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Media reports in Belarus say a convicted murderer has been executed.Reports cite a court in the eastern city of Mahileu as saying on May 13 that Ryhor Yuzepchuk, 45, was put to death.He was sentenced last year for killing his cellmate.The standard method of execution in Belarus is by a single gunshot to
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The Walls Unit's holding cells, where death rowinmates spend their last hours prior to being executed.The death chamber is at the far end of the corridor.HUNTSVILLE, Tex. — A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Tuesday granted a Texas inmate’s request for a stay of execution hours before he13
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A criminal court in Ras Al Khaimah sentenced two Arab men to death after they were convicted of murdering a man in his 50s, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.The court found the two guilty of premeditated murder and the sentence is to be executed by available means, Al Khaleej said without
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Louisiana Death RowLawmakers not sure solution will be reached by end of sessionAn execution that went horribly wrong in Oklahoma will keep condemned killer Christopher Sepulvado alive through the football season in Louisiana. It even could have larger implications as state officials struggle to12
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Main gallows at TokyoDetention CenterAlong with some states in America, Japan is the only other developed country to still have a death penalty. While most countries have abolishing the death penalty Japan is sentencing more of its citizens to death. However Japan has recently released the world's10
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[T]he question is not how the death penalty is applied, but whether it should be applied at all.It is natural to want revenge -- to visit the pain we imagine the victim suffered onto his or her perpetrator. But there is a difference between punishment and revenge, no matter
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Charles WarnerWarner was set to be executed by lethal injection on April 29. His execution was delayed 2 weeks by Gov. Mary Fallin.Convicted killer Charles Warner is now set to be executed Nov. 13, according to a filing Thursday with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.Warner was set to be08
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Clayton LockettMcALESTER, Okla. — The former warden of Oklahoma State Penitentiary said last week’s execution of Clayton Lockett wasn’t “botched," as many have claimed, and says any problems were caused in part by the inmate’s own actions."It was an untimely execution," said Randall Workman, who07
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One of the less-noticed consequences of the recent unpleasantness at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary was the online publication, courtesy of the Tulsa World, of an official document entitled “Procedures for the Execution of Offenders Sentenced to Death.”Perhaps the best way to read “Procedures07
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An injection of chemicals used to execute death row inmates can cause such excruciating pain that veterinarians are banned from using them to put down animals, according to one of the most thorough reviews ever undertaken of the administration of the death penalty.The report, endorsed by a range
A Saudi court ordered the severing of the right hands of two thieves accused of stealing sheep in line with Sharia, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.The court in the southern town of Bisha issued the sentence against the two defendants after they were found guilty of stealing several heads of06
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Iran Human Rights, May 5, 3014: Two prisoners were hanged in the prison of Mashhad reported the Iranian daily newspaper edam-Image. The prisoners who were not identified by name were charged with murder in two different cases.According to the report “the young men were hanged in the Central prison
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The Walls Unit's holding cells, where death rowinmates spend their last hours prior to their execution.The death chamber is at the far end of the corridor.HUNTSVILLE, Tex. — A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Tuesday granted a Texas inmate’s request for a stay of execution hours before he13
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Texas Death ChamberLawyers for the first US prisoner scheduled to be put to death since the bungled execution of Clayton Lockett have launched a last-minute appeal that seeks to stay the procedure and lift the shroud of secrecy over Texas’s drug supplies.Robert Campbell is set to be given a lethal12
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The Walls Unit, Huntsville, TexasHUNTSVILLE, TEX. — If Texas executes Robert James Campbell as planned on Tuesday, for raping and murdering a woman, it will be the nation’s first execution since Oklahoma’s bungled attempt at lethal injection two weeks ago left a convicted murderer writhing and
Samereh Alinejad, an Iranian woman who pardoned her son's murderer at the moment of his hanging, has been recognized as the Mother of Year in Istanbul.The Shargh daily reported on Sunday that Alinejad had arrived in front of the Noor City Court for the execution of her son's murderer and Leggi09
