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Henry McCallum and Leon BrownThe exoneration of two North Carolina men who spent 30 years in prison — one on death row — provides a textbook example of so much that is broken in the American justice system. And it is further evidence (as though more were needed) that
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D. TsarnaevLawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked Friday to delay his trial until at least September 2015."We recognize that the government and many members of the public, especially in the Boston area, may want the trial to begin quickly," the lawyers said in a court
The Iranian regime's henchmen were forced to cancel the first public hanging of the prisoner named only as 'M.D.' on Monday after a demonstrators began clambering over police barriers to prevent the death sentence being carried out in Mazanderan province on Monday.State-run daily newspaper Iran02
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Public execution in KSARIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it executed another four people it says were found guilty of trying to illegally smuggle large quantities of pills and hashish into the kingdom.That brings to 45 the number of people executed this year in
JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi hasn’t had an execution in two years, and state Atty. Gen. Jim Hood says he can’t predict when another might occur.No Mississippi death row appeals are presently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, he said.“We usually make predictions on timing based on cases29
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Death Chamber at Tokyo'sDetention CenterTOKYO — Japan executed a mobster and a killer arsonist on Friday, bringing to 11 the total number of death sentences carried out since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took power in 2012.The executions came days before Abe is expected to reshuffle his cabinet amid29
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A man, identified only with his first name Daryoush, was hanged in prison in the western city of Sarab (East Azarbaijan province) on Wednesday, 27 August 2014.The death sentence was implemented after head of the Judiciary, representing the Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, authorised it.The prisoner was27
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5 men were hanged on Tuesday (August 26) in the main prison in city of Bandar-Abbas, southern Iran.1 of the prisoners is a Pakistani citizen who had been arrested in Iran for drug related offence.On Monday, the authorities in Bandar Abbas prison had transferred the 5 men to solitary confinement26
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Corrections department has been busy with other issues, including questions over the early release of some inmatesNebraska's attorney general says the state's corrections department has been too busy dealing with other problems to focus on resolving drug shortages that have halted executions in26
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Public hanging in Borazjan, IranAugust 24, 2014A man was hanged in public in the southern city of Borazjan (Bushehr province) on Sunday, 24 August 2014, for reportedly killing two women, kidnapping and theft.The city's Islamic Revolution Court had issued the death sentence and Branch 11 of the24
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'The Walls' Unit, Huntsville, TexasFor more than a decade, it was Michelle Lyons's job to observe the final moment of death row inmates -- but watching 278 executions didin't come without a cost.Early one morning in April, Michelle Lyons pulled up outside her daughter’s elementary school in23
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaA Saudi man who was convicted of murdering his mother was beheaded in the Gulf kingdom on Thursday, newspapers reported on Friday, quoting the interior ministry.Yehya bin Saad Al Shahrani was found guilty of shooting his mother Aisha many times with a machine gun at03
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The majority of young people in Spain do not oppose capital punishment, abortions or euthanasia, according to a new study, published by the Reina Sofia Center of Adolescents and Youth on Tuesday.The study, entitled "Youth and values", asked over 1,000 Spaniards aged 15 to 24 to express their03
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McCollum and Brown exonerated after 30 years behind barsLUMBERTON, N.C. — Thirty years after their convictions in the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in rural North Carolina, based on confessions that they quickly repudiated and said were coerced, two mentally disabled half brothers were
President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected 97% of the mercy petitions since assuming the top office in 2012, a human rights watch group has said, stressing that death penalty has failed to act as a deterrent in the country.Mukherjee, who assumed office on July 25, 2012, considered 23 mercy pleas31
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Vice President Jejomar Binay on Saturday called on the Department of Foreign Affairs to extend full assistance to 2 Filipinos sentenced to die in Vietnam for trafficking in illegal drugs.Binay, who is also the Presidential Adviser on Overseas Filipino Workers' Concerns said that Emmanuel Sillo29
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Sentences from Minya court relate to violence that broke out last August, as part of nationwide unrest after Mohamed Morsi's ousterAn Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced two supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to death and 43 others - including a minor - to jail terms from 127
