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Nevada's brand new $850,000 death chamberLAS VEGAS (AP) - A Nevada death row inmate told a state judge again on Thursday that his decision to drop any appeals is firm, and he wants to become the first person in the state in more than 11 years
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Far too often, pernicious assumptions are made and disabled women are entirely discounted as sexual people.The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (bpas) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) hosted a workshop on the intersection of disability and reproductive rights
Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgThe death penalty could be dying, according to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.The outspoken liberal icon tackled capital punishment and a host of other hot topics during a sold-out summer George Washington University forum held last week by the Washington Council of02
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The 1874 execution of Jacob Mechella in New Jersey.How prisoners dressed for their executions says a lot about the condemned and the pageantry of American capital punishment, according to a new UC sociology study.What would you wear to your own execution?It's a moot
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The KnessetA bill proposing an amendment to the Penal Law and the Anti-Terrorism Law, allowing the court to sentence to death terrorists who murdered innocent civilians will be added to the Knesset agenda soon by MK Nava Boker (Likud), Israel Hayom reported Wednesday.The bill proposes adding two02
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Nusakambangan penal island, IndonesiaIndonesia says convict organised major drug trafficking ringJAKARTA • A convict in a maximum security Indonesian prison masterminded an operation to import 1.2 million ecstasy tablets, which led to two arrests and the death of another suspect, the authorities01
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Make a blanket as a gift to a new immigrant to the United States.In a candidacy speech in June 2015 Donald Trump said: “I will build a great wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me – and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern01
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The US is witnessing a significant decline in the use of the death penalty. Oliver Pickup investigates the change in public mood, the reasons why and asks: will it be abolished any time soon?"America is in the midst of a climate change on capital punishment," according to Robert Dunham, executive01
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Halamish, where 3 people were killed by terrorist during a birthday celebration.The call to impose a death sentence on the terrorist who murdered three members of the Salomon family in Halamish once again raises the issue of the morality of
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The Nebraska Supreme Court last week accepted the appeal of death row inmate Marco Torres, who was denied a hearing in Hall County District Court where his attorneys had sought to argue the state's death penalty is unconstitutional.Torres' case is the 1st of the 11 men on death row to reach01
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Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, Si Yi Chen and Matthew Norman in Denpasar Court. Si Yi Chen was 20 when he was caught trafficking drugs as part of the Bali Nine. Now he's serving a life sentence in
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Death chamber at Tokyo Detention CenterEfforts to achieve the final wish of a serial killer continue even 20 years after his execution, with around 200 people gathering for a charity event on Saturday in Tokyo to raise money for underprivileged children.The main speaker of the
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SINGAPORE - Six suspected drug offenders were arrested by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in an operation on Tuesday (Aug 1).About 2.1kg of heroin, some Ice and Erimin-5, worth about $150,000, were seized.CNB said in a statement on Wednesday that its officers were deployed to observe a03
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Alabama AG Steve Marshall and Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich.Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Wednesday that the state is seeking to conduct more executions this year.Marshall visited Mobile on Wednesday to speak at a class educating local law
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It's not unusual for lawyers representing death row prisoners whose execution dates have been set to file last-minute appeals to try to get more time to argue about why their clients should be spared.But an attempt by death-penalty lawyer Marty McClain on behalf of Mark James Asay, scheduled to be02
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THERE has been a lot of celebration in the media of late to mark the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of male homosexuality with the passing of the Sexual Offences Act on July 27, 1967. However that act only had effect in England and Wales. The original 1967 act
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Aramazd Andressian Sr.ALHAMBRA, Calif. (AP) — A father acknowledged he killed his 5-year-old son after a bitter custody battle with his estranged wife, who gripped an urn with the boy's ashes and sobbed uncontrollably Tuesday in the front row of a California courtroom.Aramazd Andressian Sr., 3501
