A Kenyan woman was sentenced to death by a Malaysian court after she was found guilty of trafficking in methamphetamine 4 years ago.According to Malaysian Daily Express, Rose Achieng Ojala had stuffed 3 capsules of the drug into her private parts and swallowed another 68 capsules, all weighing about
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Zabol Central Prison, Iran30 prisoners in Zabol Central Prison are reportedly in imminent danger of execution after their death sentences were confirmed by Iran's Supreme Court.Zabol, located in the province of Sistan & Baluchestan, is one of the poorest cities in Iran. Zabol Central Prison is
Nine Filipinos who were part of an armed group that invaded and occupied part of Malaysian Borneo in 2013, in an episode that left scores dead, have been sentenced to hang.The bloody incursion by some 200 Islamic militants from the southern Philippines was
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Add your voice to the growing list of global human rights supporters.Humane values are under attack, and many of us feel overwhelmed – unsure what to do or where to turn.Many of us are fearful about the way the world is heading.Extremist movements are subjecting people to horrific violence
Four suspects in the Khon Kaen bar girl dismemberment case are looking at the death penalty after being officially charged with premeditated murder yesterday.Apparently, authorities don’t believe murder suspect Preeyanuch Nonwangchai’s story that the killing was accidental and that she just meant08
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California's death rowCalifornia Supreme Court justices considering whether a ballot measure to speed up executions is unconstitutional expressed skepticism Tuesday about a provision that would require death sentence appeals to be completed within five years.Several justices peppered a lawyer from07
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Texas' Death RowIt was welcome news this week that the death penalty is continuing to fall out of favor with Texas juries.In the 15 death penalty cases tried in Texas since 2015, jurors have sentenced only eight men to death. In Dallas County, prosecutors have sought capital punishment in Leggi07
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An appalling and racialized standard of ‘future dangerousness’ has been used to condemn defendants. This lawyer fought it.The death penalty, like abortion, is one of those hot-button topics that keeps popping up into the public consciousness, a roach motel for meretricious ideas and bad public06
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‘The rush to fracking is dangerous to the environment and treacherous to human health.’Over the past decade, a new and controversial energy extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has rocketed to the forefront of US energy production and permissions granted to start it up
Ohio may have a path to obtaining a long-sought lethal injection drug if the state can locate the proper ingredients, the prison system's top lawyer said during a deposition in a legal challenge to Ohio's proposed execution drugs.The state has been unable to carry out executions on more than 2
(Beirut) – Saudi Arabia should immediately quash the death sentences of 14 members of the Shia community for protest-related crimes, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The Court of Appeal of the notorious Specialized Criminal Court upheld the sentences in May 2017, after they06
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China's latest cybersecurity law came into force last week and the sky did not fall and companies have not shuttered.After months of haranguing by foreign chambers of commerce, symposiums about draft versions of the law, and many news stories, the Cybersecurity Law went into effect. The law lists10
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BAHWALPUR – An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday sentenced a man to death for sharing offensive content about Islam on social media, in a first ever penalty over online blasphemy.Bahawalpur’s ATC Judge Shabir Ahmed announced the sentence for the 30-year-old accused, who belongs to the Shia09
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Robert MelsonRobert Bryant Melson executed for 1994 triple slayingTonight Alabama death row inmate Robert Bryant Melson was executed by lethal injection for the 1994 slayings of 3 fast food restaurant workers in Gadsden. It was the 2nd execution for Alabama in 2 weeks.The execution of Melson --08
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Robert Melson(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Alabama is preparing to execute an inmate for the shooting deaths of three fast food restaurant workers during a 1994 robbery.Robert Bryant Melson, 46, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday evening at a south Alabama prison.State prosecutors said08
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On Friday, May 25, 2017, the Office of the South Carolina Attorney General elected not to appeal a decision vacating the death sentence of Justice 360 client William Bell.In November 2016, Circuit Judge R. Lawton McIntosh found Mr. Bell intellectually disabled and, therefore, ineligible for the08
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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday halted the execution of a man convicted in the murder of a McKinney real estate agent in 2007.Another Texas execution has been stopped by the state’s highest criminal appellate court, giving relief to the man convicted in 2007 in the robbery and07
