Earl ForrestA man convicted of killing 2 people in a drug dispute and a sheriff's deputy in a subsequent shootout is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday in what could be Missouri's last execution for some time.Earl Forrest, 66, is set to die for the December 2002 deaths of
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Three death row prisoners were moved on 8 May to Indonesia’s Nusakambangan prison island, where 13 executions were carried out in 2015. On 10 May, the Attorney General confirmed to the media that another round of executions will be carried out soon. Please write immediately in English, Bahasa
LP Prison on Nusakambangan Island, Central Java.Fifteen drug convicts on death row, including 10 foreigners, will face firing squads at an unspecified date in mid May, a spokesman for Central Java police told BenarNews on Tuesday.The executions would be the first since eight mostly foreign Leggi
More than a year after a judge ordered Texas to divulge the source of its execution drugs, the information has not been released, legislators passed a state law protecting the prison agency from doing so, and the lengthy appeal that has allowed the provider to remain secret will finally be10
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Motiur Rahman NizamiMotiur Rahman Nizami has paid with his life for the carnage he unleashed on Bengalis as the commander of Al-Badr militia to stop a secular Bangladesh being carved out of Islamic Pakistan in 1971.He was hung by the neck at Dhaka Central Jail in the 1st hour
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Stop the DUP abusing the ‘Petition of Concern’ to veto Equal Marriage in Northern Ireland.The Northern Ireland Assembly in Stormont has now voted on the issue of marriage equality 5 times.All 5 of those motions were blocked by the Democratic Unionist Party [DUP] through their use of a
A prize-winning Taiwanese film exploring the use of the death penalty will screen at the Cannes Film Festival later this month, adding to recent increased debate about the island's use of capital punishment.Leon Lee's 23-minute film titled "The Day To Choose" puts its main character, a lawyer and09
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Florida's death chamberA Miami-Dade judge has ruled that Florida's death penalty is unconstitutional because jurors are not required to agree unanimously on execution - a ruling that will add to the ongoing legal debate over Florida's capital punishment system.Circuit Judge Milton Hirsch on Monday09
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A new guide for local authorities.The Women Centred Working initiative has published a new guide to help local authorities explore the potential benefits doing things in a ‘women centred’ way could bring to their services and communities.The initiative was set up to share best practice in
Bangkok, ThailandThe 21 Malaysians arrested in Thailand recently on suspicion of being 'drug mules' could face the death penalty under the country's Narcotics Act for possession and sale of Category 1 Substances."The suspects can face the death penalty following the large seizure of09
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Louisiana prison, 1965. Credit Leonard Freed/Magnum PhotosThe last time a white person in Louisiana was executed for a crime against a black person was in 1752, when a soldier named Pierre Antoine Dochenet was hanged after attempting to stab two enslaved
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents publicly executed two women, one of them in an apparent honor killing, in northern Afghanistan recently, according to Afghan officials, members of the victims’ families and a video posted online.The killings, which were thought to be unrelated, took place in
Antigua & BarbudaSeveral countries at the United Nations (UN) have recommended that the government of Antigua & Barbuda establish a formal moratorium on capital punishment.The recommendations, which came from among approximately 44 country representatives at the 25th session of the UN
NCRI - The mullahs' regime has hanged four prisoners in a notorious jail in Isfahan, central Iran, according to local reports.The four prisoners, who were not named, were hanged on Sunday in Dastgerd Prison.Also on Sunday a man was hanged in public in Kermanshah, western Iran, and another man was11
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Nusakambangan island, Central Java, IndonesiaJakarta. Amnesty International on Wednesday (11/05) slammed Indonesia's plans to execute death-row inmates, following recent reports of inmates being moved to Nusakambangan prison, where prisoners typically await their execution.The executions are10
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Rodrigo DuterteIf President-elect Rodrigo Duterte is serious about introducing change in the Philippines, he must turn his back on the history of human rights violations and end the prevailing culture of impunity, Amnesty International said today.Rodrigo Duterte, the former Mayor of Davao city, is10
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Cilacap: Preparations ahead of the third round of executions are on track.Jakarta. Preparations ahead of the third round of executions are on track with 14 death row inmates on the list, Attorney General H.M. Prasetyo said on Monday (09/05).“Preparations [of
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“There’s an attitude of ignore it and it’ll go away.”Although more and more pupils are raising issues around their gender identity, there is some concern that schools and colleges are not adequately prepared to support and educate young people.But last month education staff were able to voice09
