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Execution dates have been set for 3 Oklahoma death-row inmates even as state officials continue to investigate what went wrong during a botched execution in April.Death row inmates Charles Frederick Warner, Richard Eugene Glossip and John Marion Grant are scheduled to die by lethal injection within a 4-week period later this year in
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A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put her in a small hole in the ground. When residents gathered, the fighters told them to carry out
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NCRI - An Iranian juvenile offender along with his mother and three other prisoners were hanged on Saturday (August 9, 2014) in a prison in the south-eastern city of Zahedan. 20-year-old Osman Dahmardeh was 17 at the time of his arrest.The reports received identified the other three men executed
D. TsarnaevBOSTON — Citing “an overwhelmingly massive and prejudicial storm of media coverage” here, lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused in last year’sbombings at the Boston Marathon, pressed their case this week for moving his trial to Washington.In papers filed here in federal court, Judy08
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China: A convicted drug trafficker is being led to anearby lethal-injection van, where he will be executed.XIANNING, Hubei, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- A court in central China's Hubei Province on Thursday rejected the appeal by former mining tycoon Liu Han, sentenced to death in May.Liu Han, his brother
Original Execution Chamber, Electric Chair and Lethal Injection.Now UnusedConference Room in the New Jersey State Prison. New Jersey, 2011.For the last three years, photographer Emily Kinni has been chronicling these post-death-penalty spaces. What were
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August 5, 2014: An Emirati sentenced to death in Ras Al Khaimah escaped execution after blood money for the victim’s family was paid by a government charity organisation in response to an article in the Arabic language daily 'Al Bayan', the paper said.The man and his accomplice had been convicted05
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaRiyadh: A Saudi man was beheaded on Tuesday for torturing and beating his two-year-old boy to death, the interior ministry said.Maqbul Bin Madi Al Sharari hit his son Mohammad “repeatedly with a cane on the back of his head and the rest
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Three executed in public in Shiraz, IranIran Human Rights, August 3, 2014: Three prisoners were hanged in public in the city of Shiraz (Southern Iran) today August 3, reported the Iranian state media.According to the official website of the Judiciary in Fars province, the three prisoners (...)04
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi authorities beheaded Monday a Nepali housemaid convicted of murdering a two-year-old boy by slitting his throat, the interior ministry said.The house maid was found guilty of "slaughtering with a knife" the Saudi toddler Osama bin Maeed al-Enzi, the ministry03
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WASHINGTON — No one on the Supreme Court objected publicly when the justices voted to let Arizona proceed with the execution of Joseph Wood, who unsuccessfully sought information about the drugs that would be used to kill him.Inmates in Florida and Missouri went to their deaths by lethal injection
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Should Kentucky abolish the death penalty -- or does it still have a role in crime and punishment?Lawmakers discussed the controversial topic at a hearing in Paducah Friday.The hearing comes after a series of botched executions across the country. It focused new11
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About 20 South Korean nationals are death row inmates in China, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Declining to give the exact number, the ministry said the prisoners had been convicted of felonies, including drug offenses and murder. "We can't give the exact figure because of09
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NEW DELHI: The Gauhati high court has stayed the execution of condemned prisoner Holiram Bordoloi on his petition seeking commutation of death penalty to life imprisonment on the ground that there had been inordinate and inexplicable delay on the President's part to decide on his mercy plea
The Missouri Supreme Court has canceled an execution for 1 death row inmate and scheduled a different man to be put to death next month.The court on Thursday canceled the Sept. 10 execution for Leon Taylor, who was convicted in the 1994 killing of suburban Kansas City gas station attendant Robert08
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CAIRO — In a rare official rebuke, Egypt’s highest Muslim religious authority refused to approve death sentences imposed by a court on senior leaders of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, saying that the case lacked evidence, court officials said on Thursday.The opinion issued by the grand mufti of07
