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A state legislator wants Alabama to resume executions using the electric chair since drug shortages have brought lethal injections to halt.State Rep. Lynn Greer, R-Rogersville, told The Decatur Daily in a story published Friday he favors electrocutions because of continuing delays obtaining drugs used to perform lethal injections.
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Mariam Ibrahim and her husband(CNN) -- A Sudanese Christian woman once sentenced to death in her native country because of her faith arrived in her new home, the United States, on Thursday.Mariam Yehya Ibrahim, her husband and two young children were greeted by a large crowd of supporters at01
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Aviation ministry has sent the draft anti-hijacking bill, which includes death sentence as a punishment, to the law ministry for vetting. To make the anti-hijacking law much tougher the aviation ministry wants to repeal the Anti-Hijacking Act 1982 and replace it with a new one."In order to
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The United States has called on China to release Uighur rights activist and economics professor Ilham Tohti, who was charged Wednesday with separatism two days after clashes in Xinjiang that caused dozens of casualties. The head of a U.S./based Uighur group said the Muslim Uighur community is30
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Houston - A jury decided the punishment Tuesday for the man convicted of killing a Bellaire police officer and an innocent bystander in 2012. Harlem Harold Lewis III was sentenced to death. The verdict was returned after about 12 hours of deliberation.Twelve jurors - nine men and three women -27
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A new study shows that prisoners put to death in the US are hardly ever the worst of the worst criminals.The study, published in Hastings Law Journal, examined 100 executions carried out between 2012 and 2013, many of these people are not cold, calculating, remorseless killers."A lot of folks26
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The Willingham's family house soon after the blazethat took the lives of their three young children.Houston lawyers Friday filed a complaint against a former North Texas prosecutor, claiming he lied about cutting a deal with a witness that helped send a possibly innocent Corsicana auto mechanic toChinese authorities executed Friday a Japanese man in his 50s who had been sentenced to death in connection with stimulant drug smuggling.Commenting on the execution, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told Kyodo News that China prudently applies the death penalty, and renders judgment
Vietnam's top court on Thursday commuted the death sentence of a Cambodian woman convicted for trafficking more than 5 kilograms of methamphetamine to life in prison. Hom Kosal, 37, was sentenced to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City last September. She appealed the sentence, producing07
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George RyanGeorge Ryan, an ex-Illinois governor and now an ex-convict, says he'd like to re-engage with the cause he left behind when he went to prison in 2007 - campaigning for the end of the death penalty in the U.S."Americans should come to their senses," Ryan said this week, in an
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July 2, 2014: the Supreme Court commuted the death sentence awarded to a police constable for murdering his wife and two daughters to life imprisonment with a direction that the convict must spend at least 30 years behind the bars.A bench of Justices Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya and Dipak Misra27
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Ghanaians would soon be called upon to decide in a referendum on the three critical reviews of portions of the 1992 constitution which are abolition of the death penalty, declaration of war by the President and the swearing-in of the President before parliament by the chief Justice. The01
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When Arizona executed Joseph Wood last week, witnesses said he repeatedly gasped for air during an execution that dragged on for nearly two hours. Wood's lawyers have demanded, and the state has agreed to, an investigation into whether a new and largely untested combination of lethal drugs caused
Iraqi Shi'ite militia forces executed 15 Sunni Muslims and then hung them from electricity poles in a public square in the town of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday, police said.With Iraq sliding ever closer to all-out sectarian civil war, a car bomb exploded near restaurants and shops in31
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, extended the stay on the execution of death penalty of Soumya murder case convict Govindachamy.The court on Thursday asked the state government to present the documents related to the case.Govindachamy had approached the court for commuting his death
Arizona spent 2 hours killing death row inmate Joseph Wood this week, an unusually long time for an execution. Wood's death has reopened the debate about capital punishment and lethal injection. Lethal injection is used in all 32 states that have the death penalty.Some witnesses said Wood was27
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Hundreds of death row inmates are waiting for the hangman in prisons throughout India, but the country's judicial system is facing a shortage of executioners.The hangmen's tribe have dwindled in recent years with executions becoming a rarity, while negligible remuneration and the ominous nature of
