Police investigate reports of blasphemy in Sukmawati’s poem
The National Police are investigating reports of blasphemy allegedly committed by Sukmawati Soekarnoputri, an official confirmed on Wednesday.
Police spokesperson Insp.Gen.Setyo Wasisto said two reports of blasphemy implicating the daughter of founding father Sukarno had been filed with the Jakarta Police and the National Police’s
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Iran Human Rights (Mar 3, 2018): Mohammad Kalhor’s Lawyer, Mohammad Aqakhani, declared that his client who is sentenced to death for murdering his teacher at the age of 15, might be executed soon. According to a close source, Mohammad Kalhor is a student from Boroujerd city who stabbed his
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With weeks to go before his scheduled execution, defense lawyers for Erick Davila are arguing that he should be spared death because he was high at the time of the slaying and didn't intend to kill more than one person.The Fort Worth man was convicted of killing a rival gang member's mother and a
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Texas is seeking to speed up executions with a renewed request to opt-in to a federal law that would shorten the legal process and limit appeals options for death-sentenced prisoners.Defense attorneys worry it would lead to the execution of innocent people and - if it's applied retroactively, as
Joint Statement of Center for Prisoners' Rights and Japan Innocence & Death Penalty Information Center to call Japanese government for a sincere dialogue: Condemning the government for refusing a dialogue with international community and not accepting capital punishment as a human rights
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President of Mongolia Khaltmaa Battulga intends to initiate draft amendments to the Criminal Code of Mongolia reinstating the capital punishment, Montsame state news agency reported.The President seeks to introduce death sentence for crimes against children and submit the bill to the Parliament
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New Online Resource a UVA Law CollaborationThe University of Virginia School of Law has collaborated on a new website that uses a data-driven, interactive map to illustrate the rapid decline of the death penalty in the United States since 1991.The website is a supplement to Professor Brandon
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The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected appeals by 2 death row inmates who were convicted of murdering women in the 1990s in Santa Rosa and Hillsborough counties.One of the appeals was filed by Norman Grim, who was sentenced to death in the 1998 murder of Cynthia Campbell, whose body was
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Undeterred by a shortage of drugs used for lethal injections and capital punishment’s waning popularity, states that still practice the death penalty are seeking alternative ways to kill death row inmates. The latest suggestion? Death by nitrogen gas, a method that has never been used
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Rome: Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of 12 prison inmates, including two Muslims and a Buddhist, in a Holy Thursday ritual and said the death penalty should be abolished because it is neither Christian nor humane.For the sixth year running, the pope held the ritual in an institution
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Several years ago, in the middle of the Christian Holy Week leading up to Easter, an execution team strapped Jeannie Alexander onto a gurney at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.Alexander was then the head chaplain at the prison, which houses Tennessee's death row. She is an
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Convicted Norfolk bank robber Erick Vela this week filed a petition asking a federal judge to stay his execution and vacate his sentence, saying his death sentence is unconstitutional.The 211-page petition filed in U.S. District Court Tuesday argues in part that Vela is intellectually disabled
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LINCOLN — Nebraska took another step toward bringing back the death penalty Tuesday by seeking an execution date for condemned killer Carey Dean Moore.Attorney General Doug Peterson filed a motion with the Nebraska Supreme Court seeking a death warrant for Moore, 60, the longest-serving inmate on
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LINCOLN (AP) — Attorneys for a Nebraska death row inmate whose case inspired the 1999 movie "Boys Don't Cry" say he should be found ineligible for execution because he has the intellect of a child.John Lotter was sentenced to death for his role in the 1993 killings of Teena Brandon, who was a
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A Baghdad court on Monday sentenced 6 Turkish women to death and a 7th to life in prison for membership of the Islamic State jihadist group, a judicial source said.The source told AFP that the women, all accompanied by small children in the court, had surrendered to Kurdish peshmerga fighters
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In 2015, ABA attorneys noticed a major gap in resources for lawyers who defend capital cases: clemency information. Defendants who have exhausted their direct appeals and habeas petition rights often ask governors for mercy—but there wasn’t a lot of information available about how to do that
Richard Dan Phillips waited anxiously Wednesday in the hallway of Frank Murphy Hall of Justice. It was a day he had hoped would come for more than four decades.Phillips, 71, politely answered numerous reporters’ questions while waiting to be asked into the courtroom of Judge Kevin J. Cox in Wayne
