Iraq should stop its widespread use of the death penalty, which is unjust, flawed and only fuels the violence it purports to deter, the United Nations said in a report on Sunday.Sixty people were hanged in Iraq by the end of August this year, and although that is fewer than the 177 who
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Olen HutchisonNASHVILLE, TN (AP) - Tennessee officials say a death row inmate convicted of a 1988 murder in Campbell County has died of natural causes.Department of Correction spokeswoman Neysa E. Taylor says 61-year-old Olen E. Hutchinson was pronounced dead at 8:55 a.m. Sunday at Riverbend17
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Asia Bibi was found guilty of making derogatory remarks about Islam during an argument with neighboursThe Lahore High Court has upheld the death penalty against a Christian woman who was convicted of blasphemy in Pakistan 4 years ago, as her lawyers vowed to appeal.Asia Bibi has been on death row17
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Anne Hidalgo, maire de Paris, inaugurera demain une plaque en l’honneur de Bruno Lenoir et Jean Diot, les derniers homosexuels brûlés vifs à Paris en raison de leur homosexualité.Il est presque minuit ce 3 janvier 1750 lorsque Bruno Lenoir, un cordonnier d’une vingtaine d’années, et son partenaire15
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Oklahoma new death chamberA tour of Oklahoma’s state-of-the-art killing room unveils how the state spent thousands on restraints, an electric bed and medical equipment, but also how a theatre of transparency hides actual practicesHow much does it cost to revamp a death chamber in a prison that14
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Christie's Images/CorbisA new exhibition aims to humanise condemned prisoners. From the sword to the electric chair, the death penalty has inspired challenging art, writes Jason Farago.One man, before dying, said, “I hope you find it in your heart to forgive me.” Another said, “I’m going to a14
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Nelly Phiri (name changed to protect her privacy) was sentenced to death for killing her abusive husband over ten years ago. Her husband beat her every day of their marriage. One night he came home in a drunken rage and began to beat her viciously. Fearful for her life, she picked up an
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Mississippi Death RowSabrina Butler can lay claim to a dubious honor - she is the only female death row prisoner in the United States to be exonerated.But while she may finally be free, the stain on her character has proven far harder to erase, while adjusting back into normal life is
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The British Government says it hopes Sri Lanka will back a moratorium on the use of the death penalty.The British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka John Rankin said that in January last year, Sri Lanka was shocked and saddened by the execution of Sri Lankan housemaid Rizana Nafeek in Saudia12
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Zhang Fan and her father, Zhang Lidong, are given deathsentencesafter a trial in the Yantai Intermediate People’s Court.HONG KONG — Two members of a religious sect were sentenced Saturday to die in eastern China for beating a woman to death at a McDonald’s restaurant in May after she rebuffed10
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Oklahoma brand new death chamber. Cost: $106,000The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has unveiled its new execution chamber five months after the botched procedure in which Clayton Lockett died a prolonged and distressing death.It took more than 40 minutes for Lockett to die from a lethal
Rights activists accused Moroccan authorities on Wednesday of keeping more than 100 prisoners awaiting execution in "inhumane and unacceptable conditions", despite a 20-year moratorium on the death penalty.Citing a recent study, Abderrahim Jamai, coordinator of the Moroccan Coalition Against the18
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Unveiling of the plaque (Photo: G. Koskovich)On the morning of Oct. 18, 2014, the City of Paris formally unveiled a historical plaque in memory of Jean Diot and Bruno Lenoir, arrested for sodomy and burned at the stake in 1750 — the last two victims of an execution for homosexual acts
Leggi TuttoSavagery and barbarity still exists in the present era of enlightenment, where the days of ignorance of Arabia and the dark ages of Europe and the Roman era still lurk in the shadows of today. It is when a state sponsored beheading rears its ugly head that we are reminded of the remnants of
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Austin MyersLEBANON, Ohio – A Warren County judge upheld a jury's decision Thursday to sentence a 19-year-old killer to death. He is now the youngest person on death row in Ohio.In a previous hearing, the jury recommended Austin Myers be given the death penalty for his role in the fatal stabbing15
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Clayton LockettFamily of Clayton Lockett, who was killed in prolonged execution, names doctor and says he violated rule established at Nuremberg trialsThe family of Clayton Lockett, the death row inmate in Oklahoma who suffered a long and apparently traumatic execution in April, is suing a family
Riyadh, Oct 14: Three terror suspects have been sentenced to death and 19 others have been given varied jail terms in Saudi Arabia for their role in various terror acts, media reported Tuesday.The Special Criminal Court in Riyadh Monday awarded the death penalty to a Saudi, a Chadian and an14
