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For the past 3 months, Christopher Anthony Young has awoken in his 10-by-6 foot concrete cell on death row and had to remind himself: He's scheduled to die soon.
As the day crept closer, the thought became more constant for Young, who's sentenced to die for killing Hasmukh "Hash" Patel in 2004.
"What will it feel
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TRANSCRIPT, July 14, 20188:22 AM ET, Heard on Weekend Edition SaturdayNPR's Renee Montagne speaks with Robert Dunham of the Death Penalty Information Center about Nevada's attempt to use fentanyl for an execution.RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:States around the country have been struggling to acquire drugs
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A 19-year-old man is scheduled to go before a Crawford County circuit judge today, charged with smothering his infant daughter then trying to revive her by shocking her with a live extension cord.Tyler Buchanan was charged Monday with capital murder in the June 12 death of his 2-month-old baby
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Lawyers challenging Tennessee's lethal injection guidelines on Thursday suggested the state's rules surrounding executions were unclear and incomplete, issues they believe could spur the illegal torture of inmates.On the 4th day of a civil trial brought by 33 Tennessee death row inmates
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Pakistan's Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday confirmed the death sentence to another 12 "hardcore terrorists," who were involved in heinous offenses related to attacking armed forces, law enforcement agencies, destruction of educational institution and killing of innocent civilians
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Japan has carried out executions of 83 death-row inmates since 2000. The standards used to decide whom to execute are not clear and seem to reflect the particular outlook of the justice minister serving at the time.Seven leading members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyō, including its founder
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OGDEN, UTAH — A couple accused of murdering their 3-year-old daughter and trying to conceal her injuries with makeup will face the death penalty if convicted, the state of Utah announced Tuesday.Miller Costello and Brenda Emile are accused of fatally beating their daughter, Angelino Costello
July 12, 2018 (LBO) – Sri Lanka must pull back from any plans to implement the death penalty and preserve its longstanding positive record on shunning this cruel and irreversible punishment, Amnesty International said.The Sri Lankan President, Maithripala Srisena, is pressing ahead with plans to
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‘We cannot truly stand up to hatred unless we stand up to misogyny in our society.’In the course of just one week in July 1995, 8372 mostly Muslim men and boys were murdered by Bosnian Serb forces in an act of genocide at a place called Srebrenica.This was the final act in a genocidal plan11
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The high court upheld the February 19 order of the Mahila court, awarding death penalty to S Dhasvanth, an engineering graduate.Chennai: The Madras High Court on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence awarded to a 23-year-old techie by a lower court for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl
LAS VEGAS — A twice-convicted killer scheduled to be executed Wednesday night in Nevada by an untried three-drug lethal injection is steadfast in his desire to be put to death, but a final-hour lawsuit by a drug company could halt the execution.Pharmaceutical companies have resisted the use of
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A declaration of intent.Every year global cross-border movements continue to exact a devastating toll on human life both on land and at sea.But while some of the dead have been counted, many more are missing.And the names of most of the dead and missing are not known; their families have14
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Two Indonesian gay men were caned in public last week despite the government’s pledge that such barbaric punishment would not be continued. The men were whipped 80 times each with a rattan cane as onlookers hurled abuse and insults.15 people were caned outside of a mosque in the country’s
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With the execution of Aum Shinrikyo leader and six of his followers, Japan looks to leave behind an era of tragedy. On July 6, 2018, Japanese authorities executed seven members of the religious movement Aum Shinrikyo (Aum true religion, or supreme truth), which carried out the 1995 Tokyo subway
Louisiana authorities are seeking a court order that would rule out any executions in the state for at least one more year.A lawsuit challenging the state's lethal injection protocols has blocked Louisiana from carrying out any death sentences since 2014. Its last execution was in 2010.In a court
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A German medical firm is suspected of illegally shipping several tons of a solution that is used to euthanize animals to the United States. The solution contains an ingredient also used to execute prisoners.The prosecutor's office in the northern town of Oldenburg is investigating German
BANGKOK: The Appeal Court today upheld the death sentence for a Spanish man convicted of murdering and dismembering the body of a fellow Spaniard two years ago.Artur Segarra Princep, 38, was given the death penalty by the Criminal Court last year.He was convicted of the premeditated murder of
