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Matthew NormanANDREW Chan's ministry in Bali's Kerobokan prison is continuing, five months after his execution.Caloundra's Barbara Pugh, who first met the convicted drug trafficker Chan in 2008, went back to the prison last month with History Maker church Pastor Sharon Tan.She said she was encouraged his church was "going strong"
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Vitus Huonder, Catholic bishop of Chur, SwitzerlandA Swiss bishop who called for the execution of gay people will not face hate crime charges.Vitus Huonder, the Catholic bishop of Chur, eastern Switzerland, made the controversial comments earlier this year at the ‘Joy in Faith’ forum.
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Holding cells adjacent to the death chamber, Huntsville Unit, Huntsville, TexasWASHINGTON — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday indefinitely halted the upcoming scheduled execution of Julius Murphy, in the wake of new claims of prosecutorial misconduct raised by Murphy’s
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Change the course of gender equality.The magenta and black HeForShe bus rolled into Cambridge last week – its fourth visit on a special UK Tour.UN Women’s #GetFree University Tour is a new effort to connect passionate student activists in a global network to raise awareness around gender12
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William KuenzelBIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The state of Alabama is holding an innocent man on death row and refuses to hear evidence that might set him free. That, according to lawyers, religious leaders and even a well known actor who spoke at a news conference in Birmingham on Monday
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Not a ‘day’ in isolation; it is part of a massive and relentless drive towards a world of equality.UN Women‘s executive director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, in a statement made to commemorate this year’s International Day of the Girl Child – 11 October 2015 – said:The cadre of 15-year-old girls11
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Execution chamber, Tokyo Detention CenterBehind drawn curtains, where the press and public are forbidden, one of the world’s most advanced democracies is frozen in time, practising a tradition the rest of the world long ago left behind.There, in a carpeted room, are two red squares. People call10
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There have been so many problems in carrying out executions in Oklahoma that it’s hard to say whether the death penalty can continue in this state, Gov. Mary Fallin said Thursday.“Can’t answer that question yet,” she said, “but it certainly is not helpful to us having the death penalty in
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Death-penalty opponents marching from Lucasville to Columbus, OhioCars and trucks whizzed by about a dozen people walking on blistered feet on Thursday along Rt. 23.The group of death-penalty opponents were on day 4 of an 83-mile, weeklong journey to Columbus, where they plan to hold
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On Sept. 30, at the very last minute, Oklahoma once again stayed Richard Glossip's execution. The state had been about to inject him with a drug cocktail using potassium acetate instead of the specified potassium chloride, but the Department of Corrections apparently did not realize it had the09
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Ali al-NimrThe father of Ali al-Nimr, a Saudi juvenile facing execution for his role in protests, has spoken of his uncertainty and concern about the fate of his son, as it emerged Ali and a second juvenile are now being held in solitary confinement in a prison in Riyadh.
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The Government has dropped a bid to provide services to the Saudi prison system. The announcement, made today, comes after it emerged Justice Secretary Michael Gove had demanded that the deal should be cancelled, but was overruled by David Cameron and Philip Hammond. The issue was set to be
LAHORE (Dunya News) - At least eight death row convicts were sent to the gallows on early Tuesday morning in different jails of Punjab, Dunya News reported.According to details, double murder convict Muhammad Ashraf was hanged in Attock District Jail. Ashraf had killed a father and his son in 200312
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Arkansas must release information about execution drug supplier to attorneys for death row inmates challenging the state's lethal injection drug secrecy lawA judge has ordered Arkansas to release information about its execution drug supplier to attorneys for death row inmates who are challenging12
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This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.Campaigners From Pink to Prevention want to know if you can remove the Pink Ribbon ‘blindfold’ and ask the breast cancer charities a rather big question.Why do they persist in refusing to acknowledge the role of environmental and occupational
NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime on Sunday hanged a man in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas after serving 15 years of a prison term.Mohsen Tayma was hanged in the courtyard of Bandar Abbas Prison. He was accused of murder.The regime on Saturday hanged three other prisoners in the central10
