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Hanoi, VietnamA court in Hanoi sentenced 3 Vietnamese and a Thai woman to death on Monday for drug trafficking.Investigation found Nguyen Thi Thuy Trang, 53, from Ho Chi Minh City, learned about the illegal trade in late 2011 and started hiring several people to help her transport drugs across regional
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NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime has hanged at least 10 people in prisons since the weekend, in what has been described as a new wave of executions.Earlier on Wednesday at least six other death-row prisoners in Ghezelhesar Prison in Karaj, north-west of Tehran, were transferred to solitary27
Apr
2016
Why does the government refuse to make sex and relationships education compulsory?There’s a lot more to domestic abuse than just physical violence.Seven years ago, for example, a 15 year-old fell victim to coercive control and emotional abuse.When she was in Year 9, she developed a close26
Apr
2016
Pyongyang streetNorth Korea is executing people who distribute illegal drugs and South Korean videos, says the Korea Institute for National Unification.The institute published "North Korean Human Rights Report 2016" on Monday after conducting in-depth interviews with 186 North Korean defectors who
Public execution inn Saudi ArabiaSaudi security forces have admitted on camera to arresting juveniles, including at least one who went on to be executed.In interviews with Al Arabiya, unearthed and translated by Vice News, several Saudi security officials speak of arresting people they knew to be25
Apr
2016
Leadership and strategy “critical to tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse”.The government is yet to deliver on three major elements of its child sexual exploitation (CSE) strategy more than a year after it was unveiled, it has emerged.Reporting on this failure, the website Children25
Apr
2016
President Ma Ying-jeouPresident Ma Ying-jeou said Monday that although some countries in the world have replaced the death penalty with life imprisonment without parole, Taiwan is not thinking of following suit.The president was responding to a question on the death penalty issue, during a news25
Apr
2016
Abdul BasitA severely disabled prisoner on Pakistan’s death row has called on the country’s President to spare his life, as a stay of execution granted to him in January expired.Abdul Basit, who is paralyzed from the waist down, has had his execution halted at the last minute three separate times24
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2016
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Caught Sleeping Clarence Thomas may well be the most enigmatic person to ever serve as a justice on the United States Supreme Court. He speaks so rarely from the bench that he has been nicknamed “the Sphinx.
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The mullahs' regime has hanged a prisoner in the port city of Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.The 31-year-old prisoner, identified only by the initials H. M., was hanged on Wednesday, April 20, in Bandar Abbas Central Prison, according to the Iranian regime's judiciary in Bushehr Province.The hanging
Dylann RoofProsecutors say they want an independent psychological evaluation of accused church shooter Dylann Roof to rebut or confirm the findings from a pair of evaluations performed by the defense team's experts.The request comes about a week after a judge delayed the murder trial until 2017 to22
Apr
2016
Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi Arabia has decapitated a Pakistani national after sentencing him to death for smuggling drugs, bringing to 86 the number of such executions in the kingdom since the start of this year.The convicted Pakistani man, identified as Shah Zaman Leggi27
Apr
2016
Bali Nine member Michael CzugajMichael Czugaj found with meth in his Kerobokan prison cell but insists 'he's an addict not a dealer'One of the Bali Nine members Michael Czugaj has been moved from the notorious Kerobokan prison to a jail in East Java after he was allegedly
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Daniel LucasThe state parole board has denied clemency for a Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die this week.Daniel Anthony Lucas is set to be put to death Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital.The State Board of Pardons and Paroles is the only26
Apr
2016
Abdul BasitHow is it possible to hang a man who is paralysed from the waist down? This is the grim question now in front of the Pakistani authorities – Abdul Basit is a paraplegic man who once again faces the prospect of being hanged in his wheelchair.The stay of execution
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Gay rights activist Xulhaz MannanNEW DELHI (AP) — Bangladesh’s prime minister vowed to hunt down and prosecute assailants who fatally stabbed two men, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina blamed the main25
Apr
2016
The Foreign Office funds human rights projects around the world, but documents seen by BuzzFeed News suggest the Conservatives are less keen to pay for campaigns against capital punishment in countries such as China.The British government has downgraded the global abolition of the death penalty on25
Apr
2016
To shift from conflict reaction to conflict prevention we need a reallocation of resources from military spending.The Stockholm Declaration on Addressing Fragility and Building Peace in a Changing World was presented recently at a high-level international summit in Stockholm.It focuses on24
