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The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), a coalition of 40 prominent Latino organizations, this week joined the growing, bipartisan list of groups calling for the end of the death penalty, noting that Latinos are "directly affected by its injustices."For the 1st time ever, the NHLA Public Policy Agenda includes positions on drug
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Who gets the death penalty in India? The Death Penalty India Report(pdf), brought out by the National Law University last month, attempts an answer. A 1-of-its-kind study, it documents the socio-economic profiles of prisoners sentenced to death, as also their engagement with the criminal justice10
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Indonesia's double standardThe government is stepping up its efforts to spare the lives of 208 Indonesians abroad who are facing the death penalty, an official said on Thursday.As of May 2016, 154 of the Indonesian nationals on death row overseas were in Malaysia, with the majority of their cases09
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Seeing a child with a noose around their neck would make anyone turn away in horror. It's not something most people imagine is still happening. But it's likely there are hundreds of prisoners on death rows around the world who were detained as children - potentially as many as 800 in Pakistan08
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Taha, one of the over 1,000 Iranian LGBT refugees in TurkeyIn a country where gay sex is punishable by death, Taha dared to do the unthinkable.BBC journalist Ali Hamedani visited Istanbul, Turkey where Taha—an Iranian mullah, or cleric—has fled after performing
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Nie Shubin (file photo)The Supreme People's Court has ordered a retrial of a man executed 21 years ago, according to Xinhua News Agency.Nie Shubin, a worker in Shijiazhuang, northern China's Hebei Province, was put to death in April 1995 when he was 20 years old for allegedly
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Dylann RoofThe federal government announced last week that it would seek the death penalty in its case against Dylann S. Roof, the man arrested last June for killing nine African Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church. It will be the 2nd death penalty trial that he is facing. The state
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Indonesian President Joko WidodoIndonesia’s executions for drug-related crimes are based on political expedience, not necessity.Twelve months following the Indonesian government’s execution of eight people, some of whom were foreign citizens, all on charges of drug smuggling, President Joko07
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Dylann RoofProsecutors and defense attorneys for Dylann Roof gathered in a courtroom Tuesday afternoon for the first time since federal authorities announced they would pursue his execution.At the 2 p.m. hearing Judge Richard Gergel in U.S. District Court in downtown Charleston set the date for
Gujarat riotsAHMEDABAD: Indian prosecutors sought the death penalty on Monday for 24 Hindus convicted over a massacre during religious riots in 2002 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief minister of the state where it happened.Judge P.B Desai heard submissions from the prosecution as well as
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear two cases raising major questions about the death penalty, including whether executing a condemned inmate more than 35 years after he was sentenced to death violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.That06
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Public hanging in Shiraz, Iran, on June 5, 2016Iranian authorities hanged two men in public on Sunday June 5 in Shiraz, southern Iran.Iran Human Rights (June 6 2016): Two men were hanged in public in the city of Shiraz (province of Fars, southern Iran) early morning on Sunday June 5.According to
Incoming president Rodrigo Duterte wants 50 convicts executed every month by hanging once Congress re-imposes the death penalty, representative-elect Danilo Suarez of Quezon said yesterday."He feels that if at least 50 drug lords and other convicts are hanged every month, their execution will10
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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has claimed that the attackers who carried out the recent attacks that rocked the northwestern city of Aqtobe "received instructions from abroad," and suggested that suspects will face the death penalty.The June 8 comments were the first made by the Kazakh
10 nations with large Muslim populations have laws providing for the death penalty for same-sex activity.Only a few actually impose the death sentence. Exactly how many is a difficult question.The 2016 State-Sponsored Homophobia report from ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans08
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Nevada just became the ninth death penalty state to go a decade or more without an execution. Add those nine to the 19 states without capital punishment, and you have 28 states that have abandoned executions in either law or practice.And in the remaining states? The death penalty is in complete08
