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Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Wednesday expressed 'deep dismay' concerning the execution of another child in Yemen."According to the information we have received, Hind Al-Barti was around 15 years old at the time of the offense," the Chairperson Jean Zermatten said.2 children under 18 years of age were executed in...Read more http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2012/12/yemen-executes-2nd-child-this-year.html
Execution in KuwaitKuwaiti MPs this week approved a law with a death penalty for Muslims who curse God, the Koran, all prophets and the wives of Islam's Prophet Mohammed. Non-Muslims who commit the same offence face a jail term of not less than 10 years, according to the bill.Defendants who repent12
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Manuel PardoA former police officer who murdered 9 people during a 1986 crime spree was executed Tuesday after his attorneys' last-minute appeals were rejected.Manuel Pardo, 56, was pronounced dead at Florida State Prison at 7:47 p.m., about 16 minutes after the lethal injection process began. His10
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Human rights organizations are outraged by ever-increasing executions of dissidents, bloggers and activists in Iran. In the world's most execution-prone country, even misdemeanors draw the death penalty.The human rights situation in Iran has deteriorated over the last few months, according to a UN09
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Iran Human Rights, December 8: Three prisoners were hanged in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan early this morning, reported the Iranian state media.According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA, three prisoners convicted of drug-related charges were hanged in the prison of Zahedan
Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday (Dec. 4) urged Uganda to scrap a controversial draft law that would send gays and lesbians to jail and, some say, put them at risk of the death penalty.The Anti-Homosexuality Bill is expected to become law after Parliamentary Speaker Rebecca Kadaga05
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McALESTER, Oklahoma — An Oklahoma death row inmate was executed Tuesday for the 1993 shooting deaths of an Oklahoma City couple.George OchoaGeorge Ochoa, 38, was given an injection of lethal drugs at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester. He was pronounced dead at 6:07 p.m. CST."I'm
Purnia (Bihar):In an incident reminiscent of Taliban-style execution, a woman was whipped to death in Bihar’s Purnia district last week for adultery. According to eyewitnesses who didn’t wish to be identified, the Tiyarpaya Panchayat held Bibi Shehzadi guilty for having an affair with a relative01
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Last year, NPR looked at two dozen cases in which adults had been convicted of killing infants or young children, then later exonerated or given commutations. The investigation found a number of common themes in those cases. One of them was that prosecutors often relied on the subjective opinions30
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Public execution in KSAA Saudi football player could be executed for accidentally killing a Bangladeshi man while driving his car unless he pays diya (blood money).A court in the northwestern Saudi town of Jouf had given Saud Al Faleh, 20, a few weeks to pay SR300,000 (Dh297,000) diya for the30
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KAMPALA, Uganda — The Ugandan lawmaker who originally authored an anti-gay bill proposing death for some homosexual acts said Friday that a new version of the proposed legislation doesn’t contain the death penalty.Parliamentarian David Bahati said the bill, which is expected to be voted on next29
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Oregon state Rep. Mitch Greenlick (D-Portland) plans to introduce a bill proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the death penalty and substitute life in prison without possibility of parole. If the legislators pass the bill, Oregonians would then vote on the amendment in the 2014 general
Parliamentary secretary calls for putting matter of abolishing capital punishment to a debate in the house.When confronted with the fact that 65 convicts were waiting for their execution on death row in Pakistan, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA Tahira Aurangzeb bluntly asked to have
BEIJING: China sentenced three men to death and another to life in prison on Tuesday over an alleged hijacking attempt in June by members of the minority Uighur ethnic group in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang.Charges against the men included organising, leading, and taking part in a10
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Riyadh: Saudi authorities on Sunday beheaded a Pakistani in the Muslim holy city of Makkah for stabbing to death a compatriot, the interior ministry said.Altaf Hussein Hati was found guilty of stabbing a man in the throat and leaving him to bleed to death, the ministry said in a statement carried07
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Texas executed 15 people in 2012, two more people than in 2011. 73 percent of the people Texas executed in 2012 were people of color, seven African-American and four Hispanics. There were four white people executed by Texas in 2012. Five people were executed from Dallas County, two from Bexar05
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Cathy Lynn Henderson picturedwith Sister Helen PrejeanA Travis County woman who was just days away from being executed for killing a baby in 1994 was granted a new trial on Wednesday by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.The state's highest criminal court deferred to opinion of the trial judge
