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The decision of America’s leading expert on lethal injection drugs to stop offering court testimony has left at least one state without a single witness to defend its execution procedures from legal challenges.The New Republic reported this week that Dr Mark Dershwitz, citing potential impacts to his profession as
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Hamas militants prepared to execute a person suspected ofcollaborating with Israel on Friday in Gaza City. Ph: ReutersGAZA CITY — As many as 18 Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel were fatally shot in public on Friday, according to local news agencies and two witnesses, the largest22
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The sisters had lodged an appeal against the execution in the Mumbai High CourtA court in India has put on hold the execution of 2 sisters convicted of murdering children they kidnapped and forced to beg and steal, a lawyer said.Renuka Shinde, 45, and her step-sister Seema Gavit, 39, were19
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Public execution in Mianeh, Aug. 18, 2014Iran Human Rights, August 18, 2014: One man was hanged publicly in the town of Mianeh, in the Iranian East-Azerbaijan province, reported the Iranian state media.According to the Mehr news agency the man was identified as Asghar Azizi, convicted of18
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California Death RowThe countries the US most rails against for their undemocratic tyrannies: Iran, China, Afghanistan etc.. are countries that the US has more in common with than it would like. America has democratic structures that the other ‘less enlightened’ countries don’t possess: a powerful17
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Andrew Chan, Myuran SukumaranTwo Australians on death row in Bali should have their sentences reduced to life, the Kerobokan prison governor has announced.And other Bali Nine drug mules who have applied for their life sentences to be reduced to a fixed term should also have their wish16
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Kerobokan Jail, BaliPolice on the Indonesian island of Bali said on Saturday an American couple arrested in connection with the death of the woman’s mother could be charged with premeditated murder, which carries a maximum penalty of death.Nineteen-year-old Heather Mack and her 21-year-old
Texas Gov. Rick PerryAUSTIN, Tex. — A grand jury indicted Gov. Rick Perry on two felony counts on Friday, charging that he abused his power last year when he tried to pressure the district attorney here, a Democrat, to step down by threatening to cut off state financing to her office.
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The man behind a Kenyan draft bill that would see gay people sentenced to death by stoning says they are "very rotten".Edward Nyakeriga is the author of Kenya's Anti-Homosexuality Bill.It would introduce harsh punishments for same-sex sexual activity, with life imprisonment or the death penalty14
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge has scheduled a hearing for next month in a lawsuit filed by a group of death row inmates over Oklahoma's execution procedures.U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot on Tuesday scheduled a hearing for Sept. 18 in the case, which was filed by 21 inmates following the12
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More cartoons on capital punishment HERE
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge has extended a months-long moratorium on executions in Ohio into next year as questions mount about the effectiveness of a new, two-drug combination being used to carry out the death penalty.The ruling by federal judge Gregory Frost will delay executions22
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The video appears to show an execution-stylekilling organized by an armed group.A shocking video showing an execution-style killing by an armed group at a football stadium in eastern Libya highlights the authorities’ failure to prevent parts of the country from descending into violence and20
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Germany says a German man has been sentenced to death in China after being convicted on 2 counts of premeditated killing.German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer said the sentence against the unnamed man was delivered Tuesday by a court in Xiamen.Schaefer said Wednesday the verdict can
In a sign that separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine are struggling with discord in the ranks, Donetsk separatists announced Monday they were setting up military tribunals and bringing in the death penalty.The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, or DNR, said it would bring in military17
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Oklahoma Death ChamberLogs pertaining to the botched execution of an inmate were requested over 3 months ago.Logs from the final hours before Clayton Lockett's botched execution still haven't been released by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, more than 3 months after initially requested16
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(Reuters) - The Taliban executed five people in a busy opium market in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province and left their bodies hanging overnight after accusing them of kidnapping a businessman, officials told Reuters.The militant group has stepped up its fight for control of the southern16
