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Bali Nine member Renae Lawrence has been released on bail after handing herself in to a NSW police station over outstanding 2006 arrest warrants.
The convicted drug smuggler, 41, landed back in Australia on Thursday for the first time after being released from Bali prison after 13 years behind bars.
Now, according to ABC News, Lawrence
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17 Islamic militants were sentenced to death on Thursday for their role in multiple church bombings in Egypt that killed scores of Coptic Christians.It was reported that another 19 defendants were issued life sentences by a military court, while 9 others were given 15 years in prison for
ISLAMABAD — A nationwide massive police crackdown in Pakistan has detained hundreds of leaders and activists of an Islamist party, which recently staged crippling street protests against the Supreme Court's acquittal of a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy.Authorities said Saturday that a
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Joseph Garcia met George Rivas back in the summer of 1999, eight months before they started plotting their escape.They were doing time together on the Connally Unit, counting out their days in the heat of a Texas prison.Garcia was locked up on a murder charge, a crime he’s long maintained was
Washington (CNN)As the US Supreme Court rejected a series of death penalty appeals from Florida on Tuesday, key justices laid bare the enduring divisions over the fairness and effectiveness of the ultimate punishment."The flaws in the current practice of capital punishment," Justice Stephen
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As she is finally reburied in the same grave as her parents, those attending the reinterment ceremony say the 29-year-old was guilty of nothing more than a scandalous love affair and being a woman with 'ideas above her station'History will almost certainly record that when they sent Edith
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Secrecy is driving a rise in inhumane executions by lethal injection across the U.S., according to the Death Penalty Information CenterStates are repeatedly concealing controversial information regarding the use of illegally imported drugs, questionable drug sources, and unqualified executioners
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Renae Lawrence arrived in Australia on Thursday morning after serving time. Lawrence was released from prison in Bali on Wednesday evening and deported. The 41-year-old co-operated with Indonesian officials upon arrest in Bali in 2005. Bali Nine's Renae Lawrence might be free for the first time
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Denpasar: Bali Nine member Matthew Norman, who is serving a life sentence in Kerobokan prison for drug smuggling, wishes his friend and fellow convicted drug smuggler Renae Lawrence "all the best of luck" on the eve of her release.Norman, at 32 the youngest member of the Bali Nine, spoke to
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Iran Human Rights; November 21, 2018: Three prisoners were hanged in public at Iranian city of Shiraz this morning.Several children were observed among the crowd watching the executions.Iranian authorities have executed at least 15 people during the last 8 days.Iran Human Rights (IHR) warns
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As many individuals as possible need to submit to this inquiry before 9 December.The UK Parliament’s Women and Equalities Committee’s inquiry looking into abortion law in Northern Ireland is seeking evidence on the following questions:What are the views of the general public, women andSome 32 offences currently carry the death penalty, but government says punishment is no deterrent to crime.As a lawyer, Liew Vui Keong helped one of his clients appeal successfully against a death sentence.Now, as Malaysia's minister in charge of law, he is working to get the death penalty
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Advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava has filed a PIL in the Supreme Court seeking the execution of the death penalty awarded to the convicts in Nirbhaya rape and murder case. As per reports, the lawyer has appealed the apex court to issue directions to the central government to execute the death
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Oklahoma is set to resume executions by the end of 2018 by means of Nitrogen gas, meaning time is well and truly running out for Julius now.The case of Julius Jones remains a divisive one. Convicted and sentenced to death over the murder of insurance executive Paul Scott Howell on July 28, 1999
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And stop violence against women and girls.For far too long, impunity, silence and stigma have allowed violence against women to escalate to pandemic proportions – for example that one in three women worldwide experience gender-based violence.The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-BasedJAIPUR: Father of an infant girl was awarded the death sentence by the Jhunjhunu (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Court in on Friday for raping a minor on August 2.This is the fourth case in the state where the accused under POCSO were handed out death sentence.Nand Kishore, Special
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As the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, M. Jean-Yves Le Drian, announced on Monday 19 November on the sidelines of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, and in consultation with its European partners, particularly Germany, France has just adopted sanctions against 18 Saudi nationals in
