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Paul Storey's case had been granted another review less than one week before he was scheduled to be executed.
A Tarrant County judge has recommended that a death row inmate’s sentence be changed to life without parole after reviewing evidence that there was false evidence introduced at his trial.
Paul Storey was sentenced to death in
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Iran Human Rights (May 6, 2018): A prisoner was executed at Babol Prison on murder charges.According to Rokna news agency, on the morning of Saturday, May 5, a prisoner was hanged at Babol Prison on murder charges.The prisoner, identified as A. F., 27, committed murder over a financial dispute in
Nevada's Supreme Court is considering whether to allow the state to move forward with its 1st execution of a death row inmate in 12 years.Federal public defenders and the American Civil Liberties Union are challenging Nevada's plan to use a combination of 3 drugs never tried before in the United
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Texas has executed far more people than any other US state, and one former employee of the state has watched hundreds of executions unfold. She speaks to Ben Dirs about the profound effect that had on her.It is 18 years since Michelle Lyons watched Ricky McGinn die. But it still makes her
Eighteen hours after stopping the scheduled execution of Robert Earl Butts Jr., the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Thursday lifted its own stay.He is now set to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. Friday, state Department of Corrections officials said.In an unusual move, the parole board
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The resistance from the Department of Work and Pensions to instituting recording is ‘bewildering’.The Work and Pensions Committee has published the government’s response to the committee’s two reports on PIP and ESA assessments.The Committee’s final report was published in February, and02
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‘An important day for all Scottish students’.New practical guidance for universities has been published as a toolkit to help Scottish universities and colleges tackle gender-based harassment and violence on campuses.It was developed by Strathclyde University and in collaboration with a range California's next governor could be forced to make a life-or-death decision that the state's top executive hasn't faced in over a decade: whether to spare an inmate facing execution.There are nearly 750 people on death row at San Quentin State Prison, more than any other state, and decisions
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‘Victims did not proceed because they were ordered to contribute to the legal costs’ and could not do so.More than 6,000 domestic abuse victims in England have been unable to get emergency court orders stopping their abusers from harming them, according to the National Centre for Domestic01
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CHARLESTON, SC (WCBD) -- On January 11, 2017, US District Court Judge Richard Gergel sentenced Dylann Roof to death for killing 9 parishioners at Emanuel AME Church.The sentence came after a recommendation from a federal jury.More than a year after the trial, the jury's foreman, Gerald Truesdale
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James Miller of Austin, Texas was found not guilty of manslaughter and murder by a jury after killing his neighbor, Daniel Spencer. After Miller used the “gay panic” defense, claiming Spencer made a pass at him, the jury found him guilty of criminally negligent homicide and sentenced him to 10
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The late Thomas Ferguson received plenty of attention in high places he would never have considered visiting.He could not have known how often legislators at the state Capitol debated changing various criminal statutes because of him.Ferguson was a defendant in the torture and killing of
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Women and girls are disproportionately affected by conflict but are also key to its resolution.About 150 representatives from UN Member States, regional and international organisations and civil society from around the world met in Berlin, Germany, for the annual capital-level Women, Peace and08
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A former Marine who admitted Friday to murdering 7 women in Indiana will be spared the death penalty as part of his plea deal, according to multiple reports.Darren D. Vann, a resident of Gary, was first arrested in 2014. His trial was set to begin in October and prosecutors had indicated they
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DETAILS of Bali Nine kingpins’ final hours after signing their death warrants have been revealed in a harrowing new book about their execution.2.50pm, Anzac Day, 2015, Besi Prison Nusakambangan Island, Java, Indonesia:MYURAN Sukumaran had just refused to sign his own death warrant.There was a
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Detectives are trying to get a DNA profile on the Zodiac Killer to track him down using the same family-tree tracing technology investigators used in the Golden State Killer case.Northern California detectives still trying to identify the infamous Zodiac Killer, who targeted victims in the late
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A bill moving through the Louisiana legislature could change the way juries in felony cases reach a verdict.Senate bill 243, authored by Sen. J.P. Morrell (D-New Orleans), would require unanimous verdicts in felony cases. As the law stands now, only 10 of 12 jurors need to agree. Louisiana is 1
