BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is rallying dozens of countries to stop the trade of torture equipment and lethal-injection drugs, which could make it harder for the United States to perform executions, a top EU official said on Thursday.The bloc will call for an alliance against trade in goods such
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Scott PetersonScott Peterson claims that multiple people saw his wife Laci after she reportedly went missing in a new interview from San Quentin State Prison, where he is currently sitting on death row.It is the first time Scott has spoken publicly about the case since 2004, when he was convicted
In its judgement, the high court had held that Madan and his associates had indiscriminately fired upon the victims and considering the gravity of offence, it was covered under the category of the rarest of rare cases warranting death penalty.The Supreme Court has stayed the execution of a man13
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When the Malaysian Cabinet announced plans this week to amend legislation to eliminate the mandatory death penalty for some drug offenses, many cheered. But history shows that the cheering may be premature. Malaysian authorities have been talking about removing the mandatory death penalty since at
Florida's death chamberWEST PALM BEACH -- In a ruling that could prevent as many as 100 condemned inmates from seeking life sentences, the Florida Supreme Court this week rejected arguments that constitutional flaws with the state’s death penalty should benefit all 362 inmates on death row.The
The Iranian authorities executed at least twelve prisoners on the same day. At least eleven of the prisoners were sentenced to death on drug related charges. Iran Human Rights (AUG 12 2017): At least eleven prisoners were reportedly hanged at Birjand Central Prison on drug related charges, and a11
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In 2015, Iran was executing more than one person a day.In 2015,Iran was executing more than one person a day.Despite a decrease in the number of executions, Iran continues to be the nation with one of the highest rates of executions in the world, mostly for drug-related crimes.
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Mississippi's death chamberTwenty years ago, a brutal murder in a red state like Mississippi would likely guarantee a death sentence for a defendant. But as last week’s sentencing of Scotty Lakeith Street illustrates, juries in the South and across the country continue to shift away from capital10
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‘I can’t sit idly and watch the place I was born and raised be poisoned and polluted by fracking’.Eighteen people appeared in court earlier this week for taking action to halt operations at Cuadrilla’s controversial fracking site at Preston New Road in Lancashire.Five of the six who were in10
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'Stuck in cells roughly the size of a car parking space 21 to 24 hours a day.'Florida prison inmates are mounting a challenge to their state’s death row policies, saying it’s unconstitutional to keep them in solitary confinement for more time than other prisoners.They are the latest in a10
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A video was recently published on the internet showing the State Security Forces publicly flogging a man in Torbat-e Jam in in Khorasan Province for drinking liquor. (Warning: This video contains disturbing audio content.)A corrupt theocracy, barbaric and medieval punishments.Source: Iran
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Leading Maldivian and international human rights organizations are calling on the President of the Maldives to halt plans to break a 60 year moratorium on executions.A group of organizations – Reprieve, Amnesty International, the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, FORUM-ASIA, Maldivian Democracy14
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An updated law would send a clear message that such acts are ‘completely unacceptable’.Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary, Richard Burgon MP, has written to the Justice Secretary, David Lidington MP, to call for the government to make the taking of “upskirt” photographs – where a person takes a14
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Death-row cells on Nusakambangan penal island, where Indonesiacarries out executions by firing squad.Jakarta: Minutes before Indian truck driver Gurdip Singh was due to be killed by a firing squad the power went out in his cell on Indonesia's penal island Nusakambangan.Four men had already
Vietnam has been slowly updating its criminal justice system for years, under pressure from Western governments, and additional changes approved by the National Assembly in June are scheduled to take effect in January. But diplomats and rights groups have long suspected, based on interviews with12
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"There are two types of lawyers: the lawyers who are well acquainted with the law, and the lawyers who are well acquainted with the judge." - French proverb.NCRI - A member of the Iranian regime's parliament referring to the regime’s judiciary emphasizing on more executions and that 5,300 Leggi11
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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has released a ground-breaking report that takes a look at blasphemy laws around the world and compares them to international human rights standards.The report covers instances of the blasphemy laws in 71 countries which include11
