For the first time in decades, a Missouri Senate committee is set to consider a Republican bill to repeal the death penalty in Missouri. A recently-formed group of conservative grassroots leaders applauded Sen. Paul Wieland (R - Imperial), the bill sponsor, for his fiscal responsibility and commitment to protecting innocent life from
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Cary Michael Lambrix2 days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Florida's method of death penalty sentencing, the state said Thursday that the next execution should go on as planned.Cary Michael Lambrix, 55, is set to die Feb. 11 for murdering two people in Glades County in 1983. He
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'Supermax' high-security prison, Florence, ColoradoA U.S. judge rejected on Friday a request for a new trial for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, saying the issues his attorneys raised had been resolved prior to his trial last year.Tsarnaev was sentenced last June to death by15
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Bystanders watch a public hanging in Iran. Some take pictures with their phones.Reports of one execution in central Iran and ten prisoners in the north of the country.Iran Human Rights (JAN 14 2016): Iran state run media, Ashkezar News,
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Richard MastersonConvicted killer's lawyers pressing various appeals for man who is next on execution listFresh from defeat in the state's top criminal appeals court and with execution looming, lawyers for Houston killer Richard Masterson are launching a flurry of state and federal appeals14
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It’s crazy to think that today, in 2015, there are still places in the world where being gay could get you killed. Sure, we have a long way to go when it comes to equal rights, intolerance and acceptance — but being killed? How is that still possible?Unfortunately, it’s a very scary
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Two prisoners convicted of murder were executed in Saudi Arabia on January 4 and 6. Ahmed Obeid al-Amri al-Harbi was found guilty of shooting a man dead following a dispute, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by
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The West Jakarta Prosecutors Office will continue to seek the maximum sentence of death for big players in the drug trafficking world.The West Jakarta Prosecutors Office head Reda Manthovani said on Tuesday that last year, his office handled 721 drug cases and sought the death penalty for 25
The Arizona Department of Corrections again faces a likely shortage of drugs for executions by lethal injection.All executions have been on hold in Arizona since July 2014, when murderer Joseph Wood was put to death in Florence. Despite warnings by defense attorneys, the Corrections Department
Iranian official sources report on the execution of a prisoner in Zanjan's central prison on a Moharebeh charge (commonly translated as "enmity against God").Iran Human Rights (JAN 13 2017): The Zanjan Prosecutor, Hassan Mozaffari, has reported on the execution of a prisoner on a Moharebeh charge12
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When does the violation of women’s bodies become a “red line”?By Lauren Wolfe.If people divide their understanding of militarized violence into normal and not normal, acceptable and not acceptable, it makes a terrible kind of sense: violence against women has been “normalized”.Two years ago
Conrad Ochoa and Baron OchoaSAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Prosecutors say two San Antonio brothers charged in a 2011 triple slaying in a case linked to alleged child sex abuse will not face the death penalty.The San Antonio Express-News reports that prosecutors last week revealed they had dropped
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Jermaine Wright (left) is turning himself in Friday morningJermaine Wright, a former death row inmate who was freed last year, is turning himself in Friday morning as a crowd of emotional well-wishers gathered to say goodbye.A group marched from Wright's home in Eastside
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‘Please contact your MP now – we can still win this fight’.The decision on 14 January to quietly force through the scrapping of maintenance grants has been met with a fresh wave of public anger and forced the Tories to have the debate they didn’t want to have in parliament next week on 19
Texas Death House, 'The Walls' Unit, Huntsville, TexasWith the first execution of the new year scheduled next week, Texas prison officials said Wednesday that the state has a large enough supply of drugs to carry out the executions already scheduled for 2016.The Texas Department
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Call to release the cover names and open the files.There will be a Police Spies Out of Livessolidarity demo at the High Court in London on 15 January, ahead of Kate Wilson’s latest hearing in her four-year legal battle to hold the Metropolitan police (the Met) to account.Because on 15 January14
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Men believe gender equality better for the economy – but ‘barrier bosses’ prevent progress, says survey.According to a survey of over 8,000 people commissioned by leading feminist campaigning charity, the Fawcett Society, to mark its 150th year, men believe that equality between the sexes would14
