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Tokyo Detention CenterExecution ChamberIt was shortly after dawn on February 21 when Kaoru Kobayashi was informed that it was to be his last day alive. Officers at the Osaka Detention Centre told the former newspaper delivery man that the justice minister had signed the paperwork to allow his execution to go ahead.Two other death-row prisoners...Read more http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2013/03/japans-ldp-playing-politics-with-death.html25
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Kerobokan Prison, IndonesiaAdami Wilson’s execution on March 15, is a timely reminder that the death penalty remains part of Indonesia’s rule of law landscape. Much of the reportage of Wilson’s execution highlighted his continuing criminality in jail. The message is none too subtle — “He deserved23
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Daniel Wayne Cook sexually assaulted, tortured and killed 2 men, a jury agreed. He's dead now, executed last August in an Arizona prison. But Cook's name lives on, as part of a lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration's allowing importation of a drug used in executions by
India's Supreme CourtIndia's top court upheld the death penalty on Thursday for a mastermind of the country's deadliest series of attacks and ruled a Bollywood star who bought weapons from the bombers must return to jail.Yakub Memon, brother of the alleged main plotter and fugitive Tiger Memon
One of the world’s and the UK's largest pharmaceutical companies has taken steps to ensure its drugs cannot be used to carry out executions by lethal injection.Teva, which describes itself as a “top 10 global pharmaceutical company [with] $20.3bn in sales in 2012,” will put in place distribution20
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Mohamed Ali Baashi, 18 years old gayboy,was buried in a hole up to his chest and then pelted with rocks by fightersfrom the rebel ALQAEDA Link groupALshabaab on Friday, March 15, 2013in Somalia, about 50 miles from thecapital, Mogadishu.A gay teen was allegedly20
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Whether the state of Colorado should be able to sentence people to die came to the forefront Tuesday afternoon as several dozen people crammed into a House committee room to testify on a bill to repeal the death penalty.The measure, sponsored by Democratic Reps. Claire Levy of Boulder and Jovan18
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The Missouri death row prisoner Reggie Clemons will make one final appeal on Monday at a special hearing that marks the last glimmer of hope that his life might be spared.Clemons and his defence lawyer, alongside the opposing legal team of the state of Missouri, will come before judge Michael18
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After refraining from executing individuals for four years, the Indonesian authorities executed a Nigerian national, Adami Wilson, on 14 March 2013. The Tangerang District Court named Adami guilty of drug dealing and sentenced him to death in 2004. The Attorney General Office (AGO) mentioned to the
A soldier has been stoned to death in Pakistan's restive tribal northwest over allegations of an affair with a teenage girl, officials said on Wednesday.A tribal council in the town of Parachinar, close to the Afghan border in Kurram district, ordered the sentence on Anwar-ud Din, who was about 25
Lawyers for an inmate whose execution was halted at the last minute urged a Texas court Wednesday to overturn his death penalty on the grounds that it was the result of racial discrimination.Duane Buck, 49, was condemned to die for the 1995 murder of his girlfriend and one of her friends.Neither15
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March 13, 2013: Two men sentenced to death for drug dealing had their sentence commuted to four years in prison by the Appeals Court in the United Arab Emirates.The court erupted in cheers from the relatives of MB, 19, from Syria, and NL, 21, a Briton, as the verdict was announced. The mother of
A former senior district judge has called for guidelines on how judges should use their discretion to decide if a capital offender should hang or get a life term.At issue is whether such discretion will lead to inconsistency in sentencing, said Dr S. Chandra Mohan, now a Singapore Management22
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Indian Supreme CourtConvicts who are awarded death penalty cannot claim commuting of their sentence on the ground of delay in the judicial process, the Supreme Court Thursday said.A bench of justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan cited an apex court judgement of 1989 which had ruled that "sentence22
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Georgia Execution ChamberThe names of those who carry out Georgia’s executions and the identities of those that supply the lethal drugs would be classified as “state secrets” under legislation moving through the General Assembly.Rep. Kevin Tanner, R-Dawsonville, who sponsored the privacy21
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Prince (left) and servant (right)London: A Saudi prince jailed for life in Britain for murdering his servant has been flown home to serve the rest of his sentence, the British government said on Wednesday.Prince Saud Bin Abdul Aziz Bin Nasser was jailed in 2010 for killing Bandar Abdullah Abdul20
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Public execution in KSAThe conservative kingdom applies a strict interpretation of Shariah and has often faced criticism by Western countries for its frequent use of capital punishment and trials that human rights groups say do not meet international standards. Saudi Arabia has the highest20
