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A Texas judge on Wednesday refused to postpone the scheduled execution of a convicted killer who suffers from mental illness and is set to face lethal injection on December 3.Scott Panetti, who has had schizophrenia for three decades, has won support for his case from groups like Mental Health America, psychiatrists,
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James Holmes and lawyerLawyers in the Colorado movie theater massacre case argued on Tuesday over whether jurors should see disturbing crime scene video and hundreds of gruesome photos of the July 2012 rampage.Attorneys for accused gunman James Holmes said the images could inflame jurors, while19
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An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan today sentenced to death the father, 2 brothers and former husband of a pregnant woman, who was stoned to death by them outside Lahore High Court in a case of 'honour killing'.Judge Haroon Latif awarded death penalty to Farzana Parveen's father Muhammad Azeem19
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Leon TaylorBONNE TERRE, Mo. — A man who killed a suburban Kansas City gas station attendant in front of the worker's young stepdaughter in 1994 was put to death early Wednesday — the ninth execution in Missouri this year.Leon Vincent Taylor, 56, was pronounced dead at 12:22 a.m. at the state18
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Electric chair at SouthernOhio Correctional FacilityThe difficulty of obtaining drugs for executions has some Ohio legislators talking about alternatives, including the electric chair."There are other options," said Rep. Jim Buchy, R-Greenville, a co-sponsor of legislation to keep the supplier of17
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James Holmes and lawyerA judge overseeing the Colorado theater massacre case on Friday rejected a bid by lawyers defending accused gunman James Holmes to remove himself from presiding over the forthcoming murder trial, court documents show.Public defenders filed a motion this week asking Arapahoe
ALGIERS, Nov.13 (Xinhua) -- Algerian Justice Minister Tayeb Louh said on Thursday the restoration of the suspended death penalty in the country requires an open and objective debate, the official APS news agency reported.Louh made the remarks as he answered a question asked by parliament members14
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Michael A. Ponsor: "The Hanging Judge"Judge Michael A. Ponsor's novel "The Hanging Judge" involves a murder trial.In the United States legal system, there are few cases where stakes are as high and pressure is as intense as one involving the death penalty. The daunting question of life or death14
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Chadwick BanksChadwick Banks, convicted in the 1992 murder of his wife and stepdaughter, said he was sorry to a room of 19 witnesses before he was executed Thursday night at Florida State Prison."I would like to apologize to the following families who I hurt and disappointed by my actions 22 years12
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So Why Won't Prosecutors Pursue a Cheaper Option: Life in Prison? The costs of prosecuting Christopher Montfort, Joseph McEnroe, and Michele Anderson are going to be huge.Dead leaves dance on the sidewalk under the huge windows of King County Superior Court judge Ron Kessler's courtroom, while12
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The Associated Press and other media organizations have brought lawsuits against Arizona challenging the state's secrecy regarding death penalty drugs.The Arizona Republic, KPNX-TV Channel 12 (Arizona's NBC affiliate), KPHO (Arizona's CBS affiliate), Guardian News & Media LLC, and the11
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On an April night in 1997, when Shonelle Jackson was eighteen, he went out to a local club in Montgomery, Alabama. As he and several friends watched a d.j. perform, a young man called Cocomo—a gang member from across town—walked up behind him and slapped him in the head, then ran off. The Leggi
Lawmakers have given a preliminary nod to bringing back the firing squad as a method of execution in Utah.Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, proposed the bill that would bring back the firing squad only in the event that lethal injection was not available. Ray told the Utah State Legislature's interim19
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Scott PanettiTEXAS SET TO EXECUTE SEVERELY MENTALLY ILL MANScott Panetti, a 56-year-old man whose serious mental illness predated and contributed to the 1992 double murder for which he was sent to death row, and which infected his trial and persists to this day, is scheduled to be executed in18
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(file photo)2 Sunni prisoners of conscience from Iran's Baloch minority were executed on Thursday morning in Zahedan Central prison, Sistan-Baluchestan province of Iran.According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), 22-year old Vahid Shah Bakhsh and 23-year old Mahmoud ShahAttorneys for a Missouri man scheduled to be executed this week are asking the courts and Gov. Nixon to spare his life, alleging that race played a role in his death sentence.Leon Taylor is scheduled to die by injection at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for killing an Independence, Missouri, gas station
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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 lawyers14
