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This is the most important election ever – let’s get our facts right.
By Ellie Mae O’Hagan.
Let’s face it. Things aren’t great are they? I won’t reel off a list of figures about inequality, living standards, and the super-rich, but things aren’t great.
Now we have a general election to think about. Judging by the furore around a pink bus this week, the whole thing will be an unedifying spectacle characterised more by trivial distractions than real issues.
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Serge AtlaouiThe wife of a Frenchman on death row in Indonesia for drug offences said on Wednesday she will continue to fight for his release despite fears he might be executed soon.Serge Atlaoui, has a "sword of Damocles hanging over his head", his wife Sabine Atlaoui told an anti-death penalty
Kelly Renee Gissendaner at the time of her arrestGWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. -- Kelly Renee Gissendaner, Georgia's only female death row inmate, will be executed later this month.A Gwinnett County judge signed an execution order Monday, requesting a date between Feb. 25 and Mar. 4. Tuesday morning11
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Report also raises questions of how common misconceptions about rape persist in the courtroom.Policy makers and legal professionals should work together to introduce specialist ‘sexual violence courts’ in order to improve how the legal system in England and Wales responds to rape cases07
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As the death penalty declines across the US, a small number of states are taking drastic measures to keep their death chambers active.In light of last year's 3 gruesomely botched executions, Ohio and Oklahoma (responsible for 2 of them) are taking the precaution of putting executions on hold. But07
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Andrew Chan, Myuran SukumaranThe lawyer who represented Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran when they were first sentenced to death has made a surprise visit to the 2 men in Kerobokan jail, hinting that he is aware of new evidence that could save them.Muhammad Rifan visited the pair on Saturday and04
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Donald NewburyAlready a three-time felon with a violent history, the convicted robber Donald Newbury was serving a 99-year prison term when he joined six fellow convicts in Texas’s biggest prison break ever in 2000.Newbury was executed Wednesday for the shooting death of a suburban Dallas police
Shoaib Sarwar's family say mitigating factors were not taken into accountA Pakistani man who was due to be hanged on Tuesday has been granted a last-minute stay of execution.Shoaib Sarwar would have been the 1st person to be executed in a non-terror related case since Pakistan lifted a moratorium04
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Oklahoma death chamberOn Friday 23rd January, 2015, the US Supreme Court granted three Oklahoma death row inmates certiorari to challenge the state’s three-drug lethal injection protocol. In Baze v. Rees 553 U.S. 35 (2008), it was held that an execution protocol which provided for an initial04
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Andrew Chan and Myuran SukumaranCourts turn down application for review into cases of Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, who face executionTwo Australians convicted of drug trafficking in Indonesia have lost their final chance to appeal against their death sentences after an Indonesian
A South Korean soldier who shot dead five of his colleagues and injured seven others has been sentenced to death by a military court.The sergeant opened fire in June 2014 at his post near the North Korean border and fled, sparking a manhunt.He was captured two days later after he shot himself
The Supreme Court on Monday finalized the death penalty of Tomohiro Kato for the vehicular homicide and stabbing spree that left 7 people dead and 10 injured on the streets of Tokyo's Akihabara neighborhood in 2008.The indiscriminate killing spree was carried out based on Kato's "meticulous11
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President WidodoIndonesian president Joko Widodo has defiantly defended his reasons for refusing to let two Australians and other convicted drug smugglers off death row.Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the ringleaders of the so-called Bali Nine group of heroin smugglers, have been denied11
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Virginia could keep the suppliers of the drugs used in executions secret, as well as all the components they mix to make the drug cocktail used in lethal injections under a bill the state Senate approved Tuesday.But the measure the Senate passed dropped a section of the original proposal, which10
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The Fabian Women’s Network was launched in 2005.The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of socialism via gradualist and reformist means.Founded in 1884 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, it is Britain’s07
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The death penalty may be abolished in Kansas if the Kansas Legislature passes House Bill 2129.According to the bill, "No person shall be sentenced to death for a crime committed on or after July 1, 2015." Rep. Steven Becker of Buhler, Kan., a member of the House of Representatives judicial07
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Execution chamber at Tokyo Detention CenterThe death penalty is the ultimate punishment, for the life of the offender is the price paid to atone for a crime. The Supreme Court has called for caution and fairness in issuing death sentences. This judgment is understandable.The top court has upheld
