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Onlookers, including children, watch a public execution in IranIran's fundamentalist regime hanged 10 prisoners, including at least 2 Afghan citizens, on Monday in the south of the country.6 prisoners were hanged on Monday in Bandar Abbas Prison, southern Iran. They were identified as Siamak Fadaii, 24; Zaher Amroddin, 24 (an Afghan citizen); Vazirahmad
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Death row inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary who claimed in a federal lawsuit that triple-digit temperatures inside their cells at Angola amounts to cruel and unusual punishment have been denied a rehearing of their case.The decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals not to re-examine17
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi signed a new anti-terrorism law Sunday that calls for the death penalty and life sentences for some offenses while also threatening hefty fines for "false reporting" on terror attacks.Sissi promised in June to strengthen Egypt's anti-terror laws after a
The machinery of execution and torture in clerical regime is running non-stop and claims victims from people of different cities. In addition to the brutal execution of Sirvan Najavi, the Kurdish political prisoner who was hanged on August 9 by the regime's henchmen in Tabriz, the streets and lanes14
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Steven Hayes (Left) and Joshua KomisarjevskyIt was a crime of epic cruelty, and the culprits were sentenced to pay the ultimate price.But a decision by Connecticut's highest court means the 2 men who carried out
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3 prisoners were hanged in the Rajaishahr prison of Karaj (West of Tehran) Wednesday morning August 12, reported the government daily newspaper "Iran".The prisoners, who were not identified by name, were charged with manufacturing homemade synthetic narcotic drugs in southern part of Tehran.They
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The Makassar District Court sentenced on Monday a drug dealer, Amiruddin alias Aco, 37, to death for possessing 921 grams of crystal methamphetamine and 4,208 ecstasy pills.Presiding judge Ibrahim Palino said the court found no mitigating factors in the case of the defendant, who had earlier been12
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Daniel Lee LopezTexas executed Wednesday Daniel Lopez, a 27-year-old man convicted of killing veteran police officer Stuart Alexander in 2009.He was pronounced dead at 6:31 pm, fifteen minutes after he was injected in both arms.His final words were an apology to the victim's family and the12
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James E. HolmesAs the judge sentenced James Holmes to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his act of homicidal madness in a Colorado theater, relatives of the twelve people he killed wept, or sucked in their breaths in disbelief and disappointment. According to the A.P.’s account
Kelly GissendanerKelly Gissendaner, convicted in the murder of her husband in Gwinnett, was to die March 2, but 'cloudy' lethal drug forced postponement.A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Georgia death row inmate Kelly Gissendaner, who claimed she was subjected to cruel11
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A military court in Gaza sentenced a Palestinian to death by hanging Thursday, for alledgedly collaborating with the Israeli enemy, said a source close to the court.The accused, identified only by his initials AS, "was sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of collaborating with the
A federal judge ordered heat indexes on death row at the Angola prisonnot top 88 degrees (31° C) from April through October.State corrections officials complained last fall to a
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Amid the debate over death penalty against the backdrop of last month's execution of Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon, former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan today said he favoured its continuance.Balakrishnan, who attended the convocation ceremony at Sumandeep Vidyapith here, told
Public execution in Karaj, Iran, in July 2015The nuclear deal between Iran, the United States and other major world players has garnered significant praise and fanfare. The agreement has been hailed as a victory for peace and a turning point for Iran. Some have
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A sweeping decision this week by the Connecticut Supreme Court that found the death penalty no longer meets society's evolving standards of decency could be influential across a nation that is increasingly questioning the practice, legal experts said.Thursday's ruling found capital punishment
Three years after Connecticut abolished the death penalty for any future crimes, the state's highest court on Thursday spared the lives of all 11 men who were already on death row when the law took effect, saying it would be unconstitutional to execute them.The ruling comes in an appeal from13
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The trial of a Dublin teenager held in an Egyptian prison for almost 2 years has been adjourned until 4 October.Ibrahim Halawa, the son of the most senior Muslim cleric in the Republic of Ireland, was arrested during a siege on the Al-Fath mosque in Cairo in 2013.The mass trial of Mr Halawa13
