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“It is never acceptable to risk killing innocent persons for the sake of being tough on crime.”LINCOLN, NE – A 25-year, tough-on-crime, criminal prosecutor who supervised the 2008 DNA testing that freed the Beatrice Six, says Nebraska’s death penalty should be replaced with life in prison without the chance of parole.Previously a
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Perry Eugene WilliamsThe scheduled July 14 execution of a man convicted in the slaying of a medical student robbed of $40 has been postponed indefinitely.A Texas prison system spokesman said Wednesday that a state district judge in Houston has withdrawn the execution order for Perry Eugene
73-year-old Vietnam-born Australian Nguyen Thi Huong was sentenced todeath in Vietnam for trying to smuggle 2.8 kilograms of heroin to Sydney.Australia needs a consistent and pragmatic national strategy that outlines
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Conakry, GuineaGuinea’s National Assembly vote in favor of a new criminal code abolishing the death penalty is a significant step for human rights in the country, but the code contains provisions which will strengthen the impunity enjoyed by security personnel and repress the expression of dissent
Rodrigo DuterteFirst bill filed under President Rodrigo Duterte seeks to reintroduce capital punishment for 'heinous crimes'A bill seeking to re-impose the death penalty in the Philippines has become the first to be filed under the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte.Local media reported Wednesday that
Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-chaPrime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has now decided he does not support calls for the death penalty for rapists.Only last month he ordered the legal community and judiciary to ensure that convicted rapists are sentenced to death saying, 'foreign countries05
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia SotomayorThe Supreme Court term had barely gotten underway in early November when Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued her first dissent. A police officer's "rogue conduct," she wrote, had left a man dead thanks to a '''shoot 1st, think later' approach to policing."Justice03
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Lindsay Sandiford's 60th birthday party (via Facebook page)Lindsay Sandiford held a birthday party for fellow inmates and supporters, but she has been warned she may be fast-tracked for execution.A British grandmother on death row in Bali for smuggling cocaine has celebrated her 60th birthday03
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Philippine police officersA member of the House of Representatives from Metro Manila filed the first bill for the revival of the controversial death penalty in support of the vow of President Rodrigo "Rody" Duterte to stamp out corruption and rampant criminality especially illegal drugs "in 3 to 6
Hillary ClintonWashington (CNN) -- Democrats are calling for an end to capital punishment.The latest draft of the party's platform, released Friday, says the death penalty "has proven to be a cruel and unusual form of punishment" that "has no place in the United States of America."The inclusion01
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Bob Macy of Oklahoma CountyHarvard report highlights the lion-sized role in modern death penalty of just four men and a woman, and how capital punishment is a ‘personality-driven system’As head prosecutors in their counties, just five individuals have been responsible for putting no fewer than 440
Indonesian President Joko WidodoThe Supreme Court has added five new death row inmates to the Attorney General’s Office’s (AGO) executions list, with the recent sentencing of five drug dealers.The move at country’s highest court comes just four days after President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo called on
California's death chamberAt a time when more inmates on death row die from suicide than execution, the Death Penalty Reform and Savings Act could cement California as the new death belt.31 years ago, Kevin Cooper was sentenced to death by a California court for the brutal murder of 4
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Florida's death chamberTALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Supreme Court went on summer vacation Thursday and put on ice rulings resolving two of the most controversial issues to come before the court this year: the death penalty and expansion of slot machines. The court issued its final rulings for its
Dylann RoofDylann Roof's lawyers are seeking to dismiss the federal indictment against Roof, saying his charges exceed the authority of the federal government and are unconstitutional.The request was filed on Tuesday by Roof's defense attorneys.Defense attorney Sarah Gannett argues that all 33
Oscar PistoriusOscar Pistorius, the double-amputee who dazzled the world by running in the 2012 Olympics on blade-like prosthetic legs, was sentenced to 6 years in prison for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp.Fifteen years is the minimum sentence for murder under South
Manny PacquiaoAccording to GMA News, Manny Pacquiao has come out politically swinging in his new role as a senator in the Philippines. Pacquiao will be pushing for the death penalty to be carried out by hanging.He believes death by hanging is more "humane" not only for the criminal being executed