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January 12, 2016: Two death row convicts were hanged in the jails of Toba Tek Singh and Bahawalpur early morning.The dead bodies of the prisoners were handed over to their families after the execution. According to details, death row prisoner Muhammad Sardar was hanged in the District Jail, Toba
Prisoners in Harare Central Prison, ZimbaweZimbabwe's Constitutional Court began its year Wednesday with a request from 15 death row prisoners for their sentences to be commuted. Rights lawyers are hoping the death penalty will be outlawed in Zimbabwe this year.The lawyer for the 15 said they13
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Louisiana State PenitentiaryLast June, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer suggested that the death penalty might be close to its ultimate demise. "Rather than try to patch up the death penalty's legal wounds one at a time," he wrote in a dissent to Glossip v. Gross, to which Justice
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Take the 2016 #ChoreChallenge.Soraya Chemaly, Ishita Srivastava, producer and deputy director of programmess at Breakthrough and Laura Bates, the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, have launched a global #ChoreChallenge.Chances are, if you are like most people in the world, you live in a
Double execution by hanging in Kuwait in June 2013A Kuwaiti court sentenced two men accused of spying for Iran and Hezbollah to death on Tuesday.An Iranian national and a Kuwaiti citizen were found guilty of intelligence links with the Iranian regime and its
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LAHORE (Dunya News) – Two death row convicts were hanged in the jails of Toba Tek Singh and Bahawalpur on early Tuesday morning, Dunya News reported. The dead bodies of the prisoners were handed over to their families after the execution.According to details, death row prisoner Muhammad Sardar16
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Arizona's supply of midazolam expires at the end of May. The state is hoping that a challenge brought by death row inmates can be wrapped up with enough time to carry out the executions.Arizona is trying to carry out more executions after a brief moratorium brought about after the state carried15
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“I’d say the greatest global injustice is gender inequality.”Shami Chakrabarti, the director of human rights group Liberty, has announced that she is to leave the organisation after 12 years at the helm.The recruitment process for the new director will begin in the next few weeks, and15
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Saudi-born Palestinian poet Ashraf FayadhHundreds of writers including Irvine Welsh, Ruth Padel and AL Kennedy are taking part in a worldwide reading in support of the Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, who has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia after being accused of renouncing Islam.
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Indonesia's elite Presidential Security ForcesMedan. A member of Indonesia's elite Presidential Security Forces (Paspampres) was caught on Monday trying to bring a small amount of narcotics on board a civilian airplane at Kualanamu International Airport in North Sumatra.Police said Pvt. First14
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January 11, 2016: Somaliland government carried out the execution of 6 prisoners in different regions of the country.The 6 included a soldier who killed a police officer recently in Berbera.The execution of these people took place in Daraweyene, Mandheera and Borama.All were convicted criminals
Florida's electric chairRenegade. Immune to national trends. Often tested, never defeated.Until this week. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Florida's unique capital sentencing system, saying the state gives too much power to judges, and not enough to juries, to sentence someone to
Brandon Astor JonesGeorgia plans to execute its oldest death row inmate next month, the state's attorney general announced Wednesday.Brandon Astor Jones, 72, is scheduled to be put to death Feb. 2 at the state prison in Jackson, the office of Attorney General Sam Olens said in a news13
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In Iran, girls are held criminally accountable by law from the age of nine, and can be sentenced to death by hanging for crimes such as murder, drug trafficking and armed robbery. Sadegh Souri, documentary winner at the 2015 Lens Culture visual storytelling awards, has photographed girls in the
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Florida's death chamberThe Supreme Court struck down Florida's unique capital sentencing system on Tuesday in a ruling that found the state gives too much power to judges — and not enough to juries — to impose the death penalty.In an 8-1 opinion, written for the majority by Justice
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Iran Human Rights (JAN 11 2017): Seven prisoners were reportedly hanged in southern, western, and northern Iran.According to Iran state run media, Javan, three prisoners were hanged at Larestan Prison (in the southern provine of Fars) on armed drug trafficking charges.The executions were11
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Why we can’t let the banks off the hook.By Christine Berry.We’ve heard a lot from George Osborne [recently] on the dangers of ‘complacency’ about the UK’s resilience to global economic shocks.But the real complacency we should be worrying about is the return to business as usual in our