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Oklahoma new death chamberExecutions are on hold in Oklahoma until next year, but the Department of Corrections says its new death chamber is ready.Up until this time last month, the state was scheduled to carry out its 1st death sentence since a botched execution in April. That
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Leon TaylorFederal panel denies stay to Missouri inmate scheduled to dieA 3-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a stay of execution to the Missouri inmate scheduled to die by lethal injection next week.Leon Taylor's attorney says his death sentence should be commuted to13
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Public execution in KSAA man who was convicted of smuggling heroin in his intestines has become the seventh Pakistani beheaded for drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia in a month.Niaz Mohammad Ghulam Mohammad was executed in Kharj Governorate in the Riyadh Region because he tried to smuggle 'a large
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday beheaded a convicted drug trafficker, the interior ministry announced, bringing to 66 the number of executions this year despite international concerns.Mohammed bin Abd al-Ghani bin Hassan al-Khatir, a Saudi, "was caught smuggling a large quantity of drugs in the form of12
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Nebraska officials should prepare for a possible botched execution if they obtain the lethal drugs to carry out the death penalty, says a former Oregon prison warden who opposes capital punishment.And if a condemned inmate fails to die as planned, some of the prison staff members assigned to the11
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4 men, who were sentenced to death for rape and murder, were bailed4 men facing the death penalty for raping, killing and dismembering an Ethiopian maid five years ago have been bailed after blood money was paid to the victim's family.The Sharjah Appeals Court dropped the death penalty, according19
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The Sri Lankan Government on Wednesday released the 5 Indian fishermen, sentenced to death in a case of alleged drug trafficking.An official told The Hindu that the 5 fishermen had been released to the care of the Indian High Commission in Colombo, before being sent back to India.It is learnt19
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Bandar Abbas ExecutionIran Human Rights, November 18, 2014: A video footage showing the public executions of last Saturday (15. November) in Bandar Abbas has been released by the “human rights activists news agency” (HRANA).The video shows three prisoners with the noose around their neck being18
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia today beheaded a Syrian convicted of drug trafficking, official media said, bringing to 68 the number of people executed this year despite international concern."Talal Ali Qassem was captured smuggling a large quantity of methamphetamine. Investigations17
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Execution seems to some an effective measure to make society safer because it prevents recidivism by serious offenders, but a lawyer, who wished to only be identified by his surname, Huang, said it is "absurd" to argue for the retention of the death penalty for that reason.It is absurd to have%2BSaturday%2BNovember%2B15%2B2014.jpg)
Bandar Abbas execution, Nov. 15, 2014Two weeks after the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Iran, where the vast use of the death penalty and public executions was among biggest concerns of the international community, Iranian authorities continue the executions as before.Five public executions14
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Kentucky is dropping its proposed use of a two-drug execution method after the prolonged deaths of inmates in two other states that used a similar means to carry out death sentences.In a filing Thursday in Franklin Circuit Court, prosecutors cited "recent events in other states" as the reason for14
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Finnish authorities are working to overturn the sentence of a Somali man sentenced to death in Somalia, on the grounds that he is also a permanent resident of Finland. Foreign Ministry Consular Assistance Unit Chief Teemu Turunen says authorities only heard of the case last Friday, and have since13
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One man was hanged in public in the city of Shiraz. He was convicted of Moharebeh (war against God) and Corruption on earth.Iran Human Rights, November 12, 2014: According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA one prisoner was hanged in public in the city of Shiraz (southern Iran) early12
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Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterThe Japan Federation of Bar Associations said Wednesday it has submitted a written request for Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa, who assumed the portfolio last month, to suspend the execution of death row inmates.The move came after the U.N. Human Rights Committee11
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Gov. John HickenlooperNovember 10, 2014: The death penalty was a focal point of Colorado's gubernatorial race and though most Coloradans support the death penalty, Gov. John Hickenlooper's stance against it did not wind up costing him re-election.Hickenlooper granted an indefinite reprieve to
(Reuters) - The captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized in April killing 304 passengers was jailed for 36 years on Tuesday after a court found him guilty of negligence, but was acquitted of homicide for which prosecutors had sought the death penalty.The court convicted the ship's chief