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Pablo Ibar in 2009TALLAHASSEE — After 16 years on Florida's death row in connection with a triple murder in Broward County, Pablo Ibar has won a fight to have his sentence vacated and will receive a new trial.Ibar, 44, a former Hollywood resident, was convicted of killing
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Rodrigo DuterteHouse leaders have rejected the planned public executions by hanging especially on drug-related crimes by incoming president Rodrigo Roa Duterte, saying that the re-imposition of death penalty is not the antidote to the rising cases of crimes in the country.Speaker Feliciano "Sonny"18
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Indonesia's Special Police ForceAs preparations for the third round of executions continue on Nusakambangan Island near Cilacap, Central Java, human rights activists and legal academics have criticized Indonesia's continued use of capital punishment.Respublica Political Institute executive
Indonesia: Two arrested with 2 kilos of crystal methJakarta. Two alleged drug dealers who had been on the run were arrested on the weekend with two kilos of crystal methamphetamine and around 34,000 ecstasy pills worth around Rp 3 billion ($225,000) in their
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Judges will tomorrow [Thursday 19 May] consider the case of a prisoner who could be hanged at as little as three days’ notice, despite evidence that he was arrested as a child.Muhammad Anwar was arrested when he was just 17 years old, and subsequently sentenced to death on murder charges.
Romell Broom"Doctors who do participate in executions are not always the best of the best -- in part because the pay is low and many of these doctors have had little success elsewhere."It's a brutal photo. Romell Broom holds his arms in front of him, palms out. Dozens of
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Hannah Witheridge and Davild MillerThe disputed DNA evidence that led to the conviction of 2 Burmese men for the British backpacker murders on a Thai holiday island will be at the centre of an appeal against the verdicts.Lawyers for the 2 men announced on Tuesday that they
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Rodrigo DutertePresumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to reintroduce death penalty "by hanging" in the country as part of his relentless fight against crime.Speaking to reporters in Davao City Sunday night, Duterte said he would ask lawmakers to approve the death penalty for heinous
Public hanging in Mashhad, Iran, May 17, 2016NCRI - Iran’s fundamentalist regime hanged at least 13 people, including one man in public, on Tuesday.Six men were hanged collectively in the Central Prison of Urmia (Orumieh), north-west Iran, earlier on Tuesday, May 17.
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“FIRST, do no harm.” Executives of pharmaceutical companies are not subject to this guiding principle of the Hippocratic oath—only doctors are. But increasingly, drug manufacturers are taking steps to ensure that their formulations do not wind up in syringes used for lethal injections of condemned16
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Abdul BasitAbdul Basit's story is the perfect representation of the worst flaws of the legal and prison system in the country. The progression of his case and its inherent injustices read like a script of the criminal justice system's inability to protect the rights of the most vulnerable, the poor
Darshan Singh, Singapore's chief executioner for 50 yearsBefore he made his new film about the death penalty, Boo Junfeng sat down to tea with some of Singapore's retired hangmen. He also talked to the priests and imams who helped condemned prisoners make their last walk
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The following is a press release by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights' Regional Office for South-East Asia:We urgently call on the Singapore Government to halt the execution of Malaysian national Kho Jabing, who is due to be hanged on Friday.Kho, 31, has endured
Children watching a public hanging in Iran (file photo)NCRI - Iran’s fundamentalist regime has sharply increased its rate of executions, carrying out at least 21 hangings in a 48-hour period this week.Two men were hanged earlier on Wednesday in the Central Prison of
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State's death row inmates still have years of appeals ahead; state has said it has stockpile of needed chemicalsThe world's largest pharmaceutical company is blocking the use of its drugs for executions. But it's unclear how that will affect Indiana.Pfizer was the last FDA-approved drugmaker
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has gone into hibernation, withdrawing from the central role it has played in American life throughout Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s decade on the court.The court had leaned right until the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February. According to the17
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Ely State Prison, NevadaThe Nevada Department of Corrections is moving forward with the construction of a new execution chamber at Ely State Prison despite the announcement that the drugmaker Pfizer will not allow its drugs to be used for lethal injections.Pfizer became the last of about 25 Food17
