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Apr
2017
Medieval and barbaric: Public beheading in Saudi Arabia
Three Pakistani nationals were executed in Saudi Arabia on Sunday after being convicted of smuggling heroin into the ultra-conservative kingdom.
Saudi Arabia on Sunday executed three Pakistani nationals convicted of smuggling heroin, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom to 26 this year.
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Apr
2017
Execution of Hani Abu Aliyan in Gaza City on October 2, 2013Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned Hamas, after the terrorist group executed three men in Gaza who were accused of "collaborating" with Israel.In a statement quoted by AFP, the organization urged Hamas to stop the "barbaric"
09
Apr
2017
Rioting inmates on the roof of Colombo's Welikoda prisonThere could be some reprieve for prisoners on death row as well as for those serving life sentences, if the Govt. accepts the recommendations of a special Task Force (TF) appointed by the Cabinet to look into congestion in prisons.The report
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Apr
2017
At least 8,000 prisoners in Pakistan are simply waiting to die, whiling away an average of 11.41 years until they are either acquitted or executed434 people have been hanged since the moratorium on death penalty was lifted in Pakistan. But the number of lives destroyed far exceeds this figure
09
Apr
2017
Two Taiwanese were arrested last month in Jakarta for allegedly trying to smuggle almost 3.8kg of amphetamines into Indonesia, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said on Wednesday.Lai Chen-yu and Huang Ming-wei, both 24, were allegedly caught with amphetamine packets taped to their legs when
08
Apr
2017
Arkansas' death chamberNEXT MONTH, THE STATE OF ARKANSAS will execute eight men [read update] in just 11 days—a staggering pace that has left death penalty experts reeling, and has prompted two dozen former correctional officers from across the country to urge the state to reconsider. Why the
Judge Neil M. GorsuchWASHINGTON — Judge Neil M. Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate on Friday to become the 113th justice of the Supreme Court, capping a political brawl that lasted for more than a year and tested constitutional norms inside the Capitol’s fraying upper chamber.The development was
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Apr
2017
Florida's death chamberHerman Lindsey can tell you what it's like to wait for a turn with death.After being sentenced to die in 2006, he was put on Florida's death row in 2007, and sat caged inside a plain, box-like cell at the old, dusty state prison in Raiford, where winter and summer
06
Apr
2017
Watching a public hanging in present-day Iran(CNN) Arkansas's controversial plan to execute eight men in 10 days later this month has hit an unexpected stumbling block. State law requires that at least six people, "respectable citizens," witness executions to ensure that its laws and procedures
An abysmal record on Human Rights: Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaTheresa May has come under fire for her choice of location for her first foreign visit after triggering Brexit.The Prime Minsiter avoided traditional allies like America or France, or even our nearest neighbours Ireland, whose
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Apr
2017
It will also review its strategy for new challenges and make it targeted, he stated in a speech that lasted over an hour. "We will differentiate between those who supply and cause harm versus those who are abusers and, where possible, we will employ data based, science-based approach."In
The chamber voted 78 to 19 for a bill sponsored by Sen. Dick Brewbaker, R-Montgomery, that ends the practice. The legislation goes to Gov. Robert Bentley, who said in a statement Tuesday evening he "looks forward" to signing the bill.Alabama is the last state to allow judges to override verdicts
Neil M. Gorsuch joins the Supreme Court just in time to cast potentially significant votes in cases that pit religious liberty against gay rights, test limits on funding for church schools and challenge California’s restrictions on carrying a concealed gun in public.Such issues arise either in
Almaty, KazakhstanLike many other countries, Kazakhstan has shown a tendency to equate violent acts where deadly force is used to terrorism.Kazakhstan has an article in its Criminal Code -- Article 174 to be exact -- that outlaws actions that foment social, national, tribal, racial, class, or
Arkansas' death chamberThe state's supply of a lethal injection drug is about to expire.Arkansas is about to take capital punishment to a whole new level. The state, which hasn't executed anyone in more than a decade, plans to put seven men to death in 11 days, starting right after Easter. (It
Philippine President Rodrigo DuterteMANILA- President Rodrigo Duterte is poised to seek deals that would guarantee better working conditions for overseas Filipino workers when he visits the Middle East this Holy Week, an analyst said Sunday.University of the Philippines Political Science Assoc
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Apr
2017
Ivan TeleguzLawyers for condemned murder-for-hire killer Ivan Teleguz are asking Gov. Terry McAuliffe to stop his execution, set for April 25, in a clemency petition delivered Friday.The petition contends the jurors who convicted and sentenced Teleguz to death relied on testimony since proved
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Apr
2017
