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Children are among those being executed in South Sudan, in an “extremely disturbing” escalation of the state’s use of the death penalty, according to Amnesty International.
This year, seven people, including one child, were hanged, the highest number since the country gained independence in 2011 , according to evidence provided to Amnesty by legal professionals and government officials.
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Death row inmate David Earl Miller was pronounced dead at 7:25 p.m. CDT on Thursday after Tennessee prison officials electrocuted him with the electric chair. He was 61.He is the third person executed this year and was the longest-serving inmate on Tennessee's death row. Miller was sentenced to
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Nashville, Tenn., Dec 6, 2018 / 01:43 pm (CNA).- Hours before David Miller is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee’s electric chair, the state’s governor has rejected Miller’s request that his sentence be commuted to life in prison.Gov. Bill Haslam released a one-sentence statement Dec. 6
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2 men convicted of drug trafficking have escaped the gallows, after the Court of Appeal found them not guilty and acquitted them in a split 2-1 decision.Mohamed Affandi Rosli and Mohamad Fadzli Ahmad had appealed against their convictions in the High Court — Affandi for trafficking 132.82g of
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The UK’s Supreme Court judgement on the abortion law of Northern Ireland also affects Gibraltar.At present, abortion in Gibraltar is a criminal offence and prohibited in almost all circumstances, and people seeking abortion must travel, usually to Spain or the UK, for abortion care.Abortion05
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Tennessee death row inmate David Earl Miller has been moved into a cell next to the electric chair days before his scheduled execution.The Tennessee Department announced the move Tuesday, as preparations for Miller's execution continued. The new cell is part of Miller's "death watch," a period of
The Islamic Penal Code puts the age of criminal responsibility 15 years for males and 9 years for females.Iran Human Rights (December 4, 2018): Milad Azimi is a juvenile offender who allegedly committed a murder at the age of 17. His death sentence was upheld by the Iranian Supreme Court a few
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Denouncing capital punishment and shouting into a bullhorn grisly descriptions of executions, a small cadre of anti-death penalty activists turned out Monday to protest a Houston area pharmacy that allegedly compounded death drugs for the Texas prison system.But even as the sign-carrying crowd
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A military court in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Monday sentenced 6 people, including a woman, to death by hanging for "collaborating" with Israel, authorities said.In total 14 people were sentenced for "collaborating with the occupation," with 6 sentenced to be hanged, the interior ministry in
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The Islamic Penal Code puts the age of criminal responsibility for males at 15 and 9 for females.Iran Human Rights (IHR); December 3, 2018: A juvenile offender who had been sentenced to death for committing an alleged murder at the age of 16, was hanged at Rajai Shahr prison. Iran Human Rights
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A model weeped in court after being charged with trying to smuggle £1.1million (€ 1.2M; US$ 1.4 M) worth of heroin on a flight to Ireland in a suitcase.Tereza Hluskova, 22, from the Czech Republic, was stopped at Lahore airport in Pakistan as she attempted to board a flight to Dublin via Abu
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Iran Human Rights (December 1, 2018): Seyed Danial ZeinolAbedini is a juvenile offender whose death sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court and is scheduled for execution. Iran Human Rights (IHR) urges the Iranian authorities to stop juvenile executions and calls on the international
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The U.S. Supreme Court will not stop the execution of death row inmate David Earl Miller. The Supreme Court denied Miller's request for a stay of execution, shorty before it is scheduled to take place at 7 p.m.U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor disagreed with her colleagues'
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Miller's attorneys detail his childhood — a hellish upbringing rife with sexual abuse, beatings and addictionIn an interview with a clinical psychologist in 2002, David Earl Miller — the man set to be executed in Tennessee's electric chair on Dec. 6 — described a recurring nightmare he'd had
A Tennessee inmate is scheduled to become the second person to die in the state's electric chair in as many months, nearly two decades after Tennessee adopted lethal injection as its preferred method of execution.Both David Earl Miller, 61, and Edmund Zagorski before him chose the electric chair
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Over 40 million people are victims of modern slavery and human trafficking.In 2015, the UK government introduced the Modern Slavery Act (MSA), which requires certain companies to publish an annual statement detailing what steps they have taken to tackle modern slavery, both in their operations05
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HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS -- The Latest on the execution of a man convicted of killing a Texas police officer in 2000 (all times local):6:55 p.m.A member of the notorious "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners has been executed for the fatal shooting of a suburban Dallas police officer during a Christmas
