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The execution comes just days after Amnesty International called out Pakistan for being the world's 3rd most prolific executionerPakistan on Saturday, April 9, hanged two brothers convicted of murdering 6 people from the same family, just days after Amnesty International criticized the country for becoming the world's 3rd most prolific executioner after
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At his retrial in December Juvenile offender Amanj Veisee was resentenced to death for the murder of his cousin - despite an official forensic report concluding that he had not attained 'mental growth and maturity' at the time of the crime.Amanj had originally been sentenced in 2008, following the
Jack Harry SmithThe oldest condemned man in Texas has died at age 78 of natural causes, a Texas prisons spokesman said Friday.Jack Harry Smith had been on death row since October 1978 for a fatal shooting during a $90 robbery of a Houston store. Only three among about 250 prisoners
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Jakarta. Attorney General H.M. Prasetyo hinted on Friday (08/04) that executions of drug traffickers would resume, following the completion of his office's inventory of death-row inmates."Surely, we have never said the executions would seize. We will continue when the time is right," Prasetyo said07
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Saudi policemen in Riyadh, KSAThe UK's national College of Policing has earned 6.2 million pounds in the last 3 years through overseas training contracts, a freedom of information request has shown.Britain's College of Policing, the professional body for police training, has made millions of
A Chinese police officer lights an inmate'scigarette shortly before his execution.The Chinese government said Amnesty International has "biased opinions" on China and refused to comment on its death penalty report released on Wednesday, which estimates that "thousands" were executed in
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Prostituted women, children and men will no longer be criminalised.In a historic day for women’s rights, prostitution is recognised by France as one of the ‘worst forms of violence against women’.After years of citizenship initiatives and civil actions, French law-makers took a critical step06
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Dylann RoofThe decision on whether the federal government will seek the death penalty against a white man charged in the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a Charleston church is now before U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, a prosecutor told a federal judge on Tuesday.Assistant U.S06
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Tell your MLA that women who have abortions are not criminals.Alliance for Choice, an organisation that campaigns for the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland, expressed its dismayed at the recent decision to hand a suspended prison sentence to a young woman in Northern
Meth bust at a Malaysian airportIt is an international embarrassment that Malaysia is 1 out of only 24 United Nations member states that still practises the death penalty, said Amnesty International Malaysia executive director Shamini Darshni."The recent triple executions cheapen suggestions by06
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With 28 killings in 2015, the US is the only country in the Americas and among OSCE members to be on the list of top executioners published by Amnesty International, coming right after Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan.At least 1,634 people were put to death in 25 countries in 2015, Amnesty
The number of executions carried out globally last year rose to a 25-year high, a review of the global state of the death penalty has found.According to new figures, 2015 saw a sharp rise in executions in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, China and Iran, and a total of at least 1,634 people executed Leggi09
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Daniel LucasAuthorities say an April 27 execution date has been scheduled for a man convicted in the 1998 triple murders of a trucking company owner and his 2 children in GeorgiaA late April execution date has been set for man convicted in the 1998 triple murders of a central Georgia
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A gay man was thrown off a building top by ISIS militants in Mosoul, Iraqin May 2015 (file photo)LONDON: A gruesome propaganda video showing ISIS terrorists throwing a man accused of being
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The Missouri department of corrections (DOC) has been ordered to release two pharmacy names from where it purchases the lethal drugs used in execution.Final judgements laid down by the circuit court of Cole County criticize Missouri prisons for not rightfully informing the public about their way07
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With executions skyrocketing among US allies, some authority might come in handy right about nowState-sponsored executions are at their highest level in 25 years, according to a report released this week by Amnesty International. In 2015, the report tallied 1,634 people executed worldwide — a more07
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It has been nearly a year since April 29, 2015, the last time Indonesia carried out the death penalty. On that day, a firing squad executed eight people convicted of drug-related crimes, despite the pleas and outcry of the international community.However, all of the uproar over the executions07
