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2018
The anger is justified, but not the proposal to grant capital punishment for rape of minors
Each time a horrific sexual crime hits the headlines, there is a clamour for prescribing the death penalty for such offences. Given this, it is perhaps no surprise that the gang-rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir has evoked
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Iraqi courts have sentenced to death a total of more than 300 people, including dozens of foreigners, for belonging to the Islamic State group, judicial sources said Wednesday.The suspects are being tried by 2 courts, 1 near the former jihadist stronghold of Mosul in northern Iraq and another in
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Apr
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The Nebraska Board of Pardons removed an obstacle to the state's 1st execution in 21 years Tuesday by denying a clemency hearing for death-row inmate Carey Dean Moore.Gov. Pete Ricketts, Attorney General Doug Peterson and Secretary of State John Gale voted unanimously to reject Moore's
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Not everyone on death row is guilty. According to the Registry of Exonerations—maintained at the University of California at Irvine Law School, where constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky was the former dean—on average 4 percent of men on death row across the United States are innocent.Kevin
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Apr
2018
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down Daniel Acker's appeal on Monday.A northeast Texas man convicted of strangling his girlfriend moved one step closer to a possible execution date after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down his appeal despite what his lawyer described as a "compelling case
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Apr
2018
The gangrape and murder of 8-year-old Kathua girl has shook the nation's conscience once again. Drawing parallels with the Nirbhaya gangrape case of December 2012, chorus for awarding death penalty for the rapists has grown in the recent days in the country.Cutting across party lines, politicians
ATLANTA — A man convicted of killing an off-duty prison guard after asking him for a ride outside a Georgia Walmart store is scheduled to be executed next month.Robert Earl Butts Jr., 40, is scheduled to die May 3 at the state prison in Jackson, state Attorney General Chris Carr said in a
Since the Supreme Court's lifting of the moratorium against the death penalty in 1976, more than 1,400 men and women have been killed at the hands of various states. Of that number, nearly a third were executed by the state of Texas. That's 549 people killed by our state. The cost of those
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Apr
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In a report released on April 12, London-based international human rights watchdog Amnesty International said “more than half (51%) of all recorded executions in 2017 were carried out in Iran.”Iran ranks second in the world after China in terms of executions and has “carried out 84% of the global
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Apr
2018
Following the publication of Amnesty International annual report, 'The State of the World's Human Rights 2017/2018,' Amnesty International Morocco accused the El Othmani government of instrumentalizing religion to violate scores of human rights.In a report published on April 13, Assabah said that
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2018
“I wondered whether the system I have been a part of for so long was, simply, barbaric.”
The execution was set for 6 p.m. I knew because I set the date and time myself.
With a little more than an hour to go, I sat alone by the phone in my office. More than three decades
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Apr
2018
Indonesia’s Aceh province will stop caning criminals in public after a wave of international condemnation of the practice, local officials said Thursday.The conservative region of Sumatra — the only place in Muslim-majority Indonesia allowed to enforce explicitly sharia based laws — passed a
Ohio's death penalty sentencing process is different in critical ways from a Florida sentencing scheme struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled today. The state's high court unanimously rejected a Marion County man's challenge to the Ohio process, which he claimed
A man who spent nearly 25 years on California's death row for raping and killing a toddler before his conviction was overturned won't be retried and could be freed within days, authorities said Tuesday.Vicente Benavides Figueroa, 68, has remained in prison even though the state Supreme Court last
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Apr
2018
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday paved the way for this week's execution of death row inmate Walter Leroy Moody for the 1989 pipe bombing that killed a federal judge.Last week Moody asked the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to stay his lethal injection execution, which is set for
The court also ordered the killer to pay Dh200,000 in blood money to the child's family.Mohsen Bilal, 34, the Pakistani man, who was convicted of strangling a 11-year-old boy to death after raping him at the rooftop of their Abu Dhabi building, will be executed, according to the latest court
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Apr
2018
BAGHDAD — The 42-year-old housewife had two minutes to defend herself against charges of supporting the Islamic State.Amina Hassan, a Turkish woman in a flowing black abaya, told the Iraqi judge that she and her family had entered Syria and Iraq illegally and lived in the Islamic State’s