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(Reuters) - Texas is scheduled on Tuesday to execute a member of the “Texas 7,” a group of inmates who killed a police officer at a sporting goods store on Christmas Eve in 2000 after they escaped a maximum security prison days earlier.Joseph Garcia, 47, is scheduled to die by lethal injection in
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A member of the notorious ‘Texas 7’ prison escape is scheduled to be executed this week, amidst clemency appeals, a federal lawsuit and a request for a reprieve.Joseph Garcia is scheduled to die at the Huntsville “Walls” Unit on Tuesday, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The
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Letter campaign calls on the Prime Minister to support allowing Accord to continue.Five and a half years ago, after the deadliest manufacturing disaster ever – the Rana Plaza building collapse that killed at least 1,134 garment workers in Bangladesh – unions, NGOs, and consumers came together03
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Additional sessions judge Usman Wali Khan on Saturday awarded 3 death sentences and slapped a Rs900,000 penalty on Muhammad Bilal for raping and murdering a 6-year-old girl last year.The verdict was based on section 364-A, 376-C and section 302 of Pakistan penal code, which included the sections
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It has been a month since Asia Bibi was acquitted of blasphemy, but her ordeal is far from over.A Christian woman who spent nine years in prison for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad under Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty, Bibi is now in hiding in a
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Iran Human Rights (IHR); December 1, 2018: A prisoner convicted of murdering a prominent cleric who had allegedly sexually abused him when he was a minor, was hanged this morning at Rasht Central Prison in northern Iran. IHR had previously reported about his case and scheduled execution.According
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“These figures are alarming.”The results of YouGov survey just published, asking around 4,000 British people about their attitudes to rape and sexual violence, has shown that far too many people are still unsure what is actually rape.A third (33 per cent) of those surveyed said they thoughtThis totally ignores human rights, and the fact that executing dealers does not stop drug cartels.Citing the number of people dying from fentanyl overdoses, President Donald Trump on Wednesday gleefully tweeted his support for China to start executing drug dealers.“One of the very exciting things
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A Bill to abolish the death penalty will not be tabled at this parliamentary sitting, said Bukit Gelugor MP and vocal critic of the death penalty Ramkarpal Singh.Last October, de facto law minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Liew Vui Keong had confirmed that the death penalty would be
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Tennessee death row inmate David Earl Miller has been moved into a cell next to the electric chair days before his scheduled execution.The Tennessee Department announced the move Tuesday, as preparations for Miller's execution continued. The new cell is part of Miller's "death watch," a period of
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An Islamic State militant who murdered several Western aid workers, including a former Army Ranger, has been killed in an airstrike, according to U.S. military officials.Coalition forces conducted “precision strikes” against senior ISIS member Abu al Umarayn and several other ISIS fighters Sunday
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He started drinking in the womb, abused from his first moments by a mother who wished he'd never been born.He grew up in a household of "unspeakable horror" and made his 1st suicide attempt at age 6.When his mother died this year, her obituary didn't even list his name.David Earl Leggi
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8 alleged Islamist extremists went on trial in Bangladesh on Monday (Dec 3) over a savage 2016 attack claimed by Islamic State that killed 22 people including 18 foreigners at a Dhaka cafe popular with Westerners.Prosecutors say that the 8 members of a homegrown extremist outfit were "associates"
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The consultation will remain open until Friday 15 January 2019Following the controversy surrounding the rape trial in Northern Ireland of two Ulster Rugby players earlier this year, Sir John Gillen was tasked to lead a major review into how serious sexual crimes are handled by the judicial03
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Khadim Hussain Rizvi was detained on November 24 after police launched a crackdownISLAMABAD: A hardline cleric has been charged with terrorism and sedition by the Pakistani government after he led violent protests to oppose the acquittal of a Christian woman from blasphemy charges, a minister
Singapore on Friday hanged a Malaysian convicted of drug trafficking, the latest in what rights groups said was a series of executions prompting them to renew calls for the wealthy city-state to abolish the death penalty.Singapore has some of the world’s toughest anti-drugs laws, and airport
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When, in October 2016, I wrote “[d]eath row inmates in Alabama are human guinea pigs” because the state’s capital punishment regime — specifically its barbaric, often bungled lethal injection protocol — is already so dark, so depraved, so outrageously cloaked in lies and officious secrecy, I