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Mogilev Regional Court has confirmed that another death-row prisoner has been executed in Belarus. At least 2 men remain on death row at imminent risk of execution.The execution of Rygor Yuzepchuk only became public knowledge on 8 May, but may have actually occurred in April. The date of his execution and the
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Russell BucklewBONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday halted the execution of a Missouri inmate with a rare medical condition who challenged the state's refusal to disclose the source of its lethal injection drug.The justices said a lower federal court needs to take another
COLOMBO, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Maldives has charged three minors, one of whom 14, in a murder case since the controversial death penalty laws were introduced that could involve minors, local media reported on Wednesday.The minors have been charged over the death of 21-year-old Hussein Waheed, who20
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NCRI - According to the state-run Fars news agency, ten prisoners were collectively hanged in the main prison in city of Kerman, southeastern Iran, on May 18.On May 17, four prisoners were hanged in city of Qazvin. A report by the state-run Mehr News Agency, affiliated with the regime's Ministry
The scientific rigor of entrenched forensic disciplines has been challenged for years. Still, we live in a “C.S.I.” world, and television viewers could be forgiven for assuming that laboratory techniques used to catch bad guys are unassailable. In real life, though, the soundness of criminal19
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Killing people, sad to say, is like most anything else: The more you do it, the better you get. Since Oklahoma brutally botched an execution last month, the country has turned its attention again to the debate over whether the death penalty constitutes “cruel and unusual” punishment. So all eyes18
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The mullahs' regime judiciary in Kerman province said on Saturday that 10 prisoners have been hanged in the main prison in southern city of Kerman, state-run Fars News Agency reported.Those hanged had been accused of drug smuggling. The prisoners were identified by their initials.More than 700
Indiana Death Chamberfrom witness roomThe next time Indiana conducts an execution at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, a new drug will be part of its lethal injection protocol.The nationwide shortage of thiopental sodium, known by its trademark name Pentathol, forced states that17
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Sudanese Christians have condemned the sentencing of a Christian woman to death by hanging after she married a Christian man.Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, 27, refused to recant her Christian faith as ordered by the court.A doctor who is 8 months pregnant and currently in detention with her 20-month-old16
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It is becoming increasingly difficult for prison officials to obtain the drugs they need to administer lethal injections – at least directly from pharmaceutical companies. Some have turned to compounding pharmacies, which have rightly been subject to criticism after several high-profile instances
PRINCETON, NJ -- The recent news about the botched execution of an Oklahoma death row inmate has not affected the way Americans view the death penalty. Sixty-one percent say the death penalty is morally acceptable, similar to the 62% who said so in 2013, although both figures are down from a15
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Challenge brought by Guardian, AP and three newspapers says US public has a right to know about how drugs are being used.The growing secrecy adopted by death penalty states to hide the source of their lethal injection drugs used in executions is being challenged in a new lawsuit in Missouri, which21
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Suriname, which has announced plans to remove the death penalty from its criminal books, says it will increase the maximum jail term for life sentences from 20 to 30 years.Justice and Police Minister Edward Belfort said in addition to increasing the jail term for life sentences usually reserved20
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Russell BucklewThe eighth US circuit court of appeals has granted a stay of execution for Missouri inmate Russell Bucklew, hours before he was to be put to death.Bucklew, 46, was scheduled to die with a lethal injection at 12.01am CT on Wednesday at a state prison in Bonne Terre, despite questions20
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(File photo)Five of the eight prisoners who were scheduled to be executed in the Rajaishahr prison of Karaj (west of Tehran) were hanged this morning. One of the prisoners was pardoned and execution of two other prisoners was postponed. At least 73 prisoners have been executed in different Iranian19
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Arizona Death ChamberThe "What if..." on last Sunday's Opinions page certainly caught my attention ("What if Arizona repealed the death penalty?")I thought Bishop Thomas Olmsted's response mild.Other Catholic religious leaders have encouraged participation in efforts to suspend and abolishMay 17, 2014: A court in Gaza City sentenced a man to death by hanging after he was found guilty of premeditated murder, a Ma'an reporter said.The man, identified only as I.M., was convicted of killing Gaza police officer Sami Suleiman al-Rawwagh in 2008.Al-Rawwagh died of several gunshot wounds