Some drugs obtained for the first lethal injection in Nevada since 2006 will expire before the state Supreme Court decides whether to approve their use, officials said Friday.The sedative diazepam that the state has expires May 1, and Nevada Department of Corrections spokeswoman Brooke Santina
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The Delta State Governor, His Excellency, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has approved the grant of total pardon to 5 inmates who were serving various terms of imprisonment and commuted 30 others on death row to life imprisonment in the exercise of his Prerogative of Mercy under Section 212 of the
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BANGKOK (THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The Krabi Provincial Court on Wednesday (March 28) handed down the death penalty to six men for the shocking massacre of a village head and seven of his family members, including three children.The brutal killings occurred at the victims' home in Krabi
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‘This report clearly shows we risk turning the clock back on gender equality as a result of Brexit’.The first independent report to look at the economic impact of Brexit on women was published by the Women’s Budget Group and the Fawcett Society earlier this week.The report, ‘Exploring the29
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Jurors left a Sacramento courthouse in tears after they recommended giggling cop killer Luis Bracamontes be sentenced to death for the slaying of two California officers.Bracamontes cheered when a jury in February convicted him for the 2014 murders of Sacramento County Sheriff’s Deputy Danny
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The Nevada Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments in the cases involving a death row inmate who wants to die and the controversial ballot initiative aimed at preventing local governments from enacting sanctuary city policies.The state’s high court will hear 60 minutes of oral arguments in the
A Baghdad court on Monday sentenced 6 Turkish women to death and a 7th to life in prison for membership of the Islamic State jihadist group, a judicial source said.The source told AFP that the women, all accompanied by small children in the court, had surrendered to Kurdish peshmerga fighters
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HOUSTON, Mo. — Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for one of the suspects in the slaying of a transgender teenager in rural southern Missouri.Court records show plans requesting the sentence for Andrew Vrba were filed Monday. Vrba, 18, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of
A female overseas Filipino worker was saved from the death penalty in Saudi Arabia and has returned to the Philippines, the Department of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.The DFA did not identify the worker but described her as an "unwitting drug mule."The DFA did not say how the OFW gained
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Two Indonesian men have been arrested for having gay sex.The university students had their rooms raided by residents in Aceh, the only region of the Muslim-majority country where Shariah law is in effect and gay sex is illegal. Condoms and mobile phones belonging to the 21 and 24-year-old were
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In America, jails and prisons have become the nation’s de facto mental healthcare providers – and the results are chillingn One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey describes two kinds of patients in the psychiatric hospital where the story is set: Acutes (“because the doctors figure them still
We've advocated against the death penalty multiple times just in the past year. Besides the moral implications of possibly putting an innocent man to death, or even a guilty man, government error could also affect outcomes.Even worse than malfeasance, though, would be actual bad faith
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Beijing, Mar 30 (PTI) -- A court in northwest China today gave the death penalty to a serial killer, dubbed "Jack the Ripper", for killing 11 female victims, including an eight-year-old girl, between May 1988 and February 2002.Gao Chengyong, 53, was found to have robbed, raped and mutilated his
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Women in Scotland are already able to take misoprostol at home.Every day, women are forced to travel immediately after taking abortion pills, meaning many experience symptoms while they are still on public transport or on their way home.This is because the 1967 Abortion Act states that womenActing on recommendations from UK-trained torture investigators, Bahrain’s Attorney General has requested that the country’s highest court reconsider the death sentences handed to two men convicted on the basis of forced confessions obtained through torture.Mohamed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa were
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"I believe that there is nothing humane about killing a human being. We speak of humane modes of execution only for animals to put them out of their suffering."Attorney General Mike Hunter and Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh recently announced that Oklahoma would no longer attempt to execute
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Zhang Zhongsheng showed 'extreme greed' and was handed most severe punishment for 'big losses he caused to the nation and the people', court rulesA former vice-mayor of a poverty-stricken city in the coal-rich province of Shanxi was on Wednesday sentenced to death, without reprieve, for accepting