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Screenshot from "Apprentice", a film by Boo Junfeng (2016)The recent hanging of Kho Jabing despite exhausting all legal avenues was a dampener. There are insurmountable obstacles staring down at those amongst us who take up the dogged fight of standing up for the
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Indonesia's President Joko WidodoIndonesia's President Joko Widodo will intervene if an Australian resident charged with murder is sentenced to death. Indonesia's Justice Minister Yasonna Laoly says Indonesia will honour a guarantee to Australia that Jessica Wongso will not be executed."As a state
A gay man is thrown off a building top by ISIS militants in Iraq in Jan. 2016REYHANLI, Turkey — The Islamic State group, which on Monday called the Orlando mass shooter Omar Mateen 'one
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Protect our children and teachers from asbestos exposure at school.A petition has been set up calling for every school in the UK to have to produce an annual report about the type and condition of any asbestos on the premises and share this with all parents and staff.It calls for every13
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Pope Francis talks with Lidia Guerrero, the Argentine mother of a man ondeath row in Texas.VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has met for a second time with the Argentine mother of a man on
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Somers Northern Correctional Institution, ConnecticutThe death sentences of the Cheshire home invasion killers could be changed to consecutive life sentences at 2 separate hearings next week, the 1st proceedings to be held since last month's Supreme Court ruling that spared the lives of12
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Pablo IbarPablo Ibar, whose death sentence was overturned in February by the Florida Supreme Court, has been transferred to a regular prisonThe Florida Supreme Court vacated Ibar's sentence and ordered a new trial, citing several flaws in the state's arguments against him.45-year-old Ibar, who is10
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If so, cross-party politicians want to hear from you!Several of the more than 142,000 people who signed a petition set up after Nicola Thorp was sent home from work for being told she should wear high heels have reported receiving this communication:‘You recently signed the petition “Make it10
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Who gets the death penalty in India? The Death Penalty India Report(pdf), brought out by the National Law University last month, attempts an answer. A 1-of-its-kind study, it documents the socio-economic profiles of prisoners sentenced to death, as also their engagement with the criminal justice10
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Indonesia's double standardThe government is stepping up its efforts to spare the lives of 208 Indonesians abroad who are facing the death penalty, an official said on Thursday.As of May 2016, 154 of the Indonesian nationals on death row overseas were in Malaysia, with the majority of their cases
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has claimed that the attackers who carried out the recent attacks that rocked the northwestern city of Aqtobe "received instructions from abroad," and suggested that suspects will face the death penalty.The June 8 comments were the first made by the Kazakh09
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Drug pushers found carrying packs of “shabu” worth P4 million in their carby Quezon City Police, Philippines.A bill calling for the revival of the death penalty may be passed by the House of Representatives
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Indonesia: Getting ready for a new wave of executionsSpokesman for attorney-general confirms that executions are set to resume after a hiatusIndonesia plans to put 16 convicts to death after next month’s Muslim Eid holiday, an official said Tuesday, confirming executions were set to
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In the movie Apprentice, characters are surrounded by death.More specifically, they deal with deaths that happen because of the death penalty.The topic might be fraught with controversy, but writer-director Boo Junfeng wants to steer clear of making moral points."The themes are larger than that
When Antwan Andre Anthony was sentenced to death in April for the 2012 killings of 3 convenience store workers in Farmville, it marked the end of a long wait for justice and the start of another.Anthony, 33, became the fourth man since the early 1990s to be sentenced to death for a
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The Indonesian government plans to execute 30 death row convicts in 2017, a deputy attorney general says."The number of convicts to be executed is expected to be 30" next year, Deputy Attorney General Bambang Waluyo told lawmakers during a parliamentary hearing on Monday, Tribun News
There is big chance for the Senate to pass a measure that would pave way for the revival of the death penalty in the country, and presumptive Senate President Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel 3rd expects to have it passed by October this year.According to Pimentel, the proposal seeking to reimpose capital
