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Anthony Ray HintonAlabama recently took a small but important step forward in reforming its criminal justice system when the legislature voted to eliminate judicial override in capital cases last month, but all of that progress could come to a screeching halt if the “Fair Justice Act” is allowed to
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a review petition of a 55-year-old man and sent him to gallows for raping and stoning to death a four-year-old girl in 2008.A bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said “no case is made out” and dismissed the review petition.The bench, which also comprised03
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Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsA 27-year-old has been sentenced to amputationSaturday morning of April 29, henchmen in Gohardasht prison in Karaj attacked some of the wards of this prison and transferred 10 young prisoners to solitary confinement for execution.The brutal attack, which was02
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Richard Glossip and Sister Helen PrejeanThe Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission after more than a year of work has recommended that a moratorium on carrying out capital punishment in the state be continued indefinitely. "It is undeniable that innocent people have been sentenced to death in02
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Governor John Kasich has pushed back the execution dates so a federal appeals court has time to rule on a controversial sedative's constitutionality. Critics argue midazolam leads to cruel and unusual punishment.In a setback for death penalty supporters, Ohio Governor and former US presidential
A final decision on whether former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav will face the gallows or not is expected to be taken by Pakistan in about 6 to 7 months, sources have said.But the intensifying civilian-military tussle in that country over the Dawn news leaks issue may well have
Once complete, researchers will be able to log in and search thousands of executions by name, state, method and much more.(TNS) -- During his life, M. Watt Espy searched libraries and courthouses across the country gradually building what is widely considered the most comprehensive record of01
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Alabama's death rowAppointed Feb. 13 by ousted “Love Gov” and misdemeanant Robert Bentley, Alabama’s Attorney General Steven Marshall is new on the job.This could, in theory, be one reason Marshall is taking to Twitter, Facebook and Alabama’s news media to drum up support for the so-called “Fair
Arkansas will have a more difficult time obtaining additional lethal injection drugs after an unprecedented court challenge by a drug distributor and possible complications during at least one of the four executions the state carried out this month, experts said.The state launched an ambitious01
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USP Terre Haute, IndianaDylann Roof latest inmate, but feds haven't executed anyone since 2004Dylann Roof - the newest and youngest inmate housed on federal death row - now waits with 51 others sentenced to die by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute.Roof - the 23-year-old30
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With the state’s supply of the sedative midazolam due to expire, the proposed schedule came to resemble a lethal clearance sale.By the opaque reasoning of capital punishment, the state of Arkansas grew some unknowable fraction safer last Monday evening, when Jack Jones, a fifty-two-year-old26
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Kenneth WilliamsOZARK, Mo. (KSPR) - The family of a man from the Ozarks who was killed by an escaped murderer almost two decades ago said they do not want his killer to be executed."I believe justice has already been served. He hasn't been able to kill anyone else. Executing him
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Ledell LeeLedell Lee’s first hard-knock moment came even before he was born. His mom, 16 and on her third pregnancy by a man years older than she was, drank and smoked through his pregnancy. Because of her substance abuse, Ledell was born with a fetal alcohol syndrome disorder, a
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Iran Human Rights (MAY 3 2017): On Sunday April 30, a prisoner was reportedly executed at Hamadan Central Prison on murder charges, and another prisoner was returned to his cell after his execution was temporarily halted. Close sources have identified the prisoner who was executed as Imran
The chair that convicts are strapped to before they are executed in Utah.As Arkansas rushes to execute several death row inmates due to execution drugs expiring soon, an even more macabre immorality is developing in Utah: 3 death row
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Arkansas' Governor Asa HutchinsonAfter an aggressive plan to execute several inmates by the end of April put him and Arkansas at the center of the national death penalty debate, Gov. Asa Hutchinson was poised to return to a more familiar role as policy wonk with a special session
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Supporters of Asia Bibi protest against the blasphemy laws.The Supreme Court of Pakistan has turned down the request for an early hearing of the case of a Catholic mother sentenced to death for blasphemy, that her supporters and rights activists hold hard-line Islamic lobbyists responsible Leggi01
