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Iran Human Rights; June 28, 2018: According to Amnesty International sources, Abolfazl Chazani Sharahi, a juvenile offender charged with murder at the age of 15, was executed on Wednesday, June 27 at Qom Central Prison.
This is the fourth juvenile offender executed in Iran since the beginning of 2018.
Execution of juvenile offenders in Iran continues
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President Donald Trump has voiced his support for the death penalty, and a recent Pew Research Center survey found an uptick in the share of Americans who favor capital punishment for those convicted of murder. Over the long term, however, public support for the death penalty has declined
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President Donald Trump’s likely choice of a deeply conservative justice to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court could have a significant impact on death penalty cases, experts say.“Death row inmates will find it substantially more difficult to prevail,” said John Blume, a law professor at
A Chinese court yesterday sentenced two drug dealers to death in front of hundreds of people.The two criminals received the verdict on a sports ground in Haikou, southern China's Hainan Province, before being put to execution immediately, the Daily Mail reported.Many of the spectators were young
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Texas executes 'ice pick killer' for 1979 rape and murderTexas on Wednesday executed a man dubbed the "ice pick killer" for the weapon he used to murder a woman in 1979, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal from his lawyers, who argued his veins were too compromised for a
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A Texas death row inmate who confessed to 4 slayings and at least nine rapes is set for lethal injection Wednesday amid concerns from his lawyers that his health issues make it likely his execution will cause him unconstitutional pain.No one disputes Danny Paul Bible's guilt for a Houston woman's
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In a joint conference of the judiciary in Tehran on the morning of June 26, Iranian Judiciary Chief Amoli Larijani accused protesting bazaar merchants of disrupting Iran’s economy, warning them to “take the stuffing out of their ears” and realize that verdicts ranging from 20 years in prison to
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The mastermind of the murder case committed the crime after he came to know about the affair, which had ended already. Two more men helped the accused to commit the crime.The 58-year-old man, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his wife's former lover, will face the death penalty
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In June 1966, the manager of a miso-producing factory, his wife and two children were murdered in their home. Their house was robbed and set alight. Iwao Hakamada, who was an employee at the miso factory, was tried for the quadruple murder and ultimately found guilty. But you don’t need to be a
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Rabat – A commission within Tunisia’s government proposed substantial social reform in their final report last week.Over 230 pages of proposals in the report address decriminalization of homosexuality and banning of anal tests, gender equity in inheritance law, remarriage stipulations, and “total
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DNA technology has helped detectives make an arrest decades after a 1986 rape and murder of a 12-year-old Washington state girl, bringing closure to a "horrific crime [that] shook our community," the police chief said.Gary Hartman will be arraigned Monday following his June 20 arrest on charges
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, who has been trying without success to have crime-scene evidence tested for DNA, saying the results could prove his innocence.The decision, delivered without comment from the court, ended Reed’s bid to
The pardons board of various states reduced the sentence of 165 people who were sentenced to death from 2007 to 2017, said the Prisons Department.During the same time, 35 executions took place, said its deputy director (policy) Supri Hashim.Supri said that those who had their death sentence
Besides death penalty for rape of a girl under 12 years of age, the criminal law ordinance amended the Indian Penal Code to enhance minimum punishment for rape from the existing 7 to 10 yearsThe Punjab cabinet on Wednesday decided to extend to the state 2 ordinances relating to cases involving
Iran Human Rights; June 28, 2018: According to Amnesty International sources, Abolfazl Chazani Sharahi, a juvenile offender charged with murder at the age of 15, was executed on Wednesday, June 27 at Qom Central Prison. This is the fourth juvenile offender executed in Iran since the beginning of
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The stigma surrounding reproductive health is a key concern.In the first report of its kind, Public Health England (PHE) has revealed the impact of women’s reproductive health issues on the nation’s physical, mental and social wellbeing.The report combines women’s experiences, as reported inWashington (CNN)Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative who provided key votes for same sex-marriage, abortion access and affirmative action, will retire from the Supreme Court.The retirement is effective July 31, Kennedy said in a letter to President Donald Trump on Wednesday.Kennedy's decision
