A silent vigil was held outside the Delaware Supreme Court as the court weighs the constitutionality of capital punishment in Delaware.The ongoing debate over Delaware's death penalty has made its way to the state's highest court.For nearly a year, the discourse has drawn protests and emotional pleas at Legislative
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Jose Noey MartinezA man who fatally stabbed a 68-year-old woman and her 4-year-old granddaughter during a 1995 burglary in Hidalgo County will no longer face execution after he has been determined to be intellectually disabled.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest criminal
David Risner, Police Chief Lee DixonBELTON – The killer of a small-town Texas police chief escaped the death penalty on Wednesday after a jury could not reach agreement on his punishment. David Risner, a 59-year-old former police officer, will automatically be sentenced to life without
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Kerry Max Cook (center) and his team of lawyersTwo days after his legal team secured an agreement that could lead to his exoneration in a high-profile 40-year-old murder case, former death row inmate Kerry Max Cook fired the very lawyers who set
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So why do so many suspects confess to crimes they didn't commit?"You have the right to remain silent."If you've ever watched any of the tens of thousands of hours of television devoted to crime dramas, you know the 1st warning given to suspects who are arrested and questioned. And the 2nd15
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Some senators frowned yesterday on the idea of putting a sunset provision on the proposed restoration of the death penalty, saying lawmakers should vote on the measure based on their convictions.Incoming Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson said the 17th Congress should not pass the measure reimposing14
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Some of the victims of the Orlando shooter. Who they were...Sacramento Baptist preacher Roger Jimenez took to the pulpit hours after a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida that left 50 dead and dozens injured. But instead of words of comfort, Jimenez offered up praise for the killer and urged more14
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Indonesia: Getting ready for a new wave of executionsSpokesman for attorney-general confirms that executions are set to resume after a hiatusIndonesia plans to put 16 convicts to death after next month’s Muslim Eid holiday, an official said Tuesday, confirming executions were set to
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When Antwan Andre Anthony was sentenced to death in April for the 2012 killings of 3 convenience store workers in Farmville, it marked the end of a long wait for justice and the start of another.Anthony, 33, became the fourth man since the early 1990s to be sentenced to death for a
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The Indonesian government plans to execute 30 death row convicts in 2017, a deputy attorney general says."The number of convicts to be executed is expected to be 30" next year, Deputy Attorney General Bambang Waluyo told lawmakers during a parliamentary hearing on Monday, Tribun News
There is big chance for the Senate to pass a measure that would pave way for the revival of the death penalty in the country, and presumptive Senate President Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel 3rd expects to have it passed by October this year.According to Pimentel, the proposal seeking to reimpose capital
Screenshot from "Apprentice" by Boo Junfeng (2016)"The majority of people caught up in the drug trade worldwide come from impoverished backgrounds. One of the defendants in this case was earning a measly 25 US Dollars for each "bundle" of drugs that he delivered. That means he was making a pitiful
Police officers conduct a preliminary re-enactment at Olivier Cafe.An Indonesian Australian woman charged with the fatal cyanide poisoning of her friend must be executed if found guilty to prevent copycat murders, the dead woman’s father says.Justice Minister Michael Keenan and Indonesian Law
A judge presiding over a lawsuit that protests the way Arizona carries out the death penalty has told lawyers to be prepared later this month to reveal the status of the state's supplies of lethal-injection drugs.U.S. District Judge Neil Wake says attorneys in the case also should be prepared at15
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NCRI - This is a video clip recently smuggled out of Iran which shows a man being flogged in public by the fundamentalist authorities.The clip was filmed at Kouhpayeh Park in Shiraz, southern Iran.On May 25, the Iranian regime’s suppressive forces raided a party following a graduation
A Utah lawmaker is once again targeting the death penalty.Rep. Paul Ray (R-Clearfield), well known for bringing the firing squad back to Utah, says inmates sit on death row too long.He wants them to die quicker."If you're sentenced to die, you're going to die for doing that," Ray
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Fan JiemingA man who killed six people and injured four others with guns and an iron pipe in Shanghai three years ago has been executed, a local court said on Tuesday.Fan Jieming, 65, was sentenced to death by Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court for murder, robbery, and forcible seizure14
