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The Delhi High Court today stayed the execution of a man convicted for the murder of 5 persons, including 2 children, in Chhattisgarh in 2004 and whose review plea had been rejected by the apex court.A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Ashutosh Kumar restrained the prison authorities from carrying out the execution
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Feb
2015
Indonesian President Joko WidodoKerobokan, Bali: Jakarta's governor has told an Indonesian media outlet that the country's President Joko Widodo is "considering different views" on the death penalty, including advice that it should be removed from Indonesia's laws.Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better28
Feb
2015
Singapore Changi PrisonWhen it comes to a murderer, how brutal must he be to warrant the death penalty?In a landmark decision last month, judges were divided on this point - deciding in the end by 3 to 2 that convicted killer Kho Jabing, 31, will hang.The decision sparked keen discussion among26
Feb
2015
A court of appeals in Abu Dhabi upheld a previous court ruling and sentenced an Asian cleaner to death after he was convicted of raping a 7-year-old school girl.Police had arrested the cleaner at the school following a report by the girl’s parents that he forced her into the kitchen where he works24
Feb
2015
The Government has been urged to end UK support for Pakistani drug operations that lead to death sentences, after an admission by the Foreign Office (FCO) that it does not know the identity of two British citizens facing execution after UK-funded drug raids.The FCO confirmed Pakistan’s refusal to24
Feb
2015
Rodney ReedAUSTIN -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has put a stay on the execution of death row inmate Rodney Reed in response to a motion filed by his lawyer on Feb. 13.In May 1998, Reed was convicted of the rape and murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites and was sentenced to death.
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Feb
2015
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network has confirmed that 2 brothers, Ali and Habib Afshari, who were in the group of 6 political prisoners imprisoned in Urmia prison have been hanged.Activists Habib and Ali Afshari were declared guilty of "corruption on earth" and "acting against God's will" by the19
Feb
2015
Saman NaseemIran has halted the execution of Kurdish juvenile offender Saman Naseem following the outrage of right groups.It is not yet clear why the execution was stopped and whether his death penalty has been overturned."We understand that the Office for the Implementation of Sentences told19
Feb
2015
The family of a Brazilian man in line to be executed in Indonesia along with two Australian drug smugglers has appealed for a reprieve, saying he has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic who is delusional with psychotic tendencies.Rodrigo Gularte, 42, was sentenced to death in 2005 after he18
Feb
2015
Appeal to be heard from Okla. inmates in case citing signs of pain during executionFlorida's highest court put executions on hold Tuesday while the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether use of a controversial general anesthetic constitutes "cruel and unusual" punishment of condemned killers.The
As part of the execution process, the government will now fix a date for the execution of the Jamaat leaderThe government will now start process for executing condemned war criminal Kamaruzzaman as the Supreme Court has released the full judgment upholding his death penalty, Attorney General15
Feb
2015
Salman RushdieThe death sentence issued in 1989 by Khomeini against British author Salman Rushdie remains in force and only Ali Khamenei, the regime's Supreme Leader can rescind it, a senior cleric has declared.Mohsen Gharavian said: "Salman Rushdie is a mercenary of the world arrogance ... Years28
Feb
2015
Man being thrown off a roof and stoned todeath for being gay in Syria.Islamic State (ISIS) has released images appearing to show another man being thrown off a roof and stoned to death for being gay in Syria.Last month ISIS released extremely graphic images of the execution of two men for Leggi26
Feb
2015
Serge Atlaoui: "Not a drug user, not a trafficker"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - French Ambassador Corinne Breuze said the death sentence and a threat of execution of a Frenchman in Indonesia has been received as a disturbing news in France."The report is greatly disturbing for the French people as since26
Feb
2015
Indonesian President Joko WidodoWhat will be the exit strategy for Indonesia to extract itself from the diplomatic mess our leaders and countrymen’s insistence on executing foreign citizens for drug trafficking has caused? There’s no way out in sight, unless the executions stop.With a total of 5824
Feb
2015
Main gate to Nusakambangan Prison IslandThe last hope of Bali Nine pair Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran has been trampled in administrative court. An Indonesian judge has rejected the appeal from the Australian duo’s lawyers on Tuesday.Chan and Sukumaran’s legal team filed an appeal in the23
Feb
2015