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LAHORE: Justice Muhammad Anwaarul Haq of Lahore High Court sought a reply from Punjab home secretary by June 28 in a writ petition filed by the father of Kasur rape and murder victim Zainab Amin. The father sought permission for the public hanging of convict Imran Ali for abducting, raping and
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An appeals court in Sudan has overturned the death sentence of a teenager who killed her husband after he allegedly raped her, instead sentencing her to five years in prison, the BBC reports.Noura Hussein, 19, was sentenced by an Islamic court in May to death by hanging for stabbing her husband
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‘There is still much work required to address the striking gender imbalance in STEM apprenticeships’.A Public Accounts Committee report published last week, Delivering STEM skills for the economy, has warned of potential impact of Brexit – and calls for action on gender imbalances.STEM skills26
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A Tunisian man who allegedly served as a bodyguard to Osama bin Laden was detained in Germany on Monday and is to be deported, officials said.The 41-year-old, identified as Sami A., has lived in Germany for about two decades, but outrage over his presence has grown in recent months as the mood
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With two days to go before his scheduled date with death, Houston serial killer Danny Bible on Monday lost out on a bid for clemency.The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied the aging prisoner's plea in a 6-0 vote, according to his attorneys. He's now scheduled to die by lethal injection on
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Parks: austerity has seen ‘disastrous reductions in staffing and maintenance’.On 21 June, the first day of summer, a ‘Charter for Parks’ was launched and the UK’s political leaders asked to champion parks and local public green spaces across the UK to halt – and reverse – their decline.TheJACKSON, MISS. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected appeals from two Mississippi death row inmates.However, a spokeswoman for the state attorney general's office, Margaret Ann Morgan, said Richard Gerald Jordan and Timothy Nelson Evans have additional appeals remaining. Neither has an
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An Ohio man accused of driving his car into a crowd of protesters in Virginia last year and killing a woman has been charged with federal hate crimes.James Alex Fields Jr is already facing charges of murder and other crimes at the state level in Virginia. He has been held in jail without
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(CNN) Anthony Kennedy's announcement of his retirement from the Supreme Court on Wednesday creates an opening for President Donald Trump to reshape the ideological makeup of the nation's highest court for decades to come, a best-case scenario for a Republican Party that only reluctantly accepted
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‘We are done pandering to the egos of change-resistant influential men’#TimesUpNews has started this petition to journalists and 8 others, as members of the international journalism community are no longer prepared to sit through another ‘manel’, support organisations that disingenuously claim27
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Indonesia now has 3 Islamic militants on death row after the South Jakarta District Court sentenced Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) leader Aman Abdurrahman to die before a firing squad for directing a 2016 gun and bomb attack in downtown Jakarta from behind bars in a supposed maximum-security
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As pride month comes to a close this week, the U.S. recognizes the third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage nationwide. The decision on June 26, 2015, overturned prohibitions in 13 U.S. states that had not already granted the right to marry on the state level to
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In a joint conference of the judiciary in Tehran on the morning of June 26, Iranian Judiciary Chief Amoli Larijani accused protesting bazaar merchants of disrupting Iran’s economy, warning them to “take the stuffing out of their ears” and realize that verdicts ranging from 20 years in prison to
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Four decades of the clerical regime’s rule in Iran has left thousands of victims through widespread practice of torture and ill-treatment with impunity.Torture has been institutionalized in the regime’s punishment laws and is sanctioned by the Judiciary as well as the regime officials.Hadi
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It’s been seven years since Pennsylvania’s General Assembly commissioned an analysis of capital punishment in the state — and for the last two, Gov. Wolf has placed a moratorium on executions, awaiting the outcome.Finally released Monday, the dense, 280-page Joint State Government Commission
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Donald Trump is due to visit the UK on 13 July.His presidency has been characterised by the spreading of fear, hate and conflict worldwide and deplorable remarks about women.Women’s March London invite you to #BringTheNoise on 13 July 2018 and broadcast to the world that we stand together for25
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The parents of a Sudanese teenager who was sentenced to death after killing her husband - whom she accuses of raping her - have denied reports that they've disowned her. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, her father also says he never imagined that making her marry her cousin would have such