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President JokoSome time soon, 5 men will be taken before dawn from their isolation cells to secret locations. White aprons will be hung carefully around their necks, with red targets positioned over their chests. They will be offered blindfolds, and asked if they would like to stand, sit or lie down.
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A nationwide debate on the execution of mentally ill death row prisoners erupted across the country after a federal appeals court last week granted a last-minute stay of execution to convicted murderer and diagnosed schizophrenic Scott Panetti in Texas.Could a similar situation happen in Kentucky11
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Ohio lawmakers on Wednesday removed a measure from a death penalty bill that doctors and drugmakers warned could have led to shortages of a key drug and set anesthesiology back 20 years.At issue was a requirement that would have told drugmakers they couldn't restrict distribution of drugs that11
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Denpasar. Custom officials at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali have arrested a Russian woman for attempting to smuggle 2.1 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine into Indonesia.Alexandra Magnaeva, 26, was arrested on Sunday shortly after disembarking her flight from Hong Kong. Police said10
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Paris, Antananarivo, 10 December 2014 – Today, on the occasion of the World Human Rights Day, the National Assembly of Madagascar adopted a bill that abolishes the death penalty in Madagascar .In Antananarivo on the 10th of October, the World Day against the Death Penalty, during a workshop aimed10
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The murder took place in an area of northern Iraqcontrolled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the LevantPhotographs of a man believed to have been gay being thrown off a building and stoned to death have been posted by the Islamic State group.The photos were posted on Tuesday, and were
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Gallows, Department of Corrections, Smyrna, Delaware,1991. Delaware tore down its gallows in 2003.Delaware Repeal Project rallies support to end capital punishmentJohn Breckinridge, a retired police officer from Manchester, N.H., hasn't always been against the death penalty.In the months and
San Quentin death chamberMichael Lee Elliot, who has been on death row at San Quentin State Prison for a 1994 Orangevale murder, died while in custody Monday.The cause of the death is unknown, pending an autopsy, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials said. Elliot, 55
De Malmanche was allegedly travelling with1.7 kg ofmethamphetamine in his backpack when he was arrested.A Kiwi facing drugs charges in Bali has been taken to a police hospital for treatment.Antony Glen de Malmanche, 52, from Wanganui, was arrested at the international airport in Denpasar last09
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President Joko WidodoIndonesian President Joko Widodo has definitively ruled out issuing pardons for any drug convicts on death row.His comments will send shockwaves through Kerobokan Prison, where two Bali Nine inmates, Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, applied more than two years ago
Six people have been sentenced to death for an attack on a market in China's western Xinjiang province that killed 39 people in May.Attackers drove two cars into shoppers and threw bombs in the Urumqi attack.At the same hearing, two people were given the death penalty for an attack at a railway
The Senate Judiciary Committee will introduce a new bill to the Wyoming Legislature this January that would offer death by firing squad as an execution alternative.5 legal execution methods exist in the United States: lethal injection, electric chair, hanging, gas chamber, and firing squad12
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James E. Holmes and attorneyA judge overseeing the Colorado movie theater massacre case said on Wednesday he will not delay the trial of gunman James Holmes again, rejecting a request by the defense for more time to study the results of a 2nd court-ordered sanity exam.Jury selection in the trial11
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On Sunday, December 7, four prisoners are reported to have been executed in the Central Prison in the city of Zahedan, capital of the Sistan Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran.The news of these executions have not been published by the regime.Reports from Iran also indicate that another10
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Self-portrait by Myuran SukumaranMyuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, from Sydney, are on death row. They have lost all appeals against their death sentences in BaliBali Nine inmates Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan will be killed by firing squad after Indonesia's new president Joko Widodo ruled out10
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday further stayed the execution of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, lone death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, and sought responses from Maharashtra Special Task Force and CBI on his plea seeking review of death penalty awarded to him.In an open court10
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The Iranian Resistance calls for saving the lives of 31 prisoners on the death row in the Ghezel Hesar Prison who have been transferred to an undisclosed location.It also hails over 500 prisoners who have staged a strike in Ward 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison and urges all international human rights10
