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Judge rejects claim from 33 death row inmates and says they did not prove the one-drug method led to a painful and lingering deathA judge in Tennessee has upheld the state’s lethal injection process for executing inmates, hours after a federal judge in Mississippi said that state’s process may break the law.
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In Northern Ireland? Have your say on childcare. Junior Ministers Michelle McIlveen and Jennifer McCann have launched a consultation on the Northern Ireland Executive’s draft Childcare Strategy.It is to be a ten-year strategy which aims to develop and deliver affordable, high quality and27
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Challenging the myth that it is older people hoarding all their wealth.There has been growing concern in recent UK political debate about the economic outlook and lifetime prospects of younger generations.Particular attention has focused on:unprecedented levels of graduate debt following26
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James Holmes sentenced to life in prisonwithout parole plus 3,318 yearsThe gunman who shot and killed 12 people inside a packed Aurora, Colo., movie theater in 2012 was formally sentenced Wednesday morning to life in prison without parole.In July,
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Gay man thrown off building top by ISIS in Iraq in June 2015US ambassador tells security council meeting it is "about time" the issue of violence and discrimination towards LGBT people is highlightedIslamic State has claimed responsibility for
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Dylann StormThe federal government's decision about whether authorities should seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing 9 African-Americans in Charleston is still likely months away, South Carolina U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles said in a recent interview with Free Times.The federal26
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We need all the changes the Istanbul Convention provides.On 7 September 2015 ICchange will be sending Home Secretary Theresa May a motivational mix-tape to tell her #ICchangeYourTune – and give her Motivation for Legislation.ICchange is calling on the UK government to do the final bits of25
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Campaign for an urgent review of the Criminal Courts Charge launched.A teenager who stole sweets and ice cream worth £5, a woman found begging in a car park and a man who kicked a flower pot after he had been stabbed are among thousands of people who have been ordered to pay a controversial new
Walfrida SoikAn Indonesian migrant working in Malaysia, Walfrida Soik from East Nusa Tenggara, has narrowly avoided the death sentence.The Kota Bharu High Court in Malaysia ruled on Tuesday to acquit Walfrida of murder charges, sparing her from the death penalty, because she suffers from a mental25
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Mass trials on terrorism charges are rare in the UAE which has largely been spared the Islamic militancy that has hit other Arab statesA rare mass trial of 41 radical Islamists accused of seeking to overthrow the government and links with "terrorists" opened on Monday in the United Arab Emirates
Chinese state media say China is planning harsher penalties for men who have sex with girls under 14, following public outrage over high-profile offenders including teachers.Under the new law, all such cases would be considered rape because another criminal charge that served as a loophole for24
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Cameron Todd Willingham lying in his cell in 1994It's been more than a decade since Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for the arson deaths of his 3 young daughters in Corsicana.Willingham went to his execution declaring his innocence, and in the years since
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But can a new coach build a squad to challenge – beat – Australia?England’s Roses beat Jamaica for the second time in the tournament to finish a fantastic third in the 2015 Netball World Cup.England coach Tracey Neville’s side did well throughout the tournament losing only to the eventual27
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The 2015 report is ‘a radical accusation against patriarchy’.By Lyda VerstegenEvery year the Human Rights Council spends a day discussing the elimination of discrimination against women, informed by the latest report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and26
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Behrouz Alkhani, a 30 year old political prisoner in Iran, was executed on Tuesday despite international calls for a stay in execution and retrial, following an allegedly unfair trail. The execution came even as Alkhani awaited a Supreme Court appeal.Alkhani, who is of Kurdish descent, was first
Public execution in Saudi ArabiaFour people have been executed in Saudi Arabia, just one day after an international report condemned the country's frequent use of the death penalty.This brings the number of judicial killings so far this year to 130, compared to a total of 83
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San Quentin Death RowThe lawyer for a death row inmate failed to demonstrate that systematic delays in the resolution of capital cases result in an arbitrary process that violates the Eighth Amendment, the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled yesterday.The court, which has rejected such
