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Reuters has reported that two men from Gao, Mali, who were due to be executed for having gay sex by an extreme Muslim militia, were rescued when French-led forces liberated the town.France, along with other African nations and including the Malian army, intervened to end a ten-month rebellion by groups of Tuareg tribes and Islamist extremists.The...Read more http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2013/02/two-men-from-mali-saved-by-french.html
Indian Supreme CourtIndia's president on Sunday approved harsher punishments for rapists, including the death penalty, after a brutal gang-rape in New Delhi sparked national outrage and triggered demands for tougher laws.President Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the new rape law two days after02
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HARARE (Feb 2, 2013): Zimbabwe has finally hired a hangman after seven years of searching, but he has not yet executed any of the 76 people on death row, a top prisons official has said."Indeed, we now have a hangman," Prison Service Commissioner Paradzai Zimondi was quoted as saying in Saturday's01
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Sharia execution in YemenJanuary 31, 2013: Amnesty International has expressed concern at the situation in a Yemeni prison where scores of children are on hunger strike to protest at their conditions and about a fellow inmate’s recent death sentence.The child detainees at Sana’a’s Central Prison
About 125 Filipinos are on death row abroadSaudi Arabia has spared one of two Filipino men sentenced to death by beheading for separate killings, Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay said Friday.Rodelio "Dondon" Lanuza is expected to walk free after more than 12 years in prison following the01
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Ohio Death ChamberA newly elected Ohio Supreme Court justice who achieved the unlikely feat of ousting an incumbent without accepting any campaign contributions is not wasting any time in asserting his opposition to the death penalty. In an order this week setting an execution date for a convicted31
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Kerobokan PrisonThe sister of Lindsay Sandiford, the British grandmother sentenced to death by firing squad in Bali last week, fears that she cannot be saved from execution because of her inability to fund a lawyer.Hilary Parsons has spent the last pennies of her savings to try and find Sandiford30
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January 28, 2013: A man who killed his colleague and was sentenced to death, had his capital punishment verdict quashed by Abu Dhabi Court of Appeals, as the heirs of the victim pardoned him and gave up their rights.The Court handed down the Asian defendant three years in jail for murder. He will29
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Public execution by beheadingon a parking lot in Saudi ArabiaRiyadh: Saudi Arabia beheaded one of its nationals on Tuesday after he was convicted of drug trafficking, the Interior Ministry announced in a statement.Musaed Al Ruweili was arrested as he tried to smuggle “a large number of narcotic
Germany's Bundesbank said it will exclude Chinese and Vietnamese central bank officials from anti- counterfeiting seminars over concerns about the countries' use of the death penalty for serious cases of forgery."The Bundesbank wants to make sure it doesn't give advice on the subject of25
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The international condemnation of Rizana Nafeek's unjust execution has not elicited a positive response from Saudi authorities. There have been no promises for reform or pledges to reexamine the justice system's flawed management of migrant workers.Instead, Saudi Arabia has adopted a defensive25
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Iran Human Rights, January 25: One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Ilam yesterday morning reported the state run Iranian news agency Fars.The prisoner who was not identified by name was convicted of murder and sentenced to Qesas (retribution).According to the official Iranian sources at03
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Australians Myuran Sukumaranand Andrew ChanThe Attorney General’s Office has revealed that 12 death row inmates are liable to face the firing squad after exhausting all avenues for appeal, in the first state executions since 2008.Basrief Arief, the attorney general, said on Friday that there was02
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Feb 02, Colombo: Sri Lanka which is considering to implement the death penalty, has recruited two executioners, Ministry of Prison Reforms and Rehabilitation said.The two executioners, elected from 145 short-listed candidates, are presently undergoing a 14-day special training.After the training01
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Caning in Singapore(Bangkok) – Singapore continued its strict controls on free association, expression, assembly, and other basic rights in 2012, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2013.In its 665-page report, Human Rights Watch assessed progress on human rights during the past year01
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Iran Human Rights, January 31: Five prisoners were executed in the prison of Kerman (Southeastern Iran) yesterday morning January 30., reported the state run Iranian media.According to the Fars news agency, the five prisoners were identified as "Allahnazar Sh.", "Rahmatollah Sh.", "Abdollah Sh."01
