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Public execution in Iran (file photo)On Thursday December 31, 6 prisoners were reportedly hanged at Tabriz Central Prison (northern Iran) on drug charges and 2 young prisoners were reportedly hanged at Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison (northern Iran) on murder charges.On Saturday January 2, a prisoner was reportedly
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Protesters demanding freedom for jailed Shiite cleric Nim al-Nimrshortly before his execution in Saudi Arabia.BAGHDAD — Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Iran on Sunday and gave all Iranian diplomats 48 hours to leave the kingdom, as escalating tensions over the execution of
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Militants of the Islamic State throw a young manoff a roof in Nineveh for being gay. (File photo)The 15-year-old was reportedly found 'in the house of an ISIS leader,' though that leader was
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom WolfThe legal wrestling over the death penalty in Pennsylvania seems to be on hold, for now, with the state Supreme Court upholding Gov. Tom Wolf's temporary moratorium on executions until a review of the death penalty system has been concluded.In February 2015, Wolf
Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)BAGHDAD — Saudi Arabia executed 47 people convicted of terrorism-related offenses on Saturday, including suspected members of Al Qaeda and a prominent cleric and government critic from the country’s Shiite minority.The executions, which were reported by01
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Lindsay Sandiford has been trying to raise money for a last-ditchappeal through Indonesia's complex legal system.British drug-running grandmother Lindsay Sandiford faces the prospect she will be shot in the New Year after Indonesia revealed today
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Singapore's Changi PrisonSingapore might be a small city-state, but its pro-death penalty stance is well-known. Just last year, Law and then-Foreign Affairs Minister K Shanmugam gave a speech in defence of capital punishment to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.All this makesVOA News -- Pakistan's military courts have handed down the death penalty to nine men the courts described as "hardcore terrorists."The military said Friday the condemned men include an al-Qaida militant and a member of the Pakistani Taliban.It was not immediately clear when or where the men
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A guard stands watch over the condemned prisoners housed in East Blockduring a media tour of death row at San Quentin prison. (L.A. Times)With the debate over capital punishment
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Zeng Aiyun, who spent 11 years on death row before being cleared,visits his mother in July 2015. (Shanghai Daily)A Chinese man condemned to death three times for murder and who spent 11 years on
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Use of and support for the death penalty continued itssteady decline in the United States in 2015By all measures, use of and support for the death penalty continued its steady decline in the United
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaMillionaires pay blood money in exchange for Pinoy driver’s freedomSAUDI authorities have reportedly released a Filipino driver who was incarcerated for his alleged involvement in a car accident that killed an Indian man after his bosses paid the P2.8 million03
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At the height of Alabama’s search for lethal injection drugs, state officials were turned down by every pharmacy they contacted for help, according to court records filed Wednesday.State officials asked every licensed compounding pharmacist in Alabama to make batches of pentobarbital — once the02
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As many as 301 people were executed in the Punjab last year. Thousands of prisoners on death row continue to wait for verdicts on their appeals.There are at least 5,145 people on death row. Of these, there are 42 women whose appeals are pending before the high court and the Supreme Court, Leggi02
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"The Walls" Unit, Huntsville, where Texas carries out its executions.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted an unprecedented number of execution stays in 2015, the 1st year on the court for 3 judges elected in 2014."There's absolutely been a change, and we're
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana corrections officials want a federal judge to reduce the nearly $890,000 that a team of lawyers is requesting in a lawsuit over hot conditions on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.The Advocate reports the attorneys for Elzie Ball, Nathaniel Code
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Tunis (AFP) - Three Tunisians have been sentenced to death for murdering an unarmed young policeman as he returned home after his shift, a prosecutor said Wednesday.A fourth man, who is on the run, was sentenced to 22 years in jail for "inciting and helping to commit terrorist crimes", in
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia's death row inmates say they fear the expanded privileges they recently received are only temporary and are asking a judge to forbid the state from reinstating what they consider to be "dehumanizing conditions."Prison officials overhauled Virginia's death row29
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Iran Human Rights (DEC 29 2015): On Saturday December 26, three prisoners on death row for alleged drug offenses were reportedly hanged at Parsilon Prison in Khorramabad (in the province of Lorestan, western Iran).According to the human rights group, HRANA, the names of the prisoners are: Behrouz
British backpackers Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24.From the moment their bodies were discovered on a Thai beach on 15 September last year, the investigation into the deaths of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller has been a muddled affair.Information from the police28
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Myanmar migrants Win Zaw Htun, (R), and Zaw Lin, (L), both 22, in Dec. 2015.Army chief calls on Thailand to review evidence against two Burmese migrant workers whose sentencing for murder of British backpackers has sparked anger
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WETHERSFIELD -- Conditions on Connecticut’s death row remain unchanged more than four months after the Connecticut Supreme Court found the state’s death penalty unconstitutional.But Correction Commissioner Scott Semple said he is working to change a policy that requires those inmates to be in03
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The Saudi Embassy in Tehran on Dec 2, 2015 after Iranianprotesters entered the building.Iranian protesters ransacked and set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran on Saturday after Saudi Arabia executed an outspoken Shiite cleric who
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Filipino worker Joselito ZapantaThe government did everything to save overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Joselito Zapanta from execution in Saudi Arabia, contrary to allegations that it was remiss in its duties, a Malacanang official said yesterday.Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. of the Presidential02
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Scott Peterson (DOC photo)A woman assaulted when she was 4 1/2 months pregnant wanted so badly to sit in judgment of Modesto's Scott Peterson a little more than 3 years later that she lied before being picked as a juror, then helped send him to death row in
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Bangladeshi court gives death sentence to two students foundguilty of killing secular writer Thaba Baba.Two students have been sentenced to death for the 2013 murder of an atheist blogger in Bangladesh, the first convictions in a
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On the surface, 2015 was a terrible year for death penalty opponents. Despite a series of botched executions, during which inmates were essentially tortured inmates due to unreliable drugs used in the execution process, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt to place safeguards on these01
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The People's Court of the southern province of Binh Phuoc yesterday sentenced Nguyen Hai Duong and Vu Van Tien, both 24, to death on charges of murdering 6 family members in their home and robbing VND50 million (US$2,200) worth of their family assets on July 7.The court also announced a sentence
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana's parliament has approved anti-terrorism legislation that includes the death penalty for certain offenses and would allow rendition of suspects to other countries.Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan told skeptical opposition lawmakers during a debate that29
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaA Filipino murder convict was publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday after failing to meet the demand of the Sudanese victim's family for payment of $1 million to save him from the death penalty, officials said.Joselito Lidasan Zapanta's execution was carried28
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Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterThe executions of two death row inmates on Friday was a blow to the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, which only last week reiterated a call for a moratorium on hangings and for a national debate on the matter.In a position paper
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Manama: Saudi Arabia’s prosecution has requested the death penalty for five suspects, four Saudis and one Yemeni, who raided a commercial complex in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.Investigations revealed that the five suspects plotted an armed attack on the commercial facility after they learned that
The Adjustment Center at San Quentin Prison, California.Death penalty supporters got the state’s go-ahead Thursday to collect signatures for a November 2016 ballot measure aimed at speeding up executions, raising the prospect that voters will be asked to choose between toughening California’s death