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Iran's fundamentalist regime has executed 4 more prisoners, including a man in public.On Monday 2 prisoners, identified as Nasser Saidi (Jafari) and Mehdi Nabashi (Nabashian), were hanged in a prison in Orumieh (Urmia), north-west Iran.A man, identified as Mohsen Baha'odini, was hanged on Sunday09
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Iran Human Rights (MAY 8 2016): One prisoner was hanged publicly in the "Azadi" (Liberty) Square of Kermanshah, western Iran.The public execution was carried out in front of hundreds of people Sunday morning May 8.According to the Iranian state-run news agencies Fars and YJC the prisoner who
Several death-row inmates have reportedly been moved to Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap, Central Java, signaling that their executions will be held in the near future.Three death-row convicts from Tembesi prison in Batam were quietly transferred to Nusakambangan prison on Sunday evening09
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Opposition to the death penalty is often rooted in arguments about its irreversibility, its essential cruelty, the possibility of error and the false sense of justice in doing unto convicted murderers what they had done to their victims. In the Indian context, politics surrounding the prisoners’08
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Cairo, EgyptAn Egyptian court has sought the death penalty for six men including three journalists charged with endangering national security by spying for Qatar.The verdict against former president Mohamed Mursi, who is charged in the same case, was postponed until June 18 – when the final ruling11
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Two murder convicts were sent to gallows yesterday.Later, the dead bodies were handed over to the heirs for burial.The convicts identified as Captain (Retd) Zafar Iqbal and Mirza Shafique Ahmed were supposed to be hanged in April but their executions were delayed after they filed applications in11
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California's death chamberOn Nov. 6, 2015, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) published proposed regulations for its new single-drug lethal injection protocol. This triggered an important opportunity for the public to comment in accordance with California's10
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The ‘dubious legality’ under which arrests were carried out ‘raises important questions’.The final three cases of the hundreds of charges brought by the Crown in relation to the Barton Moss anti-fracking protests of 2013 and 2014 were heard at Manchester Magistrates Court on 27 April 2016 – and10
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Cheng ChiehTaiwan on Tuesday executed a former college student who killed 4 people in a random stabbing spree on a subway 2 years ago, in an attack which horrified the generally peaceful island.Cheng Chieh, 23, was anaesthetised then shot 3 times by a firing squad at a jail outside Taipei Leggi10
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Jakarta. Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly has confirmed that death-row convict Freddy Budiman will not be included in the third round of executions of drug convicts that is expected to take place soon.Freddy, who was found guilty of smuggling 1.4 million ecstasy pills from China to09
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The 1st comprehensive report on death-row prisoners by the National Law University, which identified 385 prisoners and received access to 373 of them, reveals certain infirmities that would question the basis upon which death penalties are awarded.Confirming studies in other countries that the09
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Belarus' President Alexander LukashenkoStatement by the Spokesperson on the execution of Syarhey Iwanow and of the confirmation of the death sentence against Sergei KhmelevskyDespite the many calls made by the European Union, another execution has been carried out in Belarus. The case of Syarhey09
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These prisoners have been convicted of horrible crimes. But this series is not about their crimes, it's about what happens afterward.The Last Phone CallHow to Keep Your Sanity in SolitaryMemories of Execution DayHow to Get on Death Row without Firing a BulletWhen Art and Love Save an
ISIS militants throw gay man off 7-story building in Syria (file photo).ERBIL ــ The extremist group of Islamic State (ISIS) threw a young man off the top of a building in Manbij city in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo
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Kabul, AfghanistanAfghanistan hanged six prisoners convicted of terrorism offences, as part of a tougher new policy towards the Taliban promised by President Ashraf Ghani in retaliation for last month's suicide attack which killed at least 64 people in Kabul.The death sentences, carried out at the07
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The Death Penalty Research Project, undertaken by researchers at the National Law University in Delhi, found that over 80 per cent of prisoners facing capital punishment had not completed school and nearly half had begun working before the age of 18.The first comprehensive study of the