In 2014, Dennis McGuire of Montgomery County was executed. The process did not go as planned.Witnesses reported McGuire struggled against his restraints and made choking noises before finally dying after 26 minutes, an unusually long time for that process.No executions have happened in Ohio since, and the state has been caught in
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Arizona's death chamberA U.S. judge accepted on Thursday major revisions to Arizona's death penalty procedures, such as eliminating paralytic drugs in lethal injections and giving witnesses more access to watch prisoners inside the death chamber, a lawyer for the death row inmates said.The changes
Around the end of May, 2 prisoners were reportedly hanged on drug related charges - 1 at Maragheh Prison (East Azerbaijan province) and the other at Minab Prison (Hormozgan province).According to close sources, the execution in Maragheh Prison was carried out on Friday May 26. The prisoner has22
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The only way to begin to address the problems: work nation by nation to raise standards and increase effectiveness.Angelina Jolie, the Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI), visited
The court sentenced a second suspect to life in prison for his role in the explosion that shocked the nationManama: A court in Bahrain on Monday sentenced to death a defendant accused of planting a bomb that killed a Bahraini woman and injured three children in June last year.The court sentenced22
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Support for the death penalty is at a 4-decade low among the American public, but that may be of little consequence in the struggle over the future of capital punishment. That's because the death penalty is the practice not of the nation, but rather of a handful of states.
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William Charles Morva's attorneys are asking that the convicted murderer's execution - scheduled for July 6 - be halted by Gov. Terry McAuliffe.In a petition filed Tuesday, the Virginia Capital Representation Center says that Morva has mental illness that was never adequately taken into account21
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Filipina maid has been acquitted from the murder charge, sentenced to 5 yearsThe Filipina domestic worker sentenced to death in Al Ain for killing her employer has been saved from death row, a Philippine envoy said.Jennifer Dalquez, 30, a domestic worker, was given the death penalty by the Al Ain20
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The European Parliament has criticised Pakistan's human rights record, and squarely reminded Islamabad that it has grossly erred in handing down capital punishment for those allegedly violating the nation's blasphemy law, in the excessive of military courts and in denying India consular access to20
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One June day in 1983, a California professor drove over to a neighbor's house to pick up his 11-year-old son from a sleepover. Nobody answered the door, so the professor peered through a window - and saw a ghastly panorama of blood.The professor found his son stabbed to death, along with the20
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Washington D.C., Jun 19, 2017 / 03:26 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a defendant has a right to a mental health evaluation independent of the prosecution, which could have wide-ranging implications for the justice system.“This is a very important decision,” Robert19
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Stormont has ignored calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes for years.Women who were forced to give birth in Mother and Baby Homes in Northern Ireland, and children who were born in the homes, have called for a public inquiry into abuses they say they suffered there.Their call comes
Attorneys for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate have asked a judge to declare Nebraska's death penalty unconstitutional.Concerns over the recently reinstated capital punishment that was repealed in 2015 are among the 11 arguments in a motion filed Monday by Todd Lancaster and Sarah23
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An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth — a life for a lab book?In the past few months, China has announced two new crackdowns on research misconduct — one of which could lead to executions for scientists who doctor their data.Scientists have been sounding alarms for years about the
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California's death chamberThe biggest lie about Proposition (“Prop”) 66, California’s poorly drafted new death penalty law – only missing another “6” in numbering to be properly identified as the devil’s spawn – is speed.Pro-death penalty zealots, special interest groups, and prosecutors hell-bent22
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Patrick SchroederTECUMSEH, Neb. — A recent change in lethal injection procedure intended to enable Nebraska to carry out executions has been challenged by an inmate facing a potential death sentence.Concerns over the new drug protocol are among the 11 arguments in a motion filed this week by
Mohammed bin Salman is the new crown prince and heir to the Saudi throne.King Salman of Saudi Arabia has appointed his son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince and heir to the throne in an attempt to deflect criticism of his increasingly brutal regime.The new crown prince has repeatedly
