Louisiana State Penitentiary
Three legislators have introduced bills to abolish the death penalty in Louisiana. All 3 have have experience with the criminal justice system: Sen. Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge worked as a prosecutor in New Orleans, Rep. Terry Landry, D-New Iberia, as State Police superintendent under Gov. Mike Foster and Rep. Steven Pylant, R-Winnsboro as Franklin Parish sheriff.
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Nevada's newly completed $858,000 death chamberLawmakers are taking up a bill that would do away with executions and ensure life in prison is the harshest penalty a person can get in Nevada. Opponents argue that it's too expensive for a penalty that is rarely carried out, and isn't practical
Mary Jane VelosoMary Jane Veloso of Nueva Ecija has remained in death row in Indonesia after she was saved at the last moment by appeals from international groups as well as Philippine officials. She was due to be executed for drug trafficking along with two Australians, a Brazilian, four
Shankle-Grant and Storey on a visit in 2014For the families of men facing the death penalty, money can be a barrier to seeing a loved one before the end.Marilyn Shankle-Grant's son, Paul Storey, has been fighting his death sentence for almost 10 years. All his legal efforts so far have fallen
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San Quentin Prison, CaliforniaIf a November ballot measure to speed up executions goes into effect, the California Supreme Court will have to decide hundreds of death penalty appeals in rapid succession.That mandate would turn the state's highest court into what analysts say would be "a death
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Apr
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Iranian authorities have sentenced a 21 year old man to death for "insulting Islam" through messages he sent on an instant messenger app, when he was only 19.Human rights lawyers claim that Sina Dehghan, was tricked into confessing to the breach of Islamic law by a promise of release. The Centre
Dylann RoofEleven weeks after a federal jury condemned Dylann S. Roof to death for killing nine worshipers at a black church in Charleston, S.C., state prosecutors announced on Friday that they would end a separate case by allowing him to plead guilty to murder in exchange for a life
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Florida's death chamberORLANDO,Fla. - The Florida Supreme Court ordered for two Central Florida convicted murders Thursday to receive new sentencing after throwing out their original death sentences.Brandon Lee Bradley was convicted of the 2012 killing Brevard County Deputy Barbara Pill. When
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Mar
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Mississippi is considering the use of firing squads as an option for capital punishment as House Bill 638 makes its way to Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, the Hattiesburg American reports.The bill, "To Revise The Methods By Which The Death Penalty May Be Carried Out; And For Related Purposes," also
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.Eight inmates due to be put to death over 10 days next month in Arkansas are making last-ditch
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Police officers on Nusakambangan island, where executions are carried out.JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia's President Joko Widodo said he would restore a moratorium on the death penalty if he won the backing of the people, after a spate of executions that drew international condemnation.Joko declared
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Serge AtlaouiL’ultime grand voyage international du président de la République, en Indonésie, devrait voir s’inviter le sort du Français Serge Atlaoui, condamné à la peine de mort pour trafic de drogue et emprisonné dans les geôles indonésiennes depuis 2005.François Hollande terminera ce mercredi
Ali al-NimrPrime Minister Theresa May 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 May is in Saudi Arabia today for talks that the Government says are focused on increasing trade and
In India, the ominous shadow of death penalty refuses to leave criminal jurisprudence. There are crimes which are indeed heinous, and the moment news of such crimes hit the headlines, there is a massive demand for imposing capital punishment. More often than not, the proponents of the death
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Arkansas' Death ChamberLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (TALK BUSINESS & POLITICS) -- On July 25, 1902, Arkansas sent six men to the gallows — Lathe Hembree, Dee Noland, Tom Simms, Dave McWhirter, Jim Johnson, and Cy Tanner, or, as the July 26 edition of the Arkansas Gazette put it, “four negroes and two
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Apr
2017
Over the course of 10 days in April, Arkansas plans to put to death 8 inmates.The state code requires that no fewer than 6 "respectable citizens" be present at each execution.There's one problem: It's having a hard time finding enough volunteers to witness them.The volunteer pool is apparently
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Apr
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Medieval and barbaric: Public caning in Indonesia's Aceh provinceThe Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) has lambasted the Aceh administration’s Islamic criminal code bylaw, or Qanun Jinayat, saying it could potentially provoke discrimination and over-criminalization of LGBT communities