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Maria Elvira Pinto ExpostoAN AUSTRALIAN grandmother facing a death sentence on drug trafficking charges in Malaysia could have her life spared after a change in laws.Sydney woman Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto, 54, claimed to be an innocent victim and not a drug courier after being caught with 1.5kg10
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Ok, so the government and the media like to change the language they use, so let’s just take a look shall we?By Trudy Baddams, women’s pension rights campaigner: We Paid In You Pay Out.We have gone from Social Assistance, to Social Security, to Income Support and now Universal Credit, an all
John LotterLINCOLN — Death row inmate John Lotter has failed in another attempt to have his sentence overturned in federal court.The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently dismissed Lotter’s appeal of a lower-court decision that allowed his death sentence to stand for the 1993 killing of three10
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'Stuck in cells roughly the size of a car parking space 21 to 24 hours a day.'Florida prison inmates are mounting a challenge to their state’s death row policies, saying it’s unconstitutional to keep them in solitary confinement for more time than other prisoners.They are the latest in a
In January 2016, bemoaning that “the more people talk about improving the use of forensic science in the courtroom, the more things stay the same,” I blogged in bold in The Huffington Post: “Not nearly enough steps have been taken (in the District of Columbia, or I respectfully submit, across09
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It is increasingly clear that governments and business are failing in their duty to protect activists at risk.The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is held on 9 August, to bring to draw attention to the rights and achievements of indigenous peoples.And this year marks the14
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With increasing public concern regarding repeat criminal offenders, critics and experts have been divided as to what approach would deter former convicts from committing crimes again after being released from jail.Many public members – often angry with perpetrators of high-profile crimes including13
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Awaiting execution: Death row inmates at Ghezal Hesar prison in March 2015.The amendment will apply retroactively, thus commuting the sentences for many of the 5,300 inmates currently on death row for drug trafficking. Under the new bill, the punishment for those already
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Desmond TutuSaudi Arabia plans to execute 14 Shiites for crimes linked to 2012 protests in Qatif, as violence in the province continuesTen Nobel laureates from across the world have written an open letter urging Saudi authorities to hold off on the execution of 14 Shiites convicted of12
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Iran: A corrupt theocracy, a medieval justice system.GENEVA (11 August 2017) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Asma Jahangir, has expressed outrage at the execution of a young man who received the death penalty as a
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Henry McCollum walks out of prison after being released in 2014.A man freed from death row after 30 years says he's grown weary of a tense debate over whether his current lawyers are helping themselves to too much of his wrongful
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Dubai: Police in Dubai agreed they would extradite the five Australians accused of drug trafficking offences from the outset, as part of their cross-continent collaboration to help bring down alleged organised criminal networks including members of the notorious Ibrahim family.The Commander in10
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Help get UN and Member States to prioritise ending the sex trafficking of women and girls.From 27 – 28 September 2017, the United Nations General Assembly and governments will review ‘The 2010 Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons’ and agree on a way forward to end human
Iran: A Medieval TheocracyFollowing today’s execution of Alireza Tajiki, a young Iranian man who was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death as a child, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Magdalena Mughrabi said:“By going ahead with this execution in10
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A secondary school pupil has been executed in Iran after being convicted of raping another boy.During a two-month trial in early 2015, in which he had no legal representation, Hassan Afshar, 19, was found guilty of “lavat-e be onf” – forced male to male anal intercourse.“Homosexual conduct”
Raymond MartinezAfter three decades on death row, the Harris County killer who left a trail of bodies across Texas in 1983 finally got his way.Raymond DeLeon Martinez died Wednesday of natural causes. He never saw the inside of Huntsville's death chamber.A diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic with an
Jack O'ConnellJack O'Connell and Laura Dern have joined the cast of 'Trial By Fire'.The 27-year-old 'Money Monster' actor is expected to play death row inmate Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted of the arson deaths of his own three children, while Dern, 50, will play Elizabeth Gilbert, a