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Kim Jong-unNorth Korea's vice premier was executed by firing squad this year after showing discontent with the policies of the country's leader Kim Jong Un, a South Korean media report said on Wednesday.Yonhap News Agency cited an unnamed source as saying that the 63-year-old Choe Yong Gon, a12
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Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court is again reviewing the case of jailed blogger Raif Badawi, raising the possibility that his draconian sentence may be reduced, his family has told The Independent.Mr Badawi’s wife Ensaf Haidar said she had been informed of the development by a senior source in the12
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79 countries where homosexuality is illegalTen nations with large Muslim populations have laws providing for the death penalty for same-sex activity. How many actually impose the death sentence is a difficult question.According to the 2015 State-Sponsored Homophobia reportfrom ILGA, the
Both death row inmates claim murder was not intentional.Although Clifton Williams narrowly avoided execution July 16, 2 Texans are scheduled for the gurney next week. Both inmates maintain that they didn't mean for the individuals they killed to die, though their opinions about their pending fates
Supermax prison in Florence, ColoradoOpened in 1994, the Colorado supermax prison is the toughest and most controversial correctional facility in the U.S. federal system.It is dubbed the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," and has housed some of the nation's most notorious prisoners, including Timothy10
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The Iranian regime's henchmen on Sunday hanged a Kurdish political prisoner in the central prison of the city of Tabriz, northwest Iran, without informing his family.Sirvan Nezhavi, was arrested on July 5, 2011 in the city of Karaj and was charged with 'Moharebeh' (waging war on God) for17
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The military appellate court sentenced an Army sergeant to the death penalty Monday for killing 5 fellow soldiers in a shooting rampage at a border outpost last year.The ruling by the High Court for Armed Forces confirmed the capital punishment on the 23-year-old conscript, surnamed Lim, delivered
The court-appointed legal team representing deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi filed an appeal on Saturday at the country's highest court challenging sentences of life imprisonment and death handed down in June, Mursi's lawyer said.The Cairo criminal court sentenced Mursi to death over a15
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Children helped pelt two men with stones, as the Islamic Stateexecuted them for homosexuality. Homs, Syria, August 2015A number of children helped pelt two men with stones, as the terrorist group known as
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Arkansas has bought drugs it plans to use for lethal injections, officials said on Wednesday, as it looks to end a decade-long hiatus on executions that is the longest of any Southern U.S. state.Arkansas law allows information on the drugs used in executions and the13
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaAn amount of SR10 million in donations has been raised to try and convince the family of a murder victim to pardon the death sentence handed down to the murderer in 2011, Makkah daily reported.The money was raised by Islah Charitable Committee, which
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Just months after national youth broadcaster triple j was scrutinised for conducting a poll which asked whether Australians convicted of drug smuggling in countries that carry capital punishment should face their penalties, it has been revealed that the poll in question did influence the execution12
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Tracy Beatty(TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH) - A Smith County man who killed his 62-year-old mother, buried her in the backyard and used her credit cards and drained her bank accounts was set to be executed Thursday, but received a stay of execution Tuesday afternoon.Tracy Beatty, 54, was convicted of
Richard GlossipOklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said Tuesday she has no plans to delay next month's scheduled execution of a man condemned for his role in a 1997 killing, despite concerns by death penalty opponents that he is innocent.Fallin said in a statement that she is convinced Richard Eugene11
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San Quentin's brand new death chamberOn Aug. 31, the death penalty will go on trial at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The oral argument stems from a judgment in 2014, in which Federal District Judge Cormac Carney ruled that California's death penalty system was
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Sir Richard BransonHigh profile public figures including Sir Richard Branson and Lord Macdonald QC, the former director of public prosecutions, have called for an urgent inquiry into the UK’s role in anti-narcotics operations that could help fund executions in countries such as Pakistan.In a10
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A FORMER Indonesian judge and leading legal figure has revealed his behind-the-scenes battle to stop the executions of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan and others and how he twice managed to have the firing squads postponed.Professor Jimly Asshiddiqie, who is in Melbourne to deliver a lecture on