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 there. Instead both were forced
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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’s
Supreme Court justices are rarely on good behavior when they are debating how the government should kill people. As much as they may brag about their collegiality and thick skins, the justices tend to go into beast mode when capital punishment is involved. Antonin Scalia delivers improvised rants15
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Ernest Lee JohnsonErnest Lee Johnson, a 55 year-old intellectually disabled man, is scheduled to be executed by the State of Missouri on November 3, 2015. Even though the U.S. Supreme Court held that the execution of the intellectually disabled was prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the15
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Untitled (Blue Cell), ink on paper, 9" x 11 5/8” by Armando MaciasImages can trigger conversations, sometimes far better than words. Internationally known political cartoonist Patrick Chappatte and journalist Anne-Frederique
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Two Saudi activists have been sentenced to prison on charges related to their human rights work and calls for political reform, a Saudi human rights lawyer said Wednesday.One activist, Abdelrahman al-Hamid, was sentenced to nine years in jail, barred from traveling abroad after his release for
Jesse SappOfficials say a death row inmate who was awaiting a new sentence after challenging his execution order has been found dead at a Ridgeville prison.The Post and Courier reports 36-year-old Jesse Sapp died at the Lieber Correctional Institution. State prisons spokeswoman Stephanie Givens14
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Oklahoma's attorney general is asking for permission to disclose information in a lethal injection lawsuit to the judge but not to attorneys for death row inmates.Why the state is asking for the secrecy is a mystery.Attorney General Scott Pruitt is representing the Oklahoma Corrections Department14
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Reports have emerged of a second execution of a juvenile offender in Iran in just a few days Amnesty International said today, which reveal the full horror of the country’s deeply flawed juvenile justice system. Fatemeh Salbehi, a 23-year-old woman, was hanged yesterday for a crime she allegedly14
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)The fundamentalist regime ruling Iran on Monday collectively hanged 8 prisoners in the western city of Orumieh in addition to 3 other prisoners executed in public in southern Iran.The 8 prisoners were hanged at dawn in Orumieh's central prison. They were14
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UK ‘set for next phase in recycling revolution’.Feminine hygiene products, disposable nappies and incontinent pads and will have a new life as plastic bins and pet litter thanks to a new recycling facility planned for West London.Development plans for the UK’s largest Absorbent Hygiene14
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Britain in the Red: a Provisional Report.by Damon Gibbons and Lovedeep Vaid, of the Centre for Responsible Credit for the TUC and UNISON.It is seven years since the onset of the global financial crisis and the ‘Great Recession’.Although the credit boom prior to 2007/08 has been identified16
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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 212,000
Ali Mohammed al-NimrSince his arrest in 2012, Ali Mohammad al-Nimr the nephew of prominent Shia cleric and rights activist Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr has languished in a Saudi Arabian prison, the pawn in a cruel game of political manipulations and sectarian hatred.Since his arrest in 2012, Ali Mohammad15
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Erecting gallows in Pakistan after moratorium was liftedAt least 6 death row prisoners including a man convicted of killing former Punjab chief minister Ghulam Haider Wyne were hanged in different jails of Punjab in the wee hours of Thursday.Death-row inmate Zamani was executed in
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Calling for an end to the “culture of inaction” on violence against women and girls.A discretionary serious case review (DSCR) has found that murdered teenager Georgia Williams was failed by the police and by social services.Her killer, Jamie Reynolds, was known to police and had tried to15
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Uncovering an important tradition of Freethinking feminism.‘Infidel Feminism‘ is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women’s rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement.Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought, but14
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NAGPUR: The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court on Monday confirmed a rare double-death and double-life sentence given to a 21-year-old man for the rape and murder of a two-year-old girl. The sentence was the first of its kind, given under Section 376A of the Indian Penal Code, under an amendment
Paul BealesThe property developer was arrested alongside grandmother Lindsay Sandiford, who remains on death row and could be executed as soon as JanuaryA British man jailed as part of a drug smuggling syndicate in Bali was last night on his way home to the UK after being freed.Property developer14
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Ali Mohammed al-NimrUS president urged to rescue Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, sentenced to be beheaded and crucified for allegedly attending anti-government protestsThe mother of a teenage Saudi protester sentenced to crucifixion has begged Barack Obama to intervene to save her son’s life.In her first14
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Seeking a "profound reform of the Penal Code"A number of activists gathered yesterday before the parliament building in Rabat to protest the continued existence of the death penalty in Morocco.Lawyer Abderrahim Jamai, the leader of the protest stated a profound reform of the
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The State Duma of the Russian Federation proposes to abolish the moratorium on death penalty for terrorists.This initiative was voiced by deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction, Vadim Solovyov.The MP suggested reinstating death penalty for14
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California's brand new death chamberWith public support for capital punishment declining, activists who fell just short of winning a voter repeal of California’s death penalty law in 2012 are preparing for another attempt in November 2016.Death Penalty Focus, a San Francisco organization that was16
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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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Dawood Hussein al-MarhoonTwo Saudi Arabian Shi’a activists, arrested when they were under 18 years old, risk being executed as soon as the King ratifies their death sentences. They were moved to solitary confinement on 5 October and have been held incommunicado since then. Shi’a activists15
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Discussing the symptoms of gynaecological cancers more openly could help save lives.A lack of knowledge around the causes and symptoms of gynaecological cancers, leading to inaccurate assumptions about the links between sex and cancer, could be costing women in the UK their lives.This is one15
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'The Indonesian Flag', Myuran Sukumaran's final painting onNusakambangan Island, shortly before he was executed by firing squad.Death row prisoners in Indonesia are routinely denied access to lawyers and are coerced into “confessions” through severe
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Licho Escamilla in 2002Texas executed its 12th Texan this year when it sent Licho Escamilla to the gurney on Wed., Oct. 14.Licho Escamilla was pronounced deat at 6:31 p.m.While leaving the Huntsville prison where the execution was carried out witnesses and family members were "cheered" by the14
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A local court today sentenced a contractor from Tamil Nadu to death for killing 6 of his workers by setting them on fire in their room here 6 years ago, holding that it would fall in the category of "rarest of rare" case.Thomas Alva Edison (28) from Tuticorin district in Tamil Nadu killed Leggi14
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Sri Lanka says it has hired two new executioners to replace the previous hangman, who quit shortly after seeing the gallows for the first time.Two other hangmen hired in 2013 failed to show up for work.The country has not executed anyone since 1976 and the role is described as "light
The European Parliament8 states still have the death penalty in their legislation for homosexualityDeirdre Clune MEP (Ireland South) has said that 2,466 people in 55 countries are now known to have been sentenced to death in 2014.Clune, who is a member of the EU Employment and Social Affairs14
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Pakistan on a killing spreePakistan lifted the moratorium on the death penalty following a Taliban attack on a school that killed 150 people.A Pakistani prison official says authorities have hanged nine convicts, including 4 brothers, the latest in a series of death sentences to be carried Leggi14
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Public beheading in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed one of its citizens in the southern city of Abha after he was convicted of killing a policeman, the interior ministry said.Ali Assiri shot and killed the policeman while being arrested, the ministry said
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Licho EscamillaThe 19-year-old was already wanted in Dallas in the fatal shooting of a neighbor when he got involved in a brawl outside a club, pulled out a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun and opened fire on police as they tried to break up the fight.Licho Escamilla's bullets twice struck Christopher