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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.Since the Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty in 1976, Arkansas has executed just 27
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2017
Nie ShubinThe mother of a 20-year-old man who was wrongly executed for rape and murder more than two decades ago will receive about 2.7 million yuan (US$391,000 or HK$3.04 million) in compensation, including a record 1.3 million yuan for emotional damages, local media reported.The amount is far
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Mar
2017
Our president is the same man who once paid $85,000 for full-page ads in the top four New York Daily newspapers to loudly express his wish: "Bring Back the Death Penalty!"He is perhaps the loudest proponent of capital punishment to ever take office. Yet, ironically, in the year he got elected
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2017
Inmates on Louisiana's death are confined in inhumane isolation for 23 hours a day in windowless cells "the size of an average home bathroom," according to a lawsuit challenging the practice.Attorneys for three death row prisoners at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola filed a class action
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As of January 2017, there were 63 inmates on death row in Tennessee. Executions have been on hold pending a challenge by inmates to the single-dose drug protocol.The Tennessee Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the state's lethal injection protocols, potentially allowing executions to resume in
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2017
There are about 2,900 of death row prisoners in America. Between 20 and 50 of them are killed in any given year, at least over the past decade.
In a little more than 2 weeks, the state of Arkansas intends to put 8 prisoners to death in the span of 10 days.
It is an unprecedented
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Apr
2017
Krishna ‘Kris’ MaharajA British man who was wrongly sentenced to death in 1987 will be allowed a fresh hearing, based on evidence of his innocence, a US appeals court has ruled.Kris Maharaj, 78, has always maintained his innocence after he was sentenced to death over the 1986 murders of Derrick
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the Texas death penalty case of a Honduran national who was convicted for his role in a 1995 murder of 67-year-old Santiaga Paneque during a Houston home invasion. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the Texas death penalty case of a Honduran
Ali Mohammed al-NimrPrime Minister Theresa May has been urged to use a trip to Saudi Arabia to press for the release of three juveniles who face beheading for allegedly attending protests.Mrs May is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks. Her visit takes place amid fears for three
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Expressing concern over the House of Representatives passage of a bill restoring capital punishment, a United Nations panel has reminded the Philippines there is no mechanism for it to withdraw its commitment to abolish the death penalty, under 2 international treaties to which it is a State
ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday acquitted a man, who was awarded death sentence by a trial and a high court in a murder case, after eight years in prison.Abdul Baqi was convicted in the killing case of Muhammad Ali in Balochistan in 2009. The trial court on the basis of a medical
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Imtiaz Shams (right) has set about combatting the intimidating atmospherefor nonbelieving Muslims on campuses by holding several Faith toFaithless meetings in universities around the UK.The penalty sharia law stipulates for apostasy is capital punishment.Sulaiman Vali is a softly spoken
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo and French President François HollandeDuring a meeting on Wednesday President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and French President Francois Hollande apparently failed to discuss Indonesia’s controversial policy on the death penalty that France has repeatedly
Execution in Gaza City on October 2, 2013In the 1st ruling of its kind since the creation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 1994, a military court in Gaza City sentenced 2 Palestinians convicted of selling drugs to death on March 18. The court condemned others convicted of the same charges to
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The July 2015 bombing of a police patrol in the Shiite quarter of Sitra killed two officers and wounded six othersDubai: A Bahraini court sentenced two people to death on Wednesday over a deadly bomb attack on a police patrol in 2015, a judicial source said.Five others were sentenced to life in
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State Attorney Aramis AyalaFlorida's governor has the right to remove a state attorney from a case after the prosecutor said she would not seek the death penalty, a judge said Tuesday as he denied a request to delay the proceedings.State Attorney Aramis Ayala said earlier this month that she
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Nevada's newly completed $840,000 death chamberNevada lawmakers want to abolish the death penalty because of concerns over costs, sparking opposition from prosecutors and some victims' families. Nevada is among 32 states that allow death as a sentencing option. But no inmate has been executed