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Tommy ArthurMONTGOMERY, Alabama --- Lawyers for the state and for death row inmate Tommy Arthur are fighting in court over whether Arthur will be the first inmate Alabama has put to death since 2013.The long-running case has heated up lately as the state presses to carry out a sentence for a
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LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday acquitted a death row convict who was sentenced for rape and murder of an eight year old child, ARY News reports.A man named Zameer was awarded death penalty by a lower court for raping and murdering an eight year old girl.He then filed an appeal in13
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Imagine a world where street harassment is not tolerated, where we all enjoy equal access to public spaces.Hollaback! is a movement set up to end street harassment. It is powered by a network of local activists around the world.The idea is that the groups work together to better understand10
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SHIJIAZHUANG, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Yang Haijun, former deputy principal of a primary school in north China's Hebei Province, was executed on Saturday for kidnapping and killing a girl and then molesting her body.Yang, 47, former deputy head of Wang'an Township Central Primary School of Laiyuan10
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Myuran SukumaranDEATH row inmate Myuran Sukumaran has vowed that his spirit will not be broken by the decision to send him to the firing squad.In an impassioned plea through a friend, the 33-year-old Bali Nine drug runner called for a second chance, asking simply “Please show us mercy”.He told a07
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Myuran Sukumaran with selfportraitMyuran Sukumaran is one step closer to the firing squad after appearing to have lost his bid for clemency from the Indonesian president.The news prompted an emotional outpouring from the Australian Bali Nine member saying of himself and fellow Australian Andrew07
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GRAYSON COUNTY -- A man convicted of killing four people in Sherman in 1983 is scheduled to be executed next month, but a nationwide drug shortage could force the state to change its plans. The State of Texas executed ten people last year using the drug Pentobarbital, but the state's supply
Jodi AriasAfter a two-week holiday hiatus, the Jodi Ariassentencing retrial got underway this morning……for about three minutes.While the jury was waiting in the wings and families were waiting in the courtroom, Maricopa County Superior Court Sherry Stephens held yet another one of her private06
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Saudi authorities on Tuesday beheaded a Syrian convicted of drugs trafficking, the interior ministry said, in the third execution this year in the ultra-conservative kingdom.Mohammed al-Mahameed was caught smuggling a significant amount of amphetamines, the ministry said in a statement carried by05
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Richard VasquezThe execution of a Corpus Christi man set for next week for the beating death of his 4-year-old stepdaughter nearly 17 years ago has been rescheduled for April.Richard Vasquez had been scheduled for lethal injection Jan. 15 for the March 1998 death of Miranda Nicole Lopez.A state04
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Death row cell, Polunsky Unit, TexasThe Quakers were among the first Americans to devise the idea of solitary confinement based on the notion that a life of quiet contemplation was the best way to help people improve their moral character. Inmates went through meals and work in complete silence04
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(Reuters) - A Belgian murderer and rapist serving a life sentence is to be allowed to die by lethal injection next Sunday following a ruling under laws in Belgium permitting people to request euthanasia, local media reported.Frank Van Den Bleeken, who has argued that he had no prospect of release13
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James Holmes and attorneyDENVER — To choose a jury in the trial of the man charged with killing 12 people in a packed Colorado movie theater, court officials mailed notices to 9,000 people in suburban Arapahoe County, casting such a wide net that residents ran about a one-in-50 chance
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A new trajectory for domestic violence perpetrator research and interventions?Professors Liz Kelly from London Metropolitan University, Nicole Westmarland from Durham University and Charlotte Watts, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, have been investigating the extent to10
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Myuran SukumaranBali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran could face an Indonesian firing squad within months.Sukumaran is listed among 20 death row inmates slated for priority execution this year, the Indonesian Attorney General's office told AAP on Friday.The existence of the list was reported inMyuran Sukumaran with selfportraitMyuran Sukumaran received his death warrant on Wednesday.What a strange and repugnant document, this missive that condemns a man to death. It reads:There is not enough reason to give clemency to those convicted … Reject clemency plea from convicted. The decision
President Joko WidodoFour death-row inmates in Wirogunan Penitentiary in Yogyakarta are awaiting execution in the immediate future.The four are Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, 29; Hardani; Khoirul Anwar and his son, Yonas Revalusi.Veloso was sentenced to death for her attempt as a courier of an07