The Prime Minister of Iraq Haider Jawad Kadhim Al-Abadi ordered on Monday to execute immediately all terrorists on death row in the country.The instructions were submitted to the Ministry of Justice after deadly attacks in Baghdad on Sunday, which killed 165 and wounded 225.A lorry packed with03
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We welcome Judge Elsa Alcala's frank - and courageous - assessment of the Texas death penalty, not for what people wish the state's capital punishment system to be, but for what it is: Discriminatory, inefficient and immoral.That assessment coming from an experienced judge on the Texas Court of02
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Al-Zawahri:"gravest consequences if Boston marathon bomber is executed." Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has warned the United States of the "gravest consequences" if Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or any other Muslim prisoner is executed.Tsarnaev, named in a new online video message01
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Florida's death chamberWith one week left before the Florida Supreme Court goes on its summer recess, the justices have yet to rule on one of the most anticipated and politically charged questions facing them this year: Whether to commute the sentences of 390 death row inmates after the state’s01
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Jakarta. Saman Hasan, also known as Messi, a Turkish prisoner, has reportedly escaped the Besi Prison in Nusakambangan Island, Cilacap, Central Java, an official said on Friday (01/07).The drug convict was found to be missing from the prison on Thursday at around 4 p.m. when the wardens checked30
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The People's Court found Nguyen Thi Huong guilty of smuggling 2.8 kg of heroin.A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced a 73-year-old Vietnam-born Australian woman to death for trafficking heroin hidden in bars of soap, several state-run media
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Incoming Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez has said that the proposal to restore death penalty in the country will be a priority of the 17th Congress.Alvarez has filed his House Bill No. 1 which seeks to re-impose death penalty on "heinous crimes", such as human trafficking, illegal recruitment, plunder
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in court in Zintan.Muammar Gaddafi's British-educated son was released from death row in Libya earlier this year and now appears to be at large even though he faces charges at the International Criminal Court. (ICC) Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the ousted dictator's most
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Nebraskans will go to the polls four month from now and vote for an array of issues-one being whether or not to reinstate the death penalty in Nebraska.The legislature voted 30-19 to repeal it in the Spring of 2015, but supporters of capital punishment were able to get enough signatures to get
The Maldives Supreme Court upheld lower courts verdict to execute HusseinHumam Ahmed. The 22-year-old was convicted of killing MP Dr A. Ali.COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Maldives' foreign
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Myuran Sukumaran (L) and Ben Quilty (R) in Kerobokan's art workshop.Quilty first met Myuran in early 2012 after a member of the Mercy campaign forwarded him an email from the Bali Nine ringleader, asking for technical advice about painting. Quilty says
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Texas' death house, 'The Walls Unit', Huntsville, TexasSaturday marked 40 years since the Supreme Court’s Gregg v. Georgia decision, which brought about the modern death penalty, and Texas continues to lead the nation in executions. But a local death penalty case is
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Typical death row cell, Osaka detention centerLast week, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced his plans to reinstate the death penalty, which was abolished in his country in 2006. Duterte says he believes in retribution: If you kill someone, you deserve to die.Some people are shocked02
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Pablo Ibar, left, and defense lawyer Fred Haddad.A man who spent 16 years on Death Row for three murders he insists he did not commit went before a Broward judge Friday to ask for a bond so he can leave jail as he and
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"Not all human rights principles are necessarily universal.""Not all human rights principles are necessarily universal." -- Kazem Gharibabadi, International Deputy for the Iranian High Council for Human Rights.The Iranian government plans to host an international human rights conference in the30
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If you're wondering why the world needs Heterosexual Pride Day today, check out the map below.All the countries marked in red are the places where you can be arrested, verbally abused, beaten, physically assaulted, jailed, stoned to death, thrown off building tops, executed, hanged, killed30
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Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in Thursday as president of the Philippines.Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in Thursday as president of the Philippines, with many hoping his maverick style will energize the country but others fearing he could undercut one of Asia's liveliest
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