SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Yonhap) -- Rival parties agreed Monday to expedite the passage of a bill aimed at toughening punishment on drunk drivers during the ongoing parliamentary regular session.
In October, more than 100 lawmakers co-authored a revised bill on drunk driving. It is called the Yoon Chang-ho act, after a 22-year-old soldier who died last week after being
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Click here to Google translate this article into your own language.Les proches de Serge Atlaoui, le Messin qui est dans le couloir de la mort en Indonésie depuis 2007 pour trafic de drogue, sont sans nouvelles de lui depuis trois semaines.Leur dernier contact téléphonique, c’était le 17 octobre
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The Oct. 29 execution of Indonesian migrant worker Tuty Tursilawati by Saudi Arabian authorities, which was carried out without any prior notice to the Indonesian government and her family, added another red mark to the Middle Eastern kingdom’s long list of human rights violations as well as
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A prisoner was hanged on Saturday, November 3, at Ardakan Prison of Yazd, central Iran.Samei Mohtarami, 45, was taken to solitary confinement on November 1. He was found guilty of murder.He was granted a chance to obtain the required diyeh (financial compensation, "blood money") for the victim’s
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Jordan has vowed to retaliate to the brutal murder of a pilot by Islamic State group by executing prisoners with ties to the extremist group held in its jails.The Jordanian military has threatened “punishment and revenge” will follow the brutal killing of its pilot, Muath al-Kaseasbeh, who was
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‘Prostitution should never be considered an acceptable solution to women’s poverty’.The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, is undertaking an official visit to the UK from 6 to 16 November 2018.He is investigating the interlinkages08
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A referendum would have to be put to Barbadians before any decision could be taken to abolish the death penalty.So said Leader of Government Business in the Senate, Jerome Walcott, who made it clear today that a bill before the Senate was intended to abolish the mandatory death penalty
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Balinese royalty Lindy Klim throws her support behind the Bali Nine drug traffickers serving life without parole... as Renae Lawrence prepares to return home after 13 yearsA member of the Balinese royal family has expressed sympathy for the forgotten Bali Nine drug traffickers serving life
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Hundreds of Israelis, including the families of Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hajbi, marched Tuesday to the factory at the Barkan Industrial Park where the two were killed in a terror attack last month.Led by the victims’ relatives, the demonstrators called for more severe reprisal measures
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Bethlehem: Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has given a nod for Death Penalty Bill which would make it easier for courts to hand death sentences to Palestinians who have killed Israelis or soldiers. Though Israel has a law permitting the death penalty, under the law death penalty may
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This is not what was promised and you ‘could do better’.Last year the law was changed to make Relationships and Sex Education (‘RSE’) compulsory in all schools in England.The government consultation on a ‘Draft RSE Guidance’ document which sets out what all schools should cover in theseThe U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday considers a Missouri murderer’s bid to avoid execution by lethal injection on the grounds that the procedure might rupture blood-filled tumours on his body due to a rare ailment, with new Justice Brett Kavanaugh likely to be the deciding vote.Lawyers for Russell
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This is part 4 in a series attempting to debunk the arguments for the death penalty. Read the previous part here. Read the other parts here.In January 2014, in Ohio, Dennis McGuire gasped, his stomach heaved violently and his fists clenched through 25 minutes of a botched execution. Horrified, an
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate sentenced to death for the 1995 fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old girl.The Alabama Supreme Court set a Feb. 7 execution date for Dominique Ray.Tiffany Harville disappeared from her Selma home on July 15, 1995. Her decomposing body
Under the mullahs regime, Iran has the highest execution rate per capita in the world and this has been true for a long time. In fact, last year they came first in Amnesty International’s report on the death penalty in terms of the number of executions overall.But it doesn’t have to be this way
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Riyadh's execution by beheading of Indonesian maid Tutu Tursilawati defied President Joko Widodo's repeated entreaties to King Salman bin Abdul Aziz for leniencyOnly weeks after the officially sanctioned murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia has ignored the entreaties of the world’s
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Four Tennessee death row inmates are opting for a firing squad rather than lethal injection or the electric chair, The Tennessean reported, citing their lawyers.The lawsuit followed the Nov. 1 execution of 63-year-old Edmund Zagorski by electric chair. Zagorski was sentenced to death in 1984 for