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For the 3rd time in 5 weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court has told an Alabama appeals court to reconsider an Alabama death row inmate's appeal in light of the Supreme Court's ruling earlier this year striking down Florida's capital punishment scheme.2 Alabama attorneys said Monday that the moves by the
The clerical regime's news agencies reported that 7 prisoners were executed in the past 3 days in Mashhad, Shiraz and Tehran.The state-run Rokna website wrote on Tuesday, June 7, that 3 men, aged 30, 35 and 40, who had been sentenced by the so-called Revolutionary Court in Mashhad, north-east07
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A lawyer reportedly has carried out executions in one of Tehran's prisons.According to the state-run Iranian news agency Fars, 2 Afghan citizens were hanged in a prison in Tehran.The prisoners were reportedly convicted of several cases of rape and robbery.The names of the prisoners, the date of07
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Pakistan has executed over 400 people since resuming hangings in December 2014, according to new research from international human rights organisation Reprieve.The country has become one of the world’s most prolific executioners since lifting a moratorium on hangings which had been in place for07
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Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-chaPRIME Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday ordered the legal community and judiciary to ensure that convicted rapists are sentenced to death."Foreign countries tackle rape cases by resorting to capital punishment," the prime minister said. "Is it06
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Human chain in front of Shaheed Satu Hall in ChapainawabganjDifferent women's and non-governmental organisations formed a human chain in front of Shaheed Setu Hall in Chapainawabganj town yesterday, demanding capital punishment of the killer of schoolgirl Konika Rani.Activists of Jago Nari06
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Missouri death chamberThe Rev. Sam Duckworth said his opposition to the death penalty began at age 6 when he saw a man beaten to death by a plantation owner in Mississippi."The plantation owner would administrate the justice. He was the judge, the arrestor, accuser, prosecutor and executor,"
A year ago today, Pakistan amid its ravenous 2015 execution binge hanged Aftab Bahadur Masih in Lahore for a 1992 murder.Left: Two faces of Aftab Bahadur Masih, separated by two decades on death row.According to the anti-death
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Drug pushers found carrying packs of “shabu” worth P4 million in their carby Quezon City Police, Philippines.A bill calling for the revival of the death penalty may be passed by the House of Representatives
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Nie Shubin (file photo)The Supreme People's Court has ordered a retrial of a man executed 21 years ago, according to Xinhua News Agency.Nie Shubin, a worker in Shijiazhuang, northern China's Hebei Province, was put to death in April 1995 when he was 20 years old for allegedly
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Kerry Max Cook (center)A former Texas prisoner who was released in 1999, after serving about 20 years on death row for charges of committing rape and murder of a 21-year-old, was finally cleared Monday.Officials said that an East Texas state court judge approved of an agreement between prosecutors08
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Jessica Kumala WongsoThe Indonesian government is continuing to shy away from a public guarantee that the death penalty will not be carried out in the case of a woman accused of murdering her friend with a cyanide-laced coffee.During a joint press conference in Sydney on Wednesday, Justice07
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Gallows at the Old Central Jail, Bangalore, IndiaTwo Acts passed this year widen the scope of capital punishment in India.While a majority of countries globally have abolished the death penalty in law or practice, at least 2 laws have come into force in India
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Indonesia's Supreme Court sentenced a Chinese woman to death for drug smuggling Monday, overturning a lower court's decision to release her as the country prepares for its next round of executions.The North Jakarta District Court ruled last year that all charges be dropped against Li Linfei, 3307
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All five men who were killed in the span of three days share one thing in common—being suspected of involvement in crimes, including the illegal drug trade.Five bodies in three provinces in three days.Five men, including a lawyer, fell victims to what appear to be cases of summary execution in06
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The government should use the human-trafficking angle in its defense strategy against the death penalty handed down by a Malaysian court to Rita Krisdianti, an Indonesian migrant worker, even though it would contradict Indonesia’s relentless commitment to the fight against illegal drugs, experts
Rodrigo DuterteThe Philippine president-elect has encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime, urging citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug dealers who resist arrest and fight back in their neighborhoods.In a nationally televised speech late Saturday, Rodrigo Duterte told a huge