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Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted qualified immunity to Lowell Thomas Johnson and Raymond Rawson, the 2 bite mark specialists whose testimony helped convict Robert Lee Stinson of raping and murdering an elderly Wisconsin woman in 1984. Stinson spent 23 years in prison before DNA testing exonerated
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Anna Arceneaux and Montez SpradleyMontez Spradley is finally free. He walked out of prison late last week, after spending more than 9 years behind bars - including 3 1/2 years on Alabama's death row - for a murder he did not commit.I began representing Montez seven years
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Women with intersecting needs struggle to find a place of safety.Access to safe accommodation forms a crucial part of the decision process for women managing gender-based violence.And gender-based violence is a key cause of homelessness.Around 13 per cent of all homeless acceptances are
Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterTOKYO —Japanese people may not be as enthusiastic about death-row inmates being sent to the gallows as previously believed.A recent study by researchers shows public support for the death penalty in Japan is not deeply entrenched despite a government survey09
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Does the change of priorities of the Attorney General Office mean those on death row will be spared?Indonesia hasn't changed its mind on the death penalty - but it did say it's no longer a priority.Attorney General HM Prasetyo on Tuesday, September 8 said it has changed its priorities to focus
The Restoring Proper Justice Act has caused controversy regarding the application of the death penalty.After 9 years without a death penalty execution, North Carolina legislators have worked to lift an effective death penalty moratorium in the state.The Restoring Proper Justice Act - which09
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Richard Glossip and Sister Helen PrejeanIn just over a week’s time, the State of Oklahoma plans to execute Richard Glossip, a man who was convicted 17 years ago for allegedly hiring another man to kill his employer. Following incriminating testimony from the man who actually
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A bill ‘seeking to undermine the rights of all working people’.Liberty, the British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and Amnesty International UK have published a joint statementcondemning proposals in the government’s forthcoming Trade Union Bill.The statement says:The government’s plans08
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Iranian authorities hanged 11 prisoners charged with drug offences early Monday morning, according to the Iran Human Rights (IHR) sources in Ghezelhesar prison of Karaj (west of Tehran).One of those executed was a school teacher identified as Mahmood Barati who was sentenced to death on false08
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James E. Holmes (L), Dexter Lewis (R)In the past 12 months, two separate polls have indicated that most Coloradans support the death penalty.In September of last year, a Denver Post poll found 63 % of respondents support the death penalty, with 28 % opposed (the
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Gathering signatures against the Nebraska death penalty repealWhen the Nebraska Legislature abolished the death penalty three months ago, opponents of capital punishment hailed the vote as a sign that red-state conservative lawmakers increasingly view the punishment as expensive, inefficient and07
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It is currently ‘more vital than ever to celebrate the power of collective action and fearless campaigning’.The nominees for the Liberty Human Rights Awards include ground-breaking activists, fearless young campaigners, lawyers and artists who have been at the forefront of the fight for human11
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Public hanging in Iran (file photo)2 prisoners sentenced to death for drug related charges were executed in the province of Hormozgan, southern Iran.2 prisoners sentenced to death for drug related charges were executed at Bandar Abbas Central Prison on the morning of Tuesday September 8, say10
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Gallows at an unidentified Pakistani prisonSeptember 9, 2015: Four death row convicts were sent to the gallows in different jails of Punjab early in the morning.Two real brothers, Muhabat Ali and Muhammad Bashir, were executed in the District Jail Vehari for killing of two real brothers
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Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) set the execution dates for eight death row inmates after more than a decade-long dearth of lethal injections.Hutchinson was urged to set the dates by Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, who informed the governor two weeks ago that the state of Arkansas had procured the
For years, Pakistan did not put prisoners to death. Then a Taliban attack butchered 150 people, most of them children, and the country resumed carrying out the death penalty and quickly turned into one of the world's most avid executioners.But instead of killing militants, the campaign is largely09
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At 18 young people have to return to a country they may not know or that is dangerous.Britain will resettle up to 20,000 refugees who have fled from the conflict in Syria, the Prime Minister David Cameron has just announced.A pathetically small number in the first place, and to be spread over08