A Chinese court sentenced a man to death Tuesday for a knife attack that killed 9 children and wounded another 11 as they returned home from school in northern China.Zhao Zewei, 28, was arrested in April following the killings that he said were in response to a long-held grudge against the
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The 2012 barbaric Delhi rape case has come close to its end, with the Supreme Court dismissing the review petitions of the accused. Even though the case went through a fast track court, accelerated by the mood of the nation, it took 6 years to reach its closing stage.There are at least 477
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LAS VEGAS -- A Nevada judge is halting the use of a drug in the execution of twice-convicted killer Scott Raymond Dozier hours before he was scheduled to die by a first-of-its-kind lethal injection mixture. Clark County District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez ordered the delay Wednesday morning
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A lawsuit challenging Alabama’s lethal injection process took an unexpected turn Tuesday after eight inmate plaintiffs asked to be put to death by the state’s new execution method: inhaling nitrogen gas.The Alabama attorney general’s office and lawyers for inmates submitted a
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‘There can be no justification not to act unless the aim is to punish women having a legal abortion.’Women in England should be allowed to take misoprostol – the second drug used to effect an early medical abortion – just like our peers in Scotland and Wales, argue healthcare leaders, in an09
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When men commit crime, arrest, charge, record and report them as men.British Transport Police are at present arresting males and allowing them to self-identify as female.The crime is then recorded as a female crime and reported as such to the press.As Jean Hatchet says in the petition she14
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OTSU, Shiga -- A court has ordered a retrial for a deceased man who was convicted of murdering a 69-year-old woman in 1984 in western Japan, endorsing new evidence and suspecting that he was forced into confession after being beaten by police officers.The decision by the Otsu District Court in
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Today, July 13, 2018, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, by a vote of xxx, rejected Christopher Anthony Young’s application for clemency. Young faces execution by the State of Texas on Tuesday, July 17, 2018.Earlier this year, the Board unanimously recommended clemency for Thomas Whitaker, a
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The Ministry of justice says the list of convicted drug traffickers who were sentenced with capital punishment is ready to be produced before the President, today.The list has been compiled by the Justice Ministry in accordance with an order issued by the President.President, yesterday (11)
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An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced 11 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death over charges of killing policemen, the state-run Ahram newspaper reported.The case dated back to 2015 when the 11 convicts killed 3 policemen and burnt their vehicle.The court referred the sentence to
Last week 2 prisoners were secretly executed at Gorgan Prison on murder charges. One of the executions was followed by an act of revenge by the family of the prisoners on the victim's relatives.According to a close source, on the morning of Saturday, June 30, 2 prisoners were executed at Gorgan
More than four decades after the guillotine was last used in an execution in France, a 150-year-old replica of the device made famous in The Terror that followed the French Revolution has sold at auction for the equivalent of $9,355.The 10-foot-tall guillotine, described as having "a few dents on
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(LAS VEGAS) — A state trying to execute its first inmate in 12 years using an untested combination of drugs is heading back to planning stages, and a twice-convicted killer who wants to die will return to death row, after a court postponed his lethal injection to allow a drug company to argue
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A 150-year-old guillotine with "a few dents on the blade" will go under the hammer in Paris today.The 10-foot (3-metre) tall instrument of execution which was used to dispatch criminals in France until 1977 is in working order. But the Drouot auction house insisted that the model was built as a
The Sri Lanka govt approves capital punishment for drug offencesColombo, Jul 11 (PTI) The Sri Lankan Cabinet has unanimously approved a move to bring back capital punishment for drug-related crimes, a senior minister has said.Gamini Jayawickrema Perera, Minister of the Buddhist Order said that
US President Donald Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, setting the stage for a bruising confirmation battle.In a primetime announcement at the White House, Mr Trump praised his pick as a "brilliant jurist".The nominee, a District of Columbia appeals court judge, is a
TOKYO - The body of executed Aum Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara was cremated in Tokyo on Monday and his remains will likely be kept at a detention house in the capital for some time as it remains undecided to whom they will be handed over, sources familiar with the matter said.Who will gain