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President Rodrigo DuterteUS embassy says there are 'significant concerns' about civil liberties under President DuterteThe US government says it will not renew a major aid package to the Philippines worth hundreds of millions of dollars, due to concerns over the leadership of President Rodrigo Duterte.The US embassy to the
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"The economic factors are more likely to lead to an end to capitalpunishment in Nevada than moral or religious grounds."Two state legislative leaders have requested a bill be drafted to abolish
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"After China and KSA, Pakistan comes in world ranking of executions."Since Dec 2014, 426 criminals executed, mostly in cases unrelated to terrorism; after China and KSA, Pakistan comes in world ranking of executions in 2016"Execution of convicted terrorists", the 1st point in National Action14
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Sarah Champion: Women deserve better than this Tory evasiveness over equalities.Sarah Champion MP, shadow secretary of state for women and equalities, delivered this speech in an Opposition Day debate in the House of Commons on 14 December 2016:The advancement of equal rights for women is14
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Robert and Michael visited the White House in 1953 in a failedbid to get President Eisenhower to stop their parents’ executions.More than 60 years after the execution of alleged spy
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Christopher and his mother Debra Jean MilkeA state appeals court has ordered the dismissal of murder charges against a woman who spent 22 years on Arizona’s death row for the killing of her four-year-old son.The Arizona court of appeals on Thursday levelled harsh criticism against
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House Deputy Speaker Capiz Rep. Fredenil Castro yesterday said the discussions on the bill to reinstate death penalty, a priority legislative measure of President Duterte, will be moved to early next year, so that congressmen would have a thorough plenary debate.In a radio interview, Castro said13
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[Please note that Death Penalty News is banned in Iran.]NCRI - The Iranian regime is greatly terrified of cyberspace and the possibility of free exchange of information on the internet. Regime’s television speaks about the dangers of internet and cyberspace every day. They are also scaring people13
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals by a convicted murderer who said he should not be executed because Ohio tried unsuccessfully to put him to death once before and three other death row inmates, putting a spotlight again on divisions among the eight justices over capital12
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We owe it to our mothers, sisters and especially our daughters ‘to do much more – with greater urgency’.Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, gave a speech on human rights – and women’s rights – at the Methodist Central Hall on 10 December, to mark International Human Rights Day.He was
Cairo, EgyptAn Egyptian top court confirmed on Saturday as a final verdict the death sentence against Islamist extremist Adel Habbara over a 2013 deadly anti-security attack in Sinai, official MENA news agency reported.The Court of Cassation rejected Habbara's appeal against his death penalty and11
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Ronald PhillipsThe Ohio Parole Board has recommended that Gov. John Kasich move forward with the execution of Ronald Phillips, an Akron man convicted of raping and murdering a 3-year-old girl.Phillips’ friends and attorneys sought mercy last week in Columbus. Phillips, 43, has been on death row15
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Rev. Hassan Abduraheem and Rev. Kuwa ShamalTime is running out for two Christian pastors facing a possible death penalty in Sudan, the American Center for Law and Justice is warning as it launches a global petition asking the world to help save the 2 men.