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Moroccan women with alleged ties to ISIS will potentially face the death penalty in Iraq.Rabat – Morocco’s North Observatory for Human Rights (ONDH) shared a statement today on its Facebook, saying that a source at a refugee camp in northern Syria told women living in the camp, including Moroccan
Bali Nine drug smuggler Renae Lawrence has touched down in Australia for the first time in 13 years, landing in Brisbane after her release from prison in Indonesia.Lawrence was released from Bangli Prison yesterday, where she spent the last four years of her sentence before flying out of Denpasar
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In a rare decision, the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday decided to review its final decision of awarding a man death penalty for the murder of 4 children and a woman with whom he was living as husband and wife.A bench headed by Justice Kurian Joseph also directed that the order to suspend the
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A US death row inmate who asked to be executed by firing squad has been told he must choose between the electric chair and lethal injection.Tennessee prisoner David Earl Miller, 61, was sentenced to death 36 years ago for murdering a 23-year-old woman whom he had been dating.Victim Lee Standifer
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MANDALAY — The Kyaukse Township court sentenced three men involved in the killing of a student from the Kyaukse Government Technical Institute on Monday. One man received the death penalty and two others received lengthy sentences.Aung Thu Hein, who stabbed Ko Nay Min Htet to death, received the
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A Frederick, Colorado, man who pleaded guilty to murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters in August has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.Christopher Watts’ sentence was handed down Monday after his parents and the family of his slain wife Shanann Watts made
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Gruesome spectacles of condemned men swelling up, writhing, frothing and turning purple are becoming the norm for executions.In the death penalty states this year, condemned men strapped to a gurney have writhed, screamed, swelled up, frothed at the mouth, cried as they were burning up and turned
Alabama can execute inmates by nitrogen. When it will is an open question.State officials have yet to create a protocol guiding the use of the execution method, authorized by the Legislature last spring and which several death row inmates have already indicated a preference for.“We don’t have any
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Just one day after Renae Lawrence returned to Australia after 13 years in an Indonesian prison, the Bali Nine drug trafficker has handed herself in to police over a number of outstanding warrants.A spokeswoman for NSW Police confirmed the 41-year-old attended the Waratah police station in
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Bangladesh's recent impetus on cracking down on drug abuse and trade has led to some divisive results—while there is no doubt that this is an issue that needs to be addressed, the approach taken by the authorities has been questioned. The country recently passed the Narcotics Control Bill 2018
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To save 30 per cent on the book’s cost, order online by December.Passed in 2000, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and subsequent seven Resolutions make up the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda.This agenda is a significant international normative and policy framework22
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'There was a fear if a terrible crime was committed... then the vote could do the wrong way," local politician saysGermany has abolished the death penalty after voters in the last state where capital punishment was legal, overwhelmingly approved a constitutional change. In total, 83 per cent of
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The first text to document Asian women’s resistance to gendered racism in Britain.Amrit Wilson wrote Finding a Voice: struggles of South Asian women in response to institutional racism and a heightened awareness of gender inequality.First published in 1978, and winning the Martin Luther King21
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Prosecutors on Wednesday demanded the death penalty for a man accused of killing 2 junior high school children in Osaka in 2015.During the trial at the Osaka District Court, prosecutors said Koji Yamada, 48, murdered by suffocation 12-year-old Ryoto Hoshino and 13-year-old Natsumi Hirata with
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BANGLI: The first member of the “Bali Nine” heroin-trafficking gang was released from prison Wednesday after serving 13 years, in a case that caused a huge diplomatic rift between Indonesia and Australia.Renae Lawrence, 41, the only female member of the group, was arrested in 2005 when
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A court on Tuesday awarded death penalty to a man and life imprisonment to another after holding them guilty of murder in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.Additional Sessions Judge Ajay Pandey awarded the death penalty to Yashpal Singh and sentenced Naresh Sherawat to life imprisonment.The prosecution
Death-row inmate Celestine Egbunuche has been dubbed Nigeria's "oldest prisoner" amid a campaign calling for his release.He is 100 years old and has spent 18 years in jail after being found guilty of organising a murder.Small and slightly hunched over, he looks wistfully into space as he sits on