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China has stepped up its fight against child trafficking by sentencing to death Huang Qingheng, a Vietnamese ringleader who led a group that kidnapped and sold 23 Vietnamese infants to famililies in China.23 other members of the group, most of them also Vietnamese or have unconfirmed Vietnamese
OSAKA — A 66-year-old man on death row for killing two people in 1998 has died of cancer of the esophagus, Osaka prison officials said Friday.Susumu Nakayama was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing Takemitsu Kikukawa, 37, and a female acquaintance, Minako Kobuchi, 40, on a street in Toyonaka
Russell BucklewA death row inmate with rare birth defects is fighting for Missouri prison officials to allow a videographer to record his execution in what his lawyers say will be a “prolonged, tortuous death.”Attorneys for convicted killer Russell Bucklew filed a motion Friday in a Missouri16
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Iran Human Rights, May 15, 2014: One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Semnan (northern Iran) early this morning reported the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Semnan. edam-iscaThe prisoner was identified as “A. S.” and was convicted of murder and sentenced to qisas15
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The captain and 3 other crew members of the Sewol, the South Korean ferry that sank last month, have been charged with murder, chief prosecutor in the investigation Yang Joon-jin said Thursday.The captain, Lee Joon-seok, along with the chief engineer, and the 1st and 2nd mates, could face the15
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A badly botched lethal injection in Oklahoma has not chipped away at the American public's support of the death penalty, although two-thirds of voters would back alternatives to the needle, an exclusive NBC News poll shows.One in three people say that if lethal injections are no longer viable —21
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Russell BucklewThe nine justices of the US supreme court must decide on Wednesday whether or not uphold a stay of execution for a death-row inmate in Missouri whose lawyers argue faces a prolonged and agonizing death as a result of a rare medical condition that could complicate the lethal injection20
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As many as 300 U.S. inmates sentenced to death over a 30-year period were probably innocent, according to a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The courts converted many of their death sentences to life, the study found. The U.S. judicial system, however, has
The Sudanese government has summoned Western diplomats in Khartoum to protest over their reaction to the death penalty handed down to a woman found guilty by a court of committing apostasy. The Arabic language Alintibaha newspaper confirmed on Sunday that the Sudanese Foreign Affairs ministry has19
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Russell Bucklew, scheduled to be killed despite botched Oklahoma execution, is centre of Guardian suit over drug secrecy.Missouri Governor Jay Nixon said Monday that he doesn't see any reason to halt the execution of an inmate whose attorneys claim he could suffer during the lethal injection
Screenshot from "King & Country" by Joseph Loseywith Tom Courtenay and Dirk Bogarde (1964)No British soldier of the Great War was condemned to be ‘shot at dawn’.The capital sentence passed on 3,080 occasions by Field General Courts Marshall between 1914 and 1920 was “to suffer death by18
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The firing squad execution chamber at theUtah State Prison in Draper, UtahIn the wake of a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma last month, a Utah lawmaker says he believes a firing squad is a more humane form of execution. And he plans to bring back that option for criminals sentenced to Leggi18
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Denpasar. An 84-year-old Indonesian man has been arrested in Bali for allegedly smuggling 2.5 kilograms of methamphetamine.The man, identified as Arasain bin Anwar from Madura, East Java, was arrested on arrival at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport from Kuala Lumpur on a Malindo Air flight
Public flogging in Iran (file photo)NCRI - The Iranian regime judiciary in city of Qazvin announced the execution of three prisoners in the city's main prison, state-run Fars News Agency reported on Saturday. Two other prisoners received 10 and 30 lashes.The prisoners who were hanged early morning15
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D. TsarnaevText messages show Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev joking with a friend not to text him hours after the FBI released Tsarnaev's photo as a suspect in the deadly attack.Dias Kadyrbayev texted Tsarnaev shortly after the FBI publicly released photos of Tsarnaev and his15
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Judge orders Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag to be hanged for apostasy and given 100 lashes for adultery, prompting protests.A Sudanese judge has sentenced a Christian woman to hang for apostasy, despite appeals by Western embassies for compassion and respect for religious freedom.The case, thought to15
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On Saturday May 11 four men and one woman were scheduled to be hanged in the Rajaishahr prison of Karaj. They were all charged with murder and sentenced to qisas (retribution). The four men were all pardoned by the families of the victims. The woman was hanged in the front of
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