Iran Human Rights, January 24: Two prisoners were hanged in two different Iranian prisons, reported the Iranian state media today.One of the prisoners was convicted of murdering a security officer in Khoramdareh (Province of Lorestan, western Iran), reported the daily Kayhan newspaper. The prisoner was identified as V. Sh and hanged in Khoramdareh...Read more http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2013/01/two-prisoners-executed-in-iran-16.html
Shiraz public amputationJanuary 24, 2013Iran Human Rights, January 24: Iranian authorities’ campaign of public medieval punishments continues. According to the state run Iranian news agencies amputation verdict of a prisoner was carried out in public in the city of Shiraz (southern
Kerobokan cellDrug syndicates are using Westerners to smuggle drugs into Bali in new tactics, Indonesian authorities said Wednesday as a British grandmother became the latest to face the firing squad for trafficking.Lindsay Sandiford, 56, was sentenced to death Tuesday after being caught with 4.7923
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Firing squad executionin VietnamVietnam says it is to begin producing home-grown poisons to be used in the execution of prisoners.The move comes after overseas producers refused to export the drugs which are legally required for lethal injections.More than 500 people are on death row in Vietnam22
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(CNN) -- A 56-year-old British grandmother caught smuggling blocks of cocaine in her suitcase has been sentenced to death in Indonesia.Prosecutors in Bali had asked for a 15-year sentence for Lindsay June Sandiford, who was arrested last May carrying what officials said was cocaine worth an
Bangladesh’s central bank plans to drop a proposal seeking death penalty for currency forgers after Germany’s Bundesbank shelved an anti-counterfeiting partnership with the South Asian nation citing the punishment.The venture was originally scheduled to begin in February, the Bundesbank said. It17
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Robert Gleason Jr.Robert Gleason, 42, was executed at 9:08 pm local time (0308 GMT) after a year on death row, said Larry Traylor, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections in the state of Virginia.Gleason was serving a life sentence for a 2007 murder when he strangled a 63-year-old prisoner16
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Iran Human Rights, January 16: Four prisoners were hanged in two different Iranian prisons reported the official Iranian media today.Two of the prisoners were hanged in the Rajai Shahr prison of Karaj (west of Tehran). According to the state run Iranian news agency Mehr, one of the prisoners was a14
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Around 50 foreign maids are being held on death row in Saudi Arabia, and there is growing alarm at the kingdom's treatment of its foreign workforce.The issue has captured international attention in the wake of growing revulsion at the beheading of Sri Lankan domestic worker Rizana Nafeek.Nafeek11
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Chinese police officers rehearsingexecution procedureJanuary 10, 2013: A Chinese man sentenced to death in July for killing 11 people has been executed, state-run news agency Xinhua reports, citing court sources.Zhang Yongming, 57, was found guilty of strangling his victims in Yunnan province09
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia beheaded a Sri Lankan maid on Wednesday after she was convicted of murdering her employer's baby, drawing sharp condemnation from Colombo which had repeatedly urged a stay of execution.Human rights groups too expressed condemnation, noting that Rizana Nafeek had been just 17
Sri Lanka's Minister of Child Development and Women's Affairs Tissa Karalliyedda said individuals found guilty of raping children should be awarded the death penalty.This comes amid calls by activists for stricter punishments of rapists, in the wake of several reports in the recent past of24
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Kerobokan prisonBritish woman Lindsay Sandiford can now look forward to sleeping for a very long time on a mat on the floor, dormitory-style, in a hot, smelly and dank Bali prison cell.There will no beds and nice bedding, no western toilets and no creature comforts. Her sleeping partners and cell24
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Chinese death-row inmatesbeing lead to execution groundsA Chinese woman who stabbed her husband to death after suffering months of sustained domestic violence should not be executed, Amnesty International said today.Li Yan a 41-year-old woman, from Sichuan province in South West China, could be
NEW DELHI — A government panel reviewing India's sex crime laws after the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi proposed tougher jail terms on Wednesday but stopped short of calling for the death sentence.Gopal Subramanium, a member of the Justice J.S. Verma Commission, said the maximum21
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A Saudi court sentenced a local man to death and ordered his crucifixion for two hours after he was convicted of raping and murdering a six-year-old boy.The appeals court in the northern province of Jouf upheld a previous verdict against the 35-year-old Saudi, who confessed to the murder of the17
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Germany's central bank is shelving plans to help fight currency counterfeiting in Bangladesh because of reports the country is planning to include execution among the possible punishments for violators.The Bundesbank said it wouldn't move ahead with its offer of consultation
