Utah is bringing back the firing squad, California's death row is overflowing with inmates, but Peter Foster argues the death penalty is on its way outWhen the state of Utah announced last week that it was bringing back the firing squad, it seemed for a moment as if the
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Onlookers watching a public execution in Iran"It is all finished," the guard said.On the other side of the thick brick wall of Raja'i Shahr prison near the Iranian city of Karaj Wednesday, the bodies of six Sunni men from Iran's Kurdish minority each hung from a noose.Hamed Ahmadi, Jahangir31
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Paid work, for example, is not an equal experience for women and men.Welfare reforms will hit families in Northern Ireland harder than in the rest of the UK.Northern Ireland has the highest claimant count and inactivity rate in the UK and 28 per cent of children in Northern Ireland live in24
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Is it age, reason or gender?As the Department of Health announces that female genital piercing counts as female genital mutilitation, we have to question the double standards which inform our definitions.The Department of Health (DoH) has said that all women who have ‘intimate piercings’ will24
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Viewers of interactive versions click at the point they feel the behaviours become unacceptable.A campaign focussing attention on the signs and symptoms of domestic abuse has been launched by the Welsh government.The “Cross the line” campaign aims to raise awareness of the subtle signs of23
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The Supreme Court said Monday it would not hear an appeal from an inmate who has been on death row in Texas for three decades. This decision lifts a stay that has been in place since last month and opens the door for Texas to schedule and try to carry out
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‘Tackling inequality between men and women is seen as necessary to establish a fairer society’.According to new Eurobarometer statistics published by the European Commission recently, a large majority of the European Union’s citizens (76 per cent) believe that tackling inequality between women
Nie ShubinThe mother of Nie Shubin, who was executed in 1995 after being convicted of raping and killing a woman in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, left a court on Wednesday with copies of all the files related to her son's case.Zhang Huanzhi, 70, had been granted full access to the files for19
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Darkness at noon : Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaMarch 17, 2015: Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani and two Saudis, bringing to 48 the number of death sentences carried out this year.That is more than half of the 87 people executed during all of 2014. Pakistani national Mumtaz Hussein Deen Ahmed19
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Reclaiming the agenda for all.By Ché Ramsden.When we ask our parliamentary candidates whether their policies are good for women, we must ask whether they are good for all women. When the Home Office says appalling things about migrant women, it hurts all women’s rights.Despite being couched19
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‘It would be irresponsible for the Prime Minister post-May 2015 to continue with the current unregulated system’.Since 2010 increasingly urgent concerns have been raised about the size of the House of Lords; the chamber has grown by a third since 1999.The Prime Minister retains complete18
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Shafqat HussainA last-minute stay has been issued for a Pakistani sentenced to death aged 14 after nine days of police torture, who was due to be executed tomorrow (Thursday 19th).Following an outcry over the case of Shafqat Hussain, a Pakistani government minister announced this evening that a01
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Andrew Chan (left) and Myuran Sukumaran (right)(Reuters) - An Indonesian court hearing the appeals of two Australian death row convicts will announce a verdict on April 6, one of the judges determining the case said on Wednesday.Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are among a group of 10 prisoners30
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Join the major new campaigners.In November the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned an advertisement for The Sun newspaper’s Dream Team fantasy football competition for offering the “sexist and offensive” prize of a date with a page three girl.And now the Daily Star’s website ad
March 24, 2015: three people were executed for a mass stabbing that killed 31 people at a train station in Kunming in March 2014, China’s Supreme People’s Court announced in a microblog post, with authorities blaming the attack on separatists from mainly Muslim Xinjiang. Iskandar Ehet, Turgun23
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Andrew Chan, Myuran SukumaranThe Australian government will keep pushing for clemency for Bali Nine pair Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan while their lawyers fight for another appeal."No we haven't had any update," Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told the Nine Network on Monday."The legal23
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Financial abuse in the home and Universal Credit.Domestic violence is rooted in the historical status of women in society and in the family, and is recognised internationally as both a consequence and cause of gender inequality and discrimination.And women experience significantly more20
