President Obama granted clemency to a record 214 inmates on Wednesday, far surpassing his previous single-day record, as part of an ongoing effort to release federal inmates serving prison terms deemed to be unduly harsh.To date, Obama has commuted the sentences of 562 federal inmates, more than the previous nine
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Indonesia: Stop executions!Coordinating Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Minister Wiranto has stressed that the government would not consider abolishing the death penalty, and therefore there was no need to evaluate prevailing laws."This is our law. Despite some pressures on us, we have our03
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More than 50 organizations linked to the Black Lives Matter movement came together to draft its 1st policy platform, released Monday."We seek radical transformation, not reactionary reform," Michaela Brown, a spokeswoman for Baltimore Bloc, an organization that worked on the platform, said. "As03
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Iran Human Rights (AUG 2 2016): At least 10 Sunni prisoners were executed at Rajai Shahr Prion of Karaj (west of Tehran) early morning on Tuesday August 2.Among these prisoners is Shahram Ahmadi, who was sentenced to death in an unfair trial that lasted only a
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Dylann RoofLawyers for Dylann Roof, the accused Charleston church shooter, filed a motion to challenge the constitutionality of the federal death penalty Monday. Roof's lawyers argue that "the federal death penalty constitutes a legally prohibited, arbitrary, cruel and unusual punishment01
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The 3rd batch of executions during President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration early on Friday saw 4 of the scheduled 14 inmates executed before firing squads and this latest round of killings has sparked criticism of the government over its negligence in conforming to the law in conducting the01
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Peter GardnerThe New Zealander arrested in China in 2014 for allegedly trying to leave the country with 30 kilograms of methamphetamine is still in jail awaiting a verdict.Peter Gardner has been in a Chinese jail cell for over a year, after he was stopped at Guangzhou Baiyan International Airport
On the the Throne Day, to be celebrated on Saturday in Morocco, King Mohammed VI granted pardon to 1,272 persons who were convicted by different courts across the Kingdom, the Ministry of Justice said in a statement.The detained beneficiaries of the pardon are 992:-- 11 inmates benefited from the30
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South Sudan army's (SPLA) 5th division in Western Bahr el Ghazal state on Friday executed 2 soldiers charged with murder and various crimes.The duo were arrested on 17 July and kept at Wau central prison after for allegedly murdering a couple at a residential area situated within Wau town.They
Gurdip Singh's wife and children appeal for his safe return.48-year-old Singh was among 10 convicts who were to be executed but were not put to death.JALANDHAR -- The wife of Indian national Gurdip Singh, who was to be executed over drug charges
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An Instagram user has sparked fury online by claiming to have burned a Singapore flag and challenging authorities to give him the death penalty.2 photos uploaded by the user show part of a Singapore flag in flames. "They have to throw the death penalty on me if I keep doing
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Cilacap: The fate of 10 death row prisoners who were saved from the firing squad in Indonesia just minutes before the executions took place remains unclear, with the country's attorney-general refusing to confirm if they have won a permanent reprieve.Just four of the planned 14 executions Leggi
Rodrigo DuterteThe restoration of the death penalty and the lowering of the age of criminal liability from 14 to nine years old may take effect in a year's time in order to sustain the success-bound anti-criminality program of the Duterte administration.Speaker Pantaleon "Bebot" Alvarez said that03
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At least 52 youths under the age of 32 are awaiting the implementation of their execution sentences in Greater Tehran Prison (Fashafouyeh Prison), according to reports from the prison.Among these death-row inmates, 32 are imprisoned in Section 1 and another 20 are incarcerated in Section 2 of the03
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Delaware Supreme Court“Delaware‘s current death penalty statute violates the Sixth Amendment role of the jury,” the state’s high court rules in a 3-2 decision striking down the entire death penalty law.WASHINGTON — Delaware’s death penalty law is unconstitutional in light of a U.S. Supreme Court01
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German philosopher Emmanuel Kant writes that judicial punishment can never be used as a means to promote some other good for civil society since a human being can never be instrumentalized merely as a means to another’s end. That means that to punish someone for the purpose of deterrence is to use
Iran's bloodstained record of sending juvenile offenders to the gallows, routinelyafter grossly unfair trials, makes an absolute mockery of juvenile justice.The Iranian regime plans to hang a teenager later this week for a crime he allegedly committed at the age
