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After the execution of Kim Jong-un's uncle, the brutality of North Korea's regime has once again come under the international spotlight. In a broader context, is the attention warranted? Find out who uses the death penalty today - and see how it compares to 2007. Click here to read the full article Source: The Guardian, December 14, 2013... After the execution of Kim Jong-un's uncle, the brutality of North Korea's regime has once again come under the international spotlight. In a broader context, is the attention warranted? Find out who uses the death penalty today - and see how it compares to 2007. Click here to read the full article Source: The Guardian, December 14, 2013 Leggi15
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Five people sentenced to death for trafficking 90 kg of heroin from neighbouring Laos, according to state media. Five people have been sentenced to death and one person to life in prison in Vietnam for trafficking heroin from neighbouring Laos, state media said. A court in central
A parliamentary opposition group has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty in Morocco, where a moratorium has been in place for 20 years, a member said Thursday. The bill was filed last week in the lower house by the group of 39 lawmakers from the USFP leftwing opposition party, one13
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The Tennessee Supreme Court has rescheduled the execution of murderer Billy Ray Irick. Irick, who raped and killed a 7-year-old Knoxville girl he had been baby-sitting in 1985, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection Jan. 15 in a wave of executions Tennessee is seeking to carry out. But
A criminal court in Ras Al Khaimah sentenced a man to death after he was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife at home in the northern emirate. The 33-year-man had nearly walked free after reaching an initial agreement with his Iranian wife’s relatives to pardon him in return for12
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Main gallows at Tokyo Detention Center Japan has hanged two men, bringing to eight the number of prisoners executed since the conservative government of Shinzo Abe came to power a year ago. Justice Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki announced the latest executions, which happened11
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Pennsylvania Death Chamber Governor Tom Corbett signed execution warrants on Tuesday for two Pennsylvania men convicted of murder. Laquaille Bryant, 32, of Philadelphia was convicted of shooting two women to death back in 2008. Robert Gene Rega, 47, of11
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Ronald Clinton Lott An Oklahoma man convicted of raping and then brutally murdering two elderly women in the 1980s was executed tonight. Ronald Clinton Lott, 53, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, making him the state's fifth death
(AFP) Dhaka — A Bangladeshi Islamist leader Abdul Quader Molla, convicted of mass murder and rape during the country's 1971 independence war against Pakistan will be hanged just after midnight Tuesday, officials said. "He will be executed after 12.01pm (1801 GMT) tonight as all09
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Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) The Israeli Foreign Ministry tried to convince South Africa's apartheid regime not to seek the death penalty in Nelson Mandela's 1964 trial, newly released documents reveal. According to the documents, which were declassified by the Israel StateIn 1964, when Nelson Mandela and others were facing the death penalty, one newspaper, the Observer, kept the issue before the world's eyes, and effectively saved the ANC leadership Writing in the 20-page Mandela supplement inside today's paper, author Jeremy Lewis, who is currently
A circuit court judge who halted lethal injections in 2010 has declined to lift that injunction, ruling yesterday that a lawsuit brought by death row inmates over Kentucky's execution procedures has some unresolved issues. Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd denied a motion by15
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Abdul Quader Mollah The execution of an opposition leader in Bangladesh sparked violent protests Friday as activists torched homes and businesses belonging to government supporters, leaving at least three people dead, in a fresh wave of bloodshed ahead of elections next month13
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Main gallows at Tokyo Detention Center 2 more men have been hanged, under a system where death row prisoners are not told of their execution until hours before Japan has carried out another round of "secret" executions, bringing to eight the number of inmates sent to the13
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In an image released by South Korea's Yonhap news agencyon December 9, 2013, Jang Song-Thaek is reportedly beingdragged away from his chair by two police officialsduring a meeting in Pyongyang. SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea announced early Friday it had executed the12
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Allen Nicklasson Late Wednesday night, Nicklasson was put to death for Richard Drummond's killing — nearly 23 hours after he was originally scheduled to die. It was the second execution in Missouri in three weeks after a nearly three-year hiatus. Racist serial killer11