1 of 2 men convicted in the 1991 sex-killings of 2 13-year-old girls is already free after serving 20 years in prison.The 2nd man is about to be executed.Richard Dale Stokley's execution by injection is scheduled 21 years and 5 months after Mandy Meyers and Mary Snyder went missing and then were
Sharia execution in Yemen(CNN) -- Residents in parts of southern Yemen experienced a "human rights catastrophe" when an al-Qaeda affiliate took control of the country's Abyan province for 14 months, according to Amnesty International.In a new report entitled "Conflict in Yemen: Abyan's Darkest01
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In most places death has no schedule, but in Huntsville, Texas, an average of 16 people per year are scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. Texas executes more people than any other U.S. state. National Geographic's "Inside Death Row" interviews three inmates as their dates of execution
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Public execution in IranRumors of the death of the church's passion for social justice have been greatly exaggerated, at least to judge by a high-profile international conference in Rome on Tuesday promoting global abolition of the death penalty, which was organized by the Community of29
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A bible, blanket, towel and a bar of soap were the 4 things that replaced the comfort of Randy Steidl's home when he was wrongfully convicted of the tragic murder of Dyke and Karen Rhodes on June 14, 1987. Steidl sat on death row for 12 out of the 17 years (6305 days) he was in the Danville29
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Court orders death penalty for 6 Coptic Egyptians, who reside abroad, over controversial anti-Islam film.The state security court issued a verdict on Wednesday sentencing 6 expatriate Coptic Egyptians to the death penalty for offending the Islamic faith, on charges related to producing the
The government will carry out executions in accordance with related laws, as most Taiwanese still support capital punishment despite recent concerns expressed by foreign scholars, the nation's justice minister said yesterday."Scholars have the right to express their personal views, but it is10
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Iran Human Rights, December 10: One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Semnan (northern Iran) early this morning.According to the state run Mehr news agency, the prisoner identified as "M. H.", was convicted of [trafficking] 3470 grams of crack.The charges have not been [confirmed] by
Rehearsing lethal injectionprocedures in ChinaA Beijing lawyer has denounced the execution of a death row prisoner at a hospital, saying that it was done for the convenience of simultaneously harvesting the organs.Lawyer Han Bing from the Beijing H & J Law Firm, who represents the family06
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Abu Dhabi: A man was executed on Thursday morning by firing squad in Abu Dhabi after being convicted of murdering an Emirati Engineer in Al Ain in 2002.Sources confirmed that 36-year-old Alex Rohana, a Sri Lankan, was executed at 7am in the presence of a judge, general public prosecutor, Imam05
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Richard Dale StockleyFLORENCE, AZ (CBS5/AP) - Richard Dale Stokley, the 60-year-old man convicted of murdering two 13-year-old girls in 1991, was put to death by lethal injection at the Arizona State Prison in Florence on Wednesday.Stokley and his accomplice, Randy Brazeal, were convicted of04
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December 4, 2012: In a first case of pardon by President Pranab Mukherjee after assuming office, death sentence of a convict, Atbir, has been commuted to life imprisonment.Atbir was sentenced to death by a sessions court in 2004 for the murder of his step mother, step sister and step brother over03
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Public executionin KermanshahIran Human Rights, December 3: Four prisoners among them one woman, were hanged in Kermanshah (Western Iran) today Monday December 3.According to the official site of the Iranian judiciary in Kermanshah, one female and two male prisoners were hanged in the
November 29, 2012: Papua New Guinea is contemplating introducing execution by lethal injection for 10 people on death row - with many people volunteering to carry out the sentences.The Attorney-General and Justice Minister, Kerenga Kua, has answered questions in parliament about the situation of30
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 29 — An Iraqi court on Thursday issued death penalty verdicts against four bodyguards of the fugitive Sunni vice president Tariq al-Hashimi over criminal charges, a judicial source said.“The Central Criminal Court of Iraq (CCCI) on Thursday issued verdicts of penalties by hanging
Anthony Graves was wrongly convicted and sent to death row in 1994 based largely on the testimony of an alleged accomplice in the fiery murders of six people. The accomplice, while on the execution gurney, admitted he was the lone killer. Ten years later, in 2010, Graves was exonerated. Like29
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Government opinion polls on the death penalty consistently show overwhelming public support for the process, which is by hanging.Now, the neutrality of questions that have produced an 85.6 % support rate is being called into question.The government has carried out 9 opinion polls on the death