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)Four prisoners were hanged in two Iranian cities according to official Iranian sources. One of the executions was carried out in the public. Two other executions were not announced by the official Iranian media. Iran Human Rights, May 8, 2014: Three prisoners
Oklahoma officially put death penalty executions on hold Thursday for 6 months following last week's bungled execution.The decision adds it to a growing list of states in a kind of death penalty limbo. 18 states have abolished the punishment altogether, according to the Death Penalty Information08
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D. TsarnaevDzhokhar Tsarnaev, the accused Boston Marathon bomber, repeatedly requested a lawyer and complained of his deteriorating medical condition while he recovered from gunshot wounds to his head, face, throat, and jaw in the hours and days after his arrest in Watertown. Yet he was
Hanging in Gaza City (file photo)Gaza authorities have executed two men after finding them guilty of collaboration with the Israeli military.The Ministry of Interior said, in a statement, that "the death sentence was carried out against collaborators P.K. by shooting and G.T. by hanging after they
President ObamaCapital punishment is totally a matter of one’s conviction. There is no science to it. George W. Bush’s convictions were well-known. He adhered to a primitive eye-for-an-eye belief that was resistant to reason. As with almost everything -- including the making of war -- if Bush was
A 15 year old Afghan juvenile offender has been executed in the prison of Isfahan. Reports indicate that he was convicted of drug-related charges and didn’t have access to lawyer. Iranian authorities claim that juveniles are not executed in Iran. This is the seventh juvenile offender being executed05
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The Walls Unit, Huntsville, TexasTexas prison officials said they had no plans to change execution procedures after a bungled Oklahoma execution on Tuesday night, but death penalty opponents said that the incident raises questions about capital punishment in Texas.The botched procedure in
Missouri Death ChamberA convicted killer's execution this month "will almost inevitably lead to a bloody, prolonged and excruciating execution because of substantial risks unique to "the condemned man, he claims in a federal lawsuit.Russell Bucklew seeks an emergency injunction against the12
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(file photo)NCRI - Another group of 9 prisoners were hanged on Monday in a prison in southeastern city of Ahvaz raising the number of execution to 79 in past three weeks.The victims who had been all accused of drug smuggling were identified by their initials: L.B., M.T., A.A., H.K., A.Kh
Oklahoma Death ChamberFailed IV line was started by a medical professional whose credentials are a secret under state law.Clayton Lockett's death took nearly 4 times as long as most Oklahoma executions because a failed IV line started by a medical professional whose credentials remain secret under10
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A federal judge in Texas late Friday declined to block the scheduled execution of a killer set for next week, based on fallout from last week's bungled execution in Oklahoma.Robert James Campbell, 41, is set to be executed Tuesday for the kidnap, rape and murder of a bank teller in
Leggi TuttoTexas attorneys argued that the state's record shows that it can execute death row inmates without causing them needless suffering as they moved Wednesday to oppose a delay in the next scheduled execution.In papers filed in federal court for Houston, Texas officials opposed any stay of execution08
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PAWHUSKA — Prosecutors in Osage County are seeking the death penalty for a man charged with allegedly killing his grandmother and half-sister in January.Michael Devin Stanley, 20, has been charged with single counts of first-degree murder in Tulsa and Osage counties.Prosecutors allege Stanley08
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Iran Human Rights, May 7, 2014: Five prisoners were hanged in four different Iranian prisons. One of the executions was not announced by the official sources.Image-Rasht-exAccording to the Iranian daily newspaper Khorasan, two prisoners were hanged in the prison of Mashhad on Sunday 4. May. The07
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Huntsville, Texas. The death penaltycapital of the world.Washington -- Federal and state governments should move to a single lethal drug for executions instead of complex cocktails that can be botched, a group of criminal justice experts said in a new review of
Leggi TuttoClayton LockettOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An attorney for the Oklahoma inmate who died after a botched execution last week says he is seeking a second independent autopsy.Attorney David Autry said Tuesday he has requested another autopsy be conducted on Clayton Lockett, whose body was sent to Dallas for06
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LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is responding to harsh new laws in the tiny Southeast Asia nation of Brunei by boycotting the Beverly Hills Hotel.The Motion Picture & Television Fund joined a growing list of organizations and individuals Monday refusing to do business with hotels owned by the Sultan
If you want ammunition against America's death penalty, read two reports in Friday's New York Times about the latest execution in Oklahoma. One is a grim description of what happened when Clayton Lockett was given a lethal injection on Tuesday, the other an analysis of the common 3-drug protocol