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John ConnerGeorgia executed John Conner on Thursday, ending a two-month death penalty hiatus for the United States. Conner was pronounced dead at12:29 a.m.Conner didn't make a final statement and declined to have a prayer said for him.Conner becomes the sixth person executed by Georgia this year, putting the state on
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Sexual harassment ‘is a routine and everyday occurrence in many schools in both England and Wales’.The Women and Equalities Committee held the final evidence session of its inquiry into Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence in Schools with evidence from three Ministers.Karen Bradley MP13
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Relatives of murder victims, death-row exonerees, and family members of the executed will speak at a series of public meetings about why they oppose the death penalty.The meetings will be held in Omaha, Lincoln and across Nebraska.Journey of Hope will start its speaking tour at 10 a.m. Sunday at13
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Letter raises serious concerns about the government’s ‘independent review’ into Sharia courts in Britain.An independent review into the application of Sharia Law in England and Wales launched by then Home Secretary Theresa May earlier this year is facing criticism from women’s rights12
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Iran Human Rights (July 11 2016): After a short break on the occasion of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the executions have resumed in Iran. At least 12 prisoners are scheduled to be executed in three different Iranian prisons in the coming days. According to Iran Human Rights' (IHR) sources11
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Alabama's death rowAlthough nearly 3,000 people are on death row in America, there has not been an execution in the country for 2 months - and few executions are expected in the coming months.It has been 2 months since any state in the United States has carried out an
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Hussain HumaamThe Maldives are preparing to resume executions, and Hussain Humaam Ahmed will be the 1st death row inmate to be killed in over 60 years.There are serious concerns about the fairness of the murder trial, and without your help Humaam could be hung within 30 days. Call
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On Sept. 27, 1913, the 58th General Assembly of Tennessee approved Senate Bill 125, making the electric chair the state's official method of execution. The chair, which Tennessee has used to kill 126 prisoners - the 1st of whom was executed nearly 100 years ago on July 13, 1916 - is the
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The government must stop dragging its feet in amending the death penalty law, following the recent announcement that a review of capital punishment in Malaysia has been completed.Anti-death penalty groups have urged for prompt reform, saying that proposed changes to capital punishment sentences09
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Tanzania government has once again been ordered by the African Court of Human and People's Rights (AfCHPR) to halt the execution of 2 murder convicts facing death the penalty.In its ruling after 2 applications by the convicts, 11 judges of the judicial organ based in Arusha unanimously orders the09
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"Most Child offenders start as petty thieves who are forced by hunger and povertyto commit such crimes"Is the Philippines ready to put to death a 9-year old?Senator Paolo "Bam" Aquino IV posed this challenge
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“It is never acceptable to risk killing innocent persons for the sake of being tough on crime.”LINCOLN, NE – A 25-year, tough-on-crime, criminal prosecutor who supervised the 2008 DNA testing that freed the Beatrice Six, says Nebraska’s death penalty should be replaced with life in prison without14
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Leaving the EU does not mean weakening alliances with European unions – they will be more important than ever.The TUC hosted a meeting of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) at Congress House in London on 11 July.The meeting, which was made up of leaders from trade unions and
Arkansas Gov. Asa HutchinsonGov. Asa Hutchinson is hoping Arkansas will resume executing death row inmates before January, when 1 of the 3 drugs used in the state's lethal injection mixture will expire.On Tuesday the Arkansas Department of Correction announced the state had replenished supplies of13
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‘Deeply offensive – and very depressing’.It may be 2016, but the British media still can’t seem to handle the fact that the next Prime Minister is going to be a woman.WVoN decided to pick out a selection of just some of the sexist remarks that were made about Andrea Leadsom and Theresa May12
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Join the country-wide Day of Action on 13 July 2016.The disabled campaigners responsible for previous high-profile protests against cuts are holding a national day of action on 13 July 2016 to protest against disability benefit changes.Protests will be held up and down the country outside11
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‘When teenage girls are empowered they become agents of positive change in their communities’.In 1989, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recommended that 11 July be observed by the international community as World Population Day.It is a day to focus11
