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Iranian human rights activist Narges MohammadiThe international community has reacted with outrage after Narges Mohammadi, the ailing Iranian human rights activist already serving a six-year jail term, was given a further 16-year sentence by a revolutionary court in Tehran.Mohammadi, 44, was found guilty of
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Riyadh, May 24: Saudi Arabia put to death a citizen convicted of murder today, bringing to 94 the number of executions in the kingdom this year.Imad al-Assimi was found guilty of shooting dead a compatriot in a dispute, the
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ERBIL – Authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran executed five Kurdish rights activists in the northwestern Urmia city, officials and local activists confirmed on Friday. The Kurdish rights activists Naji Kiwan, Ali Kurdian, Haidar Ramini, Nadir Muhamadi and Ruhman Rashidi were arrested on23
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The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) on Saturday warned presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte that his plan to revive the death penalty and implement a "shoot-to-kill" policy against criminals would be antipoor and violate international law.In a statement on Saturday, FLAG chair Jose22
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Iranian Resistance calls for saving the lives of 10 young prisoners facing the gallowsAt a time when 23 prisoners were executed on May 17 and 18 in the prisons of Urumieh, Tabriz, Yazd, Yasouj, Sari and Mashhad across Iran, another 10 young prisoners between the ages of 21
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Singapore's Changi Prison, where hangings are carried out"A cold state machinery that knows no compassion, that would rush a man to his death out of procedural efficiency."Amnesty International condemned todaythe execution of Sarawakian Kho Jabing in Singapore that was carried out hours after21
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Oklahoma Death ChamberScathing report on botched execution underscores a ‘failed’ system rife with ‘negligence’ and raises the question of whether the state can be trustedOn 10 October 2014, the state of Oklahoma threw open the doors of its maximum-security McAlester prison to reporters – the20
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Google it!The governor of Oklahoma's top lawyer is out of a job after insisting that a state execution proceed despite prison officials receiving the wrong drug for carrying it out, while telling a deputy attorney general alerting him to the problem to "Google it."A grand jury report found that20
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A grand jury on Thursday sharply criticized state officials charged with carrying out executions in Oklahoma, describing them as responsible for a litany of failures and avoidable errors.The grand jury’s 106-page report, released Thursday, paints these officials as careless and, in some cases19
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Under new rules proposed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, prison officials would be allowed to manufacture barbituates to carry out the death penalty at its own compounding pharmacies, immunizing prison officials from the growing problem of pharmaceutical companies19
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Changi prison, Kho JabingSINGAPORE - Singapore is expected to hang a Malaysian murder convict on Friday despite last-minute clemency pleas, his family and human rights groups said.Kho Jabing, 31, was sentenced to death in 2010 for killing a Chinese construction worker in a robbery gone wrong and19
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Florida's death chamberDefense lawyers are attacking a new law aimed at fixing Florida's death penalty sentencing structure, which was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year because it gave too much power to judges instead of juries.But the angst over the new law, crafted by the24
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Tangerang, Banten. Police confiscated more than 70 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in a drug bust at the Arcadia Housing Complex in Batuceper, a subdistrict of Tangerang, Banten, on Monday (23/05), shortly after they arrested two members of an international drug syndicate at the Soekarno-Hatta23
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Sister Helen PrejeanWorld-renowned activist, author and Catholic nun Sister Helen Prejean does not mince words about why the death penalty should be abolished.Prejean is the author of numerous books, including Dead Man Walking, a New York Times bestseller for six months upon its release in 1993
Hamas members prepare to execute Palestinians for allegedly spying for Israelin August 2014.Gaza’s ruling Hamas terrorist organization has scheduled 13 public executions in the style of the Da’esh (ISIS) terror group.Although there have been death sentences carried out
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Louisiana's death rowIt seems incontestable that Louisiana's criminal justice system is in a state of collapse. The state judiciary appears to be oblivious to violations of the constitutional rights of criminal defendants; prosecutors continue to violate the rights of accused with impunity22
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A. Lieberman and Prime Minister Netanyahu Bill would have allowed capital punishment for those convicted of ideologically motivated murderYisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman on Saturday reportedly dropped his demand for the revival of a draft bill allowing the sentencing of convicted20