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man in the eastern Khubar province on Wednesday after he was convicted of drug trafficking, the interior ministry announced.Arshad Mohammad was arrested for smuggling heroin and hashish into the kingdom, the ministry was quoted as saying by the official15
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India's president has rejected a mercy petition from Saibanna Ningappa Natikar, though 14 former judges have told him they believe the death sentence was wrongly imposed. Saibanna is at imminent risk of execution.Saibanna Ningapappa Natikar had petitioned the president for mercy, but the presidentSAUDI ARABIA/ SRI LANKA: UK Foreign Office and France condemn killing of Rizana Nafeek in Saudi ArabiaBoth the United Kingdom Foreign Office and France issued statements condemning the killing of Rizana Nafeek.However, the Sri Lankan government which expressed sadness about the killing did not10
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Rizana Nafeek, a 24-year-old woman, was beheaded by a sword in public near Riyadh, the Saudi capital, on Wednesday, according to the Saudi Ministry of Interior.The murder of the baby occurred in 2005, when Rizana was only 17 years old.The president of Sri Lanka, whose repeated requests for
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously ruled that federal courts should not automatically suspend postconviction challenges from death row inmates who are mentally incompetent to help their lawyers. The decision left open the possibility that such suspensions may sometimes be08
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After exhausting all of her appeals, Rizana Nafeek is at imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia for a crime she allegedly committed while under the age of 18.Aged only 17 years at the time, Sri Lankan domestic worker Rizana Nafeek was arrested in May 2005 on charges of murdering an infant in24
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A 23 year-old Nigerian student of a private college in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was sentenced to death by hanging after he was found guilty of trafficking in 16,936gm of cannabis 2 years ago.As reported by NewStraitsTimes, the Judicial Commissioner Mohd Zaki Abdul Wahab ruled that the prosecution24
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Iran Human Rights, January 23: Three prisoners were hanged in Qazvin Prison (west of Tehran) today.Fars, a state-run Iranian news agency reported that three prisoners, identified as "K Kh." (28), "A. N." (34) and "A. H." (41), were convicted of possession and trafficking of narcotic drugs. They22
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Documents obtained from the Ministry of Justice reveal details of executions carried out in recent years—including cases of lengthy delays and clerical errors—but fail to shed light on certain key steps of the execution process.Under a freedom-of-information request, The Asahi Shimbun obtained20
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Iran Human Rights, January 20: Two young men were hanged publicly in Tehran early this morning. The young men are identified as "Alireza Mafiha" and "Mohammad Ali Sarvari" (20 years old). They were arrested after mugging a man on a Tehran street on December 1st. A video of the episode was spread17
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The execution by sword brings number of beheadings this year to five.Riyadh: Saudi Arabia beheaded one of its nationals on Thursday after he was convicted of murdering a fellow citizen, the interior ministry announced.Saeed Al Qah’tani shot dead Khazma Al Qah’tani, a woman apparently from his own16
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Calling the death penalty expensive and ineffective in reducing violent crime, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said Tuesday that he would push to make his state the latest to do away with capital punishment."The death penalty does not work in terms of preventing violent crime and the taking of human15
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January 14, 2013: A Sri Lankan has been sentenced to death by a court in Qatar after he was found guilty of killing an Indian.Wengadasalm Sudeshkar (22) was charged with stabbing and killing an Indian expatriate. The incident occurred in 2011.Sudeshkar came to Qatar in 2010. The case is in appeal11
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January 9, 2013: Americans' support for the death penalty as punishment for murder has plateaued in the low 60s in recent years, after several years in which support was diminishing. 63% now favor the death penalty as the punishment for murder, similar to 61% in 2011 and 64% in 2010. Gallup first
The Arizona Supreme Court reduced the death sentence of man who doused his own daughter with gasoline and watched her burn to death more than a decade ago in east Mesa.The court ruled in a decision announced Wednesday that Grell's sentence will be natural life in prison, without possibility of09
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Montana's outgoing governor did not grant clemency to Canadian death row inmate Ronald Smith during his final hours in office.Smith, 55, had hoped that Brian Schweitzer, a Democrat who finished his 2nd term Monday, would put an end to Smith's fight to avoid execution for the 1982 murders of 208
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Riyadh: Saudi authorities on Tuesday beheaded a Syrian convicted of trafficking a large amount of narcotic pills, the interior ministry said, in the first execution in the kingdom this year.Mohammed Darwish was arrested “as he was trafficking a large amount of narcotic pills into the kingdom,” the