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The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri and the Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty joined together last week to send a letter to Governor Jay Nixon requesting a suspension on executions until the procedures are made more transparent.Rita Linhardt, chair of the Board for Missourians for Alternatives to the
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Nearly a decade has passed since Arkansas executed anyone on death row, and the state's governor says he would abolish the death penalty if legislators ever sent him such a bill. The state's top attorney called the death penalty system broken, and a botched execution in a neighboring state has05
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Public execution in KSAA Saudi court annulled the death sentence and ordered the release of a 21-year-old convicted local killer just a few days before he was to be executed after his family managed to pay SR30 million (Dh30 million) diya (blood money) to the victim’s relatives.
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An Abu Dhabi criminal court sentenced an Asian housemaid to stoning to death after she was found guilty of committing adultery while married.The maid had been rushed to hospital following abdominal pains and tests showed she was pregnant after sleeping with another man.Newspapers said the maid
Mary FallinAn execution this week that went terribly wrong has catapulted Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, a Republican, to the national stage. But there's more to Fallin than her zeal for capital punishment. The first female governor of Oklahoma has also quashed broader criminal justice reform03
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The Iranian regime has executed at least 34 prisoners in past 11 days in 7 cities across Iran including many young prisoners in their early 20s.On Thursday, May 1, the International Workers' Day, hanged Mostafa Nazi Chalavi, Amir Rouzdar and Babak Vavani in Bandar Abbas Prison bring.In the city
COLOMBO, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Human Rights watchdogs on Friday condemned moves by the Maldivian government to reinstate the death penalty insisting it is causing "grave concern."The Maldivian Democracy Network (MDN) has condemned the Maldivian government's decision to implement the death penalty in a
The nine nations with records of persistent executionscan be seen at the bottom of Amnesty's mapThe gruesome, botched execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma Tuesday night has brought renewed focus on some of the grim realities of the death penalty in America. While the terrifying course of
Arthur TylerOhio Gov. John Kasich has granted clemency to a condemned killer who was scheduled to die next month for killing a Cleveland produce vendor.Kasich's decision follows Tuesday's recommendation by the Ohio Parole Board in favor of mercy for Arthur Tyler, whose attorneys argue he is30
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Clayton Lockett[LIVE FEED] Clayton Lockett's execution was slated to begin at 6:00 p.m.At 6:37 Clayton Lockett was not unconscious and said "something is wrong".Clayton Lockett convulsed several times, his chest and head rising off the gurney at multiple points. Inmate 'struggled violentlyThe Ohio Parole Board recommended to Gov. John Kasich today that convicted killer Arthur Tyler’s death sentence should be commuted to time served, making him immediately eligible for release from prison.The entire panel voted 11-0 to grant clemency to Tyler, 54, of Cleveland, who is scheduled to
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Death Penalty in the USAThe Death Penalty in the USA. Produced from ArrestRecords.com Source: The Death Penalty in the USA, ArrestRecords.com, April 28, 2014
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Clayton LockettA lawyer for the Oklahoma inmate whose execution went awry last week has expressed scepticism of the state's official timeline and called for a federal investigation.David Autry, who represented Clayton Lockett for 11 years and witnessed his execution last Tuesday, said the US04
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A bungled execution in Oklahoma in which the condemned prisoner writhed and moaned as he received a lethal injection outraged death-penalty opponents, invited court challenges and attracted worldwide attention.But the inmate's agony alone is highly unlikely to change minds about capital punishment03
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Oklahoma State PenitentiaryIn McAlester, Checotah and other towns in the verdant, rolling landscape of eastern Oklahoma, there is some discomfort about how the execution played out, and many agree that changes should be made to the system. But there is little argument about the final outcome for03
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In the wake of Oklahoma's botched execution, the head of a Florida anti-death penalty group has asked the state for information about its lethal injection drugs.Sheila Meehan, chair of Tallahassee Citizens Against the Death Penalty, Wednesday sent a public-records request to the Department of03
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2 May 2014 – The suffering of United States inmate Clayton Lockett during his execution in Oklahoma on 29 April could amount to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment according to international human rights law, the United Nations said today, calling on the US authorities to impose an immediate