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Jakarta. Indonesia will execute at least two convicts, including foreigners, this year, the attorney general said on Monday (11/7).HM Prasetyo said the prisoners would be executed by firing squad soon, but did not elaborate upon the crimes of which they were convicted."The implementation of the
A.M. "Marty" StroudThe Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project will honor a local attorney with its annual Champion of Justice Award this week.When it came to selecting this year's recipient of the award, Shawn Armbrust, executive director of the organization, found the perfect honoree in Shreveport
Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgWASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she doesn't want to think about the possibility of Donald Trump winning the White House, and she predicts the next president — "whoever she will be" — will have a few appointments to make to the Supreme
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The Al Qaeda-affiliated Al Shabaab fighters in central Somalia have publicly executes 2 men by firing squad on Thursday afternoon, for killing unarmed civilians in the past.Sources say a firing squad from Al Shabaab carried out the execution against the men at a square in the coastal city Leggi09
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Johnny BennettColumbia, S.C. - Below is a brief (4'12") film which illuminates the shocking racial injustice that permeates the capital sentencing system in the state of South Carolina and highlights those injustices specifically in the case of death row inmate Johnny Bennett.On June 15th, 2016
Perry Eugene WilliamsThe scheduled July 14 execution of a man convicted in the slaying of a medical student robbed of $40 has been postponed indefinitely.A Texas prison system spokesman said Wednesday that a state district judge in Houston has withdrawn the execution order for Perry Eugene14
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Serge Atlaoui, his wife Sabine and their sonIndonesia will not execute a European this year,Indonesian Attorney GeneralH. M. Prasetyo said on Wednesday.Prasetyo thus confirmed that the death sentence against French drug convict Serge Atlaoui will not be carried out in the next and forthcoming13
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Iran's fundamentalist regime hanged 9 prisoners collectively on Wednesday in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, north-west of Tehran.3 of the executed prisoners were identified as Seyyed Mohammad Taheri, Amir Khadem Rezaiyan and Saeid Ahmadi.The victims had been transferred to solitary confinement in12
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Lin Hsin-yi, executive director the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty.Lin Hsin-yi (林欣怡), executive director the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP), believes that at least three people who are currently on death row in Taiwan
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Why is tennis still a man’s game? Despite it being one of the better known sports for women, tennis is consistently bogged down with sexism and discrimination issues.Still.Or ‘again this year too’.It’s never easy being a female athlete, regardless of the sport; even in 2016, women are11
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"The executions were widely criticized by foreign governments and NGOs."It is a case of domestic considerations trumping international image.If you want to point at one incident that transformed Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo from an inspiring, hopeful candidate to the oft-criticized11
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Mary Jane VelosoMary Jane Veloso and 87 other overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) languishing in death row in overseas prisons will be deprived of a chance of absolution as soon as the capital punishment is restored in the Philippines, Buhay Party-list Rep. Lito Atienza warned.Meantime, the Catholic10
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"Not only is midazolam not an ultra short-acting barbiturate, it is not a barbiturateat all," say both appeals.2 Mississippi death row inmates have filed fresh challenges to the state's lethal injection procedures with the Mississippi Supreme Court.The move came after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of09
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Nebraska Governor Pete RickettsThe Nebraska Supreme Court has rejected a legal challenge of a ballot question that asks voters to reinstate the death penalty.Lawyers for death penalty opponents had argued a successful petition drive was legally invalid because organizers failed to list Gov. Pete09
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"Becoming paranoid as the borders of their self-proclaimed caliphate shrinks."The extremists are becoming increasingly paranoid as the borders of their self-proclaimed caliphate shrinks.The Islamic State (Isis) militant group has executed 6 of their own fighters and 5 Sunni tribesmen in Iraq08
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Linda CartyA hearing this week for Linda Carty presents her with hope that she might avoid death penalty amid evidence prosecutors coerced false witness testimoniesA British woman who has been on death row in Texas for 14 years has been given renewed hope that she might be spared execution by
California's death chamberAt a time when more inmates on death row die from suicide than execution, the Death Penalty Reform and Savings Act could cement California as the new death belt.31 years ago, Kevin Cooper was sentenced to death by a California court for the brutal murder of 4
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