Bernardo TerceroHUNTSVILLE (August 25, 2015) The Texas Count of Criminal Appeals Tuesday stopped the scheduled execution of a Nicaraguan man convicted of killing a Houston high school teacher during a robbery more than 18 years ago.Bernardo Tercero, 39, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection25
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Gathering pro-DP signatures in Nebraska, USACome November 2016, Nebraskans may be able to vote for the death penalty if the group Nebraskans for the Death Penalty gather enough signatures before the Thursday deadline. The petition is in hopes to get the issue back in the hands
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia remains one of the most prolific executioners in the world. Between January 1985 (the earliest year from when information on executions is available) and June 2015, it executed at least 2,200 people, almost half of whom were foreign nationals.Over24
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Campaign for an urgent review of the Criminal Courts Charge launched.A teenager who stole sweets and ice cream worth £5, a woman found begging in a car park and a man who kicked a flower pot after he had been stabbed are among thousands of people who have been ordered to pay a controversial new
The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) has said that there are currently 129 Indonesian nationals facing the death penalty for their role in drug smuggling."The majority of them are migrant workers who were tricked into becoming couriers by international drug syndicates and most of them are women,"24
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Bernardo Aban TerceroTercero's execution would be 12th in Texas this yearOn March 31, 1997, Robert Berger and his 3-year-old daughter walked into the Park Avenue Cleaners in Houston at the same exact time Bernardo Aban Tercero and an accomplice were trying to pull off a robbery. His interruption28
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The USA’s Food and Drug Administration has approved Addyi, the so-called ‘Female Viagra’.Anyone who has watched Liz Canner’s excellent documentary Orgasm, Inc. will know that the pursuit of an equivalent to the multi-billion dollar Viagra industry for women has long been the holy grail of
Gathering signatures against the death penalty repeal in NebraskaIt appears voters in Nebraska will have the final say on the future of the death penalty.Supporters of the death penalty in Nebraska said they turned over 166,692 petition signatures Wednesday, which if verified, would
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Richard GlossipAnti death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean, award winning actress Susan Sarandon, legal team member Don Knight and Illinois exoneree Nathan "Nate" Fields will appear on The Dr. Phil Show to advocate for the life of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip.Recently receiving a26
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D. TsarnaevKevan Fagan, 'Juror 83' in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, says he probably would not have voted for the death penalty had he been aware that the families of some victims wanted a life sentence.On Monday, the same day a federal judge ruled to keep the
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New report has several recommendations for the government and employers.The publication of a report ‘Older Women and Work – Looking to the Future’ from the Scottish Commission on Older Women, brings to the fore the experiences of older women seeking to remain in, or re-enter, the labour25
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Junto al nicaragüense Bernardo Tercero, cuya ejecución está programada para el miércoles de esta semana, hay otros 21 extranjeros en el corredor de la muerte en Texas, en su mayoría mexicanos y centroamericanos, aunque también los hay de Sudamérica, Asia y el Caribe.Si nada lo impide, al25
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The latest Alabama inmate seeking freedom from death row maintains the state is wrongly ignoring his claims of innocence while his health fails behind bars, one of his attorneys said Monday.Legal arguments filed by Donnis Musgrove contend the state is arguing about technicalities rather than
Masoud BarzaniA Kurdish man and his 2 wives, convicted of abducting and murdering 2 schoolgirls, were hanged last week, the 1st judicial executions in the Kurdistan Region since a death penalty moratorium in 2008.The hangings were announced by District Judge Abdulrahman Zebari, who had issued the24
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Public hanging in Iran (file photo)2 prisoners charged with murder were hanged to death in Rasht's Lakan Prison, one prisoner was hanged in Ardebil Central Prison on a drug related charge.2 prisoners charged with murder (identified as M.M., 37 years old, and A.M., 33 years old) were
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Abdul BasitThe Pakistani authorities will this week petition courts in the country for permission to hang one man who is paralysed from the waist down, and another who is so mentally ill that he is held in a hospital cell.At a hearing tomorrow (25th) in the Lahore High Court, the
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The Walls Unit, Huntsville, TexasShould a person's skin color help determine whether or not they get the death penalty? A doctor at Duane Buck's sentencing hearing told the Harris County jury that Buck's race was a factor that made him more likely to commit violent crimes in
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