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The Lahore High Court (LHC), Rawalpindi bench, on Monday halted the execution of death sentences awarded to five terrorists in an attack on an army camp in Gujrat in 2012.Ehsan Azeem, Asif Idrees, Aamir Yousaf, Kamran Aslam and Umer Nadeem were awarded death sentence by a military court for their involvement in a
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The Pakistani authorities have admitted that a man set to be hanged tomorrow is not connected to the Peshawar school attack, but said they have no plans to stay his execution.Shafqat Hussain, from the province of Sindh, was arrested in 2004 at the age of 14. Tortured into a confession, he was
Jordan executed 11 men convicted of murder by hanging on Sunday, the interior ministry said, as it ended an informal eight-year moratorium on the death penalty.“Eleven criminals convicted in different cases of murder were executed at dawn,” the official Petra news agency quoted a ministry20
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LAHORE- The execution of death penalty for four terror convicts in KotLakhpat jail of Lahore was delayed on Saturday amid security concerns. Meanwhile, death sentences in Adiala jail Rawalpindi have also been deferred.According to media reports the prisoners on death row would be transferred to18
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HuugjiltBEIJING — A Chinese police officer who oversaw the case of a teenager wrongfully convicted of murder and executed in 1996 has been arrested in a case that has caught national attention, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.Feng Zhiming, now a deputy police chief in the northern
D. TsarnaevBOSTON — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was seen publicly in court Thursday for the first time since he was arraigned on 30 federal charges in July, 2013.Tsarnaev was in court for the final pre-trial hearing before his trial, which is set to begin Jan. 5. Prosecutors
Government officials in Saint Lucia have rejected a request by the United Kingdom to waive its death penalty, in exchange for assistance in solving crime.Saint Lucia is part of the Commonwealth of Nations which encompasses some 53 countries, most of which were former British colonies.Saint
Dennis McGuireThe state’s former expert witness on lethal injection should have known that a condemned inmate would suffer because of a never-used two-drug combo, the family of the inmate says in a lawsuit.The lawsuit, expanded from an earlier filing, alleges that Dr Mark Dershwitz knew inmate16
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On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the Second Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at abolishing the death penalty, France reaffirms its resolute and constant commitment to the universal abolition of the death
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says a Yemeni man convicted of robbery has had his right hand cut off, the first such punishment carried out in the kingdom this year.Monday's statement by the ministry said the Yemeni had committed several robberies but gave no further
Islamic State's self-declared police force in western Syria decapitated 4 men after accusing them of blasphemy, a rights group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Saturday.The men were beheaded in the countryside east of the city of Homs by the militant group's "Islamic Police", the12
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3 prisoners were hanged in the Rajaishahr Prison of Karaj (west of Tehran) yesterday, reported the Iranian media.According to the Iranian daily newspaper Shargh, 2 of the prisoners, identified as "Morteza" and "Mansour", were convicted of sexual abuse and rape of 2 young boys. They were scheduled21
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Indian businessman steps in to pay blood money on convicts’ behalfRiyadh: Three Indians on death row in Saudi Arabia for the murder of their compatriot have been saved from being executed after an Indian businessman paid nearly $133,200 (Dh489,243) in blood money on their behalf.The three20
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For stealing fowls belonging to a police officer, two men have been sentenced to death by an Osun State High Court.The convicts, Olowookere Segun and Morakinyo Sunday, were alleged to have attacked the home of Mr. Balogun Tope, a police officer attached to Divisional Police Headquarters, OkukuGENEVA- The U.N. human rights office appealed to Pakistan on Friday to refrain from resuming executions after the massacre of 141 people in a Peshawar school, saying this would not stop terrorism and might even feed a "cycle of revenge".Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted Pakistan's moratorium on18
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President Joko WidodoJakarta. The Attorney General’s Office said on Thursday that another convict on death row will soon be executed, bringing the total number of prisoners scheduled to face the firing squad to six.The AGO previously announced it would execute five convicts before year’s end, most18
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Eric WilliamsA Texas jury on Wednesday sentenced to death a former justice of the peace convicted of murdering a suburban Dallas prosecutor's wife in a revenge plot, with the judge saying he acted like some of the most notorious killers in recent U.S. history.The same jury that convicted Eric17
