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Sister Helen PrejeanStanding behind a podium in one of the meeting rooms in DePaul's Student Center, wearing her signature purple jacket, Sister Helen Prejean begins to tell a story.The story is about a man named Richard Glossip, who is currently sitting on death row in Oklahoma for the 1997
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen BreyerU.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer resumed his critique of the death penalty in America on Monday, but without the help of any other justice.Breyer alone dissented from the court's denial of review in Boyer v. Davis, a California case in
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Iran welcomes foreign investors while accelerating mass and public executions. - Report an error, an omission:Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo. document.getElementById('cloakc31d47b771274a352381d0b6407e44fb').innerHTML =
3 death convicts who had sought commutation of their sentence into life imprisonment for being 'young offenders' lost their appeals before the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Saturday.An anti-terrorism appellate bench, comprising justices Naimatullah Phulpoto and Aftab Ahmed Gorar, dismissed their30
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2016
Bali's Kerobokan prisonWhen Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan faced their certain death last year, pastor Christie Buckingham remembers how they sang Bless the Lord until the end."(I remember) their kindness, their courage ... the way that they smiled at those about to take their lives."She also
A court in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday sentenced a Singaporean man to death for trafficking 2.5 kilograms of heroin.Lee Loke Dah, 40, was arrested at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in December 2014 with a plastic bag containing thousands of capsules.Further tests confirmed that the drug29
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Indonesian Attorney General Muhammad PrasetyoIndonesia’s attorney general announced Friday that all technical preparations for executing drug convicts have been completed, but would not disclose when the next round of inmates would be brought before the firing squad."Coordination and preparation28
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Mary Jane VelosoFilipina who was temporarily spared at 11th hour, as the Bali Nine pair and six others were killed, remains on death row amid uncertain futureA woman who was temporarily spared death by firing squad last year remains on death row in Indonesia with her life precariously
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Over 2o,000 pregnant women leave their jobs because of safety risks.Pregnant women and new mothers are more likely to face negative treatment at work now than they were a decade ago, according to research published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the Department for28
Apr
2016
Louisiana death rowLouisiana, which has led the nation in homicide rates every year since 1989, sentences plenty of murderers to death but rarely executes them, in part because a huge proportion of death verdicts are reversed on appeal, according to a new study slated to come out Thursday.The28
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Figures show Australian federal police provided information for ‘potential death penalty situations’ 74 times in past yearIn the year since Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran faced an Indonesian firing squad, their wishes appear to have been posthumously granted, at least in part – no more
Arizona's supply of a crucial lethal injection drug is set to expire as a federal judge decides the fate of a lawsuit that has stopped all executions in the state.State officials currently can't seek death warrants until a lawsuit against the way it carries out executions is resolved, meaning the03
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The U.S. Supreme Court has directed that an Alabama appeals court reconsider a death penalty case in light of its January 2016 ruling that found Florida's death penalty system is unconstitutional.That ruling in Hurst vs. Florida, faulted Florida for letting a judge, not a jury, determine the01
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Andrew Chan and Febyanti HerewilaEVERY morning when she wakes up Febyanti Herewila Chan sees the smiling face of her husband Andrew Chan.It is the same smile she says he was wearing at the moment he was shot dead one year ago by an Indonesian firing squad.He was
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Lawyers and legal advocates are appalled by families who exploit the killing of a relative to demand huge sums of blood money from the perpetrator's family.Although blood money, or diyya, is set at Dh200,000, some bereaved families have asked for millions of dirhams to overturn a death sentence30
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On the morning of April 15, Pat Hartwell drove up from her home in Houston, Texas, to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Austin, where the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which runs the state's prisons, was holding a board meeting. The board only offers a public comment period during 2 of its Leggi30
Apr
2016
The High Court yesterday commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence handed down to Chang Ho-ling, who was convicted of the murder of his wife and 2 daughters in a case that has wound through the courts for 10 years.The ruling has sparked controversy and protests from the victims' relatives29