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Gallows in Iraqi prison EACH day Um Ahmad listens to the news for word of hangings. Thursday is Baghdad's usual hanging day. Sunday is the next favourite. On occasion, such as in October when 42 prisoners were executed in a 48-hour period, Tuesdays and Wednesdays are used to11
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PIERRE — A state lawmaker who previously supported the death penalty says he will ask the 2014 South Dakota Legislature to repeal capital punishment. Rep. Steve Hickey, R-Sioux Falls, who also is a pastor, said he changed his mind about the death penalty after reviewing the Bible10
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(Reuters) - In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim, people who openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam face execution under the law, according to a detailed study issued on Tuesday. And beyond the Islamic nations, even some of the West's
DHAKA, Dec 8: A Bangladesh court Sunday ordered prison authorities to hang an Islamist leader months after he was sentenced to death, raising fears of a new wave of clashes in the unrest-plagued nation. Abdul Quader Molla, a key leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was given the death
A Missouri execution postponed last month amid debate over the state's choice of execution drug is set to take place Wednesday. Allen Nicklasson was convicted in the 1994 slaying of Excelsior Springs businessman Richard Drummond, who stopped to help when a car used by Nicklasson and 2A Pakistani man, identified as Mohammed Zayer Khan Qol, was beheaded on Sunday after he was found guilty of smuggling drugs into the Gulf state by the Saudi authorities. The accused was convicted of smuggling a large amount of heroin into the country. According to a tally basedBangladesh's Supreme Court today cleared the way for the execution of a senior leader of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami, 3 months after it overturned a tribunal's ruling that sentenced him to life for genocide during the 1971 war. The apex court headed by Chief Justice M Muzammel
MARION COUNTY, Fla. — An Ocala man is heading to death row for his part in the slaying of a 15-year-old boy. During a 10-minute hearing on Friday, Circuit Judge David Eddy read 21-year-old Michael Bargo's death sentence. Bargo was the last of five defendants to be sentenced in13
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Texas Governor Rick Perry: "[Texas] is not directlybound by the World Court’s decision." The Mexican, Edgar Arias Tamayo, 46, was convicted of shooting and killing a Houston police officer who was taking him to jail after a robbery in 1994. Mr. Tamayo, who was in theAbdul Kader Mullah Bangladesh has executed the Islamist leader Abdul Kader Mullah, convicted of atrocities in the 1971 war of independence with Pakistan. He is the first person convicted by Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) to be executed. The ICT was set up in
Abdul Quader Mollah Supreme Court upholds execution of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah for crimes during 1971 independence war. Bangladesh's highest court has upheld the execution of top opposition leader Abdul Quader Mollah over war crimes. The Supreme Court11
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Iran Human Rights, December 11: Seven prisoners were hanged in the Rajai Shahr Prison of Karaj (west of Tehran) today. According to reliable sources that Iran Human Rights (IHR) has been in contact with 10 prisoners were transferred from their prison wards for implementation of their11
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Dhaka: A Bangladeshi court on Wednesday granted a last minute reprieve to senior Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah, staying his execution shortly before he was to be hanged for genocide during the country's 1971 liberation war. "The Chamber judge of the Appellate Division (of the10
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Kunduz, Afghanistan: Police in a remote northern Afghan village rescued a woman from being stoned to death after she was condemned by the Taliban for allegedly cheating on her husband, officials said on Tuesday. Taliban militants, who often run informal justice systems in rural09
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Migrant workers make up a third (8 million) of the population and over half the workforce in Saudi Arabia. They are mainly unskilled labourers and domestic workers (jobs the Saudis don’t want to do), are inadequately protected by labour laws and are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse08
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The state of Oklahoma is scheduled to execute 2 convicted killers this month. Ronald Clinton Lott is to be put to death Tuesday for the deaths of 2 elderly women in the 1980s while Johnny Dale Black is set for execution on Dec. 17 for the stabbing death of man in Ringling. The 2 men will
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) In its 1st major decision, South Africa's recently created supreme court abolished the death penalty today, ending a decades-old practice of executing criminals convicted of serious crimes that had once given the country one of the world's highest07
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ISLAMABAD: In a written statement to the Senate on Friday, the Foreign Ministry said that Pakistan's case for greater access to European markets would be substantially weaker if it does not abolish the death penalty. In the written response, the Foreign Ministry said that the case of