A Pakistani court will tomorrow (8th Sep) decide whether the government should be allowed to execute a severely mentally ill man.At a hearing in Lahore, lawyers for Khizar Hayat – who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, and is detained in a hospital cell – will argue that his hanging would be illegal. In
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Lindsay Sandiford in her Kerobokan death row cellA British grandmother on death row in a Bali jail for drug smuggling was yesterday told that Indonesia’s new anti-narcotics chief plans to show no mercy to everyone involved with drugs.Lindsay Sandiford, 59, from Cheltenham, was sentenced
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Setting the stage for another Florida Supreme Court death-penalty debate, a Central Florida judge has rejected death row inmate Jerry Correll's arguments that 1 of the drugs in the state's execution protocol could subject the convicted killer to cruel and unusual punishment.Correll "has not06
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Richard GlossipDeath penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean delivered over 250,000 online petition signatures to Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin on Thursday morning, requesting a 60-day stay of execution for Richard Glossip.Glossip is scheduled to be executed on September 16.Glossip was found guilty in06
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San Quentin Death RowA California prison inmate who spent 26 years on death row for murder has died of natural causes, the fourth so far this year in a state that has not carried out an execution since 2006.Ronald Harold Seaton, 69, died last week at Marin general
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And break the stereotypes about migrant women.Half of the population of the world and half of Europe’s population are women, and they should therefore fully enjoy all human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.Not only on an equal footing with men, but also on equal
At a time when other states in the US are backing away from the death penalty, Missouri has done the opposite. It is currently executing its death row inmates faster than any other state in the country, at a rate of about one per month.At 21:09 local time on Tuesday evening,
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There is still a fundamental misunderstanding about what rape culture really is.Chrissie Hynde*, a well respected musician, recently promoted her new book ‘Reckless’.A quote from the book about her experience of being raped by a biker in the 1980s shows that she blamed herself for her
Amnesty International India on Tuesday urged the government to accept the findings of the Law Commission on death penalty and immediately abolish it for all crimes.In a statement, it said the Centre "must heed the findings of a Law Commission report on the unfairness of the death penalty" and02
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A male pseudonym resulted in a better response from literary agents.Author Catherine Nichols was puzzled by the muted response she’d received when sending her manuscript to literary agents, so she decided to run a test.She decided to send the same manuscript out under a male pseudonym, just01
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Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has officially asked Gov. Asa Hutchinson to set execution dates for 8 death-row inmates who have exhausted all appeals.The request Tuesday came after a 10-year hiatus on executions in the state because of legal challenges to the state's death-penalty
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.The man who admitted killing 3 people at 2 suburban Kansas City Jewish sites gave jurors a Nazi salute Monday after they convicted him of murder and other charges for the shootings, which he said would allow him to "die a martyr."It took the jury
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Henry McCollum (L) and Leon Brown (R): 3 decades of wrongful imprisonmentWhen 2 brothers were released after 3 decades of wrongful imprisonment, they struggled to adapt to an outside world neither had experienced since they were teenagers. The older
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An anesthesiologist testifying on behalf of Montana's 2 death row inmates said Wednesday that 1 of the drugs used to execute state prisoners by lethal injection does not meet the standard set by lawmakers.Dr. Mark Heath of Columbia University Medical Center testified in a trial over Montana's
The state now has 2 dozen condemned killers with firm execution dates, but with 4 months before the 1st one, it still doesn't have the lethal drugs it needs to carry them out.The state's inability to find drugs has death penalty opponents calling for the end of capital punishment in Ohio05
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With lethal injection drugs in short supply nationwide, one Texan offered Gov. Greg Abbott what he called a straight-forward, low-cost, pain-free alternative to execute murderers in Texas."After administering a strong sedative," he wrote in an email, "just drain blood until they have bled to03
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Gallows at an unidentified Pakistani prisonFor 31 years, I have been a witness to various governments' efforts to execute people in a variety of ways. The bizarre nature of this barbaric debate continued apace on Monday, as a judge in Pakistan faced the government's demand for