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LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers will once again debate the death penalty after a proposal to repeal capital punishment advanced Tuesday to the floor of the Legislature.Although Legislative Bill 543 was expected to obtain the minimum five votes to get out of the Judiciary Committee, none of the eight18
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Public execution in KSATardy executioners have prompted Saudi Arabia to re-evaluate their centuries-old practice of public beheadings.The use of capital punishment in Saudi Arabia is based on a hardline interpretation of Sharia (Islamic) law. The practice attracts international scorn because of theSix men accused of raping a Swiss tourist who was cycling with her husband in central India have been produced in court and charged with gang rape.The attack occurred Friday night as the Swiss couple camped in a forest in Datia district. Police said the men attacked the husband, tying him to a15
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(Reuters) - The Maryland House of Delegates voted on Friday to overturn the state's death penalty, putting it a step closer to becoming the 18th U.S. state to abolish executions.By a vote of 82 to 56, the House agreed to replace capital punishment with a sentence of life without parole. It
European Parliament threatens to halt funds to Egypt, citing Port Said death sentences, human rights violations, and lack of political consensus in Egypt.The European (EU) Parliament passed a resolution threatening to withhold budget support to Egypt if it fails to take significant steps to abide15
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March 13, 2013: An Algeria court sentenced a former police commissioner to death for murdering a woman colleague and concealing the evidence of his crime, media reports said.Abdelkrim Boutrik, formerly police chief in Adrar more than 1,500 kilometres (930 miles) from Algiers, cut the throat of24
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A Puerto Rico man previously convicted of masterminding one of the island's biggest mass shootings was spared the death penalty on Saturday.The sentencing deliberations for 41-year-old Alexis Candelario Santana ended with a hung jury, meaning he will serve life in prison. He had been found guilty
Several years ago, I tried to get inside the head of an executioner. Not literally, of course. I was writing a fictional story about a prison guard whose job included carrying out the death penalty through lethal injection. To understand what an executioner’s life was like, I did extensive22
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INDIA'S Parliament has passed a sweeping new law to protect women against sexual violence in response to a fatal December gang rape and beating of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi.The new law, which still requires the president's signature before it becomes official, makes stalking, voyeurism20
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TOKYO — Japan has had a complicated relationship with tattoos over its history. Unlike in most Western countries where it’s simply considered a form of expression or drunkenly poor decisions, currently body art is generally looked down upon in Japanese society despite having some of the best20
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The death penalty is alive and well in the land of the rising sun -- and death row is particularly wretched.TOKYO – On Feb. 21, Japan hanged three death-row inmates. These executions, the first in 18 months, took place only a few months after Shinzo Abe's new government took office.There is no18
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Since the last six executions in Florida involved inmates who had lingered on death row in excess of 25 years, one must agree capital punishment is inefficient. The fact that we have executed only 7 percent of those sent to death row since capital punishment was reinstated makes it foolish to18
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States use the death penalty less and less often across the country, and some have even dropped it altogether, but Oklahoma likely won’t join the ranks of those that have outright abolished it.The annual number of executions in the U.S. has fallen by more than half over the past 15 years18
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Manama: A Saudi court has sentenced an Indonesian domestic helper to death for killing the four-year-old daughter of her sponsors.The helper was also sentenced to eight months in prison and to 200 lashes for attempting to commit suicide after she killed Tala in the Red Sea city of Yanbu.Saudi15
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Kerobokan PrisonBali, Indonesia"Indonesia remains a country that opposes the death penalty for its own citizens abroad but continues to apply capital punishment within its own borders." Dave McRae, Staying the executioners' guns?Indonesia on Friday executed its first death row prisoner in15
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Public execution in YemenSanaa, July 6, 2009March 9, 2013: Mohammed Haza'a was put to death by the Yemeni government despite legitimate questions as to whether he was under the age of 18 when he committed an alleged murder.In 1999, Mohammed shot an intruder at his home in the central Yemeni city
Execution chamberat Tokyo Detention CenterFIDH and CPR deeply regret that the government of Japan refused to accept important recommendations related to the criminal justice system, in particular a moratorium or abolition of the death penalty and reform of substitute detention in police stations