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Last week, news of a London pop-up restaurant called Death Row Dinners (tagline: “Eat like it’s your last meal on earth”) went viral. The dinners were presented by anonymous organizers who identified only as Dirty Dishes. A flashy Web site displayed black-and-white mug shots of inmates wearing letter boards
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Mohsen Amir AslaniNCRI - The Iranian Resistance calls on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council, as well as all international human rights organizations to strongly condemn the execution of prisoner of conscience Mr Mohsen Amir Aslani on charges of “corruption on
The Louisiana Legislature is looking into the cost associated with carrying out the death penalty in the state.State Sen. JP Morrell, D-New Orleans, is heading up a new Capital Punishment Fiscal Impact Commission. The group's first meeting was Wednesday morning.Louisiana doesn't have a24
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(file photo)Iran Human Rights, September 24, 2014: Five prisoners were hanged in three different Iranian cities, reported Iranian state media.According to the state run Iranian news agency Fars, one man was hanged in the prison of Noshahr (Northern Iran) early this morning Wednesday September
Diagram od Clayton Lockett's 2nd autopsyOn the afternoon of April 29, 2014, a vehicle arrived in the courtyard of the prison in McAlester, Oklahoma to pick up Clayton Lockett. The driver parked in the shadow of the white prison walls. His wait, it turned out, would be longer than anticipated. The
27-year-old found guilty of entering S'pore with 22.24g of pure form of heroin in armrest console of carA 27-year-old Malaysian who had earlier been found guilty of bringing into Singapore 22.24g of diamorphine, the pure form of heroin, was yesterday sentenced to death.Prabagaran a/l Srivijayan
TOKYO — The chief suspect in the murder of a wealthy Swiss-based Japanese asset manager and his wife whose bodies were found buried in a vacant lot in Kuki, Saitama Prefecture, in February 2013, has been handed a death sentence.The ruling was handed down by the Tokyo District Court against19
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After state allowed use of chair in the event of a drug shortage judge permits inmates to object to chair in ongoing lawsuitTen death row inmates already challenging Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol were permitted by a judge Thursday to amend their lawsuit to include objections to the use of19
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Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a Pakistani who attempted to smuggle heroin into the kingdom, the interior ministry said, adding to the more than 50 people executed this year."Sanaullah Mohammed Amir was executed in Qatif governorate in Eastern Province today because he tried to smuggle a large17
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Lisa Ann ColemanLisa Ann Coleman becomes the 1st Tarrant County woman put to death in more than 3 decadesDespite a flurry of last-minute appeals, the execution of Lisa Ann Coleman proceeded on Wednesday night at the Texas State Penitentiary Huntsville Unit.She was pronounced dead at 6:23 p.m15
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Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have reached an agreement on the process for selecting a jury in the terrorism case.In order to pick 12 jurors and 6 alternates, the lawyers want the court to issue jury summonses to 2,000 people
"Anti-death penalty zealots" are causing shortages of execution drugs and contributing to the uncertainty marking lethal injection, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said Thursday.Speaking to the Sapulpa Chamber of Commerce, Pruitt said "issues with administration" of a 3-drug combination25
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Florida Gov. Rick ScottGov. Rick Scott on Monday signed the death warrant for Chadwick Banks, who murdered his wife, Cassandra Banks, then raped and murdered his 10-year-old stepdaughter, Melody Cooper, on Sept. 24, 1992 in Gadsden County. Banks shot both victims in the head. He is to be executed25
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The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) seized 6.5kg of heroin - the single largest haul of heroin this year - on Tuesday (Sep 23) in an operation to dismantle a local drug syndicate.The operation also saw 1.3kg of cannabis seized, along with other drugs such as Ice, ecstasy, Erimin-5 tablets, CNB said24
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A restaurant which planned to offer "culinary twists" on the last meals of prisoners has been cancelled even before it opened its doors following criticism and threats against the owner.Death Row Dinners, a pop-up which was due to open in Hoxton, east London, experienced a huge amount of backlash23
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James Holmes and attorney (file photo)Judge Carlos Samour said balancing Holmes right to a fair trial with the need for public access was tough. "There should be as much access as possible. But there has to be limits."The judge presiding over the Aurora theater shooting trial said Monday that the22
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The Chadian cabinet has adopted a new penal code that punishes gay sex with up to 20 years in prison.Section 361 of the code states that the punishment for anyone who has sexual intercourse with persons of the same sex is 15 to 20 years imprisonment and a fine of
