Egypt has objected to a UN Human Rights Council resolution on prohibiting the death penalty, Egypt's permanent delegate to the UN said on Saturday.The UN Human Rights Council adopted the resolution which was submitted by Belgium on Thursday, with 26 votes in favour, 13 against and 8 abstentions.According to state news
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Kansas is one of 31 states that have the death penalty, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Since 1976 – the year the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment nationwide after striking it down four years earlier – 1,416 people have been executed nationwide.In Kansas, death is a03
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Soheil Arabi's new sentence is "medieval"Reporters Without Borders said on Friday that is appalled to learn that Soheil Arabi, an Iranian Facebook user whose death sentence was quashed by the Iranian regime’s supreme court, has been given a new sentence of seven and a half years in prison starting03
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Kimber EdwardsOn Friday, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat who has helped set a record pace of executions in the state, commuted the death sentence of a man facing execution next week.Kimber Edwards was sentenced to death for hiring a hit man to kill his ex-wife in 2000.The case relied Leggi
Public caning in Banda Aceh, IndonesiaA woman kneels and grimaces as she is lashed with a cane for having unmarried sex in an Indonesian province which is ruled under Sharia law in newly released photographs.The images show women dressed in white and sitting with their heads
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaThe King of Saudi Arabia must refuse to ratify the outrageous death sentence against juvenile offender, Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr, Amnesty International said today.The organization called on the authorities to quash Ali al-Nimr's death sentence, which followed a01
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Alfredo PrietoAttorneys for a convicted serial killer facing the death penalty in Virginia moved Wednesday to halt the 49-year-old's execution by challenging the state's use of lethal injection drugs that it obtained from Texas.The state plans to execute Alfredo Prieto on Thursday after Democratic30
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Kimber EdwardsMissourians who oppose the death penalty are asking courts and Governor Jay Nixon to consider the testimony of a confessed murderer, that the man sentenced to death for hiring him is innocent, before that man is executed for that hiring next week.Kimber Edwards is scheduled to die by30
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Peter denied Jesus 3 times. Today and over the next several days, we will deny Peter's apostolic successor 3 times. Pope Francis, during his visit last week to the United States, reiterated his and the Catholic Church's current opposition to capital punishment; yet, 3 executions are imminent.As I
A Saudi juvenile facing imminent ‘crucifixion’ has spoken of his hope for the future, despite a recent decision by the country’s courts to uphold his sentence.During a prison visit from his family on Friday, Ali Mohammed al-Nimr is said to have confirmed that he had just learned about the29
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Richard GlossipWhile the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals rejected a death row inmate's plea for a stay, his attorneys say they will not stop fighting.Richard Glossip is set to die on Wednesday, Sept.Glossip was convicted of murder for the 1997 death of motel owner Barry Van Treese, though29
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Iranian-Americans rally against Rouhani at UN, Sept 28, 2015Iran's fundamentalist regime has hanged 7 prisoners, including 6 in 1 prison alone.6 of the prisoners, including 3 brothers, were hanged on Wednesday in the central province of Yazd. All 6 were from Iran's south-eastern
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Friends and supporters protesting Richard Glossip's execution.Oklahoma's protocols called for potassium chloride to be used in the scheduled execution of death row inmate Richard Glossip, but the state received potassium acetate instead. The state's attorney general has asked a court to delay
Governor John KasichBut most shooters kill themselves.Ohio Governor John Kasich told reporters in New Hampshire on Friday that he considers the death penalty and long prison sentences a better approach than gun control when it comes to reducing the number of mass shootings.Kasich, who voted for02
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Alfredo PrietoAlfredo Prieto, convicted of 2 1988 Fairfax County murders after a DNA hit found him on California's death row, was executed by injection Thursday night at Greensville Correctional Center.Prieto was pronounced dead at 9:17 p.m. His execution came after a rush of last-minute appeals01
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Alfredo PrietoPope Francis's representatives in Washington wrote to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe Wednesday, asking him to call off the looming execution of serial killer Alfred Prieto.Prieto, 49, could be put to death as early as Thursday night, pending the outcome of a court hearing."The U.S
Three recent death penalty cases have exposed concerns about executing those convicted of planning a murder - especially when the actual killers receive a lighter punishment.On 7 February 1997, Douglas Gissendaner was kidnapped at knifepoint from his home, driven to a secluded woods and forced to01
