DAMASCUS, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Just days after winning a third 7- year term in office, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad issued on Monday a general amnesty, covering crimes committed before June 9, according to the official SANA news agency.Among plenty of law items that are covered with the recent pardon, the
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Meriam Ibrahim with her husbandSudan's appeals court is considering the case of Meriam Ibrahim, as she awaits the death sentence for apostasy despite assurances from the country's government that she would be freed.Daniel Wani, Ibrahim's husband, was notified on Thursday that the appeals court is08
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John WinfieldPOTOSI, Mo. (KMOX) - The Potosi Correctional Center is investigating a staff member for the offense of “over-familiarity” because the staff member has pledged support for inmate John Winfield’s petition for clemency.According to court documents, the guard has worked for the Department07
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The Maldives has adopted a new criminal code based on the work of University of Pennsylvania law professor Paul Robinson and a group of law and Ph.D. students. The new penal code takes effect next year. It is the first modern, comprehensive penal code in the world to incorporate the major tenets
Execution in Kuwait (file photo)June 5, 2014: The Criminal Court has sentenced a lance corporal in the General Traffic Department to death by hanging for kidnapping a Filipino woman, raping her and attempting to murder her, reports Al-Rai daily.The case papers show the accused stopped a
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Iran Human Rights, June 5, 2014: One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Bandar Abbas (Southern Iran) reported the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Hormozgan Province.edam-isca According to the report, the prisoner who was identified as “M. H.” was charged with murder and
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In recent weeks, some states have revived execution methods phased out decades ago. Tennessee last month passed a bill to ressurect the electric chair as a possible execution method in the event that lethal injection becomes unworkable. Officials elsewhere have proposed bringing back gas
Delhi Police are investigating a complaint of an alleged massive job racket where unsuspecting youths were apparently used as carriers for smuggling drugs to foreign countries.The investigations were began after a farmer's son was used as a carrier and was now facing the death penalty in Malaysia02
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NEW DELHI — India's Supreme Court Monday stayed the execution of a death row inmate convicted of masterminding the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai. A two-judge bench stayed the hanging of Yakub Memon, and referred his case to the Constitution Bench, following a review petition by the convict against
Iran Human Rights, June 1, 2014: The political prisoner Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani who was transferred to solitary confinement yesterday, was executed in the Rajaishahr prison of Karaj (west of Tehran) early this morning. The office of Tehran’s Prosecutor confirmed the execution and wrote that
Sabrina ButlerI was 18 when I was convicted of murdering my baby and sentenced to death, and 25 when I was finally found innocent.I was 17 and living in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1989. One night, I went to check on my beautiful 9-month-old son, Walter. He wasn’t breathing. I scooped him
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Texas' prison system doesn't have to reveal where it gets its execution drugs, the state attorney general said Thursday, marking a reversal by the state's top prosecutor on an issue being challenged in several death penalty states.Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican nominee for governor
Execution in Kuwait (file photo)Kuwait’s top court upheld a court sentence to execute an Ethiopian housemaid after she was convicted of murdering her female employer just a day before her wedding.The murder took place in 2011, when the maid used a kitchen knife to stab her employer to death before07
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His conviction in the Bombay bomb blasts case of 1993 and the award of death penalty has not deterred Yakub Memon from pursuing his hobby of gaining knowledge. His penchant for education has led Yakub Memon, a chartered accountant by profession, to take admission in MA (Political Science) course07
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A court in northern Vietnam handed down seven death penalties, seven life sentences, and other jail terms totalling 232 years to 26 defendants at a drug trial that wrapped up on Friday.The defendants were found guilty of trafficking more than 628 kilograms of heroin and 1,400 synthetic drug06
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Romell Broom after his botched execution attemptThe Ohio Supreme Court will decide whether Romell Broom should be put to death—again.Executing people is harder than it sounds. That's what Ohio discovered in 2009 when it tried to kill Romell Broom, a man who had been
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A British woman facing execution by firing squad in Indonesia for drug smuggling has no funds to mount a legal challenge against her sentence, the UK's highest court has been told.Lawyers for Lindsay Sandiford, 57, from Cheltenham, are arguing at the supreme court that the government's policy not04