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‘Emergency food charity did not live up to ‘right to food’ standards’.A paper published recently by Sheffield University’s Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) has presented findings from a study into the rise of charitable emergency food provision in the UK and its19
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Lindsay Sandiford in her Kerobokan death row cellSandiford, who is originally from Redcar, is due to be killed by firing squad for smuggling 1.6m pounds worth of cocaine into Bali.The 58-year-old claims she was forced to transport it under duress because her son's life was being threatened by a19
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March 18, 2015: the Rechytsa District Court sentenced Siarhei Ivanou, 21, to death on charges of murdering and raping a 19-year-old girl on 29 August 2013. Besides murder charges committed with special cruelty and conjugated with sexual assault (Part 2, Art. 139 of the Criminal Code), the death
The port at Cilacap, where boats leave for Nusakambangan prison island.JAKARTA — An Indonesian court on Thursday postponed a hearing for two Australians facing execution for smuggling heroin, as government officials said it could take months to resolve legal appeals by the men and several other19
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Help bring Love Letters to the Home Office to the London stage.In July 2012, the government increased the salary requirement for a British person bringing a non-EU spouse into the UK to £18,600.If the couple have children, the amount rises to £22,400, with an extra £2,400 for every child18
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An estimated 800 of those facing execution in Pakistan may have been sentenced to death when they were children, a report released today has revealed.Justice Project Pakistan and Reprieve conducted a study of 30 prisoners close to execution and discovered that 10% were arrested and sentenced to31
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It is possible to register anonymously and from a confidential location such as a refuge.The next General Election will take place on May 2015 and will involve all parts of the United Kingdom.In order to vote in the General Election 2015 you must be over 18 and on the electoral register.It24
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(CNN) Utah's governor signed a bill Monday that brings back firing squads as a potential way to execute some death row prisoners.Lethal injection remains the primary method for carrying out executions in the state, Gov. Gary R. Herbert said in a statement. A firing squad would only be used in the24
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San Quentin Death Row(Reuters) - A California inmate sentenced to death 28 years ago died in hospice care this week, the state said Monday, bringing the total of condemned inmates who passed away from natural causes to 68 in a state that has not carried out an execution in years.The death Leggi23
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Debra MilkeAn Arizona woman who spent more than 2 decades on death row in her 4-year-old son's killing was exonerated Monday, bringing an end to a controversial case that relied almost entirely on the work of a detective with a long history of misconduct.Debra Milke hugged her supporters and23
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‘Absorbed by humans radium mimics calcium and accumulates in our bones causing cancer’.A Dr Rowland Dye appeared in court earlier this month accused by the North West Chamber of Commerce, ‘in collusion’ with the fracking company Cuadrilla Resources, of aggravated trespass.He was found guilty19
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Public hanging in Iran (file photo)2 men have been hanged in public in the Iranian city of Jiroft ahead of the regime's New Year celebrations.The executions were carried out using a crane and mechanical fork loader in one of the city's main squares, with armed men guarding from rooftops around the
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday said that the state's lethal-injection law is constitutional, upholding a state law that was passed after the justices struck down an earlier law on the subject.This ruling, which comes a decade after Arkansas last executed an inmate, could potentially allow19
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RAWALPINDI/MIANWALI: Three death row prisoners, including two brothers, were executed in Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail on Thursday while another was hanged to death in Mianwali jail. All convicts had been awarded the death sentence in non-terror related cases.Prisoners sent to the gallows in
Medieval punishments: public hanging in IranEuropean funds could help send drug mules to their deaths in Iran if a new funding deal is completed by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).The UNODC is currently negotiating a new five-year funding agreement for Iran’s Anti-Narcotics
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Todd Willingham in cell on death rowIn a major turn in one of the country’s most-noted death penalty cases, the State Bar of Texas has filed a formal accusation of misconduct against the county prosecutor who convicted Cameron Todd Willingham, a Texas man executed in 2004 for the arson
Leggi TuttoAt least 9 murder convicts were hanged early Wednesday at different jails across Pakistan - the latest executions since the country resumed the death penalty for all capital crimes.The executions come a day after 12 death row prisoners were hanged Thursday, marking the largest number of executions