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Polunsky Unit, Texas Death Row, Livingston, TexasA law firm that's been representing Texas death row inmates for more than 2 decades is recommending the state establish a system for condemned prisoners to have better legal help during the initial appeal that follows their trial.The Texas
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Public hanging at the Neyriz sports stadium in Fars Province, Iran, 22 Sept. 2016NCRI - This morning, 22 September, an inmate was hanged in public at the Neyriz sports stadium in Fars Province (south Iran).Public Relations of the
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Two more senseless killings of Black people by the policeTerence Crutcher was killed with no justification by a Tulsa, Oklahoma police officer. Keith Lamont Scott was shot in Charlotte, North Carolina while the police were there to serve a warrant to someone
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And at a fraction of the cost the UK government has been talking about.SNP MP Mhairi Black dropped off a copy of the SNP’s recently-launched Pensions Report at No 10 Downing Street this afternoon.This report, she pointed out, does the government’s job for them, by offering real workable
National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian, second from right, shows offcrystal methamphetamine that was seized from alleged drug dealersin Jakarta in this Aug. 24, 2016 file photo. (Antara Photo/Muhammad Adimaja)Jakarta. Bali Police anti-narcotics unit chief Sr. Comr. Franky Haryanto Parapat was20
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Justice Ranjan Gogoi of the Supreme Court, in line to become Chief Justice of India in October 2018, has expressed serious reservations about the sentencing policy followed by judges."For the same offence, the sentence awarded could be 6 months or 6 years. It is all rule of thumb", he observed20
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Focus groups’ answers to inform the National Strategy in Wales.Between January and March 2016, women and men who had recently experienced domestic abuse, sexual violence or other forms of violence against women were invited to attend focus groups throughout Wales.These groups were organised
The government must "put an end to the current wave of extrajudicial executionsand killings" of drug suspects, the European Union urges.The European Union has joined the global call on the Philippine government to "put an end to the current wave of extrajudicial executions and killings" of drug
San Quentin State Prison's brand new death chamberIf the government is going to impose a punishment as medieval and irreversible as the death penalty, it should take pains to ensure that the penalty is invoked only for the most heinous crimes and that it
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Mary Jane Veloso: duped into smuggling drugs into Indonesia.Mary Jane Veloso says she was duped into smuggling heroin into Indonesia as she fled an attempted rape in DubaiShe has become a cause celebre in both the country of her detention and that of her birth. Condemned to death on
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There are questions surrounding nearly 1,000 criminal convictions in Travis County.Delia Perez Meyer says her brother, Louis Castro Perez, is among the death row inmates who received a Brady notice stating his case could be compromised due to
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Attorney General says Filipina convicted of drug smuggling won't be executed until legal process in Philippines concludesIndonesia's attorney general reiterated Saturday that the possible execution of a Filipina convicted of drug smuggling would be held off until a legal process
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The Mexican government runs a fund to train poorly resourced American defense lawyers.This piece was reported through The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that covers the U.S. criminal-justice system.When the body of 25-year old Lesley Hope Plott was found lying in a ditch in21
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Toshi Kazama poses with pictures of a Taiwanese death row inmate.Photographer Toshi Kazama's photographs of execution chambers, death row inmates and victims' families show the reality of the death penalty that most of us don't see. He also asks a very
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Iwao Hakamada and his sister, shortly after his release from death row.Country's legal community will declare its opposition to capital punishment amid concern over miscarriages of justiceJapan is expected to come under unprecedented domestic pressure over its use of the
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San Quentin State prison's brand new death chamberHUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Beth Webb remembers talking with friends at her sister’s Christmas party several years ago, wondering aloud if she would support the death penalty if someone she knew were murdered. Then, in 2011, her
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The Huntsville Unit, where Texas carries out its executions.Texas is paying four times more for its execution drugs from a new supplier, putting it in line with a local consumer rate but well below the cost in at least one other death penalty
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Peter Scully (center) is facing child sex abuse and human trafficking charges.Cagayan de Oro, Philippines: Prosecutors in the Philippines have revealed they will call for the death penalty to be re-introduced in the case of alleged Australian child sex predator and
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court has issued a week-long stay of execution for a severely mentally ill prisoner who was due to be hanged in the early hours tomorrow (Tuesday).Calls had been growing to halt the hanging of Imdad Ali, a severely mentally ill man, amid concerns that his execution would be
North Carolina's death chamberDixie Lowry Davis, whose husband was shot to death on Interstate 95 in 1997, has no expectation that Tilmon Golphin will be executed for the murder."No, I don't. I really don't," Davis said on Wednesday. She thinks that Golphin - sentenced to die for killing Leggi18
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A vote to “retain” would... get rid of Nebraska’s death penalty.If voters aren’t careful, they easily could become confused and vote the opposite of their desires on the death penalty ballot issue that Nebraskans are being asked to consider this fall.
