Nebraska: Gathering signatures against the death penalty repealCalifornia and Nebraska will decide next week whether they will keep the death penalty and both measures would have national implications on the debate over capital punishment. Polls show voters are conflicted.Ballot measures addressing the death penalty
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Portugal's foreign minister Augusto Santos SilvaPortugal's foreign minister has said that Equatorial Guinea must abolish the death penalty immediately or its membership of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) will be illegitimate."From Portugal's point of view, [the abolition of05
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaMunir al-Adam says he signed a confession only after being beaten so badly he lost hearing in one earSaudi Arabia is set to behead a disabled man for taking part in anti-government protests.A specialised criminal court in Riyadh, the Arab kingdom's capital, Leggi04
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The impact of getting married at a young age is the same no matter in which country you live.Although the risks vary.But girls are at risk of dropping out of school, of sexual activity often without consent or contraception, and the myriad of health-related consequences that can accompany
Medieval and barbaric: Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaThe Saudi authorities have sentenced a young disabled man to beheading in relation to his alleged attendance at protests, it’s emerged.Munir Adam, 23, was arrested in 2012 in the wake of protests in the country’s Eastern Province.
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"The prime minister's statement that any reinstatement of the death penalty inTurkey cannot be retroactive is very important and correct."A reinstatement of capital punishment appears to be in the pipeline in Turkey. Although it looks like Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli03
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The government is keen to hear views from all parties with relevant knowledge or experience.The government is holding a public consultation regarding its idea that there should be some kind of penalty for people receiving benefits who have more than two children.Or rather, a public
Screenshot from 'Dead Man Walking', by Tim Robbins (1995)Does the death penalty provide true justice and closure to victims?On May 15th 2015, a federal jury condemned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for his role in killing four people and injuring hundreds in the Boston Marathon bombings in02
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The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the execution of Imdad Ali, a schizophrenic man convicted in 2002 of murdering a cleric. The hanging was postponed on the basis of Ali's mental illness. The court issued notices to the Advocate General Punjab, the Prosecutor General Punjab and the Attorney02
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Nebraska Governor (R) Pete RickettsThe group campaigning to permanently end the death penalty in Nebraska has released an audio clip of Gov. Pete Ricketts’ lieutenant governor voicing his opposition to it in 2014.Then-State Auditor Mike Foley was running for governor at the time and was explaining02
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Oklahoma's Death ChamberOKLAHOMA'S state constitution is among the nation's longest, largely because it is packed with provisions that should have been handled in statute. If anything, the Oklahoma Constitution should be reduced in size, not expanded.That alone justifies opposition to State01
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Take Back the Tech! wants to know your story of gender and technology.How have internet technologies changed in the past decade? How have these changes affected the way we engage, relate, organise and take action?Take Back the Tech! started as the seed of an idea in 2006, recognising the need05
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Vice President Emmerson MnangagwaZimbabwe last week pardoned 10 inmates who were on death row after they requested for Presidential clemency while the remaining 80 will also survive the gallows if Government resolves to completely abolish capital punishment for all crimes, Vice President Emmerson05
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Recep Tayyip ErdoganDuring the cabinet meeting presided over by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this week, the reinstatement of capital punishment was among the key issues. He looked in the face of cabinet ministers and asked: "What will happen for my 241 martyrs [killed during the military04
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“The proposition of recovering a supposedly perfect past is fiction; its merchants are cheats.”The High Commissioner for Human Rights has issued a strong warning to us all to stand against populists and demagogues in Europe and the USA.The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for04
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Ohio's death chamberAppeals court dismisses death-row challengeA Cincinnati appeals court Wednesday dismissed challenges to an Ohio law that promises to shield the identities of some of those involved in the execution process, including pharmacies that manufacture the drugs.In a 2-1 decision
Tommy ArthurThe U.S. Supreme Court has stopped the execution of an Alabama inmate convicted in a 1982 murder-for-hire.Five justices voted to grant the stay late Thursday night for inmate Tommy Arthur as the high court considers whether to review Arthur's appeals.The decision was handed down about
A federal judge Monday denied a group of death row inmates' challenge to the state's use of lethal injection in executions.But then Chief U.S. District Judge Keith Watkins turned to medical professionals.In a critique at the end of a 29-page opinion - titled "Alternative Method Evidence02
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Number of women working night shifts up by 190,000 since 2011, new TUC analysis has revealed.New analysis published by the TUC shows that the number of people who work night shifts increased by 275,000 – 9 per cent – between 2011 and 2016 to 3,135,000.Britain’s large army of night-workers now02
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Ruslan Kulekbaev in an Almaty courtroom on October 25, 2016A Kazakh court has sentenced a man to death on terrorism charges.The court in Kazakhstan's largest city of Almaty found Ruslan Kulekbaev, 26, guilty of murder, attempted murder, and terrorism on November 2.
