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Tilon CarterFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A Texas death row inmate whose execution date scheduled for this week was halted because of a legal technicality has received a new execution date.Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark says the prison agency has received court documents setting 37-year-old prisoner
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Cuban artist Juan Abreu (second from far left) with European Parliamentmembers Teresa
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Ronald RyanFifty years ago this week, Ronald Ryan was the last man hanged under the death penalty – it’s a reminder of why we should never entertain its returnFifty years ago, Jan, Wendy and Pip Ryan huddled in the lounge room of their Hawthorn home and waited for the state
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A Pakistani Christian has been bailed after more than 3 years in prison without being brough to trial or convicted.Adnan Prince, 29, from Lahore, was initially jailed in November 2013 after being accused of blasphemy and insulting Islam, the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad, which carries the death
Dylann RoofActing as his own lawyer, Dylann S. Roof, the young white supremacist convicted of killing nine African-American worshipers at a church in Charleston, S.C., stood before a federal jury last month and insisted that “there’s nothing wrong with me psychologically.” But documents unsealed07
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President Rodrigo DuterteThe Senate of the Philippines suspended a hearing into a bill for reinstating death penalty Tuesday after officials expressed concerns over an international treaty that bars the country from reimposing the capital punishment."We are suspending because there is a07
Feb
2017
The newly elected district attorney in Denver, Beth McCann, announced last month that her office would no longer seek the death penalty. "I don't think that the state should be in the business of killing people," she said.In Harris County, Tex., which includes Houston and has long been one of the06
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2017
US Administrative Security Facility, or ADX Florence, in Florence, Colorado.Inside the walls of the toughest prison in the US, a fork is a deadly weapon. Inside the walls of Norway's toughest prison, a fork is, well ... a fork.The differences extend far
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Medieval and barbaric: Public flogging in IranThe criminal judiciary of the clerical regime in the Lorestan province sentenced a man and a woman to barbaric punishment of stoning (Kashkan state website, February 4, 2017).In another incident,Yoiusef Parvaneh, a 70 year old prisoner, has been05
Feb
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A plan that would expand capital punishment in Utah so that criminals convicted of aggravated human trafficking or child sex exploitation that leads to death could be executed has made it through its 1st test on Friday.Members of a House law enforcement and criminal justice committee voted 6-505
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Steven Dean GordonSteven Dean Gordon, the serial killer who says he deserves to die for his crimes, found no disagreement last year from the jury nor, on Friday, from the judge.Orange County Superior Court Judge Patrick H. Donahue sentenced Gordon to death for the abduction and murder of four03
Feb
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Changi Prison, SingaporeKUALA LUMPUR: The family of a Malaysian man sentenced to hang in Singapore has filed a judicial review at the KL High Court, claiming he had been deprived of a fair trial. Datchinamurthy Kataiah, 32, was convicted of trafficking 44g of heroine across the Causeway from09
Feb
2017
Mississippi's death chamberJACKSON — Mississippi lawmakers are advancing a proposal to add firing squad, electrocution and gas chamber as execution methods in case a court blocks the use of lethal injection drugs.House Bill 638 is a response to lawsuits filed by “liberal, left-wing radicals,” said08
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In 1997, Larry Osborne was 17 years old. At that age, most kids would be obsessed about their SAT scores or lining up a date for the senior prom. Mr. Osborne, on the other hand, was standing trial for his very life, accused of breaking into the Whitley County home of 82-year-old
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Antonio BagnatoA Thai court has sentenced an Australian man to death for the kidnapping and murder of a Hells Angels member alleged to have been a major drug trafficker.Antonio Bagnato, 28, was found guilty of murder, deprivation of liberty and disposing of a body.In December 2015, former Hells07
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The time has come for the federal government to follow through on recommendations made in 2016 by a major parliamentary report on the death penalty, the Law Council of Australia has said.The Law Council of Australia (LCA) has used the 50th anniversary of the last execution to take place in
HELENA – Opponents of the death penalty are making another run at abolishing it in Montana – and told a House committee Monday there are multiple reasons for getting rid of what they called an ineffective, costly sentence.“The death penalty system, like so many government programs, is wasteful
