Kiryl KazachokKiryl Kazachok has decided not to appeal the death sentence he was given on 28 December 2016 and is now at risk of imminent execution.Kiryl Kazachok’s appeal hearing at the Supreme Court of Belarus was scheduled for 21 March.However, he has refused to use his right to appeal the
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The bodies of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran arrive home in Australia.The family of executed Bali nine drug smuggler Andrew Chan says the Turnbull government is putting more Australians at risk of the firing squad by turning its back on
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DES MOINES — A slow-moving crush of Senate committees working Thursday to beat an eligibility deadline claimed a GOP measure that sought to reinstate capital punishment in Iowa on a limited basis.Competition for meeting space and schedules waylaid by time-consuming private caucuses by legislators
Wai Phyo, left, and Zaw Lin on Oct. 3, 2014, shortly after their arrest on Koh Tao.The legal defense team representing the 2 Burmese migrant workers sentenced to death for the 2014 murder and rape
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San Quentin Prison death row guardsA death row inmate who went on a three-week crime rampage in Los Angeles in 1978 that included the fatal shooting and beating of a USC student died in his cell Tuesday at San Quentin State Prison, authorities said.Stevie Lamar Fields,
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The House of Representatives in Quezon City, PhilippinesMANILA — The Philippine House of Representatives approved a proposal on Wednesday to reinstate the death penalty, paving the way for capital punishment to be restored more than a decade after it was abolished.The bill, which would
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5 Bangladesh militants sentenced to death for killing JapaneseDHAKA, Bangladesh — Five members of a banned militant group were sentenced to death by a Bangladesh court Tuesday for involvement in the slaying of a Japanese agricultural researcher two years ago.Judge Noresh Chandra Sarker
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to weigh into the issue of which prior state court rulings a federal court should evaluate when deciding the merits of a condemned inmate's appeal.The case involves Marion Wilson Jr., a Georgia inmate, who, along with co-defendant Robert Earl Butts, was sentenced
Ismael Enrique Arciniegas ValenciaAntes de ser ejecutado, Ismael Enrique Arciniegas pudo hablar unos minutos con su hijo. “No es mucho lo que puedo decir por motivos de seguridad de mi familia, pero sí puedo decir que el flagelo del narcotráfico destruye familias”, dijo Juan José, hijo del Ismael
"87 inmates were sent to the gallows in the month of January '17 alone."Executions and crackdown against Iran’s youth is increasingly on the rise.Many inmates in their 20’s and 30’s have been executed or killed during the past months,
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a direct challenge to the constitutionality of the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment, rejecting an appeal by a Louisiana death row inmate convicted of killing three brothers.Liberal Justice Stephen Breyer objected to the court's
Kim Jong UnSEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea executed five senior security officials with anti-aircraft guns because they made false reports that “enraged” leader Kim Jong Un, South Korea’s spy agency said Monday.The comments by the National Intelligence Service in a private briefing to lawmakers03
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"Laws used to settle personal scores or grudges"ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court freed an Islamic preacher who was sentenced to death four years ago on charges of blasphemy, a defense lawyer said Tuesday.Chaudhry Mehmood Akhtar said that a judge in the city of Rawalpindi
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Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong (left) and Indonesian Siti Aisyah2 face gallows over murderVietnamese Doan Thi Huong and Indonesian Siti Aisyah are facing the gallows for the alleged murder of a North Korean on Feb 13.The women were charged under Section 302 of
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Solitary Housing Unit (SHU)It is brutal. It is torture by definition. It destroys the mind, body, and soul, making rehabilitation next to impossible. It is also outrageously expensive, and it doesn't work. Yet at the end of the Obama era, and the dawn of Trump's, isolation is as
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Ben Quilty (left) and Michael DagostinoMORE than 20,000 people have now walked through the doors at Campbelltown Arts Centre to see the world premiere of the paintings of executed Bali Nine drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran.The Another Day in Paradise exhibition features, among other works by01
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Wai Phyo, left, and Zaw Lin on Oct. 3, 2014, shortly after their arrest on Koh Tao.KOH SAMUI — The Appeals Court on Wednesday announced its decision
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This report has been compiled by the Centre on the Death Penalty, National Law University Delhi, for information purposes only. Accessing accurate and updated statistics on the use of the death penalty in India is an enormous challenge. It is almost impossible to state with any kind of certainty
