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Iran: Watching a public hangingAn Iranian woman facing a death sentence in a murder case that some have labeled a miscarriage of justice may be spared the gallows, Iranian judicial officials said Monday.Authorities were seeking consent from the family of the victim to vacate the capital judgment against Reyhaneh Jabbari, according
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Austin MyersLEBANON, Ohio – A Warren County jury recommended a 19-year-old killer be sentenced to death Monday evening for his role in the fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Justin Back.The jury's decision came after the mother of Austin Myers, 19, pleaded for her son's life.Myers also asked jurors to06
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Just 5 weeks after standing before a Northampton County judge and proclaiming his willingness to accept his death sentence, Ballard now says he is interested in joining a pending lawsuit that could delay his execution indefinitely.Though he insisted this summer that he is "not afraid to die,"03
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October 2, 2014: Iran has apparently dropped death-sentence carrying charges against two evangelical pastors and another believer, though the three men remain detained for their Christian activities, BosNewsLife learned.Pastor Matthias Haghnejad, Pastor Behnam Irani and Deacon Silas Rabbani from02
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In Arizona, 119 inmates call death row home, and the majority of them have been locked up for several decades.The last 10 Arizona inmates who were executed spent an average of more than 20 years in a Florence super maximum security facility within Arizona State Prison Complex Eyman called the02
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The walking scene from 'Monster's Ball' (2001)by Marc Forster, with B.B. Thornton and Heath LedgerHow does capital punishment affect the prison guards and wardens tasked with carrying it out?It was the late 70s, and Kathleen Dennehy was working at Massachusetts Correctional Institution at30
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Yong Vui Kong: A second chanceYong Vui Kong, the Malaysian who received a reprieve on his death sentence for drug trafficking in Singapore is not content with merely escaping death.His lawyer M. Ravi said that Yong wanted to take up studies in prison although that will be up to the discretion
Nurse Jackson Namunya Tali was not the first person Christine Atieno approached when she sought help to end an unwanted pregnancy in Kenya.Tali says that Atieno asked for assistance after undergoing a botched abortion, in a country where the procedure is illegal.Last week, the high court in29
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September 26, 2014: In its report, “India: Death Without the Right to Appeal”, Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) stated that India was not complying with the “United Nations safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty” which provide that “Anyone sentenced29
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A court in China's far west has sentenced to death 2 teenagers for the killing of the head of the country's biggest mosque, state media reported, in a case that highlighted divisions in the violence-wracked Xinjiang region.The Kashgar Intermediate People's Court on Sunday handed down the death28
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A Vietnam court has sentenced the former general director of Finance Leasing Company No. 2 (ACL II), Vu Quoc Hao, 59, to death for embezzling VND78 billion (nearly $3.7 million) in a corruption case.Corruption whistleblowers may be rewarded with up to $236,000 in VietnamHao received the sentence
The Supreme Court Friday stayed execution of the death sentence of 1993 Mumbai bomb blast convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon as it issued notice to Maharashtra government on his petition seeking an open court hearing of his plea for the review of the apex court's verdict upholding his death06
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For all the dismal stories to come out of Texas's justice system in recent years—defense attorneys falling asleep during death-penalty trials, thousands of rape kits left untested for years while perpetrators went free, and the nation's highest number (48) of wrongly convicted people who've been
Scott PanettiThe U.S. Supreme Court will begin its 2014-15 term on October 6.One of the cases the Court will hear during its 1st month is Jennings v. Stephens, a Texas death penalty case involving ineffectiveness of counsel and whether a separate appeal is necessary for each such claim. Oral03
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The Egyptian judge who oversaw mass death sentence cases against Islamist supporters of the country’s ousted president, drawing strong international criticism, has been removed from his criminal court, officials and the judge himself told The Associated Press on Thursday.The removal of Judge Said
James E. Holmes and attorneyNews organizations will be allowed to broadcast the Colorado theater shooting trial using a closed-circuit TV camera already in the courtroom, but they won't be allowed to have their own cameras in court, the judge said Tuesday.Still images can be captured from the
Following information about the transfer of Ms Reyhaneh Jabbari to Gohardasht notorious prison for her execution, the Friends of a Free Iran in European Parliament issued an urgent press release calling for urgent action to save her life.The release says: "According to reports received from inside30