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Screenshot from "Apprentice", a film by Boo Junfeng (2016)The recent hanging of Kho Jabing despite exhausting all legal avenues was a dampener. There are insurmountable obstacles staring down at those amongst us who take up the dogged fight of standing up for the
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A gay man is thrown off a building top by ISIS militants in Iraq in Jan. 2016REYHANLI, Turkey — The Islamic State group, which on Monday called the Orlando mass shooter Omar Mateen 'one
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The Indonesian government plans to execute 30 death row convicts in 2017, a deputy attorney general says."The number of convicts to be executed is expected to be 30" next year, Deputy Attorney General Bambang Waluyo told lawmakers during a parliamentary hearing on Monday, Tribun News13
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Omar Saddiqui Mateen shot more than 100 people and took several hostage before he was killed by police in what is being called a terrorist attack. Mateen called 911 at the time of the attack to pledge allegiance to ISIS and mentioned the Boston bombers
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San Quentin's death rowCalifornia's death penalty system has been broken for so long, you could forgive people for thinking that it no longer exists. The last person executed at San Quentin was Clarence Ray Allen, who arranged the murders of 3 people in Fresno - 1 who revealed
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'The 15-year war is taken an increasingly brutal turn.'KABUL — In a remote area of Afghanistan, where thousands of years of hardscrabble tribal culture increasingly mixes with a resurgent Taliban militancy, this is how Fazl Ahmad allegedly died.Local officials in Ghor province said
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Jose Noey MartinezA man who fatally stabbed a 68-year-old woman and her 4-year-old granddaughter during a 1995 burglary in Hidalgo County will no longer face execution after he has been determined to be intellectually disabled.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest criminalThe Delaware Supreme Court hears arguments on the constitutionality of the state's death penalty today, bringing an issue that has been debated for months closer to conclusion - and potentially opening up a whole new deliberation.Rauf v. State of Delaware will be argued at 9:30, with the15
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Anti-gay Muslim cleric Farrokh SekaleshfarA British sheikh who advocated death as the penalty for homosexual acts has left Australia ahead of a decision to revoke his visa.The immigration minister, Peter Dutton, told Sky New on Wednesday he had already decided to cancel the sheikh’s visa and
Oklahoma State PenitentiaryThe U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal on Monday of Oklahoma death row inmate Scott Eizember, whose 2003 crime spree resulted in the deaths of an elderly couple.Since Eizember has exhausted his appeals, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt would normally ask15
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Louisiana death rowThe state of Louisiana's refusal to install air conditioning on death row has already cost taxpayers more than $1 million in legal bills, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.The state could spend roughly the same money — and possibly much less — on an air14
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Indonesia's President Joko WidodoIndonesia's President Joko Widodo will intervene if an Australian resident charged with murder is sentenced to death. Indonesia's Justice Minister Yasonna Laoly says Indonesia will honour a guarantee to Australia that Jessica Wongso will not be executed."As a state14
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In the movie Apprentice, characters are surrounded by death.More specifically, they deal with deaths that happen because of the death penalty.The topic might be fraught with controversy, but writer-director Boo Junfeng wants to steer clear of making moral points."The themes are larger than that13
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Pope Francis talks with Lidia Guerrero, the Argentine mother of a man ondeath row in Texas.VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has met for a second time with the Argentine mother of a man on
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Somers Northern Correctional Institution, ConnecticutThe death sentences of the Cheshire home invasion killers could be changed to consecutive life sentences at 2 separate hearings next week, the 1st proceedings to be held since last month's Supreme Court ruling that spared the lives of12
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Pablo IbarPablo Ibar, whose death sentence was overturned in February by the Florida Supreme Court, has been transferred to a regular prisonThe Florida Supreme Court vacated Ibar's sentence and ordered a new trial, citing several flaws in the state's arguments against him.45-year-old Ibar, who is10
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Dylann RoofDylann Roof, the suspect charged with fatally shooting nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., last June, is seeking to waive his right to a jury trial, according to court papers.Lawyers for Roof, 22, of Columbia, S.C., indicated the suspect's intent in a notice they