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A French national is facing the death penalty after he was caught carrying 70 grams of hashish at Ngurai Rai International Airport near Denpasar, Bali.Vincent Roger Petrone, a 43-year-old plasterer, arrived at the airport on Tuesday evening on board a Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala
Montgomery County state district court Judge Kelly Case on Wednesday withdrew an order that had set the execution of condemned murderer Larry Swearingen for Feb. 27. The judge's decision came after a hearing in which Swearingen's lawyers argued that more time was required to accomplish DNA testing
Bills proposed by lawmakers that would eliminate the death penalty in Washington state were referred to committee Monday.Both House Bill 1504 and its companion Senate Bill, SB5372, were referred to respective law and judicial committees. If passed, the joint bill would put a stop to all
Execution chamberat Tokyo Detention Center Nine films from Japan and abroad on the theme of capital punishment will be screened consecutively at a movie theater in Tokyo's Shibuya district over a 1-week period from Feb. 2, with a series of talks also scheduled.Movies shown at Eurospace for
Iran Human Rights, January 26: According to the official Iranian media a man was hanged in the public early this morning in Kerman (southeastern Iran).According to the state run Iranian news agency Fars the man was identified as "Yaser K." (age not mentioned) and convicted of rape.The execution25
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Firing squads are out. Injections are in. But who'll supply the poison?Like many of its Communist brethren, Vietnam enforces the death penalty. The European Union abhors it.This is a dilemma for Hanoi, which wants to use lethal injection drugs on its 500-plus prisoners on death row. Germany is a
Imprisoned in Mexico since December 2005, Florence Cassez was finally released Wednesday, Jan. 23 following a decision by the Supreme Court. This happy outcome should give hope to many French prisoners in the world, much of whom claim to be innocent. According to a statement from the Ministry of
NEW DELHI--India's cabinet has proposed death as the maximum punishment for severe rape cases, a senior minister said Saturday in the wake of public demands for stern action after the brutal gang rape of a student in New Delhi in December.The death penalty proposal forms part of an ordinance
In 2006, after serving 19 years and 11 months in a Texas prison for a rape he didn't commit, Billy Smith was exonerated of all charges and set free. He was 54. Despite clearing his name, he's never been able to find a job."Who wants to hire someone who's 61 years old and who's an ex-convict?"01
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — At least three death row inmates could be nearing execution as Kentucky moves toward a new lethal injection method.Execution requests for two of the condemned men were made to the governor's office in 2010, but a judge barred the state from carrying out any executions until it01
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James HolmesAn attorney with experience in death-penalty cases has been added to the prosecution team on the Aurora movie theater murder case.Daniel Zook will take an in-courtroom role in the prosecution of theater shooting suspect James Holmes, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's officeA British grandmother on Thursday lost a High Court bid to make the government pay for a lawyer to help her appeal against her death sentence in Indonesia for drug smuggling.Lindsay Sandiford, 56, was sentenced to death last week for smuggling nearly 5.0 kilos (11 pounds) of cocaine worth $2.431
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The executions bring to nine the number of people beheaded in Saudi Arabia so far this yearRiyadh: Saudi Arabia beheaded two of its nationals on Wednesday after they were sentenced to death for separate murders, the interior ministry announced.Marwan Al Balawi was convicted of stabbing to death
The planned execution of a female inmate in Texas has been postponed for 60-days by a judge in the Lone Star state.The execution, which was planned for after 6 p.m. this evening would have been the first time in over two years a female inmate would have faced the death penalty.Kimberly McCarthy28
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An Egyptian court sentenced 21 people to death Saturday on charges related to one of the world's deadliest incidents of soccer violence, touching off an attempted jailbreak and a riot that killed 16 in the Mediterranean port city that is home to most of the defendants.The verdict follows deadly26
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CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security officials say the military is being deployed to the Mediterranean city of Port Said after eight people were killed in riots outside the main prison following a controversial verdict related to one of the world's deadliest incidents of soccer violence.A Cairo judge25
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The parents of Rizana Nafeek, the Sri Lankan maid beheaded in Saudi Arabia, say they have forgiven those responsible for her death but want her body returned home.The Saudi authorities, however, have said no, according to Nafeek's mother.Rafeena Nafeek told BBC reporter Azzam Ameen: "Even our24
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January 23, 2013: Tareq Aziz, the late Saddam Hussein's ailing former deputy premier now on death row, is suffering from depression and plans to ask the Pope to call for his speedy execution, his lawyer said.Badie Aref said Aziz, a Christian, believed he was being treated well in prison, but was