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The EU has called on the Indonesian government to halt all executions and to consider joining a large community of more than 140 states that have abolished the death penalty entirely or have adopted a moratorium.The EU made the statement in a response to the planned executions of up
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia plans to execute 14 death row prisoners, mostly foreigners, as early as Friday morning as it resumes a “war on drugs” that drew international condemnation last year after two mass executions of foreign drug convicts.The attorney general’s office has not announced any28
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"The report found Zulfiqar Ali was a victim of conspiracy and was innocent"Cilacap: Fears that innocent people will be killed in Indonesia's looming executions are intensifying, with a former senior government official revealing an internal investigation he conducted into
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Indonesia is running a serious risk of executing innocent persons if it insists on going ahead with the executions of 14 death row convicts, expected on Friday.The convicts, who have received official notification letters of their forthcoming execution on Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap
Hundreds of firing squad personnel from the Central Java Police’s Mobile Brigade were taken to Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap on Tuesday evening.They were transported to the prison island using several police trucks at around 8:00 p.m. local time via Wijayapura Quay in Cilacap.It took27
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Nusakambangan Island, July 25, 2016Jakarta. President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will put the Indonesian government on the wrong side of history if he proceeds with the third round of executions, Human rights watchdog Amnesty International cautioned on Wednesday (27/07).Amnesty International made this26
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Indonesia has given a group of death row inmates 72 hours notice before they face the firing squad.Lawyers for some of the group have told the ABC their clients may seek last-minute clemency from President Joko Widodo, meaning their executions could be delayed.It will be the first round of26
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Indonesia may have felt proud when its delegation was chosen to represent 16 like-minded countries at a UN General Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem at the UN headquarters in New York last April.For Indonesia, its selection to read a joint statement on behalf of countries that26
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Public hanging in Mashhad, May 17, 2016Iran Human Rights (26 JULY 2016): According to a report published by Iran Human Rights (IHR), Iranian authorities have executed at least 250 people between January 1 and July 20 of this year. This represents an average of more
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi Arabia on Monday executed 2 convicted murderers, the interior ministry said, raising to 107 the number of death sentences carried out in the kingdom this year.Fahd al-Ishan was convicted of stabbing to death another Saudi citizen, the ministry25
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Jakarta. All prisons in the notorious Nusakambangan Island are reportedly safe and ready to stage its third round of executions as several inmates on death-row have been moved there, Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly said on Monday (25/07).“The prisons are highly safe. We are ready25
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San Quentin's brand new death chamber45 years ago in a bone-chilling, blood-curdling cover story for The Los Angeles Free Press about California's gas chamber - "How Long Can You Hold Your Breath?" - author, musician and beatnik activist Ed Sanders, decried state-sponsored, taxpayer funded28
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Attorney General H.M. PrasetyoJakarta. H.M. Prasetyo has continued to secure his position as attorney general despite President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's cabinet reshuffle due to his tenacity to execute drug convicts, Hendardi, chairman of political watchdog Setara Institute told Suara Pembaruan on28
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Richard Jordan has been on death row in Mississippi for 40 years for kidnapping and murdering Edwina Marter in 1976, even though the average wait time for death-row inmates to be killed is about 14 years. Jordan and fellow death-row inmate Thomas Loden Jr., convicted in 2001 for sexual assault27
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Pope Francis’ position on the death penalty is abolitionist.He believes there is no moral ground in Catholic teaching that would justify any state using capital punishment today, and he has set up a commission to review the question and the relevant section of the Catechism of the Catholic Church27
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NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime hanged on Wednesday a group of six prisoners in a jail in north-western Iran and a seventh prisoner in the north-east of the country.The six men were hanged at 2am on July 27 in the central prison in the city of Orumieh (Urmia), the provincial
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Chinthu, the brother of Myuran Sukumaran, and his mother Raji makea heartfelt speech during the Bali Nine ringleader’s funeral in May 2015.RAJI Sukumaran, the mother of Myuran Sukumaran who was executed in
