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 punishment."Western human rights organisations that
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The Court of Appeal on Monday (Feb 27) upheld the respective sentences handed down to 2 Sarawakians who were convicted of a brutal murder in the 2010 Kallang slashings.Micheal Garing, 28, who had wielded the murder weapon, a 58cm-long parang, was given the death penalty, while Tony Imba, 38, was
German national Jurgen Kantner and his partner, Sabine Merz, in 2009.(CNN) A German man has been beheaded by Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines after a deadline to pay his ransom passed, the Philippine government has said.A video posted by
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Mississippi lawmakers have shot down the firing squad as a means of execution for death row inmates.The change, by a state Senate committee, came after the lower chamber passed a proposal Feb. 8 that would have allowed death by nitrogen gas chamber, firing squad and electrocution as alternatives24
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Public flogging in IranPolitics of demonization’ upbringing division and fearAmnesty International releases its Annual Report for 2016 to 2017. The report, The State of the World’s Human Rights, delivers the most comprehensive analysis of the state of human rights around the world, covering 15924
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Antonio WilliamsAssistant county prosecutor accused of pressuring witnesses to name him in double murderThe family of a death row inmate who died at Harris County Jail while in Houston to appeal his conviction are suing county officials for his wrongful death by suicide two years ago.Antonio23
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Suthar (left) and Rames BatumalaiPETALING JAYA: Amnesty International Malaysia (AIM) is urging the Government to stop the execution of two brothers on Friday in view of a pending application for a royal pardon.Brothers Rames and Suthar Batumalai, who were convicted for murder in April 2010, have23
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Former CEO and sales manager at state-owned company found to have stolen millions in country's largest embezzlement scandalA Vietnamese court issued the death penalty Wednesday for 2 former executives at state-owned shipbuilding firm Vinashin in the largest embezzlement scandal to hit the23
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Dylann RoofIn the spring of 2015, Dylann Roof told friends he wanted to see something happen in South Carolina that would make global headlines, like the September 11 terrorist attacks did for New York. Just weeks later, he walked into Charleston's Emanuel AME Church and gunned down nine black22
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a death row inmate's challenge to Alabama's execution method, prompting liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor to assert that the court should have considered whether the lethal injection procedures amounted to unconstitutional cruel and unusual22
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an attempt by Arkansas inmates to stop their executions over claims that their deaths would be "intolerably painful."The 9 inmates asked the justices to review an Arkansas Supreme Court decision upholding a law that keeps secret the source of the lethal
Iranian regime's head of judiciary has ordered that Sunni prisoners convicted of drug trafficking to be executed as soon as possible so that they won't be subject to the new legislation approved by regime's Parliament.According to reports, a senior judiciary official has revealed a secret decree27
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The judicial hearings in the case against a 49 year-old Jordanian man accused of killing and sexually assaulting Obaida - an 8-year-old boy, came to an end on Monday with the Dubai top court upholding the death sentence given by the 2 lower courts. He will also be required to pay Dh21,000 Leggi26
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February 23, 2017: A Lagos High Court in Ikeja sentenced a man, Sulaiman Olalekan, to death by hanging for the murder of his wife, Mrs Chika Egbo on November 20, 2012 in a case of domestic violence. The convict (Olalekan), on the fateful day, allegedly poured acid on his wife, having become25
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Suthar and Rames BatumalaiThe execution of 2 brothers convicted for murder is now set to proceed as planned at the Kajang Prison.The 2 - 44-year-old Rames and 39-year-old Suthar Batumalai - were originally due to be executed on Friday morning, but had received a stay at the 11th
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Senator Leila de LimaManila, Philippines (CNN) -- One of the fiercest critics of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, Senator Leila de Lima, was arrested Friday morning.She is accused of having abetted the illegal drug trade in the New Bilibid Prison when she was justice secretary from 2010 to24
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Seven Republicans in the Iowa Senate are backing bills that propose the reinstatement of Iowa's death penalty, with most pointing to the 2005 death of a 10-year-old girl from Cedar Rapids who was kidnapped and murdered as a reason.Iowa abolished the death penalty in 1965. State law currently
