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Reza Rasaei, a follower of the Yarsan religion and a detainee from the 2022 protests, was executed on Tuesday and subsequently buried under stringent security measures.IranWire reports that security agents prevented Rasaei’s body from being buried in the Yarasan people’s cemetery.Authorities instructed the Rasai family that they could not bury him in Sahneh, his hometown, but instead had to lay
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CLERMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WKRC) - A heart-wrenching 911 call was played at a press conference in Clermont County on Monday to help explain to the public what led up to the moment a man shot and killed his three little boys.The mother of the boys first went to call 911 because she thought that when
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A 2 News Investigation looks into what the cost for taxpayers for Taberon Dave Honie’s execution compared to life in prison without the possibility of parole. And what about the actual executioners who will put the condemned killer to death? Like other states that have the
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SALT LAKE CITY — Taberon Honie’s attorneys are asking Utah Governor Spencer Cox to step in to delay his execution.Honie is set for lethal injection Wednesday night. And attorneys for Taberon Honie are concerned about the drugs meant to be used for his lethal injection.The defense claims that the
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Alabama plans to execute Alan Lee Miller on September 26. Miller survived a previous execution attempt when the state tried to kill him using lethal injection, and the state later agreed not to employ that method in any subsequent execution.Miller had previously indicated a preference for death
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“These men deserve no mercy," Strada said. "They certainly didn’t show any mercy to my husband or the other 2,976 who died in the attacks.”NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. — The head of a group of family members of victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks said Saturday that she’s hearing nearly unanimous praise
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As El Pasoans gather for the fifth anniversary of the Aug. 3, 2019, mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart, the state of Texas' death penalty case against the gunman continues to languish in legal maneuvering and a judge's gag order.The case has been delayed in state court for several reasons
SINGAPORE: Singapore on Friday (Aug 2) hanged a convicted drug trafficker, authorities said, in the city-state's second execution this year.The 45-year-old Singaporean man was executed at Changi prison for trafficking 36.93 grams of pure heroin, more than twice the 15 grams that merits the death
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For people with loved ones on death row, the grief and shame they experience are unique and isolatingTynecia Estrada cherished her childhood summers with her father in Atlanta. She has joyful memories of him picking her up from camp to spend a fun-filled day together at Six Flags White Water. But
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina can execute death row inmates by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair, the state’s high court ruled Wednesday, opening the door to restart executions after more than a decade.All five justices agreed with at least part of the ruling. But two of
A Pakistani citizen has been executed in Saudi Arabia for smuggling heroin. The Saudi Ministry of Interior confirmed that Zubair Khan Hazrat Jamal was executed in Mecca after being convicted of attempting to smuggle heroin into the kingdom.According to the Saudi Ministry of Interior
Texas has executed 588 people since 1982 — all by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit. This is more than any other state in the country. Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies was a witness for the most recent Texas execution. He has this reflection.As we entered the witness room of the
On Tuesday, August 6, Reza Rasaei, arrested during the nationwide protests of 2022, was executed in Dizelabad Prison, Kermanshah.Mr. Rasaei’s execution took place at dawn today, Tuesday, August 6, in Dizelabad Prison, Kermanshah, without prior notice to his family or the opportunity for a final
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s attorney general said Monday that another nitrogen gas execution will go forward in September after the state reached a settlement agreement with the inmate slated to be the second person put to death with the new method.Alabama and attorneys for Alan Miller, who
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NEW YORK - After Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin canceled plea deals for the alleged 9/11 mastermind and two accomplices, there's mounting pressure for new action. The trial has been delayed for years. Victims' families and survivors say they want the feds to set a trial date and seek
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 1, 2024: Fazl Ahmad Fatehnia, a Baluch man on death row for murder, was executed in Zahedan Central Prison.According to Haal Vsh, a Baluch man was executed in Zahedan Central Prison on 31 July. His identity has been reported as 30-year-old Fazl Ahmad Fatehnia
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A Clermont County prosecutor said Chad Doerman was offered a plea deal to help relieve the boys' mother of "additional agony."An Ohio man who fatally shot his young sons last year pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated murder Friday as part of a deal with the state to avoid the death
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The US defence secretary has revoked plea deals for the suspects behind the 9/11 attacks, two days after sixteen years of legally fraught prosecution processes reached a conclusion. Llyod Austin’s announcement has reinstated the possibility of a death penalty for the alleged architect of
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M Ravi, who was disbarred in May, pleaded guilty to the charges last month.PETALING JAYA: Singaporean anti-death penalty activist and former lawyer M Ravi has been sentenced to 14 weeks’ jail after pleading guilty to charges of voluntarily causing hurt, harassment and causing a public
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US prosecutors have reached a deal with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Pentagon said Wednesday, reportedly involving a guilty plea in exchange for avoiding a death penalty trial.The agreements with Mohammed and two other accused moves their long-running cases toward resolution. These
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Gir Somnath (Gujarat), Jul 30 (PTI) A special POCSO court has sentenced to death a 32-year-old man for raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl in Gujarat's Gir Somnath district in 2022.In an order passed on Monday, special judge S I Bhorania at Kodinar town ordered that the accused, Somabhai
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Loran Cole would be the first inmate executed in the state since October.TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a death warrant for an inmate convicted in the 1994 murder of a Florida State University student who went to the Ocala National Forest to camp with his sister.Loran Cole, 57
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 5, 2024: Newly obtained information reveals that Ahmadreza Touni was executed for drug-related offences with Malek Ashtar in Khorramabad Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, another man was executed in Khorramabad Central Prison
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SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Utah's next execution is days away, when convicted murderer and death row inmate Taberon Honie will died by lethal injection at the state prison.Honie was sentenced to die for the murder of Claudia Benn, his ex-girlfriend's mother, in the mid '90s.Leading up to Thursday
Family members of Claudia Benn, the woman murdered by Honie, said they want the execution to move forward.Abe Bonowitz, a national advocate against the death penalty, asked a group of Utahns to name the words carved into the face of the U.S. Supreme Court building.“Equal justice under the law,” a
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 1, 2024: At least 300 executions took place in Iranian prisons in the first seven months of 2024. 15 women, 42 Baluch and 20 Kurdish minorities, and 20 Afghan nationals were amongst those executed. Of the 300 recorded executions, 172 executions were for
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A murderer-for-hire who has been on death row for the past 33 years must be retried or released, a judge ruled, after it was found that some jurors were illegally excused based on their race or ethnic identity during the trialBecause of prosecutorial misconduct in the selection of the jury in the
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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); July 31, 2024: Heshmat Moradian, a man on death row for murder, was executed in Yasuj Central Prison.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Yasuj Central Prison on 31 July. His identity has been established as 40-year-old Heshmat
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Brian Wharton, who was the lead detective in Palestine, Texas at the time of Robert Roberson’s conviction for the death of his two-year-old daughter Nikki, now believes Mr. Roberson is innocent and supports abolition of the death penalty. Mr. Wharton said in a video for The New York
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday pardoned a German man facing the death penalty, the country's state news agency reported.Lukashenko "took the decision to pardon the German citizen Rico Krieger ... taking into account all the circumstances," Belta news agency reported, citing
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BOSTON — A veteran prosecutor who nailed the Pentagon leaker and an ex-Harvard professor with ties to China has been put on the Boston Marathon bomber’s last-ditch death penalty appeal. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Casey is “counsel for the United States” against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who
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After death row inmate Joseph Corcoran challenged the state’s motion for an execution date to be set, counsel at the attorney general’s office are attempting to poke holes in Corcoran’s legal arguments and pressing for the Indiana Supreme Court to grant the execution request.Earlier this month