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Apr
2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Iraq executed 13 people for "terrorist crimes" after legal proceedings, the justice ministry announced on Monday.Eleven of the individuals were convicted of exploding car bombs, killing security personnel, or kidnappings.The Ministry of Justice stated it renews its
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Iran Human Rights (Apr 13, 2018): Mohammad Reza Haddadi, a juvenile offender who was arrested for murder during a robbery at the age of 15, is in danger of execution.According to a close source, prison authorities have told Mohammad Reza Haddadi’s father that if they fail to obtain the consent of
Alabama on Thursday is set to execute its oldest death row inmate, an 83-year-old man convicted of mailing a deadly pipe bomb to a Birmingham judge in 1989.Walter Moody was convicted of mailing the bomb that killed U.S. 11th Circuit Judge Robert Vance, 58, and seriously injured his wife, Helen
Over 100 death sentences were handed out last year by courts in India which also expanded the scope of capital punishment by enacting new laws against hijacking, human rights watchdog Amnesty International said.In 'The Death Sentences and Executions 2017' report released here yesterday, Amnesty
Nigeria imposed the highest number of death sentences in the sub-Saharan Africa region in 2017 with 621 people put to death, Amnesty International has said.The country bucked the trend seen elsewhere in the region, as Sub-Saharan Africa made great strides in the global fight to abolish the death
Tunisia has failed to take steps to abolish its law on the death penalty, Amnesty International said in its latest report.Since the early 1990s, no death sentences have been carried out in Tunisia but the death penalty still exists in the country. At the end of last year, 77 people were on death
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Two Russian women, both holding children in their arms, were also sentenced to life in prisonBaghdad: Iraq on Tuesday sentenced a French woman to life in prison for belonging to Daesh, the latest in a series of court rulings since the country’s defeat of Daesh.Djamila Boutoutaou, a 29-year-old of
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Calls for urgent overhaul of the scheme governing compensation for victims of crime.The Ministry of Justice has a statutory duty to compensate blameless victims of violent crime through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme (CICS).But a number of outdated rules governing this scheme have17
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A Gwinnett County woman charged with killing her husband and four children will not face the death penalty when her case goes to trial.Isabel Martinez entered a plea of not guilty to stabbing her 9-year-old daughter and killing the five other members of her family at a brief Monday morning
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2018
A 24-year-old Kurdish citizen who is currently in prison has had the death sentence he was handed upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court. The political prisoner, Ramin Hossein Panahi from Iran’s Kurdish minority, has been on hunger strike since the end of January when he first learned of his
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2018
ISLAMABAD: Chaudhry Shafique, Commissioner from the National Commission on Human Rights stated that the clemency process in Pakistan is deficient, and recommended that improvements be made to align it with the country’s constitutional and international human rights obligations.Speaking at the
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2018
The Indian courts gave 109 death sentences last year, but the country did not execute anyone, according to Amnesty International.The number of death sentences imposed last year were 27 fewer than the 136 in 2016, the human rights organisation said in its report, Death Sentences and Executions
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Iran Human Rights (April 12, 2018): A prisoner who was allegedly sentenced to death on murder charges was executed at Kerman Central Prison.According to Baluch Activists Campaign, on the morning of Tuesday, April 10, a prisoner was executed at Kerman Central Prison. The prisoner, identified as
Florida has been seeing a steady decline in the number of criminals sentenced to death. Currently, there are 347 inmates on death row, but "only" 96 have been put to death since 1979.In fact, 2016 and 2017 saw a record low, with only 6 people sent to death row combined; a number far fewer than
Indonesia’s Aceh province will stop caning criminals in public after a wave of international condemnation of the practice, local officials said Thursday.The conservative region of Sumatra — the only place in Muslim-majority Indonesia allowed to enforce explicitly sharia based laws — passed a
Amnesty International has slammed Pakistan's military courts for violating UN principles and international fair trial standards in imposing death sentences.Amnesty International's report -- Death Sentences and Executions 2017 - released here on Thursday, expressed concern that Pakistan's military
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Amnesty International Malaysia (AIM) has lauded the government's move to amend the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 to give judges discretion over the previously mandatory death penalty.At the launch of its Global Report: Death Sentences and Executions 2017, AIM executive director Gwen Lee said the move