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Derrick Todd LeeA Louisiana serial killer linked to the gruesome murders of 7 women died Thursday as he awaited execution, officials said.Derrick Todd Lee's cause of death was not immediately released.The 47-year-old was moved from the Louisiana State Penitentiary's death row to a hospital Saturday for unknown medical reasons.
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Alabama Gov. Robert BentleyFor decades Alabama death row inmates died in the state's electric chair and it was rare for a governor to commute a sentence then or nowAs he prepared himself for death in his final years, Alabama Gov. George Wallace worried that he might be kept from
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6 Republican lawmakers in Colorado are pushing to pass a bill that will remove the unanimous voting requirement for death sentences. If passed, the law could make it easier to impose death penalties during court proceedings.The bill, called SB 64, is sponsored by State Representatives Kevin21
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Last November, a regional conference in Guyana focused on abolishing the death penalty, which many Caribbean territories - including The Bahamas - want to keep on the books.Sponsored by the European Union (EU), the conference went completely unnoticed here. The main conclusion was that, although21
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Shonda WalterCan a convicted killer from Pennsylvania help topple the country's death-penalty laws?Activists who've long sought to abolish capital punishment are betting on it.The U.S. Supreme Court is assessing whether to hear a challenge to a Pennsylvania woman's death sentence that some hope21
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Richard MastersonIn Texas' first execution of 2016, a man convicted in a fatal strangling and robbery was executed in Huntsville Wednesday night.Richard Masterson, 43, was declared dead at 6:53 p.m. from a lethal injection of pentobarbital, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. He19
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Ronald PhillipsThe mother of a death row inmate has died after attempts by the inmate to donate his kidney to save her life.Donna Phillips of Akron died Jan. 11 at age 68. Her son, Ronald Phillips, 42, is next on the list of Ohio death row inmates to die by
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How can our safety best be secured?The Shadow Defence Secretary, Emily Thornberry MP, has launched Labour’s Defence Policy Review, publishing its terms of reference and calling on Labour Party members, affiliates and the wider public to contribute to its work.The review will examine how the18
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‘She became very concerned with the lack of definition about what qualified as ‘subversive’.’The Special Branch Files Project, a live archive of once-declassified files focussing on the surveillance of political activists and campaigners, was launched last week.Set up in 1883 to help with18
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Public flogging in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Manama: A court in Dammam has sentenced a man to eight months in jail and to 240 lashes for harassing girls at shopping centres.The man, aged in his 20s, was spotted and arrested by members of the Commission for
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Execution chamber at Tokyo's Detention CenterTwo elderly men fighting for decades to clear their names are poised to receive high-profile retrials in 2016 and yet their ordeals are unlikely to trigger wide-ranging reform to the country's justice system, experts say.Even after being sent to prison
TOKYO — The number of crimes in Japan in 2015 hit a postwar low, the National Police Agency said Thursday, citing an increase in security cameras as well as raised public awareness of crime prevention.Overall penal code violations decreased 9.3% from the previous year to 1,099,048, falling below21
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Ko Zaw Lin (L) and Ko Wai Phyo (R): 100 points to contest2 Myanmar men sentenced to death in Thailand for murder have been given a momentary reprieve: The court yesterday allotted an extra month for their appeal.The defence team applied for
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The Indonesian government's decision to execute eight individuals for drug-related crimes last April led to condemnation of our country from governments and human rights advocates from around the world. Despite insisting at the time that the executions were essential to fighting a growing "drug21
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But how many more women have been affected by these abuses?On 15 January 2016, the Metropolitan Police withdrew their defence in a case brought against them over undercover police relationships.In a significant development at the High Court in London, the police asked for judgment to be
California's brand new death chamberAs California moves forward Friday with a crucial public hearing to air its new lethal injection procedures, death penalty foes are taking aim at the details in a plan that could lead to the resumption of executions after a 10-year hiatus.Calling the reforms20
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Calling on the UK government to commit to five minimum standards of engagement.Following the publication in December of the UK government’s annual Report to Parliament on its progress regarding the UK’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (UK NAP), GAPS published its shadow
