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This week, the Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously ruled that death row inmate Jeffrey Havard can proceed with an evidentiary hearing to challenge his murder conviction. Havard was convicted in 2002 of killing his girlfriend's 6-month-old daughter. Havard claims the girl slipped from his arms as he was giving her a bath and
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Shujaa GrahamShujaa Graham, 64, will discuss his journey from death row to freedom on Wednesday, April 8, 7 p.m., at Chestnut Hill College's Third Annual Forgiveness Day, sponsored by the college's Institute of Forgiveness and Reconciliation.Since 1973, 151 people in 26 states have been exonerated
Public spending to investigate and prosecute Colorado theater shooting defendant James Holmes has surpassed $2.2 million, weeks before opening statements in his trial, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.That figure does not include how much it has cost to defend Holmes, who is
A. Chan and M. Sukumaran: "The worst in the worst is expecting the worst."A Jakarta court is due to decide whether it will allow Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan to challenge the decision to deny them clemency.The unusual appeal in the state administrative court is likely the pair's04
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Medieval and barbaric: a Burmese woman, Laila Bint Muttalib Basim,was beheaded in the holy city of Mecca in January 2015. More here.Migrants and impoverished Saudis are overwhelmingly the victims of executions, which have risen dramatically since 2013Saudi Arabia is on course to execute record03
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For the second time in three years, lawmakers in the state Senate narrowly voted to repeal the death penalty, setting up a fight in the House, where police groups and the chamber's top Democrat will oppose the effort.The Senate voted 11-9 on Thursday in favor of repeal after about an hour of02
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Public execution in IranThe latest report on the death penalty by Amnesty International indicates that 607 recorded executions have been carried out in 22 countries around the world in 2014, a reduction of almost 22 % compared to the previous year.The reported executions were carried out in Iran02
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In a single year, it executed more people than the rest of the world combined.But exactly how many death row prisoners have been killed in China remains top secret.Amnesty International estimates at least 1000 people were executed by the Asian powerhouse in 2014 alone.In its Death Penalty 2014
Kerobokan prison, on Bali island, IndonesiaLocal media report on Thursday in Jakarta, said another Nigerian, Simon Ezeaputa, has been sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug trafficking.It said the district court in Tangerang, near Jakarta, on Wednesday found Ezeaputa guilty of controlling a drug02
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‘New scoring system now deliberately makes it harder for women to qualify for support group than for men.’The Femicide Census posted recently does not include details of the victims of abuse who kill themselves.So, just as Karen Ingala Smith took on naming women killed by their partners or02
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An Asian man convicted of murdering his aunt and her husband in Abu Dhabi was saved from execution after the victims’ relatives accepted diya (blood money) and pardoned him, a newspaper reported on Thursday.The defendant was sentenced to death by a court of first instance after he was found guilty01
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MPs repeat their call for a full independent review of benefit sanctions.A full independent review should be established in the new Parliament, to investigate whether benefit sanctions are being applied appropriately, fairly and proportionately, across the Jobcentre Plus (JCP) network, the Work06
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Andrew Chan, Myuran SukumaranAndrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, now face another excruciating wait while the appeals of other foreigners condemned to death for drug-related crimes are heard. Indonesia's Attorney-General, Muhammad Prasetyo, has said that all 10 - including Chan and Sukumaran
A new law passed by the legislature sets protocols for carrying out the death penalty in Arkansas.Many, including the Arkansas Department of Corrections, are concerned about potential lawsuits as the state moves forward with lethal injections.One of the main points of contention will be the drugs05
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The Iranian regime's henchman in the city of Zabol (southeastern Iran) secretly hanged a man on Saturday in the city's main prison.The victim identified as Amir Qaemi, was transferred to isolation last Wednesday to await his execution. He had been sentenced to death on drug related offences.The03
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Anthony Hinton, just after his release from jail on Friday, March 3, 2015.Anthony Ray Hinton was one of Alabama’s longest-serving death row inmates, having spent more than half his life incarcerated. Now, after three decades of insisting that he is innocent in the 1985 murders of two men, the02
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Move not expected to trigger state legislative action any time soonSince the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the state of Texas has executed more than a third of all inmates in the nation.But Texas and 7 others that use pentobarbital - a sedative and sleep-inducing drug -