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Soheil ArabiSoheil Arabi ordered to read 13 religious books and serve 90 days in prison after court annuls original sentenceAn Iranian man who was on death row for allegedly insulting the prophet Muhammad has had his sentence commuted to reading 13 religious books and studying theology for two30
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Richard GlossipJust after Pope Francis called for an end to the death penalty in his address to Congress, six death-row inmates are set to be put to death over the next two weeks.It's the biggest burst of executions in the U.S. in more than two years, and there are many
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Richard GlossipGov. Mary Fallin will not intervene in the case of Richard Glossip, who is scheduled for execution tomorrow afternoon."Richard Glossip has had almost 18 years of hearings, trials, appeals. He's had 3 stays on his execution. He took it all the way to the Court of Criminal Appeals,"30
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Kelly GissendanerThe U.S. state of Georgia executed its only woman on death row on Wednesday, marking the first time in 70 years the state has carried out a death sentence on a woman, a prison official said.Kelly Gissendaner, 47, died by lethal injection at 12:21 a.m. EDT at Georgia Diagnostic29
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LINCOLN — The organization that successfully collected signatures for a voter referendum on Nebraska’s death penalty raised and spent more than $900,000 on its petition drive.A group that opposes capital punishment, meanwhile, collected and spent about half as much to combat the petitionKelly GissendanerFormer Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman Fletcher, who opposes capital punishment, said in a statement he wished had he dissented 15 years ago when the court ruled Kelly Gissendaner's death sentence was proportional, even though her co-defendant was sentenced to life for03
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Texas may end 2015 without imposing a sentence of capital punishment, a milestone that parallels declining public support for capital punishment in a state that had been sending the most prisoners to the death chamber.So far this year, the state's courts have sentenced no defendant to execution
HOUSTON — An Oklahoma appellate court agreed with state officials on Friday to postpone the executions of three inmates in October and November after the scheduled execution of one of the inmates was stopped on Wednesday because of a problem with one of the lethal-injection drugs.The order by the
Oklahoma death chamberOKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt issued a request to indefinitely suspend all scheduled execution dates in the state in light of the events that unfolded in the Glossip case on Wednesday.Gov. Mary Fallin issued a 37-day stay for Richard Glossip after it01
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Juan Martin GarciaClaims of mental retardation did nothing to stop the state's next executionJuan Martin Garcia goes to the gurney on Tuesday, Oct. 6, after 5 weeks in which the state of Texas didn't execute any inmates.Garcia, 35, was arrested in Houston in Nov. 1998 after police pulled him01
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The Best Budget inn where Van Treese was bludgeoned to death by Justin SneedDeath row prisoner Richard Glossip is slated to be executed this afternoon [This article was originally published on Sept. 30, 2015. Richard Glossip was
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BREAKING:Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has issued a 37-day stay of Richard Glossip’s execution to address legal questions raised about execution protocol.Source: DPN Editor, Sept 30, 2015 (11:08 pm CEST)Oklahoma governor issues last-minute stay and halts execution of Richard30
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Dylann RoofThe accused shooter is the latest notorious defendant to be represented by David Bruck.A Washington and Lee University law professor is defending the man charged with federal hate crimes in the fatal shootings of nine people during a Bible study at a historic African-American30
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Abdul BasitA paraplegic - whose execution was stayed after he had been dressed in black, had his hands and feet tied, and was about to be lifted onto the gallows - has appealed to Pakistan's President for mercy, in a petition filed yesterday (Tuesday).Abdul Basit, who has been paralyzed fromKelly GissendanerATLANTA — Georgia is poised to execute on Tuesday the only woman on its death row, hours after the state Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected her latest plea for clemency and nearly seven months after her execution was postponed because a drug used in the lethal injection Leggi29
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The Walls Unit, Huntsville, TexasIn a move that surprised many in the prison reform community, the president of the local chapter of a Texas prison guards' union wrote a letter to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) on January 20, 2014, urging officials to introduce major
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Kimber EdwardsMissouri risks executing an innocent man next week, advocates for Kimber Edwards warned Monday, citing a key witness who says his testimony was coerced and the inmate's contention that his own confession was false.Edwards, a 51-year-old former St. Louis jailer, was convicted of