The families of four Kurdish political prisoners who face death sentences have been summoned to Evin Prison for a meeting, a sign of imminent execution.The Hengaw Human Rights Organization reported that Pejman Fatehi, Mohsen Mazloum, Mohammad (Hazhir) Faramarzi, and Vafa Azarbar are scheduled to meet their families at Evin, where they face imminent execution after receiving death sentences from Leggi Tutto
Shinji Aoba, the arsonist found guilty of killing 36 people in an attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio in 2019, made clear he is appealing the Jan. 25 death sentence simply to buy time to speak out more about the horrific crime.He stated, “I seriously accept the verdict.”It marked the first
Before the stormIn 1898, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld circulated a petition to abolish [Paragraph 175 criminalizing homosexual relations in Germany]. He obtained the signatures of prominent writers, lawyers, politicians, and church dignitaries. The petition was discussed in the Reichstag and rejected
On January 25, 2024, Alabama executed Kenneth Smith using nitrogen hypoxia, a first in American history. Though state attorneys had assured courts that the method would cause “unconsciousness in seconds,” witnesses reported that Mr. Smith appeared awake for several minutes after the nitrogen gas
Yasmin Cader of the American Civil Liberties Union said Smith "should have never been killed, let alone in such a gruesome manner.Alabama: The White House said Friday it was "deeply troubled" by the first-ever execution in the United States using nitrogen gas, an untested method which also drew
Two more political prisoners, Yousef Ahmadi and Ali Abidavi, have been sentenced to death amid Iran's ongoing killing spree.The two are the latest victims of the government's crackdown on dissent following a record year in 2023 seeing 834 executions according to the United Nations, eight linked
ATMORE, Ala. (WHNT) — News 19’s Lauren Layton was one of only five media witnesses present during the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith (pictured below) by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday.Smith was the first person to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia in the U.S.RELATED | Alabama convict becomes first
The Alabama Department of Corrections announced Tuesday night that it will deny Kenny Smith all solid food for up to 20 hours starting at 10 am on Thursday, January 25, the day of his scheduled execution.The change was announced after lawyers reported that Mr. Smith has been vomiting continuously
A Japanese man has been sentenced to death for an arson attack at a Kyoto animation studio in 2019 which killed 36 people and injured dozens more.The incident, one of Japan's deadliest in recent decades, killed mostly young artists and shocked the anime world.Shinji Aoba, 45, pleaded guilty to
From bite marks to shaken babies, the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences is debunking bad science.Kate Judson is a lawyer who often deals with crimes that did not occur. As the executive director of the Wisconsin-based Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences (CIFS), her job is to examine
The US Office of the Special Envoy for Iran has strongly condemned this week’s “unjust” execution of a young Iranian man who was sentenced to death in connection with nationwide protests against the clerical establishment.Mohammad Ghobadlou, 23, was handed capital punishment for allegedly running
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); January 23, 2024: State media reported the execution of “Woman, Life, Freedom” protester Mohammad Ghobadlu in Ghezelhesar Prison. He was awaiting retrial after his death sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court, per his lawyer.Iran Human Rights condemns Mohammad
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); January 26, 2024: Moslem Aliyari, man on death row for murder, was executed in Shirvan Prison in North Khorasan province.According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Shirvan Prison on 21 January. His identity has been established as
The US Supreme Court invited a lawyer who clerked for the chief justice to argue in support of executing an Oklahoma man on death row who’s fighting his conviction.Christopher Michel, a partner at Quinn Emanuel and former attorney in the Solicitor General’s Office, was asked in an order Friday to
Each year on January 27, people across the globe observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was on this day 79 years ago Nazi Germany's largest death camp Auschwitz was liberated — by which point upwards of one million prisoners had been killed. It is on this grim occasion that the
On Thursday, Smith became the first human ever subjected to a nitrogen suffocation execution. Read one reporter’s eyewitness account.ATMORE, Ala. — His wife wore a shirt that said “Never Alone.” It was one of the first things Kenneth Smith saw Thursday night when unnamed representatives
