Ali Mohammed al-NimrThe father of a Saudi man sentenced to crucifixion for alleged crimes in connection with the Arab Spring protests when he was a teenager fears he will only find out about his son's death when it is announced on television.Mohammed al-Nimr says the family is "extremely worried"
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LAHORE (Dunya News) – Four death row prisoners were hanged on early Wednesday morning in the jails of Lahore, Bahawalpur, Toba Tek Singh and Dera Ghazi Khan while execution of two convicts was postponed. The dead bodies of the prisoners were handed over to their families.According to details20
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The State Supreme Court on Tuesday delayed indefinitely the scheduled executions of eight prisoners who challenged a law that kept secret some information about lethal injection drugs.In a ruling that indicated disagreement among the justices, the court said the inmates had raised “bona fide20
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Ali al-NimrIn response to questions in Parliament over the case of a Saudi protestor sentenced to death as a child, the British Foreign Secretary has today said that he “do[es] not expect” him to be executed.Philip Hammond was responding to a question from Andy Slaughter MP regarding the cases of20
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A new resolution from a group of evangelicals could suggest a shift in attitudes among some conservative Christians who have long held strong support for the death penalty.The board of directors of the National Association of Evangelicals approved a resolution that changes its 1973 resolution that19
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Paul BealesA suspected ringleader of the cocaine smuggling plot that landed British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford on Death Row was yesterday toasting his freedom on a golfing holiday in Thailand after being released early from jail.The Mail on Sunday tracked down wealthy convict Paul Beales to an18
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Robert BarthelemyMANY, LA (KSLA) - Former Natchitoches police officer Robert Barthelemy will spend the rest of his life in prison without parole.The plea deal was taken Saturday morning during the sentencing phase of the first degree murder trial in which he was found guilty Thursday. The deal
Screenshot from the U.S. TV series "Rectify" (2013)Only a few months ago, the condemned men on Virginia's death row left their tiny cells just three days a week for showers, and an hour a day five days a week for recreation in a fenced outdoor cell. A sheet of glass separated
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Oklahoma’s attorney general has agreed to not request execution dates until 2016, as his office investigates why the state used the wrong drug to execute an inmate in January, according to court documents filed on Friday.Attorney general Scott Pruitt and lawyers representing death row inmates16
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Public execution in IranIn an international conference in Paris on the occasion of October 10th, the World Day against the Death Penalty, the main Iranian opposition Coalition (NCRI) declared: "Our plan is an Iran without the death penalty and obliterating the mullahs' religious decrees."The16
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October 15, 2015: At least seven death-row inmates convicted of murder were executed in different jails. Zaman alias Zamani was executed in Multan’s Central Jail. He was convicted of murdering former Punjab chief minister Ghulam Haider Wyne during an election rally in September 1993. Wyne was a16
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‘What good teaching and school practice looks like’.The End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) and Rape Crisis South London have published new materials for schools on tackling violence against women and girls, and teaching about sexual consent.The End Violence Against Women Coalition’s21
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Mark Anthony GonzalesSAN ANTONIO (AP) - A man has been sentenced to death by lethal injection for the random 2011 ambush slaying of a deputy stopped at a traffic light in San Antonio.A Bexar (BEAR) County jury deliberated about 17 hours before recommending death for Mark Anthony Gonzalez for the20
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When states ran out of execution drugs, they started paying tens of thousands of dollars to Chris Harris, a salesman in India with no pharmaceutical background.Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts had a problem. In a few days, the state legislature would vote on repealing the death penalty in his state20
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Manifesto calls for real commitments to achieving women’s equality in Scotland.Elections for the Scottish Parliament are due to be held on 5 May 2016, and Engender has launched a Gender Matters Manifesto: ‘Twenty for 2016’.Engender, Scotland’s feminist membership organisation, is working on a20
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Ohio is extending its moratorium on capital punishment until at least 2017 because of difficulties obtaining the drugs needed to carry out executions, the state prisons agency said on Monday.The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said that 11 inmates who were scheduled to be executed next18
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Mariko TakeuchiKUALA LUMPUR — A 41-year-old Japanese woman has lost her last chance to escape the gallows with Malaysia’s highest court affirming the death sentence meted out by a lower court for trafficking drugs into the Southeast Asian country, her lawyer said Friday.The five-man bench of the18