LAHORE (Dunya News) - Three death row prisoners were hanged on early Tuesday morning in the jails of Attock, Mianwali and Jhang, Dunya News reported.The dead bodies of the prisoners were handed over to their families.According to details, death row convict Sultan was executed in the District Jail19
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‘Peers want change too’.The government has published the review by Lord Strathclyde on secondary legislation and the relationship between the House of Lords and the House of Commons.Strathclyde was asked in October to consider how to secure the decisive role of the House of Commons in
Egypt's ParliamentEgypt's parliament on Sunday overwhelmingly endorsed a controversial anti-terrorism law that sets up special courts and shields its enforcers from legal ramifications.The law is one of roughly 400 that were issued by executive decree during the more than 3 years in which Egypt18
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Public hanging in Iran (file photo)Iranian authorities have executed four prisoners in northern Iran and one prisoner in southern Iran who may have been under the age of 18 when he allegedly committed the murder that Iranian courts sentenced him to death for.Iran Human Rights (JAN
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Government made 5.6m pounds donation to counter-narcotics operations in Pakistan despite capital convictionsThe UK taxpayer has given millions of pounds to help Pakistan's counter-narcotics force target and arrest drug traffickers, at least five of whom have been sentenced to death.The revelation16
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Hassan RouhaniNCRI - Iran under the rule of the clerical regime has been ranked #173 among 180 countries in the 2015 World Press Freedom Index and “Hassan Rouhani’s installation as president in June 2013 has not had a positive impact on freedom of information,” a report published on Friday by21
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Sister Helen Prejean comments on meeting Pope Francis in Rome and giving him a thank you letter from Oklahoma death-row inmate Richard Glossip.Click here for more information on the Richard Glossip caseSource: YouTube, January 21, 2016- Report an error, an omission:Questo indirizzo email
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India's Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court today agreed to re-hear the plea of Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Arif, alias Ashfaq, seeking review of the death sentence awarded to him for his role in the attack on an Army battalion at Red Fort here in 2000.A 5-member Constitution Bench headed by Chief21
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Christopher Brooks2 courts on Tuesday denied Alabama death row inmate Christopher Brooks' request to block his execution on Thursday.The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals denied the request late Tuesday afternoon. So did the Alabama Supreme Court.Brooks' attorneys say they will appeal both the
Jonathan and Reginald CarrWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday against three Kansas inmates whose death sentences had been vacated by the state’sSupreme Court.The vote was 8 to 1, and Justice Antonin Scalia’s majority opinion was notable for its extended account of the crimes Leggi20
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How do individuals emotionally cope with the imminent real-world salience of mortality? DeWall and Baumeister as well as Kashdan and colleagues previously provided support that an increased use of positive emotion words serves as a way to protect and defend against mortality salience of one’s ownPresident H. Rouhani - Iran is the world’s second most prolific executioner.Concerns been raised over European Union funding for a counter-narcotics programme in Iran that could lead to executions for drugs offences.The EU, which is the second largest donor to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime18
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Women pregnant outside marriage forced to give up their babies want apology and inquiry.The Movement for an Adoption Apology (MAA) seeks recognition and acknowledgement of the pain and grief suffered by many birth parents and their children because of the unethical adoption practices of the18
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British court martial on the front. Screenshot from "For King and Country",a film by Joseph Losey (1965) with Dick Bogarde and Tom Courtenay.In the mist of an anaemic French dawn, the weak sunlight burning through leaden skies, they placed the blindfold over Jack Braithwaite's eyes.He stiffened18
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Another man thrown off a building to for being gay by ISIS cowardly thugs,in the city of Rawa, Iraq, in January 2016.Another gay man has been murdered
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How does the death penalty in America end?For decades that has been an abstract question. Now there may be an answer in the case of Shonda Walter, a 36-year-old black woman on Pennsylvania’s death row. On Friday, the Supreme Court met to discuss whether to hear a petition from Ms. Walter, Leggi16
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A U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down part of Florida's death penalty system will not immediately impact cases in Delaware, but could pave the way for future legal challenges in both states, experts say.On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that Florida's procedure for death sentences is