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A debate over the misuse of Pakistan's blasphemy law is set to begin next week.The law, which carries a death penalty for insulting anything related to Islam and the prophet Muhammad, is often used as a way to settle personal scores against Christians.The law's been used to hold mother of five Asia
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International human rights experts yesterday presented a report recommending the abolition of capital punishment, work to relieve prison overcrowding, liberalizing policy over drug users and decriminalizing adultery.The report listed 78 observations or recommendations for government consideration21
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Arkansas' prison spokesman said Friday that he is "unaware of any efforts" to find a new supply of an execution drug that expired at the start of the new year.The Department of Correction has not restocked its expired batch of potassium chloride, spokesman Solomon Graves said, adding that the
UK government has been criticised for its links with the Bahraini Sunni monarchy.Bahrain could be poised to execute 2 prisoners who claim their confessions were extracted through torture.Mohammed Ramadan and Husain Moosa were sentenced to death in 2014 for their alleged involvement in a bomb20
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Myths ‘still exist’ around the behaviour of rape victims and perpetrators.The Scottish Government is backing a new campaign challenging the public’s misunderstandings about how victims react to rape.Ministers have awarded £30,000 to Rape Crisis Scotland for an initiative, which aims to make
Isaiah McCoy walks out of H. R. Young Correctional Institution as a free man.Isaiah McCoy, a death row prisoner for years, walked out of the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington and into his young
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Cell 1 is the last cell Florida inmates stay in before they’re executed. It’s where they say their goodbyes, make peace with death or mount their final legal stands against death. It’s where many hope their sentence will be delayed or commuted. Some inmates get pulled out of Cell 1 to return19
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"S Prabagaran has always maintained his innocence."Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has called on his country's Foreign Ministry to look into the case of S Prabagaran, reported Malaysiakini. Prabagaran a Malaysian is facing the death sentence here for19
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Advocates for repealing the death penalty in Colorado are back with a legislative effort for the 1st time in 4 years, motivated by their belief the issue is gaining traction in battleground and red statesBut proponents still face an uphill battle in the legislature.The Better Priorities18
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NHS staff can decide where disabled people live, even against their choice.By Fleur Perry.The 1970s saw the start (give or take) of the disabled people’s movement in the UK, with the publication of the Policy Statement of the Union of Physically Impaired Segregation (UPIAS) in
Ricky GrayA Virginia inmate set to be executed on Wednesday for murdering 2 young sisters during a 2006 killing spree has asked the Supreme Court for a stay, arguing that the 1st-ever use of compounded lethal drugs violates his constitutional rights.Ricky Gray, 39, is scheduled to die by lethal18
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Attorney General Bob Ferguson today proposed bipartisan legislation to abolish the death penalty in Washington.In a demonstration of broad, bipartisan support for ending capital punishment in the state, former Attorney General Rob McKenna joined Ferguson at a press conference in the Capitol22
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"Obama commuted more sentences than the last 13 presidents combined.”President Barack Obama’s commutation of Chelsea Manning’s sentence for leaking classified informationgot the most interest from the media on Tuesday, but a commutation in a capital case is getting the attention of lawyers
Most parts of a president’s legacy are murky. It can be hard to identify an administration’s long-term effect on the economy or the environment, but the Supreme Court is a different story.“Can you think of much of what Ronald Reagan did that has an impact today? Maybe yes, maybe no," says Josh20
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Indonesia: open letter on anniversary of first executions under President Widodo -- Amnesty International.On the occasion of the second anniversary of the resumption of executions under President Joko Widodo, eight organizations have written to the Indonesian authorities to bring to their
Florida's death chamberThe Florida Supreme Court on Thursday threw out the death penalty for three murderers, including a man convicted of abducting an 81-year-old Lake County woman from a Publix parking lot and killing her in 2010.The decisions are the latest in a growing string of rulings sinceFlorida's death chamberThe Florida Supreme Court on Thursday threw out the death penalty for three murderers, including a man convicted of abducting an 81-year-old Lake County woman from a Publix parking lot and killing her in 2010.The decisions are the latest in a growing string of rulings since19