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Oklahoma death chamberAfter a string of execution mistakes and resignations, the state is replacing the personnel key to carrying out the death penalty in Oklahoma. But state officials say they view execution experience as "immaterial" in the hiring. posted on Jul. 29, 2016, at 11:16 a.m.After a01
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The United Nations human rights chief is opposing the imposition of capital punishment in all circumstances, saying death penalty is "not an effective deterrent" to crime and does not protect people from drug abuse.UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein was reacting to the30
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Activists hold posters which read "Jokowi, stop the executions!" during a candlelitvigil outside the presidential palace in Jakarta. Photo: APYet again on Friday morning, Indonesia showed its most brutal and ugly
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Iran Human Rights (JULY 29 2016): Two prisoners were reportedly executed this week, one in central Iran and the other in the northeastern region of the country.According to a report by unofficial source HRANA, on the morning of Wednesday July 27, a prisoner was hanged at Mashhad Central Prison29
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Indonesia has carried out a 3rd round of executions under President Joko Widodo. Attorney-General H. Muhammad Prasetyo had announced that 14 people would face the firing squad, but only 4 were killed on Thursday night - 3 Nigerians and an Indonesian national.All those executed under Widodo have29
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An ambulance carrying the body of one of the four executed drug convicts leavesCilacap, Central Java, Indonesia on July 29, 2016.Attorney General M. Prasetyo has said the stay of execution for 10 drug
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"A majority of Cubans wants the death penalty abolished."At the beginning of July, Havana Times put forward a new initiative: to find out what Cubans think about different national and/or global issues. As far as we know, only the government and government institutions carry out surveys; the03
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President Erdogan said he would sign a reinstatement of the death penaltyif parliament voted for it.Tentatively, cautiously, we can say that Turkey is dropping talk of reinstating capital punishmentThere are very few aspects of the
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This piece was published in partnership with the Influence.One afternoon, Donnie Calhoun, owner of Calhoun Compounding Pharmacy in Anniston, Alabama—"Compounding for Life's Problems"—came back from a meeting to find a strange request from the Alabama Department of Corrections. The girl who'd01
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Nebraska: Gathering signatures against the repealLINCOLN, NE – Republican State Senator Colby Coash said today that Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson’s statement that there is no way to know how long it would take for the Legislature to get the death penalty functioning again should voters01
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The United Nations human rights chief today expressed serious concern that Iraq has created a committee to accelerate implementation of death sentences.The committee, announced by Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, has been mandated to identify procedural or legislative delays in implementation of
Ali al-Nimr, Abdullah al-Zaher, Dawood al-MarhoonFears are growing that Saudi Arabia is about to behead a man for crimes committed when he was a juvenile - in violation of both international and Saudi law - triggering calls for the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, to
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A justice reform watchdog has urged the government to publicly reveal information about stays of execution for death row convicts.The Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) regretted the government's decision to execute four drug convicts on Nusakambangan prison island in the early hours of30
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Father Charles BurrowsA Catholic priest who was present at Nusakambangan prison in Indonesia during this week's executions has said in the past it has taken up to 15 minutes for prisoners to die.Father Charles Burrows, who is based in Cilacap near the prison, was called there to speak with Leggi
Indonesian President Joko Widodo with Germany's Angela MerkelIndonesia’s president continues to execute drug offenders, despite international pressure.The third wave of executions announced by the Indonesian attorney general’s office has created an uproar and made headlines all around the world
Batu prison's isolation cells on Nusakambangan island, IndonesiaThe government's statement comes just hours after it executed 4 drug convicts including 3 foreignersIt looks as if international and local pressure on the Indonesian government to abolish the death penalty is making some progress.On
Jakarta. Despite international calls to abandon the death penalty altogether, the government went ahead with the third round of executions at the notorious Nusakambangan prison island, Central Java, early Friday (29/07).The executions commenced slightly after midnight, after postponed by falling