Lindsay Sandiford in her Kerobokan death row cellBritain's foreign minister is hopeful of saving a drug-smuggling grandmother on death row in Bali.British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says he is "hopeful" that a British grandmother on death row in an Indonesian prison could escape
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Attaullah alias Qasim and Mohammad Azam alias Sharif of a banned organisation were hanged to death on Tuesday morning at Karachi Central Prison for killing Dr Ali Raza Peerani in June 2004 in city's Soldier Bazaar area.Both were awarded the death penalty by an Anti Terrorism Court on July 6, 200404
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President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's latest rejection of clemency for a group of drug-case convicts, including two Australians, which will lead to the prisoners being executed by firing squad, has sparked mixed reactions in Australia, says Indonesian Ambassador to Australia Nadjib Riphat Kesoema."It04
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Jordanian pilot Muath Al-Kaseasbeh (center) wascapturedby ISIS militants and later burned alive in cage.AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Islamic State group militants burned a captured Jordanian pilot to death in a cage, according to a purported video of the violence released Tuesday. The kingdom, which had03
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Andrew Chan and Myuran SukumaranEven the Mercy Campaign to save Chan and Sukumaran is forced into contortions out of desperation to save two young men’s lives. Supporters and the men’s pro bono lawyers are opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances, yet they
Leggi TuttoThe state on Friday rescheduled executions for 7 death row inmates as it tries to find new lethal drugs, meaning no inmate will be put to death in Ohio in 2015.The announcement affects 6 executions this year, including 1 set for Feb. 11 for condemned child killer Ronald Phillips, and 1 previously11
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Andrew Chan (left), Myuran Sukumaran (right)A NEW effort to halt the momentum behind Indonesia's plans to execute Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran has begun.INDONESIAN lawyers for the pair on Wednesday lodged a challenge of President Joko Widodo's decision to deny the pair clemency11
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Findings depict, once again, a concerning picture of continued demand for domestic violence services.Women’s Aid conducts a survey of its national network of services each year in order to ascertain the use of domestic violence services in England.Since 2006 Women’s Aid has also undertaken aA case concerning whether the Government should be allowed to keep secret evidence which could show it has contributed to executions in Pakistan will be heard tomorrow (Monday 9 February) by the Information Rights Tribunal (IRT).Legal charity Reprieve has warned ministers that, by funding07
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Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (Madpet) is disturbed by the recent execution of 6 persons in Indonesia in January 2015, and the possibility that many more will be executed in the near future.Indonesia seems to have had an unofficial moratorium on executions for several years from04
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Control room (left) and execution chamber (right)at Tokyo Detention CenterThe Supreme Court has upheld two separate high court rulings that overturned death sentences handed down in lay judge trials to two men facing robbery-murder charges, sources said Wednesday.The high courts commuted the04
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4 prisoners convicted of drug-related charges were hanged in the prison of Rasht (Northern Iran) reported the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Gilan Province.The prisoners were identified as "A. M." (42) charged with trafficking of 5750 grams of crystal (methamphetamine), "Y. Gh" (41)04
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaRiyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia beheaded two convicted rapists and a murderer on Wednesday, the interior ministry said, bringing to 21 the number of people it has executed so far this year.The three were all Saudis.Abdul Kareem bin Abdul Sattar Meezi and Hashim04
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Indonesia has deferred the execution of a convicted Filipina drug smuggler after the Philippine government sought a review of her case, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Tuesday.The woman, who flew in to Indonesia from Malaysia, was arrested by authorities at the Yogyakarta Airport03
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ISIS militants throw man off 7-storey building for being gayIslamic State militants have reportedly thrown another gay man off a building, who was then stoned to death after surviving the fall.New images have emerged that show two masked men hurling the man from a seven-storey tower.The02
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Andrew Chan (left) and Myuran Sukumaran (right)A former senior Indonesian Judge involved in the Bali 9 trials has warned the firing squad does nothing to prevent drug crime.Speaking exclusively to News Corporation, Judge Laica Marzuki said he is saddened by his country's renewed stand on the death31
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A man in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province was executed on Friday for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl, in collusion with his pregnant wife.Bai Yunjiang was put to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Jiamusi City after the Supreme People's Court approved the death