Hosni Mubarak (file photo)An Egyptian court on Saturday dismissed all remaining criminal charges against former President Hosni Mubarak, raising the possibility that Mr. Mubarak could go free for the first time since he was removed from office in the 2011 uprising that defined the Arab Spring.During earlier hearings in the various
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In 1992, Kenneth Rouse, an African-American man with an IQ between 70 and 80 - "borderline intellectual functioning," in the clinical parlance - prepared to stand trial in North Carolina on charges that he had robbed, murdered and attempted to rape a white, 63-year-old store clerk.Rouse's lawyers28
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November 26, 2014: “ISIS gunmen executed two former female candidates in Mosul after the Sharia Court issued death sentence on them,” Saad Mamuzin, the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, told Rudaw. The women, who ran in Iraq's parliamentary27
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Iran Human Rights, November 26, 2014: Three prisoners were hanged in two different prisons in Iran today, 26. November.According to the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Qazvin, two prisoners identified as “M” (23) charged with murder, and “M. Sh.” charged with possession and26
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Here's a look at the death penalty in the United States.Facts:Capital punishment is legal in 32 U.S. states.Connecticut, Maryland and New Mexico have abolished the death penalty, but it is not retroactive. Prisoners on death row in those states will still be executed.As of October 2014 there26
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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group stoned two men to death in Syria Tuesday after claiming they were gay, a monitor said, in the militant organization’s first executions for alleged homosexuality.“The ISIS today stoned to death a man that it said was gay,” the Syrian Observatory for25
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As a retired captain of the Lincoln Police Department with more 25 years of law enforcement experience, I pay close attention to policy discussions concerning public safety.An issue that will surely emerge in the coming legislative session is whether or not Nebraska should repeal its death24
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A Pakistani Christian woman and a mother of 5, convicted under the controversial blasphemy law in 2010, on Monday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court challenging a High Court's ruling upholding her death penalty."We filed an appeal today in the Supreme Court (Lahore registry) against the Lahore24
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Scott PanettiBy any reasonable standard — not to mention the findings of multiple mental-health experts over the years — Mr. Panetti is mentally incompetent. But Texas, along with several other stubborn states, has a long history of finding the loopholes in Supreme Court rulings restricting Leggi23
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Activists delivered a petition to Texas Governor Rick Perry on Friday with more than 100,000 signatures seeking the release of a death row inmate they say is terminally ill and only has weeks to live.The governor's office was not immediately available to comment on the petition launched by23
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James Holmes and lawyerA judge overseeing the Colorado theater massacre case rejected a defense motion on Friday to have a 2nd sanity examination administered to accused gunman James Holmes barred from his upcoming murder trial, court records show.Holmes, 26, has pleaded not guilty by reason of22
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Watch our extended interview with Bryan Stevenson, founder and director of the Equal Justice Initiative. He discusses pending executions, the history of lynching, and how Rosa Parks and others inspired him to "stand with the condemned and incarcerated." His new book is Just Mercy: A Story of
Witnessing a public execution in Iran (file photo)Three prisoners were hanged in public two different cities of Khorasan-Razavi Province today. One of the prisoners was hanged charged with the vague charges of “immoral acts”. Iran Human Rights calls for international condemnation of the recent27
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An Iranian man has been sentenced to death for “insulting the Prophet of Islam”. Soheil Arabi has now had his sentence upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court. He was sentenced for posts deemed offensive to the Prophet he had made on Facebook.Photographer Soheil Arabi, 30, was sentenced to death on 3027
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Rodney ReedDeath row inmate Rodney Reed’s motion for expanded DNA testing of evidence in his capital murder case was denied Tuesday by visiting Judge Doug Shaver, though the court did accept a separate motion delaying his date of execution from Jan. 15 to March 5.Reed was convicted in the 199626
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A court in India will hear a last-ditch clemency plea from one of the country's worst serial killers, who has been sentenced to death.However, human rights groups have said they are worried India's corrupt and ineffective justice system has not allowed the man a fair trial.Domestic servant25
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaA Pakistani on Tuesday became the 8th person from his country to be beheaded in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking since mid-October.Seyfour al-Rahman Golajan is the latest of 73 people, foreigners and Saudis, to be executed in the kingdom this year, according
