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Nebraska Governor Pete RickettsLINCOLN, NE - State Sen. Adam Morfeld of Lincoln, a member of the Judiciary Committee, said today after a special Legislative hearing on the Department of Corrections discussing the cost of Nebraska prisons, that he appreciates the Ricketts Administration finally admitting that there are costs
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Yusef Salaam, left, is led away by a detective after being arrestedin Central Park for allegedly attacking Trisha Meili.In 1989 five young black men were wrongfully convicted of raping a woman jogging
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Saudi Arabia told a UN committee last week that it does not sentence children to death, despite submitting written evidence in which it admitted people can be executed for crimes committed aged 15, anti-death penalty charity Reprieve has found.The Saudi delegation told the UN’s child rights29
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Dylann RoofSome 748 prospective jurors in the upcoming Dylann Roof federal death penalty trial have been picked to go on to a second, more intensive, phase of jury screening that will begin Nov. 7.The 748 who survived the initial screening process this week were picked over a 2 1/2 day
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Iran Human Rights (SEPT 29 2016): Eight prisoners sentenced to death for murder and Moharebeh (enmity against God) charges were reportedly hanged at Karaj's Rajai Shahr Prison (Alborz province, northern Iran) on Wednesday September 28.According to close sources, on Thursday September 22, eleven29
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Iranian human rights and anti-death penalty lawyer Narges MohammadiAn Iranian appeals court on Wednesday upheld a 16-year prison sentence for a prominent Iranian human rights advocate.Narges Mohammadi had been sentenced in May on charges of violating national security and acting against the27
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"A positive image must be maintained. I urge the use of the soft-powerapproach be strengthened through cultural diplomacy, the promotion ofIndonesian cuisine and also promotion through sports." - Jokowi (no kidding)President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has urged the Cabinet to enhance the soft-power27
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"Supreme Court justices dismissed the appeal, claiming that a largeproportion of Pakistani prisoners suffer from mental illness."Pakistan's Supreme Court today dismissed an appeal brought by lawyers for a severely mentally ill prisoner, who now
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Cartoon by David Sipress, September 26, 2016, The New YorkerThere has not been a liberal majority of Justices since Nixon was President. If Hillary Clinton is elected, that will change.History, as a rule, unfolds slowly at the Supreme Court. The Justices serve for decades. The cases take years26
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court will tomorrow (Tuesday) hear a plea from death row prisoner Imdad Ali, a severely mentally ill man who narrowly avoided execution last week. The hearing comes as Amnesty International raised concerns that Mr Ali never
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Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsFour prisoners were reportedly hanged on Saturday September 24 at Tabriz Central Prison (East Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran).Iran Human Rights (SEPT 26 2016): Four prisoners on death row for drug related offenses were reportedly executed at Tabriz24
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Ahmad Najib ArisThe 40-year-old Ahmad Najib Aris who formerly worked as an aircraft cabin cleaner had spent 11 years on death row appealing against his death sentence without success and was hanged about 6am yesterday, after meeting his family for the last time the day before, The Star reported
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear the 1st of 2 death penalty cases in this year's term, the share of Americans who support the death penalty for people convicted of murder is now at its lowest point in more than 4
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Philippine President Rodrigo DutertePhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte has compared his anti-drug campaign to the Holocaust, saying he would kill as many addicts as Hitler did Jews."Hitler massacred three million Jews... there's three million drug addicts. I'd be happy to slaughter them," he29
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The ACLU says Attorney General Tim Fox has some explaining to do.Confronted with a challenge to the state's lethal injection cocktail, the Department of Justice leaned on a controversial medical expert last year to argue the sedative it planned to use to kill 2 death row inmates would work as29
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Seven prisoners were recently executed in southern Iran on drug related charges.Iran Human Rights (SEPT 29 2016): Seven prisoners sentenced to death for drug related offenses were reportedly hanged at Minab Central Prison (Hormozgan province, southern Iran).According to close sources, the
Dubai: Two brothers have been sentenced to death for killing their brother-in-law by choking him with a plastic rope after he married their sister without the family’s consent.A Pakistani man, F.A., who remains at large, lured his countryman brother-in-law, M.T., to discuss their family dispute in27
