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Hannah Witheridge and David MillerOn Friday, 3 March 2017 the Samui Times reported that a 23 year-old Russian girl, Valentina Novozhenova had vanished from Koh Tao and had not been seen or heard from since 15 February 2017.Many have wondered why it apparently took over two weeks
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Ivan TeleguzRICHMOND—A Virginia death row inmate convicted of hiring a man to kill his ex-girlfriend has asked a federal appeals court to put his April execution on hold so the U.S. Supreme Court can review his appeal.Attorneys for Ivan Teleguz filed a motion Tuesday asking the 4th U.S. Circuit10
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Florida's death chamberTALLAHASSEE — Eager to let prosecutors pursue the death penalty again, the Florida Senate acted quickly Thursday to pass a court-mandated fix to Florida's sentencing laws.The measure requires all 12 members of a jury to approve a death sentence. If just one juror dissents10
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Mike LambrixDeath Row inmate Mike Lambrix has lost his appeal for a new sentence.Lambrix was one of the subjects in the WLRN documentary Cell 1, where we looked at Florida’s death penalty and the limbo it was in for more than a year.In 1984, at his second trial,
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Gallows trap door, Tokyo Detention CenterThe Osaka High Court commuted a death sentence for a man convicted of indiscriminately murdering a man and a woman here in 2012 to a life prison term in a ruling on March 9."Considering that the crime was not carefully premeditated,
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"Housed alone for years in tiny concrete cells" - Death row cell, Polunsky Unit, TXFor many death row inmates, the long process leading to capital punishment is itself cruel—but not unusual.In 1979, Arthur Lee Giles, then 19 years old, was sentenced to death in Blount County, Alabama. Nearly 4008
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Imprisoned spiritual thinker Mohammad Ali Taheri has again been tried for the charge of "corruption on earth" despite being cleared of the same charge in 2015, his sister Azardokht Taheri told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).If convicted, the founder of the banned Erfan-e Halgheh
Abu Dhabi courtAdditional legal assistance has been assured to the Filipina household service worker (HSW), who was sentenced to death by execution in the UAE.Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III met with Jennifer Dalquez last week during his 3-day UAE trip08
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2017
Kenya court in session (file photo)A 22-year-old mechanic was on Monday sentenced to death by a Kibera court for robbing a woman at her house in Kaberia, Riruta.Sospeter Simiyu was found guilty of the offence committed on November 14, 2014, and will therefore be hanged.Together with
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President Rodrigo DuterteMANILA - Philippine lower house lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the re-imposition of capital punishment for serious drug offences on Tuesday, clearing another hurdle in President Rodrigo Duterte's drive to use death as a deterrent against crime.Voting 216 to 54 with one
Patrick LeonardAn Ohio man condemned to die for the slaying of his former girlfriend has killed himself on death row, the state prisons agency said Monday.Inmate Patrick Leonard died Sunday night of an apparent suicide on death row in Chillicothe, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and
Welcome to BaliIndonesia has been in the process of amending its Criminal Code (KUHP) over the past 53 years. To this day, the House of Representatives is still vigorously debating its various provisions.The current Criminal Code is a vestige of Dutch colonialism. It has been in force since 1918
Ray TibbettsThe execution of a 59-year-old man who killed his wife and the elderly man she cared for now may go forward after Ohio's parole board recommended Friday that Gov. John Kasich deny clemency.Ray Tibbetts, 59, is scheduled to be executed on July 26.The constitutionality of the state's10
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At least 7 other states are considering not allowing people with certain illness to be executed.People who can prove they were affected by severe mental illness when they committed a capital crime would be exempt from the death penalty under a new Texas law introduced Tuesday.Mental health09
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James BigbyJames Bigby, 61, is scheduled to be the 4th Texan executed this year when he goes to the Huntsville gurney on Tuesday, March 14.The Fort Worth native has spent the last 25 years on death row after a 2-day killing spree that left 4 people dead.The murders began on
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In the space of 10 days in April, Arkansas plans to execute eight men — nearly a quarter of its entire death-row population, and more than a third as many people as were put to death in America in 2016. It would be the fastest spate of executions in any
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"[P]rolonged isolation, Breyer wrote, “produces numerous deleterious harms."In a dissent, the Supreme Court justice makes a stirring case to eradicate capital punishment.On Tuesday night, Rolando Ruiz was executed in Texas after spending more than two decades on death row. The legal team