Apr
2016
RALEIGH - When Jerry Cummings died last week at age 76, he became the ninth death row inmate in North Carolina to die of natural causes since 2006, when the state’s last execution took place. And he won’t be the last.With executions essentially on hold in North Carolina, the state’s death row23
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Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, TennesseeNASHVILLE - Death Row inmate Gary Cone has passed away at the age of 67.He was pronounced dead at 9:38 AM on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at a Nashville hospital of natural causes. Cone was convicted of armed robbery, assault with intent to
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Andrew Chan and Myuran SukumaranIt is a year since Bali nine members Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan were executed in Indonesia, but they are not forgotten.One of the life-affirming legacies of executed Bali nine members Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan can be found on a crowded footpath Leggi22
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'The Walls' Unit, Huntsville, TexasAlready slowing for several years, the number of US executions dropped to 28 in 2015, partly due to flagging public support for capital punishmentAmerica stands alone among Western nations for its use of the death penalty, but the number of prisoners it executes22
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An appeal court in the west African state of Mauritania has upheld the death sentence of a blogger accused of blasphemy, a judicial source told AFP on Thursday.Cheikh Ould Mohamed Ould Mkheitir, who has also been named as Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed, was initially handed the death sentence in 201427
Apr
2016
MPs sent formal warnings about fracking and their duty of care. That means not doing any harm.Environmental campaigners have hand-delivered warnings to every UK MP pointing out that they could be in breach of their code of conduct by supporting fracking.The MPs’ Code of Conduct says: ‘Members
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to commute the death sentences of 83 prisoners who are either on death row or serving life imprisonments. [sic]President Sirisena has taken the decision to spare the lives of the prisoners based on the recommendations made by a26
Apr
2016
Painting a prettier picture.By Natasha Turner.A slim woman in a fitted orange skirt suit stands in the centre of a spacious room.She has one heeled foot forward, and one hand on her hip while the other clutches a black purse. Her hair, which matches the colour of her suit, is arranged under26
Apr
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Many of Reprieve Australia’s Executive Committee, including President Julian McMahon, worked on the Bali Duo cases. Below are Julian McMahon’s reflections on the anniversary of the executions.At about 12:35 am on 29 April 2015 on the island of Nusakambangan, off the south coast of Java, in a
Typical death-row cell, Polunsky Unit, TexasTexas prison officials say a man on death row for 35 years for a Houston robbery where 3 people were shot and killed has died of natural causes.Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark says 60-year-old Max Soffar died Sunday
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The Bali 9 ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed by firing squad on the Indonesian island of Nusa Kambangan a year ago next Friday.Even a year on, it stands as yet another case of barbarism in the cause of political expediency, lives cut short and the potential for good24
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Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso celebrated women's rights on Saturdayduring Kartini Day at Wirogunan prison in Indonesia.Filipina death row prisoner Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso celebrated women's rights on Saturday during Kartini Day at Wirogunan prison in
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Singapore's Changi PrisonHe gets life term after arguing drug addiction, mental illness impaired 'mental responsibility'A 30-year-old heroin trafficker, who failed to escape the death sentence in three previous attempts, yesterday succeeded in getting the High Court to sentence him to life22
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Duane BuckWas he sentenced to death "because he is black"?The U.S. Supreme Court will soon consider whether to hear the Texas case of Duane Buck, who was sentenced to die in 1997 for shooting his ex-girlfriend Debra Gardner and her friend Kenneth Butler while Gardner's daughter pleaded, "Don't22
Apr
2016
Capital punishment was repealed in the state of Nebraska nearly a year ago, however, the repeal won't become law until, and unless, Nebraskans vote to retain the repeal. The death penalty has been a source of discussion over the last few years and will continue to be so into November.Western22
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The Apothecary Shoppe in Tulsa, OklahomaAfter admitting to more than a thousand pharmaceutical violations, a pharmacy that sold execution drugs to Missouri auctioned off its assets last week after it defaulted on its loans. The sale is expected to be finalized in the coming weeks.The Apothecary