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Bali's Kerobokan prisonThe prospect of Indonesia reverting back to death row prisoner executions in a matter of weeks has been clarified as only "a joke".A spokesman for Indonesian Attorney-General HM Prasetyo said the minister was "joking" when he recently said the nation may resume executions
Public execution in IranIran's regime executed close to a thousand people, including juvenile offenders, in 2015 and largely fueled the "dramatic global rise" in the number of executions recorded last year which saw more people put to death than at any point in the last quarter-century, Amnesty06
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Committed to making gender equality a reality and keeping it at the top of the agenda.The Women’s Equality Party Scotland published their manifesto for the Scottish elections on 5 May recently.It covers seven key policy goals, saying:The Women’s Equality (WE) Party will fight to establish06
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Singapore's Changi prisonAmnesty International (AI) Malaysia is pleading to the Singapore President to commute Sarawak labourer Jabing Kho's death sentence to life imprisonment.Its executive director Shamini Darshni said Jabing had exhausted all his legal processes."We are appealing to PresidentRecorded executions worldwide surged by more than 50 % last year to the highest level in a quarter-century, a human rights group said Wednesday.Amnesty International cited the 3 executions that Japan carried out in 2015 as contributing to a total of 1,634 worldwide. The tally does not include05
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It’s not Brussels to blame for the steel crisis, it’s the Tories.By Glenis Willmott MEP.Some myths about the European Union (EU), like banning holiday snaps or forcing cows to wear nappies, are easier to dispel because of the sheer absurdity; others, like the claims the EU is to blame for the09
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Three local faith leaders are among more than 300 who are calling on Governor Terry McAuliffe to veto the "electric chair" bill.House Bill 815 says that if lethal injection cannot be used to execute an inmate because of a lack of the necessary drugs, then the inmate shall be executed by
Execution chamber (gallows) at Tokyo Detention CenterLONDON — Japan is swimming against the tide of international opinion on the death penalty and needs to follow the lead of the United States and start properly debating the issue, Amnesty International said Wednesday at the launch of
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Facebook is making you gay—at least, according to Saudi Arabia. In recent weeks, government officials and local prosecutors have been attempting to curb what they reportedly believe is an outbreak of homosexuality caused by the widespread adoption of social media in the country. PinkNews, an
Glenn FordState Rep. Cedric Glover has filed a bill that would provide compensation to the family of the late Glenn Ford, who was released from prison after serving 30 years on death row after being wrongly convicted of a Shreveport murder.Ford was released in March 2014, but died last summer07
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We must stop using the term ‘trolling’ to dismiss and excuse online abuse. A couple of weeks ago, I had my first experience of what some would call ‘trolling’.After footballer Adam Johnson was sentenced to six years in prison for sexual activity with a child, I posted a tweet saying that the06
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Pablo Lucio VasquezPablo Vasquez, 38, was put to death by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, Wednesday night, for the 1998 murder of 12-year-old David Cardenas.Vasquez killed the boy by hitting his head with a pipe and cutting his throat. He then mutilated and dismembered Cardenas and he06
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Marcus Druery Lawyers agreed Monday that Brazos County death row inmate Marcus Druery is unfit to be executed for the 2002 slaying of a 20-year-old man in rural Brazos County.Druery's attorneys filed more than 150 pages of reports from 2 mental health professionals saying Druery suffered from a
Mississippi death chamberFormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders have made criminal justice reform a key campaign issue in their party’s race for the presidential nomination. After an early February Democratic debate dove into aspects of the topic, Newsweek pointedAt least 1,634 people were executed in 25 countries in 2015. This represents a stark increase on the number of executions recorded I 2014 of more than 50%; in 2014 Amnesty International recorded 1,061 executions in 22 countries worldwide.This is the highest number of executions recorded in more06
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More people were executed worldwide in 2015 than at any point in the last 25 years, according to a new report by global human rights group Amnesty International released on Wednesday.At least 1,634 people were put to death across 25 different countries, a 54% increase from the number of executions05
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Irish law says women and girls have to carry a pregnancy to term regardless.Since 29 March, 12 activists have been standing outside the Republic of Ireland’s government buildings in Dublin to represent the 12 women and girls who will travel to the UK on that day to get an abortion.And each