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 officials in Texas and Virginia have improvised a
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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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Charles WarnerAn autopsy shows that Oklahoma used the wrong drug when it executed an inmate in January.The Oklahoman reported Thursday that corrections officials used potassium acetate -- not potassium chloride, as required under the state's protocol -- to execute Charles Frederick Warner.Last08
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There are now more than 6000 death row prisoners in Pakistan - more than anywhere in the world - new government figures have revealed.According to the Minister of State for Interior Baleeghur Rahman, 6016 death row convicts are imprisoned in various jails across the country. He informed the Senate
Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip’s execution was stayed twice and the execution drugs contained the wrong ingredients. Analysts say that the Glossip case, no matter how it turns out, could signal the death of the death penalty. Analysis.aNewDomain — So far, luck’s been on the side of
David Cameron receives decoration from King Abdullah of Saudi ArabiaDavid Cameron has been questioned repeatedly on the UK’s close relationship with Saudi Arabia by Channel 4 News.Asked by Jon Snow whether he had interceded with
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Germany has refused to sign a pact for cooperation on criminal matters with Indian due to the death penalty provision in Indian law.Since 2007 both India and Germany has been negotiating to sign the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty in criminal matters but has not been able to reach a conclusion due07
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HELENA District Court Judge Jeffrey Sherlock ruled Tuesday that Montana’s use of the drug pentobarbital in executions doesn’t comply with laws that govern lethal injection in Montana, a move that the American Civil Liberties Union claimed stayed all Montana executions indefinitely.The decision06
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has threatened to execute those who 'spread rumours' about the government on social media, a state-run website has reported.It is the first time the Gulf nation, which has come under fire for issuing death penalties to protesters, has created a rule
NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime has hanged a prisoner in southern Iran and transferred at least nine other death-row prisoners to solitary confinement in preparation for their impending execution.Mr. Aziz Maktabi was hanged on Sunday in the prison courtyard of Adel-Abad Prison in Shiraz.In
Juan GarciaJuan Garcia is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday for fatally shooting a man during a 1998 robbery in which he stole $8.Texas is set to execute Juan Martin Garcia on October 6 for the 1998 murder of Hugo Solano during a robbery.Garcia, 35, is sentenced to
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LUCASVILLE — Death-penalty opponents have begun a walk from the Ohio prison where inmates are executed to the Statehouse as part of a capital-punishment protest.The seven-day, 83-mile walk started on Sunday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville and will end in Columbus.The08
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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 Day08
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(Source: The New Yorker)The U.S. Supreme Court began hearing arguments Wednesday questioning how the death penalty is carried out in the country.Executions are carried out unevenly in the United States, with 31 states still sanctioning the death penalty for a range of crimes, while 19 states have08
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China removes nine non-violent and rarely used criminal offenses from capital punishment.The amended Criminal Law, which will take effect on Nov. 1, removed 9 crimes punishable by death including: smuggling weapons, ammunition, nuclear materials or counterfeit currency; counterfeiting currency07
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Cell LL - the isolation cell next to Oklahoma's death chamberIs this a room or a tomb?This is Cell LL - the isolation cell next to Oklahoma's death chamber.Oklahoma's protocol of execution mandates that the condemned be removed from their companions
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NCRI - The mullahs' regime on Tuesday hanged four men in northern and southern Iran.The regime's judiciary in Qazvin Province, north-west of Tehran, said a prisoner only identified by his first name Aliyar was hanged on Tuesday.Also on Tuesday the fundamentalist regime hanged three prisoners in
The coffins of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran arebrought back to Sydney on a Quantas flight.Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has initiated a parliamentary inquiry into Australia's efforts in campaigning against the death penalty. The Joint
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Martin Garnett after his arrest in Thailand in 1993AFTER spending more than 20 years in some of the world’s most notorious prisons, the drug smuggler who holds the Australian record for the longest overseas incarceration is a free
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"Criticism of blasphemy law does not amount to blasphemy"Justice Khosa says press clippings presented in court do not provide sufficient evidence to maintain that former governor had committed blasphemyJustice Asif Saeed Khosa of the Supreme Court of Pakistan said on Monday that criticism Leggi06
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October 3, 2015: A triple murder convict named Muhammad Akram was executed in the Sahiwal Central Jail.He had killed his wife, brother-in-law and sister-in-law over a domestic feud in 2002. Two death row convicts were hanged in the Central Jail of Faisalabad on October 1, 2015.Shoukat and Ikhlaq05
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'Gay' man is blindfolded and thrown off a building in NinevahExecutions were carried out in two Iraqi cities over the weekendIslamic State (ISIS) militants executed four more gay men in Iraq over the weekend.Two young men were thrown off the roof
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Oklahoma death chamberA little after 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oklahoma Department of Corrections staff told Richard Glossip he was about to enter the Oklahoma State Penitentiary's death chamber area to await his death by lethal injection.Glossip, who had already given the state his possessions and the
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 began08
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Sultan Qaboos Bin SaeedAmendment has harsher penalties for peddlers and smugglers, including the death penaltyAmid Omani efforts to curb a growing drug menace in the country that affects mostly the youth, Sultan Qaboos Bin Saeed has approved amendments to the Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic08
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European Parliament, Strasbourg, FranceThe European Parliament has today called on the EU to ensure that it is not using taxpayers’ money to fund the execution of alleged drug offenders overseas.In a resolution passed today by 569 to 38, MEPs called on both the European Commission and member07
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October 6, 2015: Sri Lanka will not implement the death penalty temporarily as the country has decided to vote in favor of a UN resolution for moratorium on death penalty in 2015, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapaksha said in parliament. The Minister noted that Sri Lanka had voted in favor of
Jerry CorrellTALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday approved the execution of Jerry Correll in late October, the first inmate in the state to be put to death in nine months and first since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for Florida to continue its lethal injections.Correll’s
A drug-trafficking couple are facing the death penalty after they were caught with RM15,000 worth of cannabis shortly after checking into a hotel with their 2 children.District police chief ACP Roslan Bek Ahmad said police conducted a raid at a hotel in Jalan Simpang Tiga around 2pm on Monday06
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Juan Martin GarciaTexas death row inmate Juan Martin Garcia, 35, was put to death tonight in Huntsville, Texas for the 1998 killing of a man in an $8 robbery in Houston.Garcia was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m.Garcia was convicted of capital murder for the September 1998 killing and robbery
Public execution in Saudi ArabiaA second juvenile is facing beheading in Saudi Arabia after a court upheld his conviction for a role in protests, days after the case of juvenile Ali al-Nimr sparked a global outcry.Dawoud al-Marhoon was 17 when he was arrested without a warrant by
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Protesting Kelly Gissendaner's execution, Sept. 30, 2015Pope Francis had some mojo going. Adoring crowds thronged the streets during his recent visit. It was in the wake of that communal enthusiasm that the pontiff forwarded a plea to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles: don't
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The Afghan Government - recently celebrating its 1st year in office - has announced an ambitious reform program in the judicial sector. This was confirmed at the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) on September 5 in Kabul. The government has committed to develop and implement a Justice Sector Reform
Gathering signatures against the Nebraska death penalty repealIncorrectly redirected death penalty petitions are delaying the signature verification process, the Nebraska Secretary of State's Office said Friday night.An "unusually high number of petitions" were returned to the Secretary of State's