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Ledell Lee and Stacey Johnson were both convicted before modern DNA methods. Both maintained their innocence but were denied new DNA tests. Johnson is alive today, but Lee is dead.It made big national news on April 24 when Arkansas carried out the United States' 1st double execution since 2000, of Jack Jones
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Iran Human Rights (MAY 13 2017): A prisoner identified as Koroush Langroudi was reportedly hanged at Bandar Abbas Central Prison on murder charges. According to close sources, the execution was carried out on Tuesday May 9 and the prisoner was 36 years old at the time of his
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The best argument against the death penalty is that the system is fallible. Lawyers are. Witnesses are. Courts are. Police are. Defendants are.But what about those cases in which there is no question of guilt? Can those cases, at least, be considered open and shut?Not always.There is a12
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Have you ever invited a friend to a protest on Facebook? Had sex outside marriage? Made a joke about a religious figure?These simple acts may not seem like crimes at all, but in some countries, they can lead to a death sentence.Here are five so-called “crimes” that you may not realise are Leggi
Tunnel between Gaza and EgyptThe accused were convicted earlier this year of smuggling tramadol, marijuana, and opium from Egypt via tunnels.A military court in the besieged Gaza Strip on Thursday sentenced 2 Palestinian men, identified by their initials only, to execution by firing squad.The 2
The Queen and the King of Bahrain at last year's Royal Windsor Horse Show.The Queen is to sit alongside the King of Bahrain at the Royal Windsor Horse Show tomorrow – despite the Kingdom’s recent lifting of a
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Recreation yard, Polunsky Unit. Click here to see recent photographsof the living conditions of confinement on Texas' Death Row.For the 2nd time this year, Tilon Carter faces execution - this time, he's set for Huntsville's gurney next Tuesday, May 16.Carter was convicted of capital murder in11
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William Barnhouse on the day he was released, March 8, 2017.(Indianapolis, IN – May 10, 2017) A judge today granted a motion by the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office to dismiss the 1992 rape charges against William Barnhouse based on new
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More than 1 000 Nigerians languish on death row.Governments in sub-Saharan Africa sentenced at least 1 083 people to death in 2016 - more than double the 443 people condemned to die in 2015, according to a recent report by international human rights organisation Amnesty International.The research
The Allan B. Polunsky Unit, Livingston, TexasFor the second time in a week, a Texas death row inmate had his sentenced tossed out. Robert Campbell, 44, has been on death row for nearly 25 years in a Houston kidnapping and murder.A Texas man on death
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India has received 250 recommendations from different countries after the universal periodic review of India's human rights record.The May 4 meeting in Geneva at the UNHRC saw the attorney general, Mukul Rohatgi defend India's policies and programs.India has promised to "review and report back to
MONTGOMERY, ALA.-- Death row inmates would have less time to file appeals, under a bill approved Tuesday by the House Judiciary Committee that aims to reduce the number of years that can elapse between sentencing and execution.The legislation, which has already cleared the Senate, would require15
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Teng walked out a free man on Dec 22 , 2016. He is picturedwith his parents (right), Judy and MPI chairman Chang Jih Ren.HOW do I resume life after losing 18 years of it to prison and death row? Can I just walk back in and pick up the pieces or do
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Tilon CarterA Fort Worth man who claims he did not intentionally kill an 89-year-old man had his looming execution halted Friday afternoon.Four days before he was set to die, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday halted the execution of a man convicted in a 2004 Fort Worth home
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Louisiana's death rowLouisiana's death penalty is an incredibly expensive, entirely arbitrary, and an error-prone monument to the failures of big government. The Louisiana Legislature is considering 2 bills to replace the death penalty with life without parole, saving Louisiana - under conservative12
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If Pope Francis has been criticized for ambiguity in Amoris Laetitia, he certainly can’t be faulted for it in his latest comments on the death penalty.In his homily today, the pontiff called for a deeper understanding of Christ in the context of our times and of human progress.