Public execution in Iran (file photo)Iran Human Rights, February 23, 2015: Iranian state media has reported about execution of 12 prisoners on Sunday 22 February.According to the Iranian State Broadcasting eight prisoners were hanged in the prison of Bandar Abbas (Southern Iran) on Sunday. One of23
Feb
2015
Pasir Putih maximum security prison on NusakambanganIsland, Central Java, where Indonesia has already carriedout several executions by firing squad.Indonesian authorities say it is very likely the two Australian drug smugglers on death row in Bali could be transferred this week in preparation for19
Feb
2015
On Monday 16th February, 14 prisoners were executed in Central Prison of Urmia, Vakil Abad prison in Mashhad, Bam prison, and Central Prison of Bandar Abbas.According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), in the morning of Monday 16th February, 6 prisoners with drug
The Dammam Reconciliation Committee has saved 26 people from being executed for murder by persuading the families of the victims to pardon them or receive blood money.Eastern Province Gov. Prince Saud bin Naif praised the efforts of the committee and said they are acting in the best interests of18
Feb
2015
Saman NaseemInternational human rights groups have appealed to Tehran to halt the planned execution an Iranian-Kurdish man who was 17 when he was arrested.Saman Naseem, 22, is due to be executed on Thursday for his alleged membership of a banned Kurdish party and involvement in armed15
Feb
2015
Rodney ReedBarring intervention by Texas, Rodney Reed will be executed on March 5 for a crime many say he didn't commitDeath penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun whose autobiographical account of her relationship with a prisoner inspired the 1995 blockbuster film "Dead Man15
Feb
2015
Bali's Kerobokan prisonThe 6 judges who handed down the death penalty to the Bali 9 pair on death row offered to give them a lighter sentence in exchange for money, the men's Indonesian legal team alleges.The sensational allegation is contained in a letter sent by the legal team of Andrew Leggi28
Feb
2015
Myuran Sukumaran in front of self-portrait.Bali 9 ringleader Myuran Sukumaran has been awarded an Associate Degree in Fine Art from Curtin University in Perth just days before he is expected to die.He deserves this in so many ways and for so many reasonsSukumaran was due to finish his Bachelor of26
Feb
2015
Andrew Chan, Myuran SukumaranBali's head ombudsman says Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran should accept the reality that authorities are determined to execute them.Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are keeping their spirits up even as authorities around them say they should25
Feb
2015
More than 140 of Australia's leading law professors, deans and academics have signed a petition pleading with Indonesian President Joko Widodo to use his constitutional powers to spare the lives of the Bali 9 pair, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.In ultimately deciding on clemency we believe the24
Feb
2015
Man posted an online video ripping up the Quran and hitting it with a shoeRiyadh: An Islamic court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to death for renouncing his Muslim faith, local media reported on Tuesday.The man, in his 20s, posted an online video ripping up a copy of the Quran and
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Feb
2015
While the global trend is towards abolition of the death penalty altogether, where it is still applied international law, jurisprudence and practice require that certain minimum standards are applied.How can we strengthen these international minimum standards on the application of the death22
Feb
2015
The Nagoya District Court on Friday sentenced a Chinese man to death for fatally stabbing a Japanese woman and her son, injuring another of her sons and taking 200,000 yen in cash at their home in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, in 2009.A panel of 3 professional and 6 citizen judges handed
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned that all cases of death penalty in which mercy petitions had been rejected should be proceeded further for execution of the convicts.He urged provinces to implement decisions taken under the National Action Plan (NAP)18
Feb
2015
Rodney ReedRodney Reed's lawyers have filed an appeal citing multiple problems with his conviction and urging a stay and a re-trial - as execution looms just weeks awayThe alarm was raised around dawn on 23 April 1996 when Stacey Stites failed to show up for her 3.30am shift as a produce stocker18
Feb
2015
Death row Britons: 75 facing execution abroad for offences including murder, drugs, terrorism and blasphemy. They include grandmother Lindsay Sandiford, from Cheltenham, on death row in Bali after she was found with 1.6million pounds worth of cocaineUp to 75 Britons are facing execution abroad for15
Feb
2015
Executions are supposed to be humane and legitimate means of punishment. But with the Sooner State looking to find as many ways to kill its prisoners as possible, many are questioning what is humane or legitimate about the death penalty.Senate Bill 794 passed the Oklahoma Senate Judiciary15
Feb
2015
Public execution in Iran (file photo)2 prisoners were hanged in the main prison in the southeastern city on Saturday, according to reports received from Iran.The 2 Balochi men, identified as Hamed Kahrazhi, 28 and Mobasher Mir-Balochzehi, had spent 4 years in prison.They had been sentenced to