Iran Human Rights (Sep 13, 2018): A man who was sentenced to death on the charge of harassing and murdering a 13-year-old teenager was hanged in public in Marvdasht.
According to the state-run news agency, Mizan, on the morning of Thursday, September 13, a prisoner was hanged in public in Marvdasht.
The prisoner was arrested and
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The name of the physician picked to attend a state inmate's execution can remain secret, even from drug makers suing to ban the use of their products in the twice-postponed lethal injection, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Monday.In a twist, lawyers for three pharmaceutical companies who won the
Nevada's prisons pharmacy chief testified Wednesday that she obtained drugs for the lethal injection of a convicted killer despite knowing that drug manufacturers didn't want their products used for executions.Department of Corrections Pharmacy Director Linda Fox said during questioning by
After four failed attempts to meet with President Rodrigo Duterte in Malacañang and the supposed lack of attention from officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the family of death row convict Mary Jane Veloso feel they have been forsaken by the Philippine government in their
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AN Aussie woman is facing death row for the alleged “horror” murder of her stepdaughter as it’s revealed text messages she sent will play a crucial role in the trial.TEXT messages sent by an Australian mother-of-four charged with the alleged murder of her mentally ill stepdaughter in the US will
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China likes to present itself as an alternative model to lead the world in development and governance, but critics say its justice system still has a very long way to go.More people are executed in China each year than in the rest of the world combined, and it is believed some of them are being
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In response to the news that three Iranian Kurdish men, Zaniar Moradi, Loghman Moradi, and Ramin Hossein Panahi, were executed this morning in Raja’i Shahr prison, Karaj, Philip Luther, Amnesty International’s Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said:“We are
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One elderly woman sat with us in her living room, wearing a pink nightgown. "I should have followed my conscience," she said, her hands shaking. "I hope he can forgive me." It's unclear if she's seeking forgiveness from the innocent man she sent to death row, or God himself.She believed the
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AN AUSTRALIAN mother-of-four faces a potential death sentence in the US after being indicted in Arizona for the abuse and murder of her mentally ill seven-year-old stepdaughter.Lisa Cunningham, 43, was raised in Adelaide and moved to the US after marrying an American serviceman just over 20 years
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After protests thousands of miles away, an anti-Islam politician cancels a cartoon contest.Should Pakistan’s attitudes toward blasphemy against Islam apply in the Netherlands? This is the crux of a recent controversy involving the flamboyant politician Geert Wilders of the anti-Islam Dutch
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PARIS (AFP) - The use of the death penalty is declining: more than two-thirds of countries have abolished or ceased to use it and executions continued to decrease in 2017, Amnesty International says.But capital punishment remains in place in 23 countries, with China still believed to be the
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Matters of Life and DeathIt was a chilly afternoon outside the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, a maximum-security prison for death-row inmates in Livingston, Texas. Inside, the mood was somber. An execution was scheduled for later that day, and a sense of foreboding filled the air.Law School student Jake
It has been more than 50 years since the last person was executed on Australian soil, but the Federal Government is being urged to do more to stop the death penalty in other countries.Ronald Ryan was hanged in Victoria in 1967 for the fatal shooting of a prison officer during an escape from
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On Tuesday, September 11, a man was sentenced to death and stripped of his political rights by a court in Guangdong province.Liu Chunlu started a fire inside a KTV bar, which took the lives of 18 people and injured 3 others back on April 24 of this year.According to Xinhua, the defendant
There are no gallows in Telangana to execute death penalty.Prison authorities pointed out that after death sentence is given by the court, an appeal against the conviction is always filed in higher courts and the execution is not carried out immediately."If in future the death sentence is upheld
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An Egyptian court's confirmation of 75 death sentences on Saturday has been condemned by Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as being the result of an unfair trial.Ms. Bachelet expressed her extreme concern at the decision which, if carried out, would amount to "a gross
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The Australian government has repeatedly denied financial assistance to an Australian woman facing the possibility of the death penalty in the US state of Arizona, according to emails seen by The Australian.Lisa Cunningham, 43, was taken into custody on August 29, after prosecutors announced they
