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Louisiana's death chamberWASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday approved Louisiana officials’ request that a stay on executions in the state be extended into 2018.The delay was approved by U.S. District Court Judge James J. Brady in ongoing litigation brought by two death row inmates, Jessie Hoffman and Christopher
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Jessica Kumala WongsoJakarta: An Indonesian Cabinet minister personally signed a letter guaranteeing an Australian permanent resident accused of poisoning her friend with cyanide will not face the death penalty.Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly confirmed the Indonesian government had01
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The picture painted by report statistics ‘stark and concerning’.Northern cities are home to Britain’s highest numbers of families in crisis with poor and vulnerable children, a new analysis revealed recently.A study for child poverty charity Buttle UK entitled Crisis Points used information01
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Malaysian immigration officers find drugs hidden in a passenger's luggage.Jakarta. 28-year-old Indonesian worker Rita Krisdianti was sentenced to death by a Malaysian court on Monday (30/05) for smuggling 4 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine.Rita, of Ponorogo in East Java, was charged with drug31
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Public hanging of Hamid B. in Shiraz on May 26, 2016NCRI – Iran’s fundamentalist regime has publicly hanged two men in Fars Province, southern Iran, and Mazandaran Province, northern Iran, in the past 24 hours.On Monday, May 30, an unnamed 40-year-old
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Jessica WongsoThere is no agreement preventing Australian resident Jessica Wongso from facing the death penalty, an Indonesian court has said.That is despite Justice Minister Michael saying he approved the Australian Federal Police's assistance in the high-profile Jakarta murder case because he31
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The first thing you need to know about Patrick Bayer is that he's an economist, a social scientist and part of a discipline that relies heavily on all sorts of data about human behavior and financial matters. That's part of the reason economics is sometimes called the dismal science.Bayer began
Gaza city: Gallows erected by Hamas militantsThree people convicted of murder have been executed in the Gaza Strip, in a move condemned by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.The men were shot or hanged on Tuesday after appeals were exhausted, officials from Gaza's de
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The Foreign Ministry will submit an appeal to the Penang High Court in Malaysia regarding Indonesian migrant worker Rita Krisdianti, who was sentenced to the death penalty on Monday for her alleged involvement in drug smuggling.Taufiq Rodhi, general consul at the Indonesian Consulate General in30
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Jakarta: Australia insists an Australian permanent resident charged with murdering her friend with cyanide-laced coffee will not face the death penalty in Indonesia if found guilty, despite police now claiming it is up to the judges.Jessica Kumala Wongso, a former Ambulance NSW employee, has been
Taiwanese nationals Yu Tsai Chen (44) and Hsiao Tzu Hung (30) allegedlysmuggled 70 kilos of crystal methamphetamine into Indonesia. (JG)Denpasar. Police and immigration officers arrested two Taiwanese nationals who allegedly smuggled
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Jakarta. Opposition is growing to the government's decision to impose tougher punishment, including chemical castration, on child sex offenders, a move observers have warned would fail to suppress such crimes and instead undermine human rights.A government regulation in lieu of law, signed by
Public execution in Saudi ArabiaRIYADH — A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced 14 men to death on Wednesday in connection with attacks on security forces in a Shiite area in the country’s east, the Al Arabiya satellite network reported.Of the 24 people tried, one was acquitted and
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A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced an Australian man to life in prison for drug trafficking.Nathan Andrew James was convicted in a one-day trial by the People's Court in Ho Chi Minh City this week, a court official said Wednesday on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized
The Terror Crime Prosecution Chief Advocate General Ahmed Al Hammadi said the High Court of Appeals today upheld death and lifetime sentences pronounced by a lower court against defendants for killing 3 officers.The defendants were found guilty of placing an explosive device to target police31
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Public flogging in Iran: Barbaric and medieval punishmentsNCRI - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned on Tuesday the "outrageous flogging" of dozens of young Iranians last week in Qazvin, north-west of Tehran."We condemn the outrageous flogging of up to 35 young Leggi
Dylann RoofHow will executing Dylann Roof help the Black community?Author Ta-Nehisi Coates pondered the irony of executing Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof in an interesting piece for The Atlantic.On the evening of June 17, 2015, the white Nationalist quietly sat in on a prayer service at31
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Rodrigo DuterteThe International Commission of Jurists has written President-elect Rodrigo Duterte to express concern about his strong support for reinstating the death penalty. The ICJ said it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, has not been proven to deter heinous crime, and would run30
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Dylann RoofAlmost a year ago, after the massacre of nine black parishioners at a Charleston, South Carolina, church known as Mother Emanuel, relatives of the victims did something incredible: They forgave the man accused of murdering their loved ones.It was an act of Christian compassion so30
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A local leader of Indonesia's biggest Islamic organization has called on the Attorney General's Office (AGO) not to carry out the anticipated execution of several drug convicts during the fasting month of Ramadhan, which begins on July 6.KH. Maslahuddin, the chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) in30
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Julian McMahon, defence lawyer for Sukumaran and Chan,President of Reprieve Australia.It has been a year since Indonesia executed Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, the leaders of the Bali Nine drug smuggling ring.Barrister Julian McMahon (LLM 1998) worked as a defence lawyer for Sukumaran and30
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The Shot at Dawn memorial at The National Memorial Arboretum in StaffordshireThe soldier believed to be the inspiration behind the television drama The Monocled Mutineer is to be commemorated nearly 100 years after he was shot at dawn for mutiny.