California's death rowCalifornia will no longer keep death row inmates in solitary confinement for years only because of their purported gang affiliations, according to a lawsuit settlement announced Monday.6 San Quentin State Prison inmates sued in 2015, saying they were being held indefinitely08
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The sharp spike in death sentences handed out by the lower judiciary in India is deeply distressing. According to a study, ‘Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics 2016,’ which was carried out by the Delhi-based National Law University’s Centre on the Death Penalty, 136 people were sentenced to
Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishments18 Executions Including 2 Women and 1 in Public and Mass ArrestsThe Iranian regime hanged 18 prisoners over the past 3 days in various cities.On March 6, 2 young prisoners in the prison of Sari, 2 other prisoners, including a 70-year-old man in
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JAKARTA, NETRALNEWS.COM – Indonesia’s National Narcotics Agency (BNN), in collaboration with the Directorate General of Customs, has managed to thwart drug trafficking carried out by a China-based international network that transported the drugs from Penang, Malaysia, to Aceh and Medan.BNN’s06
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US President Ronald Reagan and Antonin Scalia (right) on July 7, 1986The family of the late Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, has announced that it will donate his papers to the Harvard Law
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Iran Human Rights (MAR 6 2017): At least seven prisoners were executed in Iran on Saturday March 4.Four prisoners, including two women, hanged at Rasht's central prison, Lakan, Gilan province, northern IranAccording to close sources, on the morning of Saturday March 4, four prisoners, including10
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Senator PacquiaoThe Philippines is inching closer to reinstating the death penalty, which it abolished in 2006 (it was also the first country in the region to ratify a United Nations protocol against capital punishment), and the process is pitting a Bible-thumping boxer against the Catholic
Cairo, EgyptCairo: An Egyptian court in the coastal city of Alexandria on Thursday sentenced an Islamist militant to death by hanging for murdering a Coptic alcohol vendor in the street earlier this year, legal sources said.The city’s Criminal Court unanimously issued the verdict against the09
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2017
Pakistan executes 5 'terrorists' at prison in northwestPakistan's military says authorities have hanged 5 "hardcore terrorists" after they were found guilty of carrying out attacks in the country.A military statement says the executions were carried out on Wednesday at a prison in the09
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Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsIRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (MAR 7, 2017): The 9th annual report of Iran Human Rights (IHR) on the death penalty gives an assessment and analysis of death penalty trends in 2016 in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The 9th annual report of the organization
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Medieval and barbaric: A little girl watches a public hanging in IranMs. Asma Jahangir was appointed as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran by The Human Rights Council of the U.N., during
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In a statement, the Psychological Association of the Philippines (PAP) said: "Capital punishment does not deliver on its hopes for better justice, closure for all parties concerned, and better crime prevention. It does not give full cognizance of the implications of its irreversible effect, the
Bauchi State in NigeriaKidnapping in Bauchi State is now punishable by death or life imprisonment as Gov. Mohammed Abdullahi signed into law a bill in that direction.The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Ibrahim Umar, made this known on Tuesday while briefing newsmen in08
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2017
Rolando RuizThe U.S. Supreme Court denied the appeals from attorneys trying to keep a paid hit man from execution in Texas for gunning down a San Antonio woman in a life insurance scheme nearly a quarter-century ago.Rolando Ruiz was convicted of accepting $2,000 to fatally shoot Theresa07
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Proposed extradition treaty with China still leaves some unnervedChinese state media call it the "fox hunt," the operation to catch and return Chinese citizens suspected of corruption who flee the country.The "fox hunt" is perhaps the most wide-ranging part of China's attempt to bring home06
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2017
Aric Shayne WoodardA York murderer's execution, originally scheduled for Saturday, has been stayed, according to online court records.Aric Shayne Woodard, 43, formerly of West Jackson Street, was sentenced to death after being found guilty in 2013 of first-degree murder for fatally beating06
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The Tennessee prison system doesn't have the drug needed to carry out a lethal injection, and ongoing issues with accessibility of the drugs call in to question the likelihood Tennessee could obtain those drugs when the next execution is scheduled.But if executions resume in Tennessee - the last