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An Egyptian court handed a five-year jail sentence to award-winning photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid on Saturday and confirmed death sentences against 75 people in one of the largest mass trials since the 2011 uprising.Abu Zeid, widely known as Shawkan, who earlier this year received UNESCO's
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During the 5 years Phillip McLaughlin served as New Hampshire's top prosecutor, he kept a photo of a 6-year-old rape and murder victim on his desk.The photo of Elizabeth Knapp of Hopkinton reminded McLaughlin of the time DNA evidence exonerated a man he had charged with murder - a man whom
Japanese former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada was sentenced to death for murder in 1966, and has been living under a death sentence for 50 yearsShuffling down the street sporting shorts, jacket and straw hat, 82-year-old Iwao Hakamada could be mistaken for any Japanese octogenarian going about
The minor girl was gang-raped and set on fire when she was alone at her home in Dhaniabheti Lalung Gaon in Nagaon on March 23.NAGAON: A court in Assam awarded death penalty to a man who was prime accused in the gang-rape of an 11-year-old girl in Nagaon in March this year.Nagaon Chief Judicial
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Lawyers for an Uzbek-born man accused of killing eight people by driving a truck down a New York City bike path have asked a U.S. judge to rule out the death penalty, contending that President Donald Trump's statements against him have made a fair legal process impossible.In a motion filed in a
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In a historic decision, India's Supreme Court has ruled that gay sex is no longer a criminal offence.The ruling overturns a 2013 judgement that upheld a colonial-era law, known as section 377, under which gay sex is categorised as an "unnatural offence".The court has now ruled discrimination on
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The state is set to execute Zagorski on Oct. 11 for 2 drug-related killings in 1983Tennessee plans to execute Edmund Zagorski on Oct. 11 using the same lethal injection drugs that, according to medical experts, tortured Billy Ray Irick last month. The state's death penalty apparatus is up and
Takahiro Shiraishi is suspected of 9 dismemberment murders of 8 women and 1 man he met through Twitter.Japanese prosecutors are determined to see an accused serial killer hang.Officials have indicted Takahiro Shiraishi, 27, on multiple charges of murder, forcible sexual intercourse and
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The National Human Rights Commission recommended Tuesday that South Korea accede to an international protocol renouncing the use of death penalty.The 11 members of the commission unanimously made the recommendation that the country join the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant
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"Singapore -- Disneyland with the death penalty." - William GibsonSINGAPORE, Sept 10 — The first major review of the Penal Code in more than a decade has yielded calls for sweeping changes — 169 to be exact — with a key focus on beefing up laws on sexual and abuse offences to protect women and
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JOHANNESBURG - Amnesty International says use of the death penalty is on the decline and by the end of last year, 142 countries had abolished it.However, there were still 993 executions recorded in 2017, in 23 countries which practise capital punishment, with China still believed to be the
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A divided three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday refused to hear the appeal of Charles Rhines, a gay man on death row in South Dakota, who argued that he should be allowed to present new evidence showing that anti-gay bias may have motivated the jury to sentence him to
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Iran Human Rights (IHR); Sep 8, 2018: Iranian Kurdish political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi was executed this morning at Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj.IHR had earlier warned against the imminent danger and called on international community to do their best to prevent his execution. On September
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Editor's note: Reporter Dave Boucher was one of seven state-required media witnesses at Irick's execution. Billy Ray Irick felt searing pain akin to torture before he died in a Tennessee prison in August, but steps taken in carrying out his execution blocked signs of suffering, according to a
PARIS: Homosexuality is still subject to the death penalty in many countries, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, while others allow gay marriage and adoption.After India´s Supreme Court decriminalised gay sex on Thursday, here is a broad overview of the situation around the world:Africa
Years waiting on death row, inmates told their fate just hours before their execution, and guards paid $180 to do an “unbearable” job –- Japan’s capital punishment system is criticised as cruel and secretive yet remains popular.Unusually for an major industrialised power, capital punishment in
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The Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) have arrested 16,022 persons on charges of their involvement in terrorist activities in the country during last 5 years, of which 2525 were convicted and awarded punishment. The year-wise data of persons arrested on charges of terrorism, issued by Interior