San Quentin Prison's brand new execution chamberBeginnings and endings are not always apparent when they occur. The modern death-penalty era began on July 2, 1976, when the Supreme Court decided the case of Gregg v. Georgia. But we did not actually know it had begun until Jan. 17, 1977, which was25
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Leading experts on the use of medical drugs in capital punishment have accused death penalty states of conducting a “failed experiment” with new drug combinations following a recent run of drawn-out executions in which prisoners have shown signs of distress on the gurney.“There have been two
As the Supreme Court ends its October Term 2013 and heads off for summer recess, it is worth taking a closer look at one of the sleeper cases of the term, Hall v. Florida, a case about intellectual disability and the death penalty. Though Hall received only moderate attention in the press and
Louisiana Death RowNEW ORLEANS -- A U.S. Supreme Court justice has refused to intervene in an ongoing case about hot conditions on Death Row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.The case involves a suit filed on behalf of three Death Row inmates. It resulted in last year's
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Former Gov. George RyanKANKAKEE – Former Gov. George Ryan regrets letting what turned out to be the last execution in Illinois proceed, he prays regularly for six children killed in a fiery crash linked to a state agency he once headed, and he's done answering questions about the marathon Leggi27
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The U.N. human rights chief appealed to Iran on Thursday not to execute a woman convicted of murdering her husband at age 17. Razieh Ebrahimi, imprisoned in Ahwaz, is among some 160 people thought to be on death row in Iran for crimes committed before they turned 18, U.N. High
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With a signature on a piece of paper, convicted quadruple murderer Nathan Dunlap's life was spared.For now.A year after Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed that "temporary reprieve," Dunlap's sentence still has not been carried out. That's painful for many of the loved ones of the four
Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris should refuse to defend the state's unconstitutional system for putting people to death.Jerry Brown, then attorney general, made the right choice in 2010 when he refused to defend Proposition 8 in the appellate courts after Judge Vaughn
July 25, 2014: The brutal murder of an Ajman Police officer three years ago has been finally laid to rest with the Ajman Criminal Court sentencing two Arab men to death for the crime. The two perpetrators, both in their 20s, had been arrested within 48 hours of the crime on
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The Walls Unit, Huntsville, TexasAs the nation is horrified by another botched execution, a capital defense lawyer in Texas, legal scholar in New York and the former warden of San Quentin work against capital punishment.There were only 3 people in the room: Jeanne Woodford, the chaplain and the27
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The ATC judge awarded death sentence on 2 counts to Zulfiqar.Anti Terrorism Court (ACT) Judge Ishtiaq Ahmad awarded death penalty on Friday to man convicted of attacking a woman with acid and killing her near Mansoorabad police station.Prosecution said 30-year-old woman Ayesha Zafar, a25
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Arizona Death ChamberAlmost all of the 32 states that use the death penalty either require or permit a physician to attend executions, which often are carried out by lesser-trained medical personnel, but doctors who participate risk losing their license to practice medicine if they are discovered
MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Justice (DOJ) yesterday reiterated its opposition to the re-imposition of the death penalty, saying it would not lower crime statistics.“Justice that kills is not justice. The imposition of capital punishment has no positive impact on crime prevention or07
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A US man has been charged with murdering his nearly 2-year-old son by leaving him in a hot car for 7 hours and could face the death penalty if convicted.Justin Ross Harris, 33, was denied bond Thursday and faces child cruelty and felony murder charges after leaving his son Cooper, 22 months03
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July 1, 2014: Ugandan Foreign Ministry spokesman Fred Opolot said two Ugandan drug traffickers – Omar Ddamulira and Ham Andrew Ngobi – had been executed in China’s Guandong Province.Opolot added that Ddamulira was executed on 21 May while Ngobi was executed on 24 June in Guangzhou, a city03
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Meriam Ibrahim and her husbandKHARTOUM, July 2 (Reuters) - A Sudanese woman spared a death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity faces a new lawsuit on Thursday brought by her family to formally establish her as a Muslim, a lawyer said, in a move that could delay her departure for the27
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Naeem Williams will not die for the violent killing of his daughter, a federal jury announced on Friday. The former Schofield soldier is instead sentenced to life in prison. During the trial, which ended in April when a jury found him guilty of the murder, Williams admitted to
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