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'Screaming and kicking every step of the way...'Last week's news told us everything we need to know about the death penalty in America today.On Thursday, May 12, in Alabama, the scheduled execution of Vernon Madison was halted at the last minute because of a split 4-4 vote by the Supreme Court20
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Medieval and barbaric punishments: Public hanging in IranThe latest execution reports say Iranian authorities have hanged 5 prisoners at Tabriz Central Prison (East Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran), 2 prisoners at Urmia Central Prison (West Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran), and 120
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Singapore's Changi Prison, Kho JabingKho Jabing executed at 3.30pm, first execution in Singapore not carried out at dawn of Friday32-year-old Malaysian, Kho Jabing has been hanged at 3.30pm after the appeal for stay of execution was dismissed by the Court of Appeal this morning.Kho Jabing, who is19
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Emmanuel "Manny" PacquiaoNewly-proclaimed Senator-elect Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao made it to his first press conference as Upper House legislator and said he is in favor of death penalty.Speaking to the media shortly after his proclamation Thursday at the PICC, Pacquiao said that the capital19
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The Iron Red Door is the passage through which the bodies of executed prisoners get out of Thailand's infamous prison “Bang Kwang.”Every time this door opens a new human being has been killed. It doesn't matter if he was innocent or guilty; it doesn’t matter if he was a poor western immigrant
Almost exactly a year ago, we watched Nebraska become the 1st Republican-controlled state in more than 40 years to abolish the death penalty. At the time, we wondered this: Are conservatives starting to eschew the death penalty?A year later, we have more of an answer: maybe. At least, there's
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a black Georgia death row inmate convicted in 1987 of murdering an elderly white woman, finding that prosecutors unlawfully excluded black potential jurors in selecting an all-white jury.In a 7-1 ruling, the court handed a victory to inmate23
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Singapore's Changi PrisonHuman rights lawyer M Ravi has said in a Facebook post that Kho Jabing suffered an egregious breach of his constitutional right to counsel just hours before he was executed.Mr Ravi said that he was with lawyer Alfred Dodwell and other activists outside the Chambers of22
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Kho Jabing (family photo)"He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." --Yeshua of Nazareth (Jesus Christ) interrupting a public execution of a woman for adultery. John 8:7.This is Jabing Kho. He was born in 1984, in a taxi on the way
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Charles FloresThe next person in America scheduled to be executed has filed his final appeal, arguing that his conviction for murder was based on "flimsy" evidence and was racially motivated.Charles Flores, a Texas inmate who is schedule to receive a lethal injection on June 2, filed a legal brief21
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Louisiana's death rowA federal judge will decide whether to order a Louisiana prison to install air conditioning for inmates on death row, according to the Associated Press.Prison officials at Louisiana State Penitentiary have for three years maintained that ice, fans and a cold shower are enough20
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Arizona will not be killing anyone by lethal injection anytime soon.This comes as a result of 3 things:1. A recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Neil Wake keeping all executions in Arizona on hold for an unspecified amount of time.2. Pfizer, a pharmaceutical giant, recently announcing it would20
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Rodrigo DuterteHuman right group Amnesty International on Friday said the Philippines would be abandoning international commitments if it pushes through with the plan to bring back the death penalty as favored by incoming president Rodrigo Duterte."It would be a shame on the Philippines," said AI19
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Singapore's Changi Prison, Kho JabingSINGAPORE: Malaysian Jabing Kho’s death sentence was stayed tonight, according to a spokesman of the Attorney-General’s Chambers.She said the appeal hearing for the Sarawakan was at 9am tomorrow, at the Court of Appeal.Kho’s lawyer, Jeanette Chong-Aruldoss had19
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Barbaric and medieval: Public hanging in Mashhad, Iran, on May 17, 2016Javad Larijani, the regime's head of human rights, acknowledges a "torrent of executions" and justifies torture and brutal punishments under the pretense of Qisas describing them as "holy verdicts".
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Cilacap: Gateway to Nusakambangan IslandJakarta: Indonesian Attorney-General Muhammad Prasetyo has flagged the latest round of executions in the country may be delayed until after the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.The nation has been on tenterhooks over the timing of the executions, with
One day before his scheduled execution, Kho challenged the impartiality of Justice of Appeal Andrew Phang, who presided over two of his previous appeals.SINGAPORE: The Court of Appeal has dismissed a second eleventh-hour bid by convicted murderer Kho Jabing to escape the gallows on Thursday (May