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D. TsarnaevDzhokhar Tsarnaev, the accused Boston Marathon bomber, repeatedly requested a lawyer and complained of his deteriorating medical condition while he recovered from gunshot wounds to his head, face, throat, and jaw in the hours and days after his arrest in Watertown. Yet he was continuously interrogated by FBI agents who
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Help promote, defend, and demand women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. The 28 May International Day of Action for Women’s Health is to be re-launched this year, as part of a major call by women’s rights defenders worldwide for the inclusion of women’s sexual and reproductive health and
Hanging in Gaza City (file photo)Gaza authorities have executed two men after finding them guilty of collaboration with the Israeli military.The Ministry of Interior said, in a statement, that "the death sentence was carried out against collaborators P.K. by shooting and G.T. by hanging after they
President ObamaCapital punishment is totally a matter of one’s conviction. There is no science to it. George W. Bush’s convictions were well-known. He adhered to a primitive eye-for-an-eye belief that was resistant to reason. As with almost everything -- including the making of war -- if Bush was
A 15 year old Afghan juvenile offender has been executed in the prison of Isfahan. Reports indicate that he was convicted of drug-related charges and didn’t have access to lawyer. Iranian authorities claim that juveniles are not executed in Iran. This is the seventh juvenile offender being executed
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The Walls Unit, Huntsville, TexasTexas prison officials said they had no plans to change execution procedures after a bungled Oklahoma execution on Tuesday night, but death penalty opponents said that the incident raises questions about capital punishment in Texas.The botched procedure in
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 has
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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 reform
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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
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Iran Human Rights, May 7, 2014: Five prisoners were hanged in four different Iranian prisons. One of the executions was not announced by the official sources.Image-Rasht-exAccording to the Iranian daily newspaper Khorasan, two prisoners were hanged in the prison of Mashhad on Sunday 4. May. The
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Huntsville, Texas. The death penaltycapital of the world.Washington -- Federal and state governments should move to a single lethal drug for executions instead of complex cocktails that can be botched, a group of criminal justice experts said in a new review of
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Clayton LockettOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An attorney for the Oklahoma inmate who died after a botched execution last week says he is seeking a second independent autopsy.Attorney David Autry said Tuesday he has requested another autopsy be conducted on Clayton Lockett, whose body was sent to Dallas for
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LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is responding to harsh new laws in the tiny Southeast Asia nation of Brunei by boycotting the Beverly Hills Hotel.The Motion Picture & Television Fund joined a growing list of organizations and individuals Monday refusing to do business with hotels owned by the Sultan
If you want ammunition against America's death penalty, read two reports in Friday's New York Times about the latest execution in Oklahoma. One is a grim description of what happened when Clayton Lockett was given a lethal injection on Tuesday, the other an analysis of the common 3-drug protocol
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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 US
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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 punishment
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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 for
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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 of
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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 of
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One of the less-noticed consequences of the recent unpleasantness at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary was the online publication, courtesy of the Tulsa World, of an official document entitled “Procedures for the Execution of Offenders Sentenced to Death.”Perhaps the best way to read “Procedures
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An injection of chemicals used to execute death row inmates can cause such excruciating pain that veterinarians are banned from using them to put down animals, according to one of the most thorough reviews ever undertaken of the administration of the death penalty.The report, endorsed by a range
A Saudi court ordered the severing of the right hands of two thieves accused of stealing sheep in line with Sharia, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.The court in the southern town of Bisha issued the sentence against the two defendants after they were found guilty of stealing several heads of
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Iran Human Rights, May 5, 3014: Two prisoners were hanged in the prison of Mashhad reported the Iranian daily newspaper edam-Image. The prisoners who were not identified by name were charged with murder in two different cases.According to the report “the young men were hanged in the Central prison
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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
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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 has
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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 lethal
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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.They
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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.The