S PrabagaranMalaysia will not interfere in other country's internal affairs, which includes a court case involving a Malaysian death row inmate in Singapore."We are aware that there is an effort to put pressure to bring a particular court case here to a higher profile," Malaysian High Commissioner28
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Indonesia: A man collapsed as he was getting caned by a religious officer.AN INDONESIAN man collapsed while being publicly caned Monday for having sex outside of marriage.Herizal bin Yunus, 27, fainted after being caned eight times in front of a crowd in Aceh, the only province of the world’s most
Nevada's death chamberAssemblyman James Ohrenschall and Sen. Tick Segerblom, both Las Vegas Democrats, on Friday introduced Assembly Bill 237, which would abolish capital punishment in Nevada.If enacted, the bill will set life without the possibility of parole as the maximum punishment for crime
Executions have been set for (top row, from left) Kenneth Williams,Jack Jones Jr., Marcell Williams, Bruce Earl Ward, and
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Mary Jane VelosoThe Nueva Ecija trial court hearing the trafficking case against the couple who recruited Mary Jane Veloso has scheduled the deposition of the Filipina in death row in Indonesia, her lawyers said Saturday.The National Union of People's Lawyers, which is helping prosecute Maria03
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OSAKA — The Osaka High Court has upheld a lower court decision that acquitted a man who had previously been sentenced to death for murdering his daughter-in-law and her son before setting fire to their apartment in Osaka in 2002.Takemitsu Mori, a 59-year-old prison guard on administrative leave02
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However the Supreme Court is growing less likely to confirm death sentences.Sessions courts handed down nearly twice as many death sentences in 2016 as compared to 2015, new data for 2016 compiled by the Centre on the Death Penalty at the National Law University Delhi shows.Over half of the 13602
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The man who operated New York State’s “Old Sparky” was calm, collected and always professional. No one knew that every flick of the switch was tearing him apart.It’s eleven p.m. on Thursday, September 17, 1925 – “Black Thursday” to the residents of Sing Sing prison in New York’s Hudson Valley. The01
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Indonesia's attorney-general M PrasetyoIt would be wise if the government listens to those criticizing the death penalty, says a moral theologian.A new round of executions will take place this year when a legal row over appeals is resolved, according to Indonesia's attorney-general.Muhammad01
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Bali's Kerobokan PrisonA Bali Nine death penalty saga could be repeated, Amnesty International warns after the government rejected recommendations to change federal police rules.Amnesty International fears there could be another Bali Nine-type death penalty saga after the federal government01
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Tennessee's death chamberThe Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court visited in Kingsport Tuesday, and we asked him about Tennessee's death penalty.Chief Justice Jeff Bivins is a Kingsport native and an East Tennessee State University graduate.We wanted to find out about death penalty cases28
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Lisbon, PortugalPortugal on Monday at the United Nations called on countries that still have the death penalty to call a “de facto” moratorium as a first step towards “total abolition” of the death penalty.According to the Portuguese Foreign Minister, Augusto Santos Silva, speaking at the opening28
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Kim Jong NamKUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian prosecutors will charge two women - an Indonesian and a Vietnamese - with murder over their alleged involvement in the killing of the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader, the Southeast Asian country's attorney general said on Tuesday.Kim Jong Nam28
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Selangor Ruler Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah (center)A man who was sentenced to death for drug trafficking in 2009 has received a 2nd chance at life after Selangor Ruler Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah granted him a pardon.Shahrul Izani Suparman, 33, and his family were told of the
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HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review appeals in three Texas death row cases, including one where a man pleaded guilty to a triple slaying in South Texas.The high court's rulings moved two inmates closer to execution: LeJames Norman, 31, condemned for the 2005 shooting
Cairo, EgyptEgypt MPs said the death penalty cannot be abolished because doing so would contradict Islamic ShariaThe human rights committee of Egypt's parliament said it will never recommend that the death penalty be abolished, responding to repeated calls from foreign rights groups to end capital