A Japanese man has appealed a court ruling handed down Thursday that said he was mentally competent when in 2019 he set a fire at an animation studio in Kyoto that killed 36 people.The Japanese court went on to sentence Aoba to death for the arson attack.Shinji Aoba’s lawyers appealed the ruling
 Alabama executes a man with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been used Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again placed the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over
State prosecutors revealed that the group had allegedly planned to orchestrate protests, ostensibly aimed at toppling President Nana Akufo-Addo's government in the lead-up to the 2020 general electionsIn a landmark ruling, six Ghanaians, among them three soldiers, have been sentenced to death by
Private equity firm Onex Corp partly owns company that makes mask for use in untested nitrogen hypoxia execution methodA Canadian company is facing criticism for allegedly supplying the equipment for a state execution in the United States, in a case that has drawn outrage for the reliance on a
BATAVIA, Ohio (WXIX) - The defense team for a Greater Cincinnati father charged with murdering his three young sons at their home last summer wants the court to throw out all statements he made following his arrest during his “entire interrogation because the Detectives violated Mr. Doerman’s
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday called on the Iraqi government to declare a moratorium on all executions “with a view to abolish the death penalty,” after the emergence of reports of the mass execution of 13 inmates in a prison in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq.Thirteen
Aoba had a "delusion" that the studio known by its fans as KyoAni stole his ideas, prosecutors said, a claim the company has denied.A Japanese man who admitted to starting a fire that killed 36 people at an anime studio in 2019 faces a possible death sentence on Thursday when a court delivers its
Critics who had worried the new execution method would be cruel and experimental said Kenneth Eugene Smith’s final moments Thursday night proved they were right.ATMORE, Alabama — As witnesses including five news reporters watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is interested in Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas to carry out death penalty executions, but they’re not ready to follow suit — just yet.“I have a continuously watchful eye on the progress Alabama is making with this new method,” Executive Director Steven Harpe
The execution of convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen hypoxia was "textbook," Alabama's attorney general Steve Marshall said in a news conference on Friday. The execution was carried out on Thursday night and marked the first time nitrogen hypoxia, a process that aims
The state is using a new untested method that’s prompted backlash.A controversial Alabama execution taking place on Thursday has reignited scrutiny of the death penalty and highlighted the enduring nature of the practice despite attempts to end it.Physicians and human rights experts have
The U.S. Supreme Court did not intervene to stop the nation’s first execution by nitrogen hypoxia — a move that all three justices of the court’s liberal wing opposed.“With deep sadness, but commitment to the Eighth Amendment’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, I respectfully
Alabama's plan to execute a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas was labelled by campaigners as part of a 'Nazi legacy of experimentation that should not be repeated'Alabama’s plan to be the first state to use nitrogen gas to execute a convicted murderer has been criticised by activists who say
An Alabama death row inmate is expected to become the first person in the US to be executed with nitrogen gas, after losing last-minute appeals.The US Supreme Court and a lower appeals court declined to block what Kenneth Eugene Smith's lawyers called a "cruel and unusual" punishment.Opponents
The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for Alabama officials to execute a death row prisoner using nitrogen gas, a method critics say is untested and lacks sufficient safety protocols.Kenneth Eugene Smith, convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire scheme, asked the high court to intervene days
Iran's execution on Tuesday of a ninth young man, Mohammad Ghobadlou, for the 2022 protests has angered Iranians and rights groups, who call it “state-murder”.“Mohammad Ghobadlu’s execution is an extrajudicial killing according to international law and the Islamic Republic’s own laws,” Mahmoud
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); January 23, 2024: After spending 14 years on death row, Kurdish-Sunni political prisoner, Farhad Salimi was executed for charges of moharebeh (enmity against god) and efsad-fil-ar z(corruption on earth) in Ghezelhesar Prison.Iran Human Rights condemns the execution of
CNN — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up the extraordinary appeal of an Oklahoma death row inmate named Richard Glossip, a man who even the state attorney general said should not be executed.Last May the justices halted the pending execution while legal challenges played out.Glossip