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Iran Human Rights, February 28: Six prisoners were hanged in three different Iranian cities reported the Iranian state media. Four of the prisoners were hanged in public.Four prisoners hanged publicly in Gachsaran (western Iran) today:According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA four prisoners were hanged publicly in Gachsaran (western Iran)...Read more http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2013/03/six-executions-in-iran-four-carried-out.html28
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Taiwan says it will continue to enforce the death penalty, despite international appeals to end capital punishment on the island.Taiwan has executed 15 people since 2010, when it ended a 5-year informal moratorium on the death penalty. 6 people were put to death in the latest round of executions28
Feb
2013
Iran Human Rights, February 27: According to the official Iranian media five prisoners have been hanged in three different Iranian cities. All the prisoners are convicted of drug-related charges.Three prisoners hanged in the prison of Qazvin on February 24:The official website of the Iranian24
Feb
2013
The switch from sodium thiopenthal to pentobarbital in lethal injections is having larger consequences than state correction officials ever anticipated.It is hard to imagine that Oklahoma Chief Medical Examiner Jay Chapman could have foreseen the storm now raging around the 3-drug lethal injection22
Feb
2013
A proposal to ban the death penalty in Montana is once again being rejected by a state House committee.The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee on Friday rejected the proposal to replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole. The same proposal died in the same22
Feb
2013
Andrew CookAndrew Cook, 38, was put to death at 11:22 p.m by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison near Jackson.He was pronounced dead 5 1/2 hours after his appeal was filed with the Supreme Court just before 6 p.m. The court denied his request for a stay just21
Feb
2013
Execution chamberat Tokyo Detention CenterJapan hanged three death-row inmates on Thursday, reports said, which, if confirmed, would be its first executions since a conservative government swept to power in landslide elections in December.Public broadcaster NHK and other Japanese media reported20
Feb
2013
New Delhi: Hanging of four aides of sandalwood smuggler Veerappan has been further delayed with the Supreme Court on Wednesday extending its interim order staying the execution of death sentence imposed on them for killing 22 police personnel in a landmine blast in Karnataka in 1993.A bench headed19
Feb
2013
Dr Vasant Yamakanmaradi, medical officer of the Central Prison, Hindalga (Belgaum), said the four convicts are both mentally and physically healthy. "We have been regularly conducting their health check-up to ensure they are fit to be executed," he said. "All convicts have been informed about their18
Feb
2013
Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of 4 individuals convicted of involvement in a $2.6 billion financial fraud case, the office of the national prosecutor general announced on Sunday.According to Iran's Supreme Court, the 4 convicts who have been sentenced to death have also been17
Feb
2013
Gandhi’s country must set an example by abolishing capital punishment, says Justice V.R. Krishna IyerThe President has dismissed the mercy petitions of four of Veerappan’s associates who had been sentenced to death. They should not hang.I appeal to the authorities to remove the death sentence
Sudanese authorities must halt the execution of a Darfuri activist whose sentence was changed from 10 years' imprisonment to death, Amnesty International urged today amid fears he will be hanged this weekend.Bakri Moussa Mohammed, who has been involved in protests against the repression of28
Feb
2013
Chinese police officers leading aninmate into a special execution van.The country's top prosecuting department has set up a new internal branch to supervise the reviews of death sentences that have been submitted to the top court for approval, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate26
Feb
2013
An Emirati woman who murdered her Ethiopian housemaid in Abu Dhabi is set to walk free after the maid’s relatives agreed to pardon the defendant in return for diya (blood money), a newspaper reported on Tuesday.A criminal court in the capital said it would issue a verdict on March 25 after the24
Feb
2013
On 22 February, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has once again asked for a universal abolition of death penalty.Ashton comments come a day after the execution of 3 Japanese prisoners, accused for extremely violent crimes. Sadakazu Tanigaki, the Japanese justice minister who ordered the22
Feb
2013
February 20, 2013: Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe's office said today that he signed legislation (SB 237) that rewrites the state's lethal injection law, despite his misgivings about the death penalty.The new law spells out in greater detail the procedures the state must follow in carrying out22
Feb
2013