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Execution chamber at Tokyo Detention CenterIt is one of the anomalies of Japan's approach to the death penalty that a stricken conscience can bring the system grinding to a halt. At least 2 Japanese justice ministers have refused to sign execution orders, most recently Seiken Sugiura, a devout30
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Jodi AriasJodi Arias’ guilt has been determined. The only thing that remains to be decided is whether she dies for killing her ex-boyfriend.More than six years after the death of Travis Alexander, and more than a year after Arias was convicted of murder, a second penalty phase to determine herPennsylvania can't find the drugs necessary to execute a convicted murderer who's ready to die, but officials in Pennsylvania aren't ready to look at alternatives to lethal injection for the 184 inmates who sit on death row.Some states have proposed returning to methods such as firing squads as28
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Execution chamber at Tokyo Detention CenterThe Japanese government does not believe that the death penalty is in need of any immediate reform, the country's new Justice Minister Midori Matsushima said.Matsushima, who took up the portfolio in early September, reaffirmed her stance on capital
Indonesian customs said Saturday they have arrested a German man for allegedly trafficking cocaine onto the resort island of Bali.Hans Peter Naumann, 48, had flown from Bangkok to Bali on an Air Asia flight before he was caught around midday Friday, officials said.He could be charged with drug27
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A man from south China's Guangdong Province was pronounced innocent by a local court after being sentenced to death for murder 13 years ago, Xinhua reported Friday.Xu Hui, a resident of Zhuhai city in Guangdong, was given the death penalty with a 2-year reprieve for raping and killing a
An attorney for an Alabama death row inmate said in a filing Friday that the state's new death penalty protocol would cause "agony" and "excruciating pain" to a condemned inmate, due to the unreliability of one of the drugs used.Last month, the Alabama Attorney General's office sought to set03
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TOKYO — The Tokyo High Court on Thursday turned down an appeal against a death sentence by a man convicted of three murders in Yamagata and Tokyo.Katsumi Asayama, 48, was arrested in 2012 for murder and arson following the death of 76-year-old Michiko Otsuka in Tokyo’s Koto Ward in November 201102
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a passionate plea for constitutional originalism, dismissing the idea of the "living Constitution," during the 4th annual John Paul Stevens lecture on constitutional law Wednesday. The Byron White Center for constitutional law at the CU Law02
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Oklahoma death chamberThe Oklahoma Department of Corrections released Tuesday the state's new execution protocol, which was revised after an April execution went awry and became a focal point in the national debate over whether or not the death penalty is cruel or unusual punishment.The April 29
A former railway worker in Thailand was sentenced to death Tuesday for raping a 13-year-old girl on an overnight train, then killing her and throwing her body out the window, an attack that sparked outrage in the Southeast Asian nation and prompted calls for the execution of rapists.The case also30
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ISLAMABAD: Any move by the government to lift the moratorium on the death penalty is not likely to adversely affect Pakistan’s nine-month-old duty free access to European markets, as the Generalised System of Preference plus (GSP plus) is not conditioned on capital punishment.The ban on death29
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A 70-year-old Briton suffering from paranoid schizophrenia is facing a death sentence in Pakistan. This is no jokeIt is part of my job description to be offensive. I can, if I wish, make a joke hoping that Alex Salmond, now he is at the end of his political life, lays 20,000 fish eggs
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A 39-year-old man who has been on death row for 5 years for knifing an elderly housewife more than 110 times in 2005 was on Monday denied the chance to escape the gallows.Muhammad Kadar is the 1st convicted murderer to have his bid for re-sentencing rejected by the Court of Appeal since laws28
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed death penalty for Kabul rape convicts.Aimal Faizi, spokesman for President Karzai said the death penalty for the perpetrators of Paghman gang rape was signed by the President on Saturday."President Karzai signed off today on the order for execution of 527
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Mogadishu: A Somali woman has been stoned to death in an Islamist Al Shabab-controlled part of the country for secretly marrying several husbands, officials and witnesses said on Saturday.Witnesses said the woman was buried up to her neck and pelted with rocks and stones by hooded men in front of
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein urged all states to put an end to death penalty, which he said is the very example of human vengeance at its worst.In remarks at the high-level event, Moving Away from the Death Penalty: National Leadership, held on the Leggi