John MiddletonST. LOUIS (AP) - The next Missouri inmate scheduled to die by lethal injection wants Gov. Jay Nixon to appoint an independent panel to review his clemency request under a little-used provision in state law that hasn’t been invoked in nearly two decades.John Middleton, 54, is scheduled to
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Nearly 30 years after Paul C. Hildwin was convicted of strangling a Hernando County woman, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday overturned both his conviction and death sentence, saying that new DNA evidence "completely discredits" the case used by the state.A divided court
Execution chamber and main gallowsat Tokyo Detention CenterTOKYO — Japan carried out its first execution of the year on Thursday when it hanged a man for a triple murder, the ninth prisoner to be put to death since the conservative government of Shinzo Abe took power in 2012.Masanori Kawasaki24
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Saadi Gaddafi, 3rd son of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has been charged with killing a former soccer teammate, according to Libya's state LANA news agency. Gaddafi is being charged with the murder of Bashir Riani, a Libyan soccer player who played alongside Gaddafi when the latter24
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Meriam Ibrahim and her husbandA Sudanese woman freed from prison Monday after having her death sentence for apostasy commuted was re-arrested Tuesday along with her husband at Khartoum airport while trying to leave the country, one of her lawyers said.Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, 26, was detained along24
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Huntsville, Texas, the death penalty capital of the worldYet in Texas we hear only of executions — a seemingly endless stream. Are we really two different nations (yes, Texas was its own country once) with different capital destinies? Or are the rest of the states the canaries, and Texas the
Chinese death-row inmate (handcuffed, center) spendingher last hours with fellow inmates prior to being led to anearby execution ground. (File photo)The Chinese Supreme People’s Court has overturned a death sentence imposed on a woman who killed her husband after years of abuse, in a decision
Bali Nine death row inmate Myuran Sukumaranwith his Archibald Prize entry, a self-portraitARCHIBALD Prize entrants often paint famous people. Myuran Sukumaran jokes he has painted an infamous person.“Look where I am”, he says casting his eyes around.
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Florida Death ChamberSeven weeks after the botched execution of an Oklahoma inmate, who twisted in pain and lived for 43 minutes after being injected with lethal drugs, four men in four states had been scheduled to die in one 24-hour period. One of the four, a rapist and
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Razieh Ebrahimi was forced to marry at the age of 14, became a mother at 15, and killed her husband at 17. Now at 21, she is on Iran's death row.Ebrahimi, who shot dead her husband while he was sleeping, faces imminent execution, despite international laws prohibiting execution for crimes19
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A Chinese death row inmate is offereda last cigarette by a police officermoments before his execution. (AP)BEIJING — Jun 19, 2014 - A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced to death a man who
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John HenrySTARKE, FL (AP) - Florida has executed a Tampa area man who killed his wife and her 5-year-old son in 1985.It is the third U.S. execution in less than 24 hours since a botched April lethal injection in Oklahoma.The governor's office says John Ruthell Henry was pronounced dead at 7:43
A convicted murderer and 5 other death row inmates sued Arizona on Thursday arguing the state's secrecy around lethal-injection drugs used in botched executions in Ohio and Oklahoma violates their constitutional rights. Joseph Wood, a 55-year-old sentenced to die on July 23 for 2 murders in an24
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Oklahoma Death ChamberIn a cramped, dimly lit room next to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary’s death chamber, three volunteer executioners push syringes full of lethal drugs into the veins of an inmate they cannot see.Sometimes the executioners use flashlights to illuminate what they are doing in24
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Main gallowsat Tokyo Detention CenterThe Fukuoka High Court upheld the death sentence Tuesday for a 29-year-old man over the killing of the mother and grandmother of a former girlfriend in a high-profile 2011 stalking case. Presiding judge Hiroshi Furuta said he could find nothing unreasonable24
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Meriam Ibrahim and her husbandMother Was Convicted of Renouncing Islam, Marrying a ChristianKAMPALA, Uganda—A Sudanese appeals court on Monday ordered the release of a woman who was sentenced to death in May for refusing to renounce her Christian faith, ending a monthslong legal dispute24
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After a seven-week freeze following Clayton Lockett's botched execution in Oklahoma, three states executed three death-row inmates in less than 24 hours last week. Georgia, Missouri, and Florida had tangled with defense lawyers for months over the secrecy surrounding their lethal-injection23