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D. TsarnaevFederal prosecutors and lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sparred in legal filings on Monday over jury selection in the highly anticipated trial, which could bring the death penalty.In 1 filing in federal court in Boston, prosecutors opposed a defense request10
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Robert Wayne HolseyAfter a 3-hour delay as Georgia prison officials waited for the United States Supreme Court to rule on last-ditch appeals, Robert Wayne Holsey was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday night.Earlier on Tuesday, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected the argument by Mr. Holsey's09
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Kalynda Davis and Peter GardinerSydney woman Kalynda Davis, who had been facing a possible death sentence in China over drug trafficking, was released. Chinese authorities did not charge Davis who returned to Australia.The 22-year-old waited for a couple of weeks in China where she could have09
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Is Paul Goodwin mentally retarded or of borderline intelligence?The question is of utmost importance as the clock ticks toward Goodwin’s scheduled execution on Wednesday. He was sentenced to death in 1999 for the sexual assault and murder of his neighbor, 63-year-old Joan Crotts, in north St08
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Oklahoma brand new death chamberFederal judge Joe Heaton considers challenge brought by newspapers including the Guardian who say Oklahoma acted unconstitutionally by limiting reporters' accessAllowing the state to filter what the press can see during an execution is akin to a "puppet theater" and08
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Kalynda Davis, Peter GardnerUp to 9 Australians now face the prospect of being executed by firing squads in China prisons for drug offences, following the arrests of Sydneysiders Kalynda Davis, 22, and Peter Gardner, 25 in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou.The pair were the latest to be Leggi
Execution rehearsal in ChinaChina has sentenced the head of a state-owned company to death for corruption involving nearly 400 million yuan ($64.8 million), state media reported, in a rare instance of an official being condemned to die.Communist Party authorities have waged a much-publicised11
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Iran Human Rights, December 10, 2014: A female prisoner was hanged in the prison of Qazvin (Western Iran) early this morning, reported the Iranian state media.According to the state run Iranian news agency ISCA, a woman identified as “F. Gh.” was arrested for trafficking of 2 kilograms of heroin10
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Accountability for torture todayis critical for stopping it tomorrowFor over a decade, the American people have demanded to know about post-9/11 torture conducted in our names. Now we finally have some answers. The Senate just released its summary report detailing widespread and illegal CIA10
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The Indonesian government has signaled it will provide no clemency for the 68 inmates on death row for drug-related charges as it prepares to execute 5 prisoners this month."The instructions came directly from the president [Joko Widodo]," Justice Minister Yasonna Laoly said on Monday.The Justice10
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Paul GoodwinA Missouri inmate has been executed for fatally beating a 63-year-old woman with a hammer in 1998, a record 10th lethal injection of 2014 for the state. It now matches Texas for the highest number of executions in the US this year.Paul Goodwin, 48, sexually assaulted Joan Crotts in St
It's not legal, humane, or fair to execute a person after torturing him.Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind behind the September 11 attacks, should not have to face the death penalty, his lawyer said Tuesday, following revelations of torture in a scathing US Senate report."It's10
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaRiyadh: An Ethiopian woman who stabbed a small Saudi girl 30 times in her sleep was beheaded by the sword on Tuesday in the conservative Muslim kingdom, the interior ministry said.Khadija bint Mohammed Isa was executed in Hafar al-Batin, northeast Saudi Arabia, it
Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has beheaded a man convicted of drug trafficking, amid rising concerns about the growing number of executions in the country.The man, identified as Nasser bin Amiq Ali al-Inzi, had been found guilty of attempting to smuggle "a large amount" of
Robert Wayne HolseyA parole panel in Georgia refused on Monday to grant clemency to a man who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday evening, apparently unpersuaded by evidence that he was ineptly represented at trial by a drunken lawyer, had an exceptionally harsh childhood and has a08
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China's top transplant official seems to have announced - once again - that the country will stop using the organs harvested from executed prisoners, and will from Jan. 1, 2015, onward, only use organs freely donated from regular citizens. At least, that's what the headlines state.If the promise08
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California brand new death chamberSome victims' families say it is time to restart executions in California after an 8-year moratorium - but others disagree.Campaigners in California are calling on the state's government to resume executions on America's biggest death row.More than 740 inmates