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Public execution in Bandar Abbas on Sept. 1, 2015The mullahs' regime in Iran on Wednesday hanged 5 prisoners collectively in the Central Prison of Karaj, north-west of Tehran.The 5 prisoners, hanged at dawn on Wednesday (September 2), were between the ages of 28
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Firm says use of drug in death penalty against its policiesAdd another drug company to the list of potential sources of Alabama's death penalty drugs - a list state officials have long tried to keep secret.Court documents filed last month in the case of death row inmate Tommy Arthur suggest NewAmnesty International India on Tuesday urged the government to accept the findings of the Law Commission on death penalty and immediately abolish it for all crimes.In a statement, it said the Centre "must heed the findings of a Law Commission report on the unfairness of the death penalty" and02
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Roderick NunleyBONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) - Missouri executed Tuesday evening Roderick Nunley for the kidnapping, rape and fatal stabbing of 15-year-old Ann Harrison in 1989.Nunley was pronounced dead at 9:09 p.m., according to the Missouri Department of Corrections.Roderick Nunley is the 20th
A defendant in a controversial death penalty case was declared innocent after his 9th appeal yesterday, exactly 20 years after his alleged crime.Hsu Tzu-chiang is 1 of 3 men sentenced to death in 2000 for the murder of a real estate businessman on Sept. 1, 1995.Activists and Hsu's lawyers01
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The family of an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) from this city who is facing death penalty in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after being convicted last May of killing her employer will finally meet with her in the next few days.Rahima Dalquez, mother of convicted OFW Jennifer, said Tuesday they5 'hardcore terrorists' were on Wednesday sentenced to death by Pakistan's recently legalised secret military courts for their involvement in sectarian killings and attack on a girls' school.Army chief General Raheel Sharif confirmed the death sentences of the 5 accused persons. 1 other terrorist06
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Nebraska Senator Ernie Chambers sponsored the death penalty repeal billIs Nebraska's death penalty repealed, or not? Events of the past week raise fundamental questions about the state's ultimate punishment.You can go online and look up the law that sets the penalty for
Leggi TuttoArkansas has nearly 3 dozen inmates sitting on its death row, but like most states, it has not carried out an execution in years. This week, state officials said again that they intend to end that hiatus.It has been a decade since Arkansas executed an inmate. But several moves made in the Leggi04
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Help improve the state response to domestic violence across the country.Sign this petition asking Theresa May for a public inquiry into police and state agency response to domestic violence.The national domestic violence charity Refuge, together with families of women killed by current and03
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Dylann S. RoofState prosecutors have said in court documents that they will seek the death penalty for Dylann S. Roof, who is charged with the racially motivated murders of nine people in a church in Charleston, S.C., The Associated Press reported Thursday.After the June 17 massacre of black03
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Superdrug demonstrates little with its research into how beauty is perceived.A research project funded by Superdrug’s Online Doctor service purporting to demonstrate how people’s perception of beauty differs from country to country has been reported in the media recently.As the focus of the
LOS ANGELES — California has agreed to an overhaul of the use of solitary confinement in its prisons, including strict limits on the prolonged isolation of inmates, as part of a landmark legal settlement filed in federal court on Tuesday.The settlement is expected to sharply reduce the number of
Abdul BasitA Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench Tuesday dismissed a petition against the execution of a disabled death row prisoner.The division bench comprising Justice Anwaarul Haq and Justice Erum Sajad Gull heard the petition, which was filed by Nusrat Parveen against the execution of her01
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Public execution in Bandar Abbas, Iran on Sept. 1, 2015One prisoner on death row allegedly charged with kidnapping, armed robbery and rape was executed in public in the city of Bandar Abbas.Iran Human Rights, Tuesday September 1 2015: One prisoner on death
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Gov. Pete Ricketts says his administration will wait until death penalty petition signatures are verified before deciding whether to proceed with executions."I think it's important to take this one step at a time," Ricketts said Tuesday. "There's a process in place here I think we need to01
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Richard GlossipOKLAHOMA CITY - Lawyers for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip will release new information in the case that they say jurors never saw. This on the same day supporters go on Dr. Phil to make an emotional plea to save his life.In an hour-long episode of Dr. Phil
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