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Jakarta. An alarming number of states across the globe, including Indonesia, continue to violate international law by executing people convicted on drug-related charges, Amnesty International said on the occasion of World Day Against the Death Penalty, which falls on Oct. 10."At least 11 countries10
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Belgian national Philippe Graffart (center) arrives at the state court in Singapore.The arrest of Belgian expatriate Philippe Graffart for the alleged murder of his 5-year-old son has attracted media attention in Belgium, with many Belgian news reports focusing on how
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Campaigning against the death penalty in MoroccoA coalition of associations in Morocco campaigning against the death penalty have organized on October 12 a symbolic sit-in in front of Parliament for the 13th World Day Against the Death Penalty. The organizations are seeking to raise a
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European ParliamentAhead of the World and European Day against the Death Penalty (10 October), the 47-nation Council of Europe and the 28-member European Union have issued a joint declaration underlining their firm opposition to capital punishment and calling on countries across Europe to move09
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Licho Escamilla in 2001Texas will execute its 12th Texan this year when it sends Licho Escamilla to the gurney on Wed., Oct. 14.Escamilla was convicted of capital murder in the Nov. 25, 2001, shooting death of 34-year-old Christopher Kevin James, an off-duty policeman carrying out secondary08
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Meth bust in IndonesiaThe death penalty continues to be used as a tool in the so-called "war on drugs", with an alarming number of states across the globe executing people convicted on drug-related charges, in clear violation of international law, Amnesty International said ahead of the World Day13
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Iran Human Rights, October 13, 2015: Iranian authorities have executed the juvenile offender Fatemeh Salbehi, according to Iran Human Rights' sources.Fatemeh was convicted of murdering her husband in 1988, when she was 17 years old. She was 23 year old when she was hanged in the Adelabad prison of13
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Because they earn just 67p for every pound earned by men working full-time. Still.As things stand, 2 September, two-thirds of the way through 2015, was effectively the last day this year that women working part-time got paid.This is because they earn just 67p for every pound earned by men12
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aNewDomain — Oklahoma inmate Charles Warner, 47, said his “body was on fire” after executioners used the wrong drug cocktail to execute him, according to an autopsy report released yesterday by the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.Oklahoma falls again under the searing glare of the12
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Proposed changes to junior doctors’ contracts stand to hit women, especially those with young families, hardest.In recent weeks doctors around the country have been protesting against proposed government changes to junior doctors’ contracts.And last month the British Medical Association (BMA)
25-year old 'kidnapped and raped college student'Manama: A prosecutor in Saudi Arabia is seeking the death penalty for a Saudi man accused of kidnapping, raping and robbing a college student.The Saudi man, a 25-year-old public employee, has been charged alongside two accomplices in the case that10
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Ali al-NimrDiplomat says calls are impingement on judicial independence, impartialityManama: Saudi Arabia has dismissed remarks on its judicial system, saying that they amounted to interference in its domestic affairs and impingement on its sovereignty.Reacting to pressure to release Ali Al Nimr09
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"An unprecedented killing spree"3 prisoners were hanged in a notorious jail north-west of the Iranian capital on Wednesday.The 3 men were hanged at dawn in Gohardasht (Rajai-Shahr) Prison in the city of Karaj.They had been transferred to solitary confinement earlier in the week in preparation for09
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In conjunction with the 13th World Day Against the Death Penalty, local rights groups have renewed their call for the government to abolish the death penalty, especially for drug convicts, as the penalty has failed to offer any meaningful deterrent effect.Data from the Community Legal Aid09
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Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen temporarily halted the scheduled executions of eight death row prisoners on Friday.In an order issued in the inmates' lawsuit against the Arkansas Department of Correction, Griffen wrote "that immediate and irreparable harm will result to plaintiffs
Despite a Supreme Court ruling allowing a controversial drug to be used for lethal injections in Oklahoma, death-penalty states are finding it harder to carry out executions as they struggle to obtain and properly use limited supplies of ever-changing combinations of lethal injection drugs.Prison
Gabriel HallAfter more than seven hours of deliberation, a Brazos County jury has sentenced Gabriel Hall to die by lethal injection.Hall was convicted Sept. 11 in the 2011 slaying of Edwin Shaar, who was shot and stabbed. Hall also seriously injured Shaar's wife, Linda.The jury began