TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma pharmacy has agreed not to provide a drug for a scheduled execution next week in Missouri as part of a settlement with the death row inmate's attorneys. But it's unclear whether the deal will prevent or delay the lethal injection. Attorneys for death row inmate Michael Taylor had filed a lawsuit against The... TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma pharmacy has agreed not to provide a drug for a scheduled execution next week in Missouri as part of a settlement with the death row inmate's attorneys. But it's unclear whether the deal will prevent or delay the lethal injection. Attorneys for death row inmate Michael Taylor had filed a lawsuit against The Apothecary Shoppe, a compounding19
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India's Supreme Court commuted death sentences on 3 men for killing former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi to life imprisonment on Tuesday because of an 11-year delay in deciding on their petitions for mercy. Gandhi was killed by an ethnic Tamil suicide bomber while campaigning in an election
North Korea's regime is committing crimes against humanity including the extermination, starvation and enslavement of its population, and its leadership should be hauled before an international court, a UN-mandated inquiry team has said. The UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in17
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This suggestion comes at a time as some Civil Society Organisations (CSO) are pushing for the country to abolish the statute that penalise the act. Currently the maximum jail term sentence for those found guilty by the courts is 14 years. In what will be viewed as stirring up hatred on15
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Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik has threatened to start a hunger strike over his living conditions in jail, it has emerged. Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011, compared prison to “torture” and bemoaned, among other things, the lack of an up-to-date video games console14
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California Death Chamber LOS ANGELES -- Three former California governors announced a proposed ballot initiative Thursday designed to speed up the state's lengthy death penalty process. Former Govs. George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and Gray Davis said they were launching a13
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The Senate gave initial approval Wednesday to a bill to speed up the appeals process for death row inmates - despite concerns it could increase the likelihood of the state executing someone who was wrongly convicted. Sen. Jeff King, R-Independence, said Kansas hasn't executed anyone in12
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The Bali Nine As Schapelle Corby was escorted from Kerobokan prison this week and the media circus moved on, 11 almost forgotten Australians were be left behind doing hard time in Balinese jails. Though 2 of them are facing the death penalty and six more are serving life12
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Sochi Olympic Site SOCHI, Russia -- An activist who shed the light on the environmental impact of Olympic construction in Sochi was ordered Wednesday to serve three years in prison for spray-painting a fence. A court in the regional capital of Krasnodar converted the11
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Three leading anti-death penalty groups have appealed to the United Nations to freeze counter-narcotics aid to Vietnam after the country sentenced 30 people to die for drugs offences. The call - from Reprieve, Harm Reduction International (HRI) and the World Coalition Against the Death11
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A man from another Gulf country could be executed for raping five boys in Abu Dhabi after seducing them to come with him to the top of buildings where they lived, claiming he wanted to show them the birds, the press reported on Monday. The unnamed man, 39, first denied he was giving money11
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COLOMBO, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Maldives government has approved the death penalty and will soon enact regulations on the process of execution, local media reported here on Monday. Presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Muaz Ali was quoted as saying the government has observed increasing19
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Louisiana Death Row BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The state corrections department said Monday the only way it can lower heat levels on Louisiana's death row to a federal judge's requirements is by installing air conditioning. U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson ruled in December17
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WA Gov. Inslee David Chapman, interim Public Defender for King County, issued the following statement on Governor Jay Inslee's announcement Tuesday to place a moratorium on executions in Washington state: "I'm deeply encouraged by Governor Inslee's decision to place a17
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NCRi - The Iranian regime henchmen hanged two prisoners on Monday in the northern city of Nowshahr, state-run Mehr News Agency reported. The prisoners were identified by their initials J.M., arrested in 2007 and J.M. arrested in 2009. The two prisoners were hanged early morning on Monday
Karaj public hanging, Feb. 15, 2014 February 15, 2014 - Two days after the public hangings in Shiraz, two men were hanged near the Golshahr metro station of Karaj, west of Tehran, at 7 AM this morning, reported the Iranian state media today. The state run Fars news agency
