Kerry Max Cook (center)A former Texas prisoner who was released in 1999, after serving about 20 years on death row for charges of committing rape and murder of a 21-year-old, was finally cleared Monday.Officials said that an East Texas state court judge approved of an agreement between prosecutors
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Dylann RoofThe federal government announced last week that it would seek the death penalty in its case against Dylann S. Roof, the man arrested last June for killing nine African Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church. It will be the 2nd death penalty trial that he is facing. The state
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Call for more texts by women and writers from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.In September 2015 new curriculum changes came into effect in schools in the UK.As the English teachers at The Forest Academy school in East London were choosing texts to teach their students, and07
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Gallows at the Old Central Jail, Bangalore, IndiaTwo Acts passed this year widen the scope of capital punishment in India.While a majority of countries globally have abolished the death penalty in law or practice, at least 2 laws have come into force in India
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‘The photographs here are both a celebration and a warning.’The London Imperial War Museum (IWM London) is currently holding an exhibition of work by photographer Edward Barber, ‘Peace Signs’, showing more than 40 photographs that explore the anti-nuclear protest movement in 1980s
Gujarat riotsAHMEDABAD: Indian prosecutors sought the death penalty on Monday for 24 Hindus convicted over a massacre during religious riots in 2002 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief minister of the state where it happened.Judge P.B Desai heard submissions from the prosecution as well as
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear two cases raising major questions about the death penalty, including whether executing a condemned inmate more than 35 years after he was sentenced to death violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.That06
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The government should use the human-trafficking angle in its defense strategy against the death penalty handed down by a Malaysian court to Rita Krisdianti, an Indonesian migrant worker, even though it would contradict Indonesia’s relentless commitment to the fight against illegal drugs, experts
Rodrigo DuterteThe Philippine president-elect has encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime, urging citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug dealers who resist arrest and fight back in their neighborhoods.In a nationally televised speech late Saturday, Rodrigo Duterte told a huge03
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Iran's fundamentalist regime has hanged a man and a woman in a prison in Qazvin, north-west of Tehran.The woman was not named, but the office of the regime's prosecutor-general in Qazvin Province said that she had been imprisoned since 2014.The regime's local deputy prosecutor was present to03
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‘If you can give me a reason as to why wearing flats would impair me to do my job, then fair enough’.Another form of sexism and discrimination against women in the workplace has hit the headlines.In the same week, two incidents highlighting the issue of sexist dress codes at work caused
Hillary ClintonShortly before her heavily publicized speech on foreign policy -- a speech that was so certain to monopolize media attention that House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) used it as cover for his endorsement of Donald Trump -- Hillary Clinton finally gave the Huffington Post an answer toThe clerical regime's news agencies reported that 7 prisoners were executed in the past 3 days in Mashhad, Shiraz and Tehran.The state-run Rokna website wrote on Tuesday, June 7, that 3 men, aged 30, 35 and 40, who had been sentenced by the so-called Revolutionary Court in Mashhad, north-east08
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Indonesian President Joko WidodoIndonesia’s executions for drug-related crimes are based on political expedience, not necessity.Twelve months following the Indonesian government’s execution of eight people, some of whom were foreign citizens, all on charges of drug smuggling, President Joko07
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Dylann RoofProsecutors and defense attorneys for Dylann Roof gathered in a courtroom Tuesday afternoon for the first time since federal authorities announced they would pursue his execution.At the 2 p.m. hearing Judge Richard Gergel in U.S. District Court in downtown Charleston set the date for07
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New platform to take back the EU referendum from the Tories, UKIP and ‘Project Fear’.On 23 June, Britain will take the massive decision to remain in or leave the European Union.Sadly, many feel that much of that debate so far has been an alienating squabble between different factions of the07
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Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-chaPRIME Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday ordered the legal community and judiciary to ensure that convicted rapists are sentenced to death."Foreign countries tackle rape cases by resorting to capital punishment," the prime minister said. "Is it06
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Reports are not being taken seriously enough.The Home Secretary has once again had to acknowledge that the police are failing domestic abuse victims.Speaking at the Police Federation’s annual conference recently, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, said that “victims of abuse are still being06
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Public hanging in Shiraz, Iran, on June 5, 2016Iranian authorities hanged two men in public on Sunday June 5 in Shiraz, southern Iran.Iran Human Rights (June 6 2016): Two men were hanged in public in the city of Shiraz (province of Fars, southern Iran) early morning on Sunday June 5.According to
Pablo IbarKin of Spaniard on death row in U.S. cautious ahead of new trialFamily and supporters of Pablo Ibar, a Spanish citizen sentenced to death in Florida for a 1994 triple-murder, said here Thursday that while they welcome a decision to grant him a new trial, they remain wary.