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Robert BarthelemyMANY, LA (KSLA) - Former Natchitoches police officer Robert Barthelemy will spend the rest of his life in prison without parole.The plea deal was taken Saturday morning during the sentencing phase of the first degree murder trial in which he was found guilty Thursday. The deal17
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United Nations human rights experts expressed "outrage and profound sadness" Friday at Iran's execution of 2 juvenile offenders, urging the country to "stop killing children."Fatemeh Salbehi was hanged on Tuesday after being found guilty for killing a man she had been forced to marry when she was17
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More than four months after the Nebraska Legislature voted to abolish the death penalty, a petition drive by supporters of capital punishment in the state has succeeded in upending that vote and suspending the new law, the secretary of state’s office announced Friday.The petition drive, which16
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The State Duma is not considering overturning the death penalty moratorium, a member of the Lower House law committee has said in a television interview. "At the present moment the issue of introducing the death penalty, including the death penalty for terrorism, is not being considered in Russia,"16
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Ali Mohammed Baqir al-NimrThere are rising fears about the impending executions of Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr and two other young Shi’a activists in Saudi Arabia who were arrested as juveniles after participating in anti-government rallies, Amnesty International said today after learning that they16
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Making your wants heard becomes much easier when there are numbers wanting the same kind of thing.The National Federation of Women’s Institutes – better known as the WI – celebrated its 100th birthday last month.The largest women’s organisation in the UK, the WI currently has some 212,00021
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin ScaliaMINNEAPOLIS -- Referencing rulings to restrict capital punishment and changing sentiment within the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia said Tuesday he wouldn't be surprised if the nation's highest court invalidates the death penalty.Scalia addressed20
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At least 10 death row convicts were sent to the gallows on early Tuesday morning in different jails of Punjab, Dunya News reported.According to details, death row prisoner Muhammad Farooq was hanged in District Jail Sargodha. Farooq had killed his rival over an old enmity in 2003.2 murderers were
Richard Glossip’s stay of execution was just the beginning. Oklahoma State to review the death penalty process entirely. Legal analysis by Jim Kelly.aNewDomain — The State of Oklahoma has “administratively closed” the capital murder case against Richard Glossip, who was convicted for the 199719
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The Maldives' highest court has overturned an unprecedented sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery, a crime in the Muslim island nation, media reports said on Monday.The woman, identified by local media as a mother of five, was convicted by a local judge on a remote island18
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South Carolina Death RowRIDGEVILLE — Heavily fenced in and guarded on the outskirts of Ridgeville lies Lieber Correctional Institution. Among the criminal offenders housed within are 40 inmates even more isolated than the rest.A monotonous existence awaits those condemned to the corridors of death
Dylann RoofSouth Carolina wants to go to trial before the federal government in the Charleston church shootings as it seeks the death penalty for Dylann Roof."That is our preference," state prosecutor Scarlett Wilson wrote in a letter late last week to U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel, who is17
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Laws already prohibit the execution of those deemed insane or mentally incompetent.Convicted murderers who had a severe mental illness when they committed their crime would face a maximum punishment of life without parole instead of the death penalty under a proposed Ohio law.The legislation
Views on capital punishment for convicted murderers have remained largely unchanged for a decade.A large majority of Americans continue to favor capital punishment for those convicted of murder, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday.Sixty-one percent of those surveyed said they favor use16
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NCRI - The fundamentalist regime in Iran on Wednesday hanged two prisoners in the city of Ardebil, north-west Iran.The regime's local judiciary office announced that the two men were hanged in the central prison of Ardebil.It did not provide their names.The mullahs' regime in Iran continues to
Two Pakistani men are facing imminent beheading in Saudi Arabia after being forced by traffickers to bring drugs into the country.Muhammad Irfan and Safeer Ahmad, from Pakistan, were taken to Saudi Arabia in 2010 and 2012 by men posing as 'employment agents', believing they would find work there16
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Glenn FordI have covered countless wrongful convictions in nearly two decades of work as a legal analyst but I don’t think that any case, any cause, ever touched me the way the Glenn Ford story did. Here was a man, an uneducated black man in the South, who was
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