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Jodi Arias no longer wants to represent herself in the upcoming 2nd penalty phase in her murder case, according to a new court filing.The 3-page document by her court-appointed attorneys notes that Arias is relinquishing her right to serve as her own lawyer, "effective immediately upon filing."Judge Sherry Stephens previously granted
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Newly appointed Justice Minister Midori Matsushima on Thursday backed the death penalty as a deterrent against crime and said she planned to stiffen the penalty for rape and bolster immigration staff.Noting that the death penalty enjoys strong public support, the former Asahi Shimbun reporter12
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CANBERRA, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Australian government has updated its travel advice for tourists heading to China in the wake of a crackdown on drug-related offences.A government source told News Ltd newspapers that an unspecified number of Australians had been arrested for drug offences in12
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(file photo)Iran Human Rights, September 11, 2014: A 60 year old woman and a 31 year old man were hanged in the prison of Rasht (Northern Iran) early Thursday morning (September 11), reported the Iranian state media.womenAccording to the Iranian State Broadcasting IRIB the 31 year old man was10
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Earl Ringo Jr.A Missouri inmate was put to death today for killing two people during a restaurant robbery in 1998, the eighth execution in the state this year and the 10th since November.Earl Ringo Jr., 40, and an accomplice killed delivery driver Dennis Poyser and manager trainee JoAnna Baysinger
2 young Iranian men in their 20s were hanged in public on Wednesday in city of Hamadan allegedly for being 'evil', the regime's judiciary declared in a statement.The victims, identified as Vahid Q., 24 and Bahman Moussavi, 22, were hanged in Resalat district of Hamadan.The city's commander of the09
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Henry McCallum spent 30 years on North Carolina'sdeath row before being exonerated by DNA tests.As McCollum finally walked free on Tuesday, folks in Davidson County might have remembered his face from a particularly despicable campaign leaflet the North Carolina Republican Party mailed out in
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded a Pakistani convicted of drug trafficking and one of its own citizens for murder, the interior ministry said.Saudi Bandar Khalaf al Enzi was found guilty of strangling a man to death during a dispute, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state
Victim's family demands much bigger 'diya' to pardon killerA Kuwaiti university student convicted of killing his colleague with the help of a friend in Sharjah (UAE) has offered KD100,000 (Dh1.3 million) to the victim’s relatives to escape execution, but they demanded a much higher ‘diya’ (blood08
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Henry McCollum and Leon BrownLUMBERTON, N.C. — The most memorable moment of the trial that put Henry McCollum and Leon Brown behind bars for three decades for a hideous 1983 rape and murder was a display of brilliant courtroom theatrics.District Attorney Joe Freeman Britt of Robeson
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)Iran Human Rights, September 4, 2014: Two prisoners were hanged in the public in two different Iranian towns in the Mazanderan province (Northern Iran), reported the Iranian state media.One of the prisoners was a man identified as “Mohsen D.” charged with a
Public beheading in KSASaudi Arabia has executed an Iranian and three Syrians after being handed down the death penalty for drug trafficking. The convicts, sentenced to death for trying to import hashish into the Saudi kingdom, were decapitated by sword in northern and eastern Saudi Arabia onPublic beheading in KSARights campaigners decry frequent use of a form of execution that has aroused revulsion elsewhereThe beheading of Pakistani national Izzat Gul for drug trafficking was Saudi Arabia's 46th such execution for 2014, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). In August alone, Saudi12
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September 9, 2014: The Chadian government adopted on September 5 a penal code aimed at abolishing the death penalty, Minister of Communication and government spokesman Hassan Sylla Bakari announced after an inter-ministerial meeting held in N’Djamena.Bakari said "the death penalty will be replacedPublic beheading in KSASaudi authorities beheaded a national for murder today, the interior ministry said, a day after a UN appeal for an immediate moratorium on their use of the death penalty.Hussein Daghriri was executed in the southwestern province of Jizan after being sentenced to death for
Most victims and family members of those killed in the Aurora theater massacre said they don't want cameras in the courtroom during the trial of the murder suspect.CBS4 learned that prosecutors polled the victims and family members of victims. 64 % objected to media cameras during any phase of the
September 8, 2014: An Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia is finally home.Dante Altizo arrived in Manila Thursday (September 4) and immediately paid a courtesy visit on Vice President Jejomar C. Binay at the Coconut Palace.“Sa mga ganitong pangyayari, nagpapasalamat