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Oklahoma brand new execution chamberOKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. — Oklahoma's attorney general is seeking to delay three upcoming executions, including two set for next month, saying that the state needs more time to obtain drugs and train staff on new lethal injection protocols put in place after an13
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The breathlessness was overwhelming. Standing in that small, dark cell, surrounded by nothing but three concrete walls, a dank toilet, a small sink, a thin mattress, a concrete slab and a perforated metal door that barely let any air in, the oppressive claustrophobia was hard to control.This was12
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The Supreme Court has said that when an accused executes a meticulously planned diabolic murder, without provocation or acting on the spur of the moment, and becomes a menace to society, then the crime falls in the category of rarest of rare cases warranting the death sentence."In our considered11
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Human rights group Amnesty International has published a report criticizing nations, including the United States, for allowing inmates with mental or intellectual disabilities to be executed — a violation of international standards, the group wrote.The report, released on this year’s World Day08
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NCRI- Authorities in the main prison in south-eastern Iranian city of Zahedan hanged a 30-year-old man early morning on Tuesday.The victim identified as Alireza Morad Gholi already had spent five years in prison. His execution, like many others, has not been announced by the authorities.The head08
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Manuel VelezInnocent man cleared of 2005 murder of one-year-old after review of evidence determines he could not have killed childA building worker from Texas, who was sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, was released on Wednesday after spending nine years in prison, four of them on
October 17, 2014: Botswana’s defence minister, Ramadeluka Seretse, has insisted that his government will not give South Africa an undertaking that a Botswana citizen wrongly repatriated to face murder charges will be spared the hangman’s noose. Seretse said that, when Botswana applied for his17
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Reyhaneh JabbariThe last "peace and reconciliation" meeting in the case of Reyhaneh Jabbari, sentenced to death for the murder of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, culminated without a resolution on Wednesday October 15.The Etemad daily reported on Thursday October 16 that Mohammad Shahriyari, the head
The Presidential Palace officials have said the government will review the cases of 400 convicts sentenced to death by the courts of the country.The officials have further added that majority of the cases are pending signature of President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, however, they insisted that the
Firing squad chair used in Utah State PrisonSALT LAKE CITY — When Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad in 2010 at the Utah State Prison in Draper, more than 59 journalists from news outlets from around the globe descended upon Utah to cover the event.Reporters from Japan and Great14
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October 11, 2014: Papua New Guinea's government has ruled out lethal injection as it continues to determine how to apply the death penalty. While the death penalty has never been outlawed in PNG, the government controversially revived it for violent crimes last year after a string of
HUNTSVILLE (October 13, 2014) The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Monday halted the scheduled execution this week of death row inmate Larry Hatten, 40.Hatten, who had ordered that no appeals be filed to stop the execution Wednesday evening, was convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of13
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Reyhaneh JabbariLast Monday [October 6, 2014], Reyhaneh Jabbari's mother got a call from her daughter.Reyhaneh told her that she would be executed early the next morning.Iranian authorities confirmed the execution and told Reyhaneh's mother she should come to the prison the next day to 'collect12
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"The death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights and a cold blooded and abhorrent killing of a human being by the state in the name of justice."Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday said Zimbabwe will not see an official execution under his watch.Mnangwagwa was addressing11
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10 October 2014 – The continuing application of the death penalty is a “cruel practice” that undermines human dignity, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said as he urged Member States to “reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights” and impose moratoriums on executions.In a video message08
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October 8, 2014: The Dubai Court of Appeals has reduced the death sentence given by a lower court to a drug dealer to life in prison. The accused was convicted of trying to sell a quantity of heroin to an undercover police officer for Dh100,000. The 30-year-old Pakistani was given the
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Lawyers for an inmate on Alabama's death row say the state has kept them in the dark about most of the details of its new protocol for execution by lethal injection."The state's new lethal injection protocol has not been examined by any court," attorneys for inmate Thomas Arthur say in a motion