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Inmates Ricky Dubose (left) and Donnie Russell RowA Putnam County Superior Court judge denied bond for two men accused of escaping from a prison bus last week after killing two corrections officers.Rick Dubose and Donnie Rowe entered the courtroom in orange prison jump
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Bali's Kerobokan PrisonJAKARTA: Bali police continued a search for four foreign inmates who escaped from a high-security prison on the Indonesian resort island of Bali after digging a 15m-long tunnel under the prison’s walls.Prison guards and local police officers found the tunnel on Monday. It20
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‘The new government must play its part in driving this agenda forward’.The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) published a manifesto for the general election held on 8 June 2017.The manifesto called for initiatives20
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The Saudi Arabian authorities have tried to distract from their illegal use of the death penalty by publicising the brief visit of Ali al-Nimr, a young man sentenced to death for attending a protest when he was just 17, to see his father in hospital.Ali's father Mohammad was shot in the leg
Nashik, Jun 19 (PTI) A Nashik court today sentenced a 47 -year-old man to death for killing his daughter four years ago for marrying a man outside their caste.District and Sessions Judge Suchitra Ghodake awarded death penalty to Eknath Kisan Kumbharkar for committing the penal offence of murder16
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A benchmark for good practice in peer support.The first ever National Standards of Peer Support in HIV in the UK have just been launched.The standards were produced by Positively UK in partnership with the community of people living with HIV, clinical groups including the National HIV Nurses24
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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — An Indian man on death row in Pakistan after a military court sentenced him on charges of espionage, sabotage and terrorism has appealed to the country's army chief for clemency.India had earlier appealed to the International Court of Justice, the highest legal body under the22
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Jeremy Hunt has the legal authority to grant women resident in Northern Ireland NHS-funded abortion care in England.A Supreme Court appeal challenging the UK government’s refusal to provide NHS-funded abortion care in England for women resident in Northern Ireland but who travel to England22
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Abu SalemSalem cannot get a death term or any jail-term over 25 years as per the terms of his extradition agreed upon by India and Portugal.Mumbai: A special TADA court convicted extradited gangster Abu Salem for his alleged role in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts on Friday, on charges including22
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A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that an Alabama death-row inmate was denied his constitutional right to an independent mental health expert to help the defense team in his murder trial.James Edmund McWilliams Jr. challenges his death sentence for robbing, raping and killing convenience store21
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The Prime Minister failed to announce scrapping the public sector pay gap.Responding to the Queen’s Speech, an occasion which normally outlines a new government’s plans, based on their manifesto, the chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, Janet Davies, said the lack of focus on the21
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The self-proclaimed 'exorcist' who beat 3 children to death has been handed the death sentence, a court ruled earlier today.After pleading guilty to the murder charges last November, the perpetrator, Tun Naing, was tried under Sections 302 and 325 for committing grievous harm and murder.Today20
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The refugee crisis may have slipped from the media spotlight this year, but it has not disappeared.World Refugee Day – 20 June – is an international day dedicated to raising awareness about the 22.5 million people around the world who have fled their homes due to famine, violence and20
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The European Parliament has criticised Pakistan's human rights record, and squarely reminded Islamabad that it has grossly erred in handing down capital punishment for those allegedly violating the nation's blasphemy law, in the excessive of military courts and in denying India consular access to
Ivan CantuThe U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an appeal from a Dallas man who shot and killed his cousin in a botched 2000 robbery and is now on death row.Ivan Cantu, 44, had argued that his legal help during his 2001 trial was ineffective and didn't present evidence that
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Andrew Chan (left) with Myuran SukumaranAN Australian producer is planning to use Queensland as a location to shoot a movie about the Bali Nine, focusing on the hidden faith journey of one of the drug traffickers who was executed.“Our story is based around the remarkable transformation
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The UK has not yet ratified the Convention on Decent Work for Domestic Workers.Domestic work remains one of the most undervalued and least regulated forms of employment.Many of the world’s domestic workers are excluded from protection in their country’s labour laws.In many countries