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WELD COUNTY, Colo. -- A plea deal will spare the life of Chris Watts but the Weld County district attorney took jabs at the governor as he explained the decision Tuesday.Watts pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing his pregnant wife, Shanann, and their two daughters this past August. Members of
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The shortlist for the inaugral Staunch Book Prize has been announced.The Staunch Book Prize was founded by Bridget Lawless in order to create an alternative to the “overload of violence towards women in fiction”.It will be awarded to the author of a novel in the thriller genre – crime07
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday signaled a possible break with his fellow conservative Supreme Court justices during a dramatic day of oral argument in a high-stakes death penalty case.The case concerns Russell Bucklew, who was convicted in Missouri on charges of murder, kidnapping and rape
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Iran Human Rights (IHR); November 5, 2018: A prisoner was executed on a murder charge at Ardakan Prison on Saturday, November 3.According to HRANA, Sami’ Mohtarami, 43, was convicted to qisas (retribution in kind) on a murder charge. He killed a person during a car robbery in 2015. The victim’s
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‘We hope this report is the start of a conversation which will lead to real change’.Disabled women still face huge barriers in the realisation of their rights in Scotland when it comes to sex, reproductive health, parenting and parenting support, a new report just launched has said.In 201706
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Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin 'nearly executed for a crime he didn't commit'All charges have been dropped against a man who spent more than 14 years in jail and a decade on Florida's death row for the 2004 murders of his Altamonte Springs neighbors, according to State Attorney Phil Archer.Clemente
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Death penalty has no place in human rights reformThe death penalty remains a controversial debate around the world because of the moral complexities and emotions surrounding it.We, too, received brickbats and cheers when Malaysia’s cabinet agreed to abolish capital punishment and halt all pending
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Under Iranian law, boys can be considered legally responsible at the age of 15, and girls at only 9. Last Friday, the Iran Human Rights website published a report describing the latest death sentence handed down by the Iranian judiciary for a crime that was allegedly committed before the
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November 7, 2018-Special courts set up by Iran's judiciary and approved by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in August 2018 to try individuals accused of economic corruption-and which have already sentenced five individuals to death-are gravely violating the right to due process and the right to a fair
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‘Universal Credit payment levels fall far below the actual cost of a decent standard of living in the UK’.A national petition calling on the UK government to fix Universal Credit was presented at 10 Downing Street earlier this week.The petition, organised by the End Hunger UK campaign, has08
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Nadav Argaman says legislation being pushed by defense minister to allow execution of Palestinian attackers is ‘not helpful’Shin Bet security service chief Nadav Argaman said on Tuesday that he was “unequivocally” against a controversial bill that aims to make it easier for Israel to sentence
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A Pakistani Christian woman has been freed from prison a week after the Supreme Court overturned her conviction and death sentence for blasphemy against Islam, and she is at a secure location for fear of attacks on her, officials said on Thursday.The release of Asia Bibi, a mother of five
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Beginning a conversation crucial if we are to do a better job supporting women experiencing multiple disadvantage.The women’s charity Agenda has published a ‘discussion paper’ which looks at how place-based approaches to change could improve the lives of women experiencing multipleCapital punishment is losing support in the United States, but what about on the Supreme Court?The Supreme Court, its conservative majority in place for years, no longer debates whether state-imposed death is morally right or constitutionally valid. Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation last
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Judaism has traditionally been of 2 minds about capital punishment. It exists in Jewish law, but has rarely been used and is strongly discouraged.The Torah and other texts of rabbinical Judaism say it's okay, but under only limited circumstances. In the wake of Saturday's shooting at a Pittsburgh
2 condemned multiple murderers, including a serial killer, apparently committed suicide within hours of each other on the nation’s largest death row, California officials said Monday.Corrections officials said they found Andrew Urdiales, 54, unresponsive during a security check at San Quentin
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Palestinians have warned that new death penalty will be aimed at political prisonersIsrael's parliament will renew debate next week on a bill that would make it easier to sentence Palestinian attackers to death, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday while vowing to have it