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Nairobi, KenyaThe death penalty in Kenya could be abolished by 2019.Chief State Counsel Emily Chweya has said the government is set to undertake public awareness on the need to abolish death penalty before implementation in 2019.Chweya said this follows recommendations given to the government in03
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Louisiana's death rowWhen Chief U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson toured the Louisiana State Penitentiary in the summer of 2013, he ruled several months later that the high heat and humidity on death row violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, and he ordered state02
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Plans for a Northern Powerhouse continue, but gender equality continues to lag behind.This year the Fawcett Society will be assessing whether local government is working for women, and along with the Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) has launched a year-long Commission, jointly chaired by08
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Jessica Kumala WongsoThe Indonesian government is continuing to shy away from a public guarantee that the death penalty will not be carried out in the case of a woman accused of murdering her friend with a cyanide-laced coffee.During a joint press conference in Sydney on Wednesday, Justice07
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A lawyer reportedly has carried out executions in one of Tehran's prisons.According to the state-run Iranian news agency Fars, 2 Afghan citizens were hanged in a prison in Tehran.The prisoners were reportedly convicted of several cases of rape and robbery.The names of the prisoners, the date of07
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Pakistan has executed over 400 people since resuming hangings in December 2014, according to new research from international human rights organisation Reprieve.The country has become one of the world’s most prolific executioners since lifting a moratorium on hangings which had been in place for
Indonesia's Supreme Court sentenced a Chinese woman to death for drug smuggling Monday, overturning a lower court's decision to release her as the country prepares for its next round of executions.The North Jakarta District Court ruled last year that all charges be dropped against Li Linfei, 3307
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All five men who were killed in the span of three days share one thing in common—being suspected of involvement in crimes, including the illegal drug trade.Five bodies in three provinces in three days.Five men, including a lawyer, fell victims to what appear to be cases of summary execution in06
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Human chain in front of Shaheed Satu Hall in ChapainawabganjDifferent women's and non-governmental organisations formed a human chain in front of Shaheed Setu Hall in Chapainawabganj town yesterday, demanding capital punishment of the killer of schoolgirl Konika Rani.Activists of Jago Nari06
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Missouri death chamberThe Rev. Sam Duckworth said his opposition to the death penalty began at age 6 when he saw a man beaten to death by a plantation owner in Mississippi."The plantation owner would administrate the justice. He was the judge, the arrestor, accuser, prosecutor and executor,"Jessica Kumala WongsoJakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Moechgiyarto has denied that the Jakarta City Police have made an agreement with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) about the sentence of murder suspect Jessica Kumala Wongso, who could potentially receive the death penalty."No there is no such03
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Liberty now calls for reform to tackle pervasive sexualised culture in the Armed Forces.The Coroner in the inquest into the 1995 death of Private Cheryl James at Deepcut Barracks has today recorded a verdict of suicide, and delivered a narrative verdict that severely criticised serious failures
Aiman, a 28-year-old correctional officer, is transferred to a maximum security prison. He strikes up a friendship with Rahim, who is revealed to be the chief executioner of the prison, and one of the world’s most prolific. Can Aiman overcome his conscience and a past that haunts him to become the02
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Colombo says decision mainly due to rights abuses.Sri Lanka’s expatriate workers, mainly housemaids and unskilled labourers, send back remittances - the island nation’s main foreign exchange earner - that help earn around $7 billion (Dh25.71 billion) a year for the $82.2 billion