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Four prisoners were reportedly hanged on drug charges at Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison (northeastern Iran).Iran Human Rights (JAN 18 2017): Four prisoners were reportedly hanged at Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison on drug related charges. According to the human rights news agency HRANA, the executions19
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Trigger-happy Philippine President Rodrigo DuterteA new measure that seeks to reimpose death penalty on persons involved in the illegal drug trade has been filed in the Senate on Wednesday.Under Senate Bill No. 1294, Sen. Sherwin "Win" Gatchalian seeks to amend Section 11 of RA 9165 to impose19
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Nebraska Governor (R) Pete Ricketts: "I will make every effort to proceedwith the executions of the 10 men on Nebraska's death row."Nebraska prison officials would be allowed to hide the identities of their lethal injection suppliers under a proposal introduced Wednesday on the final day of bill
A young man's execution is halted at the last minute by his victim's parents.Mahyaddin spent the final hours of 2016 in solitude, deciding whether to spare the life of a man on death row for killing
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Labour launches industrial strategy consultation.The Labour party has launched a wide-ranging consultation with businesses, trade unions, the third sector, the public and others about the priorities, interventions, institutions and processes that will shape Labour’s industrial strategy.Led by18
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Public hanging in Bektash, Iran on January 16, 2017Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi called on the UN Security Council and other relevant international authorities to condemn the wave of executions.The religious fascism ruling Iran has kicked off the New Year with merciless21
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FORT HOOD, Texas (KWTX) President Barack Obama has commuted the death sentence of a former Ft. Hood soldier who was convicted in 1989 of the shooting deaths of two Killeen taxi drivers.Then Army Pfc. Class Dwight Jeffrey Loving was sentenced to death in a 1989 court martial for robbing
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4 Prisoners Including Afghan Citizens Hanged on Drug Charges4 prisoners, including 2 Afghan citizens, were reportedly hanged at Taybad Prison (Razavi Khorasan province, northeastern Iran) on drug related charges.According to a report by the human right news agency HRANA, the executions were20
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Work training in areas often seen to be associated with men gives female offenders new opportunities.A new Academy aiming to get female prisoners into employment when they are released from custody was launched at Downview prison recently by Justice Minister Sam Gyimah and James Timpson, chief
Mohamed Ramadhan Issa Ali Hussain and Hussain Ali Moosa Hussain Mohamed are at imminent risk of execution following the execution of three men on 15 January 2017.Their death sentences were upheld by the Court of Cassation on 16 November 2015 and have been passed to the King who has the authority19
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"Midazolam will produce relaxation and that relaxation may be sufficiently severe to produce sleep, but in studies we've conducted, it does not eliminate sensation to pain." - S. Stevens Negus, professor of pharmacology at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAttorneys for Ricky Gray, a prisoner19
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"Midazolam will produce relaxation and that relaxation may be sufficiently severe to produce sleep, but in studies we've conducted, it does not eliminate sensation to pain." - S. Stevens Negus, professor of pharmacology at Virginia Commonwealth University(CNN)--Virginia executed Ricky Gray, 39, by19
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(Left to right) Sami Mushaima, Ali al-Singace and Abbas al-SameaOn Sunday 15th January, three men were executed by firing squad in Bahrain. Their names were Ali Al-Singace, Abbas Al-Samea and Sami Mushaima.The UN Special Rapporteur, Dr Agnes Callamard, called their executions
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Ricky GrayRicky Javon Gray, 39, was sentenced to death for the 2006 murders of Harvey sisters Ruby, 4, and Stella, 9. Gray also killed the girls' parents and another Richmond family.Ricky Javon Gray was executed by injection Wednesday night for the slaying of 2 young Richmond sisters on New Year's18
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Public flogging in Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsIran’s persistent use of cruel and inhuman punishments, including floggings, amputations and forced blinding over the past year, exposes the authorities’ utterly brutal sense of justice, said Amnesty International.Hundreds are routinely18
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP/KMTV) - Nebraska voters brought back the death penalty in November but that debate will return to the unicameral.State Senator Ernie Chambers introduced his latest bill to eliminate executions two years after a similar measure became law.Chambers has tried to outlaw the18
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The Iranian judiciary has executed a juvenile offender who was just 16 years old at the time of the crime for which he received a capital sentence.Arman Bahr Asemani was hanged the morning of Monday, January 16 in Kerman Prison along with an older co-defendant, Shams Allah R., despite the protest