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The crimes of the past have not been laid to rest for the Roma. They have barely even been recognised.On 2 August 1944, in the ‘Gypsy Camp’ part of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, around 3000 Roma were exterminated during one single evening.This date is now commemorated01
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Watching a public hanging in IranJuly saw many violations of human rights in Iran, the most important being:-- The number of executions reaching to a peak of 102 and the pending execution of 120 inmates to be carried out soon,-- Foreign diplomats tour of Evin prison
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Jakarta. Indonesia is probably only stopping a fraction of what could be hundreds of tons of methamphetamine flooding in from countries such as China, even after a record seizure this month, its anti-narcotics czar said.President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo last week told law enforcement officers to01
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A woman could not hold back her tears at the High Court here today when her son Hari Singh Kanda was sentenced to the gallows for trafficking 32.3 grams of heroin and 18.1 grams of monoacetylmorphine last year.The mother, who sat at the court's public gallery was calm when Judicial Commissioner31
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Nasty Women to support the End Violence Against Women coalition.From 22-24 September Nasty Women are holding an exhibition of feminist art work by women artists – alongside a programme of comedy, music, spoken word and discussion panels – at Stour Space, Hackney Wick, in London.Donald Trump31
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Rodrigo DuterteA Philippine mayor accused by President Rodrigo Duterte of having links with the illegal drugs trade has been shot dead in a police raid.Reynaldo Parojinog, mayor of the city of Ozamiz on Mindanao island, was killed with his wife and 10 others at his home as police served a Leggi
Hassan RouhaniIran’s judicial and security bodies have waged a vicious crackdown against human rights defenders since Hassan Rouhani became president in 2013, demonizing and imprisoning activists who dare to stand up for people’s rights, Amnesty International said in a new report published02
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“All the people involved in devising this campaign agreed that the time was now. Enough is enough.”A campaign launched earlier this year aims to challenge public perceptions of Gypsies and Travellers by asking why people only ever see their ethnicity, not their worth.Among the people featured02
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The Court of Appeal on Wednesday (Aug 2) ordered a rare review of its decision 2 years ago to overturn the acquittal of a Nigerian man who brought nearly 2kg of methamphetamine into Singapore, enough to warrant the death penalty.In a written judgment, Judges of Appeal Chao Hick Tin, Andrew Leggi02
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Tehran's Evin prisonActivists given long jail sentences after trials lasting only 45 minutes‘Offences’ include communicating with EU, UN and human rights organisations ‘The international community, and in particular the EU, must not stay silent over the outrageous treatment of human rights02
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President Erdogan supporters: "We want the death penalty"Turkey has put nearly 500 people — including generals and pilots — on trial on charges of leading last year's failed coup, parading dozens of the men into a courthouse publicly as protesters threw stones and shouted
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The fate of Mississippi's only female death row inmate, Lisa Jo Chamberlin, is in limbo two years after a federal court ruling granting her a new trial in a double homicide in Hattiesburg.The full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with the exception of Judge James Graves who recused himself
The Maldives, famed for its crystalline waters and long tongues of white sand, lies at the centre of the Indian Ocean.Holiday firms offering trips to the Maldives have been urged by human rights activists to condemn the expected execution of 3 men that will bring a brutal end to the
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Anthony Ray HintonSince Anthony Ray Hinton was exonerated and released from death row over two years ago, Alabama lawmakers have not only refused to compensate him for the three decades he spent on death row for a crime he did not commit, but also passed legislation changing the appeals
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The official Ombudsman of Indonesia has accused both the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and the Supreme Court of “maladministration” in denying a Nigerian citizen, executed for drug trafficking in July 2016, his legal rights.Ombudsman official Ninik Rahayu outlined a checklist of procedural31
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Yemen: People gathered to watch the execution of Muhammad al-Maghrabi.SANAA (Reuters) - A man convicted of raping and murdering a three-year-old girl was executed in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday in front of hundreds of onlookers, the first public execution there
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The office of Indonesia's ombudsman has unearthed evidence of rights violations in the execution of a Nigerian drug convict in 2016, an official said on Friday.Humphrey Jefferson was still seeking clemency from President Joko Widodo at the time of his execution, which meant he still had a chance