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Dylann RoofThe 1st of some 3,000 potential jurors in the Dylan Roof death penalty trial began reporting Monday to the U.S. District courthouse in downtown Charleston.Jurors were summoned, some 80 at a time, before U.S. Judge Richard Gergel, whose questions were aimed at weeding out those who
An Alabama death row inmate says the courts should allow him to argue that getting shot would be a less painful way to die than enduring the state’s current execution protocol.In a filing with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on
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Rodrigo DutertePresident Duterte wants to reimpose the death penalty to ensure that criminals pay for their sins in case God does not exist.Duterte said "bleeding hearts" like priests and human rights groups claimed that the death penalty did not deter crime when it was in effect for years. But he26
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Nebraska: Gathering against the repeal...LINCOLN, NE – The Republican Liberty Caucus of Nebraska met in Lincoln on Saturday for its biennial convention where it passed a resolution by voice vote declaring that the organization "opposes capital punishment by any method and calls on voters in26
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Typical cell on Texas death rowIn nearly three years, Dominic Walker rarely looked another human being in the eye.Except for showers, he left his cell at Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles only once a week, to exercise in a small cage resembling a dog
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India's Supreme CourtA death row convict was today set free by the Supreme Court saying the prosecution has not proved the charge against him of murdering his wife and five daughters on the basis of evidence on record.Justices Ranjan Gogoi and U U Lalit acquitted the man, even as
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Gathering signatures against the Nebraska repeal of the death penaltyThe 3 bishops in charge of the 375,000 Catholics in 350 Nebraska parishes have officially come out as opponents of the death penalty, as the issue takes center stage with a statewide vote
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The FCO funded training for hundreds of prison guards at Bahrain’s death row jail, where an innocent man faces imminent execution after ‘confessing’ under torture, a new report by anti-death penalty charity Reprieve has found.Northern Ireland Co-operation Overseas (NI-CO), a state-owned Belfast29
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Suspects charged for the gang-rape and murder of a 14-year old schoolgirlappear in court in the Indonesian city of Curup on August 4, 2016.An Indonesian court on
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Alleged Australian child sex abuser Peter Scully (center)Bringing back a flawed system to kill a rotten individual means that we dispense with the individual but are stuck with the systemThere have been calls to reintroduce the death penalty in the Philippines as the
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Pakistan says it is seeking ways to limit the scope of the death penalty, amid fears for a mentally ill prisoner who faces hanging as early as next week.Speaking on Monday at an event at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the first secretary of Pakistan’s Permanent Mission to the UN
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Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison, IranIran Human Rights has discovered that Iranian authorities executed 17 prisoners at Vakilabad Prison about two weeks ago on drug related charges.Iran Human Rights (SEPT 27 2016): 17 prisoners sentenced to death on drug related charges were reportedly hanged at26
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi authorities on Monday executed an Ethiopian housemaid convicted of killing the child of her employer more than 3 years ago, the Interior Ministry said.The ministry noted in a statement that the execution was carried out after the death
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Selling execution drugs "is an expression of political views, no different than signing a referendum petition or selling a t-shirt," an anonymous pharmacy argues in a new court filing.A pharmacy whose drugs have been used in 16 Missouri executions
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Ahmad Najib ArisMalaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (Madpet) is shocked to hear that Malaysia has executed one Ahmad Najib Aris on Friday (Sept 23, 2016), at a time when Malaysia is in the process of abolishing the mandatory death penalty, and possibly the death penalty for some Leggi
A federal appeals court overturned the triple-murder conviction of an Indiana death row inmate on Friday and granted him a new trial due to key evidence that was withheld in earlier trials, the man's attorney and court documents said.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago voted24
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Screenshot from "Apprentice" by Jufeng Boo (2016)Death penalty has deterred major drug syndicates from setting up in Singapore.Singapore has come out strongly backing capital punishment for drug-related offences, telling world leaders to respect the alternative views held by other countries.The