Prison de la Santé, Paris, 25 mai 1946Gérard Fesch lutte pour réhabiliter son père Jacques, condamné à la peine capitale en 1957 pour le meurtre d'un policier.Dans la cour de la prison de la Santé encore plongée dans l'obscurité, un frêle jeune homme blond
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A Tennessee lawyer has studied more than 2,000 1st-degree murder cases in the state looking for clues into how the death penalty is administered. He's still working on the project, which he hopes will prove the death penalty is unconstitutional.It took investigators 2 days to find all the bodies01
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A bill to reinstate the death penalty that is sought by Gov. Susana Martinez squeaked through the House Judiciary Committee on a 7-6 vote late Friday, with Republicans voting in favor and Democrats opposed.The same committee also approved 2 other crime bills, voting 12-1 to expand an existing01
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Sadeq LarijaniFearing a popular uprising, the regime leaders step up social clampdown, executionsMullah Sadeq Larijani, the criminal Chief Justice of the Iranian regime, emphasized that it is not the Judiciary's policy to eliminate executions for drug smugglers.He said, "When did we have such an01
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A woman, four Baluchis and eight Kurds were among those executed The total number of those executed since the beginning of September amounts to 75 The Iranian regime hanged at least 27 prisoners in three days, September 27-29, 2016, in Gohardasht, Orumiyeh, Minab and Khorrambad prisons.
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“If we help, we invite trouble. If we don’t, we invite shame.”Fifty women leave everything behind to board a boat in North Africa and flee across the Mediterranean.They are escaping forced marriage in their homeland, and, hoping for protection and assistance, seeking asylum in30
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Yusef Salaam, left, is led away by a detective after being arrestedin Central Park for allegedly attacking Trisha Meili.In 1989 five young black men were wrongfully convicted of raping a woman jogging
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Saudi Arabia told a UN committee last week that it does not sentence children to death, despite submitting written evidence in which it admitted people can be executed for crimes committed aged 15, anti-death penalty charity Reprieve has found.The Saudi delegation told the UN’s child rights29
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The forgotten story of Mozart’s genius sister.Little Matchstick Factory‘s The Other Mozart is the true, forgotten story of Nannerl Mozart, the sister of Amadeus.She was a prodigy, keyboard virtuoso and composer, who performed throughout Europe with her brother, to equal acclaim, but her work29
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The ACLU says Attorney General Tim Fox has some explaining to do.Confronted with a challenge to the state's lethal injection cocktail, the Department of Justice leaned on a controversial medical expert last year to argue the sedative it planned to use to kill 2 death row inmates would work as29
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Seven prisoners were recently executed in southern Iran on drug related charges.Iran Human Rights (SEPT 29 2016): Seven prisoners sentenced to death for drug related offenses were reportedly hanged at Minab Central Prison (Hormozgan province, southern Iran).According to close sources, the28
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Women’s groups suggest ways for ensuring the protection and safety of refugee women and girls.World leaders gathered for two major summits on the global refugee and migration crisis recently. One was the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants co-chaired by the governments of Jordan and Ireland on03
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Man publicly hanged 2 weeks after his arrest, Neyshabur, Iran. Sept. 30, 2016A man was hanged in public in the Razavi Khorasan province (northeastern Iran) on Friday September 30.A crowd of people reportedly watched the execution.Iran Human Rights (October
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Tom Venzor, executive director of the Nebraska Catholic Conference, left, and Sister Jeanne O'Rourke, of Mercy High School in Omaha speak about why Nebraska should not have a death penalty.Priest, nuns and Catholic leaders joined Tom Venzor, executive director of the Nebraska Catholic Conference01
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo's tough on drugs stance and his resolve to push ahead with the execution of convicted drug smugglers is filtering down to the courts.The West Jakarta District Court is leading the charge.This week alone it sentenced 5 foreigners to death after the prosecutors
Eight prisoners, including a woman, were reportedly executed on drug charges at Darya, Urmia's central prison (West Azerbaijan, northwestern Iran).Iran Human Rights (SEPT 30 2016): According to a report by the unofficial news agency, HRANA, Iranian authorities hanged eight prisoners at Urmia's30
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Women’s Sport Week runs from 3 – 9 October 2016.Women’s Sport Week is an opportunity for everybody involved with playing, delivering, leading or working in sport to celebrate, raise awareness and increase the profile of women’s sport throughout the UK.The objective of Women’s Sport Week is to