Carl Henry Blue(Reuters) - The state of Texas executed a man on Thursday for killing his former girlfriend in 1994 by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire.Carl Henry Blue, 48, was put to death by lethal injection at 6:56pm on Thursday night at The Walls Unit, in Huntsville20
Feb
2013
Iran Human Rights, February 20: One prisoner was hanged publicly in Arak (central Iran) today Wednesday February 20. According to the official website of the Iranian judiciary in Markazi Province the prisoner was a 23 year old man convicted of kidnapping and sexual abuse of a 15 year old boy. The20
Feb
2013
Georgia Execution ChamberCondemned killer Warren Lee Hill, whose mental retardation claims have attracted international attention, was spared execution Tuesday night with less than an hour to go before he was to be put to death.Hill had already been given a sedative to prepare for his lethal19
Feb
2013
Iran Human Rights, February 19: Eight prisoners were hanged in Shiraz’s Adelabad Prison early this morning. According to the official website of the Iranian judiciary in the province of Fars, eight prisoners, among them one woman, were hanged this morning. The prisoners were all convicted of18
Feb
2013
Public execution in ShirazIran Human Rights, February 17: Seven prisoners were hanged in the cities of Arak and Shiraz according to the official Iranian sources.Three prisoners hanged in Arak (Central Iran):According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA three prisoners were hanged in the
Bangladesh's parliament has amended a law allowing the state to appeal against the life sentence given to an opposition leader for his role in mass killings and rape during the 1971 war for independence.Tens of thousands of demonstrators in central Shahbag Square cheered as the assembly approved
Death Row in Japanese PrisonA desire to depict 1 man spending half a century in solitary confinement on death row is what spurred Junichi Saito, 45, to write his 1st movie script.Saito's upcoming film, which translates as "Promise, The Nabari Poisoned Wine Case, the Life of a Death Row Inmate,"
Appeals of 5,378 pending in provincial high courts, 1,031 in apex courtThe Supreme Court was informed on Wednesday that 7,046 inmates on death row are awaiting execution across the country.The Interior Ministry, through the attorney general of Pakistan's office, on Wednesday submitted complete25
Feb
2013
His execution brings to 16 number of people beheaded in kingdom this year.Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Sunday beheaded a Jordanian man convicted of drug trafficking, the interior ministry said.Faris Salam Salama Al Maghrebi was arrested while attempting to “smuggle a large amount of amphetamine”
The majority of young South Africans want the death penalty to be reinstated, consumer insights company Pondering Panda said on Friday."It was found that more than 3 in 4 young South Africans think the death penalty should be reinstated as the highest form of punishment for criminals,"22
Feb
2013
Iran Human Rights, February 21: Three prisoners were hanged in the prison of Dizelabad in Kermanshah (western Iran) yesterday Wednesday February 20.According to the Iranian national broadcasting in Kermanshah the prisoners were convicted of drug trafficking. No further details were given about the
The Saudi Press Agency on Tuesday reported the kingdom had beheaded Abdulkarim Ibrahim Mousa Abkar, a Chadian national convicted of smuggling drugs. It was the fourteenth such execution in Saudi Arabia since the start of the new year.Those convicted of charges that include murder, rape, drug20
Feb
2013
In December, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for a global moratorium on the death penalty. This fourth such vote in five years was supported by a record 111 nations.Yet in the first month of 2013, Saudi Arabia beheaded nine people. In recent weeks, Yemen has sentenced a20
Feb
2013
Countries at odds since January beheading of domestic worker convicted for murder.Riyadh: Saudi Arabia says it has recalled its ambassador to Sri Lanka following a similar move by the South Asian nation to protest the kingdom’s beheading of a Sri Lankan domestic worker last month.The twoThe jail in Belgaum where four condemned aides of brigand Veerappan are lodged is still waiting for orders to go ahead with their execution. There had been a buzz that the convicts would be executed on Sunday morning, but that did not happen.Jail sources said the authorities are waiting for the17
Feb
2013
A low-key announcement that the state's prisons agency wants a law to protect pharmacies that might mix execution drugs underscores a high-profile problem: The state has enough of its current lethal drug to execute four inmates but has nine executions scheduled after that, including 1 announcedTaiwan's representative to France has accepted 106,000 signatures from French people urging Taiwan to retry a death-row convict and suspend executions as the 1st step toward abolition of the death penalty.Michel Lu accepted the signatures from Genevieve Garrigos, head of the French chapter of17
Feb
2013
(MENAFN - Arab News) Indonesia has stepped up efforts to save the lives of five housemaids currently on death row in Saudi Arabia.The five cases are critical because the workers involved in these cases have exhausted all legal options following their convictions by Saudi courts on different