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FREED mum-of-6 Emma Louise L'Aiguille says she will never take life for granted and is desperate to be reunited with her kids after escaping the death penalty in Malaysia.Ms L'Aiguille's 4-month jail nightmare ended today, when prosecutors stunningly dropped drug trafficking charges against her."I feel great and am so glad that I'm free," she told...Read more http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2012/11/malaysian-drug-trafficking-charges.html09
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Execution chamber atTokyo Detention CenterThe exoneration of a Nepalese man who served 15 years in a Japanese jail for a murder he did not commit raises questions about the judicial system in a country that refuses to scrap the death penalty.The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday finally acquitted08
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Pennsylvania is set to become the second state to kill a prisoner using so-called ‘DIY drugs’ – produced in a compounding pharmacy of the same type thought to be responsible for the recent meningitis outbreak in the US.The state is planning to execute Hubert Michael today [Thursday 8 November]07
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California voters on Tuesday [Nov. 6, 2012] rejected a ballot measure that would have repealed the state's death penalty.Proposition 34 lost by about 6 percentage points, dimming the hopes of death penalty opponents who were trying to abolish the death penalty in California and clear the largest
Amid doubts about the ruling party’s appetite for the ongoing European Union membership process and ten years after its abolition represented the most crucial step in the process, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has put the death penalty back on the agenda, suggesting that a majority of the
With an increase in drug-related cases in the Kingdom, the anti-narcotics directorate has announced harsher penalties for drug smugglers, peddlers and abusers in its effort to curb the spread of the phenomenon.However, male and female students with drug habits will be exempted from the harsh
Khao Bin Central Prison’s ‘special zone’At Khao Bin Central Prison in Ratchaburi, we expected to find incorrigible drug lords - but met instead the poor, the disaffected and the foreign.At 2 security checkpoints visitors are frisked and scanned with metal detectors. No sharp objects, no liquids
Execution by firing squad in VietnamMany National Assembly deputies yesterday expressed their lack of sympathy with the execution by lethal injection.Deputy Pham Van Ha of Nghe An province said Decree 82/2011/CP on the implementation of the death penalty by lethal injection took effect on November01
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Kerobokan Prison, IndonesiaJakarta. More than 100 inmates are on death row in Indonesia, some for well over 10 years.But no one has been executed in the past four years, since three Bali bombers and seven others were dispatched by firing squad in 2008.Last month, Indonesian officials admitted to09
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Mario SwainHuntsville, TX - A man described as a fledgling serial killer by prosecutors has been executed in Texas.Thirty-three-year-old Mario Swain received a lethal injection Thursday evening for an East Texas woman's slaying during a break-in at her home a decade ago.Lola Nixon of
A Libyan military court on Wednesday ordered the execution of five army officers, who were being tried in absentia, on charges of indiscriminate shelling of civilians and of rape during the 2011 conflict.The court in the eastern city of Benghazi also handed down 10-year prison terms to three07
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Garry Thomas AllenMcALESTER, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma inmate who was convicted of the 1986 murder of his fiancee was executed Tuesday evening despite claims that he was insane and ineligible for the death penalty.Garry Thomas Allen, 56, was given a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in
Chinese police lead a condemned maninto a special execution vanto be put to death. (AFP/Getty Images)China is the world’s leader in capital punishment, executing “thousands” every year, according to Amnesty International’s best guess of the officially secret statistic. A U.S.-based NGO estimates
In March, 3 death-row inmates were executed under the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) government for the first time in 20 months. Executions took place in the months of August and September as well. The justice ministers who ordered the executions said that it was their duty, and indeed, according04
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250 Executions Under Governor Rick PerrySource: The Texas TribuneWednesday's execution of Donnie Lee Roberts Jr., 41, for the 2003 shooting death of a Polk County woman marked the 250th execution during Gov. Rick Perry’s tenure. It is, by far, the largest number of executions under any recent
China plans to launch a national voluntary organ donation system early next year in a bid to fulfill growing transplant lists and phase out its long-criticized reliance on organs from executed prisoners.The country’s Ministry of Health has commissioned the Red Cross Society of China to run the01
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Donnie Lee RobertsHUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Donnie Lee Roberts, convicted in his girlfriend's 2003 slaying in Texas, was executed Wednesday for fatally shooting the woman and taking items from her home to sell or trade to support his drug habit.Roberts, 41, became the 12th inmate to be put to death09
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(Archive picture)Iran Human Rights, November 8: Seven prisoners were hanged in Shiraz (southern Iran) today Thursday November 8, reported the Iranian state media. According to the official reports one prisoner was also hanged in the prison of Mashhad (northwestern Iran) yesterday.15 other07
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Iran Human Rights, November 7: According to the Iranian state media 14 prisoners were executed in two Iranian cities of Tehran and Shiraz early this morning.The state run news agency Mehr reported that four prisoners were hanged publicly in the Koozeh-Gari Square of Shiraz (southern Iran). All the
It’s been more than a decade since Pennsylvania executed an inmate on death row. Although another execution is scheduled for Thursday, it’s possible the execution will not happen and that the chamber at Rockview State Prison will remain empty for some time to come.There’s a little-known 6-year-oldThe special envoy for Bulgaria in Malaysia, Angel Orbetsov, will try to persuade local authorities for more leniency in the case of the 2 Bulgarians arrested on drug trafficking charges and sentenced by a Malaysian court to death by hanging.On May 18, 2011, Bulgarian nationals Georgi Georgiev04
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The World Medical Association has strengthened its opposition to capital punishment with a resolution at its recent conference in Bangkok that "physicians will not facilitate the importation or prescription of drugs for execution."It also reaffirmed previous resolutions that "it is unethical for
Yong Vui KongIT is a rare occurrence when politics plays a part -- however teeny weeny that part may be -- in relaxing a tough piece of legislation like the death penalty in this city state.More than 40 years after hanging was introduced for murder, kidnapping, drug trafficking and firearms01
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Kenneth Kaunda says that the only reason he is on death row in a jail in South Sudan is because he reported a corpse he found in the road 4 years ago with a knife stuck in its chest."Whether you killed or didn't kill, you get sentenced to death -- this is the situation in South Sudan," he said, as