Self portrait byMyuran SukumaranFROM death row in Bali’s Kerobokan jail Myuran Sukumaran has painted portraits of the men who currently hold the young Australian’s fate in their hands.A portrait of outgoing Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), along with one of his successor Joko09
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Surinder KoliFacing execution any time this week following issuance of his death warrant, Nithari rape and killing cases convict Surinder Koli got a fresh lease of life from the Supreme Court, which at 1.30 am on Monday stayed his hanging for a week.A bench of Justices H L Dattu and Anil Leggi08
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Oklahoma death chamberNew procedures to improve Oklahoma’s execution process must be implemented before the state resumes putting prisoners to death by lethal injection, the governor said after investigators presented their findings about an April case in which the inmate writhed and moaned on the
A man is being caned in front of Al-Falah mosque in Sigli,in Aceh’s Pidie district, on FridayBanda Aceh. For the first time in eight years, five residents of Aceh’s Pidie district on Friday were caned publicly for gambling, a violation of Shariah laws enforced in the province.The public caning in05
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Clayton LockettA report into a botched execution in Oklahoma in April has found medical staff failed to place and monitor an intravenous line properly.Clayton Lockett, 38, died 43 minutes after he was given a lethal drug.The Oklahoma governor ordered an independent review into the case after04
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NCRI - Further reports regarding executions in recent days reveal that just on September 1, the clerical regime has executed 15 prisoners.At least 10 prisoners from Ghezel Hessar Prison of Karaj were collectively hanged. These prisoners have been involved in recent protest in prison, the reports
BEIJING, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Courts in Xinjiang should speed up trials of terror cases and deliver exemplary penalties, a senior official with China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) said Thursday.Current policies should be maintained against "three evil forces" of terrorism, separatism and12
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Jakarta. The Supreme Court has decided to uphold the death sentence for Freddy Budiman, a convicted drug lord who ran an ecstasy ring from behind bars.The ruling, posted on the court’s website on Tuesday, said judges rejected the appeal of “Freddy Budiman alias Budi bin Nanang Hidayat.”The11
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Willie Tyrone TrottieWillie Tyrone Trottie, condemned for the murder of his estranged wife and her brother, went to his death in Texas' execution chamber Wednesday offering apologies to his victims' family.As relatives of Barbara Canada and Titus Canada embraced and sobbed, Trottie smiled faintly
Two homemade bombs placed near the finish line of the2013Boston marathon killed 3 and injured more than 260A push by Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to move his trial outside Massachusetts has led to a war of words - and paper - between his lawyers and federal prosecutors.The 209
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Missouri Death ChamberTwo of the nation's most active death penalty states are planning executions on Wednesday, as attorneys for the inmates continue efforts to save them.Earl Ringo Jr. is scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday in Missouri for killing two people during a robbery at a Columbia09
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RAWALPINDI: A district and sessions judge has ordered the Adiala Jail superintendent to hang a murder convict on September 18.Rawalpindi District and Sessions Judge Abdul Sattar had found Shoaib Sarwar guilty and awarded him a death sentence on July 2, 1998. Sarwar was accused of murdering Awais
CAIRO, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi may face death sentence on charges of leaking national security documents to Qatar, the official MENA news agency reported on Sunday, citing a judiciary source.The former president along with 10 others will face trial over charges
Lance Hetmer, who presided over Joseph Wood’s two-hour execution in July, hired by Oklahoma, where a separate botched execution made headlines in April.The prison warden who presided over a two-hour execution in Arizona in July has taken a job with the Oklahoma department of corrections, where a05
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Surinder KoliAn Indian man sentenced to death for murdering a girl in a case dubbed "the house of horrors" will be executed next week, officials say.In 2009, Surinder Koli and his businessman employer Moninder Singh Pandher were convicted of murdering 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar. Pandher was later
This morning, we learned that death row inmate James McVay was found dead in his cell.All signs point to suicide, as Mr. McVay was hanging from a bed sheet.That makes him the second death row inmate to commit suicide in his cell – the first was Robert Leroy Anderson in 2003 - but
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Saudi police prepare a square for public floggingsin the Saudi city of Khobar in September 2009 (file photo)Manama: Police in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province said that the young men who were arrested last year for harassment have been flogged inside the mall where they verbally abused a group of