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Dylann RoofLawyers for the accused Charleston shooter responded to the prosecutors' motion to limit his use of a "mercy" defense at trial.Dylann Roof's defense attorney responded this week to the prosecution's request that the court limit the accused Charleston church shooter's use of a "mercy"17
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Iraqi authorities executed a Palestinian youth yesterday after accusing him of collaborating with armed groups in Iraq, the Palestinian Safa news agency reported today.Ahmad Husni Shwahneh was arrested by Iraqi authorities almost a year ago and charged with working with militant factions.However
Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterThe Japan Federation of Bar Associations will launch a campaign next month for the abolition of capital punishment, arguing that even the worst offenders stand a chance of reintegration in society.It will ask its members to approve the move at a meeting on Leggi21
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Asking: ‘What would you do, Ma’am?’A group of women who have been opposing Cuadrilla’s shale gas plans in Lancashire have sent an open letter to the Queen as part of their long-standing and on-going attempts to prevent fracking near Blackpool.Lancashire County Council refused planning21
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A court in Vietnam sentenced to death a notorious drugs kingpin and 8 associates on Wednesday, delivering the maximum punishment in a single verdict over the trafficking of more than 1/2 a ton of heroin.The case centered on Trang A Tang, a 33-year-old leader of a network that trafficked drugs from21
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"A protocol that would use a clinical plastic face maskconnected by tubing to a canister of nitrogen gas."OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma officials would be wise to develop an execution protocol that uses nitrogen gas, Attorney General Scott Pruitt said Tuesday.Pruitt said states across the
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What will it take for the government to make sex education compulsory in all schools?Earlier this month, a report published by the Women and Equalities Committee revealed shocking levels of sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools across the UK.According to the evidence collected19
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Pablo IbarLos abogados explican que se trata de una coincidencia parcial en una mancha milimétricaEl caso de Pablo Ibar sigue avanzando por los derroteros de una telenovela. El último español condenado a muerte en el mundo fue acusado en 1994 de triple asesinato en la ciudad de Miramar,
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Medieval and barbaric punishments: Public hanging in IranNCRI - In response to the statements of UN Commissioner” Zeyd Ra’ad Al Hussein” about the “fundamental problems” in regime’s judicial process and execution of juveniles by Mullahs’ regime, Mohammad Javad Larijani, Secretary General of18
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Oklahoma's death chamberFor the first time since 1994, Oklahoma will not put to death any inmates this yearA quagmire of incompetency, investigations and court action has resulted in 2016 becoming the first year since 1994 that Oklahoma has not carried out an execution.Four months after a grand18
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Welcome to BaliThe most searched for destination: Traveller names 10 most popular destinations according to readersThis week marks the second anniversary of the launch of Traveller.com.au and the past two years has seen Australia's leading online travel publishing site go from strength to17
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Samia Shahid with her second husband Mukhtar Syed KazamSamia's ex-husband confessed to strangling her, but her father 'denies' any involvement.The prosecutor in the murder of a British woman Samia Shahid will seek the death penalty for her father and ex-husband. Samia's father Chaudhry
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Sierra Leone's Minister of Internal Affairs has said the government would start implementing the death penalty to crack down on recent increase in gang-related killings in the country."We will kill when the state demands it," Palo Conteh said on Thursday. "I have called on the Director
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