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Execution chamber at Tokyo's Detention CenterThe systemic violations of human rights that are a feature of Japanese criminal justice received much international attention early this year with the tragic case of Iwao Hakamada. Hakamada was released from prison in late March, after a court found that03
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Meriam Ibrahim with husband Daniel WaniThe tragic story of Meriam Ibrahim, a 27-year-old woman sentenced to death for apostasy in Khartoum, where she is being held with her 20-month-old son, has shocked and saddened millions of rational, moral and empathic people around the world.Ibrahim has been02
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For those who oppose capital punishment in India, this is the time to make your views and voices count. The Law Commission has issued a public consultation paper on the death penalty. The consultation note and questionnaire can be downloaded via the link provided below. I cannot emphasiseMeriam Ibrahim and husbandA Sudanese woman sentenced to hang for allegedly abandoning the Muslim faith will be freed within days, foreign ministry officials said Saturday.She will likely be "freed within days", a foreign ministry source told AFP.Abdullahi Alzareg, an undersecretary at Sudan's31
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Jorge TorrezA former Marine convicted last month of strangling a fellow service member at an Arlington military base was formally sentenced to death Friday in federal district court in Alexandria. The result was no surprise. Jurors had already recommended that 25-year-old Jorge Torrez face30
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With the extreme secrecy enveloping Missouri's death penalty protocol coming under greater scrutiny, attorney general Chris Koster has come up with an end-around to using private pharmacies to develop lethal injection drugs.Koster told lawyers at the Lake of the Ozarks on Thursday that the
Louisiana Death Row: 172 degreesin 2013; 195 degrees in 2011A recent order by a federal judge in Baton Rouge requiring the state to immediately begin lowering the temperature at Louisiana State Penitentiary's death row was postponed Friday by a ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of07
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The Japan Federation of Bar Associations said Friday it will step up consultations with the European Union on abolishing capital punishment and will work to encourage public debate.The Japanese criminal justice system came under negative global scrutiny this year when a death-row inmate was freed07
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Hank SkinnerLawyers for death row inmate Hank Skinner told a court, in documents filed Friday, that testing on long-sought-after DNA evidence in his case should be enough to forestall his execution. State prosecutors, who also submitted legal arguements on Friday, said the same evidence should06
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URUMQI, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Nine people were sentenced to death for terrorism in northwest China's Xinjiang on Thursday. Local courts in six cities and prefectures sentenced 81 defendants in 23 terrorism cases to death, life imprisonment and fixed-term imprisonment, according to the regional
June 1, 2014: An Egyptian court that sentenced to death 37 Islamists and handed life terms to 492 others defended its verdict on Sunday (June 1st), saying the men were "demons" who followed Jewish scripture.The court in the central city of Minya had triggered international outrage earlier this
Romell BroomOhio's top court has agreed to hear arguments that the country's only survivor of a botched lethal injection would face cruel and unusual punishment and double jeopardy if the state again attempts to put him to death.Romell Broom, 57, was sentenced to die for the 1984 rape and03
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Louisiana Death ChamberA bill in Louisiana that would have given the state one of the toughest execution secrecy regimes in the US has been pulled by its Republican sponsor at the last minute.Observers had expected the bill, HB 328, to go through without difficulty. It had already received Leggi01
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Ibrahim and husbandA report from the Foreign Ministry, Sudan denied the release of the incarcerated Meriam Ibrahim, with Abubakar Al-Sidiq, a Ministry spokesman, denying knowledge of reports of plans to release her before any such rulings came from an appeals court. It is highly unlikely that
MIAMI — For Ted Herring, who has spent 32 years on Florida’s death row for murdering a store clerk, signs of intellectual disability arose early and piled up quickly: He repeated first grade and got D’s and F’s through fourth grade. He read like a fourth grader at 14 and did
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The Legislative Yuan was to clear all legislation that has bipartisan consensus by midnight this morning after the last day of the current session yesterday.The legislature spent most of yesterday clearing bills in its final meeting before the end of this plenary session.A total of 82 items of30
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A condemned inmate seeking to donate a kidney to his mother before his execution is requesting another reprieve after Ohio rejected his 1st organ donation request.Attorneys for 40-year-old Ronald Phillips want the execution delayed until 2016. They say by then, Phillips' 66-year-old mother either