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In January, as the date of Christopher Sepulvado’s execution approached, the Louisiana Department of Corrections did not have the drugs it needed to carry out his death sentence.So the state turned to a supplier that uses hydromorphone to relieve patients’ suffering, not to kill them: Lake Charles06
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Defense attorneys for the likely 1st ex-CIA captive to get a death-penalty trial at Guantanamo want to know how the U.S. military would execute him, if convicted.Defense attorneys for the likely 1st ex-CIA captive to get a death-penalty trial at Guantanamo asked a war court judge Tuesday to order
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Photographs allegedly taken atKerobokanjail show Scott Rushwith drugparaphernalia in his hands.The Herald Sun today revealed photos of Rush, 28, with drug paraphernalia in his hands while serving time at Bali’s infamous Kerobokan prison.Despite Rush’s claims to
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Todd Wilingham and hisdaughter AmberCORSICANA, Tex. — For more than 20 years, the prosecutor who convicted Cameron Todd Willingham of murdering his three young daughters has insisted that the authorities made no deals to secure the testimony of the jailhouse informer who told jurors that03
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July 31, 2014: in Sri Lanka, 8 persons were sentenced to death in two different cases.Panadura High Courts sentenced 7 persons to death, after they were convicted for killing a youth. Panadura High Courts Judge Mohammed Surthika Razim ruled death sentence regarding a murder committed in 2005 inPHOENIX — Lawyers for an inmate who was executed last month by lethal injection said Friday that his executioners injected him with 15 times the standard dose of a sedative and a painkiller during a procedure that lasted nearly two hours before their client was declared dead.He was injected with a11
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Kenya’s Republican Liberty Party wants to impose the death penalty for homosexuality and has put forward a bill that would see foreign gays and lesbians in the country stoned to death.The party’s draft Anti-Homosexuality Bill would also see gay and lesbian Kenyans jailed for life and stoned to
Indiana Death ChamberINDIANAPOLIS – With the possibility of an execution occurring yet this year, Indiana officials are standing by their death penalty process, despite controversies over prolonged lethal injections in other states.Doug Garrison, chief communications officer for the Indiana
South Korean authorities reportedly made some efforts to prevent execution on humanitarian groundsChina has executed a South Korean man for trafficking drugs, only 1 day after 2 South Koreans were executed for the same charge on Aug. 6.The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on
SHIJIAZHUANG, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- A court in north China on Thursday handed down death penalties to five people who faked fatal coal mine accidents to claim compensation.The case is eerily similar to the plot of the movie "Blind Shaft," which won the Silver Bear award at 2003 Berlin Film
Rick Perry’s Cameron Todd Willingham problem won’t go away. In fact, it got worse this week.Until recently, much of the outrage over the killing of Willingham — the convicted murderer-arsonist who was very likely innocent but executed by Texas anyway in 2004 — has been over the state’s and Gov06
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2 South Koreans were executed in China on Wednesday for smuggling and trading drugs in the country despite Seoul's repeated pleas for clemency, a government source said Wednesday.A district court in China's Jilin province, which borders North Korea, ordered the execution of the 2 South Korean05
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Sir Alan DuncanSir Alan Duncan, who in 2002 became the Conservative Party’s first out MP, has been appointed Special Envoy to Yemen – a country where homosexuality is punishable by death.The 1994 penal code in Yemen, which reportedly denies having any LGBT citizens, states that while unmarried men05
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Jodi Arias(Reuters) - An Arizona judge agreed on Monday to allow convicted murderess Jodi Arias to represent herself during a sentencing retrial to determine if she will face the death penalty for killing her ex-boyfriend in 2008, a court spokesman said.Judge Sherry Stephens granted the request by
Three Al Shabaab members were executed by firing squadon August 3, 2014 near Mogadishu (Photo: AP)(Reuters) - Three men were executed by firing squad on Sunday after a Somali military court found them guilty of
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Manila: A former death row convict refused an offer by Saudi Arabia to stay in the kingdom and chose to return home to the Philippines to be with his family.The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Dante Altizo, 36, was expected to return to the Philippines on Thursday. The DFA said the
Sister Helen Prejean (center)Longtime anti-death penalty crusader Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, has been a spiritual adviser to many death row inmates in her home state of Louisiana. She shared her thoughts on the latest executions with NAM health editor Viji Sundaram. How do