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Many of the prisoners likely to be executed in Pakistan as the country resumes executions were convicted of crimes that bear no relation to a terrorism threat, Reprieve has said.According to early media reports in Pakistan, executions could start being scheduled in the country within the next 4816
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Oklahoma death chamberFor the most part, American support for capital punishment is conditioned on humane conditions - there's an expectation that when U.S. officials execute an American, it will be done in a sanitary way that falls short of constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual16
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D. TsarnaevCourt records offer glimpse into Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's life in near-solitary confinementHe spends most of his days in "nearly total isolation," according to his attorneys, locked behind a heavy steel door in a tiny cell in the most restricted wing at Fort Devens medical prison 40 miles15
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Judge overturns 1 inmate's sentence after new statement discoveredA judge this week overturned the death sentence of an Algiers man who was one of the "Angola 5," a group of Angola State Penitentiary lifers who were convicted of killing a prison guard, Capt. David Knapps, during a failed 199915
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Kalynda Davis and Peter GardnerKiwi builder Peter Gardner's chances of avoiding the death penalty in China have rapidly deteriorated with local customs officials revealing that they believe he was the owner of 2 pieces of luggage stuffed with 30 kilograms of methamphetamine.Today marks D-Day forSaudi Arabian authorities on Thursday [Dec. 11] beheaded Pakistani national Mohammad Fayad Mohammad Azam on charge of smuggling heroin into the country.A statement issued by the interior ministry of Saudi Arabia said, the kingdom was battling narcotics because "drugs cause great harm toFAISALABAD: Four Pakistani terror convicts on death row were executed at a jail in Faisalabad today, after the government ended a moratorium on the death penalty earlier this week. The executed convicts - Zubair Ahmed, Rasheed Qureshi, Ghulam Sarwar Bhatti and Akhlaque Ahmed - had been found20
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FAISALABAD: Authorities in Faisalabad District Jail have received death warrants for convicts who are expected to be sent to gallows today.The four convicts were handed down death sentence for their involvement in a deadly attack on former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.30 more20
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)The Iranian regime's henchmen hanged at least 11 prisoners is cities of Shiraz and Qazvin.A group of eight prisoners were hanged secretly on Sunday, December 14 in Adelabad Prison in city of Shiraz.Two other inmates were hanged on Wednesday in the same18
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaKhan’s case brings to 83 the number of foreigners and Saudis executed in the kingdom this yearRiyadh: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday beheaded a Pakistani for heroin smuggling, the interior ministry said, in the kingdom’s latest execution of a foreigner.Mohammad Gafour17
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George Stinney, Jr., 14, shortly before his execution inthe electric chair in 1944. Exonerated in December 2014.After seven decades, a black 14-year-old boy has been cleared of murder.In 1944,
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On the 2014 world day against the death penalty, Ban Ki Moon made a strong statement calling for global abolition. This declaration reflects a growing trend toward abolition, and yet 25 years after the adoption of the international treaty to abolish the death penalty, the level of ratification16
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2 Saudis were beheaded on Tuesday for drug trafficking and murder, official media reported, bringing to 82 the number of executions this year.The sentence against Abdulrahman bin Bakheit al-Lugmani was carried out in the western city of Mecca, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by15
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Council of Europe: Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the death penalty in the United States of America (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 10 December 2014 at the 1215th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)The Committee of Ministers welcomes the decision of the New Orleans Fifth15
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Texas Death ChamberThe next scheduled execution in Texas won't take place until at least January, so the book is closed on 2014, with 10 executions carried out this year in the most active death penalty state in the union. 16 prisoners were executed in Texas in 2013, and 15 in 2012.Texas is also
The name of the compounding pharmacy supplying lethal injection drugs for Texas executions must be released because it is public information, a judge ruled late Thursday.State District Judge Darlene Byrne granted summary judgment in favor of three lawyers who often work for death row inmates in12
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A 51-year-old Australian woman could face the death penalty in Malaysia after she was detained for drug trafficking.The Australian woman has been remanded in custody in the Malaysian capital after she was allegedly found to be carrying 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine, or ice, while in transit at