In Ohio, an execution once scheduled for Feb. 15 is no longer on the calendar. A federal judge ruled recently that the state's new 3-drug process is unconstitutional, and he took particular issue with a drug familiar to Oklahoma officials.Magistrate Judge Michael Merz agreed with the attorneys for06
Feb
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Bali's Kerobokan prison, IndonesiaA friend of Bali Nine smuggler Myuran Sukumaran has revealed prison guards only spoke in Indonesian leaving inmates who did not speak the language not knowing their fate.Ben Quilty, an artist and Archibald winner, spent time with the convicted drug smuggler in05
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2017
Triple hanging in Kuwait in April 2013Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III expressed hope the government could still save the life of another Filipino worker on death row in Kuwait who was convicted for killing a fellow overseas worker.This after Bello saw the wife of the
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A divided Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld a man's death sentence it once had thrown out in the 2004 shooting deaths of a woman and her boyfriend.The 4-3 ruling Friday let stand the Barton County sentence of 37-year-old Sidney Gleason in the killings of Mikiala Martinez and Darren Wornkey
Singapore's Changi PrisonFormer cop Iskandar Rahmat, convicted in 2015 of the brazen killing of car-workshop owner Tan Boon Sin and his son Tan Chee Heong, failed in his appeal to escape the death penalty on Friday (Feb 3).The Court of Appeal - comprising Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon and Judges03
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Feb 02, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to commute the sentences of 60 prisoners in death row to life sentences prisoners on account of the 69th Independence Day on February 04.President Sirisena has taken the decision to spare the lives of the prisoners based on the09
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2017
The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office asked a judge Tuesday to set a Sept. 21 execution date for Larry Swearingen, the Willis man sentenced to death for murdering a teenage Montgomery College student in 1998.But Swearingen's attorney thinks an ongoing civil rights suit on his case08
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Washington Governor Jay InsleeWashington Gov. Jay Inslee says he thought long and hard about imposing a moratorium on the state's death penalty. Inslee told "Think Out Loud" host Dave Miller that the temporary halt in executions came only after an examination of the entire justice system in08
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Texas' death house, The Walls Unit, Huntsville, TexasAnother terrifying way the legal system screws the poor.For two months, John Ramirez had been sitting in his cell in Texas's death row prison, counting down the days to his execution date and scrawling handwritten letters to
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgThe 24-year Supreme Court veteran said if it was up to her there would be no death penalty or Electoral CollegeSupreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke at Stanford University on Monday night, broaching several topics from feminism to the death07
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Saydnaya prison near Damascus, SyriaDamning report suggests Saydnaya prison near Damascus being run as 'human slaughterhouse'Beirut: As many as 13,000 people were hanged in five years at a notorious Syrian government prison near Damascus, Amnesty International said Tuesday, accusing the regime of
Darkness at noon: Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaRising Arrests, Prosecutions(Beirut) – Saudi Arabia has stepped up arrests, prosecutions, and convictions of peaceful dissident writers and human rights advocates in 2017, Human Rights Watch said today. In January, a Saudi court sentenced two06
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A last-minute change in Nebraska's new protocol for executions moves the process back into public view, where it should be so taxpayers can monitor what government is doing in their name.The final protocol, which has been signed by Gov. Pete Ricketts, will allow taxpayers to know the identity of
Iran: Barbaric and medieval punishmentsNCRI - Criminal Court of the Western Lorestan province in Iran, condemned a man and a woman accused of so called ‘unethical relation’ to medieval capital punishment of death by stoning.According to the verdict of the Criminal Court Branch 1, in Lorestan
Tilon CarterTilon Carter, 37, received a stay Friday afternoon from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. His execution was set for Tuesday.For the 2nd time this week, a Texas execution has been stopped days before the man was set to die.Carter was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to04
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Belarus President Alexander LukashenkoI am ready to impose a moratorium on the death penalty if such a measure is supported by the majority of Belarusians, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said at the meeting with the members of the public, representatives of the Belarusian and foreign mass03
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GENEVA (2 February 2017) – A group of United Nations human rights experts has appealed to the Islamic Republic of Iran to immediately halt the execution of juvenile offender Hamid Ahmadi, who is scheduled to be executed by hanging on Saturday, 4 February. This is the third time that Mr.
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