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Steven Hayes and Joshua KomisarjevskyNEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A man condemned to die for killing a woman and her two daughters during a 2007 home invasion was resentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of release because the state abolished the death penalty.A state
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Merry UtamiA last-minute clemency appeal has been launched for an Indonesian woman believed to be facing the firing squad in the country's next round of executions, feared to be imminent.The woman, known as MU or Merry Utami, was a poor woman who had been "manipulated" by a drug syndicate, when
A prisoner is hanged in public in Kermanshah province, Iran, on July 25, 2016.Iranian authorities reportedly executed three prisoners in the province of Gilan on Saturday July 23 and one prisoner in public on Monday July 25 in the Kermanshah
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Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsIran's fundamentalist regime on Saturday hanged 3 prisoners in a jail in northern Iran. The regime is set to hang a man in public on Monday.In a statement on Saturday, the regime's judiciary in Gilan Province, northern Iran, announced that the 3 prisoners25
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Steven Hayes and Joshua KomisarjevskyNEW HAVEN -- One of two men sent to Connecticut’s death row for the slayings of a mother and her two daughters during a 2007 home invasion is set to be resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release because the
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We periodically publish letters from death row inmates. Today we hear from a 29-year-old Texas inmate who describes his life and horrific upbringing, and offers a look behind the walls of a prison from which he will never emerge.Teddrick Batiste was convicted of the 2009 shooting and killing a28
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“If nothing has changed, there will be 14 people.”: AG Coffins taken to Nusa Kambangan in preparation for firing squad deaths, as country carries out first executions since Bali Nine pair and six others last yearSpiritual advisers and families of inmates on death row in Indonesia have been told28
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Merri UtamiFemale migrant workers are perfect targets for drug traffickers as they are often poor but hold passports, campaigners sayJAKARTA, July 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The case of an Indonesian woman expected to be executed this week for drug trafficking highlights the risk to migrant27
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Indonesia is likely to resume executions of prisoners this week, with 14 inmates – four Indonesians and 10 foreign nationals – expected to face the firing squad this weekend.No formal list of death row prisoners has been released by Indonesian authorities, but a group of lawyers from the Leggi
Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Dubai: A Saudi court sentenced two men it said were Al Qaida followers to death on charges of decapitating a Saudi intelligence service colonel in 2007, local media reported on Tuesday.The men attacked Colonel Nasser Al Othman at his
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo, popularly known as ‘Jokowi’, will be putting his government on the wrong side of history if he proceeds with a fresh round of executions, Amnesty International said today.Amnesty International received credible reports that at least 14 people could be executed26
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An execution drug obtained by the Arkansas prison system this month appears to have been made by a subsidiary of Pfizer, even though the pharmaceutical giant has said it doesn't want its drugs to be used in executions.The sale of the vecuronium bromide by an unknown third party26
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Rodrigo DuterteThe newly convened Philippine Congress heard a proposal on Tuesday to re-impose the death penalty for "heinous crimes", giving priority to President Rodrigo Duterte's push for capital punishment in its first legislative session.The death penalty bill was received the same day26
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Nusakambangan Island, where Indonesia carries out its executions.The spiritual advisers who will spend the final hours of life with those condemned to die in Indonesia's next round of executions have been told they will be carried out around midnight on July 29 to 30.
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Tennessee attorneys are citing Obergefell v. Hodges in an effort to spare their clientsA motion filed last month by the Federal Public Defender's office argues that post-conviction proceedings in the case of death row inmate Charles Wright should be reopened because Wright's death sentence25
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Jakarta. Convicted drug smuggler Merry Utami was moved from the Tangerang Women's Prison in Banten to Nusakambangan Island in Cilacap, Central Java, on Sunday morning (24/07), pointing to the likelihood that her execution may be imminent."According to reports I received, she was moved to an25
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Jeff WoodSupporters of Jeff Wood gathered on July 23, 2016, in front of the Governor's Mansion to rally against his scheduled August execution.On Saturday, relatives and supporters of death row inmate Jeff Wood braved the Texas summer heat to gather outside Gov. Greg Abbott's mansion, hoping their