Nine executions on May 23The mullahs’ regime in Iran has immediately relaunched its domestic crackdown machine after the election farce, especially through executions and torture in prisons across the country.Ten inmates in the prisons of Tabriz, Zahedan, Ardebil, Kermanshah and Isfahan, and Karaj Central Prison were hanged on May 22 and 23.
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Iran has demonstrated its utter disregard for children’s rights by executing a man arrested for a crime committed while he was 16 years old in a brazen violation of international human rights law, said Amnesty International. The man, who has been identified in state media only by the name “Asqar”25
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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- After a field military court in the Gaza Strip rapidly issued death sentences to the suspected assassin and two suspected accomplices for the murder of Hamas leader Mazen Fuqahaa in March, the attorney general of the Hamas-run government in the besieged coastal enclave24
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6 prisoners were executed in 2 different Iranian prisons early (...) morning, May 24According to the Kurdish Human Rights Network 5 prisoners were hanged in the prison of Tabriz.Three of the prisoners were identified as "Kazem Hajaji", "Seyed Ali Mousavi" and "Jaber Fakhri". All the 5 prisoners24
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'A grotesque display of medieval torture.'On Tuesday, a gay couple in Aceh was punished with 85 strokes of the cane — despite protests from human rights advocates — for violating the province’s Islamic bylaw that bans homosexuality. (See YouTube video below.)In North Jakarta on Monday, police24
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EU, Norway condemn 3 death sentences against killers of senior Hamas terrorist Mazen Faqha.The European Union (EU) Heads of Mission and the Head of Mission of Norway in Jerusalem and Ramallah on Monday condemned the 3 death sentences that were issued in Gaza against the suspected assassin and 224
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Florida's death chamberBolstering a state law requiring unanimous jury recommendations in death penalty cases, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider an appeal by Attorney General Pam Bondi on the issue.The court's decision to deny what is known as a “writ of certiorari” essentially
Romell Broom, photographed shortly after hesurvived a botched execution attempt in 2009.COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Ohio Supreme Court has set a new execution date for a convicted killer who survived a botched execution attempt in 2009.The court last
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Yong Kar Mun has days, if not hours, left to live if the authorities proceed with his execution expected to take place anytime within the next 72 hours, Amnesty International Malaysia said today.Yong, 48, who has been on death row since March 2009 is scheduled to be executed “soon” at the Sungai23
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"A large crowd of observers cheered as the caning took place."Two men have been caned 85 times each in the Indonesian province of Aceh after being caught having sex.The men stood on stage in white gowns praying while a team of hooded men lashed their backs with
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Ledell Lee, Jack Jones, Marcel Williams and Kenneth Williams. To most, the names of the 4 death row inmates executed in a 8-day span in Arkansas during April were just names in the news cycle, understood most prominently by crimes they committed.For Msgr. Jack Harris, who has worked in prison22
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Hamas troops in Gaza CityGaza's ruling Hamas movement delivered death sentences on Sunday to 3 Palestinians it ruled had taken part in what it said was an Israeli-directed assassination of 1 of the group's senior commanders.A Hamas security court said the three men had confessed to the
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Taiwan's top court ruled government must recognise same-sex unions within 2 years.Same-sex marriage, which Taiwan's top court ruled in favour of Wednesday, is currently legal in around 20 countries around the world, 13 of which are in pioneering Europe.Such unions
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The benefits of ending violence against women and girls ‘far outweigh the resources required to prevent future violence’.The UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign, launched in 2008 and managed by UN Women, proclaimed every 25th of the month as “Orange Day” – a day
Pakistan today hanged 2 hard core Taliban terrorists convicted by the military courts of their involvement in the 2014 Peshawar school massacre which left over 150 people dead, mostly students.Pakistan Army said Atta Ullah and Taj Muhammad were active members of the proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban24
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People over 15-years-old in the Kingdom are tried as adults and can be executedThe United Nations has called on Saudi Arabia to repeal laws that allow stoning, amputation, flogging and execution of children.Children over 15 years are tried as adults and can be executed, "after trials falling24