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Meriam Ibrahim and her husbandMeriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman sentenced to death for apostasy, has finally walked out of prison - after six months behind bars."Meriam was released just about an hour ago," said Mohanad Mustafa, one of her lawyers."She's now out of prison," he told AFP, but said21
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June 18, 2014: Saudi Arabia has sentenced twenty-six people to death on such charges as giving speeches critical of the Al Saud regime and participating in protests against the ruling family, Press TV has learnt. Among those sentenced to death is the prominent Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr
An Egyptian court has confirmed death sentences for 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters accused of a 2013 attack on a police station, lawyers say.A judge had recommended the death penalty for the 683 defendants, in a widely-criticised mass trial in April.Mohammed Badie, leader of the banned group19
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Meriam Ibrahim and her husbandSudanese jailers removed the chains from a Christian woman, sentenced to death for apostasy, after she gave birth in prison last month, one of her lawyers said Tuesday.The case of Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag sparked an outcry from Western governments and rights groups19
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D. TsarnaevLawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have asked to move his upcoming trial from Boston, proposing Washington, D.C., as the new location. In a motion filed in U.S. District Court late Wednesday, Tsarnaev's public defenders said a survey of potential jurors in18
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John WinfieldMissouri has carried out the execution of 46-year-old John Winfield for the murders of two women in St. Louis County 18 years ago. Winfield received a lethal injection of pentobarbital at 12:01 Wednesday morning and was pronounced dead at 12:10.Winfield appeared to tell the witnesses27
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaSaudi authorities beheaded Wednesday two nationals convicted of raping minors in two separate cases, in one of which the culprit killed the victim, the interior ministry said. HB was found guilty of kidnapping and raping a seven-year-old boy before throwing him24
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Meriam Ibrahim and her husbandMariam Yahya Ibrahim, the Christian woman sentenced to death and later freed after an international outcry, was briefly re-arrested while trying to leave the country for the US before being released again.Eman Abdul-Rahim, a lawyer representing Ms Ibrahim, said she24
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Surviving passengers of a South Korean ferry which sunk in April, killing 304 people, are due to give evidence in the trial of its captain and 14 crew members. Students from the Danwon High School in Ansan, 18 miles south of Seoul, will testify with other passengers in
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Entrance to Evin PrisonIran Human Rights, June 23, 2014: Seven prisoners were hanged in the prison of Rasht (Northern Iran) reported the official website of the Iranian judiciary in Gilan Province.According to the report all the seven prisoners were convicted of drug-related charges.The prisoners
Saddam Hussein's execution in 2006Baghdad, June 24: Islamic Fundamentalist group ISIL on Monday captured more cities in Iraq and if reports are to be believed then even killed the judge who sentenced death-by-hanging to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussien in 2006.Reports suggest that the Kurdish22
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Latonya Collier, Indianapolis, gets her firstlooks at the electric chair that executed hergreat-great-grandfather in 1914.(Photo: Mike Fender/The Star)Latonya Collier walks quietly down the long hallway, the click of her heels echoing the last few steps in a 10-year journey of21
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June 19, 2014: Egypt hanged a man convicted of murdering the daughter of a Moroccan singer and her friend six years ago during a bungled burglary, security officials said.The November 2008 murder of Heba al-Akkad, the 23-year-old daughter of singer Leila Ghofran, and her friend Nadine Gamal in an21
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The death chamber at Florida StatePrison in Starke.Under Gov. Rick Scott, 18 inmates executed in under 3 years.TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - After Wednesday night's execution, 18 Florida inmates have been put to death since Gov. Rick Scott took office. While the pace
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The UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday were told of the "systematic character of the serious repression of all human rights in Belarus" by the expert it appointed to investigate the former Soviet state. Miklos Haraszti told the Geneva-based body that the government in Minsk, headed since19
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The U.S. Supreme CourtThere is less mystery to the high court process than one might thinkSupreme Court decisions to allow inmates to be put to death or to grant a rare reprieve often come at the last minute, and sometimes after the appointed hour of execution has come and
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Marcus WellonsMarcus Wellons, 59, convicted of raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl in 1989, was executed in Georgia on Tuesday at 11:56 p.m. ET.The execution began at 10:41 p.m., and that Mr. Wellons was pronounced dead more than an hour later, at 11:56 p.m. Media witnesses described