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Iran: A medieval theocracy, barbaric and nightmarish punishmentsNCRI - At least five prisoners in Iran’s notorious Gohardasht (Rajai-Shahr) Prison in Karaj are awaiting sentences which would see them be blinded or made deaf with acid under the Iranian regime’s fundamentalist law of retribution01
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To mark 1 June - International Children's Day - Raha Bahreini from our Iran team describes how Amnesty has managed to raise awareness about the death penalty and save juvenile offenders from the gallows in Iran.It starts with a panicked phone call.Our contact tells us that a juvenile offender (a01
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Freddy Budiman (center, white hat), a drug trafficker sentenced to death inIndonesia, is scheduled to be executed in the next round of executions.Prosecutor Anton Suhartono objected to a case review appeal filed by Freddy Budiman, a death-row drug convict, and his lawyer at a second hearing at the
Java Christian Church has prepared 10 coffins for prisoners sentenced to deathand awaiting execution in Indonesia last year.The third president of Indonesia has publicly revealed he opposes the death penalty as the country
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday took action in two death penalty cases, rejecting a broad constitutional challenge to capital punishment from Louisiana and reversing a death sentence from Arizona.The moves were in keeping with the court’s general approach in this area. It has been open31
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused to hear a Louisiana prisoner's death penalty appeal Tuesday, but two of the eight justices said they would have taken the case to decide if capital punishment remains constitutional.The one-paragraph order and two-page dissent solidified the battle lines at
Move comes as number of convicts facing death penalty now exceeds 50With number of convicts facing death penalty in Maharashtra exceeding 50, the home department has decided to equip 3 more central prisons with the hanging area and a special ward for the "death penalty convicts". Till date, only 230
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A local leader of Indonesia's biggest Islamic organization has called on the Attorney General's Office (AGO) not to carry out the anticipated execution of several drug convicts during the fasting month of Ramadhan, which begins on July 6.KH. Maslahuddin, the chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) in
Triple execution in Kuwait on April 1, 2013Kuwait's supreme court today upheld the death sentence handed down to the main convict in the Islamic State group bombing of a Shiite mosque that killed 26 people.The court confirmed the sentence of capital punishment passed on
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Iran: A medieval theocracy, barbaric and nightmarish punishmentsNCRI - At least five prisoners in Iran’s notorious Gohardasht (Rajai-Shahr) Prison in Karaj are awaiting sentences which would see them be blinded or made deaf with acid under the Iranian regime’s fundamentalist law of retribution29
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Scott Panetti, Randall Mays and Robert RobersonRandall Mays is on death row for killing two sheriff's deputies. Scott Panetti was sentenced to die for killing his estranged wife's parents. And a jury condemned Robert Roberson for killing his 2-year-old daughter.Beyond being on Texas’ death row29
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Isaiah SweetIOWA CITY — Juveniles who commit even the most heinous murders must someday have the chance to earn their release from prison, a divided Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday.The court banned judges from imposing sentences of life without parole on offenders who are under 18 when they commit