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Richard Glossip with Sister Helen PrejeanURGE PAROLE BOARD TO RECONSIDER CLEMENCYRichard Glossip is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on 16 September. The case against him is circumstantial and he maintains his innocence. The parole board voted against clemency in 2014. It should reconsider08
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The Aquino administration has not allotted even a single centavo for legal assistance for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in distress in 2016, a party-list lawmaker claimed on Monday.Citing budget documents, Kabataan party-list Rep. Terry Ridon noted the "conspicuous absence" of any particular08
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Barely days after Malawi Presdient Peter Mutharika said he will call for a referendum on whether to legalize same sex marriage, the government says it also wants to conduct a referendum on whether to abolish the death penalty in the penal code or not.According to the country's Attorney General08
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It's largely due to the anxiety among people to know more about an incident full of bizarre developments - like the Sheena Bora murder case - which gets the eye balls. It is natural for a human being to yearn for being the first to know. Though the emphasis given by media
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On this date in 1292, Johann de Wettre, "a maker of small knives," was condemned to die at Ghent for sodomy.De Wettre was consequently (whether on September 8 or subsequently) "burned at the pillory next to St. Peter's" in what appears to be the earliest documented
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The UK’s most vulnerable 16 and 17 year-olds face grave danger and harm.Last year more than 70,000 16 and 17 year-olds were classed as children in need, and of those teenagers, around 25,000 were in need because of abuse and neglect they experienced at home.A further 1,350 children aged 16
The constitutionality of Gov. Tom Wolf's death-penalty moratorium is the focus of a hearing before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams challenged the moratorium only days after Wolf announced it in February.Lawyers will make oral arguments Thursday in10
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Without a right to live, a right to die will soon become a duty.By Liz Carr.“If you’re demented, you’re wasting people’s lives – your family’s lives – and you’re wasting the resources of the NHS.”This was the view expressed by Baroness Warnock a few years ago on the subject of09
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How the male is trained to admire aggression, and how society accepts “male expendability”.One day, at a beach, Kathleen Barry witnessed an accidental death.Seeing how empathy drew together the bystanders – strangers until that moment – in shared human consciousness, she asked: ‘Why do we09
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As national execution numbers drop to historic lows and a growing number of states halt executions or repeal the death penalty altogether, Missouri has recently increased the number of executions it is carrying out and overtaken Texas for the highest per-capita execution rate.Missouri and Texas
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.Jurors recommended a death sentence Tuesday for the white supremacist who fatally shot three people at Jewish sites in Kansas last year.The jury convicted 74-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller Jr last week of capital murder for the April 2014 shootings. The judge overseeing the08
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‘Nearly 4,000 alleged physical sexual assaults and more than 600 rapes’.More than 5,500 alleged sex crimes in UK schools were reported to police in the last three years, according to the BBC.Freedom of Information (FOI) requests the BBC sent to all UK police forces showed there were nearly
A 34-year-old Kenyan woman escaped the gallows when the Court of Appeal overturned her conviction and death sentence for trafficking 3,747.63 grammes of syabu and sentenced her to 20 years' jail instead on a lesser charge of possession.Justice Dato' Hj Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Vernon Ong Lam Kiat and08
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Jakarta. The Indonesian government is reportedly "still evaluating and observing the situation" before it decides on a date for the third round of executions of death-row inmates this year, Attorney General H.M. Prasetyo said on Tuesday.In April, Tony Spontana, a spokesman for the Attorney08
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Richard GlossipA convicted killer will be put to death next week in McAlester, unless his attorney finds new evidence in the 18-year-old murder case that could convince a judge to stop it.Richard Glossip is on death row for the 1997 murder of an Oklahoma City motel manager."Once I got going07
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D. TsarnaevJudy Clarke excelled at saving the lives of notorious killers. Then she took the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.Clarke may be the best death-penalty lawyer in America. Her efforts helped spare the lives of Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Zacarias Moussaoui (the so-called “twentieth hijacker”
Federal police have put more than one person at risk of the death penalty every day for the past five years by co-operating with police forces in countries, mainly in Asia, that execute offenders.The vast majority of the 1847 people whose names were provided to foreign police forces were Leggi