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Execution of a convicted murderer in Gaza City on October 2, 2013The case of the 1st Palestinian woman to be sentenced to death in more than 20 years has raised concerns among human right activists in Gaza.The 26-year-old woman, identified
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Former detective Armando SaldatePHOENIX - A retired Phoenix police detective whose credibility was attacked in a now-dismissed murder case that sent an Arizona woman to death row for 22 years has lost his bid to refuse to answer certain questions in her wrongful-conviction lawsuit.The detective14
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The parliament of Chad has adopted a reform of its penal code which raises the legal marriage age from 16 to 18 and abrogates the death penalty.111 MPs voted for the the new penal code while 1 MP voted against it and 4 abstained.The new code that repeals the 1967 Code abrogates
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THAILAND’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn has issued a decree granting pardons to certain prisoners in commemoration of his accession to the throne.Under the decree in the Royal Gazette, which takes effect today, the new king granted full pardons to prisoners sentenced to no more than three
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Late last Thursday, as death row inmate Ronald Bert Smith was strapped to a gurney in Alabama – burning alive from the inside out – he heaved, coughed, clenched his fists, moved his lips, and opened his left eye.The tremors of this savagery and the cruel and unusual
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Iranian authorities executed ten prisoners at Karaj's Rajai Shahr Prison on Sunday December 11.Iran Human Rights (DEC 12 2016): Ten prisoners were reportedly hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison (Alborz province, northern Iran) on murder charges.According to close sources, the executions were carried out13
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Dylann RoofCHARLESTON, S.C. — In the middle of April 2015, Dylann Roof browsed a case filled with Glock pistols at a South Carolina gun store, spoke to a clerk and filled out the required federal paperwork for a purchase.Three days later, after waiting for a background check, Roof returned to12
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WASHINGTON — Death came knocking at the Supreme Court's door twice last week, as it has done most weeks since the justices took the bench in early October.When William Sallie asked for a stay of execution Tuesday because of alleged juror bias, the justices refused, apparently without dissent
While making it clear that Europe would prefer if Jamaica expands gay rights and abolish the death penalty, the European Union's (EU) new representative in Kingston insists that these would not be conditions for the island to continue to receive EU economic aid." ... There is no conditionality,"11
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As Delaware's Supreme Court weighs whether 12 men sentenced to death should be spared from execution, prison officials have quietly disbanded the state's death row and moved its former occupants to other housing.Prison officials say the move, which occurred in August, resulted in former death row15
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Philippines: Extrajudicial killings of alleged trug traffickers are soaringA human rights activist said those in favor of death penalty is banking on the emotions of victims of crimes to justify the push to reinstate death penalty in the country.Speaking on ANC, Carlos Conde
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The Indonesian Bishops have officially asked the government for a moratorium on the death penalty. As reported to Fides by Fr. Paulus Christian Siswantoko, executive secretary of the Commission for Justice, Peace and Pastoral Care of Migrants of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Indonesia, the14
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Hanging juvenile offenders: not an uncommon occurrence in IranThis piece was initially published on June 13, 2015.It was all fear and turbulence, not cool revenge or a premeditated plan. The homicide changed Kian’s life radically: He not only lost eight of the best
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Street Execution of Civilians in Aleppo, Syria, December 2106NCRI - Human rights activists and informed sources have reported that Bashar Assad’s forces and their allies (Iranian regime’s affiliated militants) have executed at least 200 people in four districts of East Aleppo.According to13
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Underlines the pioneering achievements of these artists as part of the history of photograhpy.‘Feminist Avant–Garde of the 1970s’ is an expansive exhibition comprising forty-eight international female artists and over 150 major works from the VERBUND COLLECTION in Vienna and currently being13
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Washington D.C., Dec 10, 2016 / 04:05 am (CNA/EWTN News).- More than 10 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in two separate cases that the death penalty is unconstitutional when applied to juveniles or the intellectually disabled.But today, over a decade later, many states still execute inmates
Justice Stephen G. BreyerWASHINGTON — Continuing his sustained critique of the American capital justice system, Justice Stephen G. Breyer on Monday issued an unusual dissent from the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case of a Florida death row inmate who said his conviction had been based12
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Call for the UK to withdraw its support from land and seed grabs by corporate businesses.The problem with the industrial food system is that big corporations are increasing their control over the global food system, at the expense of small-scale farmers.Small-scale farmers feed 70 per cent of
Virginia prison officials have paid a secret compounding pharmacy $66,000 to obtain lethal injection drugs for its next 2 executions - roughly 63 times last year's going price for the state's 3-drug lethal injection package.Like other states, Virginia has struggled to obtain these drugs as12
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Indian President Pranab Mukherjee (left), Joko Widodo, PM Narendra ModiThe fate of an Indian facing death sentence in Indonesia will be discussed during Indonesian President Joko Widodo India visit beginning Monday. However, the Indonesian government has indicated that any change in his
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A painstaking reconstruction of a real-time execution by lethal injection that highlights some of the very specific issues relating to the USA’s preferred execution method.Over the last few years, executions have been on the decline in the US, the practice has been fraught with pragmatic, fiscal