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Alabama's death rowAn Alabama senator wants to expand the recently enacted law that halted the practice of allowing judges to impose death on convicted capital murder defendants despite a jury's recommendation of life without the possibility of parole.State Sen. Hank Sanders, D-Selma, introduced aWith Arkansas' supply of lethal injection drugs expiring soon, the future of capital punishment in the state is unclear.The state had planned to execute 8 death row inmates in a span of 11 days in April before its supply of sedatives used in the process expired. The clock was ticking.In the midstIs unorthodox the same as cruel and unusual punishment?It's the central question of the current U.S. death penalty debate, highlighted by the latest execution involving a disputed sedative that appeared to involve discomfort to the inmate.States struggling to find lethal drugs believe they've got30
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Kenneth WilliamsThe execution of Kenneth Williams in the US state of Arkansas on Thursday (27 April) has stirred a controversy after his lawyers called for an inquiry alleging that the lethal injection procedure was "horrifying".The development came after witnesses of the procedure said that the29
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Michael CzugajThe youngest member of the infamous Bali Nine drug ring has spoken out about his agony on the second anniversary of the deaths of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.Michael Czugaj was only 19 when he was arrested and thrown into a Balinese prison cell after he was
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Military courts have sentenced 161 militants to death penalty since 2014 following Peshawar school attackAnother 4 militants, convicted by military courts for their involvement in terrorism, have been executed at a jail in northwestern Pakistan, an army spokesman said on Tuesday."Another 403
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Cameron Todd WillinghamTHE COURTHOUSE IN Corsicana, Texas, roughly 60 miles southeast of Dallas, has been meticulously restored to its original 1905 glory, a time when the county was awash in oil money. Its main courtroom has soaring, two-story pink walls and gold-flecked architectural details that
Febyanti Herewila Chan (right), widow of Bali Nine member Andrew ChanThe widow of convicted drug trafficker Andrew Chan has spoken out about his death, two years after he was executed by a firing squad for his crimes.
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If Colorado's courts won't allow Nathan Dunlap's legal team to lobby Gov. John Hickenlooper for the life of their client, we'll do it for them.Hickenlooper - as we've said before - should commute Dunlap's death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.As Hickenlooper noted02
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Executing adolescents in Iran, not a rare occurrenceAt least 90 people on death row in Iran are under the age of 18, says a group of UN experts who are calling for authorities in the Middle Eastern nation to immediately put an end to
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Hong says will execute criminals on death rowSouth Korean presidential candidate Hong Joon-pyo of the conservative Liberty Korea Party said he would revive capital punishment if elected, saying criminals are "going on the rampage.""Because we no longer carry out death penalty, high-profile murder01
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When a three-drug lethal-injection cocktail was administered to Ledell Lee at 11:44 p.m. Central time last Thursday — the first drug to render him unconscious, the second to halt his breathing, and the third to stop his heart — Alan Blinder and Manny Fernandez, two New York Times journalists, wereAt least 130 executions were carried out in 11 Asian countries in 2016. The vast majority of them were executed in Pakistan. However there is no data available about executions in China, still believed to be by far the world's top executioner.Overall the number of executions has decreased in the
Alabama Gov. Kay IveyAlabama Gov. Kay Ivey has been in office less than three weeks and she will soon face a life and death decision.As governor, Ivey has the power to commute the death sentence of an inmate to life or grant a reprieve to delay an execution.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Saudi ArabiaGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has been urged to use a visit to Saudi Arabia today to press for the release of three juveniles who face beheading for allegedly attending protests.Mrs Merkel is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia today for talks focused28
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Kenneth WilliamsState puts 4th inmate to death in 8 daysWitnesses describe execution; inmate was 'striving for breath,' AP editor says3 minutes after his lethal injection began, Arkansas inmate Kenneth Williams began coughing, convulsing and lurching with sound that was audible even with a26
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More than 30 men were arrested after a private party in the Bahadoran region of Isfahan, Iran was raided by the police, Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees reported Thursday.Their charges are sodomy, drinking alcohol and using psychedelic drugs and they face the death penalty if found guilty.The