Apr
2016
Immense public support surrounded the Mercy Campaign's effort to save 2 Australians from death row. We can't let the lessons learnt from that go to wasteA year on, people still approach me to talk about what they were doing and how they were feeling the night of the Indonesian executions.The28
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Remembering Andrew and Myuranand all the others29 April 2015 - 29 April 2016- Report an error, an omission:Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo. document.getElementById('cloakde7275b27fc92956afdbf7778ef5dae5').innerHTML = ''; var28
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Peter CharlapA supermax prison isn’t the best place to sit for a portrait, but Peter Charlap’s subjects have no other choice.CHRIS YOUNG, A DEATH ROW INMATE at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, is an avid chess player who can manage multiple games at once without using a board, just by
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The port at Cilacap, where boats leave for Nusakambangan island.It has been one year since Filipina Mary Jane's reprieve and the execution of 8 others. What's the situation now?The anguished cry of a sister about to lose her brother, dust clouds kicked
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2016
Daniel Anthony LucasA man sent to death row for killing two children and their father in 1998 was executed in Georgia on Wednesday.Daniel Anthony Lucas, 37, confessed to fatally shooting Bryan Moss, 11, near Macon on April 23, 1998, after the boy arrived home from school and found Lucas
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Typical death row cell, Polunsky Unit, Livingston, TexasMost death row inmates may be racing against time when it comes down to their final days, waiting for a court to halt their execution often just hours before it's scheduled.But it was a different kind of
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Convicted women sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia have been more resistant to beheading than men, prompting authorities to change the execution method to shooting, a well-known Saudi executioner has said.Abu Bandar Al Bishi, a massive man who has beheaded scores of convicted criminals in public
Mary Jane VelosoIndonesian police and troops are tightening security on Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap, Central Java ahead of the next round of drug convict executions.An exact time and date have yet to be announced, but Central Java Police chief Insp. Gen.Condro Kirono said on Saturday30
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Trustees lower the remains of Jack Harry Smith, the oldest inmate on Texas'death row, on Thursday, Apr 28, 2016, in Huntsville. Ph: Elizabeth Conle (HC)Jack Smith outlived most of his attorneys, the D.A.'s, the judge, and many family and friends. So he was buried yesterday in Huntsville at30
Apr
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2 of the 4 prisoners who were transferred to solitary confinement on Wednesday 27. April were hanged yesterday morning in the Central Prison of Karaj (west of Tehran).According to close sources these prisoners were identified as "Mehdi Bagherzadeh" and "Esmaeil Tanabi".Iran Human Rights (IHR) had
A Chinese man sentenced to death for the Valentine's Day murder of his girlfriend 18 years ago has been acquitted, a court said, the latest wrongful conviction overturned in the country.Liu Jiqiang, 52, was found guilty of strangling and stabbing his lover on February 14, 1998, earning him the29
Apr
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Self-portrait and portrait of Andrew Chan by Myuran Sukumaran,Nusakambangan Island, April 2015On the one-year anniversary of the of execution of Bali Nine Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, some chilling last words have been revealed.Before the firing squad
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New ‘Love Equality’ campaign launched in Northern Ireland.Marriage equality is a Northern Ireland Assembly election issue, campaigners said as they launched a new campaign, Love Equality, which aims to get equal marriage rights for same-sex couples in the region.Northern Ireland is now the28
Apr
2016
The Guardian's virtual reality video sends you to solitary. Could you handle it for a day? A decade?What’s it like to spend 23 hours a day in a cell measuring 6x9 feet for days, weeks, months or even years?6x9 is the Guardian's first virtual reality experience, which places you inside a US
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HARIPUR (Dunya News) - Two death row convicts were hanged in the Central Jail Haripur on early Thursday morning, Dunya News reported. The dead bodies of the prisoners were handed over to their families after the execution.According to details, death row convict Ali Raza was hanged for killing a27
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2016
Deaths of eight prisoners, including two Australians, prompted a huge outcry – and a pause in executions. But now foreigners on death row fear their own sentences could be just weeks awayThere’s chatter that it’s on.Talk that the death squad is at the ready; that a new, bigger execution
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Singaporean authorities arrested a young Malaysian rider who was carrying heroin and meth worth $86,000 at the Woodlands checkpoint.The 20-year-old motorcyclist had in his possession almost one kilogram of drugs, which far exceeds the minimum amount of contraband that attracts death penalty in