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Andrew Chan (left) and Myuran Sukumaran (right)Myuran Sukumaran is one step closer to the firing squad after appearing to have lost his bid for clemency from the Indonesian president.A letter rejecting the clemency bid of the the Bali Nine member was hand-delivered to Kerobokan prison by an06
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(Reuters) - Doctors in Belgium have rejected an imprisoned murderer and rapist's request for medically assisted suicide, the Justice Ministry said on Tuesday, less than a week before he was due to receive a lethal injection.Justice Minister Koen Geens told local media last week that Frank Van DenPresident Joko WidodoLegal experts have lambasted President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration for backing a Supreme Court's letter that places limits on criminal convicts filing case reviews, a move deemed a violation of citizens' rights to seek justice in a legal case.The Supreme Court05
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Prosecutors are pessimistic about the likelihood that a state district court judge in Montgomery County will ever agree to set an execution date for Larry Ray Swearingen.Swearingen was convicted in July 2000 of the capital murder of community college student Melissa Trotter.His appellate attorney04
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Doha - A Lower Court in Doha has awarded the death penalty to three Asian men after they were found guilty of killing an elderly Qatari woman at her home in the city's New Salata Area some three years ago.The crime took place in early 2012 when the trio allegedly broke
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Neither of the 2 men scheduled to die on Alabama's death row early this year will be able to speak to the media face-to-face before they're put to death, a prison official said.The Alabama Department of Corrections this week turned down The Anniston Star's request for an in-person interview with13
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A 56-year-old Danish man who faced the death penalty for drug smuggling in Indonesia said he was “relieved” to only be given a 13-year prison sentence.Anker Hansen from southern Jutland was detained in Indonesia on June 8th while carrying 1.48 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, worth an12
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Challenging the restrictive gender stereotypes used in the design and marketing of children’s clothes.Let Clothes Be Clothes campaigners are concerned about the split of colours, themes, motifs, slogans and fit into for girls or for boys; any child caught crossing this divide faces negativity
Jakarta. The Indonesian government has stepped in amid a fundamental difference of opinion between the two highest courts in the land over how many case reviews a convict can request after exhausting all other avenues of appeal.The Justice Ministry will issue a government regulation that will
MULTAN (Dunya News) – Two terrorists of a banned organization, Ahmed Ali alias Sheesh Nag and Ghulam Bashir alias Doctor were hanged till death at the Multan Jail on early Wednesday morning after their mercy appeals were rejected by President on January 3, 2015.Ahmed Ali alias Sheesh Nag had
Public execution in Iran (file photo)Four prisoners were hanged in two different prisons today. 21 prisoners have been executed in the first 6 days of 2015 in Iran. Iran Human Rights, January 6, 2015: Three prisoners were hanged in the prison of Urmia (Northwestern Iran) according to unofficial06
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Parliament approves establishment of military courts to hear terrorism-related cases after school massacre by Taliban.Pakistan has voted in favour of military trials for terrorism suspects, following December's attack by the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) on a military-run school that killed 148 people06
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Meth bust in Indonesia (file photo)Jakarta. Indonesian anti-narcotics officials have seized 800 kilograms of methamphetamine and arrested nine people, including five foreigners, in one of the biggest drug busts in recent years.Agents from the National Narcotics Agency, or BNN, discovered the drugs05
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D. TsarnaevThe trial of a man suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon in 2013 has begun with jury selection as it emerged that prosecutors rejected a deal that would have spared him from the death penalty.Chechen-American Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (21) is accused of killing 3 people and injuring 26405
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The Pakistani government has suspended its plans to execute a man who was convicted at the age of 14 after being tortured into a ‘confession’ and wrongly tried in an anti-terrorism court.In a speech earlier today, Pakistan’s interior minister Chaudry Nisar told the country’s Parliament that the
Kurt Sonnenfeld in 2002Argentina’s supreme court has ruled that an American who took refuge and started a new life in the South American country can be extradited to face charges that he killed his wife more than a decade ago, a court spokeswoman confirmed on Saturday.Kurt Sonnenfeld moved to03
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"Yellow Mama" is currently being storedin the attic of Holman CorrectionalFacility in Atmore, Alabama.For 3/4 of a century (1927-2002), executions in Alabama were carried out using an electric chair dubbed "Yellow Mama," a nickname it was given after being covered in the same paint used to stripe