Shiraz public execution, Feb 13, 2014 Iran Human Rights, February 13, 2014: Two prisoners were hanged in public in Shiraz Thursday morning February 13. According to the state run Iranian news agency Fars, the prisoners were 36 and 37 year old men, convicted of murder13
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Juan Carlos Chavez STARKE — Juan Carlos Chavez, the South Miami-Dade sex predator who kidnapped, raped and killed 9-year-old Jimmy Ryce in an infamous 1995 murder, was executed Wednesday night. Officials at Florida State Prison pronounced him dead at 8:17 p.m. on a12
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Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday he was suspending the use of the death penalty in Washington state, announcing a move that he hopes will enable officials to "join a growing national conversation about capital punishment." The Democrat said he came to the decision after months of review11
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Despite the controversy over how Missouri has carried out its past three executions, a state House hearing on Monday revealed little that hasn't already been reported: - The Department of Corrections has been obtaining its execution drug from an Oklahoma compounding pharmacy that the11
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Public execution of a womanin Iran What do the masterful male executioners of Saudi Arabia think of when they hack off the head of a woman in a public marketplace? What of the Iranian state executioner who heard 23-year-old Delara Darabi screaming to her mother for help down11
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Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby was freed from prison on the Indonesian resort island of Bali Monday after more than nine years behind bars. Corby was ushered out of prison into a green minibus, as crowds of journalists waited outside the prison and scores of police stood guard
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In a barbaric act on Wednesday, February 5, the anti-human clerical regime secretly and collectively hanged 15 Baluchi political prisoners in the prison of Chahbahar. Khossrow Barahoui, a local from Loutak in Zabol, 2 brothers from Rigi tribe, 2 brothers from Mir tribe, and a merchant by the19
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NCRI- The authorities in the main prison in the city of Qazvin on Tuesday hanged three prisoners of drug related charges, the state run Fars news agency without giving any further information. The Iranian regime has been executing prisoners with a rapid pace after Hassan Rouhani took
QUETTA: A tribal couple in southwest Pakistan have been stoned to death allegedly on the orders of a local cleric after being accused of having an extramarital affair, local officials told AFP on Monday. Eight people have been arrested, including the cleric, for the suspected murders in
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed a death warrant for convicted killer Robert Lavern Henry, the day after the execution of Juan Carlos Chavez. his office said. Chavez, convicted for the 1995 rape, dismemberment and death of Jimmy Ryce, 9, in Redland14
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Jakarta. More than 100 Islamic hard-liners slammed the Indonesian government Friday for approving Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby’s parole from jail, saying the convicted drug mule should receive the death penalty. Corby, 36, was released from prison on the holiday island13
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A federal judge late Wednesday temporarily blocked an Oklahoma compounding pharmacy from selling a drug to the Missouri Department of Corrections for use in a Feb. 26 execution. The temporary restraining order was issued in connection with a lawsuit in United States District Court in
September 14, 2013: An 18-year-old boy was hanged in publicin the town of Ghaemshahr (northern Iran) this morning. According to the state-run Iranian news agencies, the boy wasidentified as Erfan Gholinejad and was convicted of a rapecommitted in April 2013. (Iran Human12
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Jakarta. A two-decade-long tragedy born of shame in East Nusa Tenggara took another step toward finality on Tuesday after the Supreme Court imposed the death penalty on a former Catholic priest for the deaths of his lover, a former nun, and their two newborn children. “I’m not11
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Dzkokhar Tsarnaev BOSTON -- The trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzkokhar Tsarnaev is expected to last three months, plus another six weeks if he is convicted and jurors have to decide whether he should be put to death, prosecutors said Monday. The trial estimate11
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The Egyptian presidency upheld the death penalty for 14 people convicted of attacking police in North Sinai in 2011, signaling the army-backed authorities' determination to press a campaign against Islamist militants. The condemned men, all from the Tawheed wal Jihad ("Monotheism and HolyFebruary 6, 2014: A Gaza military court sentenced a man convicted of collaborating with Israel to death and another to life in prison on the same charge. The court did not determine a date for his execution. It said the evidence proved the defendant was guilty. Neither defendant was
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The Malaysian government’s move to halt an execution scheduled for today is positive but the lives of hundreds of others on death row are still at risk, Amnesty International said. Malaysian authorities had planned to execute murder convict Chandran Paskaran today, but after an