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 24 — Amnesty International Malaysia criticised prison authorities for executing two men earlier today at the Sungai Buloh prison in a secretive manner.The NGO also demanded the government to establish a moratorium on carrying out death penalties.In a statement, Amnesty said that23
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‘Nuclear weapons are morally unacceptable. They are intended to kill civilians indiscriminately.’The first draft of the United Nations treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons has been released in Geneva, Switzerland.Elayne Whyte Gómez, the Costa Rican ambassador who is presiding over negotiations23
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Bali's Kerobokan PrisonThe high profile plight of Schappelle Corby and the Bali Nine had hopefully gone some way to deter young Australians from risking their life to traffic drugs in foreign countries, Justice Minister Michael Keenan has said.Speaking on the eve of Corby’s deportation, 13 years
Ray Spencer, center, with his son, Matt Spencer,and his daughter, Katie Spencer Tetz. (Esquire)What is it like to have a family member murdered and find out the wrong person went to prison? What is
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Conditions for women in the hard end of the Criminal Justice System are much worse than ten years ago.Ten years on from the publication of the influential Corston Report, Baroness Jean Corston’s report on women in the criminal justice system, a review by Liz Hogarth offers an analysis of the22
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Louisiana's death chamber73 people sit on Louisiana death row - convicted of crimes so horrific that a jury of their peers sentenced them to death. But as things stand, the state has no way to execute them.Over the past several weeks, Louisiana lawmakers have debated whether they should end22
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Rodrigo DuterteThousands march against the death penaltyOn Friday, 19 May, the 'March for Life' a caravan of pilgrims who left from Midanao on May 6, along a route that crossed the entire archipelago, reached Manila, to say "no" to the death penaltyFr Edwin Gariguez, executive secretary of the25
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Tommy Arthur7 times in 16 years Tommy Arthur has had his execution delayed. As he prepares for what could be his final appointment with the death chamber, he tells Ed Pilkington about a grisly - and traumatic - cycleTommy Arthur is caught in a ghoulish production of Groundhog Day. 7
Leggi TuttoTommy ArthurTommy Arthur, who was first sentenced to death in 1983, has long imagined what could be his end: time in a so-called death cell, a choice of a last meal, the final telephone calls and then a lethal injection.That end could come Thursday, his eighth execution date in a
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Highly immoral and inhumane to continue with executionsIn the wee hours of this morning, May 24, 2017, two men had been executed at Sungai Buloh Prison - a Chinese Malaysian and Yong Kar Mun, 48 who was sentenced to death in 2009 for armed robbery.The double execution this morning comes as
'An act of treason': Suspected coup plotters are paraded ahead of trial.Trial of 221 main suspects of July 15 coup bid begins amid heavy security and calls for death penalty.More than 220 suspects, including over two dozen former Turkish generals, have gone on
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A white supremacist sentenced to death for killing nine worshippers in a racist attack at a Charleston church has petitioned an appeals court for mercy.Attorneys for Dylann Roof filed notice Tuesday they were appealing his conviction and sentence to the 4th U.S. Circuit CourtRomell Broom, photographed shortly after hesurvived a botched execution attempt in 2009.COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Ohio Supreme Court has set a new execution date for a convicted killer who survived a botched execution attempt in 2009.The court last
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"A large crowd of observers cheered as the caning took place."Two men have been caned 85 times each in the Indonesian province of Aceh after being caught having sex.The men stood on stage in white gowns praying while a team of hooded men lashed their backs with
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The outgoing governor of Jakarta has shocked the capital by withdrawing an appeal against his two-year jail sentence for blasphemy against Islam within minutes of it being filed.Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama's own lawyer confessed he was flummoxed by his client's decision."As for the reason for22
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When the full evidence is examined it will be clear that the Nordic Model is a better approach.Junior doctors have voted for the British Medical Association (BMA), the trade union and professional association for doctors and medical students in the UK, to adopt a policy to lobby for theTommy ArthurSeven times, Tommy Arthur has escaped death. With his 8th execution date less than a week away, he phoned from an Alabama prison to talk about the increasingly slim chance that his lethal injection will be called off yet again."Until I take my last breath I'll have hope," Arthur
The House passed legislation on Thursday that would make the murder of a law enforcement officer punishable by death.Approved by a 271-143 vote, the measure expands the aggravating factors when a jury considers a death sentence in federal cases.48 Democrats voted with all but 4 Republicans in