Rodney ReedRodney Reed was convicted of the 1996 rape and murder of Stacey Stites. At the time, Stites was engaged to Jimmy Fennell Jr., a police officer in the nearby town of Giddings. At the same time, she was having an affair with Reed. Both Stites and Fennell are white; Reed is Black.Leggi
Execution in Somalia (file picture)November 22, 2014: Jubaland military court executed a soldier convicted of killing a 9-year-old boy in the southern port city of Kismayo, Garowe Online reports.The convicted killer-Abdirashid Abdi-was executed by the firing squad with prosecutor-general Hassan
Few exonerees receive payment for wrongful convictionsState compensation laws differ widelyNationwide, more than 240 people have been exonerated through post-conviction DNA testing. The National Exoneration Registry lists these among nearly 1,500 total cases in which people were exonerated due to23
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Scott PanettiThe sister of Scott Panetti, a paranoid schizophrenic set to be executed by the state of Texas on Dec. 3 for the murder of 2 people, has pleaded with Gov. Rick Perry to commute his sentence to life in prison. Victoria Panetti has said that her brother, who believes he's
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His execution brings to 70 the number of beheadings in the kingdom this yearRiyadh: Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a Turkish man convicted of drug trafficking, the interior ministry said, in the latest execution in the conservative Gulf kingdom.Ali Agridas had been convicted of receiving a22
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Photo of the executionA day after the United Nations General Assembly's 3rd committee adopted the UN's 61st resolution condemning human rights abuses in Iran and urged the regime to stop the executions, a man was hanged in public in a northern city.The prisoner identified as H. Mirjani, 32, was28
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A 14-year-old Nigerian child bride is accused of murdering 4 people, including her 35-year-old husband, by lacing food she had prepared for a post-marriage celebration with rat poison.The case had outraged human rights activists, who said a girl married to a man more than twice her age should be27
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Scott PanettiBarring the success of last-minute appeals, Scott Panetti, 56, will be executed on 3 December despite clear evidence that he is insane and his original trial was a farceOn Tuesday, the Texas court of criminal appeals, by a 5-4 vote, denied the attorneys’ latest petition for a stay of
An overseas Filipino worker who killed another Filipino in Saudi Arabia in 2008 was spared from the death penalty after the victim's relatives forgave him and might be reunited with his family this Christmas.Vice President Jejomar Binay on Wednesday said he has asked the Department of Foreign26
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India has voted against a UN General Assembly draft resolution calling for moratorium on the use of death penalty, saying it fails to recognise each nation's "sovereign right" to determine its legal system and punish criminals according to its laws.The draft resolution on 'Moratorium on the use of25
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Soheil Arabi was sentenced to death for insulting the Prophet on the Facebook. He was one of the several people who were arrested under last year’s crackdown of Facebook activists by the Revolutionary Guards.Iran Human Rights, November 24, 2014: Branch 41 of the Iranian Supreme Court has upheld25
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Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said Monday that the death penalty is a "social aberration" and he came out against using capital punishment on the island, where it has been prohibited for decades."The death penalty is a social aberration that should be eradicated from humanity," said24
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CAIRO: Egypt will not approve the abolition of the death penalty or equal inheritance for men and women, two of the recommendations from the United Nations Universal Periodic Review, the Ministry of Transitional Justice stated Thursday.Egypt has “reservations” about the two recommendations for23
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Governor Tom Corbett today signed execution warrants for 3 men: 1 convicted of murder for the shooting death of a Philadelphia County police officer; 1 convicted for murdering a Fayette County couple and their daughter; and, 1 convicted for killing his girlfriend in Lawrence County.Christopher
A lawsuit challenging the secrecy of execution protocols in Arizona will likely be put on hold pending the investigation of the nearly 2-hour execution of Joseph Rudolph Wood last summer.Both the state and defense attorneys have agreed to request that the lawsuit be halted temporarily until the
A federal judge on Thursday overturned the death sentence of the lone inmate on Wyoming's death row, saying his trial lawyers had failed to give jurors sufficient reason to spare his life.Lawyers handling the federal appeal of Dale Wayne Eaton, 69, didn't dispute that he had killed Lisa Marie22
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A judge on Friday blocked the state’s attempt to derail a lawsuit filed by death row inmates attacking Tennessee’s use of the electric chair.In August, attorneys representing ten death row inmates sued the state alleging the electric chair is “cruel and unusual punishment.” The suit contends that