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Former Navarro County prosecutor John H. Jackson, Texas.After a trial of more than two weeks, a Texas jury on Wednesday found that former state prosecutor John Jackson had not committed misconduct in the 1992 death penalty trial of Cameron Todd Willingham.By an 11-to-1 vote,
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Following Germany and Belgium, Swiss deputies also declared that a possible death penalty referendum by the Turkish government can’t be allowed to take place on Swiss soil.Switzerland’s Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter spoke with caution on the issue of the death penalty referendum.The
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan on Wednesday hanged four more Taliban terrorists convicted of "heinous" terrorism-related offences by controversial military courts, taking the number to over 160 since the Peshawar terror attack in 2014.The terrorists, who were involved in the killing of innocent civilians11
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William Charles MorvaAn execution date has been set - again - for William Charles Morva.This time, however, the death sentence that Morva received in 2008 seems likely to be enacted. In February, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Morva's final appeal.After a Tuesday conference call with10
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New Delhi (CNN) -- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Pakistan not to carry out the execution of an Indian man convicted of spying while his case is being considered.Kulbushan Jadhav was arrested in March 2016 "for his involvement in espionage and sabotage activities against
Le sujet fait frémir Berlin et Berne.Après sa victoire récente lors du référendum autour du renforcement de ses pouvoirs, le président turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan vise désormais une nouvelle consultation en Turquie, cette fois-ci sur le rétablissement de la peine de mort.Un scrutin qui pourrait10
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A number of international organizations have expressed concern about the state of human rights in Indonesia following the guilty verdict and two-year jail term handed down to Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama for blasphemy on Tuesday.The European Union Delegation to Indonesia and15
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Ali al-NimrPresident Trump is preparing to visit Riyadh, as concerns grow for three Saudi juveniles who face imminent execution for attending protests.President Trump will reportedly travel to Saudi Arabia on Friday (19th).International human rights group Reprieve has written to the President12
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In theory, executions by lethal injection using three drugs can be efficient, effective and humane. But lately, in practice, they have been anything but.Take the execution of Kenneth Williams last week in Arkansas: Media and attorney witnesses reported movements indicating that Williams did not
Florida's death chamberThe Florida Supreme Court has reversed the murder convictions of Ralph Wright Jr. Wright had been convicted of the 2007 murder of a Pinellas County woman and her son.The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that there was no direct evidence tying Wright to the murders. Wright was12
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Rev Christie Buckingham with portraits of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.When asked to take part in a new film about the journey to faith of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan – two Australian men, members of the ‘Bali Nine’, who were
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Dylann RoofAttorneys representing Charleston church killer Dylann Roof told an examiner Roof suffered from "blushing attacks," believed his forehead is "too large and ugly" and likely suffered from autism, according to a recently unsealed evaluation that was conducted to see if Roof was mentally11
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Xie Yang reading his final statement during his trial.Chinese human rights lawyer Xie Yang has been released on bail after he admitted to his crimes in what critics called a “show trial” on Monday, according to Amnesty International.Xie has worked on cases considered
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SINGAPORE - Four Malaysian members of a Malaysia-based drug syndicate have been arrested, along with two Singaporeans suspected of coordinating drug supply runs for the syndicate, after joint investigations by Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) and Malaysia's Narcotics Crime Investigation11
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Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis AyalaWhen State Attorney Aramis Ayala, a Democrat, announced in March that she would no longer seek the death penalty in capital cases, Republican Gov. Scott took away more than 20 murder cases in her jurisdiction. Now, Ayala is suing Scott to get them Leggi
Public caning in Indonesia's Aceh provinceFather promises to send gay man to Islamic boarding school so he 'won't be deviant any more'Two gay men caught having sex by a mob will be caned 80 times in Indonesia.The pair, both in their early 20s, were found
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Anthony BoydIn his last-ditch appeal, condemned inmate Anthony Boyd asked the state of Alabama to carry out his execution by either hanging him or putting him in front of a firing squad.But the federal appeals court in Atlanta on Tuesday rejected Boyd’s request and cleared the way for his10
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It's almost two years to the day since the Federal Police Commissioner stood before us all and gave us fair warning: there is no guarantee that a Bali Nine scenario won't happen again.We need to talk about the death penalty. Again. Indeed, as we mark the two-year anniversary of the executions of