How widespread is the use of the death penalty?55 countries are known to have sentenced at least 2,466 people to death in 2014 - a 28% increase from 2013. This is mainly due to a spike in death sentences in Egypt and Nigeria.Amnesty International also recorded 607 executions in 22 countries02
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Death Chamber at Tokyo Detention CenterA prominent human rights group hopes the decision to release the world's longest serving death row inmate in Japan will spur greater debate in about capital punishment in the country and spur reforms.Amnesty International spokeswoman Chiara Sangiorgio said02
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A global report on capital punishment has pointed to widespread reports of corruption in Indonesia's judiciary, while slamming claims in Jakarta that a wave of pending executions of drug traffickers is needed to combat a national emergency.The human rights group Amnesty International says progress
Indiana death chamberThe Senate responded to last year's murder in a Purdue classroom with a bill allowing the death penalty for shootings in schools or during worship services.A House committee has approved one expansion of the death penalty, but put another on hold.The Senate responded to last
April 2, 2015: A Queensland man has been sentenced to death in China after being caught trying to smuggle methamphetamine to Australia. His alleged accomplice meanwhile is still awaiting trial. Ibrahim Jalloh and Bengali Sherrif were arrested at Guangzhou airport in June last year but until now
March 31, 2015: Amnesty International recorded fewer executions globally in 2014, compared to 2013 – a year in which the organization recorded a spike in executions. In 2014, executions were recorded in 22 countries, the same number of countries as in 2013.Although this number remained constant05
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Sister Helen PrejeanATHENS—The country’s preferred method of executing prisoners relies on increasingly hard-to-find key drugs. To make up the shortfall, state executioners turn to compounding pharmacies to acquire new combinations of the lethal drugs.In a talk at the Catholic Center at the05
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A court in the southern province of Binh Duong on Friday gave 2 brothers death penalties for trafficking over 210 kilograms of heroin in one of the province's biggest drug cases.Le Dinh Kiem, 33, and his brother Le Van Hanh, 41, were both convicted of trafficking drugs - a charge that
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UN Human Rights Committee deplores Indonesia's response to its call to stop executions for drug-related crimesThe UN Human Rights Committee has given Indonesia the lowest possible evaluation for its failure to respond to the Committee's call in 2013 to stop executing prisoners for drug-related03
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What does the Stormont House Agreement mean for women in Northern Ireland?By Goretti Horgan.The Stormont House Agreement ended a political crisis, but it brings women no closer to economic equality or equal participation in building a sustainable peace.The Stormont House Agreement (SHA) was
An alarming number of countries resorted to the death penalty in a flawed attempt to stop crime and terrorism in 2014.China, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan, all executed people accused of “terrorism”.Death sentences jumped by more than 500 in 2014 compared with the previous year, largely because Egypt02
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Anthony Ray HintonAnthony Ray Hinton, who spent nearly 30 years on Alabama's death row, will be freed Friday morning after prosecutors told a judge they won't re-try him for the 1985 slayings of two fast-food managers after new testing couldn't match crime scene bullets to a gun found in Hinton's
Alyaksandr Hrunou was executed in October 2014 for a 2012 murder.Belarus, recent host of the Minsk Ceasefire summit, was the only country in Europe and Central Asia to execute prisoners last year. But, after reintroducing capital punishment in territory they hold, pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels have02
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Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon Danczuk, recently commented that he watches porn as he is a “man of the world”.Here are some questions Child’s Eye Line UK would like to put to the Labour Party.The NSPCC has recently released figures that one in five children think viewing pornography is normal02
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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN— Pakistan's recently established military courts have sentenced what the army calls six “hardcore terrorists” to death for committing terrorist acts.An army statement announced Thursday says the men were involved in “heinous offenses” - including manslaughter, suicide bombing01
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Serge Atlaoui quitte le tribunal de TangerangClick here to Google translate this page into your own language.Un tribunal indonésien a décidé ce mercredi 1er avril de renvoyer devant la Cour suprême le dossier de Serge Atlaoui. Son avocat, interrogé par Paris Match, s'étonne du traitement de son01
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Labour, life and love: Marxist feminists join the dots.By Cynthia Cockburn.Since the 1970s, a sizeable fraction of the feminist movement has striven to bring together in one coherent body of thought the Marxist critique of capitalist exploitation and our home-grown feminist critique of male