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi Arabia on Tuesday put to death a Pakistani man convicted of drug smuggling, bringing to 93 the number of executions in the kingdom this year.Mohammed Ishaq Thawab Gul had been found guilty of trafficking heroin into the kingdom, the interior17
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Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterToshiyasu Yonezawa says he committed “murder” when he was performing his civic duty.The 27-year-old’s “victim” was Sumitoshi Tsuda, himself a convicted killer who fatally stabbed three people in Kawasaki, including the landlord of an apartment.Tsuda, then 63, was
Rodrigo DuterteSenatorial candidate Leila de Lima on Monday vowed to continue opposing any move to re-impose death penalty.A nemesis of presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte, De Lima, however, softened her stance in Duterte's presidency, saying she would "watch him first.""I do believe that16
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Rodrigo DuterteMalacanang on Monday said that it was up to Congress to decide on the restoration of death penalty in the country.Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. made the remark after presumptive president Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte indicated his call for the restoration of the
The Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Harry Purwanto, on Saturday ruled out any clemency for anyone caught carrying narcotic drugs in his country.He said that his home government would not grant pardon to anyone involved in drug trafficking in Indonesia.Purwanto disclosed this in Lagos while
While Indonesia prepares to execute 15 prisoners convicted of drug offences, it seems the government is keen to avoid the media attention that surrounded executions last year. 5 Indonesians, 1 Pakistani, 4 Chinese, 2 Senegalese, 2 Nigerians and 1 Zimbabwean are due to face a firing squad this18
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Death penalty supporters attempting to confuse votersLincoln, NE - At news conferences in Lincoln and Omaha today, Republican and Democratic State Senators and a retired District Court Judge all agreed that the law replacing the death penalty with mandatory sentence of life in prison means those18
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Drug giant Pfizer's decision to ban the use of its products in executions won't necessarily stop capital punishment in Alabama, one expert says, but it's clear the state's lethal injection options are running out."The sources of drugs on the open market are gone," said Robert Dunham, director of18
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Pablo Ibar in 2009Florida Supreme Court dismisses prosecution's appeal against retrial for 1994 triple murderThe Florida Supreme Court has dismissed a prosecution appeal against the decision to order a new trial for a Spaniard who has been on death row for 15 years.Pablo Ibar, who has been behind17
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Miklos Haraszti is appalled by reports of the recent execution by the Belarusian authorities. He condemned Belarus' continued use of death penalty after reports that a man whose complaint was before the UN HRC had been executed, despite a specific request from the HRC for a stay of execution."I am
Malaysian Police Drug BustSibu: The High Court here yesterday sentenced a Cambodian man and a Vietnamese woman to death for trafficking dangerous drugs in 2013.In his judgment, Judge Lee Heng Cheong said having re-evaluated the prosecution's case, the court found that both their testimonies did17
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Singapore's Changi Prison, Kho JabingNGOs claim Sarawakian Kho Jabing, who is to be hanged in less than 72 hours, may not have had a fair trial in Singapore as a result.KUALA LUMPUR: Human rights organisations believe that Sarawakian-born Kho Jabing, who is scheduled to be executed in
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Public execution by Taliban of Afghan woman Zarmeena ina football stadium in Kabul, Afghanistan, in November 1999When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, they would shoot women for so-called "moral crimes" in front of stadium crowds.
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Utah's firing squad execution chairUtah is one step closer to returning to the firing squad as its only realistic form of capital punishment.The Pfizer drug company has announced that it will no longer make available several of its drugs for use in state-sanctioned executions. Pfizer was Leggi16
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Singapore's Changi Prison, Kho Jabing(Bangkok) – Singapore President Tony Tan should urgently grant clemency to death row prisoner Kho Jabing, who is due to be executed on May 20, Human Rights Watch said today. Jabing was convicted of the murder of Cao Ruyin in 2007.On April 5,
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Xulhaz MannadThe murder of magazine editor Xulhaz Mannad shocked Bangladesh late April: Police have announced they may have found one of his killers.Mannad, 35, was found hacked to death and shot in Dhaka, Bangladesh in a series of attacks on Bangladesh’s intellectual and atheist community.He was