"As a very sincere friend, I think this is unworthy of the United States of America," one European lawmaker says.Oklahoma's botched execution of Clayton Lockett on Tuesday night "showed vividly that the death penalty is a brutal form of punishment which disregards human dignity," the office of01
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(file photo)Three prisoners were hanged in the prison of Mashhad (Northeastern Iran) in the past few days. Three other prisoners were hanged early this morning in the prison of Bandar Abbas (Southern Iran). Iran Human Rights, May 1, 2014: Three prisoners were hanged in the Vakilabad prison of01
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Oklahoma Death ChamberTuesday night, Oklahoma tortured a man to death. At 6:23 local time, a doctor began to inject Clayton Lockett with a sedative. Seven minutes later, convinced Lockett was sedated, the doctor then began to inject the second and third drugs in
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Clayton LockettClayton Lockett's execution was slated to begin at 6:00 p.m.At 6:37 Clayton Lockett was not unconscious and said something is wrong.Clayton Lockett convulsed several times, his chest and head rising off the gurney at multiple points.Oklahoma Dept. of Corrections closed the blinds29
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TAIPEI: Taiwanese authorities said they executed five death-row inmates Tuesday, nearly a year after six prisoners were put to death.The justice ministry said the five were put to death in various parts of the island. They were the first executions ordered by Luo Ying-shay since she became justice29
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)NCRI - The anti-human clerical regime in Iran hanged three young Sunni Baluchi political prisoners on Saturday, April 26, in the city of Zabol (Sistan & Baluchistan Province). Ali Dahmardeh, 20, Eman Galwi, 20, and Omid Peeri, 23, were condemned to death in05
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Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Hon. Franklyn Bai Kargbo, on May 2nd 2014, told the United Nations Committee against Torture that Sierra Leone will shortly abolish the death penalty. Addressing a public hearing session of the Committee in Geneva, Mr. Kargbo said that his office has04
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The bungled execution of a death-row inmate in Oklahoma is casting new attention on the death penalty in Nebraska, where capital punishment remains on the books but no one has been executed in nearly two decades.Nebraska's supply of sodium thiopental — a required lethal03
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Turkey became the first predominantly Islamic country to abolish the death penalty — a fact that was taken as a turning point with regard to its European orientation. This did not mean, however, that executions were carried out easily in Turkey prior to the abolishment of the death penalty.The
The Walls Unit, Huntsville, Texas where executionsby lethal injection are carried out.As Oklahoma continues to feel the aftershocks from its botched execution attempt on Tuesday, attention is turning to Texas, where a key secrecy ruling is expected to be made later this month.The next US
A dozen people filed into a small room on Tuesday evening to watch Clayton Lockett die. They were media witnesses selected from a lottery, a dozen people chosen to observe the moment because there were only a dozen spots available and more than 12 reporters wanted to see this execution.They02
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Clayton LockettClayton Lockett, the death-row inmate who was the subject of a botched execution by the state of Oklahoma, was Tasered by prison staff and had cut his own arm on the day of the failed procedure, according to a timeline released by the state's corrections chief on Thursday.The01
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The Sultan of BruneiBANDAR SERI BEGWAN, Brunei — The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, has announced that harsh Islamic punishments that call for the death penalty for numerous offenses, including same-sex sexual activity, will come into effect on Thursday despite international01
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LONDON — Europeans largely consider the death penalty a particularly brutal American anachronism, but the prolonged death of Clayton D. Lockett in Oklahoma, after a botched execution by lethal injection, produced more than the usual horror on Wednesday.The death penalty is banned in the European29
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Oklahoma Death ChamberTonight Oklahoma will continue the nation's ongoing experiment in executing people with untested drug combinations as it moves forward to kill death row inmates Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner using a new, secretly acquired drug cocktail.Officials in Oklahoma and otherThe UN human rights office on Tuesday voiced concern over moves to revive the death penalty in the Maldives, including for minors, after a six-decade freeze on capital punishment in the Indian Ocean archipelago."We are deeply concerned about a new regulation adopted in the Maldives on29
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio said Monday it's boosting the dosages of its lethal injection drugs even as it stands by the January execution of an inmate who made snorting and gasping sounds that led to a civil rights lawsuit by his family and calls for a moratorium.The state's new policy considerably