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Iran Human rights (April 30, 2018): A prisoner was executed at Saveh Prison on murder and rape charges.According to Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA), on the morning of Monday, April 30, a prisoner was executed at Saveh Prison on the charge of raping and murdering a five-year-old child.The
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Currently, New Hampshire does not have an execution chamber. A 2008 estimate put the cost of a lethal injection facility at $1.7 million. Governor Chris Sununu has promised to veto a bill that would abolish the death penalty in New Hampshire. But some of his fellow Republicans say ending capital
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An Iraq veteran accused of a deadly shooting rampage inside Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport last year agreed Tuesday to plead guilty and serve a life sentence under a deal that would spare him a possible death sentence.Five people were killed and six wounded in the rampage Jan. 6
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Iran Human Rights (Apr 30, 2018): Seyyed Iman Hosseini Moqaddam, who was dubbed as “the fake postman” by the Iranian media, was hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison this morning.According to IHR sources, on the morning of Monday, April 30, Seyyed Iman Hosseini Moqaddam was hanged at Rajai Shahr
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Gender discrimination and bullying, and high levels of sexual harassment were reported.The Incorporated Society of Musicians, (ISM), the UK’s professional body for musicians, has released its report into the level of sexual harassment, discrimination, bullying and inappropriate behaviour in theThe 35-year-old man had raped and killed the girl on April 21 last year and kept her body hidden in his house.A 35-year-old man has been sentenced to death by a city court for the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl here last year.54th City Civil and Sessions Judge M Lathakumrai held Anil
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A California Supreme Court justice, dissenting Monday in a death penalty decision, called for new rules to curb inaccurate eyewitness identification, a leading cause of wrongful convictions.The dissent came in a case in which the court decided 5 to 2 to uphold the death sentence of Ennis Reed
Hamstrung by troubles with lethal injection — gruesomely botched attempts, legal battles and growing difficulty obtaining the drugs — states are looking for alternative ways to carry out the death penalty. High on the list for some is a method that has never been used before: inhaling nitrogen
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Georgia executes killer of off-duty prison guardGeorgia has executed a man convicted of robbing and killing an off-duty prison guard 22 years ago.Authorities say the death sentence of 40-year-old Robert Earl Butts Jr. was carried out at 9:58 p.m. Friday.Butts and 41-year-old Marion Wilson Jr
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“The whole system has to change so that other women don’t die.”Still Dying on the Inside: Examining deaths in women’s prisons, a new report released this week by the charity INQUEST, is calling for urgent action to save the lives of women in prison.The report documents the inappropriate useATLANTA – A state panel has decided to delay the execution of a Baldwin County man convicted of killing another man during a 1996 carjacking.The decision, announced late Wednesday night, halts the execution of Robert Earl Butts Jr., who was scheduled to die Thursday evening. The state Board of
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With just two weeks to go before his scheduled execution, lawyers for lovers' lane killer Juan Castillo filed another plea for clemency Tuesday, arguing that the San Antonio man wasn't the shooter and highlighting the "manifest unfairness" of his case.The 37-year-old former cook and laborer, who
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“To get to where we are today, we’ve had to fight every step of the way. And we have to carry on fighting now.”For 2018, the centenary year of (some) women first getting the vote in parliamentary elections the Fawcett Society has brought together a new edition of the Sex and Power01
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BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:40 P.M.) – The Islamic State (ISIS) continued their reign of terror in the Yarmouk Camp this week, as their terrorists carried out another ruthless execution of a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) soldier.Using similar tactics deployed in Iraq, the Islamic State strapped the Syrian
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The Supreme Court next term will consider a Missouri inmate’s contention that the state’s preferred method of executing him could cause him to choke on his own blood and will review a kind of class-action settlement in which no payments go to the members of the lawsuit.The court announced Monday
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Report recommends change in abortion law in Northern Ireland.Northern Ireland’s inter-departmental working group on the termination of pregnancies in fatal foetal abnormality cases published its report last week.It has recommended ‘that a change is made to abortion law to provide forWomen are among 560 arrested for 'joining and supporting' the armed group that was defeated last December.A court in Baghdad sentenced 19 Russian women to life in prison for joining Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in the country.A Central Criminal Court ruling determined on