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Malaysia has a mandatory death penalty for murder, and if convicted the pair will be hanged.
Kuala Lumpur―Two Chilean tourists facing the death penalty in Malaysia for allegedly murdering a man in a hotel are innocent and acted in self-defense, their lawyer said Monday.
Felipe Osiadacz and Fernando Candia are on trial over the killing of
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DNA tests have called into question the guilt of Marcellus Williams. And with the convicted killer's guilt still in doubt, Gov. Mike Parson should halt the Missouri man's execution.Williams was sentenced to death in 2001 for the brutal stabbing death of a former St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Prime accused Ram lured the 5-year-old victim, later killed her by smashing her head on the floor in 2015A Special Court of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO)in Durg has awarded capital punishment to a 24-year-old youth convicted of killing a 5-year-old 'deaf and dumb' girl after
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A comprehensive Virginian-Pilot investigationBradley Thomas had bipolar disorder and was in a severe depressive episode when he was arrested for a misdemeanor in Oregon. He had spit on his landlord's face and threatened her husband with a sword.While in jail, Thomas refused meals and medication
While Franco has lain in splendour 37 miles (60km) outside Madrid, until recently, an estimated 140,000 of his opponents lay in unmarked graves around the country, buried where they were summarily executed during and after the civil war. The last of these executions was carried out in 1975.Spain
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Even as the brouhaha over the Saudi-Canada diplomatic spat plays out, Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor is vigorously pursuing the death penalty for 29-year-old human rights activist Israa al-Ghomgham, along with four others. This unprecedented development, which may lead Israa to become the first
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Florida’s approach to the death penalty is deepening its outlier status on this human rights issue and has now added an extra layer of arbitrariness to its already discriminatory and error-prone capital justice system, Amnesty International said in a new report released today.“While several US
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The blasphemy conviction of Meiliana, a 44-year-old ethnic Chinese Buddhist resident of Tanjung Balai, North Sumatra, for complaining about the volume of the adzan (call to prayer) has garnered worldwide attention and condemnation.But how exactly did the case unfold from a simple noise complaint
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The use of fentanyl in a Nebraska execution and the Catholic Church's recent stand on capital punishment has stirred the debate over the way states execute the condemned.Nebraska authorities used fentanyl to help execute a convicted murderer on August 14.Carey Dean Moore, a 60-year-old inmate who
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In 2014, Chris McDaniel was investigating whether Missouri was injecting inmates with a particular sedative, midazolam, before executing them. While under oath, the state had previously said it would not use the drug in its executions.McDaniel, a death-penalty reporter, needed to find out crucial
AFP - Sri Lanka will soon resume executions after a 42-year moratorium but will send home 5 Pakistanis sentenced to death for drug smuggling for execution in their home country, President Maithripala Sirisena said Wednesday.The 5 are among 18 people, including a woman, on death row for drug
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The execution of killer Carey Dean Moore will be remembered for what we didn't see - 14 minutes while the curtains were drawn.Strapped to the death gurney, Carey Dean Moore desperately heaved in oxygen, coughed, went red in the face and hands, then purple before his executioners pulled the
Some say inhaling nitrogen gas would be like dying on a plane that depressurizes in flight, swiftly killing all aboard. Now more than a quarter of Alabama's death row inmates have signed statements saying they would prefer that gas over lethal injection or the electric chair when facing
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WASHINGTON – If he wins confirmation to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh's impact could extend from cradle to grave.Because he would replace retired justice Anthony Kennedy, who occasionally sided with the court's liberal wing, Kavanaugh particularly could shift the balance on cases involving
Despite widespread rumors, the Saudi Shia activist Israa al-Ghomgham has neither been executed nor sentenced to death. After more than three years in pretrial detention, she is now on trial alongside her husband and 4 other activists on protest-related charges at Saudi Arabia's notorious
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COLOMBO, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said on Thursday that he will initiate talks with Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan over extraditing five Pakistani nationals who were on death row in Sri Lanka.In a local media report, Sirisena said these Pakistani
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In a new legal challenge to Tennessee's execution process, death row offenders say using a firing squad would be more humane than the state's current lethal injection method. The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday, says the state tortured Billy Ray Irick to death when he was injected with toxic
