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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 to follow."Death penalty supporters last week
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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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Mobilising for peace and freedom: from aspiration to lasting change.By Madeleine ReesThe 2015 WILPF manifesto outlined how those who choose peace over conflict must act, and recognises that negotiations on a treaty making transnational corporations accountable for violation of human rights is01
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New lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison, CACalifornia on Monday asked a federal appeals panel to overturn a 2014 court ruling that — unless it is reversed — could bring a reprieve to the more than 740 inmates on death
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi authorities executed a Pakistani man on Sunday for attempting to smuggle drugs into the ultra-conservative kingdom, the interior ministry said.Up to 129 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia so far this year, including the latest execution, compared31
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Michael Taylor (left), Roderick Nunley (right)The Missouri Supreme Court has denied the latest legal challenges from a man scheduled to be executed Tuesday for raping and killing a 15-year-old Kansas City girl in 1989.The judges ruled Friday to overrule a motion that sought a stay of execution for30
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Death Row Unit, Holman Prison in Atmore, AlabamaBIRMINGHAM | Disease and suicide are claiming inmates on Alabama’s death row faster than the executioner.With Alabama’s capital punishment mechanism on hold for more than two years because of legal challenges and a shortage of drugs for
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Gathering signatures against the repealSupporters of retaining the death penalty in Nebraska turned in thousands more signatures than necessary on Wednesday to suspend the repeal and place the issue before voters.Nebraskans for the Death Penalty turned in petitions containing 166,692 signatures30
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Abdul BasitA court hearing in Pakistan tomorrow (31st) could decide whether the government should be allowed to execute a severely disabled man.Abdul Basit, 43, was convicted and sentenced to death for murder in 2009. In 2010, he contracted tubercular meningitis in prison, which left him paralyzed28
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Radical London preacher Anjem ChoudaryRadical London preacher Anjem Choudary, who previously called for gay people to be stoned to death, is set to face trial on terror charges after allegedly encouraging support for ISIS.The 47-year-old is the former UK head of the Islamist group al-Muhajiroun orAn organization campaigning to reinstate Nebraska's death penalty after lawmakers repealed it in May said Wednesday it has collected more than enough signatures to suspend the law before it goes into effect and place it before voters in 2016.Nebraskans for the Death Penalty, which was heavily28
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Chad has sentenced 10 members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to death on terror charges, after a 3-day trial in the capital N'Djamena.The 10 were convicted over their roles in twin attacks on the capital in June, which killed at least 38.The attacks were the 1st by the Nigerian-based01
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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 they01
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An online conversation with some of the leading voices in women’s financial inclusion.This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the most progressive blueprint ever for advancing women’s rights.Together01
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The Dutch public employees' pension fund, the world's third largest, has sold all its shares in pharmaceuticals maker Mylan after it emerged that one of the company's products is in stock at a U.S. prison where death sentences are carried out.The move comes amid increasing pressure from European31
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)The inhuman mullahs’ regime in Iran hanged 16 prisoners in various cities on August 26, 27 and 29.On August 26, in addition to the criminal execution of political prisoner Mr. Behrouz Alkhani in Urumia Prison, twelve other prisoners were collectively hanged31
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Indonesia's struggling economy could be one reason why there has been little word of the country's next round of executions, according to the lead lawyer for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.Australians Chan and Sukumaran, the ringleaders of the so-called Bali Nine, were among several foreigners
Chad executed by firing squad 10 members of Boko Haram on Saturday, the security minister said, marking the 1st use of the death penalty since the country bolstered its anti-terror measures last month.The 10 men were sentenced to death on Friday after being convicted of crimes including murder and
James E. Holmes (left), Dexter Lewis (right)For the 2nd time this summer, a first-rate team of Colorado prosecutors could not secure a death sentence for the perpetrator of crimes of almost indescribable horror.Dexter Lewis, like James Holmes, will spend the rest of his life behind
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Virginia prison officials have relaxed the restrictive conditions under which death row inmates live and are in talks to settle a lawsuit over those prisoners’ near constant placement in solitary confinement — a signal that state authorities are willing to at least modify the incarceration practice
The scheduled execution date for Joe Franco Garza has been withdrawn.Garza was scheduled for execution on September 2. He was found guilty of the 1998 murder of Silbiano Rangel and sentenced to death.There is an agreed order that said his execution would be stayed while more DNA testing is28
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Richard GlossipThe Supreme Court refused Friday to reconsider the death-row appeals of 3 Oklahoma prisoners whose pending executions by lethal injection were upheld by the justices in June.Without comment, the court denied a petition filed by the prisoners' lawyers that would have turned the case28
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India's Supreme CourtThe Law Commission is set to recommend abolition of death penalty in India except for terror convicts, media reports said on Friday, a move rights activists say is long overdue in the country.India is one of 59 countries in the world where capital punishment is still awarded01
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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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Missouri Death ChamberDefense lawyers call it a crisis; the state says it's just doing its job.Since Texas carried out the country's 1st lethal injection in 1982, the state has performed far more executions than any other state. To date, 528 men and women have been put to death in
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Benjamin ColeBenjamin Robert Cole did not respond to most questions, as attorneys argues his mental state has deteriorated while imprisoned for 2002 murder of daughterAn Oklahoma man scheduled to die for killing his 9-month-old daughter mumbled about religion Friday during a hearing about his31
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Abdul BasitJail authorities in Lahore have been given 24 hours to explain how they will physically hang a disabled prisoner.At a hearing at the Lahore High Court today, lawyers for Abdul Basit, 43, argued that his execution would constitute cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, prohibited under30
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China's top legislature on Saturday adopted amendments to the Criminal Law, removing the death penalty for nine crimes, and ruling out commutation for most corrupt figures.The 9 crimes punishable by death include smuggling weapons, ammunition, nuclear materials or counterfeit currency
Victor SaldanoWhen Lidia Guerrero met with Pope Francis in Rome last year, the Argentine native told her he knew all about Guerrero's son, who has been on death row in Texas for 19 years."I've prayed so much for that young man from Cordoba,' she says Francis told her, referring to
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Two recent high-profile cases have once again highlighted America's complex relationship with the death penalty. In Colorado, a jury declined to impose the death penalty on theater shooter James Holmes. And in Connecticut, whose legislature had recently abolished capital punishment prospectively30
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San Quentin's brand new death chamber was constructed in2010 with inmate labor and at the staggering cost of $853,000.Whether California’s application of the death penalty is so drawn out and arbitrary that it amounts
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An Egyptian court sentenced to death 12 members of the Islamic State group Thursday for planning attacks against police and soldiers in the country, a judicial official said.6 of those who were on trial are behind bars, while the rest are still at large, the official said.They were convicted of28
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Firing squad execution of alleged spy by Hamas militants in Gaza CityEuropean Union missions based in Jerusalem and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank condemned Friday a death sentence issued in the Gaza Strip earlier this week.The sentence was the
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James Holmes (L) and Dexter Lewis (R) sentenced to life in prisonDENVER - Two Colorado juries have rejected the death penalty for mass murderers in a single month. Add to that the governor's controversial decision to grant clemency to the
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