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Global rights organization Amnesty International (AI) is urging President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to call on the Saudi Arabian authorities to postpone the execution of Siti Zainab binti Duhri Rupa, an Indonesian migrant worker on death row.AI said it had sent a letter to Yudhoyono to convey its27
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Takuma Sakuragi, a 70-year-old Japanese politician, today went on trial for trafficking 3.3 kg of the drug methamphetamine. Sakuragi was arrested last year in the city of Guangzhou en route to Shanghai when local authorities found 28 bags of the narcotic in his luggage.At the time of his October26
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Oklahoma Death ChamberOn April 29, 2014, Clayton Lockett was scheduled to die by lethal injection at the hands of the State of Oklahoma. Under a state law that requires public witnesses to all executions, 12 journalists gathered to observe his death.They never saw it.Before the scheduled25
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A man identified only as Soheil R., who reportedly killed his brother and cousin last winter and later his wife during a conjugal visit, was hanged in public in Sari, provincial capital of Mazandaran in northern Iran, on Sunday morning, 24 August 2014. The authorities did not provide details of his
China has executed eight militants from the restive Xinjiang province for "terrorist attacks," including three who masterminded a suicide attack in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 2013, killing three people and wounding 39 others.The executions took place after Supreme People's Court upheld their23
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(file photo)Iran Human Rights, August 21, 2014: One man was hanged in public in the city of Qazvin today. The prisoner who was identified as “A.N.” was convicted of murdering his 9 year old stepchild, reported the state run Iranian news agency Mehr.Another prisoner was hanged in the Motaheri03
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A North Carolina death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence on Tuesday was once held up by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as an example of someone who deserved to die.When the court declined to review an unrelated death row case out of Texas in 1994, Justice
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Two North Carolina men who have been behind bars for 30 years, one of them on death row, will go before a judge on Tuesday morning to present new DNA evidence of their innocence of the murder and rape for which they were convicted as teenagers in 1984.Lawyers representing Henry McCollum, Leggi01
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Manama, Aug 31 (BNA) – Chief Prosecutor, Muhanna Al-Shaeji, has stated that the Supreme Court of Appeal has affirmed the death penalty sentence issued against an accused in the murder of policeman Mohammed Asif, in Sihla neighborhood.The same court rejected appeals filed by two suspects, and31
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The official autopsy report into the death of Clayton Lockett, whose botched execution by Oklahoma sparked a nationwide debate on capital punishment, has revealed that state officials riddled him with puncture marks in an attempt to find a vein into which they could inject lethal drugs.Though the29
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The Bali NineIndonesia's president will not intervene in the case of two Australian men on death row, and his office says improved relations between Canberra and Jakarta will have no bearing on their fate.A decision on Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, members of the so-called Bali Nine, has been27
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Oklahoma Corrections officials are being sued for violating the constitution in the botched execution of Clayton Lockett.2 newspapers, the Oklahoma Observer and The Guardian U.S., filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court today, naming the DOC Director Robert Patton and the warden of the state27
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3 Mexican brothers sentenced to death in Malaysia are preparing to file their last appeal before the Federal Court in Malaysia, which could hold the hearing before the end of the year, the defense said."The hearing will most probably take place before the end of the year, the Federal Court judges
Public execution of 'collaborators' inGaza. (File photo)Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, continued with its executions of "collaborators", killing 4 more Palestinians suspected of spying for Israel.Masked Hamas militants fatally shot the Palestinians in the courtyard of a mosque in the
Islamic court-ordered amputation in Iran (file photo)NCRI - An Iranian man's four fingers were amputated in public in city of Abarkooh in southern Iran, a commander police in the southern province of Yazd has declared, state-run Tabnak website reported on Friday.Colonel Ahmad Gholamzadeh said the24
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British intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 have identified the man suspected of the horrific beheading of American journalist James Foley, according to UK media reports.The hooded man with an English accent is believed to be 23-year-old Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, known to fellow Islamic State
Nian BinNian Bin was sentenced to death four times, convicted of fatally poisoning two children in eastern China. Each time, he appealed and a higher court ordered another hearing. Then on Friday, judges declared Mr. Nian not guilty and freed him from death row, abruptly ending an eight-year ordeal