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Turkish President Tayyip ErdoganPresident Tayyip Erdogan's remarks on Oct. 29, in which he said reinstating the death penalty could be on parliament's agenda "soon," rekindled debates about the quality of democracy in Turkey and also put the country's position in further jeopardy vis-a-vis European02
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Death row cell, San Quentin State prison, California"The [US Supreme]Court has said repeatedly that the sole justifications for capital punishment are the roles it plays in deterring murder and in exacting retribution."FIFTY YEARS AGO, American support for the death penalty was as low as Leggi
“That $14.6 million every year would be better spent on tax breaks for hardworking Nebraska families, or to aid some of the struggling state agencies”LINCOLN - One week before voters decide the fate of the death penalty, two conservative Nebraska State Senators said today, that the State’s
Charles and Camilla to Make Official Trip to BahrainThe Government must ensure that the UK Royal Family raise the issue of torture and the death penalty when they visit Bahrain in the coming week, human rights organization Reprieve has said.Prince Charles and
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Medical abortion in Northern Ireland – a response to poor BBC reporting.On Thursday 27th October 2016 the BBC reported that another woman in Northern Ireland has been charged with using abortion pills.The article said almost nothing about the circumstances of the case, but included false and
Prosecutors at the Semarang District Court in Central Java have demanded the death penalty for 5 defendants in a major drug-smuggling case, including Pakistani citizens Muhammad Riaz and Faiq Akhtar and US national Kamran Malik, aka Philip Russel.The 3 have been indicted for trafficking 9704
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Iran: Barbaric and medieval punishments2 prisoners were executed at Salmas Prison (west Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran) on drug related charges.According to close sources, 1 of the prisoners, identified as Sami Mamadi, was hanged on Monday October 31.According to the Kurdistan Human03
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We need urgent action to end the widespread and often hidden scandal of sexual harassment in schools.Groped in the corridor, a hand up our skirts at break time, shown pornographic images in class, or sexual comments about our bodies yelled after us down the corridor.These, say GirlguidingTommy ArthurAlabama death row inmate Tommy Arthur on Tuesday was still waiting for the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on whether it will grant a stay of execution.Arthur is set to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on Thursday [November 3, 2016].If the appeal is granted,
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The effect of benefit sanctions are of wider public importance and matters of significant public concern.Lawyers acting on behalf of the sister of a 59 year-old ex-soldier who died in 2013 after he was ‘sanctioned’ by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are calling for an inquest into02
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Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon (left) and Mr Eugene ThuraisingamEven after appealing twice, his client was still sentenced to hang for trafficking in drugs.But lawyer Eugene Thuraisingam held on to hope that he could save his client, Dinesh Pillai Reja Retnam, a Malaysian national
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Larry SwearingenInmate says Court of Criminal Appeals has deprived him of the right to prove his innocence.A death row inmate has sued the state's highest criminal court and its 9 judges, arguing that they have deprived him of the opportunity to prove his innocence.Lawyers for death row inmate01
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Girls revealed the challenges they are facing and what they want to change.This year the girls and young women who took part in Girlguiding’s 2016 survey revealed that they feel held back by gender stereotypes, sexism, and anxiety about how they look.They said they think they may not achieve01
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"If we insist on pumping caustic, corrosive drugs into other human beings,our Constitution demands it not cause excruciating pain."Alabama’s last execution may have burned a man alive because the “consciousness assessment” it administers is about as scientific as someone jostling you when you nod