Florida Governor Rick ScottGov. Rick Scott has decided to step up his assault on Aramis Ayala, the state attorney for Orange and Osceola counties who had the audacity to refuse to seek the death penalty for an accused cop killer - or other defendants accused of capital crimes.After removing her
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Apr
2017
The Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria, Harry Purwanto, has said his country reserves the right under international conventions to punish certain categories of crimes with death penalty.Purwanto told The Guardian in Abuja yesterday that there were 16 legal regulations bordering on severe crimes
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Apr
2017
Screenshot from the video of ISIS militants throwing gay men off a rooftop in LibyaWith the poisonous gas attack in Syria, the world is seeing once again the lack of respect for life of the innocent.But just days before the gas attack another horrific incident occurred overseas.A video of Muslim
Richard GlossipOKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — Oklahoma's death chamber has been shut down for more than two years. but the case that exposed flaws in the process and led to the ongoing pause in executions is once again making headlines.It was September 30, 2015 when Don Knight waited outside the Oklahoma
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Apr
2017
Medieval and barbaric: Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has one of the highest execution rates in the world. However, in some cases, inmates facing the death penalty are spared if the victim's family agrees to pardon their crimes ... in exchange for a large sum of money. This
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Apr
2017
Arkansas' Death ChamberLITTLE ROCK — Lawyers for the state of Arkansas are telling a federal court that delaying eight executions beyond April 30 would have the same effect as canceling them altogether.Arkansas recently replaced an outdated potassium chloride supply, but in court papers Monday
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Apr
2017
Medieval: Public caning in Indonesia's Aceh provinceIndonesia’s Aceh province was allowed to implement Sharia law in 2014. Public canings like the one in the photo on the left of a man accused of adultery have been staged ever since. Now two men accused of gay sex could become the first to face a
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Apr
2017
Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region on Saturday executed five people it said were Islamist militants responsible for killing three senior government officials last year, a military court official said.Abdifatah Haji Aden, chairman of Puntland’s military court, said the five were behind the
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Apr
2017
The last time the state of Ohio ended a life with capital punishment, Dennis McGuire choked, gasped for air and writhed in agony for 26 minutes before finally dying. Unable to procure reliable lethal execution drugs - the Danish company that produces them now refuses to sell to the U.S
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Apr
2017
Mufti Abdul HannanIt’s the gallows for Mufti Hannan, after the Harkat-ul-Jihad (HuJI) leader had his pleas for presidential clemency rejected, said home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday.“The honourable president rejected Mufti Hannan’s pleas for presidential clemency. We will take
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Apr
2017
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has halted the execution of Paul Storey, which was set for Wednesday.In a three-page order Friday afternoon, the court sent the case back to the Tarrant County trial court to review claims regarding the prosecution presenting false evidence at Storey’s trial.In
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Apr
2017
Arkansas' death chamberA federal judge has granted an injunction in the execution of Jason F. McGehee, one of the eight Arkansas inmates scheduled to be executed later this month.Marshall denied requests for injunctions for five other condemned men whom the parole board did not recommend
Hamas-ordered execution in Gaza City on October 2, 2013Three men accused of collaborating with Israel have been executed in Gaza, the Hamas-run interior ministry says.The Palestinians - aged 32, 42 and 55 - were hanged after being convicted by a court of treason and conspiring with foreign
Executions have been set for (top row, from left) Kenneth Williams,Jack Jones Jr., Marcell Williams, Bruce Earl Ward, and (bottom row, fromleft) Don Davis, Stacey Johnson, Jason McGehee and Ledelle Lee.All eyes are on Arkansas as executions for 8 people draw nearOnly a few hundred people live in
Jason McGeheeThe Arkansas Parole Board has recommended that one of the eight men set to be executed during a 10-day span this month receive clemency and be spared capital punishment.The board’s nonbinding recommendation, approved by a vote of 6 to 1, is the latest twist in Arkansas’s effort to
Death Row at the Louisiana State PenitentiaryWhen is the deterrent effect of the death penalty finally going to kick in? That is the question that Louisiana lawmakers who defend the state's death penalty law should be made to answer this session. Three lawmakers -- Sen. Dan Claitor, R- Baton
Arkansas' Death ChamberAn appeal by state prisons to keep the lid on the source of one of Arkansas' execution drugs was dismissed Monday by the state Supreme Court.Soon after the decision was handed down late in the afternoon, a spokesman with the attorney general's office said the state will try