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Robert MelsonThe execution of Robert Bryant Melson is back on for Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court tonight lifted a stay that had been granted last week by an appeals court.The stay of the execution was lifted in an order issued by U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas shortly
Clinton YoungClinton Young was sentenced to death in 2003 for two murders committed in 2001.Judge Robert Moore, visiting judge for the 238th District Court, issued a warrant of execution on Monday for Clinton Lee Young, according to the Midland County District Attorney’s Office.The 33-year-old06
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Arizona's death chamberWhat's the best way to kill a death-row prisoner?That has been an issue in Arizona since the flawed execution of Joseph Wood, who in July 2014 gasped and snorted for nearly two hours as Arizona Department of Corrections personnel injected him with 15 doses of
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The Federal Government on Monday pleaded with the government of Indonesia to commute the death penalty passed on Nigerians in the country's prison, to life imprisonment.Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama, made the plea in a joint communiqué issued at the end of bilateral meeting between the06
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Federal Supreme Court, Abu Dhabi, UAETen Indians, convicted of killing a Pakistani man over a bootlegging feud in Abu Dhabi, were absolved of the death penalty in May 2017 after an amount of Rs 60 lakh was paid as blood money (diyah) to the victim's family.
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Defense attorney Michael LasherDefense attorney Michael Lasher answers his phone. There’s a convicted killer on the line.David Bollinger is housed on death row inside the Ely State Prison, where he has spent 23 years for the murder of an elderly Reno couple. The jury found the former temporary09
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TOKYO - A newly compiled DVD of a drama reenacts how police interrogated a 24-year-old man who was arrested in 1963 over the murder of a 16-year-old female high school student in Sayama, near Tokyo, while claiming his innocence.The drama was created in line with recorded tapes of the questioning08
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Domestic violence a form of “arbitrary execution”, says UN rights expert.Governments must do more to tackle the hugely disproportionate rates of violence suffered by women, including recognising attacks on them as human rights violations and domestic murders as a form of arbitrary execution, a
ISIS killed hundreds of civilians in the Iraqi city of Mosul in the past two weeks.GENEVA — Islamic State fighters shot and killed hundreds of residents in the Iraqi city of Mosul in the past two
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For the 2nd year in a row, the Ohio Prosecuting Attorney's Association voiced strong opposition to a bill that would keep severely mentally ill people from being executed on death row.If passed, House Bill 81 would bar the possibility of the death penalty for people who can prove they had a
Screenshot from "Apprentice" by Boo Junfeng, 2016The road was quiet, with only the odd car or bus passing by. The sun was rising, the sky lighting up slowly behind the drab, grey walls of Changi Prison Complex. We sat three in a row, too weary for conversation.Somewhere behind those imposing walls07
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Emilia CarrEmilia Carr was convicted of first-degree murder in 2009 deathEmilia Carr, once Marion County’s only female death row inmate, will now spend the rest of her life in prison.After an evidentiary hearing May 19, the State declined to seek a new death penalty phase, according to court
Ohio's Toledo Correctional InstitutionSeven months after announcing the move, state prison officials are releasing few details about a transfer of Ohio’s death row inmates to Toledo.More than 100 prisoners awaiting execution will leave the Chillicothe facility for housing at Toledo Correctional06
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Indiana officials probably don't want to have a big debate about the death penalty, but they more or less have to. The issue has been hijacked by capital punishment opponents, who have pushed the state into a corner by challenging the lethal cocktail used to carry out state-sanctioned executions06
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Protest against "blasphemer" Ahok in Jakarta, November 2016Nothing is surprising about the recent survey conducted by Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC), which found that 9.2 percent of respondents supported the formation of a theocratic Islamic state in Indonesia to replace the existing06
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San Quentin prison, CaliforniaThe California Supreme Court hears many high-stakes cases on issues such as individual rights, taxes, and the lawmaking powers of the state and its voters. But it has seldom confronted a case with such potentially dramatic consequences as Tuesday's hearing on the06
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Gallows at Tokyo Detention Center“Excessive bail shall not be required, or excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted,” says the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. You will find similar language in the Japanese constitution, included at the order of the United