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Texas is paying 4 times more for its execution drugs from a new supplier, putting it in line with a local consumer rate but well below the cost in at least 1 other death penalty state.The prison agency in the nation's busiest death penalty state paid $13,500 for its most recent
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Public flogging, Iran, Aug. 13, 2014NCRI- The Iranian regime's henchmen lashed two men on Wednesday in public for 'disrupting public order' in a city near the country's capital Tehran.A police commander in Qods city was quoted by state-run Mehr news agency as saying: "the men who were thugs in the
The last public hanging in the U.S.An estimated 15,000–20,000 people showed up for what would be the last public execution in the United States.Around 5:20 a.m., August 14, 1936, Rainey Bethea was led to the gallows in Owensboro, Kentucky for robbing, raping and murdering Lischia Edwards, a 7014
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Iran Human Rights, August 13, 2014: Four prisoners were hanged in two different Iranian prisons, reported the state run Iranian media today.Three of the prisoners were hanged in the prison of Bandar Abbas (Southern Iran) reported the official Iranian news agency IRNA. The prisoners who were12
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Execution chamber at Tokyo Detention CenterA Diet members' group formed to end the death penalty plans to resume operations as early as next month after suspending its activities following the 2012 election, sources said Monday.The group headed by Shizuka Kamei, 77, an independent in the Lower11
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Beirut: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) has crushed a pocket of resistance to its control in eastern Syria, crucifying two people and executing 23 others in the past five days, a monitoring group said on Monday.The insurgents, who are also making rapid advances in Iraq, are22
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Georgia Death ChamberI am dropped off at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison as a witness to an execution. I am uncomfortable, but as a physician providing expert anesthesiology testimony in lethal injection cases, I feel compelled to see this for myself.The afternoon is hot and
A Saudi national convicted of murder was decapitated by the sword in the southwest of the Gulf kingdom on Tuesday, the interior ministry said.Wail al-Shehri, convicted of shooting dead Meshaal Assiri during an argument, was executed on Tuesday in Abha, capital of Assir province, the ministry said
PHOENIX — In an execution in 2010 in Arizona, the presiding doctor was supposed to connect the intravenous line to the convict’s arm — a procedure written into the state’s lethal injection protocol and considered by many doctors as the easiest and best way to attach a line. Instead he chose to use17
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Beirut/Amman - The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) militant group has executed 700 members of a tribe it has been battling in eastern Syria during the past two weeks, the majority of them civilians, a human rights monitoring group and activists said on Saturday.The Syrian Observatory16
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Killing ones’ own citizens has become a harsh endeavor these days, but as always money buys everything, drugs and bills of secrecy to hide the dirty deeds. Nobody seems to care though, why bother to stand by those on death row who have a legitimate right to know how they are
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NCRI - At least four more people were hanged in Iran last week, including a 22-year-old who was under 17 at the time of arrest.Three prisoners were executed on Tuesday August 13, in the central prison in the city of Bandar Abbas, southern Iran. The public relations office of the regime’s Leggi
Max SoffarMax Soffar has a long history of self-medicating. When he was 4, his parents found him passed out next to their car, gas cap in hand. Since birth, Max's brain has been damaged. That damage has been made worse by years of physical and mental abuse by adoptive parents and
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Two Kolhapur women, who were sentenced to death in 2001 for kidnapping 13 children and killing nine of them, may become the first women ever to be hanged in India. President Pranab Mukherjee late last month rejected Renuka Kiran Shinde and her sister Seema Mohan Gavit's mercy petitions. The buffer13
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Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen were the last peopleto be hanged in the UK. Photograph: Peter LomasAs they were led to the gallows there was little fuss. No public outcry, no headlines indicated that the executions of Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen would be remembered as anything other than12
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Denpasar. Customs officers in Bali have arrested a Lithuanian man for allegedly attempting to smuggle almost four kilograms of methamphetamine into the island, in what an official called the biggest single drug bust of the year.The suspect, identified only by the initials V.L., 41, was arrested in11
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaRiyadh: Saudi authorities beheaded a national on Monday after he was convicted of killing his wife with an axe in front of their daughter, the interior ministry announced.Mahdi Al Ghabari hit his wife, Shaqraa Al Bahri, several times on her neck with
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