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear the 1st of 2 death penalty cases in this year's term, the share of Americans who support the death penalty for people convicted of murder is now at its lowest point in more than 4
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Philippine President Rodrigo DutertePhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte has compared his anti-drug campaign to the Holocaust, saying he would kill as many addicts as Hitler did Jews."Hitler massacred three million Jews... there's three million drug addicts. I'd be happy to slaughter them," he29
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The FCO funded training for hundreds of prison guards at Bahrain’s death row jail, where an innocent man faces imminent execution after ‘confessing’ under torture, a new report by anti-death penalty charity Reprieve has found.Northern Ireland Co-operation Overseas (NI-CO), a state-owned Belfast29
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Suspects charged for the gang-rape and murder of a 14-year old schoolgirlappear in court in the Indonesian city of Curup on August 4, 2016.An Indonesian court on
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Alleged Australian child sex abuser Peter Scully (center)Bringing back a flawed system to kill a rotten individual means that we dispense with the individual but are stuck with the systemThere have been calls to reintroduce the death penalty in the Philippines as the
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“Unsafe abortion is still killing tens of thousands women around the world” UN rights experts warn.Speaking ahead of the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, a group of United Nations human rights experts called on States across the world to repeal restrictive abortion02
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The total cost would be $49,500 per lethal injection.Richmond Times-Dispatch -- The Virginia Department of Corrections has agreed to pay a secret supplier of lethal injection drugs $16,500 per execution under a new state contract, more than 30 times higher than what prison
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The Supreme Court of Alabama has unanimously upheld the state's capital murder sentencing scheme, which signifies Alabama as the last state in the country that allows for this type of scheme.The ruling allows for judicial override, which means a judge can impose the death
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)September 29, 2016: three prisoners were executed in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking and murder. Amjad Hussein Ashraf Shah - Pakistani National – was executed in Jeddah governorate for smuggling a quantity of heroin. Another pakistani national, Ayub30
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Nebraska Governor Pete RickettsLINCOLN, NE - State Sen. Adam Morfeld of Lincoln, a member of the Judiciary Committee, said today after a special Legislative hearing on the Department of Corrections discussing the cost of Nebraska prisons, that he appreciates the Ricketts Administration finally30
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Is there evidence of a hidden civil war in Britain today?‘Hidden Civil War’ is a month-long programme – running from 30 September until 30 October 2016 – of events and exhibitions in different parts of Newcastle upon Tyne that expose, collate and present evidence of a Hidden Civil War in30
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Gathering signatures against the Nebraska repeal of the death penaltyThe 3 bishops in charge of the 375,000 Catholics in 350 Nebraska parishes have officially come out as opponents of the death penalty, as the issue takes center stage with a statewide vote
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UN Women launches flagship programme initiative to collect data about women’s lives.Building on commitments made in May this year on 21 September, during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, UN Women launched a new public-private partnership called “Making Every Woman and29
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Dylann RoofSome 748 prospective jurors in the upcoming Dylann Roof federal death penalty trial have been picked to go on to a second, more intensive, phase of jury screening that will begin Nov. 7.The 748 who survived the initial screening process this week were picked over a 2 1/2 day
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Iran Human Rights (SEPT 29 2016): Eight prisoners sentenced to death for murder and Moharebeh (enmity against God) charges were reportedly hanged at Karaj's Rajai Shahr Prison (Alborz province, northern Iran) on Wednesday September 28.According to close sources, on Thursday September 22, eleven29
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Iranian human rights and anti-death penalty lawyer Narges MohammadiAn Iranian appeals court on Wednesday upheld a 16-year prison sentence for a prominent Iranian human rights advocate.Narges Mohammadi had been sentenced in May on charges of violating national security and acting against the
Dubai: Two brothers have been sentenced to death for killing their brother-in-law by choking him with a plastic rope after he married their sister without the family’s consent.A Pakistani man, F.A., who remains at large, lured his countryman brother-in-law, M.T., to discuss their family dispute in