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Mullahs’ judiciary chief: Who is [the UN] Secretary-General to tell us stop the executions; these words are cheap, baseless and lack reasoning. Executions for corruption on earth is an internal matter.NCRI - On Thursday, September 17, 2014, at least 17 prisoners were hanged in cities across Iran19
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Judge will consider postponing executions if state, which botched execution of Clayton Lockett, proves unable to act quickly in implementing new guidelinesA federal judge said Thursday he is concerned Oklahoma will not be able to implement new guidelines and training for executions before three18
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Despite having the fourth-highest death row population in the country, Pennsylvania isn’t terribly good at carrying out the ultimate penalty. A third of the 184 inmates now on death row there received their sentences more than two decades ago, and at least 24 have died of natural causes before17
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Sudan has hanged 2 people convicted over the killing of Chinese oil workers and damaging an oil pipeline in troubled South Kordofan State 6 years ago.The Sudanese ministry of Justice confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that the management of the Federal Kober Prison in Khartoum has executed the15
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Oklahoma Death ChamberOKLAHOMA CITY — Since July, Richard Glossip has been listening to renovations inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. The noise is a constant reminder that his days are numbered.Glossip, 51, is scheduled to be the second inmate executed under new procedures for lethal14
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Governor's office says DOC "ready to carry out execution orders"The state said in filings with the Alabama Supreme Court Thursday that it has established a new death penalty protocol, using a new sequence of drugs.Executions were put on hold earlier this year after the state acknowledged it had25
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William Sessions, former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, recently pointed to cases of defendants who were executed based in part on faulty hair and fiber analysis in calling for changes in the use of forensic evidence.In an op-ed in the Washington Times, Sessions told the story of
BOSTON — A federal judge ruled yesterday that the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is accused of planting two bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon, will remain in Boston but be delayed for two months.U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole rejected an argument by Tsarnaev’s attorneys that the
4 sentenced to death for rape and murder ordered to pay blood moneyThe Sharjah Appeals Court has ordered 4 Emirati men, who were spared the death penalty after being convicted of murder in 2009, to pay blood money to the victim's family.The ruling was issued on Monday.The ruling was issued by23
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Kentucky officials should be prepared to explain how and why they arrived at what drugs to use in a lethal injection and at what doses, a state judge said Monday, though he didn't decide how in-depth the explanation needed to be.Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd told attorneys during a22
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(file photo)NCRI - The Iranian regime's henchmen hanged five prisoners on Saturday in the main prison in city of Zahedan, in southeastern Iran.The five inmates that included two women citizens of Pakistan had been arrested on drug related charges.The Saturday's hanging of five prisoners in22
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Hong Kong activist Father Franco Mella yesterday called on the Vietnamese government to spare the lives of 2 elderly Hongkongers on death row in the country.With support from Amnesty International, the Italian Catholic priest launched the appeal outside Mong Kok East station. More than 500
Pawan KumarPawan Kumar, who learned his trade from his father and grandfather, is paid £30 a month as a registered executionerThe phone call will come some time in the next few weeks, and when it does Pawan Kumar will be ready."I have already done a test run, with a sack of
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Shiraz, Iran, September 18, 2014The execution wave continues in Iran. According to the official and unofficial reports, in the last 30 days at least 95 people have been executed in different Iranian cities. This is an average of more than 3 executions everyday. Iran Human Rights urges the17
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(file photo)As the wave of executions in Iran continue unabated under Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian regime henchmen hanged a prisoner in city of Qum on Tuesday. Another prisoner was hanged in city of Uromiyeh in north western Iran on Monday.The prisoner hanged in the main prison in city of14
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California Death ChamberSupport for the death penalty among registered voters in California has dropped to 56 %, the lowest level reported in nearly 50 years but one that still indicates a considerable majority in favor of capital punishment, according to a Field Poll released Friday.The surveyAfter 6 years of a mostly dormant death penalty, Tennessee gets ready to execute one of its most notorious killers in less than a month.This week, in preparation for the Oct. 7 scheduled execution of Billy Ray Irick, the Tennessee Department of Correction began taking applications for media