Justice Sonia SotomayorThe Supreme Court said Tuesday that it would not hear the case of an Alabama inmate whose execution the justices delayed in November. This decision was accompanied by a critical dissent written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who questioned whether lethal injection — the primary23
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The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines on Wednesday said the last battleground to stop the reimposition of the death penalty would be the Supreme Court should Congress approve its reimposition.CBCP Commission on Prison Pastoral Care Executive Secretary Rodolfo Diamante said anti-death
DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Lawyers here expressed their objection to the re-imposition of the death penalty in the country, saying that it would endanger and a disadvantage to the poor because of the “corrupt” criminal justice system in the Philippines.Speaking in a forum titled “Thou Shall Not Kill22
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The nation's highest court on Tuesday refused to hear the appeal of a Virginia death row inmate who killed a hospital security guard and sheriff's deputy during an escape that sparked a massive manhunt that shut down Virginia Tech's campus in 2006.William Morva argued that he should have beenThe Supreme Court blocked the execution of a Texas murderer Wednesday because of racially discriminatory testimony presented by his own defense team.The 6-2 ruling was the second in the court's new term to overturn a death sentence, and it could be a harbinger of things to come. The justices heard
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal appeals Court plans to consider arguments over the constitutionality of Ohio's lethal injection process as the state tries to start carrying out executions once again.At issue is whether a contested sedative, midazolam, is powerful enough to put inmates into a deep state27
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MANILA - The House of Representatives is poised to pass a watered-down version of the bill reimposing the death penalty.The Supermajority will meet in a closed door caucus again on Monday to perfect the amendments to the bill which is now one step short of the vote on 2nd reading—-which is25
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S PrabagaranThe UN Human Rights Office for South East Asia calls on Singapore to halt the scheduled execution of Malaysian national S Prabagaran, and urges the government to immediately reinstate a moratorium on the use of the death penalty.Prabagaran was convicted in 2012 after 22.24g of
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey could hold a referendum on reinstating the death penalty, if parliament fails to pass such a measure.Erdogan made the comment on Friday while campaigning for a "yes" vote in a referendum on whether to expand his powers.Since a failed coup in24
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Sophia SchollSophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at theSuthar and Rames BatumalaiKUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24 — Brothers Rames and Suthar Batumalai temporarily avoided execution today after their family filed a plea for clemency yesterday over their murder conviction.Uma Muthukrishnan, who is the duo’s sister, said a police officer had informed her that the23
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Charles Amos Wilson IIIA former Robins airman accused of killing his fiancee and her unborn child will serve life in prison without parole, but not the death penalty.A military court-martial panel on Wednesday delivered their sentence on Charles Amos Wilson III.He's a former support team member23
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2 Texans on death row for separate slayings in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have lost appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court.Without comment, the justices refused Monday to review the cases of 52-year-old Joseph Lave and 54-year-old Juan Segundo.Lave was condemned to die in a 1992 robbery in which 223
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SHARJAH - A 19-year-old Pakistani student has been handed the death penalty for stabbing to death a countryman in a row over a football match.The teenager claimed that he stabbed the victim in self-defence in Bu Taina, Sharjah, in August 2015, after the man attacked him with a knuckle
A Dover man on death row for 1st-degree murder has had his death sentence vacated, officials from the Delaware Department of Justice confirmed Tuesday.Juan J. Ortiz, who had been on death row since 2003, is now sentenced to mandatory life in prison without benefit of probation or parole.Ortiz had22
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House of Representatives, Manila, PhilippinesThe execution of the 1st convict may not happen in the next 4 to 5 years under the term of President Rodrigo Duterte even if the death penalty bill is passed by Congress and becomes law, Majority Leader Rodolfo Farinas said."Even with the
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PurposeThe purpose of this position statement is twofold. First, to address the role of nurses in capital punishment. Second, to express the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) overall views on capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty. Registered nurses, along with other health