Screenshot from "Apprentice" by Boo Junfeng (2016)"The majority of people caught up in the drug trade worldwide come from impoverished backgrounds. One of the defendants in this case was earning a measly 25 US Dollars for each "bundle" of drugs that he delivered. That means he was making a pitiful10
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Dylann RoofDylann Roof, the suspect charged with fatally shooting nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., last June, is seeking to waive his right to a jury trial, according to court papers.Lawyers for Roof, 22, of Columbia, S.C., indicated the suspect's intent in a notice they
Incoming president Rodrigo Duterte wants 50 convicts executed every month by hanging once Congress re-imposes the death penalty, representative-elect Danilo Suarez of Quezon said yesterday."He feels that if at least 50 drug lords and other convicts are hanged every month, their execution will10
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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has claimed that the attackers who carried out the recent attacks that rocked the northwestern city of Aqtobe "received instructions from abroad," and suggested that suspects will face the death penalty.The June 8 comments were the first made by the Kazakh09
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Seeing a child with a noose around their neck would make anyone turn away in horror. It's not something most people imagine is still happening. But it's likely there are hundreds of prisoners on death rows around the world who were detained as children - potentially as many as 800 in Pakistan08
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Taha, one of the over 1,000 Iranian LGBT refugees in TurkeyIn a country where gay sex is punishable by death, Taha dared to do the unthinkable.BBC journalist Ali Hamedani visited Istanbul, Turkey where Taha—an Iranian mullah, or cleric—has fled after performing
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Over 200 senior academics criticise deliberate campaign misinformation in UK’s EU referendum.A group of over 200 academics have signed an open letter in the Telegraph to criticise the deliberate misinformation circulated by campaigners on both sides of the Brexit debate, and express serious13
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Month-long programme of peaceful disruption at atomic weapons establishment started.Anti-Trident protesters, who have already blocked the construction entrance to the UK’s nuclear weapon assembly plant at Burghfield in Berkshire for seven uninterrupted days, are now in the process of setting up13
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The Indonesian government plans to execute 30 death row convicts in 2017, a deputy attorney general says."The number of convicts to be executed is expected to be 30" next year, Deputy Attorney General Bambang Waluyo told lawmakers during a parliamentary hearing on Monday, Tribun News13
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Omar Saddiqui Mateen shot more than 100 people and took several hostage before he was killed by police in what is being called a terrorist attack. Mateen called 911 at the time of the attack to pledge allegiance to ISIS and mentioned the Boston bombers
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San Quentin's death rowCalifornia's death penalty system has been broken for so long, you could forgive people for thinking that it no longer exists. The last person executed at San Quentin was Clarence Ray Allen, who arranged the murders of 3 people in Fresno - 1 who revealed
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'The 15-year war is taken an increasingly brutal turn.'KABUL — In a remote area of Afghanistan, where thousands of years of hardscrabble tribal culture increasingly mixes with a resurgent Taliban militancy, this is how Fazl Ahmad allegedly died.Local officials in Ghor province said
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The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), a coalition of 40 prominent Latino organizations, this week joined the growing, bipartisan list of groups calling for the end of the death penalty, noting that Latinos are "directly affected by its injustices."For the 1st time ever, the NHLA Public
A year ago today, Pakistan amid its ravenous 2015 execution binge hanged Aftab Bahadur Masih in Lahore for a 1992 murder.Left: Two faces of Aftab Bahadur Masih, separated by two decades on death row.According to the anti-death
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Women felt that councils did not take account of the variety of women’s needs.With the restructuring of local government under the Local Government (NI) Act 2014, councils in Northern Ireland now have the new statutory duty of Community Planning.Community Planning aims to improve the
10 nations with large Muslim populations have laws providing for the death penalty for same-sex activity.Only a few actually impose the death sentence. Exactly how many is a difficult question.The 2016 State-Sponsored Homophobia report from ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans08
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Help!As most of you know, the Feminist Library at 5 Westminster Bridge Road, London, is a large collection of Women’s Liberation Movement literature, and has been supporting research, activist and community projects since 1975.In 2015 the Feminist Library celebrated 40 years of archiving and