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Call for the UK to join the growing number of states supporting a ban on killer robots.Next week, the UK will join more than 70 countries at the sixth international meeting of the group of governmental experts (GGE) in Geneva on the issue of Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWS), or as they have23
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A 41-year-old Brownsville man scheduled to be executed by the State of Texas on Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. is asking a federal judge to stay his execution.Ruben Gutierrez, who was sentenced to death in 1999 for the brutal slaying of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison at the Harrison Mobile Home Park on
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Committee invites responses to its proposals.In a first interim report on its disinformation and ‘fake news’ inquiry the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committeewarned that we are facing a democratic crisis founded on the manipulation of personal data, and the targeting of pernicious viewsLAS VEGAS -- Another pharmaceutical company was allowed Tuesday to join two other firms in Nevada state court hearings about the use of their drugs in a twice-postponed execution of a convicted killer who says he wants to die.Sandoz Inc. is the latest addition to the case before Clark County
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Libya's judiciary convicted 99 defendants in a mass trial on August 15, 2018, sentencing 45 to death and 54 to 5 years in prison, Human Rights Watch said today. The judiciary has a record of conducting unfair trials.The Government of National Accord should uphold the de-facto moratorium on the
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Nebraska last week completed its 1st execution in 21 years when it put 60-year-old Carey Dean Moore to death.Moore had been on death row for 38 years, and had stopped fighting the state's attempt to bring capital punishment back to life with his lethal injection death sentence.That's not the case
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Canada supplies more visitors to Florida than any other country in the world, with more than 3 million of us visiting the Sunshine State each year. Yet, while the bustle and beauty of South Beach may be just a 3-hour flight from cities like Toronto, there is a sense in which the distance between
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Click here to Google translate this article into your own language.Il avait échappé à son exécution in extremis au printemps 2015, moins d’un an après l’élection du président Joko Widodo. Trois ans plus tard, Serge Atlaoui, 54 ans, sait à quel point les mois qui viennent, rythmés par la campagne
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To ensure Texas can keep executing prisoners, it does not have to reveal the supplier of its lethal injection drug to a group of Arkansas death-row inmates, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.Since Texas adopted lethal injection as its method of capital punishment in 1982, it has executed several
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During those three months, he kept up appearances by pretending to be his wife on social mediaA man in Shanghai has been sentenced to death after murdering his wife and hiding her body in a freezer in their home for the following three months while he assumed her identity on social media and in
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President Donald Trump told Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday that illegal dealers of the opioid fentanyl should be sentenced to death when convicted, according to two people familiar with the matter.Sessions met Trump at the White House to discuss overhauling prison sentences, hours
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Samuel Woodward, 21, is accused of killing 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein because he was gay.A 21-year-old California man accused of killing his gay former classmate struggled with his own sexuality and autism spectrum disorder, which caused him to fall in with an online group of white supremacists
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Anesthesiologist Joel Zivot, MD, says he won't give Missouri officials an opinion on which execution method might result in the lowest risk of severe pain for a prisoner on death row because he feels ethically unable to compare the consequences of alternative forms of execution allowed under
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Calling for submissions.The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, will undertake an official visit to the Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 6 to 16 November 2018 at the invitation of the UK government.His visit will focus, in22
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One prisoner was hanged at Gachsaran Prison on murder charges. According to a report by HRANA, on the morning of Monday, August 20, a prisoner was executed at Gachsaran Prison. The prisoner, sentenced to death on murder charges, was identified as Keramat Hassani. Keramat Hassani was from a
Observers' view was blocked for 14 minutes(NEWSER) – The Aug. 14 execution of Carey Dean Moore in Nebraska garnered national attention because authorities used a heretofore untested cocktail of four drugs to end the life of the convicted killer. But now, another aspect of the execution is