago that left 2 sheriff's officers dead has won a reprieve from the state's highest criminal appeals court.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals late Monday stopped the scheduled execution of 55-year-old Randall Wayne Mays.Mays12
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March 11, 2015: six people were executed by hanging in the prison of Nassiriya, security sources reported. According to Justice Ministry's sources, the convicts were Iraqis who were sentenced to death for terrorist actions, kidnapping and killing operations. This is the third execution for
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Nusakambangan island, Central Java, where executions are carried out.Jakarta says the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are not open for negotiation, and has criticised Australia for revealing an offer to pay the cost of the men's life imprisonment to the media.Details of Australian12
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A man who was tortured into a ‘confession’ for manslaughter aged 14 has been handed a second execution warrant – just two months after his first warrant caused an international outcry that resulted in a stay.Shafqat Hussain was charged with the kidnap and murder of another local child and11
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Manuel VasquezTexas used one of its two remaining doses of an execution drug to kill a Mexican Mafia hitman on Wednesday evening.Manuel Vasquez, 46, had been sentenced to die for the 1998 slaying of a woman who balked at paying a gang tax on drug sales.Vasquez, 46, was pronounced dead at Leggi
Firing squad "chair" used for the 2010 executionof convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner.Utah lawmakers voted on Tuesday to resurrect the firing squad as an alternative method of executing condemned inmates in the event the state runs out of lethal injection drugs.Faced with a nationwide scarcity11
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Sir Richard BransonCANBERRA, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, has thrown his support behind Australia's bid to gain clemency for two Australian citizens on death row in Indonesia.The English businessman has pleaded with Indonesia to consider "different
CANBERRA, Australia—Papua New Guinea is looking at abandoning the death penalty for serious crimes, wary of a growing international backlash against the use of capital punishment in neighboring Indonesia, Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said Tuesday.Almost two years after Papua New Guinea reinstated10
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Indonesia’s attorney general has indicated he will respect court proceedings for 10 prisoners scheduled to be executed for drug crimes, but it is unclear whether all seven prisoners with outstanding appeals will have the chance to exhaust their legal avenues.According to the Indonesian news outlet17
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Debra Jean MilkePHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona's highest court has rejected a bid to retry a woman who spent 22 years on death row for killing her 4-year-old son but whose conviction was overturned.The decision Tuesday by the Arizona Supreme Court leaves prosecutors with dwindling options in the Leggi17
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A Senate panel has approved a change in Florida's death sentencing process that supporters say, if passed by the full Legislature, would bring the state in line with the rest of the country in its executions.The bill (S.B. 664) would require a unanimous vote by jurors to request the death13
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Myuran Sukumaran, Self portrait, Feb./Mar. 2015The Bali Nine pair and other prisoners facing execution will be put through an "assimilation" process to mentally prepare them for the firing squad.Andrew Chan, Myuran Sukumaran and other prisoners facing execution will be put through an12
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March 12, 2015: A man convicted of a triple murder – Mohammad Siddique – was hanged at the District Jail in the city of Toba Tek Singh in the Pakistani province of Punjab.He became the first person executed after Pakistan completely ended a moratorium on the death penalty. The death penalty had12
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Screenshot from "Dead Man Walking" (1995) by Tim Robbins, with SusanSarandon and Sean Penn, based on Sr. Helen Prejean's eponymous book.A look inside the minds of those who have participated in firing squads and lethal injections.There’s a funny fact about firing squads: People volunteer for
"Cubs of the Caliphate" - The boy in the video is shownshooting a Palestinianin the head for "being a Mossad agent."Paris: A man and a boy featured in an Daesh propaganda video that threatens Jews and shows the killing of a Palestinian have been identified as French citizens, and investigators are
Peter Hans Naumann of Germany attends his trial hearingat Denpasar court on Bali island on March 11, 2015.A German man has escaped the death penalty after being convicted of trying to smuggle cocaine into Bali.Peter Hans Naumann's sentence of 15 years' jail comes as Indonesian authorities prepare11
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Legislation to repeal Delaware's death penalty will return to Dover next week, and opponents and police groups already have vowed to oppose the measure.Sen. Karen Peterson, a Stanton Democrat, said she would circulate the legislation for co-sponsors this week and planned to reintroduce the measure11
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The execution numbers in 2014 are the highest reported executions in more than 15 years.Iran Human Rights, March 11, 2015: In a press conference held in Oslo yesterday, Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort (ECPM) presented IHR’s seventh annual report on the death penalty in10
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ISIS militant beheads "gay man" inIraq, March 2015Horrifying images show a masked executioner about to behead a young, blindfolded man with a swordIslamic extremists have beheaded three gay men in Iraq.In pictures published on social media, it shows men blindfolded and knelt in front of a huge10
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March 8, 2015: Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal reportedly paid 5 million riyals (1.33 million USD) in “blood money” to save the life of a man on death row for murder. Mohammad Al Aqili, a Saudi citizen, was convicted in 2012 of causing the death of another man during a fight in Leggi